I did my upgrade today FROM 9.0. There were a number of dependancy problems, but got rid of them when I told Yast to delete Gimp and Gaim. All seems to be well, EXCEPT (once again - a CONTINUAL problem for Linux) getting the CD-RW drive to work. KDE didn't come up with a CD icon, so I had to create it. Fstab does have the two lines (/dev/cdrom * /dev/cdrecorder) listed. I can't read any disk, the system tells me it's mounted as /media/cdrecorder, but ls reports that there's no medium in the drive. YES, the system does correctly identify the drive, and I installed from that drive, plus Yast can use it to install additional software. Any ideas? Thanks, Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
I did my upgrade today FROM 9.0. There were a number of dependancy problems, but got rid of them when I told Yast to delete Gimp and Gaim. All seems to be well, EXCEPT (once again - a CONTINUAL problem for Linux) getting the CD-RW drive to work. KDE didn't come up with a CD icon, so I had to create it. Fstab does have the two lines (/dev/cdrom * /dev/cdrecorder) listed.
Sorry that you are having issues. New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount to mount the cd and floppy drives. The icons should be found in My Computer. Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs and floppies.
I can't read any disk, the system tells me it's mounted as /media/cdrecorder, but ls reports that there's no medium in the drive. YES, the system does correctly identify the drive, and I installed from that drive, plus Yast can use it to install additional software.
How are you trying to read it? If supermount is working correctly, all you have to do is cd to the directory that the drive will mount to. Ex cd /media/cdrecorder. Marshall
On Monday 10 May 2004 6:34 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote:
I did my upgrade today FROM 9.0. There were a number of dependancy problems, but got rid of them when I told Yast to delete Gimp and Gaim. All seems to be well, EXCEPT (once again - a CONTINUAL problem for Linux) getting the CD-RW drive to work. KDE didn't come up with a CD icon, so I had to create it. Fstab does have the two lines (/dev/cdrom * /dev/cdrecorder) listed.
Sorry that you are having issues. New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount to mount the cd and floppy drives. The icons should be found in My Computer. Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs and floppies.
Great idea - if it works. :(
I can't read any disk, the system tells me it's mounted as /media/cdrecorder, but ls reports that there's no medium in the drive. YES, the system does correctly identify the drive, and I installed from that drive, plus Yast can use it to install additional software.
How are you trying to read it? If supermount is working correctly, all you have to do is cd to the directory that the drive will mount to. Ex cd /media/cdrecorder.
'Doesn't work. I called SUSE tech. support but they didn't have an answer either. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
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Sorry that you are having issues. New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount to mount the cd and floppy drives. The icons should be found in My Computer. Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs and floppies.
Great idea - if it works. :(
Seems to work for me.
How are you trying to read it? If supermount is working correctly, all you have to do is cd to the directory that the drive will mount to. Ex cd /media/cdrecorder.
'Doesn't work. I called SUSE tech. support but they didn't have an answer either.
That stinks! Hmmm.., What does the line/s for your CDRW say in the fstab? Can you force umount the drive as root? I assume that lsof /dev/cdrecorder stated that nothing was using the drive. Marshall
On Monday 10 May 2004 7:14 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote:
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Sorry that you are having issues. New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount to mount the cd and floppy drives. The icons should be found in My Computer. Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs and floppies.
Great idea - if it works. :(
Seems to work for me.
How are you trying to read it? If supermount is working correctly, all you have to do is cd to the directory that the drive will mount to. Ex cd /media/cdrecorder.
'Doesn't work. I called SUSE tech. support but they didn't have an answer either.
That stinks! Hmmm.., What does the line/s for your CDRW say in the fstab? Can you force umount the drive as root? I assume that lsof /dev/cdrecorder stated that nothing was using the drive.
Correct. I have /dev/cdrom working now, but don't know yet if I can burn a CD. 'Kinda cobbed up to get it to work, but for now.............. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
Marshall Heartley wrote:
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Sorry that you are having issues. New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount to mount the cd and floppy drives. The icons should be found in My Computer. Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs and floppies.
