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We may or may not wait for 2.4.20 final, but we will most definitely will have |
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a differnet kernel than we do now, please look at the latest lolo-sources in |
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portage to see if your supermount issue is fixed there, as a combination of |
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that kernel and the latest mjc-sources in portage will probably soon become |
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the next gentoo-sources kernel and will probably be used to make the next |
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series of gentoo boot CDs. |
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Thanks for your interest and your comments, |
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--Brandon |
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On Fri, 10/25/02 at 08:19:42 -0400, Robert wrote: |
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> I can almost guess the answer, but the question is whether Gentoo can wait for |
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> the 2.4.20 kernel before distributing their final version? |
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> The reason is that I was recently informed that the 2.4.19 has issues with |
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> ATAPI drives, this info I have included below. |
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> |
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> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// |
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> The root of your problem is that in current 2.4.x kernels, if you don't have a |
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> piece of media in your removable media ATAPI drive (your ZIP drive) when you |
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> boot the kernel, and you are using devfs, the drive will not show up in |
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> /dev/discs. Also, if you are using devfsd, no compatibility symlinks will be |
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> created, since the main entry was not created. Even if you do have media in |
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> the |
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> drive when you boot the kernel, if you later change media the kernel will not |
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> do |
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> a very good job of updating the /dev entries to match the new media. |
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> <snip> |
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> The simple solution is to wait for the |
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> 2.4.20 kernel to be released, it should have a patch to make the drive appear |
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> even without media in it at boot time. |
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> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// |
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> |
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> I'm currently using the 2.4.19 kernel and am not able to use supermount to |
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> access my internal IDE Zip drive. Another fellow has been trying to talk me |
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> into loading up Gentoo when 1.4 final comes out on an installation CD, but if |
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> this situation exists in the kernel in your distribution, then i will |
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> probably wait until 2.4.20 comes out. |
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> |
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> regards, |
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> Robert |
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> |
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