Linux-Setup Digest #358, Volume #19 Wed, 9 Aug 00 09:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: MBR issue - can't install new OS ("Philo")
Re: Installing linux SuSE, help me ! (Raffael Herzog)
Installing new LILO (jmsalvo)
Re: Downloading POP mail into a Linux account? (Tom Bottomley)
Re: Downloading POP mail into a Linux account? (Colin Watson)
Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Small text in Netscape (Will Blake)
ipmasqadm - how to use it?? (irado furioso com tudo)
Re: alternating between networking settings (Lars Gaarden)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: Small text in Netscape ("Tom Brinkman")
how to update JDK ? ("Daniel Pfuhl")
Re: Small text in Netscape (Eric Pop)
Re: how to update JDK ? (Raffael Herzog)
Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem. (Buschman)
Re: Rehat Linux 6.1 Installation (Jonathan)
Funny - NO, create subnets: No local interfaces - can-u-help pls? ("Ian Turnbui")
Re: how to update JDK ? (Davide Bianchi)
help! startup freezes.. (Esa Tiiliharju)
trust ISDN pci modem and linux.... ("Stefano Bellodi")
HELP: Netscape + KPPP (McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant)
pdftopbm ("Micky")
scsi dilema (Travis Hein)
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MBR issue - can't install new OS
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 03:08:16 -0000
just use fdisk/mbr
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing linux SuSE, help me !
Date: 09 Aug 2000 10:27:34 +0200
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Cantieri Informatici verbalised:
> Hi, anybody knows if is it possible to install SuSE on a partition
> which is not the last one. My hard disk is partitioned like that:
>
> C (windows98 system) D (windowsNT system) E (windows98 data)
> F(windowsNT data)
>
> I would like to install linux on E
Just do it :-)
I suppose E and F are in the extended partition ==> /dev/hda5. Install
SuSE there. BEWARE: NT doesn't like Linux at all (my NT committed
suicide several times -- I decided for SuSE)
--
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
May the penguin be with you!
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From: jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing new LILO
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:23:10 GMT
I downloaded the new version of LILO (21.5) that overcomes the 1024
cylinder limit for IDE. When running QuickInst as root, it says:
Making LILO ...
cc -E check-config.cpp `( if [ -r $ROOT/etc/lilo.defines ]; then cat
$ROOT/etc/lilo.defines; else echo -DM386 -DIGNORECASE -DVARSETUP
-DREWRITE_TABLE -DONE_SHOT -DVERSION; fi ) | sed 's/-D/-DLCF_/g'` `[ -r
/usr/include/asm/boot.h ] && echo -DHAS_BOOT_H` >/dev/null
as86 -0 -a -w -l temp2.lis -o temp2.o temp2.s
00806 0363 74 00> toNull: je near
null ! cursor control
*****
^junk after operands
01471 07FB 72 00> jb near
doload
*****
^junk after operands
00806 0363 74 00 toNull: je near
null ! cursor control
***** ^unbound
label
*****
^junk after operands
01471 07FB 72 00 jb near
doload
*****
^junk after operands
*****
^unbound label
00004 errors
00000 warnings
make: *** [temp2.o] Error 1
Also, why does the README says that the 1024 cylinder limit is a
problem, just like the README in older versions of LILO? ... or is it
simply that the READ has not changed?
Also, running QuickInst warned that it should not be used to overwrite
an existing lilo installation.
The term 'installing LILO' is sometimes vague, as it is used in some
docs to mean 'installing the bootloader onto the boot sector or
something similar' .. and in this case it means 'building and installing
lilo into /usr/sbin/lilo ... without affecting the bootloader in the
boot sector'.
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Before you buy.
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From: Tom Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Downloading POP mail into a Linux account?
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 10:02:54 +0100
djmiller wrote:
>
> Is there any way I can get Linux to connect to my various POP e-mail
> accounts, download the e-mail, and stick it in a Linux account, so I can use
> one Linux account to read all my e-mail?
>
> Special bonus points if I can also connect it to my MSN e-mail account,
> since their POP server uses "Secure Password Authentication."
I use fetchmail to collect my mail and post
it to the relevant linux accounts, I'm not sure about MSN mail
but take a look at
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/fetchmail-5.4.5-1.i386.html
There is also fetchpop from the same site, useful but simpler.
