Linux-Hardware Digest #690, Volume #9 Thu, 18 Mar 99 11:13:42 EST
Contents:
Is Amacom's Portable Hard Drive (PCMCIA) supported? (Martin Senger)
(RESOLVED) Booting without a keyboard (Phil Snowdon)
SiS - has *anyone* got it working. (was Re: Help with Diamond SpeedStar A50 (SiS
6326AGP) (Tommy Kelly)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Jeff Szarka)
Re: HP 2100 and ghostscript (Bill Simpson)
T.Yunden and AHA-2940A Ultra ("Bertrand L.")
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(Paul Flinders)
Midi on CS423x w/2.0.36 (**Nick Brown)
Re: SoundBlaster Live! (Sergio Brandano)
Re: Hardware RAID-controllers supported under Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.0a! DO NOT READ THIS! ("Mool")
Re: Iomega Zip - Error 27010000, imm (David McAleavy)
Re: Help! Bizarre error ! Zip no longer works upon install of new Hard Drive ("C&C")
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From: Martin Senger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is Amacom's Portable Hard Drive (PCMCIA) supported?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:35:03 +0000
Does anybody know about this flip-disks with PCMCI Plug & Play interface?
Can I use them on my Linux-armoured laptop?
Thanks, Martin
--
Martin Senger
EMBL Outstation - Hinxton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
European Bioinformatics Institute Phone: (+44) 1223 494636
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus (Switchboard: 494444)
Hinxton Fax : (+44) 1223 494468
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger
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From: Phil Snowdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (RESOLVED) Booting without a keyboard
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:53:12 +0000
I did have a problem in getting a linux system to boot when the
keyboard was not attached. I'm guessing that this doesn't happen
with all motherboards but if you need to run a linux box without
keyboard/monitor and you have the following problem then the
solution is below.
: Liunux 'halts' after 'Loading.....' but will continue with
: 'Uncompressing.....' as soon as a keyboard is attached.
: All of the bios settings are set to ignore errors, not to wait on "F1"
: etc.
: The bios post seems quite happy, as does LILO, which loads linux off
: hda1. its only after loading and before uncompressing that everything
: stops.
There is a problem in the Linux boot code, namely the loop
! This routine checks that the keyboard command queue is empty
! (after emptying the output buffers)
!
! No timeout is used - if this hangs there is something wrong with
! the machine, and we probably couldn't proceed anyway.
empty_8042:
call delay
in al,#0x64 ! 8042 status port
test al,#1 ! output buffer?
jz no_output
call delay
in al,#0x60 ! read it
jmp empty_8042
no_output:
test al,#2 ! is input buffer full?
jnz empty_8042 ! yes - loop
ret
in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S
Comment out the 'yes - loop' line:
! jnz empty_8042 ! yes - loop
And Linux will not wait for the command queue to empty. I get a few
"Keyboard Timeout" warning later in the bootup sequence, but they are
of no concern since I know the keyboard isn't there anyway.
Many thanks to everyone who emailed me with suggestions of what the
problem could be.
Phil
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From: Tommy Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: SiS - has *anyone* got it working. (was Re: Help with Diamond SpeedStar A50
(SiS 6326AGP)
Date: 18 Mar 1999 12:39:06 +0000
Jason Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've had similiar problems on other machines. I always delete all the
> resolutions from the screen section that I don't use. If you want to use 800x600
I'm having resolution problems with SiS 5598 on RH5.2. Some
of the stuff that 'startx' spews out to STDERR (before actually
running X at 320x200) says:
SVGA: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 35.16kHz. Deleted.(--)
In fact *all* modes get "Deleted" like this, which is
presumably why it then goes on to say:
SVGA: Using builtin driver modes(--)
SVGA: Builtin Mode: 320x200(--)
SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320x204(--)
SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024
Even if I frig XF86Config to have the correct hsync and
vsync values (i.e. the ones it says it needs) and so get rid
of those "Deleted" messages, still I get only low
resolution.
Is it significant that I also get an ominous "Unknown chipset"
message (in that same STDERR):
SVGA: PCI: SiS Unknown chipset (0x0200) rev 104, Memory @0xe1000000, 0xe1400000,
I/O @ 0xe000(--)
SVGA: chipset: generic(--)
SVGA: videoram: 64k(**)
SVGA: clocks: 25.18(**)
SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666(--)
I'm using 3.3.3.2 of XF86 and the monitor is by Daewoo and
isn't mentioned anywhere on the planet as far as I can see.
t
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Szarka)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 18 Mar 1999 03:59:04 -0600
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 23:58:37 +0000, Bill Anderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
:hat compiling?
