On Friday 25 October 2002 03:20 pm, you wrote:
> Here's what I found, trying what you suggested..
>
> First off, you were 100% correct if I am using MDK 9.0. I disabled
> automount as root, logged in as 'user', brought up KDE, loaded a CD,
> clicked on the CD icon on my Desktop, brought up Konqueror and then I
> picked the appropriate CD and there it was! I found that I could even
> eject the CD while Konqueror was still showing the contents of the CD. I
> placed a new CD in, did a refresh in Kongueror, and it showed me the
> revised contents of the new CD. I like this! Supermount is history!
I've never much cared for it. I mean, its dead-handy sometimes - like for my
11 and 9 year olds - I leave supermount enabled on both their v8.2 boxes.
> On MDK 8.2, it is not quite so easy, but still enough so that I can see
> your point. When I disabled supermount there, I found that I was denied
> access to the drive until I opened a terminal and mounted the drive.
> From there, I could then access it through the icon as user, or through
> a terminal, as you would expect. I could even switch CDs on the fly,
> with one exception. If I have Kongueror browsing the contents of the CD
> I wish to replace, I must click on another folder outside of /mnt/cdrom
> folder or the drive is locked, just as it would be with any other
> program accessing the CD-ROM drive. However, in a terminal, I can change
> CDs and do as I wish without locking the drive.
Hmm. I don't have to open a term to access my drives with 8.2 here. I did
delete the old drive icon, right-click on the desktop, and create a new icon
using "floppy device" for the format (I'm told that CDROM device will work
just as good), making sure that it pointed to my device(s). Here is what my
/etc/fstab line looks like (honestly - I can't remember if I changed it or
not - or I let the supermount -i disable command handle it):
/dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip vfat nosuid,user,noauto,nodev 0 0
> The same was true for my external zip drive. I had to mount it once, but
> then could eject and insert as many zip disks as I liked without a
> concern. Interesting enough, Konqueror does not have any hold on the zip
> drive while browsing it (in MDK 8.2.) As long as it is not scanning or
> working with the drive, I can eject and refresh the window instead of
> changing the focus elsewhere to unlock the drive, as with a CD-ROM.
>
> So, the big change in MDK 9.0 over MDK 8.2 (regarding the mounting of
> removable media drives) is that mounting is automatic anyway, so there's
> no need for supermount!
>
> Did I finally get this right? :-)
>
> T
Well, I think so. Note that I don't pop my CD's/Zip carts in or out unless
I've unmounted the drives first. If I have a window or term open to that
device here, they are locked.
Oh...I should mention that I have devfs disabled as well.
Hope all this was of some assistance to ya! :-)
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