Fwd: Need to do something about Freemedia India.
by Siddharth Upmanyu
Hi all..
Lets plan a meeting for Fedora India Ambassadors and do some talk
about freemedia
Siddharth
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From: gopal das <mr.gopal.das(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2008 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Need to do something about Freemedia India.
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Thank you Susmith, thank you Siddharth. "Blank media and return
envelop" idea is good. We can make a decision if we make us available
for a meeting in near future at fedora-india irc. A long gap when we
do not arrange a meeting. And I also have some topic to discuss
regarding some fedora training program at schools. I have already
started some initiative regarding this but I like to discuss the
matter with other Indian ambassadors. So please fix up a date for a
meeting so that we can made it more prominent.
Cheers
Gopal Das
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Siddharth Upmanyu
<siddharth(a)techbugs.org> wrote:
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> On 3/16/08, subhodip biswas <subhodip(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, susmit shannigrahi
> > <thinklinux.ssh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > This is about current condition of Freemedia _India_.
> > > Saying in a line... It is badly messed up.
> > >
> > > Counting from Dec 2007 to March 2008 we have *17* fulfilled request
> > > and ~380 pending requests.
> > > That indicates only one thing, its going to shut down in near future.
> > >
> > > So lets do something about it.
> > >
> > > My suggestions are
> > >
> > > 1. Let's gather from contributors how many DVDs are available for the
> > > month and accept that many requests only.
> >
> >
> > +1 for that . Loads of pending request discourage users
> >
> >
> > > For that we can give contributors a week's time to declare and then
> > > open the request form.
> > > For a month if there is no contributor, there will be no requests.
> > > However, thats not going to increase the quantity of media.
> > > But this will ensure all requests are fulfilled.
> > >
> > > 2. Lets make posting of Blank Media compulsory for requesting Freemedia.
> > > Thats going to cost INR 20-25 at max.
> > > Well, that will create a negative impression no doubt, but the current
> > > situation is not bright either.
> >
> >
> > A suggestion may be is to have regional requests as as to break up
> > requests into modules .this actually lowers the load on free media
> > team .
> > Existing fedora ambassadors may help in this .
> >
> >
> > > For those who genuinely want to use Fedora but don't have that much
> > > bandwidth, it may be helpful.
> > >
> > >
> > > Any other suggestions?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Susmit.
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> >
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> The Most obvious problem is contribution... we have very less active
> India Ambassadors and there appears no real solution in near future...
> as it is initiated.. to send a blank media .. should be an option not
> a requirement (my view) ..
>
> as i see it we first need a saparate freemedia request form where we
> can put proper information and restrictions.. i can work like this :
> 1. in the last week of every month we (India Ambassadors) decide on
> freemedia capacity
> 2. when the form open the decided number of requests are allowed .
> 3. when the limit is reached .. the users are given option to send a
> blank media with return envelop to get the Fedora Media
>
> Regards
> Siddharth
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15 years, 8 months
sata optical drive-unable to mount. after upgrade
by Kris
hi,
I have been a linux user for sometime now but have never changed any
hardware before.
I previously had a IDE optical drive. I now have a sata optical drive but
unable to mount it (it works fine with other live cds).
This is my /etc/fstab
--snip--
/dev/cdrom2 /mnt/disc iso9660 rw,defaults 0
0
--snip--
I figured that the drive points to sr0
$ll /dev
--snip--
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-03-04 16:57 cdrom2 -> sr0
--snip--
I did this
#sdparm --all /dev/sr0
/dev/sr0: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS10 EL00 [cd/dvd]
mode sense command failed, unit attention
unable to mount the drive the usual way using the mount command
this happens after a disc change.
$dmesg
--snip--
sr0: disc change detected.
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
ata3: hard resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
ata3: hard resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
ata3: hard resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
ata3: hard resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
ata3: hard resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
ata3: hard resetting port
ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
--snip--
Any help would be appreciated.
Thnx
ps. kudzu work fine though
15 years, 9 months
