Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #203
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Thu, 2 Jun 94 09:13:10 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #203, Volume #2                 Thu, 2 Jun 94 09:13:10 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Have you used Octive? (Andreas Stahel)
  Re: Have you used Octive? (Andreas Stahel)
  Re: Have you used Octive? (Andreas Stahel)
  Re: Have you used Octive? (Andreas Stahel)
  Re: Have you used Octive? (Andreas Stahel)
  Re: Have you used Octive? (Andreas Stahel)
  Re: Will my cdrom work? (Karl Ferguson)
  Re: Connecting 2 Linux boxes, how...? (M.A.Cooper)
  Re: mouse and X (Wayne Walker)
  HOWTO-ntp anyone? (Romano Giannetti)
  Simcity 2000 (NJ. Bruton)
  Re: Can Dosemu run DOOM? (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Term 116 at sunsite.unc.edu (Bill C. Riemers)
  Re: Gateway P5-90? (Shyamal Prasad)
  Re: Gateway P5-90? (Shyamal Prasad)
  Re: ISA SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-II sol'n to PCI/SCSI-II lack of support?? (Jim Michael)
  Linux Quarterly CDROM, Spring '94, now shipping (Michael R. Johnston)
  Re: Problems with Quantum AT-Bus HDs? (Koen J.Mulders (BI92))
  read and write breakups and failures. (Stuart Cornell)
  Re: Networking and Linux (J.J. Paijmans)
  Re: Norton utilities trash lilo (J.J. Paijmans)
  Will my cdrom work? (Karl Ferguson)
  Re: What CD-ROM drive is this??? (Daniel FAGES)
  "Projects under development" list (Harald Milz)

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From: andreas@nanook.isbiel.ch (Andreas Stahel)
Subject: Re: Have you used Octive?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 09:41:29 GMT

In article <2sbno9$h3t@pandora.sdsu.edu> mgutierr@mentor.sdsu.edu (Mario  
Gutierrez) writes:
> Michael P. Jarreau (jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
> : Hi.  I am looking for a matlab like product for my linux box.  I heard
> : octive is the way to go.  Do you have any experience with it?
> 
> : Cheers!
> : Michael
> : jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Hello
on a NeXT at work and on a LINUX box at hoe I use OCTAVE. Some of the
MATLAB commands have to be adapted slightely, but over all OCTAVE is  
working fine. Highly recommanded.

Andreas

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From: andreas@nanook.isbiel.ch (Andreas Stahel)
Subject: Re: Have you used Octive?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 09:42:58 GMT

> Michael P. Jarreau (jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
> : Hi.  I am looking for a matlab like product for my linux box.....
Hello
on a NeXT at work and on a LINUX box at hoe I use OCTAVE. Some of the
MATLAB commands have to be adapted slightely, but over all OCTAVE is  
working fine. Highly recommanded.

Andreas

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From: andreas@nanook.isbiel.ch (Andreas Stahel)
Subject: Re: Have you used Octive?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 09:43:22 GMT

> Michael P. Jarreau (jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
> : Hi.  I am looking for a matlab like product for my linux box.....
Hello
on a NeXT at work and on a LINUX box at hoe I use OCTAVE. Some of the
MATLAB commands have to be adapted slightely, but over all OCTAVE is  
working fine. Highly recommanded.

Andreas

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From: andreas@nanook.isbiel.ch (Andreas Stahel)
Subject: Re: Have you used Octive?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 09:43:59 GMT

> Michael P. Jarreau (jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
> : Hi.  I am looking for a matlab like product for my linux box.....
Hello
on a NeXT at work and on a LINUX box at hoe I use OCTAVE. Some of the
MATLAB commands have to be adapted slightely, but over all OCTAVE is  
working fine. Highly recommanded.

Andreas

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From: andreas@nanook.isbiel.ch (Andreas Stahel)
Subject: Re: Have you used Octive?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 09:44:37 GMT

> Michael P. Jarreau (jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
> : Hi.  I am looking for a matlab like product for my linux box.....
Hello
on a NeXT at work and on a LINUX box at hoe I use OCTAVE. Some of the
MATLAB commands have to be adapted slightely, but over all OCTAVE is  
working fine. Highly recommanded.