Regards,
Tom.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.config
Subject: Re: Downloading POP mail into a Linux account?
Date: 9 Aug 2000 09:11:06 GMT
djmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[comp.os.linux.redhat doesn't seem to exist here ...]
>Is there any way I can get Linux to connect to my various POP e-mail
>accounts, download the e-mail, and stick it in a Linux account, so I can use
>one Linux account to read all my e-mail?
Look at fetchmail. Its companion program fetchmailconf makes it very
easy to set up if you don't feel like writing ~/.fetchmailrc yourself,
and it works flawlessly here.
>Special bonus points if I can also connect it to my MSN e-mail account,
>since their POP server uses "Secure Password Authentication."
fetchmail does support things like MS Exchange, so it may work. I've
never tried it with MSN, though.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"A recommended acceptance test might be to experiment with subjects
whose skulls are only at partial vacuum, such as Vice-Presidents of
Marketing." - RFC 1437
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem.
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:34:08 GMT
> Buschman wrote:
>
> > I really don't know why telnet is not working. Everything I have
> > looked at seems to be configured properly. My inetd entries look
like
> > this:
> >
> > ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftp -l -a
> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
> > pop-3 stream tcp nowait uucp /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
> >
> > If you telnet from an outside machine it is able to resolve the
name,
> > but you get a blank screen and after 5-10 seconds windows says "the
> > connection to host lost". The machine is a new install and I have
> > installed most services, modules and deamons. Or so I think.
> > Sendmail and all e-mail services are working fine. Telnet, Ftp, and
> > Pop-3 are not working. I want to concentrate on telnet first. Once
I
> > figure that one out I have a feel the other two will follow suit.
Do
> > any linux gods out there have an idea??? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Buschman
dont you know natives on this planet are not really friendly
towards gods?
(they killed at least one).
i'd try the localhost-option first:
can you telnet localhost?
can you telnet (networknameoflocalmachine), like telnet mylinux1?
--
'...' said the joker to the thief
'there's too much confusion, i cant get no relief...
so let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late'
(robert zimmermann)
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Before you buy.
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From: Will Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Small text in Netscape
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:01:40 +1000
I'm having trouble with Netscape because the text it uses is
tiny. I know that I've seen a fix somewhere. Can anyone
tell me where it was or how to fix my problem?
Thanks
DrBob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (irado furioso com tudo)
Subject: ipmasqadm - how to use it??
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 11:04:49 GMT
ipmasqadm - how to use it??
hi, all..
is there some "magic recipe" on how to compile/install this product??
When using from *.rpm (SuSE 6.2, yast-I) it simply disapear, leaving
no trace of itself at all.
Also tryed the *.tgz, but it claims that there are no its own
directory (folder).
greetings,
irado furioso com tudo
there are more crimes under religious consciousness
than under atheism.
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From: Lars Gaarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alternating between networking settings
Date: 9 Aug 2000 11:17:53 GMT
Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a laptop, at home and work I have different network settings.
> I'm tired of having to go into netconf (etc) and changing the settings
> by hand. Is there any way of doing this automatically?
> I could write a Perl script, but I'm a little unclear on which files
> need to be altered, scripts need to be run, etc.
This depends on which distribution you use.
On a RH you would probably have to change some, or all of these:
Eth0 ip address etc:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Default gw:
/etc/sysconfig/network
Host ip address:
/etc/hosts
DNS:
/etc/resolv.conf
--
LarsG. These are my opinions, which may or may not be shared by my employer.
Code that cracks a protection device is criminal under the DMCA even if the
use of the copyrighted material that the code enables would be fair use.
- Lawrence Lessig, Berkman Professor of Law, Harward Law School.
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 09 Aug 2000 07:32:34 -0400
blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >>
> > > Free market means just that: The Freedom to Trade with who ever and
> > > whatever (within legal limits) you want.
> > Does it? I think that's what usually called "Free Trade".
> > "Free Market" means letting the interaction between people
> > determine the price of goods.
> >
> It also means nothing to stop the seller to get the maximum amount of
> profits they want, as long as the market can bears it.
And nothing to stop other sellers from sniffing profit, jumping in,
and undercutting the first seller.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 09 Aug 2000 07:50:25 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when blowfish would say:
> >So. They have to spend all the money. One way or the other.
