[newbie] To all with Zip drive problems
I have no idea if the following will help us but I list it here for info. If anyone can make improvements on the old advice (4/98), please do so! Idris === http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue28/lg_tips28.html#atapi I just bought an IDE ATAPI iomega Zip drive, and I couldn't find any help at all on how to use it. So, I slogged through, got a great hint from Jeff Tranter (maintainer of the 'eject' utility), and managed to get it working. In the spirit of giving back to the community, here's my (maybe even) five cent tip. Here's how to use an IDE ATAPI zip drive on Linux. First, the kernel: Do _not_ use the "IDE FLOPPY" option (officially the name is CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY ). This will work perfectly for reading and writing, but it will not work for ejecting. What you need to do is say yes to the option CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI. When this is set, you will treat the IDE ATAPI drive just like a SCSI drive, except without the SCSI card and all that other garbage. After making your kernel, you should get these messages in your startup messages (type dmesg at the prompt if they go by too fast to read): hda: WDC AC34000L, 3815MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=969/128/63 hdb: WDC AC34000L, 3815MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=969/128/63 hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6102B, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive - enabling SCSI emulation ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IOMEGAModel: ZIP 100 Rev: 24.D Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB] sda: Write Protect is off . . . Partition check: sda: sda4 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 The key is that SCSI simulation will be used only if the native ATAPI driver for that device isn't found. So, since the ATAPI CD driver was compiled into the kernel, it used it. Since the ATAPI removable disk driver wasn't, SCSI emulation was used. Second, the device: If you want to have non-root users be able to mount, unmount, and eject the Zip disks, you've got to make a couple of changes to the default configuration. First thing to do is to change the permissions on the device. As root, type the following: chmod a+rw /dev/sda4 The next thing to do is set a shortcut (eject is easier). Again, as root, type the following: ln -s /dev/sda4 /dev/zip Third, the mount point: Create a mount point for your drive. I like /mnt/zip, so I just do a mkdir /mnt/zip. For ease, you now want to put this into your /etc/fstab. Put a line in that file that looks like /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,noauto 0 0 The first column is the device, followed by the mount point. The first 'auto' means that it will check to see the file system type when it is mounted. (Hence, you can read not only ext2fs, but also FAT, VFAT, etc.) The 'user' keyword allows average users to mount the disk, and the 'noauto' means that it will not be mounted at startup. I don't know what the two zero's mean, but it works for me. Now, at this point, any user should be able to mount the Zip disk by typing mount /mnt/zip Unmounting would just be umount /mnt/zip. Fourth, formatting the disks: The Zip disks you buy at your corner computer store are formatted for MSDOS. Personally, I prefer to have ext2fs formatted disks, so I don't have to worry about file name conflicts. Hence, I have to reformat them. There are two other oddities. First, the writable partition will be number 4. This is a Macintosh-ism, which you might as well leave. You can run fdisk and change the partition, but it will be much easier to just leave all your disks the same, and that way you won't have to change the line in /etc/fstab for each disk. Second, the initial permissions are not set to be writeable by the user. To handle all this, I do the following, as root (new disk, initially unmounted): (WARNING: This will erase all data on the disk!) /sbin/mke2fs -m 0 /dev/sda4 mount /mnt/zip chmod a+w /mnt/zip umount /mnt/zip Now, whenever the user mounts that disk, she will be able to write to it. Fifth, ejecting: The entire reason for using SCSI emulation is to make it easy to eject the disk. It's easy now: eject zip You can also say 'eject /dev/sda4', but since you created the symbolic link '/dev/zip', eject knows what you mean when you just say 'zip'. One thing about eject is that the average user does not have permission to use it. So, change the permission via setuid: chmod a+s /usr/bin/eject That should allow any user to eject any disk. Sixth, zip tools: Jarrod A. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has written a really nifty little program to make
RE: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP
In the bios, I enabled plug n play before the upgrade, i.e., all pnp devices are initialized by the bios. I checked, and the bios now says that it has initialized my sound card. Idris
RE: [newbie] Sounblaster AWE64 PNP
I thought you meant disable OS initialization of plug 'n play and enable bios initialization (this is in the install guide). Anyway, I got things working. I reinstalled with a fresh install instead of an upgrade, then ran sndconfig from an xterm instead of from Konsole (bios initialization of pnp is still on). Everything now works fine. Thanks to all for your help. Now onto the next problem... Idris On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Robert Revet wrote: hello !!! I said disable your plug 'n play ! because it conflicts with the linux detectionn.. but don't believe me read more about it on mandrake page ! but anyway you must disable you plug 'n play (which is a windows thingy anyway) I have a awe64 as well .. and disabling plug and play did it for me
[newbie] zip drive problem
I am having trouble getting the zip drive recognized in Mandrake 7.0. Here is what I get: # modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdksecure/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busyparport: Device or resource busy modprobe imm gives the same message (though I have a 100M drive so modpobe ppa should be correct). I added the following line to /etc/fstab: /dev/hdd /mnt/zipdiskvfatuser,noauto,rw 0 0 Please advise, thanks a lot! Best wishes Idris
Re: CD drive [was [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem}
Once again, thanks for everyone's help.