Andreas

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From: andreas@nanook.isbiel.ch (Andreas Stahel)
Subject: Re: Have you used Octive?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 09:45:31 GMT

> Michael P. Jarreau (jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
> : Hi.  I am looking for a matlab like product for my linux box.....
Hello
on a NeXT at work and on a LINUX box at hoe I use OCTAVE. Some of the
MATLAB commands have to be adapted slightely, but over all OCTAVE is  
working fine. Highly recommanded.

Andreas

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From: figjam@garion.it.com.au (Karl Ferguson)
Subject: Re: Will my cdrom work?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 15:31:06 +0800

Adam J. Richter (adam@adam.yggdrasil.com) wrote:
: >The Trantor T130(B?) may be troublesome. Yggdrasil reports success [...]

:       Excuse me?  We reported no such thing.  You are perhaps
: thinking of the tests we did on the Trantor T128, which is not the
: same as the T130.

Well, all I want to know is if it'll work under Linux.  the little card I got
with the Trantor card says Trantor T130 SCSI Host Adapter.  I havent yet got
a proper response  :)  <smirk>
Regards...
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...Karl

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
From: M.A.Cooper@bradford.ac.uk (M.A.Cooper)
Subject: Re: Connecting 2 Linux boxes, how...?
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 10:13:08 GMT

Jayaputera Glenn Tesla (tesla@numbat.cs.rmit.OZ.AU) wrote:
: Hi...
:   First pardon me if this is an FAQ.  If so please advice me where to get
:   it so I can read it.
:  
:   I would like to get some advise on the following since this is pretty
:   new to me.  I would like to have the following systems at home (they
:   both will be running Linux btw)
:  
:      ____________              ___________________
:     |  System #1 |            |       System #2   |
:     | Development|<---------->|  News/Mail Server | ----> To Internet
:     |____________|            |___________________|       Using SLIP
:  
:   I would like to have a dedicated News/Mail server on System #2, which is
:   connected to Internet via SLIP.  I do not plan to feed all the news, just
:   the ones I am interested in.  With that respect, I think I could use
:   386DX-40 with around 200M HD and 4M RAM. On System #1, since I am going
:   to use it for X development, I have a much more better system.  My
:   questions however, are:
:  
:   1. Would the configuration for System #2 enough (as explained above).

        sorry no idea

:   2. The most important this is, how do I connect System #1 and System #2.
:      Via serial, parallel or ethernet?  Where can I find more information
:      regarding this?

        probably the easiest and cheapest way to connect the two machines
        would be to use a PLIP connection. All that is required is a parallel
        port on both machines, and a cable to connect the two. Full information
        on setting up and using PLIP can be found under /usr/src/linux/drivers/net
        in the files readme1.PLIP and readme2.PLIP, including details of making 
        the appropriate cable.
:  
: Many thanks in advance
:   glenn
:  


        Hope this helps
                Martin

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From: wwalker@fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Wayne Walker)
Subject: Re: mouse and X
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 06:06:30 GMT

In article <1994Jun1.140608.77@news.datasrv.co.il>,
Edunetics <edunet@zeus.datasrv.co.il> wrote:
>
>       I have a problem I don't know how to solve. I havea attached to a
>Linux box here a microsoft mouse. the only place where the mouse refuses
>to work is in X. Any suggestions to how to fix this problem??
>
>
>PS - I need an answer as soon as possible (my slip line depends on it :-(
>

I found one line in one file that implied ( not said - implied) that the
MicroSoft Inport mouse (says Inport Mouse on the bottom) simply won't work.
As far as I can gather it is neither a serial mouse nor a bus mouse by 
X386 definitions.  I gave up and bought a $10 cheepie serial mouse at WalMart.
It works fine in both DOS and Linux...Any one know how I can make my nice (read quiet clicking) Microsoft Inport Mouse to work???   Thanks!!


-- 

                                  Wayne

Wayne Walker - Computer Network Administration - Motorola

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From: romano@sensores2.fis.ucm.es (Romano Giannetti)
Subject: HOWTO-ntp anyone?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 06:27:08 -0500
Reply-To: romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it

Organization: DII-EIT (University of Pisa)
Summary: exist a Linux ntp source of informations? 
Keywords: xntp3, ntp, time 

Hi all,

   before starting spending hours in my try to set-up a local
synchronized network with xntp3 (that I have compiled and seem work
well, but documentation is a bit cryptic), has anyone a Linux specific
FAQ or HOWTO or collection of experience handy?   
   If the topics is of interest, and I can get sufficient info, I'll
do a resume and then post it.

