Re: Mandrake 10.0 hardware problems.

["Casey Boone" <ophidian_snake@hotmail.com>]

ok first for the zip drive, no idea, never used one under linux, not even 
sure what /dev/* device they would show up as if not something like 
/dev/hdb.  i defer this to someone else on the list who has used a zip.  i 
personally stopped using zips at all when i started seeing customer zip 
drives failing at what i considered to be a rather high rate (think click of 
death).  i wouldnt trust a zip to hold any data you dont have backed up 
somewhere else, but as with all things, YMMV.

as for the firewire drive, it will appear to the system as a scsi hard 
drive.  you will probably have to mount it manually.  open up a terminal, 
then "su -" to get to root.  do an "fdisk -l /dev/sd?".  this will give you 
a list of all the scsi hard drives the system thinks it has and tell you if 
they have a partition table.  if it doesnt show up, there was a script that 
someone on this list gave me a long time ago which would cause the system to 
recheck all of the scsi ids in the system to look for any scsi hardware 
changes.  it worked well for me, and if you need it we can search the list 
archives for it.

if you can find what /dev/sdX drive it is, you can mount it by first 
creating a mount point, such as "mkdir /mnt/firewire".  then if it is 
/dev/sda, you can use "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/firewire" to mount it.   then 
you will be able to browse to /mnt/firewire and see what is on the drive.  
if this works let us know and we can help you make it easier to do so.

does the firewire controller show up in any kind of hardware list?  IIRC 
mandrake has some kind of hardware browsing utility that ships with it.  you 
can also do an lsmod as root to see what modules are loaded, then look for 
any that talk about 1394.

im not that familiar with mandrake, but have you tried looking on mandrake's 
community forums?  someone has probably ran into at least the 1394 drive 
issue before so i would say that there is a fix listed.

Casey



>From: "John Rathmann" <tophat39@charter.net>
>Hello!
>
>I have a good install of Mandrake 10.0 on my Athlon 1.33Ghz Thunderbird PC,
>using LILO to dual-boot to Win ME, and a logical Linux Ext2 partition of 
>8GB
>with a 1024MB swapfile.  Other info on my PC:
>
>I really need some help  - My problem is that I am confused by the hardware
>setup which is new to me. I have no problem with reading data on my floppy,
>my CD-ROM, my CD-RW or printing to my printer (Canon BJC-2110). I haven't
>tried to create a CD-R disk, since I haven't gotten that far yet.
>
>I can't access my 40GB Buslink IEEE1394 (firewire) external drive, nor my
>internal ZIP250 IDE/ATAPI drive.
>
>  The ZIP drive is a slave to my internal hard drive on the primary IDE
>connector, and the CD-R and CD-RW drives both take up the secondary IDE
>connector.
>
>  The ZIP250 drive has an icon on the KDE desktop. I cannot mount the 
>ZIP250
>by inserting a removable media in the drive, even if I do that before I 
>boot
>up.
>
>The Buslink external drive has no desktop icon.  I get no response from the
>external HD at all.
>
>The specs on my PC are:
>
>      Mid-tower ATX form factor case, 300w power supply and dual fans.
>      AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.33Ghz CPU (SLOT A)
>      ASUS A7A266 DDR Motherboard, with 266Mhz FSB.
>      256MB PC2100 266Mhz DDR SDRAM.
>      Windows Millenium Edition (OEM CD and COA).
>      Mandrake 10.0 GNU/Linux (LILO dual boot)
>
>       Mitsumi 1.44 MB 3.5" Dual Density floppy drive
>       Mitsumi PS/2 104-key keyboard
>       Mitsumi PS/2 scroll mouse.
>
>      GEM .26 dpi 17" SVGA Scanport PnP monitor.
>      Canon BJC-2110 Color Inkjet printer.
>      Creative Labs stereo powered external speakers.
>
>      Iomega Zip250 internal ATAPI IDE drive.
>      Iomega Zip250 external USB 1.1 drive.
>
>      ACER CD-950E/TKU 50X CD-ROM ATAPI IDE drive.
>      ACER 12x8x32 CD-R/RW ATAPI IDE drive.
>      Western Digital 40GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA hard drive.
>      Buslink 40GB external "Firewire" hard drive (shared).
>
>      Visiontek Nvidia GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP video card.
>      Creative SB Live! Value PCI audio/game card.
>      U.S. Robotics internal 56K V.90 data/fax modem.
>      AOpen 10/100 Fast Ethernet NIC PCI card.
>
>      2 PS/2 ports for mouse and keyboard.
>      4 USB 1.1 ports (back).
>      3 IEEE 1394 "firewire" ports (back).
>      1 parallel port (LPT1).
>      2 serial ports (COM1, COM2).
>
>      Under Win ME only:
>
>          Creative SB Live! audio center software.
>          VisionTek Nvidia graphics adapter software.
>          Iomegaware 4.0.2 software for Zip drives.
>
>
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