noob sata question...

[xerces8]

VNC has certain problems with "non-standard" characters.
I have the same problem between VNC server and client both running on windows.
The simple solution is : don't use VNC, but X11.
Or try a different keyboard layout.

Regards!

-----Original Message-----
From: "Chris Tencati" <turtle83011 at hotmail.com>
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 16:33:18 -0700
Subject: noob sata question...

> Back when I had FC2 with the 2.4.x kernel, obviously there was no sata 
> support built-in, but I'm using a promise controller and they make
> their 
> drivers available for download/build, so everything worked fine.  Now
> I'm 
> using an up to date (as of yesterday) version of FC2T2, and that's
> causing 
> some problems for me.  SATA support is now built-in to the kernel,
> which is 
> great, but I can't figure out how to actually access the disk...with
> the old 
> driver I think it got reported as a scsi drive (which I swear is wrong)
> that 
> was then faked as a normal ide drive, and I could mount it normally as 
> /dev/hdc.  Now though I don't have any scsi drives listed, udev made my
> cdrom into /dev/hdc (which is lame, it's not an hd!) and there are no 
> addition hd* devices and nothing in general that looks correct.  md0 is
> also 
> unmountable.  The sata_promise module/driver and others are loaded, and
> the 
> system does recognize that there is a sata drive connected - KDE's
> hardware 
> browser lists it under RAID devices (it's not hardware raid though if
> that's 
> important), but I can't figure out any way to access it.  I tried
> playing 
> with MAKEDEV but since I don't really know what to try with it, that
> didn't 
> help at all.  /etc/fstab and /proc/partitions don't list anything
> except my 
> 'normal' drives...
> 
> >From looking at all the stuff online about sata and linux and the new
> 2.6 
> kernels, it seems I'm missing something painfully obvious, but I really
> can't think of what else to try.  Promise doesn't have binaries or
> source 
> for independent modules that support the 2.6 kernels (which makes sense
> since it's now included in the kernel itself), so I can't just do what
> I did 
> before either.  So any idea what stupid thing I'm overlooking, so that
> I can 
> actually use this other drive?
> 
> FC2T2
> kernel 2.6.8-1.541 (stock FC build)
> Promise SATA 150 TX2plus controller
> some Maxtor SATA drive
> 
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