Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:36, you wrote: Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="65532k" append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only It means that you cannot have two appends make it append="hdd=ide-scsi mem=64M" Civileme
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 17:55, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:20 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Yes, I'm afraid there is a kludge with 7.0, solved with 7.1 and perfected with 7.2. there was a fix/tutorial on Mandrakes web page, but it's no longer there. Best I can remember it had to do with the needed "append=ide-scsi" linked wrong. The line would be : append="hdx=ide-scsi" added to the lilo.conf I believe. I will go through my notes at home and see if I can confirm the location, unless someone else can jump in here and confirm or correct. Correct, but there was an additional problem with 7.0. IIRC, even tho the ide-scsi line was properly implemented, the hd* or the /cdrom2 was improperly, or not even linked to /dev/scd0. Again, IIRC, the fix was to delete the offending link and then to create a new correct link. The tutorial use to reflect this, but since 7.0 is getting almost ancient, the tutorial no longer reflects the needed link fix for 7.0. It's got to be in the ML archives somewhere. If I'm the only one that remembers it this way, I'll try to hunt up the fix, but I can't get to it right now. 'Course a sure fix would be to upgrade to 7.2 ;) This may not be as good as a tutorial but it shows how to solve the general problem. http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg56553.html Vic please please please test the effects on scanbus with that ZIP removed if it doesn't show up after you fix the append. and make sure you run /sbin/lilo after you do fix it. 7.0 and later editions had some issues with ZIPs in a few of the possible configurations. Civileme
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
have you checked out this? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ Its for 7.2 but the principal is the same. In fact I also suggest that you update to 7.2. It is truly a beautiful thing ;-) Abe Vic wrote: I can't find it, is there anyone on this list who can find this info please. I am asking all subscribers who might have a clue please. Thank you and much appreciuated to those woh can give me the into On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Yes, I'm afraid there is a kludge with 7.0, solved with 7.1 and perfected with 7.2. there was a fix/tutorial on Mandrakes web page, but it's no longer there. Best I can remember it had to do with the needed "append=ide-scsi" linked wrong. Is that broken and can't use cdrecorder? I have a Plextor W8432T and kernel 2.2.14-15mdk will it work or am I screwed? no, if you can find the fix, that's the best damn CD-RW with any OS. I have AMD K6 400 64Mb sysram I can mount the drive on /dev/hdd as a cdrom, but I already have a cdrom so thats no good as a recorder. that's the way to do it. My Cdrom is hdc, my Plex 8432t is hdd. Here's the deal, search for the 7.0-CDRW fix, it's just a simple 'ln -s something havin to do with linking the hdd as ide to hdd as scuzzy, scd0 Sorry, I just can't remember. Try the mailing list archives, or email Mandrake. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Tuesday 16 January 2001 22:23, you wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Is that broken and can't use cdrecorder? I have a Plextor W8432T and kernel 2.2.14-15mdk will it work or am I screwed? I have AMD K6 400 64Mb sysram I can mount the drive on /dev/hdd as a cdrom, but I already have a cdrom so thats no good as a recorder. Do all of the following as root add a line that looks like append=" hdd=ide-scsi" to the correct stanza in /etc/lilo.conf then execute /sbin/lilo next add the following lines to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local modprobe ide-scsi modprob sg now reboot, you should be able to access your cdwriter on /dev/scd0 if this works, edit your /etc/fstab to reflect this, and try writing a cd. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 05:30, you wrote: Thank you, but I just installed the cdrecorder, and not during install. kudzu then came up on the next boot, saw your cd-redorder and offered to configure it? Civileme I did the scsi link, what I need to know Ii guess is how do I load the ide-scsi module and make it connect to the scsi chain what is already present that supports the zip drive which is scsi. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: Vic , take a look at the tutorial on the Linux-Mandrake site, the one that deals with cdwriters. If you have'nt already. I think the scsi link needs to be made and some errors corrected that were done on install. Not yours but the OS. Sorry if you have already done this then I am at a lose as to the problem. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:57, you wrote: I can't find it, is there anyone on this list who can find this info please. I am asking all subscribers who might have a clue please. Thank you and much appreciuated to those woh can give me the into Vic-- let's see ls -l /dev/cd* cat /boot/grub/menu.lst cat /etc/lilo.conf cat /proc/modules #after you have modprobed in ide-scsi cat /etc/fstab And try booting with the CDROM disconected using modprobe and scanbus And try booting with the ZIP disconnected using modprobe and scanbus Then get back to us Civileme
