Yes, that's what supermount does; it keeps trying the drive to see
what's there.
"supermount disable"
will clobber it and allow you to run a nice simple Unix-like environment
again.
(On most systems checking the CD isn't such an expensive operation so
it's not a big deal.)
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, ArMiSiS AiEoLn wrote:
|
| > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
|
| Hmmm... that's exactly what mine looked like. And when I had nothing in
| the drive, it sounded like it kept seeking for something and slowed the
| entire system down... wierd.
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