help cdwriter access problem

[johnnyv]

hi i installed 9.0 on a computer with a cdwriter and everything was working fine, i deleted the removable media icon of the desktop after placing the floppy and cd icons on the desktop.

after that i couldn't access cd or fdd from the links

no access permissions error

root didn't have access permissions either

i could play music cds from a player ok but could not view the contents via a file manager.

i couldnt mount from the command line either or access through the console

 

after a little mucking around with access permissions i got the fdd to work normally

but not the cdwriter, the access permissions appear the same as my other working 9.0 installations so i don't know where the problem is.

 

any ideas? disable supermount?

[Cannonfodder]

What is your /etc/fstab settings?

[johnnyv]

This is a related fstab entry

 

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

 

I think this happened after i deleted the removable media icon off the desktop.

[Counterspy]

That is wrong. Also disable supermount with supermount -i disable from the command prompt. Here is the part of mine relevant to removable devices:

 

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,ro,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2 auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

 

In each case there was a number of spaces after the /dev/device entries. I suspect the spaces are where supermount once resided.

 

Counterspy

[johnnyv]

thanks that worked great :D

the problem box was the same in every way to my other installs which seem to work fine so...... :shock: