Linux-Hardware Digest #485, Volume #13 Sun, 27 Aug 00 16:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Canon BJC-6000 Printer Support? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Dances With Crows)
Re: IBM T20/A20 ThkPd: mini-PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps... supported? (Valentin Guillen)
shared disk array ("Dmitry Melekhov")
Re: 70Gb Harddisk ("B. Joshua Rosen")
UPS / Backup drives ("Roger Kristiansen")
Re: scsi mystery (results finally) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WangDAT 3200 & SuSE6.1/6.2 (fred pegman)
Re: UPS / Backup drives ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Anyone running on TYAN S1834 with 133Mhz FSB? (John Klaus)
Re: IBM T20/A20 ThkPd: mini-PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps... supported? (John Hovell)
SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ? ("vierde machine")
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Justo M. Casablanca)
ASUS CUSL2 onboard video/sound (hihihi)
Virtual Desktop ("X-Man")
dumb question about scsi device access
NFS problem after NIC upgrade (Mark Richards)
Re: problems with 3Com56voicemodemfax modem (asage)
Re: dumb question about scsi device access (Dances With Crows)
Corruption, DVD-RAM drive under Linux with 53c810a (Joseph Morris)
Re: Virtual Desktop (Dances With Crows)
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Dances With Crows)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Canon BJC-6000 Printer Support?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:16:18 GMT
Hi,
I have just bought a Canon BJC-6000 Color printer and am interested in
setting it to use with my Linux machine running SuSE-6.4 Linux Distro.
Does anyone have any idea what kind of software and setup do I need to
get this Canon BJC-6000 Color printer running under Linux?
TIA.
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: 27 Aug 2000 14:55:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 03:29:52 GMT, Justo M. Casablanca wrote:
>other very helpful suggestions on usenet, I still have one last hurdle (I
>hope just 1) to overcome so I can use my zip drive. Let me first paste the
>error messages I get; then I'll paste my current system config.
>Everything below except for comments in "//" is copied-and-pasted from the
>command-line. I am really at wits end trying to figure out how to get this
>thing to mount. Oh, and, I do not load the lp module; my printer is not
>Linux-compatible, so I stopped lp from being loaded at boot-time
The ppa module requires lp to be loaded, otherwise it will not work at
all. "modprobe lp" before modprobing ppa, and don't worry about the
printer not being supported.
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IBM T20/A20 ThkPd: mini-PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps... supported?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:57:02 GMT
John,
Perhaps another poster will have salient info more to the specific point
of your post but I'll add:
I am using Intel EtherEx Pro/100B PCI LAN adapters in a couple of boxes
on my home network and they come up automatically in any version of
Linux I've tried on those boxes, and I've had several distros over the
last 5 years on some of these network cards.
These cards are now out of production. They contain the INTEL S82557
chip as the main controller on the card.
On another topic:
I've had my laptop for 2 1/2 years now and have been quite pleased with
it. It's a Hitachi VisionBook Pro. Here's why. This laptop has built
in CD-ROM, Floppy, AMD PC-NET Pro 10BaseT adapter, USB port, 56K V.90 US
Robotics REAL modem, track pad, and then all of the stuff you expect
like TFT color screen, ports, IR and all the rest. My point here is
that IT'S all built in, required NO DONGLES, and it's all directly
supported by OS/2, and LINUX.
>From day one, I've been running OS/2 and first REDHat 5.0, then SuSE 6.X
on this laptop.
Why settle on a laptop which will require dongles, adapters, etc, and
still might give you installation and configuration grief. By shopping
around, you can find a box which will support everything you need to do
in linux, and support it easily and with everything built in.
I did have to put 80mb additional ram because it came with only 16mb,
and of course, I got a much larger replacement drive right away, so I
could put away the nasty m$ winx crap, and install the OS/2 and
GNU/Linux. I've been happier than a fly in *hit with this box. It's
only a 133MMX, but with the additional memory and a 100mb swap file, it
performs. I use it mostly for surfing and for giving slide
presentations in Star Office. Anyone who uses star office can attest
that if you can use it, your box can do anything. Only thing I wouldn't
try on this laptop is VMWARE. I simply don't have the horsepower for
running that.
