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On 28 Sep 1996 07:22:14 GMT, Thorfinn <thorfinn@zip.com.au> wrote:
>In article <01bbacde$ac36a480$3b39868b@default>, "Barry" wrote:
>>when I tried mount/umount, it said it wasn't in fstab.
>>When I added it to fstab, it seemed to work but took a good minute to mount
>>and again to do an ls.
>>The fstab entry says /hdc /cdrom iso9660 defaults 1 1.
>It should say:
>/dev/hdc     /cdrom           iso9660   ro,user    0   0
>Or:
>/dev/hdc     /cdrom           iso9660   ro,nosuid,nodev  0   0
>if you don't want users to be able to mount cdroms.

Mmmm.  If you don't want it to automatically mount a cd when you
start up, add "noauto" to the list of options, like this:

/dev/hdc     /cdrom           iso9660   ro,user,noauto          0   0
Or:
/dev/hdc     /cdrom           iso9660   ro,nosuid,nodev,noauto  0   0

>>Any ideas are much appreciated.
>Now, as to why it is so slow, I dunno... Mounting a cd always requires
>use of mount/umount, but it shouldn't take an entire minute.

If you've got a CD drive that uses the "SBPCD" driver (ie a Panasonic or
SoundBlaster CD) compiled in as a module and you haven't set the type up
properly, it'll take several minutes searching for the drive type when
you try to mount the drive.  Shouldn't slow down accesses though...
(If anybody has figured out how to pass parameters to a module to stop
this happening, I'd love to know about it!)



gossamer

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