Anne, In trying to show my wife how to use my MDK 9.0 to do her homework for school, last night, I realized how beneficial supermount can be for someone who has no interest in the workings, just wants to get work done. ;-) It worked fine for her, as long as she followed its 'rules of engagement'.
I found that as long as I removed the focus on the CD-ROM drive, I could remove the CD...most of the time. However, I now try to eject it first, whenever the program focusing on it will give me that option (like Konqueror, for instance.) Whichever way I pick, it usually works. It isn't perfect, but as long as I work within its limitations, I really have very little problems with it. Using 'Refresh' in whatever program am in always makes sure that a switched media is properly read. Overall, I still would prefer to work with it enabled then to have to deal with thinking about mounting and unmounting. Floppy, Zip or CDs, I still find it works fine for me as long as I either eject from the program or close the program or its focus on the drive. Heck, M$ Windows isn't that much better, especially in Win 98. ;-) >From what I can see in all that has been said here, this is an option that pleases everyone in that you can either use it, or disable it....and you are right whatever choice you make! Mandrake may perfect this someday. For now, it works OK for me. T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 7:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] First suspect - me On Friday 22 Nov 2002 11:57 am, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >As I said recently, when things don't work properly I always wonder if I > >didn't set it up properly - and it often proves to be the case. > > > >Like many people I was having problems with supermount. Through MCC I > > checked out all the settings, then re-read Mandrake's warnings about > > supermount and user settings. In essence, supermount can't work properly > > if 'user' is in the fstab line. I removed it, and (fingers crossed) > > everything seems to be working well now. > > > >I wonder if others have found the same? > > > >Anne > > Out of interest does your altered supermount work in all respects > with scsi-emulated devices ? > > John John, I only found it a couple of days ago. So far, my observations are: It is best to use the desktop icon labelled Removable Media to mount the drives. Closing the window allows the eject to work. It is not impossible to upset it, but the couple of times I managed it I know it was my mistake that caused it. On those occasions the eject button on the drive didn't work, so I re-opened the window and used the drive eject option. You have to be smart, though, as it opens the drawer and shuts it very quickly! A quick snatch of the disk closed it empty, and all functioned normally after. It's too early to say there are no problems, but everything seems OK. Anne ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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