Re: CD-RW-Drive

2004-12-29 Thread Peter H.
Many thanks to all for the excellent replies, I will come back to it after the holidays. Have a good celebration for the New Year and all the Best therein. -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: Backup up Linux fileserver via Maxtor External Hard Drive

2004-12-29 Thread Jeremy Abbott
chuck gelm wrote: Eve Atley wrote: We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII. We were considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver, hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that the usb is probably 1.1 while specs are 2.0,

Re: Backup up Linux fileserver via Maxtor External Hard Drive

2004-12-29 Thread chuck gelm
Eve Atley wrote: We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII. We were considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver, hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that the usb is probably 1.1 while specs are 2.0, though the drive doe

Re: CD-RW-Drive & cdrecord & ATAPI

2004-12-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:17 PM 12/29/2004 -0500, chuck gelm wrote: Ray Olszewski wrote: Others have said a lot here already, but I want to raise more fundamental puzzlement. I didn't know cdrecord (see below) was even able to burn to atapi devices under 2.4.x kernels. You might want to report the error messages i

Re: CD-RW-Drive & cdrecord & ATAPI

2004-12-29 Thread chuck gelm
Ray Olszewski wrote: Others have said a lot here already, but I want to raise more fundamental puzzlement. I didn't know cdrecord (see below) was even able to burn to atapi devices under 2.4.x kernels. You might want to report the error messages in more detail. Hi, Ray: I am using Slackware v

Re: Backup up Linux fileserver via Maxtor External Hard Drive

2004-12-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:31 AM 12/29/2004 -0500, Eve Atley wrote: We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII. We were considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver, hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that the usb is probably 1.1 while spec

Backup up Linux fileserver via Maxtor External Hard Drive

2004-12-29 Thread Eve Atley
We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII. We were considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver, hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that the usb is probably 1.1 while specs are 2.0, though the drive does say it's 1.1 c

Re: CD-RW-Drive

2004-12-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
I'm coming into this discussion fairly late, so I'll try not to duplicate what others have already covered. At 03:06 PM 12/29/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote: Season Greetings, Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26 I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the right choice for Linux.

Re: CD-RW-Drive

2004-12-29 Thread chuck gelm
Peter H. wrote: Season Greetings, Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26 I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the right choice for Linux. I was able to make it work following the instruction of the program xcdroast, however, some things seem strange. I always get error messa

Re: CD-RW-Drive

2004-12-29 Thread Jim Nelson
Peter H. wrote: Season Greetings, Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26 I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the right choice for Linux. I was able to make it work following the instruction of the program xcdroast, however, some things seem strange. I always get error messa

Re: Linux on a G5 Boat anchor

2004-12-29 Thread Peter Garrett
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:00:53 -0500 Jim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave B. Sharp wrote: > > I have new dual g5 Mac that I have not been able to get working > > properly = > > in 6 months. Apple has been of lillte or no use. Is there a > > working = > > distribution for this machine? - > >