My message headers will attest to that fact that it's still running and
that's what I'm writing on currently.
Good Luck with your upcomming purchase!
Regards,
Valentin
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From: "Dmitry Melekhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shared disk array
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:49:44 +0400
Hello!
I need hardware for shared disk array for two server
for linux 2.2.x/x86. It can be scsi, but preferable is fibre channel.
Which fibre channel adapter is better?
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70Gb Harddisk
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:22:40 -0400
Next suggestion, is your BIOS up to date? you may want to try updating
it to the latest rev and see if that fixes your problem.
Daniel Ammon wrote:
>
> It's an additional one and I need full capacity on one drive
>
> "B. Joshua Rosen" wrote:
>
> > Try partitioning the drive into 3 or 4 partitions, at the very least you
> > want separate root and user partitions anyway. I'd partition that drive
> > as follows
> >
> > / 3G OS and OS installed apps only
> > /local 9G , link /usr/local and /opt to this drive
> > /home 30G user space
> > /user 30G more user space
> >
> > Mike wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > > a friend of mine just bought a 72Gb IBM DTLA307075 IDE harddisk and
> > > would like to run it on linux. Sadly linux recognises only 33.8Gb of it.
> > > Anyone know a remedy?
> > > Running on 2.4.0-test6 kernel, latest fdisk, controlled by a PIIX4 IDE
> > > controller.
> > >
> > > Thx in advance
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
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From: "Roger Kristiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPS / Backup drives
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:30:41 +0200
I'm setting up a linux server that I need a UPS and some backup-system on.
Now, are the any special manufacturers I should buy from? What works well,
what doesn't work at all?
I'm thinking about buying a OnStream Internal SCSI backup drive, although I
would like second opinions on that. When it comes to the UPS I don't have a
clue.. could someone enlighten me, please? :)
---
Roger Kristiansen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: scsi mystery (results finally)
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:50:23 GMT
It took me more than two weeks, but now I think I
overcame this annoying problem of corrupting data
with AHA-2940U2W & IBM AS400 N1H.
I thought I should post this story because someone
could learn from it and those who helped me on the
way deserve to know what it really was about.
It's somewhat embarrassing to say that the problem
was almost everywhere else but not in the scsi
bus. I had my AMD K6/300 slightly overclocked to
83MHz x 4 = 332 MHz about two years and it worked
fine. I don't know if it was the processor, the
main board or the memory that got tired of the
higher bus clock, but anyway the data corruption
went away when I finally thought of bus speed and
put it to 66 MHz and replaced memory with a new
DIMM (put those old SIMMs away).
In the path to the solution, I proved that the
adapter as well as the drive worked beatifully
in a different machine under NT4. Also it came
clear that the cable and the terminator I have
are OK. So is the bus and termination layout.
The only thing I had to change in my Linux
configuration was to force aic7xxx driver to use
longer timeout for device selection. Well, at
least I got one set of scsi bus resets leading
to a system hangup before I changed the timeout, I
can't be sure if it was that.
Thanks to all those who shared my problem.
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From: fred pegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WangDAT 3200 & SuSE6.1/6.2
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:29:15 GMT
sorry cant help but wold be grateful if you could tell me where i can get
drivers for wangdat 3310
Martin Jones wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone please help me as I am getting to the end of my tether!!! I
have
> a WangDAT 3200 SCSI DAT drive and a Yamaha CDRW connected to an Adaptec
> AVA-2904 (aic7xxx chipset). I have installed SuSE and on boot it sees the
> SCSI card and the CDRW but not the DAT
>
> Doing a cat of /proc/scsi/scsi shows me only the CDRW yet if i look in
the
> aic7xxx subdirectory in the file named 0 then I can see that there are 2
> entries in this file (for SCSI IDs 2 & 3 which are the SCSI IDs of the
CDRW
> and DAT) but sgcheck only shows the CDRW
>
> Please email reply to me (as well as posting) as my newserver seems to
lose
> a lot of messages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
>
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS / Backup drives
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:42:20 -0400
I'm using and APC UPS500, works fine, has a Linux daemon. I'd probably
by a bigger one if I were shopping for a replacement.
