Right. And that's what mine do when supermount is working. Sometimes, though, it does not and those locks do not come off. When supermount is disabled, I never see locks. jim Quoting Peter Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know if this helps, > > My CD and floppy behave just as you describe when the drives are empty (ie > Input/Output error, you do not have access rights, little padlocks showing) > > However when I insert media into the drive the locks go away and everything > > works fine. > > My fstab lines are:- > ========================================================= > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 > > ========================================================== > > petew > > > > > On Monday 13 August 2001 04:04, James S Bear wrote: > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > Ignorance is underrated
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