Linux-Misc Digest #176, Volume #19 Thu, 25 Feb 99 14:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux Kernel source code, line by line ("Brett R. Rosselle")
Re: HP JetDirect (Jason Clifford)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Zenin)
Re: (no subject) (Seth Van Oort)
Need help with DNS resolution ("Brett R. Rosselle")
installing RedHat 5.2 with 8 MB RAM? (Georg Schwarz)
Help with serial line hookup to PC (for terminal emulation) ("Sarah Wayland")
Configuration Error? ("Torsten Schmidt.")
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Whammy)
Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question. (Peter Nikolic)
locked out of bookmarks in Netscape (nick brinn)
Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards (David Hinds)
Re: locked out of bookmarks in Netscape ("K. Brant Niggemyer")
Re: HP JetDirect (Rob Clark)
Glk: portable fancy text I/O lib (text adventures, etc) (Andrew Plotkin)
Re: Linux Kernel source code, line by line (Jason Clifford)
Spreadsheets and presentation software? (Bryan J. Maloney)
Re: running program problem (Jason Clifford)
Network adapters on laptops ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: scsi harddisk cache (Juergen Heinzl)
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From: "Brett R. Rosselle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel source code, line by line
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:03:26 -0500
To all:
Sorry for the HTML earlier.
Try here: http://www.kernel.org
Sanchis Eric wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me if some books or documents describing line by line the
> Linux kernel source code ( like the Minix / Tanenbaum's book ) exist?
>
>
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP JetDirect
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:38:39 +0000
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Mihai IACOB wrote:
> I have a WindowsNT network with some HP network printers. The printers
> use JetDirect. I wanna print to those printers from linux, but I can't
> install JetDirect from the HP CD. Did anyone solve this problem?
You don't use JetDirect to print - it is a configuration tool.
Your best bet is to find an existing lpr queue that points to the printer
you want (or an SMB share) and use that.
Alternatively if you can get the net admin to set it up you may be able to
print directly to the printer.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
From: Zenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 25 Feb 99 17:10:52 GMT
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip<
: No one is forcing anything. if you want code as a financial investment,
: write it from scratch.
Why make the entire world rewrite everything?
Everytime something non-GPLed comes out that's good (free or not),
the FSF or some other group decides the world needs a GPL version
and rewrites it. -Yes, they often try to do this with non-GPL free
tools such as Perl.
But the madness doesn't stop there, as the GPL forces this to be a
two way street. See something you like under GPL? Sorry, you'll
have to rewrite it from scratch if you actually want to use it.
BSD encourages reuse. GPL encourages rewrite.
Because of this, GPL is only usable for home toy projects. Outside
that realm it breaks down quickly
: If you view it as a social investment, you make your code permanently
: free.
Why do you think we like the BSD license? Simply because we
*are* making a social investment, however we are still human and
as such just care that our name is spelled right (honestly).
Personally, I feel this makes BSD coders better people in general
then GPL coders, but that's just me.
: Whining about GPL is like complaining about the cost of cable TV, if you
: don't like the cost, don't use it.
See above. GPL is simply a wasted effort as one way or another
anything half decent that spawns under it will simply be rewrite.
I'd rather not have build my own cable system simply to watch the
Simpsons in peace.
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (no subject)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:16:26 +0000
Yeah, I know this. I was just indirectly pointing out that one billion
ops per second isn't the so called one gigahertz mark. I think a 21264
at 575Mhz is approximately twice as fast as a Pentium II 400 in specInt
and four times as fast in the specFp.
Seth
Shane Steven Sturrock wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:18:44 +0000, Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Header in the New York Times technology section for today
> >
> >***
> >By JOHN MARKOFF
> > Intel demonstrated a version of its new
> >Pentium III
> > microprocessor that computes more than
> >one billion
> > operations a second, the so-called
> >one-gigahertz mark.
> >***
> >
> >That's a creative definition.
>
> 1 Ghz to achieve 1 BIP. Big deal. An Alpha 21164 can do 2 BIPS at 500Mhz.
> Even for pure integer code I find a 500Mhz Alpha to be twice as fast as the
> same clock Intel. The new '264 processor is reputed to be twice as quick
> again for the same clock although I can't confirm this yet because they
> are hard to get hold of.
>
> This whole race to achieve the highest clock speed is meaningless if the
> processor in question can't do as much work per cycle as another slower
> but more efficient chip.
>
> You want real performance? Alphas are currently being mass produced at
> 667Mhz.
