-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 02:26 am, D. Olson wrote: > Question for you all: > > The problem people have been having (myself included) with the floppy > lockups in KDE... Can this be solved by disabling supermount in the > Mandrake Control Center, for the floppy drive? > > If so, then I will be adding a tutorial to my site for n00bs, so please let > me know. > > Thanks.
I didn't get a chance to experience floppy lockups because, prefering the standard way of mounting devices, I disabled supermount shortly after I installed MDK 8.2. However, using the Mandrake Control Center worked for the CDROM, but not the floppy. And only floppies formated with DOS could be mounted. Ext2 formatted floppies gave a 'bad superblock' error. I ended up having to manually edit /etc/fstab, which now looks lke: /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,noauto,suid,unhide 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,defaults 0 0 The cdrom line is as MCC left it, but the floppy line is what allowed me to mount both DOS and ext2 formatted floppies. I added device icons on my desktop and they worked to mount the devices in the tradition manner. One last comment: after making these changes the supermount module still cannot be unloaded because it reports back as 'busy'. when rmmod is used on it. Apparently supermount is loaded early in the kernel boot process because during booting I get two error messages, one about not being able to mount 'local' filesystems and the second, after switching to init 5, about not being able to mount 'other' filesystems. dmesg shows: oend_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 and boot.log shows: Jun 9 16:02:45 jlkreps mount: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Jun 9 16:02:45 jlkreps netfs: Mounting other filesystems: failed I ignore these messages. Mandrake should offer two identical kernels at install, with one not having supermount in the kernel, and let the user choose. IMO. - -- JLK -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Cdx2q1Ef6ZbWHeERAv5uAKCl8ZNeciZnB1SyHbF+JdLYAVu3fQCgmwGB 5T7gKM/fu3fWsDxOFhiP/Lw= =1KwX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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