Linux-Hardware Digest #620, Volume #12 Wed, 5 Apr 00 18:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need Diamond stealth video 2500 driver for (Corel) Linux (Ingmar Nitsch)
Re: Abit BP6 (Peter Karlsson)
Re: Mpeg playback under linux is really bad? (J Bland)
Re: USB support under linux ("Fran�ois Biot")
Re: ATT: Pls help (Big problems) (Constance Mallon)
Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Abit BP6 (Hal Burgiss)
about /dev/hdc (NT Server)
Re: unholy floppy problems! (Nick Ntarmos)
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (Kenneth Mankoff)
read CD-RW (Xavier)
Re: Removable-media IDE drives question (bolion)
Asus P5A and UDMA (bolion)
Linux on this HP box? ("Joel A. Knox")
Amptron Motherboard compatibility? (Paul)
I need help getting linux to recognize my CD-ROM (Erik)
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:19:33 +0200
From: Ingmar Nitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,nl.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: Re: Need Diamond stealth video 2500 driver for (Corel) Linux
Bas Oversier wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I really need a linux driver for the Diamond stealth video 2500.
> If someone knows where to find it, please let me know,
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bas
> email :[EMAIL PROTECTED]
With Debian and Caldera the SVGA-Xserver (3.3.3) works fine with my
Stelth video 2500.
Maybe search for the chipset Alliance Promotion AT 24 in the card
selection dialog.
Hope, I could help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Karlsson)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: 5 Apr 2000 20:33:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David Rencher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Hi. Hate to be the one to report it, but I was just reading
>>a web site yesterday, which reports on compatibility of hardware
>>with Linux, and I was checking out the Abit BP6 because I wanted
>>to get one, with dual Celerons, of course.
>>Well, the nasty gotcha was, "If you run both CPUs at more than
>>85% of capacity simultaneously, then data corruption does occur.
>>It seems that the BP6 doesn't have quite enough front-side bus
>>"bandwidth" to run both CPUs at full utilization."
>>I was very sad to read that, and immediately decided to look
>>elsewhere for dual Celerons. (Alas, can't remember the URL,
>>but you should be able to find it with a web search.)
>>
>>What you are reporting is exactly what he reported: have several
>>programs running, and max out both processors, and data corruption
>>occurs.
>>
>>
>>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>>Before you buy.
>
> I seriously doubt the validity of that article. I have a BP6 with both
> processors over clocked from 400 to 570. I've run Linux on it and put a
> full 100% load on both processors and never had any problems at all.
> Admitedly the load was SETI@HOME so I can't say that I really tested this
> claim but both processors were running at 100% and I never once had a
> problem outside of a silly power supply rebooting the system once in a
> while.
Well when I saw this posting I did a search on altavista, and it turns out that there
are quite a few out there that do have problems with stability on the bp6. I have a
bp6 and have also never experienced any instability problems, though I rarely tend to
push it to the max. Could this be different revisions or maybe abit has problem with
quality control (some are bad some are good and I'm one of the lucky ones)? I've never
had any luck in overclocking my 2X366 though, but it's not a problem for me... The
only issue I have with this is that there seems to be some IRQ shortage. Btw I do have
some "problem"; every time I boot i get this message: kernel: IO-APIC (apicid-pin)
2-0, 2-5, 2-9, 2-10, 2-11, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. Do you get the same
message and what does it mean?
As a small sidenote, MSI is coming out with some "kickass" dual fcpga m/b based on
via's latest and greatest. There's some brief specs on msi's homepage (frontpage
graphic only) www.msi.com.tw ... for the interested.
Best regards
Peter K
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Mpeg playback under linux is really bad?
Date: 5 Apr 2000 20:36:06 GMT
>
>On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:57:25 -0700, Joseph P klitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>I run Linux Mandrake 7 and Win95b on the same system different harddrives
>>Mpeg
>>playback under linux sucks whats up? oh using KDE 1.1.2 is this a
>>kde problem
>>or linux or both? Windows works fine.
>
I'll assume you mean mpeg video.