Roger Kristiansen wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a linux server that I need a UPS and some backup-system on.
> Now, are the any special manufacturers I should buy from? What works well,
> what doesn't work at all?
>
> I'm thinking about buying a OnStream Internal SCSI backup drive, although I
> would like second opinions on that. When it comes to the UPS I don't have a
> clue.. could someone enlighten me, please? :)
>
> ---
> Roger Kristiansen
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From: John Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone running on TYAN S1834 with 133Mhz FSB?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 12:42:33 -0500
Hi,
If you are, I'd like to know your configuration and and BIOS chipset
settings related to RAM as I'm having problems with my setup. I have a
single PIII 533b, 512k cache, 133Mhz FSB. I'm using Apacer PC133 SDRAM
(reccomended by TYAN). I get sig 11's during install and seg faults on
a running system doing routine things (like find).
When I tried a 100Mhz FSB processor (borrowed one from work ;) it
worked fine.
I'm trying to figure out if I have a bad processor or if this board
along with linux just won't do 133Mhz FSB.
TIA,
John Klaus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Hovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IBM T20/A20 ThkPd: mini-PCI Ethernet 100/10Mbps... supported?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:54:05 GMT
Valentin --
Valentin Guillen wrote:
> I am using Intel EtherEx Pro/100B PCI LAN adapters in a couple of boxes
> on my home network and they come up automatically in any version of
> Linux I've tried on those boxes, and I've had several distros over the
> last 5 years on some of these network cards.
>
> These cards are now out of production. They contain the INTEL S82557
> chip as the main controller on the card.
Hmm... I wonder if we are talking about the same chipset. This machine is
brand new and I thought it was the current Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100.
Maybe I'm wrong.
> I've had my laptop for 2 1/2 years now and have been quite pleased with
> it. It's a Hitachi VisionBook Pro. Here's why.
<snip>
Hmm... sounds a bit like a sales pitch to me :-). Well, the 25% employee
discount with IBM really makes a bit of difference for me; not to mention I
think I'm fairly close to victory considering they sell the same machine
with Caldera and the same NIC as an option... All I need to do is confirm it
actually works :-).
> Good Luck with your upcomming purchase!
Thanks... apparently, I'll need it :->.
Thanks for the response...
Cheers,
John
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From: "vierde machine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:59:45 GMT
If you know the answer, please let me know.
I've tried the XF86_SVGA, as suggested by XF96Config.
Problem is that not all parts of the screen will be updated properly and
some squashing of pixels occurs (but not much).
Thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Justo M. Casablanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:29:22 GMT
Thank you so much for your quick response. I did as you said, but I still
get the same message at the command line (i.e. "mount: /dev/sda4 is not a
valid block device"), and I also still get the same set of error messages
in /var/log/messages as before (i.e. copied-and-pasted into the original
posting). Any more ideas ?
Here is a copy-and-paste of the last lines of my newly-modified
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file (lsmod verifies that all 4 modules are loaded):
//==================== START COPY-AND-PASTE =====================
# tail -17 /etc/rc.d/rc.local
cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
echo >> /etc/issue
# This will force the parallel port zip drive modules to load at
startup.
# Module 'lp' must be loaded in order for 'ppa' to work, even if a
# printer is not attched to the system.
# $(uname -r) returns kernel version.
if [ -f /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/scsi/ppa.o -a -f /lib/modules/$(uname
-r)/misc/parport.o -a -f /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/parport_pc.o -a
-f /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/lp.o ]; then
modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc
modprobe lp
modprobe ppa
fi
fi
# lsmod | egrep "^Module|ppa|parport|lp"
Module Size Used by
ppa 9220 0 (unused)
lp 5416 0 (unused)
parport_pc 7464 2
parport 7320 2 [ppa lp parport_pc]
//================= END COPY-AND-PASTE ===========================
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:34:36 +0200
From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS CUSL2 onboard video/sound
The ASUS CUSL2 mainboard has video and sound onboard.
