[TriLUG] Will the questions never stop? (Mandrake CD/Supermount)

[Tanner Lovelace]

Chris,

Are your cds mounted with supermount?  If so, then if you stat
the directory, it will try to access it.  I think that's
what the kde and gnome file managers do.  I wouldn't
think, however, that it exhibits the symptoms you describe... :-(

Tanner

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 21:44, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Sorry... to be perfectly clear... 
> 
> If I try to go to the /mnt directory without a CD in the first drive,
> the "access, fail, access..." behavior happens.  It doesn't matter if
> there is a CD in the second drive.
> 
> Thanks,
> CJK
> 
> On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 21:35, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > So, I'm jazzed on this Mandrake 9.0 install.  (which since it's 9.0
> > _has_ to be better that paltry 8.0... :)
> > 
> > However, there are some rough edges.  (Not as many as in the Beta, but
> > still)
> > 
> > Specifically, I have 2 CD-ROM drives.  (both IDE, on the same chain,
> > first /dev/hdc is a CD Read, and /dev/scd0 is a CD-RW)
> > 
> > Now, when I go to the file browser in Gnome or KDE, the first CD drive
> > freaks out if there isn't a CD in the drive.  (Keeps sounding like it's
> > trying to access)  This will go one for ~1-2 minutes, freezing the file
> > browser, and annoying me.  If during this I put a CD in the drive, it
> > figures things out and all is well, and if there was a CD in the drive
> > to begin with it doesn't even bat an eye.
> > 
> > If you can be of any help it would be appreciated.
> > 
> > CJK
> > 
> > In my /var/log/messages, I notice the following:
> > Sep 30 21:13:30 hermes kernel: cdrom: open failed.
> > Sep 30 21:14:01 hermes last message repeated 14 times
> > Sep 30 21:14:06 hermes last message repeated 2 times
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on
> > dev 16:00.
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-1
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on
> > dev 16:00.
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=iso8859-1
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option
> > iocharset
> > Sep 30 21:14:15 hermes kernel: udf: bad mount option "codepage=850"
> > Sep 30 21:14:22 hermes su(pam_unix)[21151]: session opened for user root
> > by (uid=501)
> > 
> > 
> 
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