Great idea - if it works. :(
Seems to work for me.
How are you trying to read it? If supermount is working correctly, all you have to do is cd to the directory that the drive will mount to. Ex cd /media/cdrecorder.
'Doesn't work. I called SUSE tech. support but they didn't have an answer either.
That stinks! Hmmm.., What does the line/s for your CDRW say in the fstab? Can you force umount the drive as root? I assume that lsof /dev/cdrecorder stated that nothing was using the drive.
Marshall
Maybe this has been checked, where /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrecorder is symlinked to. I'm using hdb=ide-cd instead of hdb=ide-scsi in /boot/grub/menu.lst as I had some funnies in 9.0 where I couldn't play audio CD's and I think problems unmounting data CD's. I have a problem on one laptop HD where YaST would not load modules, I discovered it was always looking for the floppy drive, plug in the floppy drive and it works. SuSE were no help on that either. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
Fred Miller wrote:
On Monday 10 May 2004 7:14 pm, Marshall Heartley wrote:
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Sorry that you are having issues. New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount to mount the cd and floppy drives. The icons should be found in My Computer. Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs and floppies.
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Correct. I have /dev/cdrom working now, but don't know yet if I can burn a CD. 'Kinda cobbed up to get it to work, but for now..............
Fred
I did not upgrade from my 9.0 but did a clean install instead. It's the first time that cd burning really worked out of the box, without needing to play with scsi emulation. Apparently cdrecord uses plain ide now, which is much simpler (dvdr/cdrom = /dev/hdc , dvd/cdwriter= /dev/hdd). Supermount is also a whole lot more reliable since I don't get that CD-stuck-inside-problem that I regularly got, even if I closed the file manager before unmounting. My SuSE 9.0 install installed cdrom/dvd as /dev/hdc and dvdrecorder/cdrecorder as /dev/sr0. I found out scsi emulmation on both reader and writer improved things for burning with dao. Now I guess that if you upgrade instead of doing a clean install, maybe yast gets confused about what to do, since you have a bit of both worlds. fx
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 18.12, fx fraipont wrote:
Supermount is also a whole lot more reliable since I don't get that
Please. It is not supermount. supermount was a failed mandrake experiment. suse uses submount http://submount.sourceforge.net/
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 18.12, fx fraipont wrote:
Supermount is also a whole lot more reliable since I don't get that
Please. It is not supermount. supermount was a failed mandrake experiment. suse uses submount
sorry,
Marshall Heartley wrote:
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Sorry that you are having issues. New in 9.1 SuSE is using supermount to mount the cd and floppy drives. The icons should be found in My Computer. Supermount is supposed to eliminate the use of mounting CDs and floppies.
so I just used supermount without checking.
fx
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:12 pm, fx fraipont wrote: [snip]
I did not upgrade from my 9.0 but did a clean install instead. It's the first time that cd burning really worked out of the box, without needing to play with scsi emulation. Apparently cdrecord uses plain ide now, which is much simpler (dvdr/cdrom = /dev/hdc , dvd/cdwriter= /dev/hdd). Supermount is also a whole lot more reliable since I don't get that CD-stuck-inside-problem that I regularly got, even if I closed the file manager before unmounting.
'Never had that, but knew others who did. :) Also, which is NICE, supermount also works for floppy, SC card readers, etc. I've always had to unmount and remount cards in my reader which is a pain. VERY good improvement.
My SuSE 9.0 install installed cdrom/dvd as /dev/hdc and dvdrecorder/cdrecorder as /dev/sr0. I found out scsi emulmation on both reader and writer improved things for burning with dao.
Yes.......but 9.1 is just a quick without the SCSI emulation.
Now I guess that if you upgrade instead of doing a clean install, maybe yast gets confused about what to do, since you have a bit of both worlds.
I got around it. :) I have to agree that 9.1 MAY, read that MAY be a tad slower than 9.0, but other than that, some very welcome improvements, including those in KDE. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
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