On Saturday 26 October 2002 09:53 am, you wrote:
> Dark Lord, here's what my 'fstab' looks like in my 8.2 box, after disabling
> supermount (the dots represent lines broken to fit within the margins of
> this post):
> /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660....
> .....iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0
and here is mine:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660
iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,nodev,user 0 0
/dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660
iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,nodev,user 0 0
other than nodev,user being user,nodev in yours, they look identical.
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat....
> .....iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850 0 0
Sorry, I hadn't noticed that yours is an external/parallell. Its supposed to
show up as SCSI, from my understanding.
> Your comment on how you made a new icon and used 'floppy device' makes me
> wonder why you did that instead of picking 'zip'. You must be using an
> internal zip drive siince your installation sees it as an internal ATAPI
> zip. The internals that I have seen come with an extra jumper settingthat
> allows them to be seen by the BIOS as an ATAPI Floppy Drive. Were you
> looking to maintain that 'look-n-feel' on your Desktop? Mine is an external
> through the parallel port, so it shows up as a SCSI device. One thing that
> I just did that wasn't done before I last posted was to check off
> permissions for execute on the drive icon. That now makes one-click access
> without mounting possible for the zip drive.
Yes, I do have an internal Zip drive (IDE/ATAPI, as master on the 2nd IDE
channel "hdc"). When I right-click on the desktop and use create, there is no
Zip entry, I had to pick either floppy or CDROM. Of course, I changed to the
icons to show Zip drives, mounted and unmounted.
> I checked the icon properties for the CD-ROM on the Desktop. 'exec' is
> checked off for root, user and others, yet I cannot open a CD without first
> mounting it. So, what makes a CD mount differently than a floppy or zip
> drive? Can you tell by looking at my fstab, and if so, is there a change to
> be made to make it so that I do not have to invoke the mount command, as
> with the floppy and zip drives?
>
> T
Well, you've got your Zip working like you wanted so at least we're making
progress! <smile>
Now about those CDROMs... I didn't do anything different than I did for my
zip. I used the supermount disable command, deleted my CDROM icons,
right-clicked and picked CDROM, then made sure they were pointing to the
correct devices. Also, keep in mind that I have devfs disabled. See above,
I'll put my CDROM entries below your fstab entry. It will be a little
different because I use SCSI CDROMs here. (or after looking at your CDROM
line it looks like you are using SCSI too?)
Look mine over, try deleting your CDROM icons and recreating them, etc, etc.
HTH's! :-)
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