Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive (suggestion for MDK)
I remember that when supermount was first incorporated into Mandrake, there was an easy to find option during the installation that allowed the user to turn it off before it was installed. Anyway of getting that re-incorporated into 8.2? On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:58 am, Jason Straight wrote: I agree, my opinion is that supermount sucks, until the kernel handles hot swapping better or something. As soon as I try to access something under the mnt dir or whatever when the wrong device is in all hell breaks loose. I wish for us laptop users with modular accessories mdk would put in a choice to use supermount or regular old manual mount - it's not that hard to mount and unmount devices manually. I think it's one of those instances where the product is dumified for customers who can't understand and made annoying for those who can. On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:28, J. Patrick Smith wrote: Hello. The subject line is misleading. I did for several days assume that my drive had been somehow damaged, but in the preparation of this message, I tried to burn a CD again, and it actually worked. I recently downloaded 8.2beta1 for testing. Following installation, my system froze during the boot process when supermount began accessing my drives. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 3005/S303 which has a modular bay in which I can have either the DVD/CDRW combo drive installed or the Floppy drive. Naturally, I booted with the DVD/CDRW installed. There needs to either be a workaround to prevent supermount from locking up if the floppy drive is not actually present or an errata to indicate that supermount needs to boot with the floppy drive installed. Has anyone else met the same situation? or similar?
Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive (suggestion for MDK)
I agree, my opinion is that supermount sucks, until the kernel handles hot swapping better or something. As soon as I try to access something under the mnt dir or whatever when the wrong device is in all hell breaks loose. I wish for us laptop users with modular accessories mdk would put in a choice to use supermount or regular old manual mount - it's not that hard to mount and unmount devices manually. I think it's one of those instances where the product is dumified for customers who can't understand and made annoying for those who can. On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:28, J. Patrick Smith wrote: Hello. The subject line is misleading. I did for several days assume that my drive had been somehow damaged, but in the preparation of this message, I tried to burn a CD again, and it actually worked. I recently downloaded 8.2beta1 for testing. Following installation, my system froze during the boot process when supermount began accessing my drives. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 3005/S303 which has a modular bay in which I can have either the DVD/CDRW combo drive installed or the Floppy drive. Naturally, I booted with the DVD/CDRW installed. There needs to either be a workaround to prevent supermount from locking up if the floppy drive is not actually present or an errata to indicate that supermount needs to boot with the floppy drive installed. Has anyone else met the same situation? or similar? -- ^^^ Jason Straight -- President BlazeConnect Internet Services -- Cheboygan Michigan ISP: www.blazeconnect.net Products: www.blazeconnect.com Phone: 231-597-0376 -- Fax: 231-597-0393
