Re: [newbie] hpt366 hinders boot, system crashes or freezes
Stuart, I'm using an Abit BE6 w/ the HPT366 and mine works ok as far as the UDMA. I do have some USB Hub issues, but I have 7.2 installed on a 14 gig hard drive on the UDMA controller. Win98 is installed as the primary (C:). IDE devices are CDROM, Burner and an LS120. Sound Card is a Soundblaster PCI 512. Jeff On Sunday 28 January 2001 18:46, you wrote: > Hello there, I just recently installed mandrake 7.2, and it doesn't work > if my onboard > hpt366 pci card is active in the bios > > details > > abit be6-2 with hpt366 udma on board > soundblaster live value > matrox g400 dual head > > ide0 master: 20 gig quantum ( boot drive, with windowsME, win2k, > mandrake 7.2 > ide0 slave: zip drive > > ide1 master plextor 8x cdrw > ide1 slave panasonic dvd-cd rom > > udma ( hpt 366 ) > > ide 230 gig udma66 quantum > ide 33 gig udma 33 quantum > > all drives work ok in windows 2000, ME > > The computer boots, and detects everything in linux, but when it gets to > the udma drives it stalls. > > if I deactivate the hpt 366, then the system boots okay. This is one > workaround, but this means I can't use my bigger h/d with linux at all. > I tried reading the udma mini howto, and I've tried passing the values > into lilo via boot up, but this doesn't seem to help. Should this work? > > There are messages upon bootup that the IRQ for the hpt is unresovlable > or something and it will check later . . . seems strange. > > could it be > > 1)the pnp settings in the bios? > 2)an unfortunate irq problem? > 3)??? > > I don't see the crashing upon bootup mentioned anywhere in the howto > files, so I am not sure what is causing this. I would understand it > better if the drive wasn't recognized. but it seems to be recognized, > only the system crashes after that. > > do I have to recompile the kernel for it to work? What would I have to > activate to make it work properly? > > It seems that the hpt366 stuff is already active in the kernel, since > the device is recognized and all . . .. > > Help!! > > any input would be appreciated. > > Stuart
Re: [newbie] Mail delayed
Yes. On Saturday 30 December 2000 18:33, Dennis Myers wrote: > Is anyone else noticing that their posts are delayed quit a long time, like > up to 24 hours?
Re: [newbie] Partitions
Sure enough Paul. Was able to go in and delete them. Thanks On Sunday 31 December 2000 14:01, Paul wrote: > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Norris wrote: > >I just reinstalled 7.2 (actually a couple of times) and now when I boot > > I'm getting all of these different entries in the loader. Such as > > 'oldwindows', 'oldlinux' etc. I have reinstalled before and didn't get > > all of that. Is there a way to rewrite the boot record so that it is as > > it was before ? Without risking the C: drive access...still have my > > finances in Windows. > > These things are remainders from all your installs. Entries in grub's > menu.lst or lilo.conf. > Has nothing to do with the bootrecord of your harddisk :) > > Perhaps with the other reinstalls you also formatted the partitions, and > now you did not do that? > > Paul
[newbie] Partitions
I just reinstalled 7.2 (actually a couple of times) and now when I boot I'm getting all of these different entries in the loader. Such as 'oldwindows', 'oldlinux' etc. I have reinstalled before and didn't get all of that. Is there a way to rewrite the boot record so that it is as it was before ? Without risking the C: drive access...still have my finances in Windows. Thanks
Re: [newbie] SCSI, CD-RW, LS120 Problem
Ended up reinstalling because I wanted to use the entire drive for 7.2 and I hoped it would resolve the cdroms/ls120 configuration problemwhich it did. Now though, X-CD-ROAST starts up saying "Something on the SCSI-Bus has changed. Please check your writer and reader configuration in Setup.' I click Ok, the prompt goes away and then nothing. The program never starts allowing me to get into Setup. The other CDBURNER apps. seem to be working so I guess I just need to reinstall X-CD-ROAST. It may not like my LS-120 being hda now. It worked when it was hdc. (More questions than answers is the way I go through Life) Jeff On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Paul wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Norris wrote: > > In Xcdroast, did you try redetecting the SCSI devices? > > Paul > > >I changed the locations of my CD-RW and LS-120 drives and now the system > >thinks the LS-120 is my CD-RW. When I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus', it list > > the Matshita LS-120 on 'scsibus0 as a removable drive. And when I start > > X-CD-ROAST, it only shows the LS-120 as a device (it worked before). I > > assume I need the change something in the '/etc/lilo.conf' or something ? > > I can read from both my CDROM drives (from the desktop prompts), but I > > can't set the CD-RW up to record and I can't access the LS120. Any help > > would be appreciated. I've been trying to figure this out for half the > > day.