My idea od simple configuration is, for my local net:
1 Server:

at bootup executes ntpdate [servers] and then start xntpd with the 
>server second.serv.somewhere
>server another.one
>driftfile /etc/ntp.drift

in the /etc/ntp.conf; the other slaves do the same thing but with only
the local server name in the configurations (and for the first
ntpdate). 

I have read something about kernel ticks/tickadj/adjtime that I have
not well understand... can anyone help me and say if this simple
configuration is suitable/fool/stupid?

Thanks,
        Romano.


--
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romano@iet.unipi.it     * Dpto Electr. y Electronica, Facultad de Fisica
                        * Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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From: ccnjb@sun.cse.bris.ac.uk (NJ. Bruton)
Subject: Simcity 2000
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 08:48:26 GMT

Has anyone got simcity 2000 running with the dos emulator ??
Nick

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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Can Dosemu run DOOM?
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 08:18:18 GMT

In <2sgcca$4ro@galaxy.ucr.edu> datadec@yenko.ucr.edu (Kevin Marcus) writes:

>In article <Cqoozw.3HH@synoptics.com>,
>Jerome Kaidor <jkaidor@synoptics.com> wrote:
>>      Well, can it?  Or do I still need a dos partition on my 2nd
>>Linux box?

>Well, I'm curious why you didn't try it before asking but, the answer is...
>Uh.... no chance.

>No DPMI support there buddy. :|

You obviously didn't look recently...  But indeed, it can't run DOOM.
That shouldn't be necessesary either, we were promised a Linux version
of DOOM.

Rob
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From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers)
Subject: Re: Term 116 at sunsite.unc.edu
Date: 2 Jun 94 11:18:07 GMT
Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu

In article <2sc04g$h75@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> kevinl@NewsServer.cc.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin) writes:

   From: kevinl@NewsServer.cc.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lentin)
   Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
   Date: 30 May 94 06:12:32 GMT
   References: <ann-28508.770232552@cs.cornell.edu>
   Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
   Lines: 33
   NNTP-Posting-Host: molly.cs.monash.edu.au
   X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 150594BETA PL0]

   On Sun, 29 May 1994 17:29:30 GMT, Christopher Shaulis wrote:

   > The guy who did 1.1.16 does not seem to have come forward wanting to take 
   > over development or anything like that. 

   > In my openion, if we're goona start doing unoffical releases, we might as 
   > well do them in a big way. I know there are a couple UDP redirectors 
   > floating around, and I'm sure many people have tried mailing Mr. Oreilly 
   > bug fixes (in vain for he doesn't respond to e-mail) for various things. 
   > I'm sure that if you folks were to place _patches_ agnist 1.1.16 in the 
   > incoming directory at sunsite.unc.edu, someone will concentrate them 
   > together into another unoffical release.

   The person who put out 1.1.15 was Bill Riemers. I mailed to Michael
   recently and Bill replied saying that Michael was busy with finals and that
   Bill was handling term queries for him. Bill's accomplishments in the
   CREDITS file are listed thusly:
       Stuck my fingers in everywhere and hacked term all to peices...
       Seriously, added TitanOS support, and termnet.

   He's first on the list of credits so I presume he and Michael are working
   together. I'd trust the 1.1.16 as a release. Quite a while ago Michael said
   that there were no more releases of term. This may have been as far back as
   1.1.8 even. The one after that was labelled as 'Definitely not a
   distribution of term'. I think you can treat that as all a bit of a joke
   now. The TODO list for term is still quite chunky.


Sorry, I seemed to have missed the whole discussion durring my long
Memorial Day weekend.  I wouldn't take the CREDITS line to seriously,
as I wrote it myself while I was adding credits for other people.
Anyways, I had promised to try to add send() and recv() support into
term117.  However at this point I've recieved 150 letters with bug
corrections and patches which already work.  So rather than holding
off for the additional functions I'll release an ALPHA version
term116a at bohr.physics.purdue.edu:/pub/bcr/term which will be
incremented as bug reports come in until I feel I have something
I can put on sunsite.unc.edu as term117.  (Look for 116a sometime
about noon EST on 02JUN94)  In the mean time here are some of the new
things people have sent me that I'm currently patching in:

  1. Real gethostbyname, getsockbyname, getpeerbyname output instead
     of my quick hacks.
  2. tdownload
  3. Support for several new OS's

