Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 05:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. Thanks, eric __ It does help. Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to update it's journals. I had the same question when I was running filesystem comparisions between Reiser and XFS. --LX -- Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
Ok, got my computer runnin again... About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It could be swap, could be even gKrellm itself reading the drives - have you checked what processes are running? Yeah, no apparent culprit. Have you setup your params for your drive(s) with hdparm for read/write caching? I haven't. I went thru and did hdparm tests/experiments, but nothing helped (or hurt) the speeds, so i left it as is. I need to learn more about what is going on... How would read write caching affect this blip? thanks, huff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It does help. Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to update it's journals. I had the same question when I was running filesystem comparisions between Reiser and XFS. Ahh. What did you decide after your comparisons? Stephen, i know you are a Reiser guy, do you get this? Is this what caching might prevent? Thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:46, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It does help. Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to update it's journals. I had the same question when I was running filesystem comparisions between Reiser and XFS. Ahh. What did you decide after your comparisons? Stephen, i know you are a Reiser guy, do you get this? Is this what caching might prevent? Thanks, eric My light flashes about every 10 seconds - but I've also disabled FAM as a service, and tweaked my EIDE drives with hdparm - but it's a quick blink and nothing major - nothing ever skips a beat - even when doing something disk intensive. Both EIDE's are ReiserFS, both SCSI's are ReiserFS. And actually, as I'm watching it here, mine is apparently blinking about every 12 seconds... -- Mon Jun 16 07:55:00 EST 2003 07:55:00 up 2 days, 15:09, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.06 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
My light flashes about every 10 seconds - but I've also disabled FAM as a service, and tweaked my EIDE drives with hdparm - but it's a quick blink and nothing major - nothing ever skips a beat - even when doing something disk intensive. Both EIDE's are ReiserFS, both SCSI's are ReiserFS. And actually, as I'm watching it here, mine is apparently blinking about every 12 seconds... Weird: i reinstalled ml9.1 yesterday, and as i sit here, i now get looong periods with no activity at all Either way, it seems it is reasonably normal and nothing to worry about. Thanks for the info, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. Thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:49:13 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. Run top and just watch for what might be acting up (should appear at the top of the list every 4 or 5 seconds). Also check for any cron jobs (can't imagine what might run that often, LOL), also, close all your running apps, open them one at a time and see if one of them is generating the activity. I've had this before myself, and it ended up being something pretty innocuous (sp?). -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 13:00:10 up 11 days, 11:03, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.21, 0.09 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 19:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. Thanks, eric It could be swap, could be even gKrellm itself reading the drives - have you checked what processes are running? Have you setup your params for your drive(s) with hdparm for read/write caching? -- Sun Jun 15 08:40:00 EST 2003 08:40:00 up 1 day, 15:54, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.38, 0.33 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * A tautology is a thing which is tautological. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 19:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. Thanks, eric Eric, if it's a small blip only, I guess that's the *sync* function doing its job. Nothing to worry about. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 - kernel 2.4.21 Brought to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] harddrive ???
If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 video.I,ve alway used W/D and there is a sale at a fair price but I,ve never had a 7200 rpm are a IBM .Is it noticeable ? I,ve heard IBM is going out of the harddrive business.Are they OK ? Are is there a problem? JOE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive ???
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 20:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 on that system the bottleneck will be the hard drive, so yes, you will notice a difference and you should totally go for the 7200. -- jason gmaestro.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive ???