Fabio Coatti wrote:
1) under KDE, when you are unable to open the try, do a mount to check
wich drives are mounted
[root@localhost /root]# mount
/dev/hdb5 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hdb7 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb10 on /tmp type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb9 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hdb8 on /usr/src type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type msdos (rw)
2) check the /dev/cdrom link, it should point at /dev/hdd
Here is what happened:
[root@localhost /]# ls -l /dev/hdd
brw-rw-rw- 2 root disk 22, 64 May 5 1998 /dev/hdd
[root@localhost /]# ls -l /dev/cdrom
brw-rw-rw- 2 root disk 22, 64 May 5 1998 /dev/cdrom
[root@localhost /]#
I suppose that `b' stands for `block device'. In that event isn't it the
case
that /dev/cdrom is not a symbolic link after all (otherwise there should
be an `l' at the beginning of the line)?
Rémi LETOT wrote:
try 'ls -l /dev/cdrom'.
See above.
Also try umount /mnt/cdrom and then eject.
^^^
Give us the result from these two tries.
[root@localhost /root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
[root@localhost /root]# umount /mnt/cdrom
^^^
{I tried before using `umount /dev/cdrom'}
[root@localhost /root]# eject
eject: CDROMEJECT ioctl failed for `/dev/cdrom': Device or resource busy
[root@localhost /root]# eject -f
eject: CDROMEJECT ioctl failed for `/dev/cdrom': Device or resource busy
[root@localhost /root]#
Any ideas?
Re: [newbie] kpackage crashes
Thanks to all for their patience. Maybe something went wrong and the rpm database is messed up. Try to run rpm to fix the problem (check with man rpm) I think you are right because glint does not work either: [root@localhost /]# glint [1] 3054 [root@localhost /]# Glint Graphical Package Manager -- version 2.6.2 Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License Traceback (innermost last): File "./glint.py", line 49, in ? installedPackageSet = InstalledPackageSet() File "./packageset.py", line 133, in __init__ self.db = RPMDatabase(prefix) File "./rpmdb.py", line 61, in __init__ self.OpenDatabase(Prefix) File "./rpmdb.py", line 26, in OpenDatabase self.reopen() File "./rpmdb.py", line 51, in reopen label = name + ":" + version + ":" + release TypeError: bad operand type(s) for + [1]+ Exit 1 glint [root@localhost /]# I had no luck rebuilding the rpm database. Can one of you please tell me what I am doing wrong: [root@localhost /root]# rpm --rebuilddb cannot allocate space for database cannot add record originally at 24664 failed to rebuild database; original database remains in place [root@localhost /root]# rpm --rebuilddb --root /root error creating directory /root//var/lib/rpm/rebuilddb.3115: No such file or directory failed to open /root/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm [root@localhost /root]# rpm --rebuilddb --dbpath /root/var/lib/rpm/ error creating directory ///root/var/lib/rpm//rebuilddb.3116: No such file or directory failed to open //root/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm I hope that there is a solution short of a complete reinstall... Thanks to all for their help, and Happy New Year! Idris
Re: Modem problems [was[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]
Fabio Coatti wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:35:19PM -0500, Idris S Hamid wrote: DOS). From KPPP I did ``Query Modem''. In response I got the following message: ``Sorry, the modem is busy''. However, the modem was NOT busy at all (I could still use my phone). This is related to a process that "locks" the modem, not to the phone line. [root@localhost /root]# minicom Device /dev/modem is locked. [root@localhost /root]# The modem went from ``busy'' to ``locked''. I do not know how I did that nor how to undo it. KPPP gives me the same message. Maybe your pppd is running (check with ps ax) and is locking the modem. Yo use kppp you have to turn off the "lock" option of pppd, you should find this option with control-panel (I dont remember well, I do many configuratins by hand...) Check the kppp manual Well, the modem was unlocked when I rebooted into Linux, but still ``busy'' when queried. Note, however, that I ran ps ax after running pppd and ps ax did not list ppp, slhc, or nls_cp437. [root@localhost /root]# lsmod Module PagesUsed by ppp50 (autoclean) slhc 2[ppp] 0 (autoclean) nls_cp437 11 (autoclean) [root@localhost /root]# Here is my one and only serial ports message from dmesg (should there be another?): tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A