I have had similar problems on my Dell Inspriron 4100 notebook. This i think is caused by the floppy and CD sharing hardware interfaces.
I did read somewhere on the Mandrake website about this and have solved the problems i was having by changing the method the floppy is mounted from automatic using supermount to user with noauto. This can be done via the options selection of the Mount Points option in Mandrake Control Panel, or editing /etc/fstab. This means that the floppy will have to mounted and unmounted manually, but i don't find this a problem I hope this helps Simon Matthews On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 14:17, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: > I have upgraded to 8.2 on both my desktop and my laptop. I have > used the cdrom on my desktop and used my floppy drive as well. I did > some work on my laptop that I wanted to add to my desktop but now the > floppy and both cdrom's (one is a burner) are locked. The only changes > I have made were security updates through their mandrakeupdate utility. > I have checked permissions and they state that I am user and group. I > have tried everything I know and cannot figure out why they have all of > a sudden become locked. I have done the same updates on my laptop and I > can still use the cdrom and the floppy. Has anyone ran into this > before. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I tried multiply cd's > and floppys to make sure it was the machine not the media. Thanks, Maureen > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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