* cdrom not found by Linux @ Dave Hunt ` Jacob Schmude 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Dave Hunt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi all, I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup script's "configure my cdrom" option. To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The cdrom drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel image with cdrom support? Thanks, -Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: cdrom not found by Linux cdrom not found by Linux Dave Hunt @ ` Jacob Schmude ` Matthew Janusauskas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way. Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them. On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup > script's "configure my cdrom" option. > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The cdrom > drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel > image with cdrom support? > > Thanks, > > -Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Jacob Schmude @ ` Matthew Janusauskas ` Terry D. Cudney ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Matthew Janusauskas @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi Jacob, I have what perhaps is a related problem. I'm trying to run zipspak on my Toshiba laptop and want to use a Sparq Syquest drive connected through my parallel port. Linux duesn't seem to see this drive as an available partition at startup. It only lists hda1. I'm having trouble finding anyone who knows much about this drive especially using it with linux. Any ideas? Thanks. -Matt -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 18:04 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: cdrom not found by Linux Hi You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way. Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them. On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup > script's "configure my cdrom" option. > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The cdrom > drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel > image with cdrom support? > > Thanks, > > -Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: cdrom not found by Linux ` Matthew Janusauskas @ ` Terry D. Cudney ` Running Speakup on a zip drive djc ` cdrom not found by Linux Jacob Schmude 2 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Terry D. Cudney @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2950 bytes --] Hi Matthew, Your problem with the Syquest SparQ drive is unrelated to Jaocob's cdrom problem. The Syqyest drives are connected via the parallel port, not an IDE connector. You need to recompile your kernel with "paride" included in the kernel or as a module. For the SparQ drive you'll also need support for the "epat" and "pd" protocols. See the documentation at: http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html You'll find step-by-step instructions there. Hope this helps, --terry Matthew Janusauskas wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > I have what perhaps is a related problem. I'm trying to run zipspak on my > Toshiba laptop and want to use a Sparq Syquest drive connected through my > parallel port. Linux duesn't seem to see this drive as an available > partition at startup. It only lists hda1. > > I'm having trouble finding anyone who knows much about this drive especially > using it with linux. Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > -Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 18:04 > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: cdrom not found by Linux > > Hi > You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to > dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top > of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom > driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and > sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way. > Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi > controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What > kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to > be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't > list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them. > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get > > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup > > script's "configure my cdrom" option. > > > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The cdrom > > drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel > > image with cdrom support? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Dave > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup [-- Attachment #2: Card for Terry D. Cudney --] [-- Type: text/x-vcard, Size: 206 bytes --] begin:vcard n:Cudney;Terry x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:C.L.A.S.S. adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:terry@wasagacottage.com note:Website: wasagacottage.com x-mozilla-cpt:;-27520 fn:Terry Cudney end:vcard ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Running Speakup on a zip drive ` Matthew Janusauskas ` Terry D. Cudney @ ` djc ` Jacob Schmude ` (2 more replies) ` cdrom not found by Linux Jacob Schmude 2 siblings, 3 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: djc @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive on the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load line to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is drive D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of the opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix this so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. mailto:djc@calweb.com I C Q Number Is: 4781694 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Running Speakup on a zip drive ` Running Speakup on a zip drive djc @ ` Jacob Schmude ` David Baker ` Janina Sajka 2 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Well I notice a problem already. If you are using an IDE drive, you don't want to use a scsi partition. What IDE controller is it on, master or slave? Here's a summary of root devices for IDE drives: hda: ide controller 1, master hdb: ide controller 1, slave hdc: ide controller 2, master hdd: ide controller 2, slave For example, if it was on the master of the second controller, you might set the load line to: \linux\loadlin \linux\vmlinuz.spk root=/dev/hdc4 rw You were reading readme.ppa, but that's for the parallel port version of the drive, not the IDE version. Just try different IDE partitions, you'll probably eventually find the right one. If the kernel panics, you know you've got the wrong one. Another idea is to copy loadlin.exe and the vmlinuz.spk kernel to you're hard disk. Get the dos drivers out of autoexec.bat (or whatever) and use the zip drive as the root device. In short, load the kernel from the hard disk, but use the zip disk at the root device. An example: c:\linux> loadlin vmlinuz.spk root=/dev/hdc4 rw On Sat, 27 May 2000, djc wrote: > Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put > linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive on > the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load line > to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is drive > D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of the > opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I > read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix this > so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so > all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to > get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. > mailto:djc@calweb.com > I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: Running Speakup on a zip drive ` Running Speakup on a zip drive djc ` Jacob Schmude @ ` David Baker ` Janina Sajka 2 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: David Baker @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Get the text.gx file from Speakup's page. I had the same problem. After copying it to the zip disk, and I think you need to copy your synth's kernel there and rename it vmlinuz DB -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of djc Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 8:15 PM To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Running Speakup on a zip drive Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive on the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load line to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is drive D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of the opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix this so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. mailto:djc@calweb.com I C Q Number Is: 4781694 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Running Speakup on a zip drive ` Running Speakup on a zip drive djc ` Jacob Schmude ` David Baker @ ` Janina Sajka ` djc 2 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup So, Dr. Don, you're checking out this Linux thing, too? Seems it's getting pretty popular with us blinks! <grin> I must confess, I love it. Can't wait until I can do everything I want in Linux--which is definitely not the case yet. Janina On Sat, 27 May 2000, djc wrote: > Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put > linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive on > the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load line > to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is drive > D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of the > opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I > read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix this > so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so > all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to > get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. > mailto:djc@calweb.com > I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina@afb.net ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Running Speakup on a zip drive ` Janina Sajka @ ` djc ` Janina Sajka 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: djc @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I agree Janina. I'm sure tired of windows crashing on me <grin> I got the zip issue fixed and that's running fine and my linux is running great. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/29/00 at 7:37 PM Janina Sajka wrote: >So, Dr. Don, you're checking out this Linux thing, too? Seems it's >getting pretty popular with us blinks! <grin> > >I must confess, I love it. Can't wait until I can do everything I want >in Linux--which is definitely not the case yet. > > Janina >On Sat, 27 May 2000, djc >wrote: > >> Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put >> linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive on >> the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load line >> to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is drive >> D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of the >> opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I >> read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix this >> so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so >> all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to >> get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. >> mailto:djc@calweb.com >> I C Q Number Is: 4781694 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > >-- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Information Systems Research & Development > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > >janina@afb.net > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup mailto:djc@calweb.com I C Q Number Is: 4781694 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* Re: Running Speakup on a zip drive ` djc @ ` Janina Sajka 0 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: djc; +Cc: speakup I love my Linux, but I'm positively astounded at how quickly other blind folks are moving to Linux. I always expected it to happen, but it seems to be going more quickly than I expected. Seems almost every week someone who I thought of as a Windows mayven is saying just what you, Don, are saying. Downright, delightful, actually. Janina On Mon, 29 May 2000, djc wrote: > I agree Janina. I'm sure tired of windows crashing on me <grin> I got the > zip issue fixed and that's running fine and my linux is running great. > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 5/29/00 at 7:37 PM Janina Sajka wrote: > > >So, Dr. Don, you're checking out this Linux thing, too? Seems it's > >getting pretty popular with us blinks! <grin> > > > >I must confess, I love it. Can't wait until I can do everything I want > >in Linux--which is definitely not the case yet. > > > > Janina > >On Sat, 27 May 2000, djc > >wrote: > > > >> Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put > >> linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive > on > >> the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load > line > >> to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is > drive > >> D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of > the > >> opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I > >> read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix > this > >> so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so > >> all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to > >> get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. > >> mailto:djc@calweb.com > >> I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > >-- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Information Systems Research & Development > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > >janina@afb.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > mailto:djc@calweb.com > I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina@afb.net ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Matthew Janusauskas ` Terry D. Cudney ` Running Speakup on a zip drive djc @ ` Jacob Schmude ` Matthew Janusauskas 2 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I don't have one of these, so I'm guessing. Is it visible to dos? If so, don't let the dos driver load and try again. Those drivers can cripple the hardware until the next reboot, making it unusable by linux. So, take the dos driver out of autoexec.bat (or whatever), then dos cannot see the drive. Then try and load linux. On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > I have what perhaps is a related problem. I'm trying to run zipspak on my > Toshiba laptop and want to use a Sparq Syquest drive connected through my > parallel port. Linux duesn't seem to see this drive as an available > partition at startup. It only lists hda1. > > I'm having trouble finding anyone who knows much about this drive especially > using it with linux. Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > -Matt > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 18:04 > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: cdrom not found by Linux > > > Hi > You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to > dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top > of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom > driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and > sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way. > Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi > controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What > kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to > be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't > list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them. > > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get > > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup > > script's "configure my cdrom" option. > > > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The cdrom > > drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel > > image with cdrom support? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Dave > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` cdrom not found by Linux Jacob Schmude @ ` Matthew Janusauskas ` Jacob Schmude 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Matthew Janusauskas @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Originaly the drive was not accessible to dos and I thought that was the problem so I went and got the drivers so DOS could get to the drive thinking that would help. It made no diffference. I can't seem to find anyone who knows how I can make this drive usable in linux. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 19:17 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: cdrom not found by Linux I don't have one of these, so I'm guessing. Is it visible to dos? If so, don't let the dos driver load and try again. Those drivers can cripple the hardware until the next reboot, making it unusable by linux. So, take the dos driver out of autoexec.bat (or whatever), then dos cannot see the drive. Then try and load linux. On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > I have what perhaps is a related problem. I'm trying to run zipspak on my > Toshiba laptop and want to use a Sparq Syquest drive connected through my > parallel port. Linux duesn't seem to see this drive as an available > partition at startup. It only lists hda1. > > I'm having trouble finding anyone who knows much about this drive especially > using it with linux. Any ideas? > > Thanks. > > -Matt > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 18:04 > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: cdrom not found by Linux > > > Hi > You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to > dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top > of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom > driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and > sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way. > Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi > controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What > kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to > be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't > list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them. > > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get > > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup > > script's "configure my cdrom" option. > > > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The cdrom > > drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel > > image with cdrom support? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Dave > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Matthew Janusauskas @ ` Jacob Schmude ` Matthew Janusauskas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup OK, we'll need to go find all the info we can about the drive. Is it IDE or scsi? What IDE or scsi controller is it on? These may seem dumb questions, but sometimes knowing all the info ahead will help. We may be able to narrow down the possibilities for root devices if we know the specs of the drive. You may need to open the computer to find out what IDE/SCSI controller it is on and, in the case of IDE, if it is master or slave. Also, what is the kernel message exactly? On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote: > Originaly the drive was not accessible to dos and I thought that was the > problem so I went and got the drivers so DOS could get to the drive thinking > that would help. It made no diffference. I can't seem to find anyone who > knows how I can make this drive usable in linux. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 19:17 > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: RE: cdrom not found by Linux > > > I don't have one of these, so I'm guessing. Is it visible to > dos? If so, don't let the dos driver load and try again. Those drivers can > cripple the hardware until the next reboot, making it unusable by > linux. So, take the dos driver out of autoexec.bat (or whatever), then > dos cannot see the drive. Then try and load linux. > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote: > > > Hi Jacob, > > > > I have what perhaps is a related problem. I'm trying to run zipspak on > my > > Toshiba laptop and want to use a Sparq Syquest drive connected through my > > parallel port. Linux duesn't seem to see this drive as an available > > partition at startup. It only lists hda1. > > > > I'm having trouble finding anyone who knows much about this drive > especially > > using it with linux. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -Matt > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 18:04 > > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: cdrom not found by Linux > > > > > > Hi > > You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to > > dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top > > of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom > > driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and > > sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way. > > Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi > > controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What > > kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to > > be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't > > list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them. > > > > > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get > > > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup > > > script's "configure my cdrom" option. > > > > > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The > cdrom > > > drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel > > > image with cdrom support? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -Dave > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > Jacob Schmude > > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > > ICQ: 53401220 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Jacob Schmude @ ` Matthew Janusauskas ` Dave Hunt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Matthew Janusauskas @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi jacob, The Sparq Syquest drive is connected to my parallel port of my Toshiba laptop. When I try to boot zipspeak it gets tward the end and in the partition check part it only says: hda: hda1 I'm under the impression that's all it sees as available partitions/drives... -Matt -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 19:38 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: cdrom not found by Linux OK, we'll need to go find all the info we can about the drive. Is it IDE or scsi? What IDE or scsi controller is it on? These may seem dumb questions, but sometimes knowing all the info ahead will help. We may be able to narrow down the possibilities for root devices if we know the specs of the drive. You may need to open the computer to find out what IDE/SCSI controller it is on and, in the case of IDE, if it is master or slave. Also, what is the kernel message exactly? On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote: > Originaly the drive was not accessible to dos and I thought that was the > problem so I went and got the drivers so DOS could get to the drive thinking > that would help. It made no diffference. I can't seem to find anyone who > knows how I can make this drive usable in linux. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 19:17 > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: RE: cdrom not found by Linux > > > I don't have one of these, so I'm guessing. Is it visible to > dos? If so, don't let the dos driver load and try again. Those drivers can > cripple the hardware until the next reboot, making it unusable by > linux. So, take the dos driver out of autoexec.bat (or whatever), then > dos cannot see the drive. Then try and load linux. > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Matthew Janusauskas wrote: > > > Hi Jacob, > > > > I have what perhaps is a related problem. I'm trying to run zipspak on > my > > Toshiba laptop and want to use a Sparq Syquest drive connected through my > > parallel port. Linux duesn't seem to see this drive as an available > > partition at startup. It only lists hda1. > > > > I'm having trouble finding anyone who knows much about this drive > especially > > using it with linux. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks. > > > > -Matt > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 18:04 > > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: cdrom not found by Linux > > > > > > Hi > > You may want to try it when the cdrom is not visible to > > dos. Sometimes the dos drivers can, since zipspeak is an OS running on top > > of another, not let zipspeak find it. In short, don't load the dos cdrom > > driver and see if that helps. I had to do this on my cd rom drive, and > > sound card, when I used to run linux on top of dos this way. > > Another thing to be concerned about is does linux support the scsi > > controller you're using? Even if it does, does zipspeak support it? What > > kind of scsi controller do you have and I'll see what module may need to > > be loaded. Most likely, you won't need to compile a new kernel. I can't > > list the scsi controllers linux supports, there is too many of them. > > > > > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have installed Zipspeak and use the 'ltlk' kernel image. I cannot get > > > this system to find my scsi cdrom, even when using the Slackware setup > > > script's "configure my cdrom" option. > > > > > > To start the system, I shut down Windows 98 into 'msdos mode'. The > cdrom > > > drive is visible to DOS. Do I need to, perhaps, compile another kernel > > > image with cdrom support? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > -Dave > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > Jacob Schmude > > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > > ICQ: 53401220 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Matthew Janusauskas @ ` Dave Hunt ` Jacob Schmude 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Dave Hunt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi, As you suggested, I didn't let DOSW load any drivers for my scsi cdrom. Instead, I booted Linux from a floppy. The 'setup' script still cannot find this drive. I have an Adaptech AHA something scsi host adapter. Other suggestions? Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Dave Hunt @ ` Jacob Schmude ` Dave Hunt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Jacob Schmude @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup I'm afraid AHA something won't get you anywhere. We need the exact model number or the wrong driver could be loaded. You won't need a kernel recompile, just a simple command at the shell prompt, hopefully. As long as zipspeak has included the driver, that is. On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > Hi, > > As you suggested, I didn't let DOSW load any drivers for my scsi > cdrom. Instead, I booted Linux from a floppy. The 'setup' script still > cannot find this drive. I have an Adaptech AHA something scsi host > adapter. > > Other suggestions? > > Dave > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Jacob Schmude mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net ICQ: 53401220 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Jacob Schmude @ ` Dave Hunt ` Joseph Norton 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Dave Hunt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Jacob: The Windows 98 devise manager says I have an adaptec AHA-150X/1510/152X/AIC-6X60 scsi host adapter. If Zipspeak has a driver for this, how would I load it? If not, where do I get it, and how would I load it? Thanks, Dave On Sat, 27 May 2000, Jacob Schmude wrote: > I'm afraid AHA something won't get you anywhere. We need the exact > model number or the wrong driver could be loaded. You won't need a kernel > recompile, just a simple command at the shell prompt, hopefully. As long > as zipspeak has included the driver, that is. > > On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > As you suggested, I didn't let DOSW load any drivers for my scsi > > cdrom. Instead, I booted Linux from a floppy. The 'setup' script still > > cannot find this drive. I have an Adaptech AHA something scsi host > > adapter. > > > > Other suggestions? > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Jacob Schmude > mailto:jacobs@ncinter.net > ICQ: 53401220 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Dave Hunt @ ` Joseph Norton ` Dave Hunt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread From: Joseph Norton @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dave Hunt; +Cc: speakup Hi Dave: There is a pre-done .config for an aha-152x device--I bet that's the one you need. Let me know which speech synthesizer you have and I bet I can cook you a kernel image you can drop right in Zipspeak or whatever. On Sun, 28 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > The Windows 98 devise manager says I have an adaptec > AHA-150X/1510/152X/AIC-6X60 scsi host adapter. If Zipspeak has a driver > for this, how would I load it? If not, where do I get it, and how would I > load it? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
* RE: cdrom not found by Linux ` Joseph Norton @ ` Dave Hunt 0 siblings, 0 replies; 19+ messages in thread From: Dave Hunt @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Joseph Norton; +Cc: speakup Joe, Many thanks!! I'm using a Doubletalk LT synth. -- Dave -- On Sun, 28 May 2000, Joseph Norton wrote: > Hi Dave: > > There is a pre-done .config for an aha-152x device--I bet that's the one > you need. Let me know which speech synthesizer you have and I bet I can > cook you a kernel image you can drop right in Zipspeak or whatever. > > On Sun, 28 May 2000, Dave Hunt wrote: > > > The Windows 98 devise manager says I have an adaptec > > AHA-150X/1510/152X/AIC-6X60 scsi host adapter. If Zipspeak has a driver > > for this, how would I load it? If not, where do I get it, and how would I > > load it? > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 19+ messages in thread
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