Linux-Hardware Digest #95, Volume #11 Wed, 25 Aug 99 17:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Maxtor Dimond Max Corrupt problem (Laurie Robert Young)
Re: please help ....... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RealPlayer 5.0 wont work, Netscape 4.51, Slackware 4.0.0 (A Guy Called Tyketto)
UPS for LINUX (rusty)
Re: ppp problems (Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES)
Re: i740 and Gigabyte M Board ("Peter Christy")
Re: Photo quality printers? (fulton)
FS: $6,000 pair of PCI Fibre Cards for $1 no reserve (Steve W.)
Re: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to setup SoundBlaster 64 PCI PnP ("Liddleddy Morris")
Re: Tuner replacement on bttv TV cards ? (Phil Reynolds)
E-Tech Bullet ISDN Card howto ("Jeroen Bosma")
Re: CD-RW drive making me crazy.. (Walter Francis)
USB switching? (Ronald Bruck)
US Robotics ISDN SPortster ("Nik Simpson")
More Confused. (SASKATOON)
ABIT IT5H Rev. 2 Motherboard: BIOS Date Problems (Erik Jensen)
Re: Creatve Video Drivers (Anand Singh Bisen)
Re: UPS for LINUX (John Henderson)
Linux on IBM RISC System/6000 F50?! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD-RW drive making me crazy.. ("Russ Johnson")
Re: Maxtor Dimond Max Corrupt problem ("Russ Johnson")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurie Robert Young)
Subject: Maxtor Dimond Max Corrupt problem
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:08:39 GMT
HI there
I am a 17gb Maxtor Dimond Max Hard disk with 2 fat32 partitons and one
e2fs partition on it (e2fs is about 4gb)
When I install Red Hat linux on it I find that after a week or so of
use I will switch the system on one day and I get the message
/dev/hda3 containts file system with error - check forced
and I get dumped into shell where I have to run e2fschk manually.
I run the command
e2fsck -y (answer yes to all questions)
that runs for about 20 mins then rebots and everything seems fine
however I always find that one or two things don't work and my
lost+found dirctory has been filled with a huge number of file
(rm * replied "arguemnt list too big")
I reinstall from scratch - reformalltning the partition and the whole
cycle beigns again - using the default kerlel that comes with RH6.0
(2.2.5-15)
Now I want to move this disk into a server machine and I was wondering
if anyone know what caused this problem and how to fix it
I was thinking that I might need a bug fix for large drives?
Thanks in advnce
Laurie Robert Young
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardawe
Subject: Re: please help .......
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:18:10 GMT
Yes, you can use plip. That's how I got bootstrapped.
I just don't remember the details. Here are some laptop
installation resources:
http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
In article <7psci9$hgo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Linux GOD
> Pplease help, I don't have a CD or a network on a 486 laptop (HD
325MB), so
> I can't install linux :/, is it posible to do it throught the parallel
port
> (from another computer), if so how ?
>
> Thank you in advance
> Tal Segev
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 5.0 wont work, Netscape 4.51, Slackware 4.0.0
Date: 25 Aug 1999 12:50:20 -0500
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Ron Gibson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Can anyone help me with setting up RealAudio 5.0/elf?
>
> I've followed the instructions for both plugin setup and helper
> application and neither works. I know it's not my sound card as I did
> get the old aout 3.0 version working and it played the demo file but I
> found when attempting to use that on broadcast.com that the version was
> too old. The kernel does have elf support. I can't even get the player
> to launch itself without netscape. No error messages either. And I've
> tried combinations of both plugin and helper setups. It appears that
> something is missing.
>
If you have not changed anything library wise (i.e.: still using
libc5), Check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes. The bug in
Realplayer 5.0 is no joke. Try the fix on it, as well. Worked for me,
back at the 2.1.119 stage. Should still work now.
BL.
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From: rusty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UPS for LINUX
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:19:46 GMT
Hi All
I'm currently shopping around for a UPS for our Linux server. (Red Hat
5.2)
I want one that can communicate with The server for automatic shutdown.
