From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:42 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1951 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 16 May 2010 Number 1951 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 NAS device - final situation : Ed Durrant 2 Re: NAS device - final situation : Mike O'Connor 3 irc.ecssite dot com now irc.os2site dot com : Ian Manners" 4 Strange PC : Alan Duval 5 Re: Strange PC : Ian Manners" 6 Re: Strange PC : Mike O'Connor **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 10:03:59 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: NAS device - final situation Thanks to all who suggested how to find the IP address of my Ritmo LanServer NAS device. I tried them all, unfortunately none were successful. I'm pretty sure the reason, now having read up more on the web on this device, is that the device is "bricked", that is a firmware load (possibly the loader code itself) failed to complete load. If one can get at least a response to a ping or two when directly connected, there is a documented process to recover the device. If there is no response, there is no hope. Unfortunately my drive is in the latter classification. The device also has a USB 2.0 connection which is pure hardware and is, thankfully, still working, so this will become "yet another" USB storage device to go with my other USB and USB/eSATA external drives. Thanks to all for your suggestions. -- Cheers/2 Ed Please checkout my podcasts at: http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com or via iTunes To subscribe - click this: http://eComStationAustralia.podbean dot com/feed -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 12:40:42 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: NAS device - final situation On 2010-05-16 10:03 (AEST), Ed Durrant wrote: > Thanks to all who suggested how to find the IP address of my Ritmo > LanServer NAS device. I tried them all, unfortunately none were > successful. > > I'm pretty sure the reason, now having read up more on the web on this > device, is that the device is "bricked", that is a firmware load > (possibly the loader code itself) failed to complete load. If one can > get at least a response to a ping or two when directly connected, > there is a documented process to recover the device. If there is no > response, there is no hope. Unfortunately my drive is in the latter > classification. > > The device also has a USB 2.0 connection which is pure hardware and > is, thankfully, still working, so this will become "yet another" USB > storage device to go with my other USB and USB/eSATA external drives. > > Thanks to all for your suggestions. > Hi Ed, Well you had a good shot at it! Regards, Mike -- Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- Personal replies to any of : mikeoc (at) internode (dot) on (dot) net mikeoc (at) austarnet (dot) com (dot) au majilok (at) gmail (dot) com [Please ZIP any attachments, other than GIF/JPG or plain-text] If you are missing a response from me - check Tweed Heads WX status at: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 12:52:06 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: irc.ecssite dot com now irc.os2site dot com Hi Everyone, Due to lack of use I have let the ecssite dot com domain lapse and merged the files from www.ecssite dot com into www.os2site dot com - this has left irc.ecssite dot com as the only service using the ecssite dot com domain in the past 1 to 2 years. irc.ecssite dot com is nolonger as of 13th May 2010, as on this date the domain expired, in its place is irc.os2site dot com which now takes over the Australian leg of the eComStation IRC network. Summary, IRC.ECSSITE.COM is NO MORE and irc.os2site dot com replaces it. More information on the eComStation IRC Network can be found here :- Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 21:40:15 +1000 From: Alan Duval Subject: Strange PC I have a PC with M3A motherboard and Athlon 64X2 dual core processor. I bought it over a year ago but have never used it as I can get only WIN XP and GOS to operate on it. All other varieties of Linux freeze when I load a program e.g OpenOffice or Firefox and start to use the mouse or keyboard. eCS wouldn't install on it so I gave it up. I thought I'd try again to get it going but same result. I can't understand why Ubuntu 8.04 freezes but GOS doesn't when GOS is based on Ubuntu 8.04 and the strange thing is that GOS was installed on a removable drive in my other computer which has a different motherboard, yet it works in the M3A PC. I have tried to get answers from the Ubuntu forums but no one seems to have any answers. I did find a lot of letters from people who were complaining that using the mouse caused their systems to freeze. Various suggestions were given but none that solved the problem for everyone. I know it's not an eCS problem but does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do? Regards, Alan Duval -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 22:14:14 +1000 (EST) From: "Ian Manners" Subject: Re: Strange PC Hi Alan, >I know it's not an eCS problem but does anyone have a suggestion as to >what I can do? First thing I do in cases like this, is remove the clock/cmos battery, leave the computer unplugged from the wall, leave it overnight, come back the next day, put the battery back in and see what happens. Try ECs before booting with/from WinXP otherwise WinXP is likely to undo the fresh start. Cheers Ian Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 22:19:27 +1000 From: Mike O'Connor Subject: Re: Strange PC On 2010-05-16 21:40 (AEST), Alan Duval wrote: > I have a PC with M3A motherboard and Athlon 64X2 dual core processor. > I bought it over a year ago but have never used it as I can get only > WIN XP and GOS to operate on it. All other varieties of Linux freeze > when I load a program e.g OpenOffice or Firefox and start to use the > mouse or keyboard. eCS wouldn't install on it so I gave it up. I > thought I'd try again to get it going but same result. I can't > understand why Ubuntu 8.04 freezes but GOS doesn't when GOS is based > on Ubuntu 8.04 and the strange thing is that GOS was installed on a > removable drive in my other computer which has a different > motherboard, yet it works in the M3A PC. > I have tried to get answers from the Ubuntu forums but no one seems to > have any answers. I did find a lot of letters from people who were > complaining that using the mouse caused their systems to freeze. > Various suggestions were given but none that solved the problem for > everyone. > I know it's not an eCS problem but does anyone have a suggestion as to > what I can do? > > > Regards, > > Alan Duval Hi Alan, I presume you mean with the unused motherboard system? Why not give "PCLinuxOS OpenBox 2010" a go? It seems here to pick up all the hardware correctly - happily cohabits with the IBM Boot Manager - reads and writes HPFS & (eCS) JFS etc, and seems to have a lot of facilities in the ~602MB package. I have had it installed on AMD X2 4800+ on ASUS M2V-MX motherboard, but haven't had time yet (10 minutes or less to install!)! :-D I used previous 2009 editions of it and found it excellent. :-) Excellent out of the box. Regards -- Failed the exam for -------------------- MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert -------------------- Personal replies to any of : mikeoc (at) internode (dot) on (dot) net mikeoc (at) austarnet (dot) com (dot) au majilok (at) gmail (dot) com [Please ZIP any attachments, other than GIF/JPG or plain-text] If you are missing a response from me - check Tweed Heads WX status at: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR663.loop.shtml#skip -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===