Linux-Hardware Digest #845, Volume #12 Fri, 12 May 00 02:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI CD-ROM problem (Lev Givon)
Re: ORB drive (BEWARE) (Mike Ward)
Re: ISA SoundBlaster installation (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Lexmark 3200 and RedMon, Any Ideas? (Chetan Ahuja)
Pizza box ATX cases? (Chetan Ahuja)
Mandrake 7.0 on Toshiba Portege 7100 (Ron Ng)
Re: Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!) (Sven Bovin)
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From: Lev Givon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI CD-ROM problem
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 23:21:33 -0400
The termination is correct, both on the card end and on the CD-ROM end. I
tried booting the system using one of those 1-disk Linux distributions
(called tomsrtbt) based on kernel 2.0.33, and I found that the CD drive
worked
perfectly fine when mounted under that system. The problem therefore appears
to stem from a kernel (or module) bug in 2.2.14, as I recall being able to
use the CD a few months ago when the system was using kernel 2.2.12.
L.G.
kevin metcalf wrote:
> Probably dumb questions, but:
> 1) Did you check the Termination?
> 2) Have you tried to recreate the conditions of the install and check to
> see that your current configuration matches? IE, did you put the
> install disk back in, reboot, and see what the install can autodetect?
> Kevin
>
> Lev Givon wrote:
> >
> > I successfully installed a new SCSI CD-ROM drive on a fully functional
> > Intel-architecture system (Pentium III, IDE hard drive, 128 MB memory) a
> > month or two ago. The SCSI card (a DPT 2024) is supported by Linux. The
> > CD-ROM operated correctly at that time.The system was subsequently not
> > started for about a month. When I recently booted up the system and
> > tried to mount a CD, the system failed to do so. The system logs (copied
> > below) appear to indicate that the boot was normal (i.e., the eata_dma
> > driver used by the SCSI card was loaded):
> >
> > EATA (Extended Attachment) driver version: 2.59b
> > developed in co-operation with DPT
> > (c) 1993-96 Michael Neuffer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Registered HBAs:
> > HBA no. Boardtype Revis EATA Bus BaseIO IRQ DMA Ch ID Pr QS S/G IS
> >
> > scsi0 : PM2024A/9X v07C.D 2.0c PCI 0xdd90 10 BMST 1 0 N 64 64 N
> > scsi0 : EATA (Extended Attachment) HBA driver
> > scsi : 1 host.
> > Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-ROM CD-516S Rev: 1.0G
> > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> > scsi0: queue depth for target 1 on channel 0 set to 64
> > Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> >
> > When I tried to mount a CD in the drive from the console, the system
> > coughed up the following:
> >
> > scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
> > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > eata_reset called pid:9 target: 1 lun: 0 reason 0
> > eata_reset: board reset done, enabling interrupts.
> > eata_reset: interrupts disabled again.
> > eata_reset: exit, wakeup.
> > scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
> > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > eata_reset called pid:11 target: 1 lun: 0 reason 0
> > eata_reset: slot 20 in reset, pid 11.
> > eata_reset: board reset done, enabling interrupts.
> > eata_reset: interrupts disabled again.
> > eata_reset: slot 20 locked, DID_RESET, pid 11 done.
> > scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset.
> > eata_reset: exit, pending.
> > eata_dma: int_handler, reseted command pid 11 returned
> > VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 0b:00: rw=0, want=33, limit=2
> > dev 0b:00 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1
> > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> >
> > Subsequent attempts to mount the drive failed; in fact, any mount
> > process started after the first one (which produced the error above)
> > would persist in memory despite kill -9 attempts. I looked over the
> > internal connections inside the system, but nothing seems to be amiss.
> > What could be causing the mount to fail? I am running RedHat 6.2 with
> > RedHat's precompiled kernel (2.2.14-5.0). The system is booting off its
> > single (primary master) IDE drive.
> >
> > Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated; I really must get
> > this CD operational again. Remove the "nospam-" string from my email
> > address if you wish to reply to me directly.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > L.G.
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From: Mike Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ORB drive (BEWARE)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 03:42:48 GMT
I also have an Orb external SCSI drive that I am trying to get working underSuSE Linux
6.3 running on an IBM Thinkpad 760XD through an Adaptec SlimSCSI
1460D PCMCIA card.
