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ian- Saw your suggestion about PnP OS setting in the BIOS, thanks. My current BIOS does not have an option for that. I will try disabling ipv6 as well as apic, thanks for those suggestions.

I tried turning off DHCP thorugh my router, yet this did not correct the problems. I haven't yet tried one of the spare NICS I have laying around to see if that corrects the issues. The onboard ethernet is based on the Cicada 8201 chipset. I just tried again to set the static IP for my PC--both through my Mandrake2005LE config and through the router, while leaving the other PCs networked through the router in their same configuration--and immediately after changing from DHCP to static IP, my PC slowed to a crawl upon rebooting, and I could not do anything internet related.

I followed the instructions for assigning static IP addresses at the following link: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=25212 Once I completed the steps, it worked for my purpose (using Azureus) but after a few hours (or a reboot) my PC would take forever to boot and eth0 would not function correctly (no internet browsing, etc) when the PC finally did complete the bootup process. The only thing that corrected these issue was to reinstall Mandrake. The details: I run Mandrake 2005 LE, I am home networked through a Linksys WRT54G router and my eth0 is the onboard ethernet from my Epox 8RDA3+PRO motherboard. Can anybody help me diagnose what I am doing wrong and perhaps help me correct it? Thanks. -Scott

coverup- Thanks. I will try that and see if it solves the problem. I will also update to 10.1 Official to see if this helps.

John- Here's what I've found: using: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 the DVD mounts automatically upon reboot, while using: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 also works, but I have to mount the DVD manually. You're right--it is peculiar.

Thanks, Ian for all your help. Good luck with your system build.

ianw1974 Thank you. This worked. Now data and movie DVDs will mount. In order to play movie DVDs I have to do ln -s /dev/hdc /de/dvd but each time I reboot, I have to creat this link again to play DVD movies. How do I create this link permanently? Thanks.

Before i call it a night, here's my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 the DVD burner is /dev/hdc or /mnt/cdrom2 Does anything look wrong in my /etc/fstab?

Yep, I'm running the newer kernel. In fact, upon reboot, the older kernel version as well as the newer kernel version were listed as boot options in LILO, and I chose the newest version. After booting up, I checked from a terminal to be sure, and it's running the 2.6.8.1.24 version. There's probably something simple that I'm overlooking, or something I did that's causing this issue. Thanks again for your help, ian.

I updated my kernel, still no luck, the DVD still will not mount. Thanks for all the help. I need some sleep. Hopefully some sleep and time will help find a solution to this PITA problem.

I don't see a kernel source in /usr/src All that's in there are a few empty folders. SO in this case I just install the 2.6.8.1.24 kernel? THanks for all of your help with this, BTW.

Okay, through Install Software, there is a newer kernel version: 2.6.8.1.24mdk-1-1mdk So are there any specific things I should know or do before updating the kernel? WIll I lose any of the present data on my HD by updating the kernel? Thanks.

You're correct, no devfsd, but udev returned the following: udev 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Does this help any? Thanks for the help so far.

You're right, though, I should update/install 10.1 Official. In order to do that, though, I have to backup ~120Gig of data. My only means of backing up for the moment if to burn to DVD, and if I can't be certain that after the upgrade to 10.1 Offical that my DVDs can be mounted and that data restored...

ian- Thanks. I have kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdk the easyurpmi source were updated/setup, yet when I checked for updated kernels, I got the following reply: Everything already installed SO, what do I do now? Thanks.

ian- The drive IS recognized by MDK. I can eject the data DVD from a terminal (eject /mnt/cdrom2) and MCC/hardrake recognizes it. The CD burner mounts fine, the DVD burner is the only one that won't mount. Yes, Hardrake is running. I'm running 10.1 Community simply because I haven't gotten around to upgrading to 10.1 Official. Not sure which Kernel version I'm running. How do I check? Thanks for the help and suggestions.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it several times, but the DVD burner still won't mount.

***SOLVED*** I just bought a Lite-On DVD burner. I've already successfully burned several data DVDs with it. The Windows based PCs will recognize these discs, however I cannot get them to mount on my PC. I'm running Mandrake 10.1 Community. I have one HD, a Cd Burner and this DVD burner in this PC. My /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto unmask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 The error I get when trying to mount the DVD drive: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted file systems I've tried the suggestions in several similar problem posts here, but none of them have worked. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Nevermind. After a few reboots, Mandrake recognized the new HD and partitioned it for me.

My Mandrake HD died a few days ago. Today, my new 160 Gig HD arrived. Now, I put the drive in and rebooted from the 10.1 install CD only to have the installation say that it cannot find a suitable device to install Mandrake to. Can anyone tell me what I have to do to this drive to install Mandrake on it? This drive will be soleley for Mandrake, no other operating systems will go on this drive, if that helps at all. Thanks.

Thanks. I will try the freezer trick once my new drive arrives from ZipZoomFly. Thanks for the help.

What is the freezer trick? Thanks. EDIT: WHat happend to HD quality? All of my previous drives that died at least limped along so that I could save any critical data before the drive stopped working completely. This one, however, appears to have just frozen up Mandrake 10.1 right in the middle of a program with no warning. For my new drive, I'm getting one with a 3-year warranty so that at least if it fails at the same point in its lifetime as my current failed drive, I can still have it replaced by the manufacturer under warranty.

It appears that my HD just died. I've been running Mandrake 10.1, and had not backed up my files in to another drive or to another PC in my home network. I already tried to rescue this installation from the 10.1 dics, but it says that it cannot find my root device. What I need to know is: Is there any way to recover Mandrake files from this drive once I install the new HD? Even though this drive will not boot, is there any piece of Mandrake software that will allow me to recover any files from this drive? Thanks for any help.

The problem has been solved. I un-installed the w32codecs that I had, and installed the w32codecs package from PLF, and now these files are viewable with Mplayer. Thanks for the tips and help.

How do I tell if they are drm protected files? These are .wmv files that were downloaded from the net. From my understanding, these .wmv clips were converted from higher quality (DVD/HiDef) files to achieve reduction in file size and specifically for sharing of these files, so my guess would be that they are NOT drm protected files. Thanks.