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G'day All,

I wonder if anyone else has had this trouble with IDE CD drives.
It's not a huge problem, but one of those niggly frustrating ones.

This is happening on 2 different machines, using Slackware 3.0 and a
custom kernel.  Both machines have Creative Labs 8X CD's, running as
master units on the secondary IDE controller on the I/O card (having
moved them off the soundcard).

The problem is that SOMETIMES the CDROM drive will not mount on boot
up.  But what really makes it odd, is that sometimes it mounts fine
and other times it doesn't.  On the times that it doesn't mount, the
error messages say that the "tray open on /dev/hdc" and "mount: wrong
fs type or bad superblock on /dev/hdc".

Yes, there is a disc in the drive each time.

Once booted up, the drive can sometimes be manually mounted by using
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom" and sometimes not.  If it all fails
and the machine is downed and turned off, allowed to rest and have a
think for a bit and then re-booted, it will generally be fine.

Once mounted of course, everything is fine.

Any ideas ?

Please also e-mail as newsgroup access fluctuates.
Thanks,
Andrew