I have the Orb set to respond as SCSI device 6. Linux tries to talk to it,
but the commands always time out. The corresponding console messages
are:
Console log for spinor
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x: processing commandline: ok
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=5, SCSI ID=7,
reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended
translation=disabled
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 $
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: scsi : 1 host.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Vendor: CWS ORB2 Model: -SE U ID 6 Rev: D20
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0,
id 6, lun 0
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: scsi0 : channel 0 target 6 lun 1 request sense failed,
performing reset.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
May 7 22:48:06 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 8, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 1 Test Unit Ready 20 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:48:12 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 8, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 1 Test Unit Ready 20 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:48:42 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:49:12 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:49:24 spinor kernel: Trying to open MFT
May 7 22:49:42 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:50:12 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:50:43 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:50:43 spinor kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
May 7 22:50:43 spinor kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
The corrsponding /var/log/messages are:
May 7 22:47:57 spinor syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Loaded 8502 symbols from /boot/System.map.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.13.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Loaded 121 symbols from 7 modules.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS
MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.3
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: kernel build: 2.2.13 #1 Mon Nov 8 18:28:35 GMT 1999
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pnp]
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe700
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:e724, dseg at
f0000
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: TI 1130 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 2, mem
0x10812000, 2 sockets
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [isa irq] [no pci irq] [lat
168/176] [bus 1/3]
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [isa irq] [no pci irq] [lat
168/176] [bus 4/6]
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 5,7,9,10 status change on irq
10
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding
0x1268-0x126f 0x13b8-0x13bf 0x13f0-0x13f7 0x1668-0x166f 0x17b8-0x17bf 0x17f0-0x17f7
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: excluding 0xa68-0xa6f
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x: processing commandline: ok
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=5, SCSI ID=7,
reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended
translation=disabled
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 $
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: scsi : 1 host.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Vendor: CWS ORB2 Model: -SE U ID 6 Rev: D20
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0,
id 6, lun 0
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: scsi0 : channel 0 target 6 lun 1 request sense failed,
performing reset.
May 7 22:48:02 spinor kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
May 7 22:48:05 spinor /usr/sbin/cron[152]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
May 7 22:48:06 spinor in.identd[156]: started
May 7 22:48:06 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 8, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 1 Test Unit Ready 20 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:48:12 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 8, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 1 Test Unit Ready 20 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:48:42 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:48:50 spinor : pam_unix session started for user mike, service xdm
May 7 22:49:12 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:49:24 spinor kernel: Trying to open MFT
May 7 22:49:42 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:50:12 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:50:43 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:50:43 spinor kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
May 7 22:50:43 spinor kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
May 7 22:51:14 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:51:44 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:51:59 spinor : pam_unix session finished for user mike, service xdm
May 7 22:52:11 spinor init: Switching to runlevel: 0
May 7 22:52:14 spinor kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10, scsi0,
channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
May 7 22:52:16 spinor kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
May 7 22:52:16 spinor kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
May 7 22:52:17 spinor exiting on signal 15
I sent the following email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and am still waiting.
> I have the SCSI Orb drive and have tried various ID numbers, but now have
> it set to 6 (the original setting). I would like to use via a PCMCIA Adaptec
> SlimSCSI 1460D card in an IBM ThinkPad 760XD running SuSE Linux v6.3.
>
> When the system powers up, it seems to recognize the device, but cannot seem
> to get it to recognize commands.
>
> Please advise.
Anybody got any ideas?
If you can shed any light on this for me, I'd greatly appreciate it..
Thanks.
--
Mike Ward
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA SoundBlaster installation
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 18:25:56 -0700
Paul Voller wrote:
>
> This sounds like aproblem with the IRQ in general. Try using either IRQs of
> 5 or 10, as I /think/ that an irq of 7 may be one of those "out of bounds"
> system values.
>
> To change the irq, goto a prompt and type (as root):
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS? irq 5
>
> ( where /dev/ttyS? is the port that your soundcard is plugged into) and this
> should set the irq. Failing that, type :
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS? autoconfig
>
> and this should /try/ to guess the right values, although results often
> vary.
