Linux-Hardware Digest #458, Volume #9 Thu, 18 Feb 99 20:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0 ("Colonel Panic�")
Re: Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver? (Sean)
Re: S3 Trio 3D 4Mb AGP (Rod Roark)
Re: 3151 Terminal. (LAIX Software Consulting)
Re: Toshiba libretto mp3 player (Scott Larson)
X and diamond stealth II S220 video card ("Alex de Hes")
Re: Question: Lilo Setup - Promise UltraATA33 (Roger Atkinson)
Re: 3151 Terminal. (Bob Shair)
system hardware recomendations (jason)
Re: Anyone successfully used Addtron ISA NIC? (Duncan Simpson)
Help! Courier i-modem ISDN? ("Eric Webster")
Linux on IBM PS2 77i ("Barry Titmarsh")
HITACHI NOTEBOOK Model 270 PII 233 Instation Problem ("dhanabalan")
Re: 3151 Terminal. ("Jason Williams")
sound config ("digitalklown")
Re: Modem Mystery? (Rob Clark)
Re: S3 Trio 3D 4Mb AGP (James)
3151 Terminal. (Derek Kwan)
Re: [HELP]Macronix 98715 net card ("Andreas Hofmann")
Re: ASUS V3400 TNT X-server? (Andri Saar)
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring (Mike Albaugh)
Re: HP Vectra IDE hard disk cable wierdness (Jim Howes)
How do I determine IO address ("Hans Smith")
Re: XWindows on a 16MB TNT :( no go. (LobsterDK)
CD-ROM support??? ("Sharon Hansen")
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From: "Colonel Panic�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:20:03 -0500
try:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /doze
>Paches wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I am using Linux 5.0, kernel 2.0.36. I cannot mount my windoze
>drive (hda1) FAT32 filesystem>
>If I use:
>mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /doze
>I get:
>VFS:cant find a valid msdos filesystem on dev 03:01
>
>Also about 3 lines of numbers come up like fs=32,etc.......
>
>-Paches
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean)
Subject: Re: Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:08:23 -0600
Yes, make sure you use the SVGA driver from v3.3.3 of XFree86 and it works.
Sean
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Beneke - News wrote:
> >
> > Do any one know if Linux has a driver for the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster
> > RIVA TNT AGP?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > JP Beneke
>
> The latest version of XFree86, v3.3.3.1 supports the Riva TnT but the
> documentation doesn't state if the Creative Labs card works in
> particular.
> Also the documentation states that the driver is not yet as accelerated
> as it could be.
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/NVIDIA1.html#1
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Trio 3D 4Mb AGP
Date: 18 Feb 1999 02:11:57 GMT
TROESTLER Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to buy a cheap computer for a non-profit organization. In all
>the offers I've received, I've been proposed me the following graphic
>card (why? :-)
> S3 Trio 3D 4Mb AGP
>Do you know to which extend this card is supported by Linux/XFree86?
Last I checked, this one is not supported. The cheapest card I've
seen that works well is a 1MB Trident TGUI9440, which is good for
256 colors at 1024x768 resolution; we put quite a few of them on
server boxes.
-- Rod
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From: LAIX Software Consulting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3151 Terminal.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 02:17:50 GMT
A 3153 will let you hot key between two sessions or hook up to two
systems. I don't believe the 3151 has that capaibility - it has one "host"
port and one pass-thru port for a printer. You can certainly use the 3151
terminal on Linux if you send the terminfo (or termcap - depending on which
the applications you use on Linux use) entry for the 3151 and it should be
just fine.
Regards,
Paul
Derek Kwan wrote:
> Hello World,
>
> I have just order a IBM 3151 terminal, and I was wondering if it is
> possible to use as a regular dumb terminal. For example hook up with my
> Linux box (BTW, isn't 3151 have 2 comm ports?) so I can switch between
> terminals?
>
> Derek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Larson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Toshiba libretto mp3 player
Date: 18 Feb 1999 20:56:11 GMT
In article <7ahm7o$okl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello, Does anyone have advice on suitable MP3 players for the Toshiba
> Libretto 70 ct. I have tried mpg123 and maplay but these all produce 16 bit
> sound
xamp at http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/main.html is the only MP3 player I've been
able to use with my 8 bit card.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------
Scott Larson ADP Dealer Services
Systems 2525 S.W. 1st
Programmer Portland, OR 97201
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From: "Alex de Hes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X and diamond stealth II S220 video card
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:09:36 +0100
I just started linux with redhat 5.2 and I have a problem getting x windows
to work.
