On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:51, you wrote: > Dear all, > > I have recently updated to LM8.1 on my office PC and my laptop. It seems > like Mandrake have taken a step backwards regarding accessing > cdrom/floppy drives, which worked fine for me in LM8.0! > Yes. They rushed the 8.1 release, and it went out with supermount broken :-( If you want it that much there is a kernel on Mandrake Cooker version 2.4.13-2mdk in which supermount works. However I do not recommend it since when I tried it my computer would hang on unloading usb drivers.
Until a fixed 2.4.8 kernel appears we have no choice but to mount/unmount manually I like to keep kwikdisk as an icon in my icon tray to mount/unmount at a click. It ain't ideal, but heck its just like a mackintosh :-) Here is my fstab. It works just fine /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,exec,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto iocharset=iso8859-1,user,exec,noauto,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,nosuid,exec,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,unhide 0 0 > > This accessing seems extremely temperamental in LM8.1 and is driving me > nuts at the moment. Something as simple as this, that has been sorted > previously, should work fine and dandy in LM8.1! > > I am aware that there have been many posts regarding this, but I can't > access them at present! What is the answer? Is there a simple 5 minute > fix that will sort it all out for me? Any help would be much appreciated... > Yeah its annoying, but I've kind of got used to it. kwikdisk is kinda cute, and I used to be a mac user so its not so different. What's most annoying is that Mandrake knew about it before release, but for commercial reasons released it anyway instead of waiting 1 or 2 weeks for a fix. Derek > Andy
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