[Fwd: RH Linux 7.1 on DPW 433au]/follow-up

["\"Thursday\" AKA dr. john" <thursday allidaho com>]

Feb 6 02

To the List:

Today the VX1 shakes are gone!  I can type!

To follow up, my 500a had exactly the same Toshiba 24x CDrom unit and
was giving me exactly the same message

>>> failed to open dka0.0.0.4.0

no matter what combo of boot files and boot flags I used.  The Jumpstart
CD worked fine, and I got a clean install of Digital Unix on another HD,
but no luck with RedHat 7.1.

The break came when Jay Estabrook suggested I use the Digital Unix to
check on the drives and media.  I did a 

more cdrom0a 

in the /devices/rdisk 
directory

and was able to read the raw code on some CDs, but not on others.  The
same method on "floppy0a" got me a 

"fd1 internaldriver error"

msg.

Based on that, I tried "burning in" the floppy controller, and I
replaced the CDrom drive with a junk unit, an old Mitsumi out of a dead
P1.

Got a clean RedHat install off floppies the first try.

But changing to the Mitsumi drive caused my Digital Unix to  fail to
boot!

How about that?

jn

"\"Thursday\" AKA dr. john" wrote:
> 
> Feb 5 02
> 
> My 500a had the same problem. What it ended up was he CDrom drive is a
> little flaky, and the Red Hat CDs are not the world's best.  Plus my
> floppy drive was not "reading" either.
> 
> I ended up running the computer about 24 hours straight to warm up the
> floppy controller (i guess), then swapping out the CDrom drive for a
> junker.
> 
> That did the trick. I plan to get a SCSI CDrom .. but the main thiing is
> to cure the case f VX1s thati got.  And replace the battery.. it is
> REALLY buried!
> 
> good luck,
> 
> jn
> 
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