Charlie M. wrote:
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Howdy;
As is my usual practice since Mandrake 7.1; somewhere during the run-up
from cooker to "final" I do a re-install. This time I did it at the RC1
stage. A few interesting things to report, and maybe a question or two.
As usual I did a "fresh" install using two of the five hard disks
available. I kept the existing partitions and just formatted /boot, /,
/var, /usr, and /tmp. All but /boot and swap are Reiser formatted. hdb
is miscellaneous storage (music etc) and 'backups' accumulated over
time, plus a complete Mandrake-devel tree copy, rsynced twice daily.
System:
Pentium 3 @ 500 MHz stepping 6, model stepping 3 Katmai
3x256 MB Infineon PC 133 SDRAM
Macronix MX9875x5 PCI ethernet card to external cable modem
Creative Graphics-Blaster (nvidia) Riva TNT 128 (16 MB)
Creative SoundBlaster Live!
assorted odds'n'ends, +;
Maxtor 4D040H2 at 40 GB set as master on IDE0,
Maxtor 6L060J3 as slave on the same channel
CD-ROM (LiteOn 40X 403L) master on IDE1,
CD-RW (Mitsumi CR-4804TE 24x4x24) as slave.
The motherboard is an A-Bit BX6 Revision 2 using BX6 chipset.
No scsi cards exist in the box. Add in PCI cards to handle extra hdd
drives etc. are unplugged at the moment.
It was a "smokin' system" back when I first built it back in 1999. It's
getting a little cantakerous now though. Like me. ;)
Interesting thing number one; these are the listings for the hard drives
c'n'p'ed from harddrake2:
Model: ?4D040H2
Vendor: ?Maxtor
Bus: ?ide
Channel: ?primary
New devfs device: ?/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Old device file: ?/dev/hda
Media class: ?hd
Model: ?6L060J3
Vendor: ?Maxtor
Bus: ?ide
Channel: ?secondary
New devfs device: ?/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc
Old device file: ?/dev/hdb
Media class: hd
Nope. These are the ide channels. i.e /dev/ide.....
The scsi will be listed as: /dev/scsi....
Huh? Aren't those scsi emu devfs listings? As a result of this; I have
no working swap partition, even though diskdrake identifies it and
claims it's mounted. As hda8, but fstab uses the sudo scsi devfs
designation. I've tried every way I can think of (command line, graphic
drakxtools, anything) to mount the swap partition. I think I first have
to find out why devfs decided my drives were to be scsi emulated. Then
I can take care of a couple other nagging little things that relate.
Another weird thing; lmsensors have decided to suddenly accumulate CPU
temperature readings and set off that ear shattering alarm at odd
times. The CPU temperature reading shown when I had to save this
message to the drafts folder and shut down was 260.7 degrees Fahrenheit
instead of the actual 107.
I suppose the major question is are these things likely to be assorted
hardware gremlins and signs of impending doom for old reliable? Or are
there glitches in the software causing what was once an (almost) stable
collection of parts to go nuts?
Or is it all TLNOTKB? "The Loose Nut On The Key Board."
I actually reinstalled the release twice thinking I had screwed up, but
got basically the same result. I even tried a brand new network install
with a brand new network.img but the server told me I couldn't have it
since I was running the wrong kernel. What??? Hard drive install
wouldn't work either. The boot images seemed to be screwed when I tried
it yesterday.
I really do need to find time to stick my new box together soon.
Throw an old dog a bone gang, OK? Dissect the report so far, ask for
whatever information will help make sense of this stuff and help me
figure this out?
Call it an early birthday present; Sunday isn't *that* far off. <g>
Regards;
C.
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Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org
Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-5mdk
13:15:34 up 1:24, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.10, 0.10
Everybody has something to conceal.
-- Humphrey Bogart
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