[vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread Ryan
Currently my BIOS only allows me to see 32GB of my harddrive. I am buying an ATA controller card so that I can see the rest of it. I haven't gotten the card in the mail yet, but is there an easy way to make linux recognize the full size of the drive without having to format the harddrive or do

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread ME
Keywords: partition, resize partition, ext2, fat32, new hard disk http://www.ranish.com/part/ http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/ (v2.0) http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fips/fips.html(v1.5) http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/ (Above links from my linux

Re: [vox-tech] Skipping sound

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:14:09PM -0800, Samuel Merritt wrote: If I have music playing and I move a window around, switch windows, or scroll a window, the music stutters. I'm using XFree86 4.2.1 and ALSA 0.9.0rc2 (defaults for Mandrake 9). [...] I've also tried switching between ALSA and

[vox-tech] Re: vox-tech digest, Vol 1 #630 - 12 msgs

2003-02-27 Thread Thomas Wieglenda
Yeah, don't waste any more time configuring/learning Wu-Ftpd. If at all possible, you should be using scp or sftp. If you *must* run an ftpd, don't use wu-ftpd. It has a history of nasties (exploits) and many knowledgeable people seem to think there are more waiting. Read this:

Re: [vox-tech] Grub question

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:29:16AM -0800, Ryan wrote: I kept getting errors during the boot up, some of which included no ext3 support yes you need to compile in ext3 into the kernel, not a module. (unless you have the right modules in your initial ram disk (initrd), you should be able to do

Re: [vox-tech] Skipping sound

2003-02-27 Thread Samuel Merritt
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:14:09PM -0800, Samuel Merritt wrote: If I have music playing and I move a window around, switch windows, or scroll a window, the music stutters. I'm using XFree86 4.2.1 and ALSA 0.9.0rc2 (defaults for

Re: [vox-tech] Skipping sound

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:14:09PM -0800, Samuel Merritt wrote: If I have music playing and I move a window around, switch windows, or scroll a window, the music stutters. I'm using XFree86 4.2.1 and ALSA 0.9.0rc2 (defaults for

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Ryan wrote: On this machine the drive comes up right away as having 32MB. It's an old motherboard, 1995 or so and even after I specified in the BIOS the number of heads and cylinders there is another option in the BIOS that says Max Size: 8GB So when I

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread ryan
sorry it's getting confusing, I failed to mention this but the drive is a 40GB slave that I'm using to store mpegs and such. All those commands worked and here is the output. I had problems pasting in this HP-UX term I'm on now so I put the output in a file: http://the45.net/~ryan/output.txt

Re: [vox-tech] Re: Re: Problem - PS/2 port still live after shutdown (Jay Strauss)

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Hasbrouck
--- Harry S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:55:31PM +1300, D E Radel wrote: It's an MS Intellimouse Explorer (3 button / wheel) USB plugged into the PS/2 with the adapter. I have no answer for you on turning off the LED. Your question had me wonder... (Any E.E.

Re: [vox-tech] Skipping sound

2003-02-27 Thread Samuel Merritt
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:14:26PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:14:09PM -0800, Samuel Merritt wrote: If I have music playing and I move a window around, switch windows, or scroll a window, the music

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:52:48PM -0800, ryan wrote: this but the drive is a 40GB slave that I'm using to store mpegs and such. All those commands worked and here is the output. Very good... the output explained what's happening. It turns out that Linux has no problem accessing all of the

Re: [vox-tech] Skipping sound

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:03:22PM -0800, Samuel Merritt wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:14:26PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:43:14PM -0500, Mike Simons wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:14:09PM -0800, Samuel Merritt wrote: If I have music playing and I move a

Re: [vox-tech] Skipping sound

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:03:22PM -0800, Samuel Merritt wrote: If I have music playing and I move a window around, switch windows, or scroll a window, the music stutters. I'm using XFree86 4.2.1 and ALSA 0.9.0rc2 (defaults for Mandrake 9). === latency_multiplier 8

[vox-tech] HOWTO: Make Your Our Debian Mirror

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
Thu Feb 27 13:25:40 PST 2003 version 0.1 This is a quick and dirty setup your own Debian Mirror Howto. I've been asked how to set one up several times but I've finally been asked by someone persistent enough to keep asking, you can thank them for this document :). All of the files mentioned

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread Ryan
thanks a lot, i'm backing up all my files now. Would there be any disadvantage to formatting the drive as FAT? That way I can put it in one of my other computers that are windows. - Original Message - From: Mike Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27,

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread Ryan
okay so after backing everything up for 4 hours I did what you said: The partition is indeed bigger, but not was large as I had expected. It says I only have about 36GB free. Here is a df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 38769320 32828

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Simons
Since some people say Gigabytes are 10^9 and others 2^30. To be consistent with units, I'll use bytes, MiB (2^20 == 1048576) and GiB (2^30 = 1073741824). On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:26:40PM -0800, Ryan wrote: okay so after backing everything up for 4 hours I did what you said: The

Re: [vox-tech] resizing harddrive

2003-02-27 Thread Samuel Merritt
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:26:40PM -0800, Ryan wrote: okay so after backing everything up for 4 hours I did what you said: The partition is indeed bigger, but not was large as I had expected. It says I only have about 36GB free. Here is a df When Linux says gigabyte, it means 2^30 bytes.