Things people have informed me they are working on, but not quite
ready to release:

  1. "udp" support
  2. "kerbos" support


                                Bill

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From: shyamal@seas.smu.edu (Shyamal Prasad)
Subject: Re: Gateway P5-90?
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 01:41:30 GMT

In article <cjrCqqqB4.Bwu@netcom.com>, Chris Russell <cjr@netcom.com> wrote:
>I'm wondering if anyone has tried running Linux on a Gateway P5-90 yet. 
>Some specific compatibility queries I have are:
>  1) Their enhanced IDE inteface
Seems to work. You need to pass parameters to LILO when you boot up,
and the heads should be 1023, and not 1048 as reported by CMOS. I
recompiled the kernel with the parameters coded in.

>  1) An Adaptec AHA 2740 (or is it 2940) PCI SCSI-2 controller

Uh...I did not know it was in there. I don't think we have a SCSI
controller. 

>  2) ATI Mach 64 Graphics (I know XFree86 doesn't handle this yet)

Will not work - but I hear you can treat it like an SVGA card and get
on with it. I hope to try soon :-)

BTW the NEC CD ROM drive they gave us instead of the CDU-31A is
useless, but there may be a fix around it. It seems to be connected to
the IDE controller.....anyone? I am using the 1.0 Kernel.

I installed Slackware off the Infomagic CD ROM (by copying the
distribution to the hard drive via Windoz since the CD ROM is not
recognized). 

Shyamal
-- 
Shyamal Prasad, Department of Computer Science
Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275, USA

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From: shyamal@seas.smu.edu (Shyamal Prasad)
Subject: Re: Gateway P5-90?
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 01:45:04 GMT

In article <1994Jun2.014130.23788@seas.smu.edu>,
Shyamal Prasad <shyamal@seas.smu.edu> wrote:
>Seems to work. You need to pass parameters to LILO when you boot up,
>and the heads should be 1023, and not 1048 as reported by CMOS. I
         ^^^^^
That should be cylinders.....sorry :-)

Shyamal
-- 
Shyamal Prasad, Department of Computer Science
Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275, USA

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From: genepool@netcom.com (Jim Michael)
Subject: Re: ISA SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-II sol'n to PCI/SCSI-II lack of support??
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 11:59:26 GMT

Monica Sweat (monica@cis.ufl.edu) wrote:

: Hi,

: I was thinking I could get a SoundBlaster 16 ISA card with the SCSI-II support on
: it and hang all the SCSI-II periperals from that driver rather than from the
: PCI/SCSI-II driver that will come with the system.  That _could_ work since the
: SCSI-II driver that would be on the ISA SoundBlaster 16 card would be supported
: by Linux.  Or at least that is the theory.

: Anyone tried this?  Or used some other cheap ISA/SCSI-II driver for a temporary
: (or permanent) solution on a PCI system?

I have the Yggdrasil Summer 94 release. I had to use an experimental driver
with my SB16 SCSI-2 card to get it to see the CD drive. Use:

linux aha152x=port,interrupt,scsi-id,1

where in my case port=0x340 inerrupt=11 scsi-id=7 are the defaults. 

Jim

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From: mjohnsto@ditdah.Morse.Net (Michael R. Johnston)
Subject: Linux Quarterly CDROM, Spring '94, now shipping
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 23:39:29 GMT

After several production delays on this CD, I am pleased to say that
The Linux Quarterly CDROM, Spring '94, began shipping yesterday. This issue
should begin showing up in mailboxes and UPS trucks worldwide over the next
several days. 

Many thanks to those who've patiently waited for this issue. We will do
our utmost to avoid this problem in the future.
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From: kmulders@fwi.uva.nl (Koen J.Mulders (BI92))
Subject: Re: Problems with Quantum AT-Bus HDs?
Date: 1 Jun 1994 09:28:40 GMT

1zezschw@rzdspc2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hans Georg von Zezschwitz) writes:

>Hello!

>From Linux 0.99.14, when I joined the community, till 1.1.16 I am still
>having one major problem:
>My HD (Quantum 520 MB AT-Bus) produces regular HD-Resets, sometimes (1:2)

I've had no problems with my LPS 52AT, 52 Mb IDE interface. Promise VLB
controller. kernel 0.99p14 

>followed by a system-crash. This problems occurs irregularly, but is 
>depending on the quantity of data that is transferred by the hard-disk.
>(E.g.: When calling "gcc" under OpenWindows (8 MB RAM) the swapping
>often forces a crash down). Quite often GCC stops its work with a
>"caught signal 11" message.

