[Cooker] Supermount FAQ

2003-11-01 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
I compiled a small supermount FAQ, link is http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=19736group_id=79609. Home page also has link to DocBook source. Comments, submissions and corrections are welcome. This includes DocBook usage and style (it is my first document ever, I opted for

[Cooker] supermount for 2.4.20

2003-07-27 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
anybody is using (needs) it? Danny, ppc kernel is based on 2.4.20 AFAIK or can you use 2.4.21+ patch? else I'll drop it as soon as something in kernel part changes. thank you -andrey

[Cooker] supermount-ng

2003-07-08 Thread Eric Fernandez
Hi all ! I would like to know if you consider using supermount-ng in the kernel of the next 9.2 ? obiwan (Danny Tholen) has built kernels available on Mandrakeclub that use it, and it works well. A lot of bugs or strange behaviour has been corrected, like the CDROM access for a couple of seconds

Re: [Cooker] supermount-ng

2003-07-08 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
I would like to know if you consider using supermount-ng in the kernel of the next 9.2 ? Who are you? As a reminder, it is not official list representing Mandrake official position ... obiwan (Danny Tholen) has built kernels available on Mandrakeclub that use it, and it works well. A lot

[Cooker] supermount for 2.5 test version available

2003-06-02 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
See http://supermount-ng.sf.net/ and project page. The patch is for 2.5.70, it won't apply to earlier versions. It needs quite a bit of work still but CD-ROMs (at least, IDE, I do not have SCSI) and floppy seem to work. If anybody desperately needs ide-floppy I could add it, but I'd rather wait

[Cooker] supermount 1.2.1 update

2003-04-05 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Before I leave for a week a small update (for Danny :) * Sat 05 Apr 2003 Andrey Borzenkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.2.1 - fixed stupid thinko in mediactl methods (the effect was it was impossible to manually eject ro media). It was exposed by recent changes. No changes in supermount itself

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-31 Thread Guy McArthur
Does autofs work reliably with urpmi and removable media? It didn't for me in 8.2. I did urpmi.removemedia for the 8.2 discs, removed the cdrom mount point in fstab then urpmi.addmedia for each disc (/misc/cd), but it would still configure for /mnt/cdrom. I could only install packages by

[Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
I don't know if it has been discussed here, but since there are so many problems with supermount, why to not use an alternative ? Like autofs ? Is there any technical reason to stick to supermount ? Eric

RE: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Robert Denier
doesn't bother me, although thats just my case. -Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cooker-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Eric Fernandez Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ? I

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
Robert Denier wrote: You may want to check this but I think supermount -i disable will magically change fstab to get rid of supermount options. (Remember if you mess up fstab your machine may not boot.) Clearly you now have to mount everything by hand, but considering I use a cd at most

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Alan Hughes
29, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ? Robert Denier wrote: You may want to check this but I think supermount -i disable will magically change fstab to get rid of supermount options. (Remember if you mess up fstab your machine may not boot

Re: [Cooker] supermount or alternate fs mounter ?

2002-10-29 Thread Eric Fernandez
Alan Hughes wrote: The problem is that AFAIK other auto mounters are user-space applications that work by periodically checking to see if a mount point is no longer used, and if so then unmounting it. Typically this check occurs at 30 second intervals (although I understand that most allow you

RE: Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-17 Thread falcaraz
I had the problem also with commercial cds, for example tuxracer or quake III. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Jueves, Octubre 17, 2002 5:02 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0 On Tue, 2002-10-15

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-16 Thread Joerg Skottke
Palmer, Hilary wrote: I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied. Then I need to eject and reinsert the CD to see

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:44, Joerg Skottke wrote: Palmer, Hilary wrote: I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-15 Thread Ömer Fadýl USTA
Hello I saw that problem in my computer too. But i fix it with edit in /etc/fstab file. There isn't any /dev/sd0 file on /dev you must enter directly the /dev/hdx for it. like /dev/hdd for secondery slave cdrom.! From: Götz Waschk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-15 Thread aaron
I haven't seen the disappearing drive problem yet, but I have noticed that supermounted CD's don't show up in df output anymore. Fine in 8.2. -- Aaron Peromsik [EMAIL PROTECTED] [For thinner oatmeal, add more water.]

