Latem Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 Hello, I have Mandrake 10 Official, and everything worked fine for some time. I have a USB IOmega Zip100 drive, and a Sony 52x32x52 burner. A week ago my zip drive was messing up, and when I would put in a zip disk it would create a new mount point /mnt/zip2, mount the disk there, and add the appropriate entry in fstab. Anyway, after reading around the net I concluded that supermount doesnt work right w/ USB, so I changed my fstab. My old fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1none /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 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 notice the zip2 entry, which was not there before, and even if I delete it, and restart, when I put in a new zip disk, it would create the new mount point, and add the line. So I changed the fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1none /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 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /mnt/zip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 That seemed to fix it, and my zip disk seemed to work nice. But today I tried writing to the zip disk for the 1st time in a while. I kept getting error: "Writing to devices is not supported". And I could not fix it. I searched, and some1 on linuxforums had the same problem w/ floppy, and ppl suggested chmodding the appropriate /dev/ file (/dev/fd0 for floppy I think). anyway I tried that (chmodding the zip /dev file) but that didnt work. I also get the same error if I try to write to floppy. I am able to burn, however, it is really slow. Before, when I burnt stuff, it [K3b] would say starting burning at 52x or whatever I specified, but than it would complain how the burner or the media doesn't support that speed, starting at 0x. But it would burn w/ an average speed of 30-35x. A pretty full audio disk would take ~3mins to burn. This was acceptable, even though I had a 52x burner. But now I tried burning an audio CD of 10 tracks, < 1hr of music, and it had an avg speed of 5x, taking 13 mins to burn. This is just retarded... I really have a serious problem here, and I dont know what caused my system to mess up so bad. I dont think it was changing the fstab, but whatever caused the zip to start messing up, which seemed to me to happen out of the blue. I know I didnt do anything w/ settings and stuff. Also changing fstab to the original file, which was the Mandrake default, doesnt solve the problem. Please help me fix this. Thanks a lot, Latem [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted September 3, 2004 Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 What kernel are you using? The 2.6.8-1mdk kernel has problems with cdburners (maybe zipdrives and floppies, too). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latem Posted September 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 I have 2.6.3-7mdk. Latem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latem Posted September 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2004 I can write to the zip disk by opening it in one window, and then dragging a file from another window to the zip, and choosing copy or move. But If I use Edit | Copy and Paste, or Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V , or any combination of these it complains with "Writing to devices is not supported". And today I tried burning an audio cd, and it worked good enough, with an average speed of 25x, burning 20 songs (~70mins) in 3:40 mins. This is acceptable, so I guess that works, and I dont know why it was so slow yesturday. Any ideas? Latem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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