-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-03-07 at 01:39 -0500, Bob S wrote:
Use traditional lines, no subfs - because subfs is trying to automount, and hald is trying to automount also (so my crystal ball tells me ;-) ). For example:
/dev/hdc /media/dvdrecorder auto noauto,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto noauto,ro,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
OK.... Cut and pasted those lines into my fstab. Same exact situation as before. Won't work. Now I get this message:
Could not mount device. The reported error was: [mntent]: line 18 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 19 in /etc/fstab is bad [mntent]: line 20 in /etc/fstab is bad mount: according to mtab, /dev/fd0 is already mounted on /media/floppy mount failed
(those are the three lines I pasted into fstab)
You have inserted extra chars somewhere. The line has to start with /dev... with no white space before, no extra symbols like ">". What I have is: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 but first correct your symlinks (keep reaing).
Here are some odd things that I have found: In Yast> Hardware> CD Roms, Yast posts two each of the devices. The NEC dvd device and the LiteOn cd device. They all show as non-configured. I edit them to show the mount point etc. and click "finish" Yast says OK. Reopen the dialogue and they are not configured. The settings do not stick.
Could be because the links are wrong. You can try what Darryl said, or (see below)
Now, when I look at /dev it shows 3 devices for each unit. For the cdrecorder it shows cdrom which is linked to /dev/hdc (incorrect - should be /dev/hdd) then cdrecorder, which is correctly linked to hdd, and cdrecorder2 which is linked to /dev/fd0 (really wrong)
Ok, so you have wrong links. The place to modify the links manually in 9.3 and probably in 10.0 is in "/etc/udev/rules.d/20-cdrom.rules". Yast created these two lines for me: BUS="ide", ID="1.0", SYSFS{removable}="1", SYMLINK="dvdram cdrom " BUS="ide", ID="1.1", SYSFS{removable}="1", SYMLINK="dvd" whereas the correct lines for me are: BUS="ide", ID="1.0", SYSFS{removable}="1", SYMLINK="dvdrecorder dvdram dvd" BUS="ide", ID="1.1", SYSFS{removable}="1", SYMLINK="cdrecorder cdrom" If you don't do it there, the changes will not stick. The location may be slightly diferent in 10.0. Take the basis of the lines Yast created, then modify them to suit your situation.
Additionally, /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd show me (bob) as the owner and the group as "disk". I can also manually edit those, giving ownership back to root, but again at the next reboot everything reverts to the original configuration.
Yes, that is so. When you log in, you are given ownership of many devices. If you don't want that, you have to edit "/etc/logindevperm".
But first, try as above. Then, if you want fully manual mount, read that thread ;-)
I would really rather NOT do that, seeing problems "down the road" with upgrades and such.
I will tell you that some months down that road ;-)
But this is really getting annoying and frustrating and I may just have to, to keep my sanity.
I understand...
Ummmmm.....could this have anything to do with not loading some kernel modules?? I noticed a remark about that in my boot.message log.
I don't think so, but perhaps. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEDcxmtTMYHG2NR9URArOKAJ443ne8F4UrwD5geSUB6U2QXeJC5QCfQFUh mI3O/iymKWjzeqyzcf3Az98= =Uddq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----