Linux-Hardware Digest #617, Volume #12 Wed, 5 Apr 00 12:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need a clean hard disk ("hartmut.piechowiak")
Drivers ("Jose Luis Gonzalez")
Re: Maxtor HD IRQ Timeouts - System Hangs :( ("Martin Wood")
Re: Sony TSL-9000 DAT Autoloader/Phobos P430 Quadport net card (Gordon McLennan)
Re: Creative 128PCI problem (Vsevolod Ilyushchenko)
Re: Sound card problem: Ensoniq ES1371 audio PCI-97 chip set (Jonathan DeSena)
Intel Prototype Machine Delivers Strange Memory Info ("Simon Stuart")
Re: CD's play but there is no sound (Greg Wimpey)
Re: Linux with Cisco 605 internal xDSL modem (Greg Wimpey)
Abit BP6 ("Jamie McMahon")
Re: CD's play but there is no sound (rip)
Installation problem -- can't mount CD-ROM (M. Peters)
Re: Dell PERC2/Si ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Tony Hague)
Re: Abit BP6 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: /dev/cdrom not a valid block device (Matthias Mulumba LUMALA)
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From: "hartmut.piechowiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:01:51 +0200
Jake schrieb in Nachricht <8cfbpr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I doubt the /s would be needed.
>
>Jake
>
Sorry, you´re right.
format c: /q /u/
>"hartmut.piechowiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8cesgb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> format c: /q /u/s
>>
>
>
>
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From: "Jose Luis Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Drivers
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:26:46 +0200
Hello,
I'm very interesting in knowing about what drivers of devices I can manage
from Linux.
I've to talk to Videoconference and network .... but I don't know if I can
look any information in any web, how-to, etc
Thanks in advance
Jose Luis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Martin Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Maxtor HD IRQ Timeouts - System Hangs :(
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 14:41:20 GMT
Thanks for the reply.
I have tried leaving it for a few minutes but the drives appear totally
dead, even if I do a soft reset they don't come back to life. How long
should I expect to give it before rebooting?
> Have you tried leaving it for a while? The IDE drivers should eventually
> reset the IDE bus and continue.
I'm sure I have tried disabling DMA in the past (I've had this annoying
problem for approx. six months now) - I shall it give it another bash just
in case.
> Failing that, can you disable DMA for your hard disk in the BIOS?
>
> HTH
> Charlie
>
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Subject: Re: Sony TSL-9000 DAT Autoloader/Phobos P430 Quadport net card
From: Gordon McLennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 07:55:21 -0700
I don't know if this is of any help, but we too have a Dell 4300
and TSL 9000 running Microsoft Small Business Server (NT4
server). We use Arcserve 6.5 plus the Tape Library Option. Is
there Arcserver for Linux?
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From: Vsevolod Ilyushchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: Creative 128PCI problem
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:57:19 -0400
David wrote:
>
> I use the SB 128 PCI sound card and use the es1370 driver and it works
> without problems on RH 6.1
Could you please post your modules.conf?
Simon
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From: Jonathan DeSena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card problem: Ensoniq ES1371 audio PCI-97 chip set
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:59:22 -0400
I have the same card and have not been able to get it to work in Linux yet for
over 6 months despite many attempts using various techniques (including ALSA). I
have the same problem: everything loads ok, but no sound at all . There was a
thread in October about this card (specifically rev 6) regarding DMA timeouts
which I followed, but never got a solution and eventually the thread died. It
was reported that later revisions of the chip did not work with the ES1371 driver
as written for early incarnations. I do not know if there has been a fix, but I
have updated drivers continuosly with no results.
If you are still having problems, I wonder if you see any resources listed for the
card under /proc/dma -- my SBAWE64 on another computer reports to be using DMA 5
(I think), but the ES1371 does not report any DMA. Perhaps this is part of the
problem.
If it now works for you, please let me know what you did in great detail.
Jon
Elaine Wenderholm wrote:
> I cannot get my Sound card to work! I'm running SuSE Linux 6.3.
> I just recently purchased a Dell Dimension. I have:
>
> 3com c3509B ISA ethernet card.
> Soundblaster 64V PCI Sound Card
> 32 MB NVidia tnt2 M64 graphics card (it isn't plug and play)
>
> This is what I did:
>
> (0) Checkted that the board is seated properly and that the wire from
> the board to the
> CD-ROM is attached.