>
> --
> Dr. Shane Sturrock - http://nova.bru.ed.ac.uk/~sss
> Linux, a better WinNT than WinNT
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From: "Brett R. Rosselle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help with DNS resolution
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:22:08 -0500
Hi all,
I am running RH5.1 kernel 2.0.35.
Here's the problem:
When logged in as Root on this machine I can FTP to other sites just
fine (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com).
If I am logged in as a regular user (which is most of the time) I can
not do this. When I try to FTP the host name can not be resolved. I must
use the site's IP address. I can resolve HTTP address just fine.
I am also running Apache (not sure at the moment what version) as a HTTP
proxy server (port 80) for the other PC in my house. Could that have
something to do with it?
Please help if you can,
Thanks.
Brett Rosselle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: installing RedHat 5.2 with 8 MB RAM?
Date: 25 Feb 1999 17:17:39 GMT
Is it possible to install RedHat 5.2 via ftp on a machine with 8 MB RAM?
I failed trying so on a 386DX25, while with 24 MB RAM it seems to work.
On the 8 MB machine the installation procedure was endlessly accessing
the support floppy just after I had selected to use fdsik (custom
install). Unfortunately I couldn't find any minimum amount of RAM
mentioned in RH's online manual. Is 8 MB not enough? Is there a way to
turn on swap at an earlier stage already? I already had the disks
partitioned and mkfs/mkswap'd on another system before I built them into
the 386.
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: "Sarah Wayland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with serial line hookup to PC (for terminal emulation)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:38:46 -0500
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From: "Torsten Schmidt." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuration Error?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:23:53 +0100
If I boot my machine (P60,64MB,PCI VGA with 4MB&S3Virge,AHA2940UW)
cold and directly into Linux and X11 with KDE the startx hangs the
machine up.
But if I boot the machine first into Win95 and ends this "os" to ms-dos
and start
the linux now with loadlin-, the startx works fine and the x11server
works.
Thanks for your help...
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From: Whammy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:11:28 GMT
1. Linux is by far more stable than any MS product. I can vouch for this
personally. We have linux systems that have been up nearly two years
without a reboot. If we can get an NT system to last more than a month,
we buy lotto tickets.
2. Linux is faster.
3. Linux requires lower system resources than the pig-coded win crap.
4. Linux Networking is solid. MS network stack sucks. (It sucked bad
enough here that all the major networking functions in our office were
removed from winblows and moved to linux. Now linux manages most our
datacom. The stuff that is still on NT still has problems.)
5. Linux can run more than one application and remain stable. We tried
to run Lotus Notes and a backup manager on an NT box. What a disaster.
We ended up having to build two separate machines to get NT to be
stable.
6. Linux is more flexible. The modular design allows you to customize a
the kernel in ways only winblows can dream of. Don't like your windows
interface? Chuck it in favor of another one. Can't do that with
winblows.
7. Despite rumors to the contrary, linux support is better than MS.
Let's face it, once MS releases a product, you might get one or two
service packs, then it's time to buy the next generation product with a
new set of bugs. Planned obsolesense i think they call it. Linux bug
fixes get done much faster, and don't require an entire new OS to
implement them.
8. Linux is more mature than winblows. Given its proven unix background
and compliance with recognized industry standards, it's no surprise
linux is the choice for most internet applications. MS is notorious for
its bastardization of and non-compliance to industry standards.
9. Linux doesn't shove a browser down your throat.
10. Linux provides you with all the tools you need to develop
applications.
11. An application crash doesn't wipe out the entire OS. No BSOD here.
(I've heard of rumors of linux panics, but I have never seen one in the
three years I've used linux.)
There's a start. I'm sure there are plenty more reasons.
msb wrote:
>
> please post your 234 reasons why linux is better...
> tia,
> msb
>
> > This fun to reply to. Maybe we dont have all those speacialized graphics
> > clogging up our memory, but when my software crash's, it the software. not
> > need to reboot whole system. If you want my 234 reasons why linux is better
> > than Winblows 98 just ask.
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From: Peter Nikolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.conspiracy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.x,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question.
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:59:09 +0000
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Matthias Warkus wrote:
> It was the Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:56:54 GMT...
> ..and Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:34:40 -0500, Jim Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >It's funny you should mention that. I've taught a lot of new people how to use
> > >UNIX and Windows and I don't see much difference in the learning curve.
> > >
> > >The funny thing is that graphical systems have become even harder to use than
> > >CLI systems in recent years -- there are just so many gestures you have to
> > >learn to get things done, and no way to discover them without a manual, and
> > >nobody ships manuals any more.