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-15 Thread George Mitchell
I am experiencing the disappearing drive problem. I perform an action on a file on the CDROM and suddenly that file just disappears. Supermount seems flakey all over again, but I haven't complained about it yet because I am experiencing problems higher on my agenda ... like 3D accelleration

[Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-14 Thread Palmer, Hilary
I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied. Then I need to eject and reinsert the CD to see anything on it again. If I

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-14 Thread Götz Waschk
Am Montag, 14. Oktober 2002, 08:33:36 Uhr MET, schrieb Palmer, Hilary: I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied.

RE: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-14 Thread Palmer, Hilary
OK... Thanks -Original Message- From: Götz Waschk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 8:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0 Am Montag, 14. Oktober 2002, 08:33:36 Uhr MET, schrieb Palmer, Hilary: I loaded 9.0 on my system

Re: [Cooker] Supermount in MDK 9.0

2002-10-14 Thread John Allen
On Monday 14 October 2002 14:33, Palmer, Hilary wrote: I loaded 9.0 on my system at home, but I noticed if I start copying a lot of data off of a CD, SuperMount seems to drop the CD. It will say that it doesn't have access to any of the files after the few that are copied. Then I need to

Re: [Cooker] supermount?

2002-10-09 Thread Todd Lyons
Mario Vazquez wrote on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:16:02PM -0400 : There is a fix for supermount on cooker mirrors? When you see a new version of the kernel come down, that's when you try it. Look through the changelog to see if anything is noted about it. Blue skies... Todd --

Re: [Cooker] supermount?

2002-10-09 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:16, Mario Vazquez wrote: There is a fix for supermount on cooker mirrors? Yes. It's called autofs. TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger

Re: [Cooker] supermount?

2002-10-09 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
L == Lonnie Borntreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: L On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 14:16, Mario Vazquez wrote: There is a fix for supermount on cooker mirrors? L Yes. It's called autofs. Please explain: Autofs can also be used to manage file systems on removable media, but Anvin

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-10-03 Thread Tim Lee
I have the same problem with No such file or directory errors when copying or just reading from my DVD-ROM drive. Reading or copying files from my CD writer, which is using the ide-scsi kernel module, seems to work fine. However, I have not fully tested this theory. I also receive an error:

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-10-02 Thread Todd Lyons
James Sparenberg wrote on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:00:29AM -0700 : Cd /mnt/cdrom/some_directory as a user su to root do some work. eject the cdrom put in a new one. Quite often the new one is unreadable. ie Understandable. The problem is that the eject should fail with an unable

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-10-01 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 13:24, John Allen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Steven Spears wrote: Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found. I think you need to remove 'auto' and set 'noauto' in the responsible fstab line.

RE: Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-10-01 Thread falcaraz
Luis, Could you be so kind as explains us in detail how do you have setuped autofs? Thanks so much in advance Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Luis M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Octubre 1, 2002 2:59 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem

RE: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

2002-10-01 Thread Borzenkov Andrey
I am really sorry but from your description it appears not related directly to supermount. I do not know anything about flashcards, sorry :( Could this supermount error be related to the problems I am having with supermount and the usb-uhci/sr_mod loaded Flash memory-card reader? When I

Re: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

2002-10-01 Thread Eric Fernandez
I have got also problems downloading pictures from my usb camera (canon powershot a40). The camera is correctly set up and I can access the image directory with konqueror. But sometimes it hangs during the copy and I have to do it again. Eric Borzenkov Andrey wrote: I am really sorry but from

[Cooker] Supermount severe bug in 9.0

2002-09-30 Thread falcaraz
I am very surprised about the escarce interest that this bug has in cooker list. For linux users is not so problematic disable supermount, but for those new in linux is a real nightmare and: Supermount is enabled by default in 9.0! In the press release of 9.0 one of the remarqued points is,

[Cooker] supermount

2002-09-30 Thread danny
I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, since I talked Juan into fixing floppy-write-PANIC issues, which seems to have utterly broken supermount for CDROMS in the released 9.0 kernel. A simple 'find' in /mnt/cdrom will probably reveal what I'm talking about (half the

Re: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

2002-09-30 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
Could this supermount error be related to the problems I am having with supermount and the usb-uhci/sr_mod loaded Flash memory-card reader? When I try to use the Flash card with supermount none /mnt/flash supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,user,noauto 0 0 it reads a few files and then hangs.

