> After installing 9.0beta1, performing a "ls /mnt/cdrom" without a disk > in the cdrom takes a long time (about a minute) to fail. I first > noticed this with rpmdrake, which takes several minutes to start while > it checks for a disk in the cdrom. Placing a CDROM in the drive > prevents this problem. The drive is a CD-RW CRX120E (Sony) which is > treated as an IDE-SCSI device. >
The only reason I can think of is that beta1 started to use auto fstype for supermount which means your CD is probed five times (instead of just once). Check fstab for fs=... for this drive, if it is auto - try to change it to say iso9660 and see of it helps. It is clearly possible to abort early on some defined errors (like no device present) but I have little hope for this patch to be accepted given that much more important supermount patches are still unapplied being over 2 months old. -andrej