Anyone already tried to configure a Diamond Stealth II S220 video card for
usage with X windows ?
I'v tried a lot of configurations. None of them seem te work. The best I get
is VGA (not even fitting properly on my screen).
Alex
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From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,ucb.os.linux
Subject: Re: Question: Lilo Setup - Promise UltraATA33
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:10:53 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I was wondering if the lilo patch might also help me out with my
SIIG CN2449 Ultra DMA Controller ? I currently have my game OS on
/dev/hde1 and /dev/hdf1 (both EIDE), and RH5.2 on my new Seagate 4.3GB
UDMA drive. Really like the performance boost BTW ! I was able to install
and continue to boot using the:
lilo: linux ide2=0x000,0x0000 ide3=0x0000,0x000
from a floppy and I don't mind that. However, i recently upgraded my kernel
to 2.0.36-3 from 2.0.36-0.7 and of course can not run lilo. I get an error that
tells me lilo doesn't know how to handle my UDMA controller. However,
once booted everything works fine and has for over three months.
I would just like to get the boot map updated so I don't run into problems in the
future and I can't do that if lilo won't run.
Thanks for any advice / pointers. i've looked for the Lilo patch on the Web and
I must have missed it. Any pointers as to where i can find it would be a help.
Thanks to all the great free help available and I am trying to return in kind as
I become
able to help other newbies.
All hail Linus ! :-)
Roger Atkinson Unix Sys Admin I'm reading news over lunch at work
[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is why I posted this using
the other OS !
Mason Louie wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:30:04 -0800, "Jeremy Huddleston"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I've got a Promise UltraATA33 card installed on my system and I've got 2
> >harddrives on the 3rd ide channel of my computer. The first (/dev/hde) has
> >my install of Win95, and the slave (/dev/hdf) is where I've installed Redhat
> >a few days ago. I just can't get lilo to work with this configuration. Any
> >suggestions for a lilo.conf file?
>
> Ahh I know this problem well. The Promise card is a good card, but
> getting it to work with Linux is hell in a handbasket.
>
> The first thing you need to get is the lilo-promise.patch file. If you
> can't find this file, email me and I'll send it to you. Then get the
> lilo source code, apply the patch and compile. Run lilo and make sure
> that the new one is happy with your system.
>
> One thing about having a Promise in your system is that the first
> drive on it is /dev/hde NOT /dev/hda. If I understand correctly
> there's been some enhancements to the kernel so you can swap the
> Promise's ports with the built-in ones found in most motherboards. I
> personally don't use this since the differing naming scheme doesn't
> bother my setup.
>
> With that in mind here is my lilo.conf:
>
> boot = /dev/hde
> compact
> delay = 100
> root = current
> image = /vmlinuz.main
> label = linux
> image = /vmlinuz.backup
> label = linuxbackup
>
> Good luck! You'll need it. :-)
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From: Bob Shair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3151 Terminal.
Date: 18 Feb 1999 02:20:38 GMT
In comp.unix.aix Derek Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello World,
I've seen that program before
> I have just order a IBM 3151 terminal, and I was wondering if it is
> possible to use as a regular dumb terminal. For example hook up with my
> Linux box (BTW, isn't 3151 have 2 comm ports?) so I can switch between
> terminals?
Yes, the 3151 will emulate a number of different terminal types
which are supported by Linux. I setup mine to emulate Wyse 60s.
--
Bob Shair [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open Systems Specialist Champaign, Illinois
/* Opinions expressed are mine... go get your own! */
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: system hardware recomendations
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:04:06 GMT
I�m hoping to put together an inexpensive Linux system. I�ve read through
many of the Linux faq�s, hardware sites, the how-to-make-your-own system
sites, and so on and I still don�t feel that I can pick out the best
combination for my needs. What I would really like to find (I would be
surprised if there wasn�t one) are sites were people have put together their
�dream� machines and, even better, there best machine for, say, less than
$1200. Can anyone point me to such a site?
I would be very happy to see individual responses if you have the time. Being
as clear as I can, what I am looking for is:
A home computer with dual operating system Linux/Win95, used for Internet,
email, personal finance, games, learning Linux, programming, word-processing,
spreadsheet, mathematical modeling and costing around $1000. I leave
everything else up to you (monitor size, sound system, �), but please be very
specific.