Battery life is not as important to me as is price. I just want to have
the server do a clean
shutdown in case of brown and black outs.
APC has models starting at $259 going up to $879 (depending on battery
life
and outlet count). These are the "Smart-UPS" series they come with
shutdown software for
Windoze Boxes. Does anyone know if there are Linux ports of the
software for these devices or
where I might look to find out.?
If not do you know of any other makes or models that might do what I
want.
Thanks
Rusty
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:58:49 +0000
From: Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp problems
"W.G. Unruh" wrote:
> Unless that ISP happens to be Freeserv in the UK. They do not publish thier
> DNS numbers and when you call them ( at 50p/min) they tell you that those
> numbers are secret and cannot be divulged!
> (an irate email to them finally produced the numbers)
Demon publish theirs, or at least its relatively public knowledge now,
because they always used to give that information out.
Paul
~~~~
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From: "Peter Christy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i740 and Gigabyte M Board
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:07:14 +0100
Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> And you have the XServer going?
Yes, no problems! I had to locate the relevant "driver" (not sure what the
correct Linux terminology is!), and I had to use XF86Setup rather than SaX
(SuSE's configuration program).
But yes, its working fine with SuSE 6.0 and KDE 1.1
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Photo quality printers?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:21:41 -0500
Hi,
If you have a second machine running M$ Windoze, why not network
the two machines, attatching the printer to the Windoze machine and
print through the network? That is, if you are married to the Epson
printers. I suspect not, but are these printers color laser printers or
ink jets?
If they are inkjets, I'd would check out the HP2000 and HP2500
series printers. I was very impressed with the quality, though I don't
know what is considered "photo quality". Unfortunately, I had to
twist HP's arm to send me a solitary sample. Both of the printers
above use the same printing technology so the quality is the same.
The HP2500 has alot more "bells and whistles", however, and the
capability to print postscipt files, if you want to pay an extra $200
for the postscipt module. You can get the HP2000 for under $500
and the HP2500 for under $900, without the postscipt module. Maybe
most importantly, both of these printers are said to work perfectly
under Linux and ghostscipt - check out the printers HOWTO.
Ed Fulton
Vegard Engen wrote:
> I've recently considered buying a good color printer for when I want to
> pictures from my digital camera. I've done some searching, and gotten the
> Epson Stylos Photo 850 recommended, but I've already found it's not fully
> supported under Linux. And I couldn't find any photo quality printers
> supported either, though a number of reasonable quality color printers
> were supported.
>
> Now, I understand the Stylus Photo 850 worked somewhat with the Epson Stylus
> Color-drivers, thus it cannot be THAT different. It just didn't get you the
> extra features, as far as I understood. Can anyone confirm that the Epson
> Stylus Photo 850 does not give WORSE performance than an Epson Stylus
> Color-printer, at least?
>
> Given that it obviously isn't THAT different, is anyone working on drivers for
> ghostscript?
>
> If not: Assuming one was to get specifications from Epson, would it likely be
> an easy job to CODE a driver? I'm not an experienced driver-coder, although
> I've done my share of C-programming, so I might be able to do it myself.
>
> Bottom line is: If I can expect a driver in a year or so, I can live with
> having to boot up windows on a machine to get my pictures in photo quality. But
> if I'm never going to get a driver working for Linux for it, I'm not going to
> spend any money on it.
>
> Last: Does anyone know what's the best color printer options for Linux today,
> in the <$1k market?
>
> - Vegard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve W.)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,alt.2600,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: FS: $6,000 pair of PCI Fibre Cards for $1 no reserve
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:33:36 GMT
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=152677644
That's where you'll find a pair of Emulex LP7000E-N1 PCI Fibre Channel
cards, valued at almost $6,000.
Starting at $1 with no reserve, good luck to all bidders!
TCP/IP and SCSI simultaneously at 100 megabytes (gigabit) per second
full duplex over optical cable at great distances.
