Murray Waldron wrote:
G'day Slug,
When I had RH9 on my system, all my ide devices worked perfectly. My
CD-ROM and CD-RW were recognised, worked and ejected properly and my ZIP
disk worked and also ejected properly.
When I did a fresh install to Fedora Core 3, I lost the ability to play
audio CD's (my machine just reports an error reading the drive), though
I can read CD-ROM's.
To play and eject cds in FC3 it's possible to add your login name to the
disk group in /etc/group. Mine looks like this:
disk:x:6:root,ben
After doing that I could use the cdrom device to play and eject cds.
If you want to use cdp or cdplay to play cds, that program expects
/dev/cdrom linked to the cdrom device, (which looks like /dev/hdc from
your fstab below), so you can run, as root:
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
If you want that link to survive over reboots, you can place that
command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
The device I have added to my fstab file does survive reboots. It's
/dev/sda for the usb devices.
Ben
My zip disk wouldn't mount until I edited my fstab
file (/dev/hdb -> /dev/hdb4). Also my machine now refers to my ZIP as a
floppy, probably a minor thing. None of these drives will eject when
unmounted.
Also, to read my windows drive I have to add a line to fstab, which
works, but every time I reboot, I lost the modifications I have made to
fstab.
This is the limit of my knowledge for editing fstab, by the way.
Does anybody have an idea on how to get it all working again?
Thanks in advance.
Murray.
I have attached a copy of my fstab file.
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# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat
pamconsole,exec,noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto
pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto
pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/floppy auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy1 auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
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