From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 20:14:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03113 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:14:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.tol.it ([194.243.154.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03098 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from molter@tin.it) Received: from dumbwinter.ecomotor.it (a-bu4-19.tin.it [212.216.1.210]) by mail.tol.it (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA22763 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:21:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 1940 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Jul 1998 18:18:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:18:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Marco Molteni X-Sender: molter@dumbwinter.ecomotor.it To: gunnut@2ainfo.it cc: Subject: Re: Erratic computer behaviour In-Reply-To: <35AB6BE7.1D79C8E8@2ainfo.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Filippo (or should I say "ciao" ;-) On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 gunnut@2ainfo.it wrote: > 1-I tried several time to format floppy disk with error messages,today > all of a sudden not only I could format the floppy,but I succesfully > mounted a file system to it and copied files.The only problem it would > only have 855 kb insted of the 1316 expected (3.5" HD floppy) well, I have the same problems with *one* of my PCs, so it could be hardware-related. Have you checked your cables? I remember a discussion on -questions regarding this issue; some people stated that reliable operation of the floppy drive requires a semi real-time OS (read MS-DOS), not a multitasking OS like Unix, and I was pretty convinced by that. > 2-I have a HP Laserjet 4000 I set up the various file and it would make > a test and print fine,after a week it was a dead duck I could not get it > to work with the lpr command I switched to lpd command and it started to > print again.A few days later it works using lpr. ??? lpr submits a file to the printer spooler, lpd. To use lpr, you *need* lpd up and running. How are you starting lpd? > 3-Unmounting cdrom I find it necessary at times to repeat the same > command 2,3 times before execution. As a general rule, please give the exact commands you use and the replies you get, if you want us to be able to diagnose what is going wrong. Marco --- "Two major products to emerge from Berkley are Unix and LSD. We do not believe this to be coincidental" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message