Software Environments
Windows NT 3.5.1/4.0 (Alpha & x86) SCSI and IP
Solaris 2.5.1 (SPARC & x86) SCSI and IP
NetWare 4.x SCSI
UnixWare 2.1 SCSI
IBM AIX 4.1 SCSI and IP
Hardware Environments
x86, SPARC, PowerPC and DEC Alpha
PCI hardware platform
check the ebay link for full info
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0
Date: 20 Aug 1999 08:33:35 +0100
David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Essentially, the Rage 128 chipset isn't supported in either the Mach64
>> or the SVGA servers. You need to enable VESA Framebuffer support in a
>> Linux 2.2.x Kernel, and use the XFBDev server.
> Or purchase Xi Graphics' server, which supports it. http://www.xig.com.
> Their price is $100, including free updates.
> I don't know how well it works, but if you don't want to use VESA and
> you don't want to wait for the XFree86 people to release a driver, this
> may be a good alternative. Someone else who posted here said it worked
> well.
Well as far as I remember the problem is not with the XFree86 team but
with ATI: if programming info was available I'm sure an ATI128 driver
would have made it into XF86 3.3.4...
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Liddleddy Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to setup SoundBlaster 64 PCI PnP
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:17:18 -0400
Does Linux support PCI sound?
ed
Jan Kolar wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>i have linux debian box with 2.2.1 kernel with SoundBlaster sound driver
>compiled in, and with all device files created in /dev. pciutils finds
>multimedia Ensoniq audio controller on e400 IRQ 12.
>
>under windows sound card is working properly with:
>PCI SB 64 device: Port 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1
>Base/MIDI: Port 330, IRQ 7, DMA 1
>Wave: Port 534, IRQ 7, DMA 1
>MPU-401: Port 330, IRQ 7
>AdLib: Port 388 (equal to opl3 synth driver under linux?)
>
>but when i use these settings under linux no devices are detected. just:
>.
>.
>Sound initialization started
>Sound initialization complete
>.
>.
>:-)
>does anybody have any advice how to proceed.
>
>Kolda
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Reynolds)
Subject: Re: Tuner replacement on bttv TV cards ?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:26:43 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Julien PERVILLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi!
>
> I'm a French living in the States for the next six months. So I'm planning
> to buy a n Hauppauge WinTV PCI-based board for my linuxbox.
> In the States the TV standard is NTSC. And in France we use SECAM. The
> difference beetween the french and the american model is in the tuner ":
> TEMIC or PHILIPS.
>
> Has anyone here some experience with hardware replacement of the Temic
> tuner by a Philips one (PAL/SECAM). How much is the component, is it
> possible to buy one, what do I need to install it etc.
There are actually a large number of differences between the French TV system
(L) and the American system (M).
The French system uses 625 lines, CCIR, positive video modulation, AM mono
sound, NICAM stereo, SECAM colour.
The American system uses 525 lines, EIA, negative video modulation, FM mono
sound, AM stereo subcarrier (sometimes referred to as BTSC), NTSC colour.
You are therefore better off obtaining a TV card in the relevant country.
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From: "Jeroen Bosma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: E-Tech Bullet ISDN Card howto
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:37:45 +0200
Does anyone have an ISDN Howto or does anyone know how to configure my
E-Tech Bullet ISDN card ? Can't figure out how to get it running... Thanks..
Jeroen Bosma
www.Bosma.Nu
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW drive making me crazy..
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:23:20 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are you using the CDs from the same box/batch? Sounds like you
> have a bad batch. Generally, if one CD in a box is bad, ALL the CDs in
> that box are bad.
I've heard that before, but this was somewhat of a mix of CDs my father
gave me with the CD-RW drive. Three Sony CDQ-74BN's, three Sony
CDW-74CN's. I managed to make a good burn on a CDQ-74BN. Know what the
difference in the BN and CN is? I have a new box of 74CN's to try, I
might do that tonight.
I should have mentioned, that I have trouble with a Memorex CD-RW disk
as well! Of course, all the 'great' things I'm hearing about Memorex
makes me wonder if it's any good anyway.
