Hi Paul, (please avoid top posting) On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 18:14 -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > That worked with a CDR I wrote. > I'm curious, what is the output of 'cat /etc/mtab'. Also, does this work even when hald is running? > I was suspicious that this reallly fixed it, then unmounted and tried > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > And those irq timeout errors happened again. > And what is the output of the 'cat /etc/mtab' here? Also, does this also fail even when hald is not running? > What next? Can I configure the hal or udev to get this right? > My suspicion is that the fs detection code in mount(1) doesn't get it right (mount(1) tries to detect the filesystem when auto is specified), hence why I'm asking for the /etc/mtab outputs. This may be caused by driver issues in the kernel that is drive specific. I could be wrong though. > I don't really see what haldaemon does for me anyway. I suppose it > would mount a usb stick if I put it in? (don't have one, though). When I > first installed FC3, the dos partitions and unused fc3 partitions were > listed as /media/idedisk1, /media/idedisk2, and so forth. But those > disappeared, I have no idea why... There was a reason for this; the fs detection code in hal isn't complete for ATARAID, hence we could wrongfully add harmful entries to the /etc/fstab file that would result in data loss. So we played it safe. Thanks, David