Re: [newbie] KwikDisk
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] KwikDisk Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:30:04 -0800 I've never been able to start KwikDisk. It tries to start and then just hangs. Is there a patch that fixes it,or is it just me? I suppose PPC users have a lot more bugs...? *** When I start KwikDisk, it just shows an icon in the taskbar, and needs to be right clicked and run from there. Could you have overlooked the icon in the taskbar? I'm not familiar with the PPC version of Mdk though, so hopefully someone who is can help you further. Best regards to you. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- _ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KwikDisk
Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] KwikDisk Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:30:04 -0800 I've never been able to start KwikDisk. It tries to start and then just hangs. Is there a patch that fixes it,or is it just me? I suppose PPC users have a lot more bugs...? *** When I start KwikDisk, it just shows an icon in the taskbar, and needs to be right clicked and run from there. Could you have overlooked the icon in the taskbar? I'm not familiar with the PPC version of Mdk though, so hopefully someone who is can help you further. Best regards to you. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** I second you Angus. It defaults to the task bar. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] KwikDisk
It's not all user (dis) functionality though. ;-) Kwikdisk only docks into a panel if I had logged on as a user but not as root. I'm not able to change the permissions either. I think my confusion stems from having used a different ppc distro before Mandrake and expecting programs to work in a similar way. Having said that, I'm now working with some programs I could never have got working with the old distro. On Friday 04 February 2005 02:03 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Angus Auld wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] KwikDisk Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:30:04 -0800 I've never been able to start KwikDisk. It tries to start and then just hangs. Is there a patch that fixes it,or is it just me? I suppose PPC users have a lot more bugs...? *** When I start KwikDisk, it just shows an icon in the taskbar, and needs to be right clicked and run from there. Could you have overlooked the icon in the taskbar? I'm not familiar with the PPC version of Mdk though, so hopefully someone who is can help you further. Best regards to you. :-) --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** I second you Angus. It defaults to the task bar. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] KwikDisk
I've never been able to start KwikDisk. It tries to start and then just hangs. Is there a patch that fixes it,or is it just me? I suppose PPC users have a lot more bugs...? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kwikdisk
On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:46 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Maybe changing my hair colour to purple's made me the equivalent of a blonde but... I've been messing with Kwikdisk for the better part of 2 hours now. In short, I can't seem to u/mount any of my CDRom drives. It insists that (for example) my burner is /dev/scd0. This is not the case though. My other cdrom is listed as a HDD device!? I know the answer is staring me in the face here... so what to do? I tried to disable supermount too.. made no difference. Erm... Help? Femme Kwikdisk is just a docking program for kdiskfree which is a mighty utility. Your CDROM is indeed an ide device which will be listed as such and your burner is a scsi device to the system cause the kernel has been told to treat it that way (Scsi emulation) Actually any CD drive is emulated by software -- there is a module compiled in by default called ide-cd. Experiments where ide-scsi is the default worked well except for a few DVD drives which insisted on being emulated by ide-cd, so ide-cd is the default and ide-scsi is loaded for burners because cdrecord works only on scsi devices, and cdrecord is the backend for all the GUI burners. Anyway, CD drives are treated as identical to hard drives by kdf, but they are always full when a CD is loaded. The way 9.0 supermount is set up from a fresh install, they don't even list on kdf, but upgrades may vary. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kwikdisk
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, civileme wrote: Snip Kwikdisk is just a docking program for kdiskfree which is a mighty utility. Your CDROM is indeed an ide device which will be listed as such and your burner is a scsi device to the system cause the kernel has been told to treat it that way (Scsi emulation) Actually any CD drive is emulated by software -- there is a module compiled in by default called ide-cd. Experiments where ide-scsi is the default worked well except for a few DVD drives which insisted on being emulated by ide-cd, so ide-cd is the default and ide-scsi is loaded for burners because cdrecord works only on scsi devices, and cdrecord is the backend for all the GUI burners. Anyway, CD drives are treated as identical to hard drives by kdf, but they are always full when a CD is loaded. The way 9.0 supermount is set up from a fresh install, they don't even list on kdf, but upgrades may vary. Civileme Hm... so IOW what you're telling me is this is normal behaviour. Great. But that doesn't solve my mounting problem. I like supermount *when it works* hate it when it doesn't. *sigh* I wanted to try Kwikdisk to see if that would be a simple way to u/mount stuff. But it doesn't seem to work well with CDRoms. Am I correct ? I looked through the help files for it too but got no real concrete answer on how to get it to mount cdrom's properly. Its a bit perplexing you see. All I want to do is avoid that cdrom induced lag when I load a filemanger... be it Krusader or Gentoo. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kwikdisk
Maybe changing my hair colour to purple's made me the equivalent of a blonde but... I've been messing with Kwikdisk for the better part of 2 hours now. In short, I can't seem to u/mount any of my CDRom drives. It insists that (for example) my burner is /dev/scd0. This is not the case though. My other cdrom is listed as a HDD device!? I know the answer is staring me in the face here... so what to do? I tried to disable supermount too.. made no difference. Erm... Help? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kwikdisk
On 09 Feb 2003 23:46:03 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe changing my hair colour to purple's made me the equivalent of a blonde but... I've been messing with Kwikdisk for the better part of 2 hours now. In short, I can't seem to u/mount any of my CDRom drives. It insists that (for example) my burner is /dev/scd0. This is not the case though. My other cdrom is listed as a HDD device!? I know the answer is staring me in the face here... so what to do? I tried to disable supermount too.. made no difference. Erm... Help? Femme I've never used Kwikdisk before but I know the oddness of seeing your cd burner as an scsi cd drive and seeing your cd-rom as a HD. On my system (originally mdk 8.2 and now 9.0), my burner is id'd as scd0 because of the scsi emulation (i think) (ide=scsi append in lilo.conf) and my cd rom's dev entry (when i had 2 in here) was /dev/hde. /dev/cdrom was a link to /dev/hde under 8.2 I took out the extra cd drive when i installed 9.0 because i had such weirdness having 2 installed with 8.2 (things like rpmdrake asking over and over for me to insert cd 2 into /dev/scd0 even though it was already in there). My current /dev entry for the cd burner is /dev/scd0 and there's an entry in dev for cdrom0 which is lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 34 Dec 31 1969 cdrom0 - ../scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd (same entry is listed for scd0) lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 Feb 9 22:05 scd0 - scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/cd might want to check that on yours ;) HTH Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