Mother board
Chip set
Memory (quantity/type/brand)
Hard drive
Floppy drive
CD drive
Modem
Sound (card/stereo interface?/speakers)
Video (card/monitor)
Keyboard/mouse
Case
Recommended vendors
Anything else
Also, what is the best way to set up the file systems, operating systems, and
so on.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Anyone successfully used Addtron ISA NIC?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 01:08:41 GMT
In <7ad9hf$u4t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I'm trying to install RedHat via ftp. The network card I'm using is an ISA
>card made by Addtron, and is supposed to be NE2000 compatible. So when I'm
>going through the installation process, I can't get the card to be
>recognized. It worked fine according to the hardware diagnostic that came on
>the Addtron floppy disk. I've tried a bunch of different I/O's and IRQ's, and
>"autoprobe" as well as "specify". Has anyone had better luck than me with
>this card? What did you do? Thanks,
Me and my P II/350 had a simialr problem with answer ISA ethernet
card. Does it detect the card and then fail to find the IRQ? Do you
have a PnP BIOS? If so then try flipping the cards IRQ, which I set to
10, from "PnP/PCI" to "Legacy ISA". This fixed it in windows (3.11)
and Linux (2.2.1 but it should fix most other kernels). [Me and my 486
running Linux detected the card first time when I rebooted, but the
486 is a tad slower and showing signs of multiple lethal hardware
problems at the moment].
Nothing will get fixed before early in April because I will be the
other side of the pond pretending to do a spot of quantum computing.
Duncan (-:
--
Duncan (-:
"software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard goods is
legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
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From: "Eric Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Help! Courier i-modem ISDN?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:27:58 -0600
Does anyone know if the INTERNAL Courier ISDN I-Modem works with Linux?
Currently I have RH5.2 with the stock 2.0.x kernel; if the 2.2.x kernel
helps I can upgrade.
Thanks!
Eric
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From: "Barry Titmarsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on IBM PS2 77i
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 21:52:57 -0000
I can get the boot disks scsinet.s to boot it sees the IBM M-Bus but not the
future domain scsi card. does any one have lication of a PS2SCSI.s image ?
Thanks.
Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "dhanabalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HITACHI NOTEBOOK Model 270 PII 233 Instation Problem
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:41:42 +0800
Hi,
I'm using Hitachi Notebook Model 270.
I'm having problem in running my X windows. CHIP Set is C&T 69000.
Sound card is ESS. It is not sensing my internal network card as well.
I need your help regarding this.
Regards,
Bala.
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From: "Jason Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3151 Terminal.
Date: 18 Feb 1999 01:54:05 GMT
Reply-To: "Jason Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Your question is a little weird but I think the answer to your question is
Yes you can use other types of terminals with an RS6k.
As for a regular dumb terminal???? What type is regular.
I can't recall if a 3151 has two input ports but it does have an output :)
JW
Derek Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> Hello World,
>
> I have just order a IBM 3151 terminal, and I was wondering if it is
> possible to use as a regular dumb terminal. For example hook up with my
> Linux box (BTW, isn't 3151 have 2 comm ports?) so I can switch between
> terminals?
>
> Derek
>
>
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From: "digitalklown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.act.sound
Subject: sound config
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:36:45 -0500
I am able to run soundconfigurator with RedHat 5.2, the sample midi plays
fine with no problem, however I can run no programs with sound, or play
midi's off the internet. I have Crystal, I believe.
--
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Subject: Re: Modem Mystery?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:32:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Getling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got exactly the same problem, using a Hayes Accura Speakerphone
>internal modem, under SuSE 5.3. I haven't got round to fixing it yet, but I
>think it's probably something to do with modem initialisation strings. Can
>anyone confirm this, or suggest a fix?
>
>Stephen Loewinsohn wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> I am using RedHat 5.2 and I have a 56k ISA PnP modem. I have
>>disabled PnP in the computer's bios. I can talk to the modem and even
>>get it to dial through minicom, but the response from the modem takes
>>FOREVER. It takes about a minute and a half for the studid thing to
>>respond to AT commands.
If it dials at all, it's not a winmodem.
Super-slow modem response usually indicates misconfigured or conflicting
addresses/IRQs. Make sure that you have not set the PnP modem to an IRQ
that is already being used by a mouse, etc. And 'man setserial'.
Good luck!
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Trio 3D 4Mb AGP
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:33:36 -0400
Vendors are proposing the S3 card because it is the cheapest on the market.
It's pretty much a generic video card. I bought an S3 3d 4mb DX yesterday,
and it works just fine under RH 5.1. Unless you run into AGP config
problems, you should be all right.
Hope this helps.
TROESTLER Christophe wrote:
> Hi everybody !
>
> I need to buy a cheap computer for a non-profit organization. In all
> the offers I've received, I've been proposed me the following graphic
> card (why? :-)
> S3 Trio 3D 4Mb AGP
>
> Do you know to which extend this card is supported by Linux/XFree86?
