please post your configuration. i cannot get my ls120 working with mdk 7.0
iso-2.
ls mod does not show the "ide-floppy" loaded either.
keep getting an "input/output error".
do i need to rebuild kernel to make it operational?
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Brian....yep, 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/zip supermount
> > | fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
> > |
> > | zip -> hdc4
> > | cdrom -> hdb
> > | cdrom2 -> hdd
> > |
> > | Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> > |
> > | Chris
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