Re: [Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20040925.1730, Cory Petkovsek said ... > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:20:30PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > > Also, once it gets past the initial timeout, it seems to operate just > > fine. I've been copying and compiling. It was just that one hiccup. > > Google mentioned to boot with noapic, not

Re: [Eug-lug] anti-static screens?

2004-09-25 Thread larry price
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:33:09 -0700 (PDT), Tony Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the concern over electromagnetic "radiation" is overblown. > Of course, no one has proved it to be harmless, but no one has proved > that swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time is > h

Re: [Eug-lug] anti-static screens?

2004-09-25 Thread Tony Newman
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:20:01 -0800, Mike McCool wrote: >Was having a discussion about EM radiation last nite, and my electrical >engineer buddy claimed that the ground wire on anti-static glass monitor >screens removed the EM radiation from a CRT monitor and zapped it to ground. > >This sounded a

Re: [Eug-lug] anti-static screens?

2004-09-25 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:20:01AM -0800, Mike McCool wrote: > Was having a discussion about EM radiation last nite, and my electrical > engineer buddy claimed that the ground wire on anti-static glass monitor > screens removed the EM radiation from a CRT monitor and zapped it to ground. > > This

Re: [Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 05:20:30PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > Also, once it gets past the initial timeout, it seems to operate just > fine. I've been copying and compiling. It was just that one hiccup. > Google mentioned to boot with noapic, not sure what that is but I tried > and it didn't make

Re: [Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Mr O
Appropriately named drives those were. I remember all the hype saying those are THE drive to own. In your BIOS if you have an option to disable quick boot or specify the IDE timeout you can try those as well. That way the drive has a little more time to spin up if that's the problem. Have you tried

Re: [Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Rob Hudson
Also, once it gets past the initial timeout, it seems to operate just fine. I've been copying and compiling. It was just that one hiccup. Google mentioned to boot with noapic, not sure what that is but I tried and it didn't make a difference. On 20040925.1641, Mr O said ... > Start by saying it

Re: [Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Rob Hudson
Good power supply. It's a deathstar drive that got sent back once to Hitachi and they replaced it with a driver that supposedly doesn't have the click of death. BIOS recognizes it. I'll check the connectors. On 20040925.1641, Mr O said ... > Start by saying it's not a Western Digital drive and

Re: [Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Mr O
Start by saying it's not a Western Digital drive and not a cheap power supply. When the system boots does the BIOS recognize the drive right away? Triple check all the connectors? --- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building out a new server. When I boot with Gentoo, I get > a > dma

Re: [Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 03:36:37PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm building out a new server. When I boot with Gentoo, I get a > dma_timeout_expiry when it tries to read the partition tables of my hard > drive. What does this mean? If finally reset the drive and was able to > boot but took 3-4 ti

[Eug-lug] dma_timeout_expiry

2004-09-25 Thread Rob Hudson
I'm building out a new server. When I boot with Gentoo, I get a dma_timeout_expiry when it tries to read the partition tables of my hard drive. What does this mean? If finally reset the drive and was able to boot but took 3-4 times. Is this a bad drive? Bad driver? For something that I want t

[Eug-lug] anti-static screens?

2004-09-25 Thread Mike McCool
Was having a discussion about EM radiation last nite, and my electrical engineer buddy claimed that the ground wire on anti-static glass monitor screens removed the EM radiation from a CRT monitor and zapped it to ground. This sounded a bit optimistic to me, so I thought I'd take it out for discus

[Eug-lug] Re: To dd or not to dd that is the question.

2004-09-25 Thread Tim Howe
I recently had a dying HD and had to move the root partition to a different disk. I used the dump and restore commands like so: dump -0af - /var |( cd /mnt/var && restore -rf -) This example dumps the data from /var and restores it to /mnt/var where I had the new disk. You have to do this for e

Re: [Eug-lug] To dd or not to dd that is the question.

2004-09-25 Thread Mr O
Ah, XP is a different beast. Follow me down the tech support road.. Boot off the XP CD, get to the first screen and press Enter to continue, F8 to sell your soul to MS, then it'll seach for existing Windows installations. IF it finds one it will ask if you'd like to press R to repair. Do it. Note t

Re: [Eug-lug] This list

2004-09-25 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:45:31AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote: > This list doesn't appear to send out the passwords on a monthly basis. I am > unable to unsubscribe or change my subscription (well, the verp method may > work). Also the activism list appears to not send the passwords out monthly. > Wha