> Some information to set it up can be found somewhere?
>
> Thanks for any help. Please forward a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Have a good Linux day!
> Christophe
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From: Derek Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix
Subject: 3151 Terminal.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:39:27 GMT
Hello World,
I have just order a IBM 3151 terminal, and I was wondering if it is
possible to use as a regular dumb terminal. For example hook up with my
Linux box (BTW, isn't 3151 have 2 comm ports?) so I can switch between
terminals?
Derek
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From: "Andreas Hofmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HELP]Macronix 98715 net card
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:51:06 +0100
same card, same problem. any ideas???
Andreas
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 00:05:24 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS V3400 TNT X-server?
Design Factory wrote:
>
> I'm using version 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 but i just can use my Asus V3400
> TNT with VGA server 640x480 16 col.
> Does anyone knows which x-server i should use for better resolution?
> Thank you
> Andy
SVGA server :)
actually, yes, XFree86-SVGA server is what you need.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Albaugh)
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
Date: 18 Feb 1999 21:41:38 GMT
Not challenging, but needing a clarification. My magnetic-media
experience is quite dated (as in, GCR was hot stuff when I last hacked
a controller :-) but something stuck out to me:
Malcolm Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:03:59 -0600, Andy Glew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> caused to
: appear as if it was written:
: >This is the big question that would kill or not kill the idea of single disk
: >RAID: error distributions. Apart from the anecdotal testimony that multiple
: >disks are better than one (fine, but not what I was talking about), I saw only
: >one piece of evidence about error distributions --- the fellow who said that
: >radial scratches were a common error mode. Radial scratches would allow
: >the parity block to be put on the same track as the data block.
: More likely, though, the combination of the damage, the RLL, and the head
: deafening effect (which disk people call something else) will be too severe
: for ECC to recover, resulting in an unreadable block. The higher-level RAID
: logic would then recreate the missing data, and all would be well...
: HOWEVER... there is absolutely no reason to presume that our radial scratch
: will be kind enough to occur within the data area of the sector. Suppose it
: occurs towards the end of the ECC segment. Even though the user data is
: fine, by corrupting the ECC the drive *has* to determine that the sector is
: unreadable...
I have done ECC in other media (specifially, EEPROM), and in
that case, the ECC bits were not "special" in any way. I could lose
one of them with exactly the same effect (or lack thereof) as losing
a single data bit. Further, by interleaving, I could assure that
an n-bit run of damaged ECC bits would appear as n single-bit (i.e.
correctable) errors, each to one sub-block of my data. Do disk drives
really do neither of these? It may be that they don't, but I based my
naive implementation on a paper from Sperry, back when they went
by that name, so it's hardly rocket-science.
: IN ADDITION, the scratch may have resulted in the drive being
: unable to read the preamble for the next sector, which means that the
: adjacent sector is also unreadable.
Preambles that short now? I have heard of ethernet cards
skimping on the preamble, with deleterious effects on larger
segments, but by now these these should be well understood, no?
That is, I can see a radial scratch "killing" two adjacent
sectors, but I can't see it as a high-probability event unless
it is pretty wide. Or are drives that much "on the hairy edge"?
Mike
| [EMAIL PROTECTED], speaking only for myself
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Howes)
Subject: Re: HP Vectra IDE hard disk cable wierdness
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:18:48 GMT
Erwin de Beus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: The 80 way ribbons are used with the new ATA/66 interface, This
: interface doubles the speed as compared with the 'old' ultra dma 33
: interface.
But with a 40-way IDC socket on each end?
Jim
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From: "Hans Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I determine IO address
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:53:26 -0500
I have a network card that I cannot get detected when Linux boots. I think
it is because the interupt is 11 and is not auto-probed on boot-up so I will
have to put the variables in the kernel. I have got my IRQ, but how do I
determine my IO address.
Thanks
Hans
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LobsterDK)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XWindows on a 16MB TNT :( no go.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:11:48 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> What's the advantage of 32 bit color over 24 bit? 24 bit color is already
> more then human eye can distinguish. What do you need 32 bit for?
>
>
>
32 bit color is the same as 24 bit color (16.7 million colors) with an
addition 8 bits per pixel for alpha.
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From: "Sharon Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-ROM support???
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:19:37 -0500
I am currently loading the Caldera release of Linux onto a 486 PC that has
Mattsushita - Kotobuti CD-ROM drive. The load and configuration program
called LISA will not recognize this CD-ROM drive. Any suggestions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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