On Saturday January 25 2003 07:16 pm, Charlie wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I've been fighting with beta2 for so long I think I may have gone
> into terminal brainf@rt mode. I finally have it recognizing the
> cdrom, the cdrw and the floppy at boot (no mount point errors) but
> I can't for the life of me remember how to leave supermount enabled
> and still have a user accessible removable media drive. All three
> drives in fact.
>
> I have managed to mount the cdrom manually with the install disks
> inserted; which is weird since supermount is supposed to be on.
> Some of my backup data files are hangovers on CD-R from when I
> still dual booted Windows and I can't make the drive read them.
> Images saved from the past, a few directories of MP3s, etc.
>
> That may be a beta problem but I won't know unless I can get
> consistent drive performance otherwise. I'll need a peak at
> someone's fstab (working supermount) to stimulate the gray matter
> in order to complete the job. If it's a beta bug I'll be able to
> find what so I can make a bug report.
There's already a bug report and a fix
>
> Can anybody throw an old dog a bone? Thanks.
It's a kernel deal, and a deficiency in the beta's configuration
(so far). The 2.4.21 kernels setup the CD drives as scsi, both
CD-RW's and cdroms. In my case then both were unavailable for
reading, with or without supermount, tho I could still burn CDr's.
The fix is quite easy. For example, my burner is hdd and my Cdrom is
hdc, and this is my lilo.conf line,
append=" devfs=mount hdc=ide-cd hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"
. ^^^^^^^^^^
Adding "hdc=ide-cd", the Cdrom is now accesible, and I can use my
burner for reading also. 'supermount -i enable && mount-a' got it all
goin again with supermount. Which, BTW, is greatly improved (fast!)
with 2.4.21. BTW, check cdrecord -scanbus as your CD-RW will likely
be moved. Mine was from 0,1,0 to 0,0,0 with this fix.
You really should subscribe to the cooker ML when usin cooker, or
at least frequently check the recent ML archives, if you're not or
don't already. I had been usin the 2.4.19 kernel to fix this
situation till the "cdrom/ide" issue was discussed, and the fix given
on the cooker list. I reckon it'll be fixed with beta3, which should
be any day now.
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