[NTLUG:Discuss] Formatting a floppy with ext3,

terry kj5zr at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 8 11:01:39 CDT 2003



Wayne Dahl wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 08:53, terry wrote:
> 
> 
>>FYI:
>>I know this sounds stupid, but, I've taken a pci card out [because it 
>>didn't work] and put it back in and it worked. Or I pull it out of one 
>>slot and put it in another slot and it worked.  No explanation, no 
>>reason, just wouldn't work the first time and worked second time and all 
>>I did was pull it out and shoved into a slot for second time, or 
>>preferably, into another slot.
> 
> 
> I have had this sort of thing happen to me too before and it can sure
> cause a lot of ulcers.  I don't know why I didn't think of it.  I guess
> it's because I'm still so fairly new to Linux, I just figured it had
> something to do with the fact that Smoothwall never sees the card as a
> Linksys card but as a Digital something or other.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Wayne

Yea, but this doesn't happen every day, it's really a rare occurrence, 
so this is just like a refresher course in PC-Hardware-Assembly-101 for 
us all.
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