Programming the floppy disk drive

1999-02-21 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hi everybody I',m not sure if this is the right place to put a quetion like this, but here it is. I ned some information about the structure of a floppy and how both to read and to foramt it at a low level. Of couser under linux, but also under DOS (I've got some doc on how DOS works with floppie

Re: Boot managers

1999-02-17 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
About the boot manager I can't say nothing more, just read all the doc available on this subject. By the way you can find tons of documentation in every debian's ftp site, just lok for '.../LDP' directory. There's the Linux Documentation Project. Under this project was release a quick start manu

AIC7XXX: parameters at boot promt.

1999-02-17 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hello: I need to pass some aic7xxx parameters at boot promt of the rescue disc and I'm not sure about the syntax. Is the following line correct: linux aic7xxx_reset_delay=15 aic7xxx_tagged_queuing=on aic7xxx_proc_stats=off ? I'll thank any additional information on this subject. Thanx in advanc

Re: [Fwd: HELP FOR A POOR FRENCH STUDENT WHICH TRY TO INSTALL LINUX]

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hello: I'm a poor spanish newbie in this waters but I don't see any reply to your message in the list, so here is my help: I can't say so much about your system 'cos I'm a PC user, but this could help: 1.- See the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO to check if all your hardware is supported. You

Troubles with ZIP-100 and LS-120.

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hello list: I've got a ZIP-100 parallel port dirve and a LS-120 internal unit. I've installed Slink (kernel 2.0.36) but I couldn't set up the ppa.o module for the zip during the installation (I'll thank any help on this matter. The lp.o module was installed with the default parameters). The probl

Re: boot prompt for scsi drives

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
There's a SCSI-HOWTO in the HOWTO's. Look for it in http://www.linux.org Sorry for the delay. ___ Even God discusses the details with the devil (anonymous). Antonio A. Rivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] STARTEG Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] marc escribió: > > where can i get more information regarding

Re: Zip detection in Kernel2.2.0 Problems

1999-02-14 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
I've installed Slink and when I tried to set up the ppa parameters I'd got an error an the zip was not installed. Now I must to install it from the command line. Any help will be regreted. My system's got just one parallel port at 0x378 irq7 Mike Merten escribió: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:59

RE: aic7xxx kernel: Did you solve your problem?

1999-01-28 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
ilar problem with an AHA-2940UW and a SEAGATE ST34520W hard drive. Thank you anyway Antonio A. Rivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Even God discuss on the details with the devil STARTEG Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -Mensaje original- De: Richard Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Antonio

RE: aic7xxx kernel: Did you solve your problem?

1999-01-23 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Hi I've got an 2940UW to and I've got a similar problem with it. I've tried almost everything since the past December and the problem still goes on. My system hangs at the detection phase of the HD attached to the card (it's the only device attached to the card). I get a timed out error. If you g

RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-21 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
>> a) It's closer to the natural language than C and, of course, C++, and all >> of us think in our own natural language (english, spanish, french, german, >> etc...) and this is the first language we use when we develope a program. > >This can also be a disadvantage, because programming _is_ much

RE: Learning more/Linux programming books

1999-01-17 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
> >I think that it is worth considering skipping the Pascal stage and >going straight to C, or equivalent languages. Taking this approach a bit >further, I think it is even worth considering going straight to C++, >perhaps >by talking first about the procedural aspects of C++ and only then, as a >s

RE: TO-TH : Conflictos SCSI.

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Saludos, tocayo Agradezco mucho el tiempo que te has tomado para darme una solución al problema, pero me parece que oyes campanas y no sabes dónde, seguramente por mi tendencia a hacer literatura en lugar de dar información. Aclarar que dispositivos SCSI sólo tengo el disco duro, la zip e

RV: Amazing installation. SCSI problems

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
-Mensaje original- De: Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: John C. Ellingboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: miércoles, 06 de enero de 1999 05:24 p.m. Asunto: RE: Amazing installation. SCSI problems >Hi John > >You are right, I don't ha

RV: TO-TH : Conflictos SCSI.

1999-01-07 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
-Mensaje original- De: Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: miércoles, 06 de enero de 1999 05:23 p.m. Asunto: RE: TO-TH : Conflictos SCSI. >>No. Me refiero a todos. Incluso el disco duro. (Estás tratando

RE: Amazing installation. SCSI problems

1999-01-05 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
Thanx John But as I've said in my previous e-mail I'm new here and I don't know the ways to deal with debian as well as you think. Can you tell me how can I set up the driver? Greetings from Spain. Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hey Antonio, > &

Amazing installation. SCSI problems

1999-01-03 Thread Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren
    Heavy Xmas to all of you       I'm new in linux but not in dealing with the installation process of an OS (DOS, OS2, WINDOWS 9x,..), but Debian defeats me.     First some technical data about my system:     - Processor:   i486 dx4-100     - Motherboard:    VLB-PCI, American Megat