David Johanson wrote:
Well, 9.2 arrived this week and I spent last night trying to get it installed. No major problems save for the following:
1. Even though the setup program and hardware info (YaST) sees my maxtor 160GB USB 2.0 drive (6Y160P0 - sys_bus_id: 0 0) under the heading of DASD Disks and USB, I can find no way to access it once I'm on the desktop. No fstab entry, nothing in "my computer" ughh, nothing at all.
It should have set this up for you having seen it. I would check to see what scsi modules are installed. fdisk /dev/sda or sdb to see if it's been recognised as scsi. I'm not sure if the latest SuSE kernel still addresses usb storage as scsi, if not try fdisk /dev/uba. On getting my boxes up to date, I switched to kernel.org kernels which now use /dev/ub? and I have a 120G usb attached to my laptop, /dev/uba1 (reiserfs) mounted as /UBA1 and /dev/uba2 used as swap.
2. Again, even though hardware info sees my Nikon USB 2.0 Super Coolscan 5000 scanner (LS-5000 -- sysfs_bus_id: 8-1: 1 0) under the heading USB, I can find no way to access it. However, even though 9.2 won't show it to me, (it did install the Epson 2400 perfectly), vuescan can see it and use it with no problems.
You may have to look at /etc/sane.d/coolscan2.conf to make sure the USB ID there is correct.
3. Of even greater concern, I can find NO way to access by ide ZIP 250 drive and this isn't even identified in hardware info. This seems very odd. If I boot with the drive containing a disk, I get a new hardware found message, an offer to configure which I accept, and then a message that it has been configured. However, I can't locate it anywhere, not on the desktop, not in my computer, not under /media, not in fstab, and not in hardware info.
No clue on ZIP drives.
4. The 9.2 install is MUCH slower than any version I have on my other systems (7.1, 7.1, 8.2, and 9.0), and virtually grinds to halt with a disk in the zip drive taking up to 2 minutes to return control.
Hmmmm.... It's much faster here, though I did have it crawl at one stage when ethereal was left up for over a day. Deciding to reboot, I went around looking to get rid of things I didn't want up next time, killed off ethereal and it immediately was back to its quick self. I had checked with top and only resmgr showed a very large amount of CPU, did a restart of that, then there was very little CPU/memory useage, but it was still slow. I couldn't understand it, I'd have expected to see ethereal using up the resources, the HD light was on solid most of the time. Anyhow, that saved me a reboot. Try "top", it may give you the answer.
As for the zip drive, I've tried entries in fstab of /dev/hdc4 and mounting at /media/zip with file systems of auto, vfat, and subfs none of which have worked and options of the new floppy default; and noauto,user, 0 0.
I have no idea as to how to get the USB HD seen.
Any and all help on getting the zip drive up and running as well as finding the 160GB hard drive GREATLY appreciated. I've searched the manuals but can find nothing to help.
dave See above regarding the usb HD. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====