Re: [newbie] Re: [Cooker] Supermount problems...

2000-03-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker

Brianyep, supermount works fine here.  Two floppies (1.44 
1.2) a cdrom (scsi), and a zip 100 (also scsi).  The cdrom
ejects fine and never locks closed.  IDE ls-120 does not work
with supermount, so it is used the normal Linux way.

Alan


"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
 
 Yes, the CD-RW issue is quickly becoming a FAQ on the expert list
 (thanks for at least picking the other two lists instead!)
 
 Mankrake 7.0 has a bug (evidently not fixed in in 7.0v2) whereby for a
 CD-RW it correctly sets up the LILO parameters to tell it to use
 ide-scsi emulation (necessary for CD-RWs under Linux) but fails to make
 the corresponding change to the /dev/cdrom (or in your case
 /dev/cdrom2) links.
 
 Just
 
rm /dev/cdrom2
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom2
 
 (Verify that the /dev/scd0 is the correct device in your case)
 
 and you should be all set for the CD-RW.
 
 As for the zip drive, are you trying to mount MS-DOS zips or do you
 have ext2-formatted zips?  Also, I'd check the /dev/zip device; if you
 have standard zip disks I believe that I recall (from years ago when I
 used a zip drive) that the it's /dev/pda3 (or /dev/hdc3 or
 whatever--the third partition anyway--that is active on a zip drive as
 factory-formatted.  You might want to verify where /dev/zip points,
 too.  Since I know that's the problem with the CD-RW it's a likely
 culprit with the zip drive as well.
 
 =
 
 In other news, has anybody actually had "supermount" do anything
 *useful* for them?  It seems to auto-mount ok for me once, but it
 doesn't auto-unmount, and ordinary users can't umount them, either, so
 I have to go into superuser to just to change the #@$! CD.  For this
 reason, I've just disabled supermount on my system and use a more
 conventional fstab with the "user" option set on all removable devices.
 
 Where is doc on "supermount"?  There's no man page I can find other
 than the one on the command but all it does it munge /etc/fstab, and
 no "howtos" shipped with Mandrake 7.0, as far as I can tell.
 
 On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote:
 | Has any one had a problem with supermount under
 | Mandrake 7.0v2? I have two ide cdroms, one of which is
 | a cd-writer, and an ide zip drive, but I can only use
 | the floppy and first cdrom.  When I try to mount the
 | zip or the writer it get the following messages:
 |
 | $ cd /mnt/zip
 | bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error
 |
 | $ cd /mnt/cdrom2
 | bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error
 |
 | I have included the entries in the fstab file below:
 |
 | /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
 | /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
 | /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
 | /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
 | /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
 | /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
 | /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount
 | fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
 | none /proc proc defaults 0 0
 | none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
 | /mnt/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  supermount
 | fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
 | /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
 | fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
 | /mnt/zip/mnt/zipsupermount
 | fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
 |
 | zip - hdc4
 | cdrom - hdb
 | cdrom2 - hdd
 |
 | Any help would be greatly appreciated...
 |
 | Chris
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[newbie] Re: [Cooker] Supermount problems...

2000-03-03 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger


Yes, the CD-RW issue is quickly becoming a FAQ on the expert list
(thanks for at least picking the other two lists instead!)

Mankrake 7.0 has a bug (evidently not fixed in in 7.0v2) whereby for a
CD-RW it correctly sets up the LILO parameters to tell it to use
ide-scsi emulation (necessary for CD-RWs under Linux) but fails to make
the corresponding change to the /dev/cdrom (or in your case
/dev/cdrom2) links.

Just

   rm /dev/cdrom2
   ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom2

(Verify that the /dev/scd0 is the correct device in your case)

and you should be all set for the CD-RW.

As for the zip drive, are you trying to mount MS-DOS zips or do you
have ext2-formatted zips?  Also, I'd check the /dev/zip device; if you
have standard zip disks I believe that I recall (from years ago when I
used a zip drive) that the it's /dev/pda3 (or /dev/hdc3 or
whatever--the third partition anyway--that is active on a zip drive as
factory-formatted.  You might want to verify where /dev/zip points,
too.  Since I know that's the problem with the CD-RW it's a likely
culprit with the zip drive as well.

=

In other news, has anybody actually had "supermount" do anything
*useful* for them?  It seems to auto-mount ok for me once, but it
doesn't auto-unmount, and ordinary users can't umount them, either, so
I have to go into superuser to just to change the #@$! CD.  For this
reason, I've just disabled supermount on my system and use a more
conventional fstab with the "user" option set on all removable devices.

Where is doc on "supermount"?  There's no man page I can find other
than the one on the command but all it does it munge /etc/fstab, and
no "howtos" shipped with Mandrake 7.0, as far as I can tell.


On Thu, 02 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Has any one had a problem with supermount under
| Mandrake 7.0v2? I have two ide cdroms, one of which is
| a cd-writer, and an ide zip drive, but I can only use
| the floppy and first cdrom.  When I try to mount the
| zip or the writer it get the following messages:
| 
| $ cd /mnt/zip
| bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error
| 
| $ cd /mnt/cdrom2
| bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom2: Input/output error
| 
| I have included the entries in the fstab file below:
| 
| /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
| /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
| /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
| /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1
| /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
| /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
| /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount  
| fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
| none /proc proc defaults 0 0
| none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
| /mnt/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  supermount  
| fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
| /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount  
| fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
| /mnt/zip/mnt/zipsupermount  
| fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
| 
| zip - hdc4
| cdrom - hdb
| cdrom2 - hdd
| 
| Any help would be greatly appreciated...
| 
| Chris
| __
| Do You Yahoo!?
| Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
| http://im.yahoo.com
-- 
I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
I support http://www.eff.org  http://www.programming-freedom.org .
I boycott amazon.com.  See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .