On Tuesday 17 February 2004 15:52, TheViking wrote: > Ugh.. This really is beginning to annoy me. I've tried three > different distro's now (Lindows, RedHat & Mandrake) and im back to > Mandrake. Only problem is, whenever I try and access my HP 8100+ > CD-RW drive it crashes the desktop and takes around 15 minutes to pop > up a window displaying its contents. For that same CD, it will be ok, > opening in half a second or so and behaving properly. As soon as I > put a different CD in and try to access it, it crashes the desktop > again (All mount icons etc) and takes around 15 mins to recover. I > had discussed this issue with another person on here before but I've > lost his e-mail, and further help would have been great. Does ANYONE > know how I can fix this?
Viking, First - you have to relax... :-) Second - Please send us therelevant line from the /etc/fstab file, so we can make sure what are he settings for the CD-RW. And, as always, havve a look at the /var/log/messages file, you might find a clue there... HTH, .:====================================================:. Amichai Rotman Short text-only e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN#: 6401746 Registered Linux User#: 201192
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