>I am far beyond accusing LINUX itsself for this problem. But when a friend
>of mine told me, Quantum HDs are not really familar with LINUX, I started
>accusing my harddisk. (I replaced the controller already - nothing changed).

>I really hated idiots who claim a company to produce incompatible hardware
I've heard that quantum drive are a bit incompatible with the IDE standard,
however this should give any problems in a intel machine. Amiga users
(Don't shoot, I've never had one) can't use Quantum IDE drives because of
this.

>just because they can't read manuals. But I wonder if other members of the
>community of Linux and community of Quantum join my problems?

>Thanks,
It's not that much, sorry I can't give you any real info.

>Georg v.Zezschwitz
>University of Hamburg

-- 
Koen Mulders
kmulders@fwi.uva.nl    

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From: smc@aivru.shef.ac.uk (Stuart Cornell)
Subject: read and write breakups and failures.
Date: 2 Jun 1994 08:29:59 -0400
Reply-To: smc@aivru.shef.ac.uk (Stuart Cornell)


I am running Linux 1.0 and I am experiencing severe problems
with read/write.
We have an in-house inter-communications harness running on Sun's
and also under Linux, however, the transfer of data over sockets
under linux seems to be very unreliable and will invariably hang the
process when a limit of either 4K or 45K is reached. We have built in
a Maximum Transfer Unit system to overcome the 4K socket transfer limit
but we still experience problems when doing multiple writes to reads
as described above.
Can anybody shed any light on this?
Stuart Cornell
System Administrator
AI Vision Research Unit
University of Sheffield
England
Please email to S.Cornell@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk

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From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans)
Subject: Re: Networking and Linux
Date: 1 Jun 1994 09:17:07 GMT

In article <2sfm6aINNo0h@uwm.edu> scottc@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Scott S Critchley) writes:
>Hello there... its Howard Feiges here...
>
...
>
>but the other day, the thought just occurred to me....  Couldn't it be
>possible to hook up nodes to a linux-based server just through plain
>everyday old serial connections....  I mean, I know that serial would
>be slower, but if all you want to do is text processing then 19,200
>baud would be plenty fast enough..  And more than that, but couldn't
>you then use ANY computer that had a serial connection (like, for
>example an Apple //GS or //e with a serial board, or a Mac plus or a 
>crappy old 286 or XT or whatever) and terminal software....  The reason
...

>for now, I am not interested in the details or how practical it is
>to have such a network.  All I want to know for now is if its possible,
>and worry about the implementation later..   does the hardware
>exist where you could network computers using serial interfaces...   Can
...
>
>scottc@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu
>
>thanx much...
>
>Howard Feiges
>TPK

You can hook up *any* computer or dumb terminal to the serial port of
a Linux-box and use it as a VT-like terminal, provided you edit the
termcap database. I played around with a venerable Beehive terminal
(eek!) and got it working no problem. The old Apple ]['s could even be
redirected to their serial cards (wasn't it the monitor-command
PR#1?). But it is not so exciting as you seem to think it is and
people certainly will grumble about the weird keyboards they are
confronted with. The Mac doesn't even have CNTR- or ESC-keys I
think(?)
Anyway, my 10 cts.
Paai.


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gedeeltelijk worden geciteerd buiten de nieuwsgroep(en) waar het
oorspronkelijk is geplaatst.  Nothing of the above may be cited
outside the newsgroups in which the message originally was posted.

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From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans)
Subject: Re: Norton utilities trash lilo
Date: 1 Jun 1994 09:22:44 GMT

In article <CqoJz0.H4x@nntpa.cb.att.com> rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com writes:
>>paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes:
>>
>>>I have had a nasty experience with the Norton Utilities, both older
>>>versions and the new one. When I start the diskchecker, Norton checks
...
>>>After that it asks whether it should correct the problem (Yes, No, Cancel).
>>>*BUT* regardless what I answer now it proceeds and thrashes lilo so
...
>
>Perhaps you don't have the partition marked "Linux Native" in the
>partition table.  NU should ignore a non-DOS partition, but NU's Disk
>Doctor got very upset when I identified my Linux partition as "BIGDOS"
>(just as an experiment).  Use the Linux fdisk program to set the
>partition type properly.
>--
>Bob Nichols
>AT&T Bell Laboratories
>rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com

I will go and check out your suggestion. But what bugs me is that
Norton did take the law in its own hands and killed lilo even when I
told him explicitly not to. And it happened two or three times, so I am 
reasonably sure. Perhaps I'll try it once again, just to get that
100% certainty even when I have to re-install lilo.
Paai.



