Re: OT: SCSI woes?

2000-09-24 Thread William Jensen
I'm afraid that last msg wasn't too clear... I'd like to not use the chmod 4755 method if I can. Is there a group I could use on the /dev/sg devices that would allow my user account access yet not break anything (for example xcdroast). I already have chmod 660 /dev/sg* to allow the addition of

Re: OT: SCSI woes?

2000-09-24 Thread William Jensen
Another followup on my own dealings: As root, cdparanoia now runs after I setup the /dev/sg's. Great, but my local useraccount still cannot use it. So...I chmod 4755 (as someone else pointed out) the cdparanoia binary and now my useraccount can use it fine. My question now is, what group is the

Re: OT: SCSI woes?

2000-09-24 Thread William Jensen
Followup: This is information about the cdparanoia issue. I poked around on the cdparanoia site and it said I needed the corret /dev/sg device. Well low and behold I do not have one. I'm guessing this is the problem. So I: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV -v sg This output: create sg0 c 21 0 root:roo

Re: OT: SCSI woes?

2000-09-24 Thread Leen Besselink
> As some of you know, I've recently converted to a full scsi system. I > compiled a 2.4.0-test8 kernel with the following options: > > SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843671 [17501 MB] [17.5 GB] > sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 > > Excuse me? sdb? I only have one HD in the system w

OT: SCSI woes?

2000-09-24 Thread William Jensen
As some of you know, I've recently converted to a full scsi system. I compiled a 2.4.0-test8 kernel with the following options: SCSI support SCSI disk support SCSI CD-ROM support SCSI generic support SCSI low-level-drivers --->Adaptec AIC7xxx support SCSI low-level-drivers --->Enable Tagged Comma

SCSI woes

1998-08-05 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Despite the fact that I've been working with linux (for real, in a job) for the past year there are still a few things that i do not handle very well. One of those things is SCSI! And right now i have a server to install with SCSI only disks and the thing doesn't want to work. I'll explain. T

Re: SCSI..woes..The FIX!

1998-05-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now...anyone else been using tape drives for backups? any good > backup systems/scripts to share? :) im open to suggestions (I only > have 2 tapes but...they are 4 gig (uncompressed) each...and my hard > drive is only 3.2 gig so any suggestions

SCSI..woes..The FIX!

1998-05-02 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I finnally solved my SCSI problems and got it working... since I posted here I thought I would share how I did it. This was s stupid... I went into the main BIOS just for "Shits and Giggles" and noticed a "Plug N Pray" area (i forget the actual name) where it

Re: more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Steve, > No I am not braver than you > I didn't see any such configs when i did it (kernel 2.0.29...but they shoul > dbe there > if you see them I guess) > anyway I will look again when I can but... > I didn't see anything Sorry, I gave you bad advice. :( I have an Adaptec 2940UW which uses

Re: more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
No I am not braver than you I didn't see any such configs when i did it (kernel 2.0.29...but they shoul dbe there if you see them I guess) anyway I will look again when I can but... I didn't see anything -Steve Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > > > I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried

Re: more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > > I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the > > SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? > > no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the > kernelSCSI > drivers I meant the SCSI low level driver settings when yo

Re: more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the > SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? no I havn't...I supose I should take a look at the source code for the kernelSCSI drivers > Also, is > your kernel configured t

Re: more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I'm not sure if this will help, but have you tried tweaking some of the SCSI low level driver settings when you configure your kernel? Also, is your kernel configured to support tape drives? -Ossama __ Ossama Othman <[EMAIL

more SCSI Woes

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Carpenter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Ok I got a differt SCSI card...the only one I could find in a reasonable price range locally was an Adaptec 1520 ...it is suported by the 152x driver I should hope... here is the problem... it coems up..in SCSI Bios and with jumpers I have set: IRQ: 10 (also tri