The default app you are most probably using to play mpeg files will be
xanim. The playback isn't brilliant with this and I don't think it supports
audio.
For playing .mpg files you really want MpegTV (www.mpegtv.com iirc). The
actual player is free, fast, supports audio and is really quite good.
The frontend is shareware, but I never use it.
HTH
JB
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From: "Fran�ois Biot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: USB support under linux
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:40:50 +0200
USB works fine on my Mandrake 7.0
I remember that I had to recompile the Kernel, since it is beta feature.
In fact, I remarked that using beta versions under linux is exactly as use
releases version under windows (for m$ softs only).
Last example in my head : using Kdevelop beta a few month ago was like using
Visual C++ 5.0 under windows ( hi hi hi).
About USB, this beta feature works fine fine for my GREAAAAAT intellieye
mouse
(those with light movements detection). m$ makes bad softs, but great mouses
;-)))
Bye !!!!
Aaron Saikovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7crum3$mea$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does linux support the USB peripheral connection type or is it just a
win98
> thing?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron Saikovski
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Constance Mallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.sys.laptops,linux.dev.laptop,linux.redhat,microsoft.public.win98.power_mgmt,microsoft.public.win98.pre-release,uk.comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: ATT: Pls help (Big problems)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:50:02 -0400
Did your laptop come with a recovery cd? If it did put that in the cd-rom and
boot up with the boot up diskette in the a: drive. You can always install linux
alongside dos - so don't feel obligated to delete the dos partition if you
really don't need to.
If you don't have a recovery cd - say no to large disk support and see what
happens. You may also want to try another boot up disk - perhaps the fdisk on
yours is corrupted.
Elizabeth Hamilton wrote:
> Hi
> Can someone pls help me? I've fdisked all my windows partitions including
> the c drive and Ms Dos partitions as well. Now when I
> boot the computer it says" No operating system found. When I boot up from a
> win boot disk It tells me Windows 98 has detected that c drive does not
> contain a valid FAT or FAT 32 partiton there are several possible causes.
>
> 1) The drive may need to be partitioned. To creat a partiton run Fdisk.
>
> When I do go into Fdisk. It says "do you want to support large disk
> support?" When I choose "yes" then press return I get a blank screen. Can
> someone pls help me? Toshiba have told me I need to get a new hard disk. But
> before I deleted the partitions, the computer worked fine.
>
> Thanks
> Eliz
--
"I must be mad" - she said
"Oh, well we're all mad here" -replied the cat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:53:50 GMT
Howdy,
Does anyone know whether Red Hat 6.2 has support for this SCSI
controller: Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160? I read a press release that
indicates that Linux these type of controllers but was not specific.
Thanks in advance,
Kent
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:02:27 GMT
On 5 Apr 2000 20:33:37 GMT, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "David Rencher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Well when I saw this posting I did a search on altavista, and it turns
>out that there are quite a few out there that do have problems with
>stability on the bp6. I have a bp6 and have also never experienced any
>instability problems, though I rarely tend to push it to the max. Could
>this be different revisions or maybe abit has problem with quality
>control (some are bad some are good and I'm one of the lucky ones)?
I chased my lockup problems for many moons (solved I think with QQ
BIOS). Scoured every BP6 mailing list and NG I could find. This
particular report is not widespread at all in the Linux world. In fact
this is the first I have heard of it, except maybe with 2.3.x kernels.
Many, many fighting lockups. Most are solvable given enough time and
perserverance. If this was in any way endemic with the BP6, it would be
trashed high and low. Not the case.
>I've never had any luck in overclocking my 2X366 though, but it's not a
>problem for me... The only issue I have with this is that there seems
>to be some IRQ shortage. Btw I do have some "problem"; every time I
>boot i get this message: kernel: IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-9,
>2-10, 2-11, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. Do you get the same
>message and what does it mean?
Looks somewhat familiar ...
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NT Server)
Subject: about /dev/hdc
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:08:31 GMT
Help!
When I was setting the new installed CDRW, I did a stupid thing:
I removed /dev/hdc.
