Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Thanks Anne and John. First offto answer John...there is no floppy drive at all in my laptop. I took it out of the drive bay and added the cdrw. Also, hard drive is hda, cdrom is hdb and cdrw is hdc. So you have two ide lines , the first has the harddrive and rom on it hence hda , and hdb, and the second ide line has the writer on it, hence hdc my lilo.conf does have the scsi emulation turned on thus append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet OK, so the writer is scsi-emulated. Now post fstab and report your entries here. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
On Sunday 20 July 2003 05:02, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 9:42 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Thanks Anne and John. First offto answer John...there is no floppy drive at all in my laptop. I took it out of the drive bay and added the cdrw. Is this a permanent move, or are you wanting to change them at times? Also, hard drive is hda, cdrom is hdb and cdrw is hdc. Next, Anne, it seems that there is another difference between your fstab lines and mine. Yours read iocharset=iso8859-15 while mine read iocharset=iso8859-1 I'm not sure about 8859-1, but I think it is related to locale and keyboard layout selection - possible US English rather than UK English? http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/BitsAndPieces/browser-tweaks.html iso8859-15 has the euro symbol added. I'm usually not worried about trying the different options but I'd like to see if, collectively, any of these differences make sense. Also, for John, my lilo.conf does have the scsi emulation turned on thus append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet Any ideas? Did you run HardDrake again, to see if it sorted it? Anne Have fun, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi John, Here's the original fstab none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 #none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Well you have no floppy drive, you said, so either # out both floppy drive entries or remove them altogether. I cannot see anything wrong with the two rom and writer entries. I take it /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 is the writer and it's scsi-emulated , so it should work. I would # out both floppy entries and then in terminal mount -a, and try again with data media in the drives to read it. If it still does not work then it's a case of automount instead. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 12:11 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I finally took the plunge and installed 9.1. I really like the new look and it seems to function flawlessly..except. In Konq (or any app) whenever I try to access /mnt , it freezes and has to be killed. I checked my fstab and found that there are 2 entries for a single floppy drive. This is my laptop and I replaced the floppy with a cdrw. 9.1 picked that up nicely. So, I commented out the floppy line and the only result I got was, the cdrom icons disappeared off the desktop. I removed my change and I'm back to the packaged fstab. Checking the archives, there doesn't seem to be much on supermount or fstab since 9.1 was released. Here is my fstabperhaps some may have suggestions. /dev/hda6 / reiserfs notail,noatime 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask= 0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask =0 0 0 #none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask =0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I really like the supermount, so I would like to hang on to it if possible. Supermount has always worked well on this system. Here are my cd/dvd/fd0 lines for you to compare: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/cdrw supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 As you see, they are almost identical to yours, though they each contain 'user' This may be heresy, but I have a gut feeling that fstab doesn't like commented out lines. I had problems in the past with a similar situation and I know others who have. Why not save a copy to fstab.sav then delete the duplicate line? Can't do any harm, and may just help. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, In Konq (or any app) whenever I try to access /mnt , it freezes and has to be killed. I checked my fstab and found that there are 2 entries for a single floppy drive. This is my laptop and I replaced the floppy with a cdrw. 9.1 picked that up nicely. So you don't have a Floppy at all ? Or you did have two floppy drives, and now you have one ? Checking the archives, there doesn't seem to be much on supermount or fstab since 9.1 was released. Here is my fstabperhaps some may have suggestions. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 I really like the supermount, so I would like to hang on to it if possible. Bill W. Supermount is very much a work in progress, not much is written up yet. I have never owned a laptop, so experiece with their ide layout is unfamiliar to me. So then, what is the ide layout ? Ide0 = Hardrive(s) Ide1 = cdrom and writer , master and slave in that order ? Or is it, Ide0 = harddrive and writer, configured mater and slave ? Assuming the first layout, Harddrive = /dev/hda cdrom = /dev/hdc writer = /dev/hdb but is it scsi-emulated in /etc/lilo.conf as hdd=ide-scsi ? so, under supermount , cdrom and writer fstab entries look to be correct.. The floppy entry looks correct, if you still have one. If it doesn't work then maybe it's a hardware related issue. first try, cdrecord -scanbus to make sure it's on the bus. Then there are further commands to issue to test the capability of the drives, but I cannot rememebr what they are. Maybe Tom Brinkman can jog our memories. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more supermount stuff
Hi, Thanks Anne and John. First offto answer John...there is no floppy drive at all in my laptop. I took it out of the drive bay and added the cdrw. Also, hard drive is hda, cdrom is hdb and cdrw is hdc. Next, Anne, it seems that there is another difference between your fstab lines and mine. Yours read iocharset=iso8859-15 while mine read iocharset=iso8859-1 I'm usually not worried about trying the different options but I'd like to see if, collectively, any of these differences make sense. Also, for John, my lilo.conf does have the scsi emulation turned on thus append=devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet Any ideas? Thanks for everything so far. Regards, Bill W. On Saturday 19 July 2003 07:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, In Konq (or any app) whenever I try to access /mnt , it freezes and has to be killed. I checked my fstab and found that there are 2 entries for a single floppy drive. This is my laptop and I replaced the floppy with a cdrw. 9.1 picked that up nicely. So you don't have a Floppy at all ? Or you did have two floppy drives, and now you have one ? Checking the archives, there doesn't seem to be much on supermount or fstab since 9.1 was released. Here is my fstabperhaps some may have suggestions. none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 I really like the supermount, so I would like to hang on to it if possible. Bill W. Supermount is very much a work in progress, not much is written up yet. I have never owned a laptop, so experiece with their ide layout is unfamiliar to me. So then, what is the ide layout ? Ide0 = Hardrive(s) Ide1 = cdrom and writer , master and slave in that order ? Or is it, Ide0 = harddrive and writer, configured mater and slave ? Assuming the first layout, Harddrive = /dev/hda cdrom = /dev/hdc writer = /dev/hdb but is it scsi-emulated in /etc/lilo.conf as hdd=ide-scsi ? so, under supermount , cdrom and writer fstab entries look to be correct.. The floppy entry looks correct, if you still have one. If it doesn't work then maybe it's a hardware related issue. first try, cdrecord -scanbus to make sure it's on the bus. Then there are further commands to issue to test the capability of the drives, but I cannot rememebr what they are. Maybe Tom Brinkman can jog our memories. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
