[SLE] 9.2 Install Problems & Observations -- Part 3 SOLVED - sorta
Well, not having received any advice with part 2, let me continue with part 3. I completely removed the initial install and did a full new install. This solved some of the problems and an on line update one additional. To explain: The new install now displays 10 drives upon boot which are as follows in order of presentation: CD Recorder (/dev/dvdrecorder) CD-ROM (/dev/cdrom) CD-ROM (/dev/cdrom11) DVD (/dev/dvd) floppy (/dev/fd0) floppy (/dev/sdb) [ an icon that points to the ATAPI Zip 250 // non-functional ] Hard Disk (/dev/sdc4) [ an icon pointing to ???? ] Hard Disk (/dev/sda1) SuSE 9.2 Hard Disk (/dev/sda2) SuSE 9.2 Hard Disk (/dev/sdb4) [ an icon pointing to the unmounted USB Zip 250 ] 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 removed. I also have a 4 port USB hub attached and all devices connected to it work fine. 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. I still am unable to find the 160GB EIDE drive even though SuSE Plugger knows it is present and in fact everything you could possibly want to know about it. Of interest are several things. (1) Immediately after the install some of the device icons would go away when you clicked on them [ /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc4, and occasionally /dev/sdb4 if the device was empty ] but after several reboots this tendency went away and they are now "permanently" in 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 NIST clock in Gaithersburg, MD, until I did an update via you over the weekend; now it works as advertised. (3) No matter what I do, I can't read that 160 GB drive. So again, any and all suggestions / advice would be greatly appreciated! dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
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/
Charles McColm wrote:
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)
in order EIDE SCSI SCSI SCSI
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.
This is just non-functional; I have no idea why. It's pointing to the device (mis-typed below as sdc4) /dev/hdc4, the internal zip 250 which now reads a zip disk, but won't release it without a re-boot.
non-functional ] Hard Disk (/dev/sdc4) [ an icon pointing to ???? ]
Is the device set for 4 manually?
no
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.
The "floppy" sdb is still somewhat of a mystery; the /dev/sdc4 is again a mis-type on my part, it's hdc4, the internal zip 250 which does now read but won't release.
Did you try a du command to see if it'll show the drive?
no, forgot to try that but I can later
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.
I've done that daily for about a week, always resetting it to the correct local time and selecting the eastern US time zone, but each reboot its back to some wacky time.
Cheers
Thanks for the suggestions; I'm still plugging away at it. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
David Johanson wrote:
This is just non-functional; I have no idea why. It's pointing to the device (mis-typed below as sdc4) /dev/hdc4, the internal zip 250 which now reads a zip disk, but won't release it without a re-boot.
I had problems with the eject button on the drive as far back as 6.2. Use the eject command, see also Iomega's website, as they have a utils package for all varieties of the ZIP drive.
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
This is just non-functional; I have no idea why. It's pointing to the device (mis-typed below as sdc4) /dev/hdc4, the internal zip 250 which now reads a zip disk, but won't release it without a re-boot.
I had problems with the eject button on the drive as far back as 6.2. Use the eject command, see also Iomega's website, as they have a utils package for all varieties of the ZIP drive.
Unfortunately, using the eject button doesn't do anything. Haven't visited the website but that I'll do smartly. Thanks for the suggestion. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe
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