On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, civileme wrote: <Snip> > Kwikdisk is just a docking program for kdiskfree which is a mighty utility. > Your CDROM is indeed an ide device which will be listed as such and your > burner is a scsi device to the system cause the kernel has been told to treat > it that way (Scsi emulation) > > Actually any CD drive is emulated by software -- there is a module compiled in > by default called ide-cd. Experiments where ide-scsi is the default worked > well except for a few DVD drives which insisted on being emulated by ide-cd, > so ide-cd is the default and ide-scsi is loaded for burners because cdrecord > works only on scsi devices, and cdrecord is the backend for all the GUI > burners. > > Anyway, CD drives are treated as identical to hard drives by kdf, but they are > always full when a CD is loaded. The way 9.0 supermount is set up from a > fresh install, they don't even list on kdf, but upgrades may vary. > > Civileme
Hm... so IOW what you're telling me is this is normal behaviour. Great. But that doesn't solve my mounting problem. I like supermount *when it works* & hate it when it doesn't. *sigh* I wanted to try Kwikdisk to see if that would be a simple way to u/mount stuff. But it doesn't seem to work well with CDRoms. Am I correct ? I looked through the help files for it too but got no real concrete answer on how to get it to mount cdrom's properly. Its a bit perplexing you see. All I want to do is avoid that cdrom induced "lag" when I load a filemanger... be it Krusader or Gentoo.
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