> >(I'm not talking about small business here. I'm talking about those that
> >get tens of million of dollar, or more for IT budget every year.)
>
> If departments save money on one thing, that can allow them to spend
> _more_ on other things. If they shovel less money into the pockets of
> Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, for license fees, this can let them spend
> that money on _SOMETHING ELSE_.
>
> The principle might be called the "Law of Conservation of Spending,"
> which means that "If you find yourself under budget due to something
> costing less than expected, that provides the necessity to spend _more_
> on something else."
Actually, the Fishpot is somewhat correct about this, albeit probably
through no fault of his own here. Departments don't simply get a
budget, they get individual line items, and pretty much have to hit
budget on every one of those line items or watch next year's
allocation plummet.
I worked for one major supercomputer vendor some years back, and a
customer called me to ask whether a $100K front end to a $10M system
should be configured with a really trashy disk drive and seriously
insufficient memory vs. a merely trashy drive and woefully
insufficient memory. When I noted that the front end should be
configured with sufficient memory and a good drive, he explained that
they had a big pot of money for purchase of the supercomputer and a
much smaller pot for the front end system.
So yes, a department with an IT budget of $1M for software may well
feel compelled to buy more expensive software than they need just to
hit their budget. That doesn't mean that every department operates
under those constraints, but that sort of nonsense does happen.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small text in Netscape
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 06:41:25 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Will Blake
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble with Netscape because the text it uses is tiny.
> I know that I've seen a fix somewhere. Can anyone tell me where
> it was or how to fix my problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> DrBob
Do a Google search on 'mozilla fonts', I believe that's what
you're lookin for
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Daniel Pfuhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to update JDK ?
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:45:48 +0200
Hi
I would like to update my JDK from v1.1.7 to v1.2.2.
Do I have to recompile all the programs wich I have
compiled with v1.1.7 or do I only have to change the
Path-Information in the config-files of these programs?
thanks for any help....
daniel
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From: Eric Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small text in Netscape
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 04:48:07 -0700
I've recently dealt with this and briefly archived the whole process
on my page'o'tips: http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/tips.html
-Eric
> I'm having trouble with Netscape because the text it uses is
> tiny. I know that I've seen a fix somewhere. Can anyone
> tell me where it was or how to fix my problem?
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to update JDK ?
Date: 09 Aug 2000 14:13:54 +0200
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Daniel Pfuhl verbalised:
> Hi
>
> I would like to update my JDK from v1.1.7 to v1.2.2.
> Do I have to recompile all the programs wich I have
> compiled with v1.1.7 or do I only have to change the
> Path-Information in the config-files of these programs?
> thanks for any help....
Only change the JAVA_HOME environment variable, this should be enough
(depends on the start scripts). There are, however, some programs that
do not work under Java2. In that case, recompiling them won't help.
--
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
May the penguin be with you!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: newbie needs a linux god to grace his lowly telnet problem.
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:27:50 GMT
My linux machine itself can telnet to other established linux/unix
servers, but I can not telnet to my linux machine. I know my windows
machine is fully functional and it too can telnet to linux/unix
servers with no problem. The name of my server, let's call it
whatever.com, can be resolved but it just sits there and times out.
In other words, in windows if you go to run and type telnet
whatever.com it will resolve the name but that's it. The telnet
screen is blank and after a matter of seconds it times out. It's like
the windows machine sees where my linux server is, but my linux server
refuses to talk. Damn snobby linux servers! I have no fire wall at
this time and have a static IP so neither of these are a
consideration. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
Buschman
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:34:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>
>> Buschman wrote:
>>
>> > I really don't know why telnet is not working. Everything I have
>> > looked at seems to be configured properly. My inetd entries look
>like
>> > this:
>> >
>> > ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftp -l -a
>> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
>> > pop-3 stream tcp nowait uucp /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
>> >
>> > If you telnet from an outside machine it is able to resolve the
>name,
>> > but you get a blank screen and after 5-10 seconds windows says "the
>> > connection to host lost". The machine is a new install and I have
>> > installed most services, modules and deamons. Or so I think.
>> > Sendmail and all e-mail services are working fine. Telnet, Ftp, and
>> > Pop-3 are not working. I want to concentrate on telnet first. Once
>I
>> > figure that one out I have a feel the other two will follow suit.
