Mounting Fails under 2.6

[Whiteskin]

Its very odd. Mount seems to have stopped working under 2.6. In 2.4, mount would work, first try. Now, under two point six, i cannot mount, without starting mount, killing it, then mounting again. Very wierd. Anyone else experiance problems like this, or know how to fix it.

 

[tnik]

does this happen with different file system types, or just a certain one?

 

[Whiteskin]

Well, i rarely use any other fstypes. But it seems to be cdrom specific. Perhaps there is some damage, because i turned off dma with hdparm {

/sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc

} and that seems to have fixed it. I just wonder why i can mount under 2.4, and not under 2.6. Maybe 2.6 became more stringent with its dma requirements.

 

[liviu]

Do you have a CD on CD-ROM drive when you try to mount ?
It might be a silly question, but it happened to me yrs before.

 

[tnik]

with any kernel upgrade, comes new features, so yea it could be the dma problem, or even just a setting that was missed in the configuration before compile..

 

[Whiteskin]

Yeah... cdrom there

*shrug*... i dunno what it is, but hdparm sets nodma on hdc when i boot now, so i should be fine.