Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > Well, I went and got the new ibook, and swapped a 20gig hard drive into it > (which was an awful experience. If ever an engineer comes to me with plans > for a plastic > case which "snaps" together I will personally drag him out to the curb and > shoot him, > we don't need that kind.
Strange that you don't like it. Apple always wins all kinds of industry and design awards for such little things as computers with no threaded fasteners (screws). > Anyway, I've got a 3.5gig partition for MacOS, the rest for Debain. > > I've got a few questions: [snippage] > 6) It'd be nice to have the f12 key map to "eject /dev/cdrom" as there's no > button to manually open the tray. Can this happen? Try something like wmmount. sheesh. > 5) cdparanoia fails to do anything with the dvd-rom drive, I get this kind of > output: > ------ > mithril:~# cdparanoia -vsQ > cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) > (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus > > Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ > > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > CDROM sensed: ATAPI compatible MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8176 > > 004: Unable to read table of contents header > > Unable to open disc. Is there an audio CD in the drive? Sooooo, is there an audio CD in the drive? If so, try using the ide-scsi method of accessing your cdrom drive instead. I think it's documented in the CDROM-Howto. a