>Do
>> > any linux gods out there have an idea??? Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Buschman
>
>
>dont you know natives on this planet are not really friendly
>towards gods?
>(they killed at least one).
>i'd try the localhost-option first:
>can you telnet localhost?
>can you telnet (networknameoflocalmachine), like telnet mylinux1?
>
>
>--
>'...' said the joker to the thief
>'there's too much confusion, i cant get no relief...
>so let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late'
>(robert zimmermann)
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rehat Linux 6.1 Installation
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:17:04 GMT
In article <8mpn10$326$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andy Yap Wei Heong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install rehat Linux in a Pentium 100mhz 16M RAM 810MB
> Hardisk, however, I keep encounter the following error message:
>
> Disk Space
>
> You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the package
you've
> selected. You need more space for the following filesystem:
>
> MounPoint Space needed
> / 4M
>
> But the fact is I am allocating 750MB for mounting point / , can
anyone
> enlighten me.
>
> Thank you
>
> Regards
>
>
It is fine to have a single mount point of / - you just need to install
fewer packages. Choose "Select Individual Packages" and eliminate what
you do not need.
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Before you buy.
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From: "Ian Turnbui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Funny - NO, create subnets: No local interfaces - can-u-help pls?
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:39:25 +0100
I'm getting this:-
ERROR: Failed when creating subnet lists. Exiting
and then nmbd daemon doesn't start. Can anyone help? I searched
smb.conf for the word subnet and enabled aome options by removing the ;
that was used to comment some lines out but this had no effect. I would
gladly accept any help, folks
TIA
Ian Turnbull
0961 931941
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: how to update JDK ?
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:29:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:45:48 +0200, "Daniel Pfuhl"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I would like to update my JDK from v1.1.7 to v1.2.2.
>Do I have to recompile all the programs wich I have
>compiled with v1.1.7 or do I only have to change the
>Path-Information in the config-files of these programs?
>thanks for any help....
All the APIs in the 1.1.7 are still supported in the
1.2.2, altough, some APIs are "deprecated", so the
'recompile option' is not obbligatory, but if you
want to do a "polite" thing, you have to.
Davide
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From: Esa Tiiliharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help! startup freezes..
Date: 09 Aug 2000 15:36:16 +0300
Dear All,
maybe someone knows a remedy for this: I installed RH 6.2 and start-up
freezes at 'initialising random number generator'
Nothing happens after this?!
Is there a cure for thhis?
==============
Esa Tiiliharju
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +358 9 451 5406 fax: +358 9 451 2269
Piiritekniikan Laboratorio/ Electronic Circuit Design Lab/
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu Helsinki University of Technology
PL 3000/02015 TKK P.O.Box/02015 HUT
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From: "Stefano Bellodi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trust ISDN pci modem and linux....
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:46:28 GMT
Hello,
i just bought a trust isdn pci TA, but a cannot get it to work under linux
(red hat 6.2).
It is not in the list of the supported modems, but i was wondering if anyone
bought it and have been able to get it to work.
Suggetions?
Bye
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From: McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: Netscape + KPPP
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:58:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
! have setup Suse 6.4 and run KPPP to connect to my ISP. I am now after
running a web browser, so I try Netscape, but I get a SOCKET error an d
Netscape cannot connect to anything.
If I try with the WVDIAL instead of KPPP, then this just bombs out after
connectiont?
Any suggestions.
Thanks
Leo
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From: "Micky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pdftopbm
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 15:06:23 +0200
I would like to know if is possible and how to run the programm pdftopbm
from a telnet?
Thanks
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From: Travis Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi dilema
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 09:01:33 -0400
i use the 2.2.16 kernel, with Adaptec AHA 2940-u2w controller, and 2 seagate
barricuda ultra wide drives. I have them properly terminated, and connected to
the ultra wide interface on the 2049, not the ultra 2 interface.
The system works fine with the two disks, but i find when i move large files
between the disks (> 50MB) more often than not, the system will hang and i get
interesting messages like
scsi command timed out (pid 2734) scsi bus 0 id 0 lun 0 ......
these messages continue to show up a few more times, all the while the system
stops responding.
Perhaps there is some not so obvious conflict somewhere with my hardware setup.
But I was wondering if anyone else has a similar setup or experience
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