I don't know if this helps,

My CD and floppy behave just as you describe when the drives are empty (ie 
Input/Output error, you do not have access rights, little padlocks showing)

However when I insert media into the drive the locks go away and everything 
works fine.

My fstab lines are:-
=========================================================

/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0

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petew




On Monday 13 August 2001 04:04, James S Bear wrote:
> A little trick I learned, from a command line:
> supermount -i disable
>
> Reboot
> Locks should be gone.
>
> Apparently(somebody could clear this up for me)there is a bug in
> supermount? jim
>
> Quoting Donnie Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > What does your fstab look like for your floppy drive and cdrom?  I had
> > the same problem you are having.  To solve my problems I got rid of the
> > supermount option and changed the lines for my cdrom.  Can you post your
> > fstab?
> >
> > >From: "Mitchell, Edmund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED] '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Subject: [newbie] Floppy & CD work fine, then not
> > >Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 15:31:36 -0700
> > >
> > >Hello all
> > >
> > >I have two boxes running LM8, and the floppies & CDROM's
> > >in each work great for about two hours, then not.
> > >If I cd /mnt/floppy, I get an error message like:
> > >bash: cd: /mnt/floppy:  Input/Output Error
> > >
> > >In the graphical file browser, it shows my floppy and
> > >CD as having little locks on them, and if I click on them,
> > >(even from a superuser window) it says I don't have enough
> > >permissions, although a check of the permissions reveals
> > >that they are wide open.
> > >
> > >I tried umounting then mounting as root, and that allowed
> > >me to go a place called /mnt/floppy, but it was not my
> > >floppy, because there were no files there, and the floppy
> > >drive had made no sound, so it was clear the system didn't
> > >even try to access it.
> > >
> > >The floppy disk in question worked 1 minute later on a
> > >Caldera box...
> > >
> > >Thanks for any help
> > >
> > >Edmund
> >
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