On Monday 06 December 2004 6:07 pm, David Johanson wrote:
Well, not having received any advice with part 2, let me continue with part CD Recorder (/dev/dvdrecorder) CD-ROM (/dev/cdrom) CD-ROM (/dev/cdrom11) DVD (/dev/dvd)
Are these all SCSI or ATAPI or mixed? Most PC motherboards can only handle 4 ATAPI devices which might explain why the hard disk isn't being shown if it's ATAPI also.
floppy (/dev/sdb) [ an icon that points to the ATAPI Zip 250 //
Might just be the icon, but I seem to remember awhile back that some SCSI devices "faked ATAPI," there was a bit more work required to get them going 0 a symlink to an ATAPI device, but I thought it changed some time ago.
non-functional ] Hard Disk (/dev/sdc4) [ an icon pointing to ???? ]
Is the device set for 4 manually?
All 4 CD/DVD devices, the real floppy, and the 9.2 drives work as expected. The USB Zip drive also functions but interestingly the icon changes to that for a USB drive when a disk is inserted, and disappears when the disk is
Ah, the wonders of plug-and-pray. :-)
Neither the "floppy" /dev/sdb nor the "hard disk" /dev/sdc4 will function at all and I can't determine to what the /dev/sdc4 points.
Did you try a du command to see if it'll show the drive?
place in the My Computer file. This seems like off behavior. (2) The system would not "read" the correct time, even though it was being read off the
I had the same problem, it turns out that the locale I set had not taken. Once I adjusted the local in the KDE taskbar it displayed time fine. Cheers Charles http://members.porchlight.ca/charm/