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I just have installed the linux mandrake 7.2 I don't know why, but I can not read or write to floppy or read from the cdrom. I think that the autoloader does something wrong. Need help
I believe that mandrake has supermount. Supermount has been causing a lot of problems for people. I think you can rid of it by editing your fstab file and by disabling it by running the command supermount -i disable. There's no guarantee that this will work.
Oh, about editing your fstab file. Let's say your floppy and cdrom entries look something like this:
It might be necessary to change the /dev/cdrom entry to the actual device if the symbolic link /dev/cdrom doesn't point to your cdrom.
When you want to mount a floppy or cdrom, just use the mount command. Like this mount /mnt/floppy or mount /mnt/cdrom . Don't forget to umount before you remove the disks.
Thanks a lot. I think it will help. I booted into command line (run level 3) and tried to access devices from there. Nothing good happened. I could not read or write to a device. The error was "input/output error". I hope that you advice will help.
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