After installed the CRDW, I got /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/hdc.
I was told to remove /dev/cdrom1 and do
ln -sf scd0 /dev/hdc
That didn't work and /dev/hdc became a link:
/dev/hdc -> /dev/cdrom1
I then removed /dev/hdc
Can any one help me to get the /dev/hdc back?
Thank you very much in advance!
Boggy
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From: Nick Ntarmos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: unholy floppy problems!
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:23:06 +0300
Hi there.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Rubin wrote:
>
> this seems to have started since i updated to 2.2 (kernel and debian).
>
I guess we have done a MAKEDEV update, right?
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Information Systems Center.
Technical University of Crete.
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e-mail: darmnik @ isc.tuc.gr
ccompiler @ yahoo.com
ccompiler @ sourceforge.net
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From: Kenneth Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:22:42 -0600
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, David Rencher wrote:
>I really am curious as to the problem.
>The radiation thing is another one but the fact that your older machines
>work fine says that it's not the problem. Also the fact that you don't have
>monitors listed as having problems sort of rules that out.
Correct with the radiation. I would expect the radiation to affect
_everything_, not just the newer high-tech stuff. But for some reason i
feel that the old stuff is just much sturdier. Everything certainly is
thicker (the wiring and chips and such), which is why i assume its
sturdier.
>Line problems with your power supplies doesn't sound real likely but even a
>small UPS would take care of that. It won't keep your machines running on
>battery for long but it will clean up the power to your systems.
I've checked line noise with a voltimeter. I can only get 28.8, not
56.6bps on the modem due to telephone noise, but the power lines are
clean. Also, the noise would affect the older systems too, but it does
not.
>Just curious where do you live? 10,000 feet above see level is awfully damn
>high. Mount Everest is what 28,000 something feet high? You ever think
>about coming down from on high to live with the rest of us lowland dwellers?
Colorado. There are a lot of houses in the 10 to high ten range. Tree
line here is low 11k, so no one really lives above 11,000, and those are
only seasonal hunting shacks. Its really just half an hour west of then
Boulder/Denver area, but 4,5000 feet higher.
I got a response back from someone who used to run computers in South
America at 13,400 feet. He said it was a 486 and an old 8086, but he never
had any problems.
>The one overlooked possibility is the pressure equalization issues in the
>chips on the boards. Most of those boards and chips are made in clean rooms
>and are sealed with either plastic or porcelain. It's possible that there
>is a little bit of air trapped in the chips.
When i go food shopping down in town, my bags of potatoe chips and yogurt
explode on the way up. Also, it wrecks havoc on the car tires which are
always either overinflated or underinflated except for the few minutes in
the middle of the commute when they are just right. So this is definately
plausible.
Also one more overlooked possibility is just "pure bad luck". In the past
two months my life has involved, among MANY other mishaps: broken ribs (on
my back), car accident, re-broken ribs, car accident (someone hit rental
car), all listed computer issues, near bear-attack, my dumb ass turning on
a light in a house full of propane gas (didn't inhale and realize the
cleaning girl left the stove on high but unlit all weekend), a plane
sliding off of a runway, and some more. So maybe the computers just go
along with all this?
-ken.
>Kenneth Mankoff wrote in message ...
>>Hello everyone,
>> I live at 10,000 feet and have had all systems newer than a 486DX33Mhz
>>computer fail me. Since november, this is:
>>
>>* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 latptop motherboards (450Mhz). 2 months to failure
>>* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 hard drives (12 to 18 gig). 2 months to failure.
>>* one gateway latop internal modem. 3 days to failure
>>* one 200 Mhz (overclocked) Gateway tower (2 days, then writing to zip and
>>floppy drive in linux failed)
>>
>>Running for days (and years):
>>486 DX 33Mhz desktop
>>286 5Mhz desktop
>>
>>I know airplane computers have radiation sheilds. I also know i have a 3%
>>higher chance of cancer than the average altitude of the global population
>>(or maybe it was sea level)
>>
>>I'm grasping at straws, but hoping some of you may have experience with
>>high altitude computing, or can point me to a resource.
