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Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
Posts: 1,662
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Here are the two outputs.
[root@c83-250-90-204 nissanka]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@c83-250-90-204 nissanka]#
Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
Posts: 1,662
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It is in the BenQ drive. It is a working CD. I will put another CD and try. I don't have another computer. It is not easy to find people who work with Linux, Solaris, FreeBsd, etc. At school, we have some Solaris computers. I tried this CD about 4 weeks ago at one of the school's Solaris computer.
I know some Solaris too. In Solaris this folder is called '' Vfstab''
The worst case scenario is to reinstall the Mandrake 10.0 again. However, I will toe the line with you all. Please tell me what is the best to do. Now the time here is 23.05pm.
In any case, I will sleep around 24.00.
You are graciously welcome to put a message here when time permits. I take my hat off for all the help.
Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
Posts: 1,662
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I mentioned about the worst case scenario. I had no choice. I was forced to do it. I reinstall the program. It formatted the the 3 Linux partitions and installed Mandrake 10.0 version.
Now it recognizes the both BenQ and Samsung CD/RW.
The system is very very slow. It may be the 256 SDRAM is not enough. It takes 2 to 3 minute to get the Open Office Wordprocessor to the screen.
Do you think the RAM memory is not enough? My damaged computer had 768 SDRAM.
hmm, make sure you have dma enabled. Sometimes, the kernel doesn't enable dma automatically for stability reasons. If so, that will kill your performace.
As, root, run 'hdparm /dev/hda'. Of course, replace hda with whatever is appropriate if your hd is not the first drive.
Distribution: open SUSE 11.0, Fedora 7 and Mandriva 2007
Posts: 1,662
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Thanks for the message. How do I enable DMA?
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[nissanka@c83-250-90-204 nissanka]$ su root
Password:
[root@c83-250-90-204 nissanka]# hdparm /dev/hda
I was having the same problem with my Laptop. But this is a combo driver.
Anyway, let's try something, it shouldn't hurt.
At the boot manager, add "hdd=noprobe hdd=cdrom nomce=1", where hdd is the cdrom drive (your samsung was hdd? oh and yes, of course without the " "
This worked for me fine.
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