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:31:26 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they were the same price,same size 5400 rpm are 7200 IBM .Which would work best for me??I,m running Mandrake only on this system 950 duron,320 MB ram,voodoo 3000 video.I,ve alway used W/D and there is a sale at a fair price but I,ve never had a 7200 rpm are a IBM .Is it noticeable ? All other things being equal, yes. Seek time will always be slower on the 5400rpm, but data transfer rates might not necessarily be as severely affected as appears at first glance. For example, I've just bought a couple of new Maxtor drives. 5400rpm and 7200rpm. Specs: 5400rpm 7200rpm platters3 2 heads 6 4 seek12mS8.5mS sectors/track 486-950 481-882 media xfer 43MB/s 54MB/s 7200rpm gets you 33% faster rotational speed but 26% faster transfer rate. The extra heads on the 5400rpm (and the small increase in sectors/track) means that it can pull more data off per rotation than the 7200rpm... although it takes longer to do that revolution. (Assuming that we can ignore interleaving - although I'm not sure if that's a valid assumption...). Your mileage may well vary on the IBM parts. If you've never had a 7200rpm before, be prepared for a shock at how hot they run! For same price same size, it's a no-brainer. You don't lose anything by stepping up in speed. But personally I wouldn't be buying either... or even accepting them as a free gift - see below. I,ve heard IBM is going out of the harddrive business.Are they OK ? Are is there a problem? Put ibm gxp drive failure into Google make your own mind up. I used to buy almost exclusively IBM drives... not any more. Jon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive swap
i once swapped the lm 7.2 hd from one pc (intel 300, 64mb, trident 1mb, sb16, 14k modem) to another (amd 500, 192mb, s3trio 3d/2x sb16, 32k m) ..totally different configurations ..while i was doign it i made a mental note to myself to re-install linux (install-itis). anyways, i booted the hd in the other pc and got into kde and on to the net to do something urgent then i remembered ..dint i want to do a re-install ...!!! way to go mandrake!!! - Original Message - From: Rich, Anthony D (UMR-Student) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake List (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 8:37 PM Subject: [newbie] harddrive swap Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out of Computer1 and put it in Computer2 and boot to it. It will detect all the new hardware and such. Will Linux be able to handle the same (ie. taking the harddrive from Computer2 and putting it in Computer1 to boot to)? Thanks, Tony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] harddrive swap
Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out of Computer1 and put it in Computer2 and boot to it. It will detect all the new hardware and such. Will Linux be able to handle the same (ie. taking the harddrive from Computer2 and putting it in Computer1 to boot to)? Thanks, Tony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive swap
On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:37, you wrote: Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out of Computer1 and put it in Computer2 and boot to it. It will detect all the new hardware and such. Will Linux be able to handle the same (ie. taking the harddrive from Computer2 and putting it in Computer1 to boot to)? Thanks, Tony I did this once back in 7.2 or 8.0 and yes it was a minor problem. Very minor. I think Linux (Mandrake in particular) handles this very well. Just be sure Kudzu is set as on during boot and any funny stuff should be detected and fixed. You have to be sure that your bios is set to handle the disk and no plug n play OS installed and you put it on the same ide channel as well as your other periferals should be in the same channel and same set as master and slave, but other than that It should be a very smooth swap. Somebody jump in her and correct me if I'm wrong, cause I haven't done it with 8.1. Just remember to back up, backup, backup the important stuff. HTH -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive swap
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:37, you wrote: Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out of Computer1 and put it in Computer2 and boot to it. It will detect all the new hardware and such. Will Linux be able to handle the same (ie. taking the harddrive from Computer2 and putting it in Computer1 to boot to)? Thanks, Tony I did this once back in 7.2 or 8.0 and yes it was a minor problem. I did this with 8.0 and even moved it to a different channel and moved a windows drive too. all went very easy and only had to boot with floppy and run lilo to restore boot-up. Moved it to second channel by mistake but both ran fro the second channel fine ( eventhough win drive was hdc ! ) Put a backup drive at hda and this ran fine like this untill the win drive died. ( it was very old and small.) I have a switched drive to other boxes too no prob. with Mandrake 7x. Mike McNeese Springdale Arkansas USA Linux user # 248955 - If obstacles are all you see, you have lost sight of the goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] harddrive swap