> I would recommend you try to burn something under Windows. That's
> what pretty much summed it up for me. Nothing under Windows or Linux would
> burn great.
I'm kinda hoping this to be the case, as weird as it might sound.. I
don't plan on keeping Windows around much longer, I haven't used it in
four months.. I just haven't gotten around to transfering some
information, MP3's, etc.. I could use the disk space that hog takes up.
:)
> Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I've had a Hewlett Packard 7200i+ IDE CD-RW drive for over a month, and
> : I have *YET* to make a decent burn with it.
>
> : I've made *one* non-coaster...
Hmm, kinda contradicted myself I guess.. :)
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by RedHat 6.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald Bruck)
Subject: USB switching?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:19:31 -0700
I have two computers at home, a 400MHz PII running Mandrake 6.0 and
(shudder) occasionally Windows 98, and a 400MHz Blue&White G3 Macintosh,
usually running MacOS but occasionally running LinuxPPC or YellowDog
Linux.
I'd like to use a single keyboard and monitor. It's easy to switch the
MONITOR, but switching the KEYBOARD is usually a hassle between a Mac and
a PC.
Except that I have USB on both. The keyboard is a macally USB keyboard,
the house is a Logitech 3-button wheel mouse (also USB); is there such a
thing as a USB switch which will switch between one computer and the
other?
Alternatively, can I run the USB to BOTH computers (perhaps using a hub,
or maybe directly) and software-switch them? (Keyboard input to both
computers simultaneously is likely to be less than useful ;-)
Has anyone else solved this problem? Two monitors and keyboards just take
up too much space. I could get a 21" monitor and have a much more
reasonable use of space.
Please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], as well as posting a reply.
Thanks!
--Ron Bruck
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From: "Nik Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: US Robotics ISDN SPortster
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:05:24 -0500
Anybody know how to configure these, I've just installed Redhat Linux 6.0
and as far as i can see it made no attempt to install the modem. This is a
ISA bus card, in other operating systems (i.e. NT) it basically installs as
a NIC with NDIS drivers etc, not as a modem.
Any help greatfully recieved, if I can't get it to work, I'll just have to
carry on using NT :-)
--
Nik Simpson
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From: SASKATOON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: More Confused.
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:20:11 GMT
I have a Cyrix 8x86 (233) processor, I've been reading up prior to my installation and
found
that you have to choose an install based upon processor type Alpha, Intel, or SPARC.
Would mine
be considerd Intel compatible? It would be easier to know if I knew what the heck
other two
where. (7days and counting to RedHat 6 install-gettin' excited)
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From: Erik Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ABIT IT5H Rev. 2 Motherboard: BIOS Date Problems
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:50:43 GMT
Has any one using Linux had erratic date problems: set the BIOs to one
date and it changes itself after rebooting?
Or any other odd time/date behavior?
Erik Jensen
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From: Anand Singh Bisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Creatve Video Drivers
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:48:09 +0530
I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Exxtreme 4 MB AGP and it's working fine
with me.... Even working with Accelerated X and Redhat Liux 6.0
Jon Akers wrote:
> Prashant Gandhi wrote:
>
> > I purchased a Creative Graphics Blaster Exxtreme Video card with 8 Meg of
> > RAM. The installation in windows 98 went well. Linux was also configured
> > easily. Infact, I reinstalled RedHat 5.2 just to make sure. The lllcommand
> > line mode runs perfectly, but when I try to load X, my monitor shuts down.
> > I think it is because of non-availability of proper drivers for the
> > graphics card. Can anyone tell me what to do?
> > I am very distressed. Please help me ASAP...
> >
> > ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> > http://www.searchlinux.com
>
> For this video card you need to install the 3D Labs X-Server due to the
> Permedia chipset on the card. I am not sure if it is a standard package of
> XFree86 or not, but it does come on the Redhat 6.0 CD.