Is it possible to use these with Linux Red Hat 6.2 ??
How should it be configured ??
greetings.. :-))
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From: "X-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Virtual Desktop
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:56:08 +0200
I can't off this thing. I have RH 6.2, how can i do this?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dumb question about scsi device access
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:29:15 GMT
hello
I'm running YDL on my powerbook G3.
At boot Linux finds my scsi CD burner OK but I don't know how to mount and use it,
that is, which /dev file to mount. Can someone tell me what I need to know?
thanks
Kira
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From: Mark Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: NFS problem after NIC upgrade
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:35:26 GMT
Here's the story:
Server computer is 486 DX4 100 w/ PCI 2.x slots. used to have two
NE2000 ISA cards. took one card out to put in another computer. Put in
some kind of 10/100 Nic supplied by my cable ISP. The driver provided
on their disk was for kernel 2.0.x but it was "tulip.c" so I compiled
tulip.c for my kernel (2.2.17pre5). Installed driver, everything is
happy.
The remaining NE2000 card is on the local lan, IP 192.168.10.90. The
new 10/100 card is on the cable modem (dhcp). Masquerading works just
great.
SAMBA on the local lan works fine.
NFS on the local lan does not. If I log into the console on my
workstation (P166, linux 2.2.17pre5, PCI-NE2K card, 192.168.10.6) , and
try to access a dir that's shared by nfs:
]# cd /Files
]# ls
It takes a long, long time. neither computer seems to be busy (top
shows cpu usage over 90% free on both boxes). Surfing the web works.
only NFS fails.
So then I try to unmount the nfs dirs. This fails (it seems to hang).
Also, I can't shut down NFS on the server (/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop).
This fails while stopping quotas.
Nothing shows up in /var/log/messages on either box.
If anyone has any ideas, I could really use them :)
Please cc to my email address if possible since my news server sometimes
misses posts.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with 3Com56voicemodemfax modem
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:37:42 -0400
Thank you, I did check with my ISP. They use script authentication.
Interestingly, after I spoke with them trying to figure out why this was
happening, it stopped happening. So it likely isn't a problem with
either the modem, or how I set it up ;)
TA
Allison Sage
"D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> asage wrote:
> >
> > I think I may have seen this problem in here before, but I can't find it
> > again... I've installed this modem and been able to connect (using Bill
> > Unruh's great instructions). The problem is that the line won't stay
> > connected. It only stays connected for a half minute at a time. My ISP
> > says that the problem may be a faulty modem, but I was using the modem
> > before in Windows without any trouble.
> >
> > This modem uses jumpers, which I've set, and as I mentioned, I have used
> > the commands outlined in the 'Howto', as well as using the setserial
> > command.
> >
> > It's kind of annoying, because I have still have to rely on connecting
> > from within Windows. Any help would be really appreciated!
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Allison Sage
>
> Perhaps they use CHAP authentication, and you are dropped at the first
> challenge, due to not having it turned on. Ask your ISP if they use
> CHAP.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: dumb question about scsi device access
Date: 27 Aug 2000 19:55:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 19:29:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm running YDL on my powerbook G3. At boot Linux finds my scsi CD
>burner OK but I don't know how to mount and use it, that is, which /dev
>file to mount. Can someone tell me what I need to know? thanks
Read the HOWTO:
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
It will tell you that you should first do "cdrecord -scanbus" to find
out where the thing is located (Often at 0,0,0 or /dev/sg0). That's for
writing. For reading, it will almost certainly be at /dev/scd0. You
mount /dev/scd0 under /mnt/cdrw (or wherever takes your fancy) and
access already-written CDs as normal. Writing is a bit different thanks
to the nature of CD-R(W) media; check the HOWTO for all the gory
details.