On Sunday 13 January 2002 14:25, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 13 January 2002 12:37, you wrote: Hi everyone, Right now, I have Linux Mandrake installed on Computer2 (PII-266 256MB Ram, etc) and Win2000 installed on Computer1 (Athlon 900 512 MB Ram, etc). My question is, I know windows can handle it if you take the harddrive out of Computer1 and put it in Computer2 and boot to it. It will detect all the new hardware and such. Will Linux be able to handle the same (ie. taking the harddrive from Computer2 and putting it in Computer1 to boot to)? Thanks, Tony I did this once back in 7.2 or 8.0 and yes it was a minor problem. I did this with 8.0 and even moved it to a different channel and moved a windows drive too. all went very easy and only had to boot with floppy and run lilo to restore boot-up. Moved it to second channel by mistake but both ran fro the second channel fine ( eventhough win drive was hdc ! ) Put a backup drive at hda and this ran fine like this untill the win drive died. ( it was very old and small.) I have a switched drive to other boxes too no prob. with Mandrake 7x. Mike McNeese Springdale Arkansas USA Linux user # 248955 - If obstacles are all you see, you have lost sight of the goal! Cool! you just have to love linux.. Go for the change Tony. As for Mike's post, that kind of deal would have brought windows to it's knees. I will not be any less cautious in the future, but it's nice to know that Mandrake can handle even the most severe driving conditions. : ) -- Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Harddrive Access
I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. I need to ne able to: A: Allow all users to access (read and Write) the Windows drives. Currently they are advised they don have any permissions. B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This includes the superuser. Message returned is: Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy This appears to have happened recently but I cannot find any sensible reason for it. Reading the manuals hasn't helped any. Cheers John /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount users,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=auto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access
On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. Mine: /dev/hda1 /c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0 Yours: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 On the 'cooker' list this comes up quite a bit. You should at least remove 'conv=binary', it causes problems on a lot of hardware. I believe if you replace it with 'umask=0' as mine is, you'll be able to read/write Windoze directories/files as user. -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access
i beleive if you use "chmod", you can change the permissions of all your harddrives. but i'm not sure how to do it, at least for your computer. hope i helped a little. jd From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Harddrive Access Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:21:18 +1200 I know this problem has been covered previously but I cannot find the references. Attached is my /etc/fstab. I need to ne able to: A: Allow all users to access (read and Write) the Windows drives. Currently they are advised they don have any permissions. B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This includes the superuser. Message returned is: Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy This appears to have happened recently but I cannot find any sensible reason for it. Reading the manuals hasn't helped any. Cheers John /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/dos vfat users,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount users,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=auto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Harddrive Access
John Rye wrote: snip B: Be able to read/write the floppy drive in both filesystems Right now no user can read or write the drive at all. This includes the superuser. Message returned is: Could not list directory contents file:/mount/floppy /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount users,exec,dev,suid,rw,fs=auto 0 0 Thanks to Tom, the hard drive problem is sorted, Now for the floppy. Prior to a reinstall several weeks ago (hard-drive death), the floppy detected the filesystem type, it wasn until a couple of days ago that the present set of problems occurred (or became noticed). I still cannot access the floppy drive from Linux. I've messed with /etc/fstab, and /etc/filesystems as detailed in fstab(5) or mount(8). No success - so those files have been restored from the backup AGAIN!! Just as an aside - wouldn't it be great if the the man pages had a few examples grin Cheers John
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that? I mean, the kernel is probably detecting the EIDE controller that's on the motherboard which does not have any HD plugged into it. There's only one drive plugged into a Promise Tech ATA66 controller which is a PCI card. Any comments, suggestions? - Yifan On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in /proc/pci. If not, you _might_ be able to find the info in the Windows device manager under the resources tab. Mine also said that "ide2..." was an invalid option, but continued with the install (and did see the drive) despite the warning. [snip] Load your install disk, change to tty2 then 'cat /proc/pci' You will need the first i/o address for both ide2 and ide3.