>
Umm... no. He has a soundcard, not a modem. IRQ 7 is used by the parallel port,
although it can be reclaimed if there is no printer. Really, the first thing to
do is to get isapnp working, without it you are not going to be able to use the
card. Also, RedHat 6.2 on a 486?
--
Vladimir
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 03:54:42 GMT
On Fri, 12 May 2000 08:56:12 +0900, Y. Ohgaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm wondering if my Linux box HDD is running as fast as it can.
>
>I set
>
># hdparm -d1 -c1 -X66 /dev/hda
>(If I don't it works like 3MB/sec.......)
>
>#hdparm -t /dev/hda
>says the disk transfer rate is a little less than
>20MB/sec.
>and I think this is rather slloww.....
This is probably at UDMA33. You need the ide patch to take advantage of
66. Might get you up to 25MB or so.
>The disk is IBM made 13.5GB 5400rpm ATA66 HDD w/ 2MB cache..
>Motherboard is Intel 440BX chipset w/ P-III 500Mhz
>Kernel is 2.2.12 with md enabled. (I don't use raid, yet though)
>
>This machine is going to use disks heavily.
>
>Could you post your ATA66 HDD speed? (w/ spec if possible)
You saw mine right? What I don't understand is why you get better
performance with a 5400 IBM drive than I do with a 7200???
13.6 ATA66 (running UDMA33), BX Abit BP6 SMP 2x400, 2.2.15, 128M.
hdparm -d1c1m16u1:
/dev/hdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.69 seconds = 13.65 MB/sec
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark 3200 and RedMon, Any Ideas?
Date: 12 May 2000 05:02:48 GMT
Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
> Hi all,
> I've got a Lexmark 3200 (yup, the paperweight as far as Linux is
> concerned). However, I have it connected to Windows 95 which is
> networked to my Linux box. My hope is to use RedMon to print to it from
> the Linux box.
> The troubles I'm having with this are two-fold:
> 1) RedMon seems a little flakey. If I have it output to a file, the
> copy/b the file to the printer, the output comes out OK. If I have it
> output directly to the printer (using the suggested methods per the
> documentation) it doesn't work (spools and empties but doesn't print)
> 2) I can't find a suitable PostScript color printer driver to map to to
> make the output come out correctly. Any suggestions on Printer
> selection?
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks.
I am using the redmon setup to run a Canon BJC6000. It works fine
for me. Although I haven't tested the color printing mode much. I am
mostly print black text from it. Works fine for that. Redmon has
never given me the kind of trouble that you seem to be experiencing.
What exactly is your setup??
I have described my setup in detail in another post. Search on Deja
in all the linux newsgroups.. I don't remember which group it was.
Chetan
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From: Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pizza box ATX cases?
Date: 12 May 2000 05:07:07 GMT
Hi,
This post might be mildly offtopic. But this seems to be the right
kind of crowd to ask this question.
We are looking for ATX cases with power supplies in Pizza box or
similar form factor... similar to the old Sun Sparc
machines. Does such a thing exist. The price range should not be
too much over $100. We are trying to build a linux cluster for
research purposes and the rackmount cases seem to cost about as
much as rest of the computer put together. Does anyone know of
such cases available anywhere...
Chetan
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From: Ron Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.0 on Toshiba Portege 7100
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 22:26:00 -0700
I have a Toshiba Portege 7100, and I loaded Mandrake Linux 7.0 on it. When
you load it, it works great. But this laptop doesn't have an internal
CD-ROM, so I have to use the docking station to install Mandrake. I have a
Xircom NIC internal to the laptop. However, when I undock, that's where I
start running into problems. When I bootup my laptop, it goes through the
normal Linux checks, and when it comes to PCMCIA service, it just hangs
there, and does nothing. Has anybody else run into problems like this? If
so, how do I resolve this?
TIA
Ron
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From: Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:01:05 +0100
Sandhitsu R Das wrote:
>
> I have an old Packard Bell Legend 220CD machine with 486DX2 running at
> 66MHz. I have two RAM slots in which I currently put two 12M modules. It
> seems the second slot module is always recognized as max. 4MB. Do I have
> to tweak anuything to have its full amount recognized (even the BIOS
> recognizes 4MB only).
Looks like the infamous `memory hole at 15/16 MB' in my
Award BIOS. Is there any such thing in your BIOS setup ?
If so, try switching that off.
HTH
Sven
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