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From: John Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS for LINUX
Date: 25 Aug 1999 10:39:09 PDT
I bought a MGE ES2+ from Fry's for $50 and used a Linux driver from
MGE's web page. It works.
rusty wrote:
> Hi All
> I'm currently shopping around for a UPS for our Linux server. (Red Hat
> 5.2)
> I want one that can communicate with The server for automatic shutdown.
> Battery life is not as important to me as is price. I just want to have
> the server do a clean
> shutdown in case of brown and black outs.
>
> APC has models starting at $259 going up to $879 (depending on battery
> life
> and outlet count). These are the "Smart-UPS" series they come with
> shutdown software for
> Windoze Boxes. Does anyone know if there are Linux ports of the
> software for these devices or
> where I might look to find out.?
> If not do you know of any other makes or models that might do what I
> want.
>
> Thanks
> Rusty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux on IBM RISC System/6000 F50?!
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:25:28 GMT
By way of hand-me-downs, a professor I work for
has acquired an IBM RISC System/6000 F50, or so
the front of the machine says. Also has "PowerPC"
written on the front.
Has anyone ever got Linux installed on such a
beast?
I've installed Linux on three different computers.
All ranging in at: 200-400 MHz K6 or Pentium,
64-128 Megs RAM, 5-10 Gigs HD, Intel Ethernet
cards, Sound Blaster sound cards, and other common
things. Used Red Hat, Caldera, and Debian.
But I've never done it on RISC architecture.
Though I am quite willing to try. The machine has
a keyboard. Find one laying around. But it has no
graphics card. No Operating System currently. No
monitor (the port in the back has the reverse
male/female pins of every monitor/cable set I've
gotten a hold of); might have to go back to the
professor for that one. Hoping to get an ethernet
cable into it soon after I write this. Also, it
does have a floppy and a CDROM drive. Don't know
if it'll boot floppy or CD first, don't yet have a
monitor.
Anyone have ideas on how to attack such a
situation?
I was going to get Red Hat for alpha architecture,
and hopefully a terminal (monitor) for it, and see
what I could do.
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Please use my email if possible:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Russ Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW drive making me crazy..
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:00:17 -0700
I'm having a really weird time with my JVC XR-W2080 drive. It's listed as
working with CDRecord, and it does... If I use a CDRW. But only partly. If I
then try to verify the CD (using X-CDRoast) it fails after a while... If I
mount the disk, everything appears to be there, and I don't have any
problems with the CD.
I can't get a CDR to burn properly for anything, but the same image will
then burn to a CDRW without problems.
When I do a CDRECORD -SCANBUS, I get this from 1.6:
Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling
scsibus0:
0) 'BCD 40XH' ' CD-ROM ' 'U3.1' Removable CD-ROM
1) 'JVC ' 'XR-W2080 ' '2.06' Removable CD-ROM
2) *
3) *
4) *
5) *
6) *
7) *
This is the "compiled on my system" binary.
If I run the same command with the "pre-compiled" 1.6, or a "compiled on my
system" 1.8, I get this output:
Cdrecord release 1.8a24 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
scsibus0:
/opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD
capabilities page.
0) 'BCD 40XH' ' CD-ROM ' 'U3.1' Removable CD-ROM
1) 'JVC ' 'XR-W2080 ' '2.06' Removable CD-ROM
2) *
3) *
4) *
5) *
6) *
7) *
Any ideas?
Russ
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From: "Russ Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maxtor Dimond Max Corrupt problem
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:05:10 -0700
Laurie,
>I am a 17gb Maxtor Dimond Max Hard disk with 2 fat32 partitons and one
>e2fs partition on it (e2fs is about 4gb)
What type of motherboard is this drive connected to?
I had an EFA motherboard with the i440LX chipset, and continually had
problems with my system not properly flushing the write buffers during
shutdown.
This caused many problems. It was impossible to install Windows 98 (no big
loss, but I had to try to help diagnose this) Windows NT would fail
installation upon the first reboot, it couldn't find the boot files. Linux
would usually install, but sometimes I'd have errors upon reboot, as you
describe.
My fix was to get a new motherboard with the i440BX chipset.
Russ
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