[newbie] Cdrom supermount
I think that this question was asked before, but I never saw much of an answer. After updating from 8.0 to 8.1 my system no longer mounts CDs automatically. It will not even read aduio CDs when I try to mount them with iso9660. In fstab it is using supermount for the drive and I am not sure what that does. I think that was changed during the update. Thanks -- Registered Linux user #225209 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom supermount
El Lun 14 Ene 2002 07:14, escribió: I think that this question was asked before, but I never saw much of an answer. After updating from 8.0 to 8.1 my system no longer mounts CDs automatically. It will not even read aduio CDs when I try to mount them with iso9660. In fstab it is using supermount for the drive and I am not sure what that does. I think that was changed during the update. Thanks Hola, Nick. I have installed kernel 2.4.16.11, and supermount works OK. Suerte Carlos Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom supermount
If you look at the list archives you will see this question comes up regularly. Supermount is broken in 8.1. It will work again in 8.2 Do not use it, Disable it with supermount -i disable Mount data CD's manually either by command line, by clicking on the CD icon, or by running kwikdisk Audio CD's Do NOT need mounting. If kscd is configured properly they will play when you insert them. derek On Monday 14 January 2002 10:14, Nick wrote: I think that this question was asked before, but I never saw much of an answer. After updating from 8.0 to 8.1 my system no longer mounts CDs automatically. It will not even read aduio CDs when I try to mount them with iso9660. In fstab it is using supermount for the drive and I am not sure what that does. I think that was changed during the update. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
FW: [newbie] Cdrom supermount
I had the same problems and found some work-arounds (not real fixes): 1. Download the initscripts RPM from the MandrakeUpdate *bug fixes* section. It mentions that supermount init scripts were miscoded. This won't fix all of supermount's problems, however. Hopefully, 8.2 will do that. 2. 8.1 changes your CD device name from cdrom to cdrom0 and the links between the two are buggy. No matter how many times I fix the cdrom link, some script somewhere returns the buggy one. 3. fscd (the file name of CD Player in KDE) lists your CD player as /dev/cdrom in its options dialog box. On my machine, CD Player would crash every time I tried to change this option from within the CD Player program. I checked in DrakeHard (or HardDrake?) and saw that my Cd was named /dev/hdc. So, I found the config file for kscd (can't recall now where it was ... I'm not at that machine right now... used the find function and searched for *kscd*) and used an editor to change the device name, by hand, from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. Rebooted the machine and... the angels were singing! 4. Grip, another CD player, needs options set on the command that starts it. Use the KDE menu editor to locate Grip so that you can see the properties of the startup icon (icons that fly out of the K menu won't let you see properties). Add -d /dev/hdc (or whatever your CD is called in HardDrake) to the start-up line for Grip, save and reboot. It should work, too. Problems seems to lie with device names and links between them. They get confused in upgrades to 8.1. Mike -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cdrom supermount If you look at the list archives you will see this question comes up regularly. Supermount is broken in 8.1. It will work again in 8.2 Do not use it, Disable it with supermount -i disable Mount data CD's manually either by command line, by clicking on the CD icon, or by running kwikdisk Audio CD's Do NOT need mounting. If kscd is configured properly they will play when you insert them. derek On Monday 14 January 2002 10:14, Nick wrote: I think that this question was asked before, but I never saw much of an answer. After updating from 8.0 to 8.1 my system no longer mounts CDs automatically. It will not even read aduio CDs when I try to mount them with iso9660. In fstab it is using supermount for the drive and I am not sure what that does. I think that was changed during the update. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: FW: [newbie] Cdrom supermount
The answer to #3 is below. And furnish any information with workaround that you guys might have with supermount and cd player/ripper/dvd programs. Noah On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 16:19, Mike Cochrane (MC) wrote: I had the same problems and found some work-arounds (not real fixes): 1. Download the initscripts RPM from the MandrakeUpdate *bug fixes* section. It mentions that supermount init scripts were miscoded. This won't fix all of supermount's problems, however. Hopefully, 8.2 will do that. 2. 8.1 changes your CD device name from cdrom to cdrom0 and the links between the two are buggy. No matter how many times I fix the cdrom link, some script somewhere returns the buggy one. 3. fscd (the file name of CD Player in KDE) lists your CD player as /dev/cdrom in its options dialog box. On my machine, CD Player would crash every time I tried to change this option from within the CD Player program. I checked in DrakeHard (or HardDrake?) and saw that my Cd was named /dev/hdc. So, I found the config file for kscd (can't recall now where it was ... I'm not at that machine right now... used the find function and searched for *kscd*) and used an editor to change the device name, by hand, from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. Rebooted the machine and... the angels were singing! ~/.kde/share/config/kscdrc 4. Grip, another CD player, needs options set on the command that starts it. Use the KDE menu editor to locate Grip so that you can see the properties of the startup icon (icons that fly out of the K menu won't let you see properties). Add -d /dev/hdc (or whatever your CD is called in HardDrake) to the start-up line for Grip, save and reboot. It should work, too. Problems seems to lie with device names and links between them. They get confused in upgrades to 8.1. Mike -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cdrom supermount If you look at the list archives you will see this question comes up regularly. Supermount is broken in 8.1. It will work again in 8.2 Do not use it, Disable it with supermount -i disable Mount data CD's manually either by command line, by clicking on the CD icon, or by running kwikdisk Audio CD's Do NOT need mounting. If kscd is configured properly they will play when you insert them. derek On Monday 14 January 2002 10:14, Nick wrote: I think that this question was asked before, but I never saw much of an answer. After updating from 8.0 to 8.1 my system no longer mounts CDs automatically. It will not even read aduio CDs when I try to mount them with iso9660. In fstab it is using supermount for the drive and I am not sure what that does. I think that was changed during the update. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- http://ld.net/?nswint Registered Linux User Number 254358 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom supermount
Nick wrote: I think that this question was asked before, but I never saw much of an answer. After updating from 8.0 to 8.1 my system no longer mounts CDs automatically. It will not even read aduio CDs when I try to mount them with iso9660. In fstab it is using supermount for the drive and I am not sure what that does. I think that was changed during the update. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com 8.1 was shipped with supermount disabled by default Its performance was unacceptable. 8.0 had it enabled, but it did not work well on most systems. (Now we have it back, thanks to Juan Quintela of kernel team). Update doesn't pick it up. as root run supermount -i disable then make sure that the /etc/fstab entry is correct because 8.1 doesn't use /dev/cdrom Sometimes you have to make /dev/cdrom for some older programs--use ln -s to do that. Now your desktop icons are probably wrong as well if you are running a desktopthat uses them. Right click and select Delete then right-click some blank area of the screen and create CDROM and Floppy icopns using the drop-down lists to select devices. Then it is click to mount, right click to unmount or eject. If you want the tangled mess of any user able to unmount, change the user in the /etc/fstab line to users, then regardless of who mounted it, anyone can unmount it. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cdrom supermount
I just wanted to say thanks very much to everyone who offered their help! Things are as they should be once again. cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
