> Once again- latest Cooker (12.18.01) - fresh install using PCMCIA.IMG on > a Gateway Solo 9150XL notebook (my normal test machine) with a DVD and > LS-120 combo drive. > > Up until recently the system worked fine with previous Cookers - but > since the Supermount has been "fixed" - I get horribly slow response > under KDE and it seems that the system is constantly trying to read the > ls-120 drive (with or w/out media doesn't seem to make the difference) > > When I finally get booted into the system and disable supermount > (supermount -i disable) - the system is just fine. > > Attached is a copy from the dmesg output on a freshly installed and > first bootup system. >
Is it supermount in general or just LS-120? What happens when you disable supermount only for LS-120? I suspect that it just takes too much time on LS-120. You may be interested in some patches that disable attempt to access media when drive reports "no media" but still make it work with devfs. I currently have thread on this matter that contains both ide-floppy patch and devfs-related patches to partition code. I am not sure which one is needed; I could forward you the whole thread and you contact folks for more info. If commenting out just LS-120 does not help - we must think something different :-) -andrej
