So if I understand this correctly , you have in effect abandoned supermount and returned to the old semi supermount where the leftmouse click mounts the device and displays the cd content but in order to retrieve the disc at the end you must rightmouse click and choose unmount before the tray will open.

So , has anyone got supermount to work in M9.0 with scsi-emulation ?

John

Aaron wrote:

At 15:28 31/10/2002 +0000, you wrote:


I was having such terrible problems with supermount I just removed it. I went into userdrake and made sure I had permissions to use the cd drive. It appears that M9.0 doesn't automatically do this. (I was part of the users group) Once I did that I just use my cd drives as I did.
I create desktop icons that will mount the drives or I mount them from the command line.

In this case I don't expect Lin to work like Win.

lol Aaron


At last I found the time to get M9.0 on in dual boot with M8.2 last night.

I can now see the problems with supermount.
The straight install creates:-

fstab
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dnone /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy2 supermount
dev=/dev/fd1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0
0ev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

which is wrong because I have both my dvd and writer configured under
scsi-emulation in lilo.conf so that the writer programmes can use them
both'
with ,append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi nobiospnp"

So I rewrote fstab:-
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
dev=/dev/scd1,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy2 supermount
dev=/dev/fd1,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

Note : DVD is master Writer Slave on same IDE line.


However, having created on desktop in the usual right mouse click way
four icons,
CD/DVD-ROM Device , pointing to /mnt/cdrom supermount
CD/DVD-ROM Device2 , pointing to /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
Floppy Device a , pointing to /mnt/floppy supermount
Floppy Device b , pointing to /mnt/floppy2 supermount

none of them will mount and display anything
instead I get reported,
Could not mount device, reported error:-
mount: Can't find supermount in /etc/fstab, and /etc/mtab

Having said that, xcdroast recognises the devices , so it likes the
entries in fstab and lilo.conf. At first it seemed to be the entries in
fstab
for supermount in conjunction with scsi-emulation that are the problem,
and to that end I tried removing the "none" in front of the fstab
entries for the cdrom's ,my reasoning being that perhaps under
scsi-emulation cdrom's are real devices , but then the above
supermount entries do not work with my floppy drives either , which
of course are not scsi-emulated. So what is the problem ?

John





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