You should see 2 serial ports... Well, I only have one serial port being recognized during bootup: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A . I believe that this corresponds to COM1. Could this be the source of my problems? I ran `make xconfig' which, under `Character devices', listed `Standard/generic serial support' for ALL standard serial ports as being loaded as a single driver. So why does Linux only recognize one of my serial ports? Maybe this section of file:/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/defconfig will be of some help: : : # Character devices # CONFIG_SERIAL=y # CONFIG_DIGI is not set CONFIG_CYCLADES=m CONFIG_ISI=m CONFIG_STALDRV=y CONFIG_STALLION=m CONFIG_ISTALLION=m CONFIG_RISCOM8=m CONFIG_PRINTER=m CONFIG_SPECIALIX=m # CONFIG_SPECIALIX_RTSCTS is not set CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE=y CONFIG_BUSMOUSE=y CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE=y # CONFIG_UMISC is not set # CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set CONFIG_FTAPE=m # # Set IObase/IRQ/DMA for ftape in ./drivers/char/ftape/Makefile # # CONFIG_APM is not set # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set CONFIG_RTC=y : I really hope that there is an answer on the horizon... Thanks again Idris
Re: PPP problems [was Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem]
I thank everyone for their help. So, to solve your problems, try the following (please do it from command line) pppd (this should, at least, load the module "ppp", check with lsmod) if the module is loaded, your kernel/module system is working fine. to kill the pppd process, "killall pppd" This is exactly what happened: [root@localhost /root]# lsmod Module PagesUsed by nls_cp437 11 (autoclean) [root@localhost /root]# pppd ~ÿ}#À!}!}!} }.}%}¼ÜkÊ}'}"}(}"}%~~ÿ}#À!}!}!} [more garbage] %~[root@localhost /root]# [root@localhost /root]# depmod -a [root@localhost /root]# lsmod Module PagesUsed by slhc 20 (autoclean) nls_cp437 11 (autoclean) [root@localhost /root]# pppd ~ÿ}#À!}!}!} }.}%}}ú[d}'}"}(}"Õr~~ÿ}#À!}!}!} [more garbage] Õr~[root@localhost /root]# lsmod Module PagesUsed by ppp50 (autoclean) slhc 2[ppp] 0 (autoclean) nls_cp437 11 (autoclean) [root@localhost /root]# What are slhc and nls_cp437? Anyway, I guess PPP is OK (or isn't it?). Unless there is something else that I am missing, I should be able to focus on the modem now and get that working. Then I can come back to ppp if things still do not work. Does the above look OK to anyone? Thanks again Idris
Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem
Thanks for the response. I just got Fabio's message (my ISP's mail delivery service has been down) as I was sending this off and I will try his ideas as well. RXmi LETOT wrote: make xconfig; make config; make menuconfig; make mrproper. When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not being found; Can you tell us whitch targets? Always give the full error message. /usr/src/linux] make xconfig /usr/src/linux] make: No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop. Similarly for commands `make config' and `make menuconfig'. What is wrong? 2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into the kernel too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card; I should mention the following: i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card; ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing dev/audio''. I know that some SB16 compatible cards are not so compatible. Have you read the docs comming with the source tree? Anyway the sound support must be configured in the kernel or in a module. Do you have any message at bootup? I used sndconfig, which supposedly does away with having to compile sound directly into the kernel. But you may be right that the problem may be an incompatible sound card. Sigh.. 3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install, but during a Linux session I cannot i) manually open and close the CD tray; What do you mean by *manually* ? Can you open or close it by another way? I just mean opening it by pressing the button on the CD player itself. ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to dislike... What do you mean by *sometimes* ? Give us more hints (under which account, under X ? ,...) I am logged in as root. More testing tells me that mounting is not the problem. The problem is removing the CD after the drive is umounted, even when the tray is empty. When I press the button, nothing happens under KDE. 4) I tried minicom and echo but cannot get any response from my modem under Linux. I correctly configured the modem using the RedHat ``control-panel'' dialog, but I still cannot get a response. Can't help on that one, I have no modem :-) I hope someone can, but thanks for at least responding :-) Hope I was of any help, and give us more info about your problems. Please forgive my English, I'm French speaking :-) Your English is fine: Comme ton Anglais est beau! Thank you and best wishes Idris