:one word:
:RPM
:
:Thank you, good night.
On a fresh redhat 5.2 install doing rpm installs resulted in many
broken dependencies. It's just as annoying as the windows DLL mess.
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:47:38 -0600
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 2100 and ghostscript
ok thanks Grant and others.
Bill
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From: "Bertrand L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.apps.cdwrite,linux.scsi,be.comp.os.linux
Subject: T.Yunden and AHA-2940A Ultra
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:49:26 +0000
Hello,
I have a problem with my Tayo Yunden cd-writer working under kernel
2.0.30 (Slackware 3.4) with an AHA-2940A Ultra (PCI):
when I try to write a cd with cdrecord 1.6 (cdrecord -v -eject speed=1
dev=4,0 /image/image.raw) I get the following error message :
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '4,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 4 lun: 0
Device type : Removable WORM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info : 'T.YUDEN '
Identifikation : 'CD-WO EW-50 '
Revision : '2.16'
Device seems to be: Philips CDD-521.
Using driver for Philips CDD-521 (philips_cdd521).
Driver flags :
Track 01: data 504 MB
Total size: 579 MB (57:24.02) = 258302 sectors
Lout start: 579 MB (57:26/02) = 258302 sectors
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 13, scsi0,
channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Start/Stop Unit 00 00
00 01 00
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 4/0/0
And few seconds later the following message is displayed:
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 13) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 4/0
aic7xxx: (abort_reset) scb state 0x1, Command phase, SCSISIGI = 0x84
aic7xxx: (abort_scb) asserted ATN - bus device reset in message buffer.
SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 13) timed out - trying harder
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 4/0
aic7xxx: (reset_device) target/channel -1/A, active_scb 0
aic7xxx: (match_scb) comparing target/channel -1/A to scb 4/A
aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Resetting current channel A
aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Channel reset, sequencer restarted
aic7xxx: (done_aborted_scbs) Aborting scb 0, TCL=4/0/0
scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.0MHz, offset 15.
aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 4/0/0
So, the problem seems to come from the scsi driver which generates
the timeout. This is strange because when I mount a cd on the T.Yunden
there is no problem, all is OK, I can read the cd.
REM: I installed the SuSe 5.3 distribution (kernel 2.0.35) and the
system
can't boot: the scsi driver generates timeout for the Tayo Yunden device
at boot time and crashes all the system (sorry, I have not the the boot
message for this configuration).
Here is the boot message (kernel 2.0.30) and scsi driver release:
######boot time msg#####
aic7xxx: BurstLen = 4 DWDs, Latency Timer = 64 PCLKS
aic7xxx: AHA-2940A Ultra Rev C.
aic7xxx: devconfig = 0x1100.
aic7xxx: Reading SEEPROM...done.
aic7xxx: Extended translation enabled.
aic7xxx: Memory check yields 3 SCBs, paging not enabled.
AHA-2940A Ultra (PCI-bus), I/O 0xf400, Mem 0xffafb000:
irq 11
bus release time 40 bclks
data fifo threshold 100%
SCSI CHANNEL A:
scsi id 7
scsi selection timeout 256 ms
scsi bus reset at power-on enabled
scsi bus parity enabled
scsi bus termination (low byte) enabled
aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code...done.
aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.0/3.2/4.0
scsi : 1 host.
scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.4MHz, offset 15.
Vendor: T.YUDEN Model: CD-WO EW-50 Rev: 2.16
Type: WORM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total.
#####scsi driver release#####
###Slakware 3.4: kernel 2.0.30
#define AIC7XXX_H_VERSION "$Revision: 3.2 $"
#define AIC7XXX_C_VERSION "$Revision: 4.0 $"
###SuSe 5.3: kernel 2.0.35
#define AIC7XXX_H_VERSION "3.2.4"
#define AIC7XXX_C_VERSION "5.0.19"
Anyone could help me?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Paul Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: 18 Mar 1999 13:56:38 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Szarka) writes:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:50:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
> wrote:
>
> :>I change resolutions quite a bit, why should it be such a
> :>inconvenience to change a stupid setting?
