Re: Paging net techies.

In article <46964257.8C52CF0F@xxxxxxx>, ogden <ogden@xxxxxxx> writes
Redhat
derived distributions are a bit wanky like that.

now you tell me.


[3] Every time I press a key I get an error that starts "exception
Emask" which is a step in the right direction in the sense it knows I
have pressed a key in my new virtual world. And what the *** is a
"host bus error" anyway? Hey ho welcome to the world of Linux.

Are you getting something like...

ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x26)
ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x4a data 8
in
res 51/50:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x20 (host bus error)

A bit like this. A lot like this actually.


ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
ata2: EH complete

Don't get this bit at all.


If so, do what I said before and change the CD-ROM device to be SCSI
instead of IDE (you'll need to do this while the VM is powered off,
natch) and it'll stfu.

For the install it simply wouldn't let me use SCSI at all so I doubt we
were into Fedora issues at that point. The only way I could get the
install to proceed was to use IDE. Now it is installed it seems quiet
happy to use SCSI. Weird but not really unexpected and for all the
reason the anti-Linuxistii so rightly mention.


It's a driver issue between Fedora 7 and VMWare
Server, but this simple change will fix it.

Seems to be working and also the other keyboard related error has
(coincidentally) gone. I have a *nix command line available
woooohoooooo!

Cheers dude.

Now I am off to buy some sandals. Does pizza express include body
odour, spots and extreme pedantry in their 2 for 1 deals?

--
steve auvache
A Bloo one with built in safety features
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