[newbie] Fwd: SCSI, CD-RW, LS120 Problem
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: SCSI, CD-RW, LS120 Problem Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:41:26 -0500 From: Jeffrey Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I changed the locations of my CD-RW and LS-120 drives and now the system thinks the LS-120 is my CD-RW. When I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus', it list the Matshita LS-120 on 'scsibus0' as a removable drive. And when I start X-CD-ROAST, it only shows the LS-120 as a device (it worked before). I assume I need the change something in the '/etc/lilo.conf' or something ? I can read from both my CDROM drives (from the desktop prompts), but I can't set the CD-RW up to record and I can't access the LS120. On bootup the drives are corerectly displayed as : hda: LS120 hdb: CDROM hdc: CD-RW Thanks, Jeff ---
[newbie] SCSI, CD-RW, LS120 Problem
I changed the locations of my CD-RW and LS-120 drives and now the system thinks the LS-120 is my CD-RW. When I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus', it list the Matshita LS-120 on 'scsibus0 as a removable drive. And when I start X-CD-ROAST, it only shows the LS-120 as a device (it worked before). I assume I need the change something in the '/etc/lilo.conf' or something ? I can read from both my CDROM drives (from the desktop prompts), but I can't set the CD-RW up to record and I can't access the LS120. Any help would be appreciated. I've been trying to figure this out for half the day. Thanks, Jeff
[newbie] Dependency Error
I finally managed to update everything on my system (7.2). Except.'linuxconf' (1.21r5). MandrakeUpdate says it needs 'libgd.so.1'. I've downloaded all the updates so I'm not sure what it is or where to get it. Anyone have an idea ? Thanks
Re: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed
I got that message dozens of times, but was finally able to get all the updates for my 7.2 On Friday 29 December 2000 09:38, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:34 pm, Dr. Trevor J. Stocki wrote: > > Hi, > > I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update > > program and I got the message: > > > > fetching of mirror list failed. > > I'd wait till after the holidays to see if it isn't just high load > on the Net due to the influx of Christmas computers. Also, a lot of > the mirrors have been sporadically maintained for the last week or so. > Prob'ly due to the holidays too.
Re: [newbie] No LS-120 or CDROMs after install(FAQ)
Civileme, Thanks much for the info. I can now read from my LS-120 (not sure of the settings used to make a boot disk yet though ) and my Teac CDROM seems to work ok, even though I get errors listed in 'dmesg'. The big problem is my burner won't work. I get 'hda: driver not present'. I figured out that I installed 7.2 w/ BIOS PNP OS set to yes. Could this have caused some of my problems ? Also, my Imation CDRW isn't on the supported hardware list. Think maybe it'll just never work ? Do I need to reconfigure the Kernel or load additional modules ? Thanks again, I'm just about there. :) Jeff On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, civileme wrote: > Jeffrey Norris was kind enough to send me info on his system, and the > analysis techniques will serve to illustrate what install wasn't built to > anticipate. > > First, his dmesg output showed the following: > > hda --CDRW > hdb--CDROM > hdc--LS-120 > hde--8.6G HDD ATA/66 > hdf--13.2GHDD ATA/33 #Ummm, better performance if you move that to another > channel like hdg or hdd, though it will be a hardly noticeable difference, > even if you then equip hde with the ATA/66 cable. > > Next, here was /etc/fstab > > /dev/hdf5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > /dev/hdf7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 > /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0 > /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 > /dev/hdf1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdf6 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > OK the cdrom* has two drives--normal except the LS-120 shows up only as a > floppy, and it is tagged as /dev/hdc, properly... but not necessarily---the > presence of the ide-scsi module may have moved it to /dev/sda > > Now, what about the /dev directory? Where do the symbolic links cdrom and > cdrom2 point? > > Output from ls -l /dev/cdrom* > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Dec 22 18:12 /dev/cdrom -> hda > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Dec 22 23:13 /dev/cdrom1 > ->/dev/hdb > > EGAD! Two bad links in one day! > > fix it thus, in a console, as root > rm /dev/cdrom -f > rm /dev/cdrom1 -f > ln -s /dev/hda /dev/cdrom > ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom2 > chmod a+rwx /dev/cdrom > chmod a+rwx /dev/cdrom2 > > then your new output to this 'ls -l /dev/cdrom*' command should be: > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Dec 22 18:12 /dev/cdrom -> > /dev/hda lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Dec 22 23:13 > /dev/cdrom2 ->/dev/hdb > > Next. /etc/lilo.conf looks like > > boot=/dev/hde > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > default=linux > keytable=/boot/us.klt > lba32 > prompt > timeout=50 > message=/boot/message > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hdf5 > append=" hda=ide-scsi" > vga=788 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux-nonfb > root=/dev/hdf5 > append=" hda=ide-scsi" > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=failsafe > root=/dev/hdf5 > append=" hda=ide-scsi failsafe" > read-only > other=/dev/hde1 > label=windows > table=/dev/hde > other=/dev/hdf1 > label=windows2 > table=/dev/hdf > map-drive=0x80 > to=0x81 > map-drive=0x81 > to=0x80 > other=/dev/fd0 > label=floppy > unsafe > > This needs one change so the ls-120 will work > To change it, open a Konsole > > su - > password:(give te root password) > # joe /etc/lilo.conf > > Once you are in. the editor ctrl-K H brings up a menu of commands Other > editors that could be used are kedit, pico, emacs(not easy for newbies), > cooledit, vi(difficult for newbies), jed, nedit > > Here is the changed file > > boot=/dev/hde > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > default=linux > keytable=/boot/us.klt > lba32 > prompt > timeout=50 > message=/boot/message > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux > root=/dev/hdf5 > append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy" > vga=788 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=linux-nonfb > root=/dev/hdf5 > append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy" > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz > label=failsafe > root=/dev/hdf5 > append=" hda=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy failsafe" > read-only > other=/dev/hde1 >
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart Boxed version CD
Okay Riker, Thanks for the info. I did register so hopefully I'll get it also. I've been using MandrakeUpdate to download the updates. AT 28.8! :( Jeff On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Riker wrote: > Jeff: > > Yes. Just filled out the registration and it said that becuase I had > bought the Wal-Mart version I was entitled to an upgrade. This was > because of their shipping it with KDE1.99 instead of 2.0. It took a > little while but it finally got here. I will check tomorrow and see just > how long it took. > > Regards, > > Riker > > Jeffrey Norris wrote: > > I have the Wal-Mart '7.2 Complete' version. Didn't see anything about an > > up date CD. Did they just send it automatically after you registered ? > > > > Jeff > > > > On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote: > > > Gang: > > > > > > Just received the Mandrake upgrade CD you can get when you register > > > your Wal-Mart retail boxed version. Haven't stuck it on yet, but was > > > glad that it did come. > > > > > > Riker
Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart Boxed version CD
I have the Wal-Mart '7.2 Complete' version. Didn't see anything about an up date CD. Did they just send it automatically after you registered ? Jeff On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, you wrote: > Gang: > > Just received the Mandrake upgrade CD you can get when you register your > Wal-Mart retail boxed version. Haven't stuck it on yet, but was glad > that it did come. > > Riker
Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
Here a Ham, there a Ham, everywhere a Ham Ham : ) KC4KSC On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: > Hey are you a ham? I am > N0VED > > 73 > > On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Rick Commo wrote: > > Mark, > > > > Very good comment! With 100+ messages a day from [newbie] and [expert] I > > was tempted to do just that but figured at some point I could be an > > Elmer. As used here, "Elmer" is a term used in Ham Radio for a person who > > helps a beginner get up and running. > > > > Happy Holidays and Season's Best to all > > Rick > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Mark Hillary > > Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 10:51 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux > > > > > > I wasn't making a comment about the thread. I just don't like it when > > people join, get the help that they are looking for the leave not helping > > anyone else. > > > > Mark Hillary. > > > > Ps Anyway I like getting lots of email. Makes every say "Wow why do you > > get so much email". Then I can laugh.
