Actually, I can burn supermounted CDs on my 7.0 system, too. I built my
own kernel with IDE-SCSI support built in (rather than as a module) and
it magically made all my supermount problems go away. I didn't expect
that, really, but it was nice.
Civileme wrote:
>
> "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > OK - I have just found the CD-Writing FAQ's on the web. No doubt I will
> > > find my answers in that.
> > >
> > > Sorry to bother the list, although it would be better in setup if when the
> > > CD-Writer was detected (LILO append='hdc=ide-scsi' was set automatically),
> > > also to set /etc/fstab to /dev/scd0 rather than /dev/cdrom which is
> > > sym-linked to /dev/hdc (in my case)!
> >
> > . . . or to change the symlink, which seems like the more obvious fix to
> > me.
> > And one that I suggested to Mandrake for 7.1. I'm not running 7.1,
> > though . . . does anybody know if this got addressed in 7.1?
>
> It was addressed with a vengeance. Even supermounted drives will burn cds, but it
> is a bad(tm) idea to leave a blank in a supermounted burner for a long period of
> time--the power saver and the supermount interact to produce a kernel panic in
> those circumstances.
>
> However, if supermount is not used, the alias in /etc/conf.modules does not
> identify ide-scsi and it isn't modprobed. This has been identified and will be
> dealt with, I have heard from our outstanding developers.
>
> Civileme
>
> Civileme
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