>>
>>thanks in advance,
>> ken.
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From: Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: read CD-RW
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:30:07 GMT
How can I read CD-RW with Linux?
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From: bolion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Removable-media IDE drives question
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:29:52 +0200
"Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu" wrote:
> Dear:
>
> FYI, you don't have to buy or use a external hard drive. There is one solution to
> this. And that is also the method I am using right now. You can use regular
> internal hard drive (as long as it works with Linux). All you need to get is
> something called "Hard Drive Drawer" It has one inner case and one outer case.
> The inner case holds your regular hard drive and the outer case fit into the 5
> 1/4 bay of your PC case.
> The installation is really easy. As far as setting's concern, you can just treat
> it as any internal HD. I have two HD run Linux and one runs Windows 98. When I
> need to run Windows (sad), I just halt the Linux system and pull put the HD. Pop
> in the HD that runs Windows and turn the power switch one.
> The price of the "HD Drawer cost from about US$15- $35... Depends on where you
> get it and the quality of it.
>
UDMA 66 won't work and UDMA33 may loose data when using HD drawer.
regards lionel
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From: bolion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus P5A and UDMA
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:39:55 +0200
Hello everyone.
I am using an Asus P5A m.b ,p200 mmx , 28 Gb HDD (Maxtor ) the DMA is
well activated by the BIOS but when i want to enable it with "hdparm" i
can read that the op�ration is forbiden and the setting is set to off.
I use Linux mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.14.What should i do to enable
UDMA .
Thank's in advance for your help.
Lionel
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From: "Joel A. Knox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on this HP box?
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:54:30 -0400
I'm planning the purchase of the following for software/app development
under Linux. If anyone has experienced problems with this box or its
components I would tickled to hear about them before the wedding...
Pavilion 8650C Celeron 533MHz processor, *intel 810 chipset 128KB L2 cache
Primary Controller IDE
20.4GB Ultra DMA hard drive
66MHz front bus speed
64MB 100MHz SDRAM
Memory (type) DIMM
Memory (type) SyncDRAM
Memory (type) PC 100
CD-Writer Plus drive (4X max speed write, 2X max. speed rewrite, 20X max.
speed read)
DVD - 8X
ITU V.90 56K modem.
integrated Intel Direct AGP 3D graphics with up to 11MB of dynamic video
memory
Polk Audio Stereo Speakers with PowerPort technology
Expansion slots: 4 PCI (one occupied)
Expansion bays: 6 total, 2 available (one 5.25" ext and one 3.5" internal)
Many thanks in advance for any and all info.
Joel
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From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Amptron Motherboard compatibility?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:59:05 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I'm going to build a Linux box and I was wondering if anyone has had
any luck with an "all inclusive" Socket 7 motherboard. The one I'm
looking at has AGP Video (8 meg shared) and an ESS sound chip.
The brand is Amptron and the model is 0598.
http://www.amptron.com
According to the manufacturer, it is compatible.
I bought a copy of SuSE 6.3 to use.
Any thoughts or comments are greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Paul
Here is some information from their web site:
============================
Linux SiS620/530 VGA Drivers
Installation, Usage, and Release Document
All brand or product names mentioned are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Introduction
This document includes SiS620/530 VGA Driver Installation and
Configuration for Linux system. So far, this Linux driver supports
Redhat 6.0, Openlinux 2.0, and Slackware 3.6. That means this Linux
driver has been or will be tested based on these three Linux systems.
Table of Contents
This document contains the following sections:
1. SiS620/530 VGA Drivers Contents
2. System Requirements
3. Example of SiS620/530 Linux VGA Driver Setup and System
Configuration
1. SiS620/530 VGA Linux Drivers Contents
SiS620/530 VGA Linux Drivers Package includes one file of SiS620/530
Linux driver binary, one example file of XF86configure and this
readme.txt. (For Rev. 1.00 and newer, date: 07/19/99)
2. System Requirements
This section describes system requirements for the SiS620/530 VGA
Driver installation and usage.
