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[Jesse]

Hello Puppians,

There are a few reports that mut2 is not working right in the latest dingo 4.1 beta 5.
I've fixed up the obvious problem, the one where if you select 'mut' in Pmount, that pmount goes away and never returns...

Attached is the binary application only tarball - extract mut, copy it over to /usr/sbin/mut, and the source in a seperate tarball.

Adittionally, if you want mut to list drives in Pmount the same as without mut, then edit /usr/sbin/pmount (text editor) and change line 56:
from this:
PROBEDISK='mut probedisk'
to this:
PROBEDISK='mut probedisk2'

Let us know if theres still any issues with mut2! - post replys here or pm/email me.

Regards, Jesse

[Caneri]

Hi Jesse,

Well that seems to have fixed the disappearing pmount after ticking the mut check box....this works well..thanks.

Swap partitions are still not shown here.

Best,
Eric

[Jesse]

[Caneri]

Thanks Jesse,

Seeing the swap is not important as the console works nicely.

I just got used to seeing swaps in the older mut and kinda liked it.

Thanks again,
Eric

[BarryK]

Well, I could add managing swap partitions to Pmount, will write that into the to-do-list.

[BarryK]

Jesse,
A major problem! I now get nothing when I run 'mut probedisk2', 'mut probedisk' or 'mut probepart'.

The reason, probably, is because of the latest "IDE kernel" I'm running. See my blog, http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00268

On my laptop now, my hard drive is /dev/hda, my DVD drive is /dev/hdb and my own probedisk2 gives:

/dev/hda|drive|WDC WD600UE-22KVT0
/dev/hdb|optical|PHILIPS DVD-RAM SDVD8821

I had to fix my 'probedisk2' and 'probepart' scripts to work with both the PATA and older IDE devnode naming.
Basically, the old devnodes exist if /proc/ide exists, otherwise it is the new PATA-only kernel.

[Jesse]

Hi Barry,

Hey no worries, its probably just a typo in the source code somewhere, I'll fix it up when I can download the Puppy 4.1alpha5-with-IDE-kernel, presumably it'll be findable in the regular place test/puppy-4.1alpha5, I guess I must just be early, I'll check back later.

Regards, Jesse

[Jesse]

Hi Barry,

Updates to make it work for the new IDE kernel.

Regards Jesse

[Jesse]

Hello,

Here is another update. There was an annoying bug lurking in there and I have remedied the situation.

The bug - possibly not reporting drive info on first execution.
The remedy: rather complex. but simply put, a combination of, always waiting for the hardware to be scanned, if the kernel/hardware is unable to report data from the hardware in tha the first io operation does not return for ages (131 seconds here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29566 ) then in this sort of case mut decides that it can skip over waiting for that drive to complete its scan.
The rule inside mut is that there is a full second that we can wait for the first read operation for any given drive to succeed, usually the root partition table sector (512 bytes), or a drive ioctl.

I've also added a --formats command to mutclient so that you can know all the names of the parameters that it outputs.

Regards
Jesse

[Sit Heel Speak]

Hi Jesse,

Getting there...however...

It is showing two floppy drives, where in fact I have only one.

Swap partitions, not shown in recent editions of PMount, would be nice.

Automatic maximize-y (like the drop-down menu offers) would be nice, in the event one has as many partitions as I do.

Note: this is in 4.1-alpha-5 original (all sd*, not the IDE version).

Regardless of whether hd*+sd* or just sd* is the convention, PMount "should" sort hda hdb sda sdb et cetera correctly.

[Jesse]

[BarryK]

It looks like I need to fix pmount. Um, my memory of this right now is not very clear, but I don't think my probedisk and probepart return floppy drive info -- hmm, need to rethink that. So, it is done in pmount.
But, I need to fix pmount to recognise that mut has returned floppy info.

I've made a note in my to-do list!

[Jesse]