[Nottingham] DVD mounting error

[Peter Aldred]

On Friday 03 June 2005 15:20, Martin wrote:
> Peter Aldred wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today I booted up my PC to find that nothing would mount on my previously
> > fine-and-dandy DVD drive. Whatever I put in there, I get 'Mount: no
> > medium found'.
> Well, firstly disconnect the ide lead and power to your duff drive.
> Ensure the remaining drive is jumpered to "master", end edit your fstab
> accordingly.

Hi Martin,

Thanks a lot, that sorted it - after disconnecting both, then reattaching then 
one by one, the system picked them both up perfectly.

> For an example, a snippet from mine is:
>
> /dev/hde /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
> /dev/hdf /mnt/cdrom2 auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec,users 0 0

My fstab now looks pretty much like this^ :)

> Also, why are you using 'supermount'?(!)

I don't know; I've never told it to, it's the way it installed. In deference 
to the ?(!) above I've now changed my floppy line to resemble yours, and all 
seems fine (read/write etc).

What is supermount, and why should one not use it?
-- 
Pete