Strange Boot Behavior (cont.)

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Swope
Hello again, Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way to reply on-list. Several people have responded to my first inquiry, and I expected the reply-to address to be the list email, but it was their personal emails instead. Anyway, I would like to address some of the concerns brought up in thos

Re: to find disks/partitions and their names

2003-08-21 Thread Ray Olszewski
At , Heimo Claasen wrote: A seemingly trivial question: how do I find what partitiona exist on a second HD, and what their names are ? Not trivial at all, though you do seem to have most of the answer worked out yourself. The piece you are missing is the name of the third standard Linux program

to find disks/partitions and their names

2003-08-21 Thread Heimo Claasen
A seemingly trivial question: how do I find what partitiona exist on a second HD, and what their names are ? The situation: A second hard disk is inserted - or changed there - in the exchange bay which is located as the "Second Primary" HD at the far end of the cable from the 2nd IDE plug of the m

Re: Strange Boot behavior

2003-08-21 Thread Heimo Claasen
This sounds like a simple - but nevertheless tricky - cable-&-jumper puzzle; if "new drive" is master and sits on the first IDE connector of the motherboard, then "old drive": - either must be jumpered "master" when it sits on the second MoBo IDE connector; it's the "second primary" disk in this c

Re: Strange Boot behavior

2003-08-21 Thread Ray Olszewski
How about a few more details? 1. What is the size of the new drive in GB? 2. How old is your BIOS? Windows has a 138 GB size limit for hard disks. Linux does not, but some BIOSes might have a limit similar to that of Windows, and that might affect the boot process. 3. On the BIOS drive display

Strange Boot behavior

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Swope
Hello all, I am currently having trouble getting my computer to boot. I recently decided to install a larger, faster, hard drive. Since this hard drive was larger and faster, I decided that I wanted to make it my master drive, and make my old drive my slave. I took the old hard drive out, and i

Re: is sendto and recvfrom thread safe?

2003-08-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:02:26 -0500 "Lee Chin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sort of helps... my question is with respect to UDP sockets, for sendto and > recvfrom, can I concurrently have two threads at the same time write (sendto) on a > same file descriptor? How about readfrom and sendt

Re: is sendto and recvfrom thread safe?

2003-08-21 Thread Lee Chin
This sort of helps... my question is with respect to UDP sockets, for sendto and recvfrom, can I concurrently have two threads at the same time write (sendto) on a same file descriptor? How about readfrom and sendt on the same file descriptor at the same time? Thanks Lee - Original Messag

Re: is sendto and recvfrom thread safe?

2003-08-21 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 01:06:45 -0500 "Lee Chin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > If I have a global socket file descriptor, can I call sendto and recvfrom on that > file descriptor concurrently with out using semaphores around the call to sendto and > recvfrom? > > What about for TCP sockets? >