Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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. :(
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> Seems to work for me.
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> > > 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.
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> > 'Doesn't work. I called SUSE tech. support but they didn't have an answer 
> > either.
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> 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.
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> Marshall
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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.

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