RE: [Cooker] supermount

2002-09-30 Thread falcaraz
, adding the solution in errata. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Lunes, Septiembre 30, 2002 5:13 pm Asunto: [Cooker] supermount I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, since I talked Juan into fixing

Re: [Cooker] supermount

2002-09-30 Thread John Allen
, 2002 5:13 pm Asunto: [Cooker] supermount I feel a bit responsible for the current state of supermount, since I talked Juan into fixing floppy-write-PANIC issues, which seems to have utterly broken supermount for CDROMS in the released 9.0 kernel. A simple 'find' in /mnt/cdrom will probably

Re: [Cooker] supermount and usb-uhci

2002-09-30 Thread Michael Braun
Hi, Am Mon, 2002-09-30 um 18.06 schrieb Gary Lawrence Murphy: Could this supermount error be related to the problems I am having with supermount and the usb-uhci/sr_mod loaded Flash memory-card reader? When I try to use the Flash card with supermount none /mnt/flash supermount

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-30 Thread Luis M
Just in case, I disable supermount for both of my cdroms... instead I setup autofs in /misc . Thus now, ls /misc/cdrom brings my CDs just fine. I always wonder why the need for supermount if autofs does the same ... In any case, maybe it's because of supermount that I cannot restart my

[Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread Steven Spears
From the CarshTesters List: Date 29 Sep 2002 12:25 Subject Re: [CrashTesters] 9.0 Supermount nightmare On 29 Sep 2002 12:09 CDT you wrote: On 29 Sep 2002 06:24 CDT you wrote: Dear friends, I am having lot of problems with supermount in 9.0: 1- With supermount

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread Jure Repinc
Steven Spears wrote: Ran the test and sure enough, I get the same error as well. I opened the CD-ROM with 9.0 CD-ROM #2 and created a directory and opened it. Then I did a mass select in the RPMS2 directory and drug them into the new test directory. The copy started off fine but then cam

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread danny
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Steven Spears wrote: Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found. I think you need to remove 'auto' and set 'noauto' in the responsible fstab line. Otherwise system will try to mount the empty drive, which will fail ofcourse. It is not a real

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread John Allen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Steven Spears wrote: Mandrake start ther is an error message: Fault: mount device not found. I think you need to remove 'auto' and set 'noauto' in the responsible fstab line. Otherwise system will try to mount the empty drive, which

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread Luis M
That usually means a bad burn. Do this: make sure that your ISO's have the right md5sum: f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso 05a3ccafaacc37d6d1e2f260fc274549 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso 1a2fd731fb6e30d39b0b99f504b231b3 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso To check the

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread Jason
I have the same problem on my Laptops (seems to work ok on my desktop systems so far). I have to disable supermount to be able to properly mount/unmount/use CD's. Plus, once disabled, I have to shut down and restart the system for the change to take effect, rebooting isn't enough. Supermount

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread danny
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Luis M wrote: That usually means a bad burn. Do this: How is this a bad burn, we are talking about things working with manual mount, but not with supermount. To be even more specific, sometimes I see half of the dirs, somethimes the other half. Even on commercial CDs.

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread danny
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Jason wrote: important to have working. I think adding in Alan Cox's fix would be a good idea. It is not a real fix, it is a different program. It already works for CDs, but no floppies AFAIK. I might try to build an rpm and put it into contrib. But it is still very

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread Jason
I understand. My point is that either we get SOMETHING that works or IMHO take out Supermount (or other like programs) altogether and setup Kwikdisk to start automatically so newbies can mount/unmount CD's easily. This is getting tedious. I have been running ML (all major releases and cooker)

Re: [Cooker] Supermount Problem: Serious?

2002-09-29 Thread Steven Spears
All md5sums check out perfect and it doesn't just happen with burnt CDs. It happens with any, and my installs with these CDs were flawless over four+ computers so far. Don't think it's the CDs. Steve On Sunday 29 September 2002 3:51 pm, Luis M wrote: That usually means a bad burn. Do

[Cooker] supermount device icons on desktop

2002-08-26 Thread Richard Tango-Lowy
In beta4, the CD-ROM and floppy icons are displayed on my desktop, even though those devices aren't mounted. (There's no floppy or CD in the drive). Rich -- ars Cognita Richard Tango-Lowy - President [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Supermount not working for CDROM or Floppy ?