[newbie] PPP, sound, CD drive, and modem
Dear folks:
I originally sent this message on Christmas Day so I guess nobody had
the time to pay any attention to it. Another Mandrake user ("ndk
{Ralph}" [EMAIL PROTECTED]) indicated that he was having similar
problems to my own. I hope that someone can take a look at these
questions now (I have added a fourth). Thanks in advance and Happy
Holidays!
--
Dear folks:
I wish everyone the best of holidays.
I am new at Linux/KDE. I just installed Mandrake 5.2 and everything
works
fine except
for the following:
1) I can't even begin to configure PPP because pppd is not compiled in
the kernel
(I ran dmesg). I have no experience recompiling kernels (why on Earth
isn't PPP
compiled in the kernel anyway?!?), but tried to follow the directions in
the
official installation instructions for RedHat 5.0. All of the following
commands
fail:
make xconfig;
make config;
make menuconfig;
make mrproper.
When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not
being
found;
2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into
the kernel
too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card;
I should mention the following:
i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card;
ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing
dev/audio''.
3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install,
but during a
Linux session I cannot
i) manually open and close the CD tray;
ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM
drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it
works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to
dislike...
4) I tried minicom and echo but cannot get any response from my modem
under Linux. I correctly configured the modem using the RedHat
``control-panel'' dialog, but I still cannot get a response.
I am sure the answers to these questions are stupidly simple, but I have
been
racking my brain all evening and cannot seem to get anywhere.
Thanks in advance for all of your help
Happy Holidays and best wishes
Idris
[newbie] PPP, sound, and CD drive
Dear folks: Based on what I saw in the archives, the following message appears to not have made it through so I am sending it again. Happy Holidays! -- Dear folks: I wish everyone the best of holidays. I am new at Linux/KDE. I just installed Mandrake and everything works fine except for the following: 1) I can't even begin to configure PPP because pppd is not compiled in the kernel (I ran dmesg). I have no experience recompiling kernels (why on Earth isn't PPP compiled in the kernel anyway?!?), but tried to follow the directions in the official installation instructions for RedHat 5.0. All of the following commands fail: make xconfig; make config; make menuconfig; make mrproper. When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not being found; 2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into the kernel too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card; I should mention the following: i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card; ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing dev/audio''. 3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install, but during a Linux session I cannot i) manually open and close the CD tray; ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to dislike... I am sure the answers to these questions are stupidly simple, but I have been racking my brain all evening and cannot seem to get anywhere. Thanks in advance for all of your help Happy Holidays and best wishes Idris
Re: [newbie] PPP, sound, and CD drive
I wrote: 2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into the kernel too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card; I forgot to mention the following: i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card; ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing dev/audio''. 3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install, but during a Linux session I cannot i) manually open and close the CD tray; ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. It works fine in Windows... Thanks again Idris
