On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 20:27, Thornton wrote: > > This seems to have a problem. If cat does not work then it seems > > indicative of something deeper than previously thought. > > > > Can you do a cat on /etc/modprobe.comf ? > > Were you SUed to root when you did the cat on /proc/ide/hdc/* ? > > What directory were you in when you did that? > > yes I was SUed as root when I tried to do the cat earlier however what > he sent me wasnt just cat /proc/ide/hdc/* as it had hdc.info after it. > not sure if that was supposed to write to hdc.info file or not > > cat /proc/ide/hdc/* The command he asked you to use was cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info That would have created the file hdc.info but if you missed the '>' in the line it would try to cat a file that did not exist. > 563096 > ide-cdrom version 4.61 > 85c0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 > 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 312e > 3033 2020 2020 414f 5045 4e20 2020 4344 > 2d52 5720 4352 5735 3233 3220 2020 2020 > 312e 3033 2032 3030 3331 3031 3320 0000 > 0000 0f00 0000 0200 0200 0006 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0007 0007 > 0003 0078 0078 00f0 0078 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0020 0013 4218 4000 4000 4218 0000 4000 > 0407 0000 0000 0000 0000 600f 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 > cdrom > AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013 > name value min max > mode > ---- ----- --- --- > ---- > current_speed 66 0 70 > rw > dsc_overlap 0 0 1 > rw > ide-scsi 0 0 1 > rw > init_speed 12 0 70 > rw > io_32bit 1 0 3 > rw > keepsettings 0 0 1 > rw > nice1 1 0 1 > rw > number 2 0 3 > rw > pio_mode write-only 0 255 > w > unmaskirq 1 0 1 > rw > using_dma 1 0 1 > rw > > Thanks