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outside the newsgroups in which the message originally was posted.

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From: figjam@garion.it.com.au (Karl Ferguson)
Subject: Will my cdrom work?
Date: 1 Jun 1994 17:22:34 +0800

Hi Everyone.

I run OS/2 and I am going to convert over to Linux.  <smile>
I have a NEC CDR55JD cdrom attached to a Trantor T130 SCSI adapter, can I run BOTH of these under Linux?  Please email replies.  Thanks  :)
Regards...

--


 
...Karl

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From: dan@iutserveur.univ-lyon1.fr (Daniel FAGES)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: What CD-ROM drive is this???
Date: 2 Jun 1994 12:48:46 GMT

Alex Ramos (ramos@engr.latech.edu) wrote:

: I have a machine with an unknown CD-ROM drive in it. The only marking
: on the exterior says "Compact Disc", nothing else.  It originally came
: with a Gateway machine. Throughout the DOS driver documentation, the
: adapter card is referred to as a "CM250", and the driver as a "Generic
: Microsoft Driver." I have successfully installed BC++ 4.0 from CD with
: this drive, so the controller must be indeed a CM250, whatever that is.

        According to what I remember, I think the CM250 is produced by
Philips...

Dan..

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From: hm@seneca.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: "Projects under development" list
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 08:26:47 GMT
Reply-To: hm@seneca.ix.de

As many users keep asking questions "who is working on this and
that" and "when and where is it going to be available" every
other day, a "Linux Projects" file came into my mind. Developers
would send to the maintainer of this document the status of the
project they are working on, and the maintainer would post it
regularly (weekly? bi-weekly? monthly?) in one of the linux
newsgroups (perferably c.o.l.m or c.o.l.a).

Hopefully this would reduce the overall traffic in those
newsgroups (and rumours concerning those projects, the PCI SCSI
driver being a good example ;).  At last, only such projects
which are not yet in ALPHA would be subject to this list. If
code is available publicly, the project will remain in the list
for a couple of weeks, then vanish. The list would contain a
smart hint perhaps not to flood the developers' mailboxes with
requests and queries.

Current projects regularly being asked for include the PCI SCSI
driver, the driver for Adaptec's AIC7770 chip family used on
their AHA-2x4y boards, the PPC port and stuff like
that. Following items might be of interest for the public: 

- projects's name
- developer's name(s)
- developers e-mail address(es)
- additional related information sources (such as
  mailing list addresses)
- assistance in development {required | appreciated |
  not required | (what else) }
- current status {still in the design phase | first code
  runs | apporaching ALPHA status | in ALPHA | code is
  available on (FTP path)}
- ETA (if appropriate and only if the developer(s)
  is willing to release an ETA)
- other remarks (planned features, caveats, hardware
  and kernel requirements etc., as up to the developer(s))

As the contents of the list will change quite rapidly
(I assume), I don't think that it would be a good HOWTO
i.a.w. the HOWTO-INDEX. I even doubt if it would be wise to
store it on sunsite or tsx-11.

Any comments? If nobody else feels he must do it, I'd volunteer
to set up the list and post it regularly.  Initially, I'd like
to discuss this in this newsgroup and try to assemble an
appropriate template making things easy to maintain and
evaluate.

(BTW: a second list might contain available commercial
applications for Linux. As the editor of iX magazine, I'm being
sent some press releases every other two weeks or so, but this
covers only the German market. I assume there's some (maybe
limited) interest in such a list as well because I'm asked very
often about commercial apps. The list would contain only a very
short description of the software, the vendor's address and
phone and fax numbers and email address if available. Nothing
else, no marketing hypes. This list is _not_ intended to be free
ad space for vendors but instead an information source for those
wanting or needing to run commercial apps on their Linux
boxes. However, I dunno if I'm able to maintain this list as
well.)

Waiting for your suggestions and thoughts ...


-- 
Harald Milz                             office: hm@ix.de
iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine      home:   hm@seneca.ix.de
Opinions are mine, not my employer's -- the answer is Forty-two


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