> (1) lspci -vvt to get the chip set
> (2) rm conf.modules
> (3) edited /etc/modules.conf:
>
> commented out:
>
> # alias char-major-14 off
> # alias sound off
> # alias midi off
>
> uncommented lines under es1371
>
> (4) modprobe *
>
> (5) enables system sounds in KDE | Settings | Sound | System Sounds
>
> (6) rebooted
>
> (7) no sound! even though the correct module is installed.
>
> YOUR HELP IS GREATLY APPRECITED!!!!
> Please email your answer to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> thanks very much !!!!- Elaine
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> root@linux:~ > lspci -vvt
> -[00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
> +-01.0-[01]----00.0 nVidia Corporation Riva TNT2 Model 64
> +-07.0 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA
> +-07.1 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE
> +-07.2 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB
> +-07.3 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI
> \-0e.0 Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> root@linux:~ > lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> es1371 25888 0 (autoclean)
> soundcore 2340 4 (autoclean) [es1371]
> 3c509 5932 1 (autoclean)
> serial 42932 0 (autoclean)
> memstat 1604 0 (unused)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> root@linux:~ > ls -l /dev/sndstat
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 6 Nov 8 14:48 /dev/sndstat
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> root@linux:~ > cat /dev/sndstat
> cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> root@linux:~ > cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.2.13 (root@Bareis) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 8 20:35:50 GMT 1999
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> root@linux:~ > dmesg
> Linux version 2.2.13 (root@Bareis) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 8 20:35:50 GMT 1999
> Detected 598631165 Hz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 598.02 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 127632k/131008k available (1236k kernel code, 412k reserved,
> 1668k data, 60k init, 0k bigmem)
> DENTRY hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
>
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size
> loop: registered device at major 7
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1060-0x1067, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1068-0x106f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 52049U4, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: Maxtor 52049U4, 19473MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63
> hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> LVM version 0.8i by Heinz Mauelshagen (02/10/1999)
> lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> linear personality registered
> raid0 personality registered
> raid1 personality registered
> raid5 personality registered
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
> Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (priority -1)
> Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
> enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a 0c d0 ce,
> IRQ 3.
> 3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
> eth0: Setting Rx mode to 0 addresses.
> eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
> es1371: version v0.19 time 20:18:07 Nov 8 1999
> es1371: features: joystick 0x200
> es1371: codec vendor ~C~Dv revision 9
> es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
> es1371: stereo enhancement: unknown
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> root@linux:~ > more /etc/modules.conf
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1996-1999 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany. All rights
> reserved.
> #
> # Author: Hubert Mantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 1996-1999
> #
> # Configuration file for loadable modules; used by modprobe and kerneld
> #
>
> # Aliases - specify your hardware
>
> alias eth0 3c509
> alias scsi_hostadapter off
>
> # only used for Mylex or Compaq Raid as module
> alias block-major-48 off
> alias block-major-49 off
> alias block-major-72 off
> alias block-major-73 off
>
> # only needed for fifth and sixth IDE adaptor
> alias block-major-56 off
> alias block-major-57 off
>
> # mouse (for older busmice)
> alias char-major-10 off
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none
>
> # If you have multiple parallel ports, specify them this way:
> # options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=none,none
>
> # For parallel port devices, uncomment the following two lines and
> change
> # "frpw" to the protocol type you use
>
> # post-install paride insmod frpw
> # pre-remove paride rmmod frpw
>
> #****************************************************************************
>
> *
> # If you want to use the kernel sound drivers instead of OSS 3.8.1z (the
>
> # recommended solution) please put comment signs in front of the
> following
> # entries. Then choose one of the sample configurations below. Uncomment
> all
> # lines starting with 'alias', 'options' or 'pre-/post-install' within
> one
> # such configuration and modify the parameters according to your needs
> (e.g.
> # the ressources chosen for this device in /etc/isapnp.conf). For a lot
> of
> # ISA soundcards the Soundblaster driver is a good starting point.
> #****************************************************************************
>
> # alias char-major-14 off
> # alias sound off
> # alias midi off
>
> --- SNIP ---
>
> #****************************************************************************
>
> *
> # module : es1371.o Creative Ensoniq 1371 Chipsatz (-->
> PCI64/12
> 8)
> #
> # Supported cards :
> #
> # Creative Labs PCI64/128
> #
> # Documentation availabke at
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/es1371 and
> # /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/es1371.c .
> #
> alias char-major-14 es1371
> options es1371 joystick=0x200
>
> --- SNIP ---
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From: "Simon Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel Prototype Machine Delivers Strange Memory Info
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:15:49 GMT
Intel lent us a fancy prototype PIII with RAMBUS memory. Runs fine with NT
4.0 and 2000.
I installed Redhat 6.2 and later, Caldera Open Linux. Both installations ran
OK.
Booting Redhat, the GUI came up with all sorts of low memory errors and ran
like a dog. Booting Caldera, KDE would just thrash the disk continuously
until I gave up.
Opting for safe mode in Caldera, I brought up a terminal and ran 'free'.
Here's the result:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 14556 14124 432 1764 384 1068
-/+ buffers/cache: 12672 1884
Swap: 0 0 0
The machine has 128Mb in it. Admittedly. I'm from a Windows background, but
in my limited Linux experience, these numbers look a lot lower than I was
expecting.
Is this right?
Simon
Australia
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From: Greg Wimpey <greg.wimpey@waii*removetomail*.com.invalid>
Subject: Re: CD's play but there is no sound
Date: 05 Apr 2000 09:09:37 -0600
Craig Peterein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greg Wimpey wrote:
> > CDs and sounds (WAVs, MP3s, etc) play fine
> > through the speakers under Win98. Under RH6.0, sound samples play
> > correctly. However, using the GNOME CD player, the CD spins, but no
> > music through the speakers.
>
> IIRC, this can be fixed with "aumix -c R" on RH6.0. Just fix the
> cd launcher's "Command" to be "aumix -c R;gtcd". It's also fixed
> in either 6.1 or 6.2 (I have 6.2 and the cd player is fine).
>
> HTH,
>
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
--
Greg Wimpey
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From: Greg Wimpey <greg.wimpey@waii*removetomail*.com.invalid>
Subject: Re: Linux with Cisco 605 internal xDSL modem
Date: 05 Apr 2000 09:14:09 -0600
Robert Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I currently have a dsl connection to the internet and would like to use
> this connection under linux. Is there a way to use this modem under the
> linux environment?
>
Last time I checked, this modem used Windows drivers for which there
are no equivalents under Linux (and no plans to provide any).
It's sort of the DSL version of a Winmodem. The external DSL modems
use Ethernet connections to connect to your computer, so they will
work fine if you use Linux (assuming you have a supported Ethernet NIC).
Although, many DSL providers set up their external modems to use
network address translation (NAT), which may or may not cause you
problems, depending on which Internet services you use.
--
Greg Wimpey
Opinions my own, not my employer's.
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From: "Jamie McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Abit BP6
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:20:46 GMT
I'm having a problem with a recently purchased Abit BP6 board (uncertain of
Rev. number). I have dual Celeron 466 CPU's on the board, with 256 MB Ram.
I have three OS's on the machine (Win98, WinNT, and Linux). The computer
will occasionally freeze on me, requiring a reset. No keyboard or mouse
responce is present. The most common occurance is while running Linux, and
a virtual machine within Linux. It appears to happen if there are several
programs running, foreground or background. Could it be CPU, RAM,
powersupply, or other? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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From: rip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD's play but there is no sound
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:27:38 -0500
James wrote:
>
> I have an ESS 1869 plug and play audio drive on my computers motherboard.
> My system dual boots with Linux Mandrake 7.0 but whenever I try to
> play an audio cd using one of the media players the cd spins in the drive
> and the timer in the player software starts counting but no music plays. I
> have tried configuring this with "sbdconfig" and linuxconf but nothing
> seems to work.
> When I used sndconfig the samples played when I tested it at the end
> and system sounds that play when I log off work fine, but cd's just won't
> play.
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
>
> Thankyou.
> JL.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
James,
This happened to me also with Mandrake 7.0. I resolved it thusly. Call
up a terminal and write "gmix". Make sure all the record buttons are
pushed on the Line indicators. You can adjust the volume too. Hope it
works for you.
Rip
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From: M. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installation problem -- can't mount CD-ROM
Date: 5 Apr 2000 10:40:03 -0500
Hi folks! I'm hoping some kind soul will help a newbie with an
installation problem...
I'm trying to install Mandrake on a P-133 machine which currently has
no OS on it at all. I'm booting from a Mandrake floppy, and installing
(or trying to) from an official Mandrake CD.
But I can't even get the installation process going; the install
program can't mount the CD. I get these errors: "mount failed; no
medium found", and "I could not mount a CD on device /dev/hdb".
I'm pretty sure the CD drive is ATAPI compatible; it's IDE and plugs
right into the motherboard, anyway. It's a Sony CDU76E.
The CD itself seems fine; I installed Mandrake onto another box
without problems.
Any thoughts? I've poked around in the installation FAQs, but the
problems they address are all further down the line than I'm getting.
Thanks much in advance!
Mary P.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dell PERC2/Si
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:34:54 GMT
Greetings,
I was also told that the Linux drivers were available for the PERC 2/si
controller at the location that cbenson specified. I called Dell when I
had the same problems you encountered installing these drivers (I was
also installing RedHat 6.1). This tech said that these are not the
correct drivers--they are for the PERC 2/sc, which is also an Adaptec
controller. I was told the drivers for the 2/si would be available
early Feb 2000, two months ago. The last I heard was, "any day now".
That was early March. I was told to check this URL regularly:
http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/system.asp?sid=PWE_PNT_P03_2400&m=
l&p=4
Let me know if you hear anything....
They just posted Win2K drivers on 2/14/00 :-( Hopefully Linux will be
next.
Tom
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague)
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
Date: 5 Apr 2000 15:28:15 GMT
In article <8cffcf$cvu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sebastian Kaliszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jan Panteltje wrote in message
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>packet loss on a http connection may cause the connection to break.
>
>Until you only occasionaly loose packets, taht's non issue. Http uses TCP
>protocol which corrects packet loses untily the loss number is too high.
>(Too high means 30% or more).
In my experience, packet loss of about 10% on a ppp connection DOES
result from servicing ide interrupts, unless I set the 'unmaskirq'
flag, and that level of packet loss is sufficient to make web brousing
near impossibly slow.
Doing 'hdparm -u1 /dev/hda' has solved packet loss problems
both on my home modem connection to my ISP, and between two
new-ish machines via a 9600 baud radio modem.
Tony.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:44:56 GMT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:20:46 GMT, Jamie McMahon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having a problem with a recently purchased Abit BP6 board
>(uncertain of Rev. number). I have dual Celeron 466 CPU's on the
>board, with 256 MB Ram. I have three OS's on the machine (Win98,
>WinNT, and Linux). The computer will occasionally freeze on me,
>requiring a reset. No keyboard or mouse responce is present. The most
>common occurance is while running Linux, and a virtual machine within
>Linux. It appears to happen if there are several programs running,
>foreground or background. Could it be CPU, RAM, powersupply, or other?
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have the same board, and fought lockups for a long time. SMP is
inherently more complex, and thus maybe a number of reasons you could be
having these problems. Some suggestions:
Get a late model kernel >= 2.2.14
Get the QQ Beta BIOS (in the beta dir at Abit ftp site)
Try moving cards around in PCI slots.
Don't use the HPT UDMA66 controller, at least until you can eliminate
this as a possible source of problems.
Don't OC (at least until stable).
Of course, you could always have flaky hardware too.
The QQ BIOS did the trick for me. It has helped many others too.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: Matthias Mulumba LUMALA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: /dev/cdrom not a valid block device
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:52:17 +0200
Thank you for your help. I had not given all the details concerning my setup.
In fact it had nothing to do with the new kernel. My original Cdrom driver broke
down. It still could be detected by Linux and Win98 (mine is a dual boot machine),
but it would fail to read anything in either OS. So I took it back to the vendor
who exchanged it for a new one. When I installed it using the Ide1 connector I saw
it was working fine under Windows but not under Linux!
What I examined the "dmesg" output I found out that the device was hdd and not
hdc. The jumper was on Slave rather than Master. When I typed:
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom " the cdrom got mounted this time.
Buy putting the jumper on Master I managed to get the original command working
i.e. mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom. /dev/cdrom being the link to /dev/hdc.
Matthias
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:22:08 +0200, Matthias Mulumba LUMALA
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >Hi,
> > When I installed the RH6.0 system on my computer a month I could
> >mount the Cdrom's without any problems using the "Mount /mnt/cdrom"
> >Today things turned out differently. Whenever I type this command I get:
> >"/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device". I recompiled the kernel last
> >week to include
> >port forwarding for my firewall but atapi cdrom support was still
> >enabled.
>
> Where is /dev/cdrom pointing? It should probably be a symbolic link to a
> real device, like so:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Feb 22 20:07 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Apr 15 1999 /dev/hdc
>
> What does "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" show you? And is ATAPI
> CD-ROM support compiled as a module, or directly into the kernel? If it's
> a module, you might have to "modprobe ide-cd", though this should be
> automatically done when you try to access a CD-ROM. Did you do a "depmod
> -a" after recompiling the kernel?
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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