Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2000-12-19 Thread Andrew Brown

Easy, install Mandrake so that the boot partition is well within the first
8 gigs off your harddrive. My situation with my 19 gig drives is

first 6 gigs win2k
next 3 gis mandrake
last 10 gigs windows(media partition)



[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago, and now I'm reading up
> trying to figure out how to use it.  I've look at the documentation on
> the Mandrake page, the Instillation How-To, the Win95+Linux How-
> To, and a few others.  Some of them mention that with some
> distributions of Linux, on some computers, bootable partitions
> must completely reside below the 1024th cylinder.
>
> How do I know if I need to have my Linux boot partition below the
> 1024th cylinder when partitioning my drive?  I bought Partition
> Magic to help with the partitioning.
>
> Thanks,
> Jake
>
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Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-19 Thread Andrew Brown

So here is a question then, where are the linux hardware databases. I have been
wondering about some time now where is hould go to get information on my hardware.

Thank you

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:

> It seems that the main problem is the line "cdrecord: Warning: controller
> returns wrong size for CD capabilities page". I am not an expert with
> cdrecord, but perhaps your drive is not yet supported by it. Have you checked
> linux hardware databases to see whether your drive is supported? I remember
> seeing a post on the list in the last few days that was very similar to your
> problem (same drive: LG CED 8042B). Unfortunately, I have deleted it. Perhaps
> you should search the list archives at www.linux-mandrake.com.
>
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:43, Roger Sherman wrote:
> > LOL...you asked for it,,,
> >
> >
> > GnomeToaster Recording Terminal
> > Recording 5209724 bytes to CD
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
> > page.
> > cdrecord: WARNING: Track size unknown. Data may not fit on disk.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
> > page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg
> > Schilling
> > scsidev: '0,0'
> > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> > Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> > Device type: Removable CD-ROM
> > Version: 0
> > Response Format: 1
> > Vendor_info: 'LG  '
> > Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8042B '
> > Revision   : '1.07'
> > Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> > Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
> > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
> > Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.  8
> > seconds.
> >   7 seconds.  6 seconds.  5 seconds.  4
> > seconds.
> >3 seconds.  2 seconds.  1 seconds.cdrecord:
> > Warning:
> > controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
> > page.
> >
> > CDB:  2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00
> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
> > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> > Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
> > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > write track data: error after 0 bytes
> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> >
> > Child exited unexpectedly.
> >
> > fixating CDROM.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
> > page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter
> > page.
> > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
> > Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg
> > Schilling
> > scsidev: '0,0'
> > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> > Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> > Device type: Removable CD-ROM
> > Version: 0
> > Response Format: 1
> > Vendor_info: 'LG  '
> > Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8042B '
> > Revision   : '1.07'
> > Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> > Driver flags   : SWABAUDIO
> > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
> > Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.  8
> > seconds.
> >   7 seconds.  6 seconds.  5 seconds.  4
> > seconds.
> >3 seconds.  2 seconds.  1 seconds.cdrecord:
> > Warning:
> > controller returns wrong size for CD write parameter page.
> > cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
> > error
> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> >
> > CDB:  55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 24 00 00 00
> > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> > Sense Code: 0x24 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in cdb) Fru 0x0
> > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 40s
> > CD recording process finished.
> >
> > Doe

[newbie]

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew Brown

At long last i am attempting to use linux as my desktop for just about
everythin. One off the final parts of this decision was the porting off
specific games to linux. My question is, through research i have come to the

conclusion that the best 3d card for me to get fo gaming purposes( quake 3,
Unreal tournament) for my linux box would be one from 3dfx inc., could
anyone comment on this/give a personal prespective or give personal
experience on linux and 3d cards? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank
you


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[newbie] New Video card sugestions

2000-08-14 Thread Andrew Brown

At long last i am attempting to use linux as my desktop for just about 
everythin. One off the final parts of this decision was the porting off 
specific games to linux. My question is, through research i have come to the 
conclusion that the best 3d card for me to get fo gaming purposes( quake 3, 
Unreal tournament) for my linux box would be one from 3dfx inc., could 
anyone comment on this/give a personal prespective or give personal 
experience on linux and 3d cards? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank 
you

Andrew Brown

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