While booting the kernel i get many errors regarding the cd-rom, zip drive, and floppy although all these devices work perfectly. Onlt at shutting down i have to umount the zip drive first or else the shutdown waits at "unmounting local filesystems" for like 3 minutes and then continues giving an error about scsi sda device timeout.

Here are the errors i get.. Its pretty long but plz help me if u know what could be wrong.. I remind you again that thsese devices work perfectly...


scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: 31.G
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3
Adding Swap: 105804k swap-space (priority -1)
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,1)
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,1)
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)

I made /etc/rc.d/rc.cdrom not executable so cd rom doesnt mount omn startup but i still get these errors...

This is in Slack 8.0

Thanks for any help in advance!

-nskl

Try adding the noauto option to those devices in /etc/fstab.... It looks to me like you are trying to mount a bunch of things with removable media when there is no media in them. Unfortunetly mount doesn't work that way, you can only mount a device with removable media when the media is installed, and you must unmount it before the media is removed. If you want your stuff to automount when media is inserted and removed check out the automount how-to at www.linuxdoc.org.

John

Thanks again jtshaw!
Yeah i know about mounting devices and all, im not that if a newbie! but the problem is that there is a noauto entry in /etc/fstab and this still happens. I also changed permisssions in /etc/rc.d/rc.cdrom so the cd rom doesnt mount at startup but this still happens... There must be another script that attempts to mount the devices. I think this started happening after i compiled and installed wine. Could wine make a startup script that would mount all devices?

Thanks for any help

-nskl