RE: [expert] disk activity renders machine unusable, forces manual reboot

2001-07-05 Thread ext-Dmitri . Barski
Hello, AFAICR, LM 7.2 comes with a 2.2 kernel, which CAN be rendered unusable by a user program unless you set some proper ulimits: if a user process just grabs memory ( and works on it ), the machine begins to swap - and when it runs out of a swap space, you in fact can do nothing but power cycl

RE: [expert] Auto power down

2001-07-03 Thread ext-Dmitri . Barski
Hi Nick, try the command "poweroff". If it does not help, check your kernel configuration: Some BIOSes want to have "use real-mode APM calls to power off", the others ( AFAIK the most ) definitely do not want it ( my computer ( with an ASUS K7V board ) used to reboot with this feature enabled ).

[expert] SCSI LUNs

2001-04-10 Thread ext-Dmitri . Barski
Hi folks, does anyone know how to make the sym53c8xx ( or ncr53c8xx :-) ) to scan all LUNs when being loaded? Normally it seems to scan only LUN 0 which causes me to have to re-scan the scsi bus prior to loading sg - which then causes the media changer ( I'm using a ARCHIVE/CONNER/SEAGATE changer