On Friday 05 Nov 2004 16:04, Jerry Westrick wrote:
On Friday 05 November 2004 04:51, David Krider wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 21:52 -0500, BandiPat wrote:
Just curious, but have you tried disconnecting the IDE dvd drive and just leave nothing but the scsi devices connected?
I've had this problem (of hassling with resmgr) since 9.0 and before I got the DVD. You can even google up this sort of thing and see the problem played out on this list back then. On my work machine, I had a SCSI DVD and CD-RW and an IDE CD-ROM. Same sorts of problems. I worked through the resmgr config back then, but now I can't get it to work at all.
The bottom line is that if the answer lies in moving cables around, I'm through with Linux. I'm tired of this sort of thing. I have to stomp all sorts of little problems like this with every release. I keep thinking that it will all be great with the next rev, but it's always the same story.
I recently got a new laptop at work -- a top of the line Dell M60, which is nice -- but I got told by my new manager that I couldn't run Linux on it. The whole job sort of sucks for various reasons, but I'm trying to give it my best, so I bit the bullet, and just installed Windows on it. This is the first time I've "lived" in Windows for 6 or 7 years now. Of course, I've always had some Windows lying around for gaming and such, but I've been running a Linux desktop at home and work for that long.
The ease of use and strong laptop support in Windows makes these sorts of problems all the more obvious and ridiculous. I mean, what's the point of an extra daemon that completely invalidates the use of perfectly good, old-fashioned device permissions? Why the extra layer on top of logindevperm? Note that I'm not saying Windows is perfect, though. In fact, I loved the fact that I had to hold up a conference call with my manager today while my laptop had to reboot after running the NetMeeting wizard for the first time. And that sort of thing drives me nuts as well.
I just want it to work.
dk
Do yourself a favor... Bite the Bullet, and either.... Trash the Blasted SCSI CDROM... or pay someone to fix-it...
Which is one option more you have than if you ran out of support for for your hardware on windows....
No I'm not joking... I've got a logitech webcam in my closet... Not supported on windows 2000, nor XP, nor Linux!...
Though I haven't tried under ME, wine, cause I spent way too much time playing with it (on every single operating system release) so that to save me time (and thereby money) I went and bought a new webcam. The price was irrelevant since there is noway I could justify the amount of time I spent on that stupid thing...
Sure the answer is not perfect, but trashing linux cause it's not working on your old "exotic" hardware is rather silly...
(Before you start bitch'n, you wanna ask for a count on how many people have SCSI CDROMs and DVDs now-a-days?)
Just my Humble Opion...
Jerry you need to be VERY HUMBLE AS WELL a lot more than you think jst cause you are on of the SATA brigade dont trash what is STILL an MAINSTREAM interface .
Pete . PS Slack ware supports scsi no problem.. -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..