Suse 10.3 boot already slowing???

[Jonny88]

Hi, I've noticed that suse boot times have already decreased since my initial install just a few days ago. After pressing esc at boot I've noticed that one thing holding it up is a command along the lines of 'mount special' 'rio carbon' with lots of bits of information (possibly device location or something??) which then fails. There's also another one or two lines that either fail or say not required or something similar. I've tried to look at the boot log through yast but either I'm not doing it right or the problems just aren't there. Can anybody guide me through sorting this out?

Also, slightly OT but I believe that 10.3 has issues with my Rio Carbon, it won't have many files written to it under 10.3 before it crashes and writing fails, and after unplugging it, it just continually reboots. Strangely under 10.2 and winXP it works fine though. Bizzare.

[gogalthorp]

Seems like the problem is connecting to the rio carbon device ( I assume it is a removable/plugin drive of some sort?) It can take some time to see if a device fails to connect.

If the device is a drive what does your /etc/fstab file look like?

[Jonny88]

Rio Carbon is a HDD based mp3 player with usb connection.

Ahh... Looking at fstab suse has taken it upon itself to edit the rio in... I'm assuming I just need to delete that bit back out.

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250620AS_9QE19C2Q-part5 /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250620AS_9QE19C2Q-part7 /home                ext3       defaults              1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD800JB-00J_WD-WMAM9D549269-part1 /home/Jonny/backup   ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250620AS_9QE19C2Q-part1 /windows/C           ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250620AS_9QE19C2Q-part3 /home/Jonny/data     ntfs-3g    users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250620AS_9QE19C2Q-part4 /home/Jonny/music    vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250620AS_9QE19C2Q-part6 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Rio_Carbon_10002F6911A08C310-0:0-part1 /media/rio           vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

also, that looks a lot more complex than it was under 10.2, it used to look like this I believe

/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda3 /windows/D ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda4 /home/jonny/music vfat defaults,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/E ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0