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Re: [Wlug] Flaky disks or controller?

by donald vitkus

Andy Stewart wrote: >HI Everybody, > >Having recently rebuilt my "good" computer, I'm now seeing a bunch of disk I/O >errors in my system log. I have 3 SCSI disks connected to a Symbios >controller using the sym53c8xx module and a 2.4.20 kernel. > >At first, I suspected an individual drive, as it is nearly 4 years old, and >all of the errors were there. I have since physically removed that drive, >and now the other drives are logging errors rather sporatically. Typically, >I see an error message from reiserfs about how it couldn't write to the >drive, and a disk I/O error in the log. The system is then wedged and >requires a reboot. > >With the problem showing up on all 3 SCSI drives, I'm now suspicious of the >(used) controller which I received as a "present" from a guy at work. > >If it should be the controller, do you folks have recommendations about >reasonably priced SCSI controllers? I have 6 SCSI devices in my system and I >need 68-pin as well as 50-pin capabilities. One of my disks is U160, and I >think the others are slower, but with disks always getting faster, I'd >probably want a U160 controller. I don't think I want to pay the premium for >a U320 controller. > >Thanks, > >Andy > > have you tried to reset the cmos on the motherboard to a defaul setting

Jan. 4, 2000

Re: [Wlug] CD/DVD-ROM question

by donald vitkus

Gregory Avedissian wrote: > I just noticed that my boot message tells me that my CD-ROM and CDRW > drives are also DVD-ROM. I wasn't aware that either of them had that > capability when I bought them. All those spam messages about reading > DVD from my CD-ROM went in the trash without being read, so now I'm > wondering. Is it possible to read a DVD on a CD drive? If so, how? If > not, why does the boot message say that? > > Thanks. > > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > not i can not read a dvd in a cdrom

Jan. 2, 2000

Re: [Wlug] 2 admin questions.

by donald vitkus

John Wiebe wrote: > I've never tried, but can't you alias your username by editing > "/etc/postfix/aliases" ? > > John > > Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > >> OS: Red Hat 9 >> >> Q1: sendmail... >> >> I have my sendmail configured to masquerade my outgoing email with my >> cable ISP's domain (charter.net) However, I have not found out how >> to convert my local username to the username I have at my ISP. Any >> ideas? >> >> BTW, I've configured Pine just fine for this. I'd just like take the >> extra step and have sendmail take care of all mailer utilities. >> >> >> Q2: CUPS... >> >> What's the best/right way to upgrade from LPRng to CUPS? >> >> I understand that HP printers work better under CUPS. True or False? >> >> TIA, >> Bill >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > got my hp 932c printer to work so easy with cups

Jan. 1, 2000

Re: [Wlug] Linux and wireless 802.11b

by donald vitkus

Chuck Noyes wrote: > > I haven't had any luck getting a Netgear MA401 802.11b PCMCIA card > working. I'm using RH 7.3 (2.4.18 kernel). I rebuilt the kernel to > turn on support for the card, but I can't get a connection to my > access point (a Netgear WG602). The kernel boots and tries to start > the eth0 interface, which doesn't exist, since there's no CAT5 cable > pluggeg into the ethernet port. The output of ifconfig shows the only > interface that's up is the loopback (lo) interface. I have an HP > Pavilion zt1180 laptop. > > Is there anything else I need to do? > > Thanks, > Chuck > -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: > http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > have you though of upgrading red hat. so newer hard requires newer software

Jan. 1, 2000