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Offline Jason W

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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2009, 07:27:27 PM »
The remastering section of the wiki has the instructions for unpacking and packing tinycore.gz as well as making the iso image.
 
Those instructions work without modifications for me.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2009, 07:53:20 PM »
Geez...no wonder. I was editing a gunzipped tinycore!    ..completely forgot about the cpio thingy!

edit: applying curaga's changes (if I understood it correctly...+ meaning add the line) didn't change anything....still hung up the same way. 
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2009, 08:57:51 PM »
I believe it was the sd card. A user was having issues with Aspire One with an sd card.
I tested on Dell Mini 9 and eeePC 900A and saw the issue and tried to respond.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2009, 09:06:54 PM »
Quote from: roberts on March 07, 2009, 08:57:51 PM
I believe it was the sd card. A user was having issues with Aspire One with an sd card.
I tested on Dell Mini 9 and eeePC 900A and saw the issue and tried to respond.

Sounds like what the FED has been doing, and look at the mess THAT has  created.....
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Offline Jason W

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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2009, 08:16:45 AM »
JP - I know that was meant as a good natured joke, but let's not discount Robert's time spent on TC.   :) 

As for the fd0 issue, sd cards are a way of the future and floppies are a thing of the past.  It would not hurt my feelings if we went with supporting sd cards and eventually fixed the floppy issue in time.  I only wish I had an sd card to test with.  Looking around they seem to be cheap enough, and available with a usb interface.  I will try to get one this afternoon and see if I see the same sd card issue and help find a solution if I can since I would then have both floppy and sd card.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2009, 12:21:28 PM »
Quote from: Jason W on March 08, 2009, 08:16:45 AM
JP - I know that was meant as a good natured joke, but let's not discount Robert's time spent on TC.   :) 


It's beyond  me how you read any implication of discounting Robert's  time into that comment. 

Note:  It's very easy to react  to  immediate problems that create other problems. Fortunately Robert knows what he's doing. In the case of the FED, I'm not so sure.   
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #21 on: March 08, 2009, 12:46:01 PM »
I do not disagree with the political view mentioned.  But that is a different discussion.

What I saw was a comparison of Robert's involvement in the sd/fd0 situation to meddling. 

You reacted, I reacted, so let's call it even and leave it there.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2009, 01:33:10 PM »
Glad that the fd issue is resolved.

As for sd cards (mmcblk devices). they like usb are slow to fully register.

Once modprobed sdhci, the fstab entry is created with auto instead of vfat
auto is the default when the fstype cannot be determined.
But a simple sed -i '/mmcblk/d' /etc/tstab && rebuildfstab corrects to vfat which would indicate a timing issue.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2009, 02:06:15 PM »
congrats.....

Robert for pres!

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What I saw was a comparison of Robert's involvement in the sd/fd0 situation to meddling.
Interesting...I hadn't thought about that... :D
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #24 on: March 08, 2009, 08:55:54 PM »
JP - I hope no hard feelings, I was defensive since I misread you.  I am usually happy in this hundred acre wood (or ten megabyte wood) but I can get a little bearish at times. 

I did get a sd card that connects via usb but it shows up as sda1 since it is a usb interface, so it gets put in fstab ok.  Was hoping to help test both the floppy and sd support but oh well.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #25 on: March 08, 2009, 09:53:47 PM »
Quote from: Jason W on March 08, 2009, 08:55:54 PM
JP - I hope no hard feelings, I was defensive since I misread you.  I am usually happy in this hundred acre wood (or ten megabyte wood) but I can get a little bearish at times. 

..none...The comment was kindof OT anyway, which probably comes from reading too much.  Fortunately, wind surfing season has just begun, which should help....

BTW,  I'd be happy to test out any revisions on my Dell, since nobody else seems to be experiencing the long delays. 
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2009, 12:24:09 AM »
Quote from: jpeters on March 08, 2009, 09:53:47 PM
I'd be happy to test out any revisions on my Dell, since nobody else seems to be experiencing the long delays. 

nice to see milne quoted here :) this box has a floppy, i know roberts is in a hurry to get to 1.2 final, but if i have 24 hours from now i promise to try rc2 on here. if i understand the problem is a very inconvenient 50 second delay (when tc has us used to a fast boot.) from reading i believe there's a fix i can try to see if that works? the promise is about trying rc2, not the fix, but i may try it also.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2009, 01:35:48 AM »
BTW...Curaga's revision did work on my DELL....I didn't understand the "revert + - " lingo, so did it wrong until I compared the two files myself and got what he was talking about.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2009, 01:56:07 AM »
If the diff (patch) file is confusing or you just don't have patch installed then,
I had only commented out the original line (line 71) therefore the simple fix is just to uncomment line 71 and comment or delete line 72.
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Re: I/O dev fd0
« Reply #29 on: March 09, 2009, 02:05:49 AM »
got it working, but didn't see a patch ...
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