> :
> : Why? It's not like color is a real issue anymore.
>
>
> I thought linux was about being "free" I would like to be "free" to
> change resolutions easily.
It's not so easy - you would have to extend the X11 protocols to
inform applications when things changed and teach applications what to
do when the display changes from 24bit 1600x1200 to 4bit 640x480
I suspect that there would be resistance from both the open group and
the xfree developers to such a change but in principal it's possible
The reason the X window system does not handle depth and resolution
changes is that in general the hardware it grew up on did not support
on the fly changes fo that nature.
Of course X does allow you (where the hardware supports it) to have
more than one depth active at the same time, which is considerably
more flexible.
>
> It's not about the color, it's about the fact that If I'm trying to
> show a group of people a web page or something it's easier to show
> them it at 640x480 so they can see it from further away. With 9x/nt
> it's a few clicks away.
This is quite an interesting statement because it shows how your
expectations are shaped by what you're used to. Generally you can't do
much with the fonts which windows apps use so you do have lower the
resolution to make them "bigger". The X Toolkit solved this problem
years ago (it's a pity than we seem to be making retrograde steps
here) - just make the fonts bigger.
--
Paul
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Midi on CS423x w/2.0.36
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:52:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have Midi working on a CS4232 family chip with kernel 2.0.36
(driver version 3.5.4) ? The notes in Readme.cards are a little
confusing. I take them to mean that Midi should work, but not to use
MPU401 mode.
When I enabled MPU401 in xconfig, I got an unbootable kernel, so that
seems right. Now, I have MPU401 off, and Midi on. One problem is that
the xconfig dialog expects me to supply an IRQ for the Midi interface,
but according to the Plug'n'Play utilities diskette for my PC (Dell
OptiPlex GXa), the Midi chip doesn't consume an IRQ, just an I/O
address. I put IRQ 9 which I know is free. (When I put IRQ 5, the same
as the sound driver, I got a conflict message at boot time.)
The sound system claims to be CS4236, but I suppose this is compatible
with CS4232.
The various Midi players are happy to start, it's just that nothing
comes out.
--
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From: Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live!
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:28:46 +0000
Brian Leavitt wrote:
> Dave Moczulski wrote:
>
> > does anyone know how to use sndconfig to get the SoundBlaster Live! to work.
> > I'm currently running Mandrake Linux 5.3 it says that a PCI audio card is
> > found, but unknown. and i try everything but can't get it to work right.
> > thanks. a reply by email is aprreciated.
> >
> > Dave
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Creative Labs is currently working on full support for the SBLive, but as of
> now, it won't work. I hear July/August is the tentative release date! I have
> one ready to install once it is supported and I can't wait!
>
> Brian
I wonder ... is the EMU10K1 made by Creative?
If not, why opensound is waiting the specs from Creative?
Sergio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID-controllers supported under Linux.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:16:20 GMT
Thanks! That's news for me... when I was looking around I did find Mylex was
supported, but it could be a nasty surprise to discover it wouldn't work in a
K6.
Anyhow, if I decide to buy, just a PCI-RAID-controller then I'd be using it
in a dual PPro 200 MHz HP LH Netserver (Intel FX chipset), so I guess wrong
parts would not become a problem. However, I'm also looking at buying a
completely new Dell Poweredge 4300 with PERC-32 RAID controller. Does anyone
know how support is for this controller under Linux? As far as I could find
on the Dell website, they support Linux for their Poweredge 1300 and 2300,
but I haven't received a word back from Dell about the support for their
4300. Does anyone have experience running Linux on a system with this
RAID-controller???
Arjan
In article <z6uH2.10053$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> mylex dac960 series is supported. but it isn't rock solid on k6 systems. it
> does appear to be very solid under intel BX systems.
>
> fyi,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : I'm trying to find out which hardware PCI-controllers are supported under
> : Linux. Can anyone tell me some options for hardware RAID-systems that will
> : work under Linux?
>
> : Thanks!
>
> : Arjan
>
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> --
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> >> AntiSpam: change numbers to letters before emailing (1 -> i, 0 -> o)
>
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From: "Mool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.0a! DO NOT READ THIS!
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:16:32 GMT
Why don't these mice ever work right?!!!!!!!!!!!! I have tried other mice
too, what is the secret to having a mouse that rolls perfectly with minimal
pressure?