> > >
> > >jim
> >
> > I taught myself DOS and later Windows, but I never needed an
> > instruction manual. Windows is only difficult for users who don't have
> > the guts to do anything they don't know about. For Linux however, I do
> > need a manual. In DOS, some 6 years ago, I discovered that typing HELP
> > gave the answer to my questions. Linux should have something as easy
> > to use. In fact, in Linux you absolutely need to know the (most
> > important) key-combinations because else you're doomed.
>
> In Linux, typing "man" gives the answer to your questions in the same
> way HELP gave you answers under DOS.
>
> There's also "info", a hypertext help system. And there's the /usr/doc
> directory. And, well, if you've got a system like dwww, susehilf, KDE
> help or gnome-help, you can access pretty much all of your system's
> documentation via a Web browser.
>
> mawa
> --
> Contemporary American feminism's simplistic psychology is illustrated
> by the new cliche of the date-rape furor: "`No' always means `no'."
> Will we ever graduate from the Girl Scouts?
> -- Camille Paglia, New York Times, December 14th, 1990, Op Ed.
It's Whats Commonly called " RTFM"
pete
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Matthias Warkus wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>It was the Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:56:54 GMT...
<BR>..and Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<BR>> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:34:40 -0500, Jim Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<BR>> wrote:
<BR>>
<BR>> >It's funny you should mention that. I've taught a lot of new
people how to use
<BR>> >UNIX and Windows and I don't see much difference in the learning
curve.
<BR>> >
<BR>> >The funny thing is that graphical systems have become even harder
to use than
<BR>> >CLI systems in recent years -- there are just so many gestures you
have to
<BR>> >learn to get things done, and no way to discover them without a
manual, and
<BR>> >nobody ships manuals any more.
<BR>> >
<BR>> >jim
<BR>>
<BR>> I taught myself DOS and later Windows, but I never needed an
<BR>> instruction manual. Windows is only difficult for users who don't
have
<BR>> the guts to do anything they don't know about. For Linux however,
I do
<BR>> need a manual. In DOS, some 6 years ago, I discovered that typing
HELP
<BR>> gave the answer to my questions. Linux should have something as easy
<BR>> to use. In fact, in Linux you absolutely need to know the (most
<BR>> important) key-combinations because else you're doomed.
<P>In Linux, typing "man" gives the answer to your questions in the same
<BR>way HELP gave you answers under DOS.
<P>There's also "info", a hypertext help system. And there's the /usr/doc
<BR>directory. And, well, if you've got a system like dwww, susehilf, KDE
<BR>help or gnome-help, you can access pretty much all of your system's
<BR>documentation via a Web browser.
<P>mawa
<BR>--
<BR>Contemporary American feminism's simplistic psychology is illustrated
<BR>by the new cliche of the date-rape furor: "`No' always means `no'."
<BR>Will we ever graduate from the Girl Scouts?
<BR> -- Camille Paglia,
New York Times, December 14th, 1990, Op Ed.</BLOCKQUOTE>
It's Whats Commonly called " RTFM"
<BR>pete
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From: nick brinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: locked out of bookmarks in Netscape
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:14:30 -0500
I am using Linux 2.2 with the RedHat 5.2 installation. When I call
Netscape it posts a message that a "lock" has been placed on the use of
Netscape which I can ignore by pressing "continue" or some such option.
However, when I ignore the lock, I am unable to save bookmarks in the bm
file. It seems to me that, since I run Linux as a one-user system, I
can delete the lock file under netscape. I tried doing this but it was
no help. Any suggestions.
Thanks,
sam
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Hinds)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards
Date: 25 Feb 1999 18:18:19 GMT
Mark Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello,
:
: With the PCMCIA drivers under Linux is it possible to write a binary to an
: SRAM card ?
Absolutely.
-- Dave Hinds
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From: "K. Brant Niggemyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: locked out of bookmarks in Netscape
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:24:17 +0000
are you sure you deleted the correct lock file?
rm ~/.netscape/lock
also, you must remove the lock before you start using netscape, not in the
middle of a session.
nick brinn wrote:
> I am using Linux 2.2 with the RedHat 5.2 installation. When I call
> Netscape it posts a message that a "lock" has been placed on the use of
> Netscape which I can ignore by pressing "continue" or some such option.
> However, when I ignore the lock, I am unable to save bookmarks in the bm
> file. It seems to me that, since I run Linux as a one-user system, I
> can delete the lock file under netscape. I tried doing this but it was
> no help. Any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> sam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: HP JetDirect
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:54:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mihai IACOB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a WindowsNT network with some HP network printers. The printers
>use JetDirect. I wanna print to those printers from linux, but I can't
>install JetDirect from the HP CD. Did anyone solve this problem?
