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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:42:54 +0530 From: Ajith Kumar ajith@nsc.ernet.in Subject: [fsug-calicut] Install GNU/Linux fast...
*******Setup a Computer Lab within 30 minutes from a single CD********
Looking for volunteers to test it
The GLUE CD, a collection of some educational software and documentation, now has pre-configured GNU/Linux System on it. As earlier you can browse the CD but now you can boot from it and Install a GNU/Linux system from it within 30 minutes. If there are no other systems required on the same harddisk, the process is fully automated.
Otherwise you can make partitions manually and install. Those who have valuable data on disk cannot go for the first option
On reboot you get a RedHat7.3 installation with OpenOffice, Compilers for different languages and other programs. A Terminal Server also is installed and configured, ie. It can support disk-less terminals if you have a network card. Floppy Boot files and ROM imaes for diskless PCs are also included with a lot of documentation.
If anybody interested in tesitng it and give feedback, send me your postal address so that a CD can be send to you.
Please forward to other related mailing lists.
With regards
Ajith ------------------------------
Hello, I am encountering an strange problem with cdrecord. The error message generated using xcdroast is attached at the end of the mail. And the strange thing is sometime it works and sometime it gives this error. Moreover rebooting have no effect on the behaviour. Any sugestion, recomendation. I am using packages of RH 7.2 (complete installation). Thanks
Hemang Ajmera
-------------------------Error Message----------------------------------
Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "0,0,0" fs=4096k -v -useinfo speed=8 -dao -eject -pad -data "/home/project/hemang/t3.img" ...
scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.19 pregap1: -1 Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'SAMSUNG ' Identifikation : 'CDRW/DVD SM-308B' Revision : 'T100' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 1578192 = 1541 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 698 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 802 MB (79:27.77) = 357583 sectors Lout start: 802 MB (79:29/58) = 357583 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type B, low Beta category (B-) (4) ATIP start of lead in: -11524 (97:28/26) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 13 Manufacturer: Multi Media Masters & Machinary SA Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 2266 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in write mode for single session. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 10.797s timeout 200s cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. OPC failed.
Hemang C. Ajmera writes: [snip]
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 10.797s timeout 200s cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. OPC failed.
My writer was giving a similar error when the media was bad. I have a samsung writer as well. Did you try changing the media? Also Samsungs writer does not work with certain media (eg Imation). I still have not been able to figure out why.
**************** Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU ****************
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 vinayak_hegde@softhome.net wrote:
Hemang C. Ajmera writes:
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 10.797s timeout 200s cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. OPC failed.
My writer was giving a similar error when the media was bad. I have a samsung writer as well. Did you try changing the media? Also Samsungs writer does not work with certain media (eg Imation). I still have not been able to figure out why.
It is not media, cause i have tried different medias. Further, after some attemps, cd writer works by itself no matter which media I used. I am also using 'SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-308B' 'T100' Removable CD-ROM.
All this error started after I gave -multi option, earlier it used to work fine.
Hemang Ajmera
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Hemang C. Ajmera wrote:
It is not media, cause i have tried different medias. Further, after some attemps, cd writer works by itself no matter which media I used. I am also using 'SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-308B' 'T100' Removable CD-ROM.
All this error started after I gave -multi option, earlier it used to work fine.
I never could get multi session cds w/ my samsung combo cdrw/dvd 304B. It seems to be a hardware bug. I did find some links which suggested I flash upgrade the firmware but the dire warnings really sopped me.
Sharukh.
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Hemang C. Ajmera wrote:
It is not media, cause i have tried different medias. Further, after some attemps, cd writer works by itself no matter which media I used. I am also using 'SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-308B' 'T100' Removable CD-ROM.
All this error started after I gave -multi option, earlier it used to work fine.
I never could get multi session cds w/ my samsung combo cdrw/dvd 304B. It seems to be a hardware bug. I did find some links which suggested I flash upgrade the firmware but the dire warnings really sopped me.
But it works with Nero, on window on same machine
any explaination?
Hemang Ajmera
Hemang C. Ajmera writes:
I never could get multi session cds w/ my samsung combo cdrw/dvd 304B. It seems to be a hardware bug. I did find some links which suggested I flash upgrade the firmware but the dire warnings really sopped me.
But it works with Nero, on window on same machine
any explaination?
Hemang Ajmera
There does not seem to be any known logical solution. I have encountered the same problem.maybe there is a bug in the firmware or the cdwriter is not well supported by cdrecord is what i can imagine. Do let me know if u get 1.
**************** Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU ****************
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Hemang C. Ajmera wrote:
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Hemang C. Ajmera wrote:
It is not media, cause i have tried different medias. Further, after some attemps, cd writer works by itself no matter which media I used. I am also using 'SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-308B' 'T100' Removable CD-ROM.
All this error started after I gave -multi option, earlier it used to work fine.
I never could get multi session cds w/ my samsung combo cdrw/dvd 304B. It seems to be a hardware bug. I did find some links which suggested I flash upgrade the firmware but the dire warnings really sopped me.
But it works with Nero, on window on same machine
any explaination?
Yes it used to to work w/ Adaptec EasyCD back in the old days on the same machine but I no longer have dual boot so I use a set of CDRWs and rotate them. Maybe something to do w/ adaptec having been disclosed some unknown specs by samsung that are not available to Joerg Schilling the author of cdrecord ?
And belive me I have even written to Joerg directly (before he stopped personal email correspondence wrt cdrecord) and he gave me to believe that it was a kernel bug. I do get a lot of scsi errors when I am using cdrecord.
Sharukh.
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