Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-23 Thread Duncan
James Tyrer posted on Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:11:43 -0700 as excerpted: > I presume that KInfoCenter managed to find other information by reading > the /proc directory. I understand that KInfoCenter uses Solid. As Kevin mentions, probably not /proc, per se. I believe he's correct on udisks/udisks2

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-23 Thread Duncan
James Tyrer posted on Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:11:43 -0700 as excerpted: > On 01/22/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan wrote: >> James Tyrer posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:24:06 -0700 as excerpted: >> >>> The fist strange issue is that KInfoCenter doesn't find my Hard Disk. >> >> Can't help you with that one as I do

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2014-01-23, 11:11:43, James Tyrer wrote: >> On 01/22/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan wrote: > >> > While I don't have that tool installed either, I'd wonder if one or both >> > problems are permissions related. Presumably the liveCD has

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2014-01-23, 11:11:43, James Tyrer wrote: > On 01/22/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan wrote: > > While I don't have that tool installed either, I'd wonder if one or both > > problems are permissions related. Presumably the liveCD has permissions > > adjusted just right... either directly or (mor

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-23 Thread James Tyrer
On 01/22/2014 10:29 PM, Duncan wrote: James Tyrer posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:24:06 -0700 as excerpted: The fist strange issue is that KInfoCenter doesn't find my Hard Disk. Can't help you with that one as I don't have kinfocenter installed in my "just what I'll use and what that requires"

Re: [kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-22 Thread Duncan
James Tyrer posted on Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:24:06 -0700 as excerpted: > The fist strange issue is that KInfoCenter doesn't find my Hard Disk. Can't help you with that one as I don't have kinfocenter installed in my "just what I'll use and what that requires" installation at all. (Which, given th

[kde-linux] Hard Disk issues

2014-01-22 Thread James Tyrer
The fist strange issue is that KInfoCenter doesn't find my Hard Disk. I can't imagine how stupid it is: root [ / ]# ls /proc/ide/ drivers hdc hdd hdh ide0 ide1 ide2 ide3 root [ / ]# cat /proc/ide/hdh/model WDC WD3200AAJB-00J3A0 root [ / ]# cat /proc/ide/hdh/capacity 625142448 The other