Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Mark Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering -

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
$ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... Wat's that? -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:18, Eric Huff wrote: $ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... Wat's that? Older Linux's have been recently discovered to count

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Watts wrote: $ uptime 2:44pm up 154 days, 2:54, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.05, 0.02 This is from a (Mdk 8.2) box thats already hit the 497 day Jiffie wrap limit... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:02pm-kevin uptime 1:02pm up 331 days, 18:01,

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 6:17 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: Older Linux's have been recently discovered to count uptime to 497 days then using a new form of math 497 + 1 = 0 . I'm not sure but I think it has something to do with a Honeywell emulation layer. (For those who don't know

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-17 Thread Eric Huff
Of course, that doesn't anything to do with it though. A simple count of 100Hz ticks would fill an unsigned 32 bit integer in 497 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes, 52.96 seconds. After which it would wrap around to zero. Interestingly enough Windows 95 had almost exactly the same situation, but

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I wouldn't take the risk. LG now have a firmware update

Re: [expert] LG Drive and VMWare

2003-11-16 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:20, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 2:57 pm, Kwan Lowe wrote: Any idea if the LG Firmware bug will bite if the Mandrake 9.2 install is in a virtual VMware machine? Sorry for the delay in answering - I've been away. I don't know the answer, but I