more information on my trouble reading CDROM's with hdc=ide-cd. Anybody else?

[David Zeuthen]

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