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=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: Joseph Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corruption, DVD-RAM drive under Linux with 53c810a
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:59:13 +0100
I have a Toshiba SDW-1101 drive, and a Traxdata 2x2x6 CDRW drive,
both running off a Symbios 53C810A SCSI card.
Termination appears to be correct, and the IDs are 2,4,7 respectively.
I'm running Mandrake 7.0 patched to the latest 2.4 kernel (test7)
which I need for XFree86 4.01's 3D acceleration.
Now, the problem is this:
The DVD-RAM drive, which is running in 2-LUN mode, appears as
a second CD-ROM drive and /dev/sda
When I mount /dev/sda, it appears as a removable disk, as it should.
The trouble is, when I write data to the cartridge, (2.6 Gb Type-1)
some parts of it are corrupted. When I copied 410MB onto the disk as
a test, about 5 files out of 23 were corrupted.
They are all RAR archives so I was able to test the CRC for each one,
to make sure the thing was working before using it for serious backup.
At first I assumed this was a problem with the experimental UDF write
support in the kernel, so I formatted it EXT2, which I don't really
want since I might want Windows to read the disks too at some stage.
The same thing occurred, except that when I tried to delete the files
afterwards it couldn't, and I discovered that the EXT-2 filesystem on
the cart was damaged as well as the archives. Now there CAN'T be any
problems with EXT2 because I would certainly know about that by now,
the last periodic fsck was yesterday and it found no problems.
So I tried it in Windows, which reformatted the cart to either UDF or
FAT32, I have no idea which, and copied the same set of archives
onto the DVD-RAM as one last test. It took about twice as long but it
worked fine. Only one archive was broken, and I found it was broken on
the HDD.. not in transit.
So. Windows 95 can write to the DVD-RAM without spilling anything but
Linux can't. This is not good. I'm pretty much tied to 2.4 at the
moment so I can't easily revert to 2.2.16, although I probably will
try tonight just as a short experiment.
Is there a problem with the Symbios SCSI controller driver in 2.4 or what?
Any suggestions? What is happening?
(The DVD-RAM drive can run in 2-LUN mode or single-LUN. I have tried both
and it has not made a jot of difference. I am keeping it in 2-LUN for now.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Virtual Desktop
Date: 27 Aug 2000 20:03:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:56:08 +0200, X-Man wrote:
>I can't off this thing. I have RH 6.2, how can i do this?
You need to provide more information and/or check the grammer of your
posts. I highly doubt you want to off your system, as putting a .45
through a standard motherboard is generally not a good idea. :-]
Also, a "Virtual Desktop" is different from a "Virtual Screen". Virtual
desktops are provided by the window manager (kwm, Enlightenment,
Sawfish, etc.) and are so handy that you should *NOT* turn them off
ever. Virtual screens are provided by the X-server, and manifest
themselves as an area that is, say, 1024x768 in size while it's being
displayed at 800x600, and you can see the whole thing by moving the
mouse around. Some people like this, others hate it.
If you run your monitor at 800x600 all the time, don't configure any
resolutions higher than 800x600, because the highest configured
resolution will be used as the virtual screen size for all resolutions.
Also comment out any "Virtual" lines in your /etc/X11/XF86Config , as
those are used to specify a virtual screen size that's larger than the
resolution your monitor can display.
Switching resolutions from 1024x768 to 800x600 will *not* shrink the
entire root window to 800x600, because that's the way X and X programs
work. This is a Feature.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: 27 Aug 2000 20:06:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:29:22 GMT, Justo M. Casablanca wrote:
>Thank you so much for your quick response. I did as you said, but I still
>get the same message at the command line (i.e. "mount: /dev/sda4 is not a
>valid block device"), and I also still get the same set of error messages
>in /var/log/messages as before (i.e. copied-and-pasted into the original
>posting). Any more ideas ?
What about SCSI support and SCSI disk support? Those need to be loaded
as well if they're not compiled directly into the kernel. Generally,
the SCSI stuff is loaded automagically when it's required--have you
turned off the kernel module loader or something?
modprobe scsi_mod
modprobe sd_mod
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Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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