Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.18 with suse 8.0)
From: W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com)
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 20:26:10 AKDT
1st.
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2nd.
I have more than one SuSE 8.0 Professional install working great with stock kernels.
This laptop with :
# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot = /dev/hda
change-rules
reset
read-only
menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg
lba32
prompt
timeout = 80
message = /boot/message
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = linux
root = /dev/hda6
vga = 791
initrd = /boot/initrd
append = " hdc=ide-scsi"
and my SCSI-3 based workstation.
I have a SuSE 8.0 install running with the stock kernel on a 'minimal' laptop
also. My oldest son has SuSE 8.0 Pro on his dual boot machine with the stock kernel also.
I run Plextor only CD-R drives for burning, and SCSI-3 Plextor CD's for serving up the source.
There is *no* issue with the stock kernel and my Plextor's.
Not sure what your problem really is though.
Regards,
Dee
On (02/09/02 19:42), Justin Dieters wrote:
>
>
> Greg Madden wrote:
> > Justin, I had another thought on the IDE issue & freeze ups. This can be
> > obvious but it has affected me. The dma setting is important in getting
> > any performance out of IDE controllers ..etc. I have found that it is
> > not always enabled during an install. Just in case: hdparm.
>
> Thanks, I'll check it out. I also tried the newest stable kernel
> (2.4.19), but I can't get it to work quite right. The new kernel looks
> gives me an error about 'can't access /dev/pg*' or something like that,
> whereas in 2.4.18 it works fine configured as /dev/scd0.
>
> Right now I have a fully-working Mandrake 8.2 install set up, so it's
> not a big issue.. It just gets under my skin that an $80 SuSE 8.0
> distro would have something like cd burning on a common drive like a
> Plextor broken.. And I'm pretty sure it's not hardware
> incompatibilities, since Mandrake got it right.. :) I'm suspecting
> there's something in SuSE's kernel that is messing up, but so far I've
> been unsuscessful at getting a self-compiled kernel to work properly,
> even using the .config file from the SuSE install..
>
> The closest I can figure is that it seems to panic as soon as the
> burn-proof goes into action (as shown by the leds on the cd drive) But
> the interesting thing is it doesn't always freeze. I've had the whole
> burn process stopped for about a minute while accessing the DVD drive
> without any problem, and then I try the exact same thing again and it
> panics.
>
> Also, I tried Debian, but it only configured the dvd drive, not the
> cd-rw drive, and I don't really know enough about setting up the
> ide-scsi stuff and all the related stuff to get it working.
>
> Speaking of debian, I was under the impresssion that it was a pretty
> full-featured distro, but my install seemed more like a bare-bones
> install than anything. Hardly any of my hardware was set up by debian,
> and the software included seemed minimal. I had to manually set up X
> and after a while I was able to get a KDE session going. Anyway, I'm
> not whining about it (smile) Just wondering if perhaps there's something
> I should be doing during the install that I didn't...
>
> "And so the CD-RW saga continues.." :)
>
> Justin
>
> P.S. I CC'd the list in case anyone has any insights into the /dev/pg*
> thing.
>
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