[plug] Help Please

[Russell Hobman]

Goodaye, I have attached below some info I have gathered from mandrake site
on this subject. something in there may be useful to you. regards, Russell.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Andre [SMTP:CAndre at nskomatsu.com.au]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:48 PM
> To:	'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
> Subject:	[plug] Help Please
> 
> Afternoon Pluggers....
> 
> Is there anybody within the group that is using Mandrake 8 that has
> managed
> to get their IDE Cd writer to work ?
> I have printed off at least 4 different styles of EASY steps to setting up
> scsi emulation and frankly I am beginning to wonder
> if there is such a thing as EASY. All four have stated that a recompiling
> of
> the kernel is not required yet following the steps as 
> written does absolutely nothing.  
> 
> I have a Standard PC   AMD Duron 800 , 192mb ram
> soltek 75KAV-X Main board , 20 gig hard drive
> 11x spin Sony CDRom and a Sony CDU928E Writer
> Mandrake 8  Kernel 2.4.3
> 
> Can anyone point me to a not so easy scsi- ide emulation or perhaps even a
> graphical installation tool to work with 
> ( Too much to ask for   ;-)    ok then )
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris Newbie
> 
> 
> >************************************************************
>    RE: Problem with automounting CD-ROM
>
> > First you need to open your KDE or GNOME.
> >
> > Go to KDE Start Center and you will see Configuration and then to
Others. In Others you will see LinuxConf.  You need to open LinuxConf. Then
in the window of LinuxConf you go to FileSystem, you open it. Then you will
see a new window with all the file devices you have on your system. You need
to configure your CD and floppy, and that's it.
> >
> > Have a fun. See you, Tomek Nowinski
> >
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>
 --- Ján ©edivý <jsedivy at bb.telecom.sk> wrote: > From:"Ján ©edivý"
<jsedivy at bb.telecom.sk>
> To: <newbie at linux-mandrake.com>
> Subject: Fw: [newbie] Problem with automounting CD-ROM and floppy
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:26:56 +0200
> 
> Thanks for your advice, but I am not sure, how to configure these things.
Could anybody tell me what should stand in /etc/fstab file for floppy disk
and for CD-ROM?
> 
> I tried to use various settings, but CD-ROM is still unmountable reporting
various error messages...
> 
> Thanks, Jan Sedivy
> jsedivy at stonline.sk
>
> *******************************************************************
 --- Dennis Myers <denkar at earthlink.net> wrote: >
From: Dennis Myers <denkar at earthlink.net>
> >> 
> This is what my fstab file looks like and supermount is what you are
looking for I think. This is from LM 8.0, which version are you using?
> 
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /mnt/cdrom/mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda8 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 
> If you need any other help, come back to the list,
> -- 
> Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
>  
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 --- Dennis Myers <denkar at earthlink.net> wrote: > from: Dennis Myers
<denkar at earthlink.net>
> To: "Ján?edivý" <jsedivy at bb.telecom.sk>,  "Newbie Linux-Mandrake"
<newbie at linux-mandrake.com>
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with automounting CDROM and floppy
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 17:50:59 -0500
> 
> On Saturday 21 July 2001 17:35, you wrote: Thanks to all of you for your
advice,
> >
> > I tried inserting "user", but nothing changed... I had to reinstall LM
and CD drive now works fine. Now fstab line shows exactly, what I was
advised to use:
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 (without
"user").
> >
> > By the way, I noticed an interesting thing (in my opinion) - HardDrake
now shows my IDE CD-writer HP 9350 twice - First as ATAPI/IDE device,
/dev/hdd and Second as SCSI device, /dev/scd0. Is this usual behavior?
> >
> > Jan Sedivy
>
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> > Martin, Slovakia
> > jsedivy at bb.stonline.sk
> >
> Seems to be the usual. I believe Mandrakesoft set it up this way so that
you don't need to establish a soft link between cdrom and scd0 by hand as
you did in 7.2. My system works just dandy with the two devices shown in
HardDrake.
> > -- 
> Dennis M. registered Linux user # 180842
>  
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 --- Ján ©edivý <jsedivy at bb.telecom.sk> wrote: > From:"Ján ©edivý"
<jsedivy at bb.telecom.sk>
> To: <newbie at linux-mandrake.com>
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with automounting CDROM and floppy
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:35:13 +0200
> 
> Thanks to all of you for your advice, I tried inserting "user", but
nothing changed... I had to reinstall LM and
> CD drive now works fine. Now fstab line shows exactly, what I was advised
to use:
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount
> fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 (without "user").
> > 
> By the way, I noticed an interesting thing (in my opinion) - HardDrake now
shows my IDE CD-writer HP 9350 twice - First as ATAPI/IDE device, /dev/hdd
and Second as SCSI device, /dev/scd0. Is this usual behavior?
> 
> Jan Sedivy
> Martin, Slovakia
> jsedivy at bb.stonline.sk
> 
>
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> >Jan,  Try inserting user as shown below:
> >/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,user,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> >/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> >/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
> >
	> >Roman