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Dennis Myers wrote: The tutorial is still there, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Yes, I'm afraid there is a kludge with 7.0, solved with 7.1 and perfected with 7.2. there was a fix/tutorial on Mandrakes web page, but it's no longer there. Best I can remember it had to do with the needed "append=ide-scsi" linked wrong. The line would be : append="hdx=ide-scsi" added to the lilo.conf I believe. I will go through my notes at home and see if I can confirm the location, unless someone else can jump in here and confirm or correct. There I go again, left out the fact that the above hdx should be what ever your cdrom is shown as in linux in your case it looks like hdd. Then from a root console type "lilo" without the quotes. This should get the link available so that when you do the scsi link to cdrom in the tutorial things will connect, we hope. -- Dennis Myers Registered Linux user #180843
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Hmm ok this time with both commands I got: [root@kittypuss ntr]# HardDrake bash: HardDrake: command not found [root@kittypuss ntr]# harddrake harddrake: error in loading shared libraries: harddrake: undefined symbol: s_ignore [root@kittypuss ntr]# I'm using mandrake 7.0-2 On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: Sorry, I forget sometimes to be exact. you should type "HardDrake" without the quotes, and in root command line. The command is case sensitive. Vic wrote: I typed harddrake and it did 'command not found' what I do now? On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: The tutorial is very good and is not based on whether the cdwriter was in place during install or installed later. Did harddrake detect it? if so then check the tutorial and make the entries as root that the tutorial calls for. It may just solve your problems. Luck, On Wednesday 17 January 2001 04:30 am, you wrote: Thank you, -- Dennis Myers Registered Linux user #180843
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Yes, but it was useless because kudzu configuring it did nothing to connect it to the file system as a recorder. On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2001 05:30, you wrote: Thank you, but I just installed the cdrecorder, and not during install. kudzu then came up on the next boot, saw your cd-redorder and offered to configure it? Civileme I did the scsi link, what I need to know Ii guess is how do I load the ide-scsi module and make it connect to the scsi chain what is already present that supports the zip drive which is scsi. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: Vic , take a look at the tutorial on the Linux-Mandrake site, the one that deals with cdwriters. If you have'nt already. I think the scsi link needs to be made and some errors corrected that were done on install. Not yours but the OS. Sorry if you have already done this then I am at a lose as to the problem. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="65532k" append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, A V Flinsch wrote: Do all of the following as root add a line that looks like append=" hdd=ide-scsi" to the correct stanza in /etc/lilo.conf then execute /sbin/lilo next add the following lines to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local modprobe ide-scsi modprob sg now reboot, you should be able to access your cdwriter on /dev/scd0 if this works, edit your /etc/fstab to reflect this, and try writing a cd. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Yes sir, it is a Plextor drive On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vic...this is Kit...are you sure the drive is LINUX compatible...?? this could be the problem Vic wrote: Thank you for trying I can't find anything to type. I just saw a bunch of distorted stuff with variables and numbers that did not make any sense Please someone tell me WHAT this MEANS??? Its too hard and I can't fix it. I type modprobe ide-scsi and it is worthless because it does nothing to fix my terrible horrible rotten condemning problem that is crippling my ability to operate my machine. cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 250 ' 'H.41' Removable Disk 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Still does nothing and means nothing I can't make it change even if I hold a gun to its monitor. I would blow its tube out if I had a gun I am so damn upset right now. -- === http://www.KompuKit.com === Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Designer: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Sorry dude I can't upgrade until I burn the 7.2 image On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, abe wrote: have you checked out this? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/ Its for 7.2 but the principal is the same. In fact I also suggest that you update to 7.2. It is truly a beautiful thing ;-) Abe Vic wrote: I can't find it, is there anyone on this list who can find this info please. I am asking all subscribers who might have a clue please. Thank you and much appreciuated to those woh can give me the into On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Yes, I'm afraid there is a kludge with 7.0, solved with 7.1 and perfected with 7.2. there was a fix/tutorial on Mandrakes web page, but it's no longer there. Best I can remember it had to do with the needed "append=ide-scsi" linked wrong. Is that broken and can't use cdrecorder? I have a Plextor W8432T and kernel 2.2.14-15mdk will it work or am I screwed? no, if you can find the fix, that's the best damn CD-RW with any OS. I have AMD K6 400 64Mb sysram I can mount the drive on /dev/hdd as a cdrom, but I already have a cdrom so thats no good as a recorder. that's the way to do it. My Cdrom is hdc, my Plex 8432t is hdd. Here's the deal, search for the 7.0-CDRW fix, it's just a simple 'ln -s something havin to do with linking the hdd as ide to hdd as scuzzy, scd0 Sorry, I just can't remember. Try the mailing list archives, or email Mandrake. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 08:20 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2001 09:23 pm, Vic wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Yes, I'm afraid there is a kludge with 7.0, solved with 7.1 and perfected with 7.2. there was a fix/tutorial on Mandrakes web page, but it's no longer there. Best I can remember it had to do with the needed "append=ide-scsi" linked wrong. The line would be : append="hdx=ide-scsi" added to the lilo.conf I believe. I will go through my notes at home and see if I can confirm the location, unless someone else can jump in here and confirm or correct. Correct, but there was an additional problem with 7.0. IIRC, even tho the ide-scsi line was properly implemented, the hd* or the /cdrom2 was improperly, or not even linked to /dev/scd0. Again, IIRC, the fix was to delete the offending link and then to create a new correct link. The tutorial use to reflect this, but since 7.0 is getting almost ancient, the tutorial no longer reflects the needed link fix for 7.0. It's got to be in the ML archives somewhere. If I'm the only one that remembers it this way, I'll try to hunt up the fix, but I can't get to it right now. 'Course a sure fix would be to upgrade to 7.2 ;) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Ok, what is the url for 7.0-2 tutorial? Thankx On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: The tutorial is still there, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Vic wrote: Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="65532k" append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only It means you have two append lines, you should edit it to read append="mem=65532k, hdd=ide-scsi" and delete the second append line completely. On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, A V Flinsch wrote: Do all of the following as root add a line that looks like append=" hdd=ide-scsi" to the correct stanza in /etc/lilo.conf then execute /sbin/lilo next add the following lines to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local modprobe ide-scsi modprob sg now reboot, you should be able to access your cdwriter on /dev/scd0 if this works, edit your /etc/fstab to reflect this, and try writing a cd. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) -- Dennis Myers Registered Linux user #180843
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Vic wrote: Duplicate entry 'append' near line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf what this mean? my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="65532k" append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, A V Flinsch wrote: Do all of the following as root add a line that looks like append=" hdd=ide-scsi" to the correct stanza in /etc/lilo.conf then execute /sbin/lilo next add the following lines to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local modprobe ide-scsi modprob sg now reboot, you should be able to access your cdwriter on /dev/scd0 if this works, edit your /etc/fstab to reflect this, and try writing a cd. Vicyou have 2 append lines that need to merged into one single line, like this: append="65532k hdd=ide-scsi" (only one set of quotes and a single space between arguments) -- Alan
