Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
>> On a side note, does anybody have any recommendations on how-to spin
>> down the hdd (as a user) prior to disconnecting it?
>
>
> Well, I usually just unmount my usb disk and unplug it. It spins down
> alone, once it's off power. Is there something wrong with this?
Digby Tarvin wrote:
>On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:08:13PM +0200, Antonello Moneta wrote:
>
>
>>I have a little problem, mybe you can resolve it:
>>
>>when boot my linux box, my laptop use eth0 like a wireless interfece, but I
>>want eth0 for lan and eth1 for wlan. How can do it ?
>>
>>
>>
>
>S
Charles Muller wrote:
>
> Win2000 and XP will allow either FAT32 (vfat for Linux) or NTFS,
> although if you happened to try to format the drive from one of these
> OS's it will try to force you to use NTFS for any sector larger than
> 32 GB. But you can you format the drive using a different tool
Hey,
I purchased a USB 2.0 hdd enclosure along with a 80GB toshiba laptop
harddrive. I plan on using this USB HDD for storing large media files. I
also plan on using this enclosure to facilitate the transfer of files
between my laptop and other PC's.
Which file system would be best suitable
B Thomas wrote:
>If you are refering to the debian package hotplug. I do not have that
>installed (should I ?).
>
>
>
Actually, I confused hotplug with discover ;) If you want you can
configure discover to skip the loading of the ipw3945 module by adding
skip ipw3945 to /etc/discover.conf
Then
Daniele wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I am an old Debian user and I would like to update a little bit my Toshiba M40
>laptop. I am trying to install etch (now I have sarge) on the Toshiba.
>Unfortunately the etch installer is unable to mount the cdrom. It begins the
>installation without any problem until t
2006 at 11:01:46AM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> B Thomas wrote:
> I'm not sure which binary daemon you are referring too, but I just let
> the hotplug system load the firmware. By the sounds of things, hotplug
> is already loading the kernel module. Maybe try copying your firmware
>
2006 at 11:01:46AM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> B Thomas wrote:
> I'm not sure which binary daemon you are referring too, but I just let
> the hotplug system load the firmware. By the sounds of things, hotplug
> is already loading the kernel module. Maybe try copying your firmware
>
B Thomas wrote:
>Hi,
>Thanks once again for all your help.
>
>I did remove the auto line from /etc/networking/interfaces
>It did speed up the boot process, by cutting the time spent
>on dhcp discover.
>
>However very early in the boot process kernel module ipw3945
>does still get loaded but the b
B Thomas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to configure /etc/networking/interfaces, ifplugd and
>wpa_supplicant so that my laptop automatically configures networking
>whenever an interface becomes available. The state of things so far is
>as follows :
>
>
>
>
>/etc/networking/interfaces:
>
B Thomas wrote:
>So I did create a file /etc/modutils/libata with content :
>
>add options libata atapi_enabled=1
>
>
>
/etc/modutils/libata should read:
options libata atapi_enabled=1
not
>add options libata atapi_enabled=1
>
>
>
Perhaps that is where your problem lies...
>However on reb
B Thomas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Yep the cd does load sata drives (libata, ata_piix). It was an issue
>with /etc/fstab. I changed /dev/hda to /dev/sda and that worked. Thank
>you. But there is still an issue with the sata drivers. I am able to boot
>of the hard drive now and base-config starts up. However
B Thomas wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to install Sarge on Inspiron 9400. Could you please
>advice on what would be the more convienent way to go about this.
>
>I did try installing with Kenshi Muto's custom sarge installer
>( http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ ) that uses a 2.6.15 kernel.
>This way the ba
anoop aryal wrote:
>On Tuesday 02 May 2006 13:47, Stefan Srdic wrote:
>
>
>>anoop aryal wrote:
>>
>>
>>>hi,
>>>
>>>i'm using unstable on dell D820.
>>>
>>>1) i can't seem to get the dvd rw drive to be recogni
anoop aryal wrote:
>hi,
>
>i'm using unstable on dell D820.
>
>1) i can't seem to get the dvd rw drive to be recognized. if it's being
>recognized, i can't seem to find which device to use. ide_cd and other
>doodads are loaded.
>
>2) i read somewhere that the wireless card on this puppy works wi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>* Prepaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-21 13:42:25 -0400]:
>
>
>
>>Hi all
>>
>>So I just recently installed Debian Etch with a 2.6 kernel on my Inspiron
>>600m. I got everything all working with X11 and wireless. But the issue that
>>I'm having it the battery life in Li
I take it that you have the ICH6 chipset? In my BIOS their is a legacy mode option for the SATA controller, toggling it might help. I have gotten it to work on my laptop (which uses the ICH6 chipset) by using the ide-generic and ide-disk and ide-cd drivers during the install. Keep in mind that the
Digby Tarvin wrote:
>>On Friday 14 April 2006 19:21, Digby Tarvin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Not sure what the Ubuntu folks know that the Debian ones don't, but my
>>>recent experience has been that Ubuntu is better at installing that
>>>Etch
>>>
>>>
>>Ubuntu is a bit more permissive of activat
Follow the instructions on this page: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/
It should tell you which drivers are needed for you SATA controller,
then edit /etc/mkinitrd/modules and add the modules needed to load the
root fs with the SATA driver. You might want to edit
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf as well. Onc
Robert Goley wrote:
> Is your hard disk also a SATA? If so, I don't think it is recognizing
> your drive at all.
>
> Robert
>
Yes, the hdd is a SATA as well. The hdd is on ata1 and the DVD is on
ata2, after days of searching I still cannot find any concrete
documentation on libata. I know that I
> This is only the output of one command. I am guessing it is the
> output of the first command. I really need to know all three to help
> more.
>
> Robert
Sorry for the later reply, here's the complete information that you have
requested. Thanks for your help and interest :)
Stefan
M40:/ho
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
Stefan Srdic escribe:
I've even tried to pass the arguments libata.atapi_enable=1 and
atapi_enable=1 to the kernel through lilo with no success.
Isn't it libata.atapi_enabled?
Cordially, Ismael
No, the kernel states th
Robert Goley wrote:
>When booted using the options that produced the dmesg output that you
>sent, what is the output of the following commands?
>
>cdrecord -scanbus
>cdrecord dev=ATAPI: -scanbus
>cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus
>
>
I tired this while trouble shooting yesterday, today I tried while lo
hi, I've recently installed Etch on my Toshiba Satallite M40. The
installation was a little rough, I had to manipulate the modules in
expert mode in order for the installation to detect my DVD drive and
complete the installation.
Since the installation I've had to compile a new kernel along with
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