[vox-tech] External IDE Drive Converter
David Margolis writes: Has anybody had any success using a USB or parallel IDE drive converter. I've got both an extra hard drive and an extra 4x2x24 CD-RW I'd love to do something creative and portable with. One or both of those would go nicely in one of several available external drive kits. So I guess this is a few questions. Has anyone pulled off using an external USB drive kit? If not, what's a good parallel one? Has anyone pulled off burning CDs in a converted IDE CD-RW (USB or parallel)? I've been less than impressed with the current state of the USB stuff - it's gotten very good, but it's still got a few too many bugs for me to get comfortable with it. It is actively progressing, so it's entirely possible that the chief problems I'm aware of have been fixed in the last month and a half... My most recent experience with it was in using a USB Mass Storage Device camera. I could mount it and transfer files from it, but there was some frequently occuring situation which the drivers handled incorrectly, resulting in a permanently zombied, unkillable kernel thread. I couldn't close even close the xterm running the program which was reading from that mount point. And all further attempts to access the device would fail. -Micah ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] External IDE Drive Converter
yeah, i pretty much agree with your opinion of usb. i've had stupid problems with usb devices on the os it's supposed to work on. i did however, get my usb gamepad working, and i've never had any luck with a regular gamepad (sound card/midi connector). so it was fun to steer around in heretic 2 using a usb device all under linux, but i've wasted countless hours messing with a webcam that only sort of works. i'd just love a way to make use of either my extra hd or my extra cd-rw in a portable way (the interface doesn't concern me). so i'll play around and report back if i get anything working. dave On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Micah Cowan wrote: I've been less than impressed with the current state of the USB stuff - it's gotten very good, but it's still got a few too many bugs for me to get comfortable with it. It is actively progressing, so it's entirely possible that the chief problems I'm aware of have been fixed in the last month and a half... My most recent experience with it was in using a USB Mass Storage Device camera. I could mount it and transfer files from it, but there was some frequently occuring situation which the drivers handled incorrectly, resulting in a permanently zombied, unkillable kernel thread. I couldn't close even close the xterm running the program which was reading from that mount point. And all further attempts to access the device would fail. -Micah ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] total wierdness with permissions
That's weird. Can you boot from a different root filesystem? If a fsck doesn't fix it, then it must be some kind of bug. One thought: single-character login IDs are probably not well-tested... you could try changing p to pete in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group. -- Rod On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:36 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: this is with the root user: i can ls the directory but not ls -la: lucifer# ls -la drwxr-xr-x3 pp4.0k May 29 16:43 ./ drwxr-xr-x6 pp4.0k May 29 16:46 ../ drwx--4 pp4.0k Nov 27 2001 base/ -rw---1 pp1.5k Dec 16 16:25 livingworld.txt lucifer# ls base/ maps/ textures/ lucifer# ls -la base/ ls: base/.: Permission denied ls: base/..: Permission denied ls: base/maps: Permission denied ls: base/textures: Permission denied filesystem is ext3. debian woody, libc 2.2.5. i think strace simply gives a restatement of the problem: lstat64(base/maps, 0x8053a64) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, ls: , 4) = 4 write(2, base/maps, 9)= 9 write(2, : Permission denied, 19) = 19 write(2, \n, 1) = 1 lstat64(base/textures, 0x8053a64) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, ls: , 4) = 4 write(2, base/textures, 13) = 13 write(2, : Permission denied, 19) = 19 i'm stumped at the moment. help? pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
