Mine's working well also. I had that problem in 8.0, but with 8.1 (clean install) everything has worked much better.
Copying the CDs to the drive helps a lot with speed and keeps me from having to carry my CD pack around all the time. This is on a laptop. On Friday 19 October 2001 13:13, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? > > First of all, its slow, secondly, it insists on scanning the system and its > db of all the CD's each time you start it... > > and since I have to kill it alot because it sits there doing nothing, it > takes ages to try again.. > > Anyone had any luck getting MandrakeUpdate from 7.2 compiled for 8.1? This > is a case backasswards development, 7.2's software update was easy to use, > easy to configure and it worked, most of all it was simple and obvious. > > The software update in 8.1 gives you buggar all feedback on what its doing, > I am sitting here watching it do nothing,, > > I started software Installer, selected bugs general updates and security > updates, and it found Mozilla, and the SSH packages... I think great, > that wasn't that hard, even if it did take ages... (alot longer then 7.2) > anyway, I clicked continue, after selecting all the packages except > Mozilla, (do that after ssh is updated was my thinking). Anyway I have a > screen now that says, Install in progress, you can see below the > installation state, and the rest of the window is blank except for the > quit, back, next and help buttons none of which are highlighed so that I > can click them. > > Its been like that for an hour, doing absolutly nothing, no CPU or HDD > activity, and no net activity. > > So whats with that? Also, before someone tells me to try another mirror, > this is the forth I have tried, and gottn no further with any of them. > > Most annoying, I'll ask again, has anyone got mdk7.2 SoftwareUpdate working > with 8.1???? I need a workable solution before I put these things out as > servers... > > > rgds > > Frank > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =============================================== > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman > Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 3:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > OK, I did this: > > > > > > hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda > > > hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb > > > > > > to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if > > it > > > > would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on > > > either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? > > > > I don't think there's meant to be a space between the "S" and the number. > > Here's > > > what I use: > > > > hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda > > > > You can ignore the "c1d1" here. Notice, however, the "S242" (242 = 1 > > hour) > > on > > > the end of the tag. > > > > Also, there may be background processes that still require the > > filesystem. > > I > > > don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle > > down. > > Try > > > setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's > > nothing else > > > (including X) running. > > > > Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS > > is > > > polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for > > drives with > > > mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. > > I > > don't > > > know about the other journalling FSs. > > Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie > the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. > > But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick > this one up to the expert list, eh? > > Thanks for your help, Sridhar... > > > peace, > > Rog > > "The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I > hit him" _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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