2002-08-15 Thread Jonathan Drews
Computer: WalMart Athlon Mandrake 9.0 beta2 Hi: I insert a floppy and click on the KDE floppy Icon. I can read a floppy OK but I can not mount and read subsequent floppies. A similar thing happens for the CDROM. The first time I click on the KDE Icon I can read my CDROM. However I cannot

[Cooker] supermount +writing

2002-04-19 Thread Danny Tholen
I do not often use floppy disks, so maybe that's why I never noticed, but both my two (completely different) 8.2 machines freeze hard when copying a few files to a floppy (a few 100 kb). Even mouse freezes. The same error also happens when mounting a vfat HD partition with supermount and

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and CDs

2002-03-11 Thread Juan Quintela
warly == Warly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: warly Mattias Dahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic links on CDs will be fixed in time for 8.2. If not, maybe there should be some kind of instruction somewhere to turn

Re: [Cooker] supermount cdrecord: Risky?

2002-03-06 Thread Alexander Skwar
»Leon Brooks« sagte am 2002-03-06 um 09:11:02 +0800 : For *some* IDE CD-RW drives, if the drive is not accessed by supermount via the _SCSI_ device name instead of the _IDE_ device name, yes, sometimes the drive gets a little confused about what mode it's in. Otherwise, I've not had a

[Cooker] Supermount and CDs

2002-03-05 Thread Mattias Dahlberg
Hi, Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic links on CDs will be fixed in time for 82 If not, maybe there should be some kind of instruction somewhere to turn supermount off and re-install your Loki game if it doesn't work Because it's not so easy to connect the

[Cooker] supermount cdrecord: Risky?

2002-03-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Is it risky to leave the cdwriter supermounted when burning CDs? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux

Re: [Cooker] supermount cdrecord: Risky?

2002-03-05 Thread anyone
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! Is it risky to leave the cdwriter supermounted when burning CDs? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and CDs

2002-03-05 Thread Warly
Mattias Dahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic links on CDs will be fixed in time for 8.2. If not, maybe there should be some kind of instruction somewhere to turn supermount off and re-install your Loki game if it

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and CDs

2002-03-05 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 05:33, Warly wrote: Mattias Dahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if it looks like the problem with supermount and symbolic links on CDs will be fixed in time for 8.2. Juan said that it will be ok for rc1 It's nice to see more of these explicit ACKs

Re: [Cooker] supermount cdrecord: Risky?

2002-03-05 Thread Leon Brooks
On Wednesday 06 March 2002 03:16, Alexander Skwar wrote: Is it risky to leave the cdwriter supermounted when burning CDs? For *some* IDE CD-RW drives, if the drive is not accessed by supermount via the _SCSI_ device name instead of the _IDE_ device name, yes, sometimes the drive gets a little

Re: [Cooker] supermount cannot handle symlinks on iso9660

2002-02-28 Thread Juan Quintela
goetz == Goetz Waschk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: goetz Hi, goetz there's a problem with CDs mounted with supermount. All symlinks seem goetz to be broken. For instance on the CD Commercial applications CD 1 from goetz Mdk 8.1 the symlinks in Mandrake/RPMS4 are broken. They are OK if the goetz CD

[Cooker] supermount cannot handle symlinks on iso9660

2002-02-10 Thread Goetz Waschk
Hi, there's a problem with CDs mounted with supermount. All symlinks seem to be broken. For instance on the CD Commercial applications CD 1 from Mdk 8.1 the symlinks in Mandrake/RPMS4 are broken. They are OK if the CD is mounted without supermount. I've tested the kernels 2.4.13-12mdk,

[Cooker] Supermount doesn't work !

2002-02-08 Thread Stéphane Teletchéa
I tried it with the latest kernel and want to install some new packages. rpmdrake tried to access the drive but was never able to open to drive so i could insert the desired cdrom. turning off supermount solved the problem. Stef

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive (suggestion for MDK)

2002-02-08 Thread J.Patrick Smith
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

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

2002-02-07 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does it hang after Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems: messages? In this case (if you can reliably reproduce this problem) could you try the included patch for /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and tell if it fixes the problem? The patch

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

2002-02-07 Thread Juan Quintela
j == J Patrick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: j Hello. j The subject line is misleading. I did for several days assume that my drive j had been somehow damaged, but in the preparation of this message, I tried to j burn a CD again, and it actually worked. j I recently downloaded 8.2beta1 for

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive (suggestion for MDK)

2002-02-07 Thread Jason Straight
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

[Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

2002-02-06 Thread J. Patrick Smith
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

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

2002-02-06 Thread Tech At Mathco Dot Com
i have a smiliar problems too. I have both a 3.5 and a 5.1/4 floppy drive and i know both works but for some reason if i have floppy2 (5.1/4) specified in /etc/fstab it hangs during the kde startup. /MattB On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 09:28, J. Patrick Smith wrote: Hello. The subject line is

RE: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

2002-02-06 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
The subject line is misleading. The more misleading subject is the more likely messages gets ignored. 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

Re: [Cooker] Supermount killed my DVD/CDRW combo drive

2002-02-06 Thread SI Reasoning
yup, It does not seem to have a problem with a 2nd cdrom/cdrw/dvd because the system automatically recognizes the addition of another hd*, hoever the floppy is assumed and not checked so when it is removedlock up. --- J. Patrick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. The subject line is

Re: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

2002-02-04 Thread JJ
SI Reasoning wrote: I have burned cd's without issue while it was supermounted. --- Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fresh Xmas install with no /etc/fstab adaptions by hand... (the first) ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD ... I opened the MidnightCommander

[Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

2002-02-03 Thread Stefan
Fresh Xmas install with no /etc/fstab adaptions by hand... (the first) ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD ... I opened the MidnightCommander to easy navigate the fs, taped the /mnt directory (mc reads ahead !?) ... and cdrecord stops writing the cd with an I/O error. Because

Re: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

2002-02-03 Thread SI Reasoning
I have burned cd's without issue while it was supermounted. --- Stefan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fresh Xmas install with no /etc/fstab adaptions by hand... (the first) ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD ... I opened the MidnightCommander to easy navigate the fs, taped

RE: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

2002-02-03 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
I have burned cd's without issue while it was supermounted. Of course if you start burn and go away for a while it works. ... there where only seconds to finish writing a CD ... I opened the MidnightCommander to easy navigate the fs, taped the /mnt directory (mc reads ahead

RE: [Cooker] supermount at fstab and successfull CD writing

2002-02-03 Thread SI Reasoning
--- Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is good practice to leave system alone while burning your CD. -andrej I had one external usb cd writer that was so flaky, that the only way I could consistently get it to burn properly was to run it from blackbox. If I tried to run it

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

2002-02-01 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe supermount should be an option instead of the default. Laptops with removeable modules, in particular, removable floppy , can lock up during boot when the floppy is not installed (if it has already been setup in supermount). I have not run into

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Fox
I reported this several time before - on my notebook there is a serious delay after a new install mounting filesystems. And KDE acts real slow because it's constantly trying to access the ls-120/CD combo drive, The solution is to supermount -i disable and reboot - all is then OK but of course,

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

2002-02-01 Thread SI Reasoning
If I remove the floppy and replace it with a battery or cdrw, the system freezes during bootup, right at the mounting section. This is with supermount, it will work fine without it. --- Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe supermount

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

2002-02-01 Thread SI Reasoning
Manual mounting is a foreign concept to newbies so I know there is danger in it, however, I still think it may be wise to give a choice with an explanation. Maybe have a laptop option during install, which will set the system up safest for laptops and auto load a faq with details so that the

Fwd: Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

2002-02-01 Thread SI Reasoning
Manual mounting is a foreign concept to newbies so I know there is danger in it, however, I still think it may be wise to give a choice with an explanation. Maybe have a laptop option during install, which will set the system up safest for laptops and auto load a faq with details so that the

Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

2002-02-01 Thread SI Reasoning
--- SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:41:57 -0800 (PST) From: SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I remove the floppy and replace it with a battery or cdrw, the system

[Cooker] supermount and laptops with removable modules

2002-01-31 Thread SI Reasoning
Maybe supermount should be an option instead of the default. Laptops with removeable modules, in particular, removable floppy , can lock up during boot when the floppy is not installed (if it has already been setup in supermount). I have not run into problems with 2nd cdroms (like cdrw) because

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

2002-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:05:02 +0300 Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an addendum the same applies in rpmdrake if installating software from a cd source be it the installation cds or an added cd. What exactly happens? There was a problem in urpmi that it could not eject

[Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

2002-01-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
This was touched on in a previous post but I thought that I would confirm it. In order to create a bootdisk, using mcc, supermount Must be Disabled. Charles

