Thanks to both of you, I will try those tips. What is supermount? What is it trying to do? What will disabling it do to my system? What functionality will I lose, and how can I replace it, or work around it's loss? Thanks again! Edmund P.S. -Donnie, I brought my fstab to work with me today to post, and now I can't find it. I'll post it tonight, if that's OK... -----Original Message----- From: James S Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:05 PM To: Donnie Green Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Floppy & CD work fine, then not A little trick I learned, from a command line: supermount -i disable Reboot Locks should be gone. Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in supermount? jim Quoting Donnie Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What does your fstab look like for your floppy drive and cdrom? I had the > same problem you are having. To solve my problems I got rid of the > supermount option and changed the lines for my cdrom. Can you post your > fstab? > > > > > >From: "Mitchell, Edmund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED] '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: [newbie] Floppy & CD work fine, then not > >Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:31:36 -0700 > > > >Hello all > > > >I have two boxes running LM8, and the floppies & CDROM's > >in each work great for about two hours, then not. > >If I cd /mnt/floppy, I get an error message like: > >bash: cd: /mnt/floppy: Input/Output Error > > > >In the graphical file browser, it shows my floppy and > >CD as having little locks on them, and if I click on them, > >(even from a superuser window) it says I don't have enough > >permissions, although a check of the permissions reveals > >that they are wide open. > > > >I tried umounting then mounting as root, and that allowed > >me to go a place called /mnt/floppy, but it was not my > >floppy, because there were no files there, and the floppy > >drive had made no sound, so it was clear the system didn't > >even try to access it. > > > >The floppy disk in question worked 1 minute later on a > >Caldera box... > > > >Thanks for any help > > > >Edmund > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > Ignorance is underrated
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