1. The hardware system must contain a SiS620/530 chipset.
2. You must have XFree86 3.3.3.1 dated after January 7, 1999.
3. Example of SiS620/530 Linux VGA Driver Setup and System
Configuration
1. SiS620/530 Linux VGA Driver Setup/Installation
a. Copy XF86_SVGA.gz to Linux HDD
b. Gunzip XF86_SVGA.gz
c. Copy XF86_SVGA to /usr/X11R6/bin
d. Run xf86config (See System Configuration Section)
e. Vi XF86Config (under the directory /etc/X11)
f. Add following lines in "Device" section in XF86Config
Option "hw_cursor"
Option "noaccel"
Option "no_bitblt"
Option "linear"
g. Run startx
2. System Configuration--The recommended setting parameter as you run
xf86config (Only for reference, these settings are system specific or
Linux dependent)
a. First specify a mouse protocol type. Choose one from the
following list:
�K
4) PS/2 Mouse
Enter a protocol number: 4
b. If your mouse has only two buttons, it is recommended that you
enable Emulate3Buttons.
Do you want to enable Emulate3Buttons? Y
Now give the full device name that the mouse is connected to,
for example /dev/tty00.
Just pressing enter will use the default, /dev/mouse.
Mouse device: /dev/mouse
c. Beginning with Xfree86 3.1.2D, you can use the new X11R6.1
XKEYBOARD extension to manage
the keyboard layout. �K
Please answer the following question with either 'y' or 'n'.
Do you want to use XKB? Y
�K
Press enter to continue, or Ctrl-c to abort. Enter
d. List of preconfigured keymaps:
1. Standard 101-key, US encoding
�K
Enter a number to choose the keymap. 1
�K
Press enter to continue, or Ctrl-c to abort. Enter
e. �K hsync in kHz; monitor type with characteristic modes
�K
10 31.5-82.0; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 76Hz
Enter your choice (1-11): 10
f. You must indicate the vertical sync range of your monitor.
�K
4. 40-150
Enter your choice: 4
�K
Enter an identifier for your monitor definition: enter
Enter the vender name of your monitor: enter
Enter the model name of your monitor: enter
�K
Do you want to look at the card database? N
g. The following servers are available:
�K
3. The XF86_SVGA server.
Which one of these screen types do you intend to run?
By default (1-4)? 3
Please answer the following question with either 'y'
or 'n'.
Do you want me to set the symbolic link? Y
Do you want to set it in /var/X11R6/bin? Y
�K
h. How much video memory do you have on your video card?
�K
6 Other
Enter your choice: 6
Amount of video memory in Kbytes: 8192
The strings are free form, spaces are allowed.
Enter an identifier for your video card definition:
enter
Enter the vendor name of your video card: enter
Enter the model (board) name of your video card: enter
�K
i. Enter a number to choose the corresponding RAMDAC. Press enters
for
the next page, q for quit without selection of a RAMDAC.
Q
j. �K Just press enter if you don't want a Clockchip setting.
What Clockchip setting do you want (1-12)? Enter
�K
You must be root to be able to run X-probeonly now.
Do you want me to run 'X-probeonly" now? N
k. �K 5 the modes are OK, continue.
Enter your Choice: 5
L. Shall I write it to /etc/X11/XF86config? Y
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From: Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I need help getting linux to recognize my CD-ROM
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:03:00 GMT
If anyone reading this is linux savvy, Please help. I recently installed
Mandrake 7.0 on my machine (kernel 2.2.4) However I am having some
difficulty mounting my CD ROM. I have my hard drive on the primary as
master, and my CD ROM on the secondary as master. The installation
assigned /dev/cdrom (/dev/hdc) as the device, and /mnt/cdrom as the
mount point. During bootup I get an error message which tells me that
hdc is not a valid block device. If I try to mount it manually during a
session, or access it, I get an error that says device not found, or
access denied. Logged in as root, I know that access really isn't
denied. So how can I go about getting Linux to recognize my drive?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Linux newbie,
Erik
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