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

2002-01-29 Thread Yves Duret
Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This was touched on in a previous post but I thought that I would confirm it. In order to create a bootdisk, using mcc, supermount Must be Disabled. i will inspect that asap thanx to report it. -- Yves Duret [EMAIL PROTECTED] piouk toujours et

Re: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

2002-01-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 29 Jan 2002 23:04:12 +0100 Yves Duret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This was touched on in a previous post but I thought that I would confirm it. In order to create a bootdisk, using mcc, supermount Must be Disabled. i will inspect that asap

RE: [Cooker] Supermount and bootdisk

2002-01-29 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
As an addendum the same applies in rpmdrake if installating software from a cd source be it the installation cds or an added cd. What exactly happens? There was a problem in urpmi that it could not eject supermounted medium (since we switched to none for device). It should be fixed in the

[Cooker] supermount and eject problems

2002-01-26 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
{pts/1}% sudo urpmi afio eject: unable to find or open device for: `none' We use none for device in supermount that (unfortunately) eject does not like. -andrej

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

2002-01-25 Thread Danny Tholen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isn't it just a matter of defining your audio directory in XMMS to something else than /mnt/cdrom (for instance: /mnt/audio). Seems to work for me? Danny On Thursday 24 January 2002 00:56, you wrote: actually there is a plugin on Contrib that

[Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

2002-01-23 Thread Tech At Mathco Dot Com
It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directory. Konqueror has a lock on the directory also. the KDE CD Player can play cd's fine and i can access the cd from the services line in konqueror file manager. In mandrake 8.1

[Cooker] supermount causes problem for xmms

2002-01-23 Thread Tech At Mathco Dot Com
It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directory. Konqueror has a lock on the directory also. the KDE CD Player can play cd's fine and i can access the cd from the services line in konqueror file manager. In mandrake 8.1 this

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

2002-01-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Tech At Mathco Dot Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directory. Konqueror has a lock Yes, the audio read from XMMS has never worked with supermount. You need to umount the cdrom or disable

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

2002-01-23 Thread Tech At Mathco Dot Com
Would that be considered a bug in xmms or in supermount /MattB On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 16:55, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Tech At Mathco Dot Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears whenever xmms is attempting to access the audiotracks from /mnt/cdrom it refuses to enter the directory.

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

2002-01-23 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Tech At Mathco Dot Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would that be considered a bug in xmms or in supermount Probably a misfeature (rather than a bug) in xmms, which is not aware of supermount. For example for gtktalog I had to ask the author to write special code in order to work ok with

Re: [Cooker] supermount causes progblem for xmms

2002-01-23 Thread Tech At Mathco Dot Com
actually there is a plugin on Contrib that lets you play audio cd's even though supermount is installed but it access the audiotracks another way. /MattB On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 17:23, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Tech At Mathco Dot Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would that be considered a

[Cooker] supermount problem between dvd and cdrom

2002-01-23 Thread SI Reasoning
If I play a dvd on my cdrom/dvd player on my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop using supermount, then when I pop out the dvd and try and read a data cd, it reads it improperly. I have to remount before I can read the cd. = SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Re: [Cooker] supermount - constant attepmts to mount empty drives

2002-01-20 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 21:27, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 17:09, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Many people including me are annoyed by supermount attempting to mount empty drives. It is causing delays in GUI filemanagers; it also makes zsh completion really slow (just try to

Re: [Cooker] supermount - constant attepmts to mount empty drives

2002-01-20 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Sunday 20 January 2002 04:02, you wrote: - On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 21:27, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: - On þÔ×, 2002-01-17 at 17:09, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: - Many people including me are annoyed by supermount attempting to mount - empty drives. It is causing delays in GUI filemanagers; it also

Re: [Cooker] supermount - constant attepmts to mount empty drives

2002-01-18 Thread SI Reasoning
If we are forced to receive these spurious messages, the least that can be done is to spin them off into their own logfile, at least it is not clogging /var/log/messages then. --- Bryan B Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it's definatly in 8.1 as well. /var/log/messages is filled up with

Re: [Cooker] supermount - constant attepmts to mount empty drives

2002-01-18 Thread Bryan B Whitehead
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, SI Reasoning wrote: If we are forced to receive these spurious messages, the least that can be done is to spin them off into their own logfile, at least it is not clogging /var/log/messages then. It's not so much /var/log/messages filling up that irritates me. It's all

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