both floppy and cdrom drivers are working great here, post your /etc/fstab here, let us check if everything is all right, :)
/Jun On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:54:36PM +0530, Arnab_Ganguly wrote: :Hi Experts! : :I have a question that I would love to have answered, indeed I have spent :more than 20 hours trying to figure out the answer, but...could not answer :it. I had posted to this list earlier, but at that time I had not put in the :hard work. : :Background: I upgraded from MDK 8.0 to 8.1 a few days ago thinking that 8.1 :was going to be very good. Hardware Intel Celeron, Intel 810 board, 128M :RAM. ATAPI CD-Drive (/dev/hdd), IDE hard disk (/dev/hda). Everything working :perfectly on MDK8.0 both with devfsd and without devfsd. : :Result : Now with MDK 8.1 in place I cannot mount the floppy or the CDROM. :When I try mounting it says /dev/fd0 is not a block device. I was able to :solve this by appending "nobiospnp" to the kernel boot parameter. : :The CDROM IA A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. The system hangs when I try mounting :the cdrom. To try and solve this problem, I downloaded the latest 2.4.13 :kernel (from kernel.org) and recompiled with devfsd, installed devfsd, :downloaded a bootscript for devfsd initialization etc, but the problem still :remains the same-- no CDROM! I always get a "drive seek error" for /dev/hdd :(my CDROM) while booting either with 2.4.8 or 2.4.13 kernel. : :Interestingly CDROM and FLOPPYT work OK with the 2.4.3 kernel + devfsd + :script if I forcibly install (rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.4.3.mdk)but this :breaks the tempfs and a couple of other things. : :Is there a major bug in MDK 8.1 that prevents users from using the CDROM? Is :there a fix that can be simply done? Or is one to forcibly install the :kernel supplied with MDK 8.0 and then recompile for tempfs support etc. : :If anyone can show me some clean way of solving the problem (without this :forced old kernel install from MDK 8.0 etc)or at least tell me the fixed :software to download etc. it would be a great help and I would consider my :20 hours spent on MDK 8.1 as a gain. My e-mail address is :[EMAIL PROTECTED] : :Thanks, :Arnab : : :**************************************************************************** :********************** :This email (including any attachments) is intended for the sole use of the :intended recipient/s and may contain material that is CONFIDENTIAL AND :PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION. Any review or reliance by others or copying or :distribution or forwarding of any or all of the contents in this message is :STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact :the sender by email and delete all copies; your cooperation in this regard :is appreciated. :**************************************************************************** :********************** : :Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? :Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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