Re: [PLUG] iomega REV drive on Debian

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

Bhaskar,

Doh,  I automatically just used the -386 -686 kernels.     Tried the k7 as
this machine is my only AMD unit and it worked great.

Thanks,     Lee


K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> Installing a 2.6 kernel should be pretry straightforward.  Depending
> on your CPU, you should be able to do something like the following
> (which assumes a k7 CPU):
>
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 kernel-headers-2.6-k7
>
> Reboot and you should be able to run the Stable 2.6 kernel.
>
> -- Bhaskar
>
> On 5/22/06, Lee Marke <lee@marzke.net> wrote:
> > After hearing so much about Debian at PLUG, I'm trying to migrate one
> > of my SuSE servers.
> >
> > I can't seem to get my IOMEGA REV drive, for backups working.
> > This is an USB attached 35Gb removable disk, using UDF format.
> >
> > I did the Debian 3.1 netinstall ok, but the
> > 2.4 kernel will only mount the REV  as read-only.
> >
> > Since this was working on SuSE's 2.6 kernel I downloaded that.
> > (kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686)
> >
> > Now the system hangs during boot with a stack dump as soon
> > as the usb-storage kernel module loads.
> >
> > This seem to be documented here:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg02906.html
> >
> > If I boot with the REV disconnected from USB, everything works well
> > and hotplug attaches the drive fine, and everything works.     But if
> > I leave it connected the boot fails again.
> >
> > Any ideas ?.     How do I change aptitude to give me a newer (testing)
> > kernel  ?
> >
> > Lee Marzke
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