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 10:49 am, Vic wrote: Ok, what is the url for 7.0-2 tutorial? Tom Brinkman wrote: It's not there anymore for 7.02. I believe you said you have a cdrom (hdc) and a cd-rw (hdd) on the second ide. That is the same as my setup. what is your output from 'ls -l /dev/cdro*' ? -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:55:40 -0600, Tom Brinkman said: Correct, but there was an additional problem with 7.0. IIRC, even tho the ide-scsi line was properly implemented, the hd* or the /cdrom2 was improperly, or not even linked to /dev/scd0. Again, IIRC, the fix was to delete the offending link and then to create a new correct link. The tutorial use to reflect this, but since 7.0 is getting almost ancient, the tutorial no longer reflects the needed link fix for 7.0. It's got to be in the ML archives somewhere. If I'm the only one that remembers it this way, I'll try to hunt up the fix, but I can't get to it right now. 'Course a sure fix would be to upgrade to 7.2 ;) I thought I posted that about 18 hours ago? I'll try again. rm /dev/cdromX # where X is the cdrom number ln -s /dev/scdX /dev/cdromX Cheers -- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmers' Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972)
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 03:23 am, you wrote: Ok I concede. how I do to get this dangbusted stupid cd recorder to work??? Is there a kludge or a hack?? Please just tell me what to type and I will do it. I am using mandrake 7.0-2 Is that broken and can't use cdrecorder? Vic , take a look at the tutorial on the Linux-Mandrake site, the one that deals with cdwriters. If you have'nt already. I think the scsi link needs to be made and some errors corrected that were done on install. Not yours but the OS. Sorry if you have already done this then I am at a lose as to the problem. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Thank you, but I just installed the cdrecorder, and not during install. I did the scsi link, what I need to know Ii guess is how do I load the ide-scsi module and make it connect to the scsi chain what is already present that supports the zip drive which is scsi. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: Vic , take a look at the tutorial on the Linux-Mandrake site, the one that deals with cdwriters. If you have'nt already. I think the scsi link needs to be made and some errors corrected that were done on install. Not yours but the OS. Sorry if you have already done this then I am at a lose as to the problem. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
The tutorial is very good and is not based on whether the cdwriter was in place during install or installed later. Did harddrake detect it? if so then check the tutorial and make the entries as root that the tutorial calls for. It may just solve your problems. Luck, On Wednesday 17 January 2001 04:30 am, you wrote: Thank you, but I just installed the cdrecorder, and not during install. I did the scsi link, what I need to know Ii guess is how do I load the ide-scsi module and make it connect to the scsi chain what is already present that supports the zip drive which is scsi. On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Dennis Myers wrote: Vic , take a look at the tutorial on the Linux-Mandrake site, the one that deals with cdwriters. If you have'nt already. I think the scsi link needs to be made and some errors corrected that were done on install. Not yours but the OS. Sorry if you have already done this then I am at a lose as to the problem. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842 -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Thank you for trying I can't find anything to type. I just saw a bunch of distorted stuff with variables and numbers that did not make any sense Please someone tell me WHAT this MEANS??? Its too hard and I can't fix it. I type modprobe ide-scsi and it is worthless because it does nothing to fix my terrible horrible rotten condemning problem that is crippling my ability to operate my machine. cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 250 ' 'H.41' Removable Disk 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Still does nothing and means nothing I can't make it change even if I hold a gun to its monitor. I would blow its tube out if I had a gun I am so damn upset right now.
Re: [newbie] Broken? bad wiring? bug?? Help please.
Vic...this is Kit...are you sure the drive is LINUX compatible...?? this could be the problem Vic wrote: Thank you for trying I can't find anything to type. I just saw a bunch of distorted stuff with variables and numbers that did not make any sense Please someone tell me WHAT this MEANS??? Its too hard and I can't fix it. I type modprobe ide-scsi and it is worthless because it does nothing to fix my terrible horrible rotten condemning problem that is crippling my ability to operate my machine. cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 250 ' 'H.41' Removable Disk 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Still does nothing and means nothing I can't make it change even if I hold a gun to its monitor. I would blow its tube out if I had a gun I am so damn upset right now. -- === http://www.KompuKit.com === Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Designer: http://www.kompukit.com/kitdesigns Personal WebServer: http://kompukit.dyndns.org (Server Runs between M-F 6pm-12am,S+S 12pm-12am EST) Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary
