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

[Vestal, Roy L.]

Hint: don't use supermount! ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Knowles [mailto:knowlesc at telocity.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:47 PM
To: TriLUG mailing list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Will the questions never stop? (Mandrake
CD/Supermount)


Tried stat on the directory, see the behavior.  If I make hdc be a
non-supermount drive then all is well, hdd and fd0 work with supermount.

Now, hdc is a brand new reader, so I replaced with a reader that is about 1
yr old, and get the exact same behavior.

Is supermount just broken with these drives?  Is there any place I should
report this behavior to?

Thanks.

CJK

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 23:26, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 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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