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  1. Karl, login as root in a terminal and just run the chage root command. It will walk you through changing each of the settings. Just set the expire date to something further away like 05/27/2010. The -l is just used to show the current settings of the user chosen. Welcome to the board and you will be an expert in no time.
  2. pcssbb, thanks for the link to the HCL. I assumed these cards were supported since they have been around for a while and work on other linux builds. If nobody responds with positive results of installing this card, then I will pull it from the system and rely on IDE drives. It is a little frustrating tho...
  3. Well I went through the configuration files in Knoppix with both 2.4 and 2.6.7 kernels. The 2.4 kernel identifies and configures my scsi adapter and drive fine, but the 2.6 kernel does not (just like my current mandrake build using kernel 2.6.3-7mdksecure). So it doesn't look like it is mandrake specific, but rather a problem with the 2.6 kernel and auto configure. So now I am confused on where to go from here. Do I need to run the 2.4 kernel in order to use my scsi devices? Or is there a way to make it work? If I do go back to 2.4, what kind of features am I going to be giving up? Any advice is always appreciated. Thanks, Denny
  4. I need to find the configuration files in the Knoppix build that I can use to configure my Mandrake build. I looked into the etc/modules.conf and etc/modprobe.conf files and there is no mention of the scsi adapter or scsi drive, so I want to check these files under Knoppix for comparison. But I don't want to take my server down too many times, so I would like to get an idea of all the files I should look at while Knoppix is loaded. Any suggestions of files to look at would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Denny
  5. Well it took me most the day to get the Knoppix Iso image downloaded, but I did and it does recognize the adapter and the drive. I ran all three of the same commands as I did on my Mandrake 10.0 Official build and here are the outputs. It looks like the driver for the adapter card is the same as the one I am currently using in my config. The main thing I notice different is the scsi1 line in the dmesg, which is missing in my config. This may be my problem. First I will post the pertinent parts, and the complete output is in the attached text file. dmesg SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 libata version 1.02 loaded. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: KENWOOD Model: CD-ROM UCR-412 Rev: 132I Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 <--ide drives emulated as scsi Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 <--ide drives emulated as scsi sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 45x/45x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray <--ide drives emulated as scsi Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray <--ide drives emulated as scsi PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:07.2 scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter> aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs (scsi1:A:0): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit) Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE18300 ULTRA2 Rev: 1.20 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi1:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled. Depth 253 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 35586001 512-byte hdwr sectors (18220 MB) sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > lsmod aic7xxx 131928 0 lspci -v 0000:00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W Subsystem: Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3 BIST result: 00 I/O ports at c400 [size=256] Memory at d6040000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <available only to root> knoppix_scsi_details.txt
  6. Steve, the driver that harddrake reports is aic7xxx and when I do a modprobe aic7xxx I get the following: # modprobe aic7xxx Segmentation fault As far as browsing the Cds for drivers, I haven't searched specifically for other drivers. The adaptec site doesn't specifically support linux with this card, but I can't get my other ultra card to work either and I know it does work with Red Hat. Tomorrow I will have more time to look at drivers and maybe even download a live cd version of knoppix and see what drivers it uses (read on another forum that this card worked with knoppix). Thanks again Steve, and I will report back what I find. Denny
  7. First off, thanks Steve for the help. I did all the steps below and added the complete outputs to a text file attached. My comments and any obvious data pulled will be located below each quoted section. No scd*, sr* or sd* modules found in the output of the dmesg command. there is statement at the end: SCSI subsystem initialized Yes, here are the two modules listed: sg 39772 0 scsi_mod 117616 1 sg Here is the info related to the scsi adapter card: 00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W Subsystem: Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3 BIST result: 00 I/O ports at c400 Memory at d6040000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 scsi_details.txt
  8. Thanks guys, it worked like a champ. Another satisfied user... Denny
  9. No problem Chris, I tried that route first and ran into the brick wall when root wasn't an account I could modify (even when logging into the gui as root). The funny thing is I thought during the install one of the configuration options was to set root not to expire (but I may be thinking of another distro), but yet it expired. Now that Steve mentioned the chage command, it brought back old memories from a college unix class I took. I'll run the chage -l and see what my current settings are, then run through the prompts to set each section correctly. Thanks for the feedback. Denny
  10. I have searched the forums and found lots of SCSI info, but none quite like my problem so I thought I would ask the experts. Situation: I installed a SCSI adapter and hard drive in an already existing Mandrake 10.0 Official install. The adapter is recognized in harddrake, but no SCSI drives show up anywhere in the hardware tree (no sd or sg devices). The SCSI adapter bios recognizes the attached drive and I can insert a DOS boot disk and access the drive fine. I even performed a low format from the adapter utilities and partitioned the drive using DOS fdisk (I want this drive to be formatted in fat32 for use as a backup data drive for my networked windows machines). I looked over the SCSI HOW-TO document, but it is a little over my head at this point and I just need to know of some utilities that might help configure the drive so it is recognized. Do I have to re-install in order for the drive to be recognized? Just some additional info: Dedicated Linux file server (no windows or other OS boot) 60 Gb IDE hard drive fully formated under Linux (one giant ext partition) Adaptec AHA-2940U2W (terminated on cable, along with auto termination set on card) WD 18.3Gb Ultra2 LVD I also tried my old Ultra SCSI card (2940U) and hard drive and it performed the same way, adapter recognized and hard drive not. This setup was pulled from my old Red Hat box that was installed to this drive without issue. So I guess I am just confused why Mandrake 10.0 Official is not installing the drive automatically. I am willing to manually configure the drive, but will need the steps involved. Thanks for any help in advance. Denny
  11. Thanks Steve, I think this is the command I have been looking for. It make sense now, "change age." I'll try it when I get home tonight and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the welcome too. I have been snooping the boards for the last three months (since I loaded Mandrake) and getting lots of good info, but this was the first answer I couldn't find so I decided to sign up and post. As the saying goes, "Ask and you will receive." Denny
  12. I have searched the forums, but haven't found an answer to my problem, so I am asking the experts. :D How do I set the root password so it doesn't expire? Right now it keeps asking me to change my password when I sign into root using su (like in a terminal). I can use the current root password to access all the configuration screens and even log into the gui as root, but most the work I do in root is done through my regular user login and using su. I recently changed from RedHat to Mandrake 10.0 Official for use as a file server. In RedHat the root password never expireed, but in Mandrake it does. I have all the user accounts set to not expire and I don't have an issue, but the root still insists on be changed every 60 days or so. So my question is, where can I configure the root account so that the password never expires? Thanks for the assistance.
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