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that? I mean, the kernel is probably detecting the EIDE controller that's on the motherboard which does not have any HD plugged into it. There's only one drive plugged into a Promise Tech ATA66 controller which is a PCI card. Any comments, suggestions? - Yifan Yeah same as the first time i said it ;) just tell linux there are 3rd, and 4th ide chains and off ya go. Ata66 is supposed tobe fully backward compliant, so it will pick them up as normal ide. On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in /proc/pci. If not, you _might_ be able to find the info in the Windows device manager under the resources tab. Mine also said that "ide2..." was an invalid option, but continued with the install (and did see the drive) despite the warning. [snip] Load your install disk, change to tty2 then 'cat /proc/pci' You will need the first i/o address for both ide2 and ide3. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: Still having trouble with the drive. I don't have a install disk, I have a CD burned with the ISO image. I do remember reading somewhere about that the 2.2.x kernels still don't support ATA66 controllers yet, it's being worked on in 2.3, so won't come out till 2.4 or something like that? I mean, the kernel is probably detecting the EIDE controller that's on the motherboard which does not have any HD plugged into it. There's only one drive plugged into a Promise Tech ATA66 controller which is a PCI card. Any comments, suggestions? I'd suggest going to the archives and searching for ide3. Good luck! John
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
How? On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: just tell linux there are 3rd, and 4th ide chains and off ya go. Ata66 is supposed tobe fully backward compliant, so it will pick them up as normal ide. -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in /proc/pci. If not, you _might_ be able to find the info in the Windows device manager under the resources tab. Mine also said that "ide2..." was an invalid option, but continued with the install (and did see the drive) despite the warning. And here a little more information on the controller: Manufacturer: Promise Technology, Inc. Model number: Ultra66 Controller type: Bus master Ultra ATA/66 drive controller Board controller type: PCI - Yifan On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive. I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card. Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is not supported yet? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. You need to tell the kernel the is a 3rd and 4th ide controller, because the ide patches were not applyed they were causeing problems with cdrom drives. at the boot prompt enter linux ide2=0xd800 or linux ide2=0xa800 (sorry i thought these were generaly the same, but i've done some checking looking for what i thought was the address for a chip other than the HPT366, but it was the same card with several different addresses :/ ) Be careful on those addresses! Those don't match what I've got here... I've got ide2=0xd800,0xdc02,11 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:50:03PM -0700, Yifan Yu wrote: Is there a way to find out what address I should use? Also, when I tried the boot option, it says ide2 is an invalid option. Do you already have Linux installed on this machine? You can find information about the controller in /proc/pci. If not, you _might_ be able to find the info in the Windows device manager under the resources tab. Mine also said that "ide2..." was an invalid option, but continued with the install (and did see the drive) despite the warning. [snip] Load your install disk, change to tty2 then 'cat /proc/pci' You will need the first i/o address for both ide2 and ide3.
[newbie] Harddrive problem
Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive. I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card. Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is not supported yet? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive. I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card. Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is not supported yet? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. You need to tell the kernel the is a 3rd and 4th ide controller, because the ide patches were not applyed they were causeing problems with cdrom drives. at the boot prompt enter linux ide2=0xd800 or linux ide2=0xa800 (sorry i thought these were generaly the same, but i've done some checking looking for what i thought was the address for a chip other than the HPT366, but it was the same card with several different addresses :/ ) -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Harddrive problem
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Yifan Yu wrote: Hi, when I tried to install Mandrake 6.1, it cannot detect any harddrive. I have a 27.3 GB Ultra ATA with ATA 66 controller card. Is this problem due to this type of HD being to new or something and is not supported yet? Any help would be appreciated, thanks. You need to tell the kernel the is a 3rd and 4th ide controller, because the ide patches were not applyed they were causeing problems with cdrom drives. at the boot prompt enter linux ide2=0xd800 or linux ide2=0xa800 (sorry i thought these were generaly the same, but i've done some checking looking for what i thought was the address for a chip other than the HPT366, but it was the same card with several different addresses :/ ) Be careful on those addresses! Those don't match what I've got here... I've got ide2=0xd800,0xdc02,11 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] harddrive installation
Could someone please direct me to an alternate site to download the "MV" file for harddrive installation? The site that was posted to the list before went down Thank you in advance, Manny Styles NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download.html