The HP software is not needed-- you can install local queues for
JetDirect printing in your /etc/printcap, e.g.:
lj4k-win|HP LaserJet 4000 TN formatted input:\
:lp=:rm=prn01:rp=raw:sd=/usr/spool/lj4k-win:if=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sh:
#
lj4k-txt|HP LaserJet 4000 TN UNIX text:\
:lp=:rm=prn01:rp=text:sd=/usr/spool/lj4k-txt:if=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sh:
Where prn01 is the hostname of the printer, according to your DNS. The
queue names "raw" and "text" are built into the JetDirect card.
Good luck!
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Glk: portable fancy text I/O lib (text adventures, etc)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:49:20 GMT
Wow, that's about the most compressed subject line I've ever had to
write. Hopefully, if you're reading this, you're interested in what I'm
doing.
Glk is a cross-platform programming interface for information display and
user input. It is designed to be lightweight, portable, and adaptable,
rather than universal, detailed, and bloated. Glk does not try to do
everything; it tries to do common things well.
The origins of Glk are in the text-adventure community, and that influence
is still visible. Text input and output are still the main focus -- an API
which can conform to good UI convention on every platform (MacOS, X,
Windows, pen-based systems, or even terminal-window libraries such as
curses).
However, Glk is expandable, and functionality will continue to be added to
it. Image display is already in the API; future plans include sound and
networking capabilities.
Glk makes a good basis for any program which needs to be cross-platform,
whose interface needs are largely text, perhaps with graphical
illustration or enhancement. It's also good for prototypes, since it's
very quick to get a program running.
And, of course, I hope that Glk is useful as the I/O side of any new text
adventure development systems. (I've seen a couple being announced.) Most
text IF systems are innovations in world design, programming, and parsing.
The actual user input and output is an afterthought. I hold that these two
areas should be cleanly separated. Glk allows a system to concentrate on
internals, and get good I/O and portability for free.
Glk libraries -have been implemented- for MacOS, X, Win32, DOS, and the
Curses terminal-window library. All of these are freeware, and the
specification is available; implementations for new platforms are welcome.
(PalmOS would be particularly welcome, not to mention BeOS? ...GTK or KDE?
...an Emacs major mode?)
--Z
--
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel source code, line by line
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:29:59 +0000
On 25 Feb 1999, Sanchis Eric wrote:
> Can someone tell me if some books or documents describing line by line the
> Linux kernel source code ( like the Minix / Tanenbaum's book ) exist?
No they don't as the Linux kernel is a moving object so by the time that
such a book became available it would be very much out of date.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan J. Maloney)
Subject: Spreadsheets and presentation software?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:52:22 -0500
My joy at finding that WP8 was ported to Linux has deflated somewhat upon
reading the fine print. It's ONLY WP8, not the full WP8 package. That
means, if I switch to Linux, I would also have to find a separate
spreadsheet and presentation software.
So, what is out there? I want something with ALL the functionality of
Quattro Pro 8 AND Corel Presentations 8, at a total price COMBINED with
that of the WordPerfect 8 that would not exceed the academic pricing
available for the WP8 suite plus manuals. Otherwise, why shouldn't I just
stick to Win95 and get the applications that I want?
--
To women contemplating marriage: The question you should ask is not
"How much do I love him?" The real question is "How much can I
tolerate him?"
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/bjm10/
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: running program problem
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:35:04 +0000
On 25 Feb 1999, AME wrote:
> I wrote a program myprogram.c and compiled on a cobalt box running linux.
> The object code was a.out . So far so good, Now when I type a.out , I
> get the message : sh: a.out: command not found
because the directory where a.out is located is not listed in your PATH
environmental variable.
Type calling the a.out binary using ./a.out
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Network adapters on laptops
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:53:02 GMT
Hi mates!
While installing Linux (Redhat 5.2) on a laptop (i.e. Dell Latitude) it does
never probe correctly for the NIC thus it does not actually let it be
installed correctly.
Nevertheless, after booting the system and using the netcfg (or the graphic
interface) if I activate the card (eth0) it works. I tried quite a few 3com
and ne2000 types of cards - old and newest.
Does anybody know what is the proper procedure of defining a network adapter
(lan) after the system has booted??
I still don't understand how it is identified without being configured, while
the installation process both by probing or even by specifying parameters
would not work.
Cheers
Shay Tochner
International Systems Support Specialist
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: scsi harddisk cache
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:25:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rene Windiks wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>does anybody know, how one can check if the disk
>cache of a (scsi) harddisk in enabled or disabled?
>Does exist a linux tool for this?
I guess scsiinfo can do that. Might be you've got it on your disk
already.
Cheers,
Juergen
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