Is it the mousepad? My mouse is clean BTW. Is it the ball inside?
WHAT IS THE TRICK TO GETTING A MOUSE TO WORK PERFECTLY AND RESPOND WITH
MINIMAL PRESSURE?
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From: David McAleavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega Zip - Error 27010000, imm
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:41:06 +0000
Michael,
I had the same problem with an older parallel port ZIP drive and the
2.2.3 kernel.
You have to set your parallel port to either EPP mode 1.9 in the BIOS
(mine defaulted to EPP 1.7) or drop it back to SPP mode (which would be
slower), again in the BIOS of your machine.
My system now goes fine in EPP + ECP mode with the 1.9 option set.
Hope that helps.
Dave McAleavy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Augustin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I�ve problems with my iomega zip drive.
>
> 1. It don�t work whit the ppa-driver (it�s a 100MB parallel port, but it�s new
> and thatswhy it could work with the imm-module.
>
> 2. I compiled a new kernel (2.2.1) whit scsi-support as module, parallel port
> also as module, with imm support - as module.
>
> 3. When I load the imm-driver many messages appear in /var/log/messages -> look
> pasted text folowing this lines. The scsi host (iomega parallel) is detected.
>
> ---------- snip ---------------
> Mar 5 00:56:50 pitti kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS
> 2,EPP]
> Mar 5 00:56:50 pitti kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> Mar 5 00:56:50 pitti kernel: imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
> Mar 5 00:56:50 pitti kernel: imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to u
> se EPP 32 bit
> Mar 5 00:56:50 pitti kernel: imm: Communication established with ID 6 u
> sing EPP 32 bit
> Mar 5 00:56:50 pitti kernel: scsi0 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface
> Mar 5 00:56:50 pitti kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> Mar 5 00:56:51 pitti kernel: Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100
> Rev: J.67
> Mar 5 00:56:51 pitti kernel: Type: Direct-Access
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> ------------- snap -----------
>
> Then I use the drive for instance with "fdisk /dev/sda" or try a "mount -t vfat
> /dev/sda4 /mnt". At this moment the following messages appier in log.
>
> ---------- snip --------------
> Mar 5 00:57:56 pitti kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0,
> channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. S
> ectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda:SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id
> 6 lun 0 return code = 27010000
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: unable to read partition table
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 6 lun 0 return code
> = 27010000
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended s
> ense 0
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,0
> )
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 1,
> driver = 27
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : sense not available.
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes,
> disk size 1GB.
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector
> 0
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: unable to read partition table
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 6 lun 0 return code
> = 27010000
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended s
> ense 0
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,0
> )
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 1,
> driver = 27
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : sense not available.
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes,
> disk size 1GB.
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector
> 0
> Mar 5 00:57:57 pitti kernel: unable to read partition table
> ------------ snap ----------------
>
> What does the error number 27010000 mean? What says "READ CAPACITY failed"?
>
> here my module list before modprobe imm:
> ---------- snip ---------------
> Module Size Used by
> ne 6480 1 (autoclean)
> 8390 6212 0 (autoclean) [ne]
> dummy0 684 1 (autoclean)
> serial 17076 0 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 3548 2 (autoclean)
> vfat 11388 2 (autoclean)
> fat 24864 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
> --------- snap ---------------
>
> and after loading
> ---------- snip --------------------
> Module Size Used by
> sd_mod 15516 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> parport_probe 2884 0 (autoclean)
> parport_pc 5020 1 (autoclean)
> imm 9352 0 (unused)
> parport 6788 1 [parport_probe parport_pc imm]
> scsi_mod 48712 2 [sd_mod imm]
> ne 6480 1 (autoclean)
> 8390 6212 0 (autoclean) [ne]
> dummy0 684 1 (autoclean)
> serial 17076 0 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 3548 2 (autoclean)
> vfat 11388 2 (autoclean)
> fat 24864 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
> ------------- snap ---------------------
>
>
> thanks Michael
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From: "C&C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Bizarre error ! Zip no longer works upon install of new Hard Drive
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:22:27 -0700
Barry Bogart wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Craig and/or Cecilia wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If yuour new drive is a Maxtor, I would like to know what you used to
>partition it (Maxblast or other).
Sorry, its an IBM DTTA.
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