Hi,
I installed RH9 on a new machine on April 1 (big mistake, I hear you). The hardware is Krypton board, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB Seagate Barracudda. On boot, it spits out reams of these messages, at the end of which the system resets the HDD and continues to boot normally:
kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Just curious. What is the motherboard chipset of this machine? Is it a Via board(then which one) or an Intel one?
Some new via motherboards in the past have had problems with the IDE controller or DMA support,AFAIK. Maybe after bootup you can run lspci as root, and tell us the IDE controller line in it. Maybe you can look up on google for any problems in this chipset with linux.
For example, the relevant line in my computer gives:
[...]
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
[...]
A good test to see if this is the problem is to add the kernel option "ide=nodma" while booting, and see if the problem recurs.
The second problem is networking through Samba with Win 98 machines. Samba is the domain master browser and Win 98 machines are set up for multiple users. The network is fixed IP over a tcp/ip hub. The Linux machine accesses shares on Win machines OK. From a Win machine, the Linux box shows up OK in Network Neighbourhood, with the correct server string. But if you click on it, up pops a dialog saying that the \\server\ is not reachable. And after that ALL Win machines are thrown off the network. Quite dramatic. What gives?
So name resolutions are working - that means NMB settings are ok. This will allow you to see the machine in the network. The error that you are having is because of a problem with the SMB setting.
Since you are using Win98 clients, there is always an issue with encrypted passwords here. Are you sure you are doing either of these?
a. Setting encrypt passwords off in smb.conf and using the plain text passwords in win98 client by using the Win98 registry key that comes with samba?
b. Using encrypted passwords in Samba?
- Sandip
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