Linux-Hardware Digest #469, Volume #9 Sat, 20 Feb 99 06:13:35 EST
Contents:
Re: ISA modems (Mircea)
Re: Cheap PCI SCSI? (Mircea)
init_module: device or resource busy (dave caputo)
Ftape Problem!! (ali)
ISA video card recommendation ("Ron")
Re: SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2 (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64 (Johannes Rest)
Canon Bubblejet BJ4200 (Harry)
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring (Scott Hess)
Re: Startup prgrams Red Hat (Fabrizio Albonico)
Problem with an Adaptec 2940 (Alain Godet)
is 2.2.1 kernel SMP-compatible? (Alexander Bortok)
Wintime/TekPal/whatever digitizer tablet (Jani Frilander)
Re: More than 8 LUN-selectable CD-ROM drives? ("Joachim Franek")
Modem Mystery? (Stephen Loewinsohn)
Re: Modem Mystery? ("David Getling")
Re: ZIP Parallel Port Under Red Hat 5.2 ("Trevor Kerr")
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA modems
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:39:00 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first winmodems were ISA. Does this answer your question?
MST
Linux Newbie wrote:
>
> I have another question. Can ISA modems be winmodems? Or
> does this only apply to PCI modems?
>
> --
> "Linux: The best things in life are free"
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI SCSI?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 01:44:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There was recently (a couple of days ago, but I haven't checked since) a
Mylex/Buslogic BT-930 on pricewatch, for $30 (www.pricewatch.com). Go to
I/O controller cards/PCI, and there it should be. It's a decent scsi-2.
You cannot ask for more at this price :).
MST
Dae wrote:
>
> Is there a Lowcost (hoping for around $50 USD) PCI SCSI card I can get
> that will allow me to hook up, CD-RW,ZIP, scanner, and possble and
> internal HD that will work with Linux (Red Hat 5.2) with little/so
> problems with setup?
>
> TIA- Dae/MD
> Phat Fish Website
> http://www.attach.net/users/webster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dave caputo)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: init_module: device or resource busy
Date: 19 Feb 1999 07:25:45 GMT
i just started getting this error while trying to install my 3c509 module
...
init_module: device or resource busy
this had been working for years, and now doesn't ... the most significant
change i made today was going into windows for the first time in a looong
time ... i think things still worked after that though, which is puzzling
...
i've tried putting the card into pnp mode and using isapnptools, which
seemed to configure it correctly, and also disabling pnp and setting the
card with the 3com install program -- no luck ... still works for windows
though ... there are no irq or ioport conflicts that i can see, and i
can't think of any reason why it would be thought that the 'device or
resource' is busy ...
any help?
-dave
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:58:12 +0000
From: ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Ftape Problem!!
Hi!!
I've just upgraded to kernel 2.2.1 and correspondingly downloaded the
latest ftape snapshot and installed everything.
Problem is that everytime I issue the command "ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status"
I get a "device not configured" error
I'm using a ditto 2GB parallel drive.
What do I do (and in general how would I go about configuring devices
since I get the same error for /dev/sequencer when trying to play midi
files with playmidi )
Thanks
ali
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From: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA video card recommendation
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:33:07 -0800
new to linux, running redhat 5.2 with 2.0.36 kernel
I set up redhat on an old i486 system with an ISA motherboard, I have a
video card with a 1MB cirrus logic cl-gd5420 chip on it, however I can only
get 640 x 480 with 16 colors, when I probe the card it only returns this one
option. Someone told me that there may be a linear addressing issue
(whatever that means) that prevents this card from getting higher
resolutions/depth in linux. If anyone knows how I might set this up for 800
x 600 with 16bit color please let me know.
I also have an ATI mach 64 GX ISA card but as luck would have it, from what
I've read this card has system addressing issues for systems with more than
12MB memory (I have 20 in this system) and I get the same 640 x 480 x 16
colors
Can anyone suggest an ISA video card that supports 800 x 600 x 16bit?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2
Date: 12 Feb 1999 16:32:47 GMT
Brian Wildasinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.32 seem to be doing the same
>thing during installation. they're all saying "No SCSI attached!!!"
>
>Why is it that only Redhat5.2 was able to see my SCSI drive during
>installation?
The Linux support for the chip-set of your SCSI card is fairly recent; Red
Hat apparently uses a modified or slightly newer kernel than the others. As
I already pointed out to you in <79uhtp$531$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=443188852), modified Debian
boot-disks that support your SCSI card are available from
http://x12.dejanews.com/jump/http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/ .
>By the way, only Redhat5.2 had a working fips20, fdisk programs for FAT32
>partitions.
FIPS 20 is also distributed in Debian's tools directory.
Ray
--
PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose
between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would
have the decency to betray his country.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: Johannes Rest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:23:54 +0100
Hi!
Jeremy Crabtree schrieb:
>
> That isn't relevant, the PCI64 isn't back compatible with any SoundBlaster
> card; regardless of what Creative Labs says. The PCI64 uses the Ensoniq
> ES137X chipset, which is the same chipset used by the Ensoniq AudioPCI. So
> to use it in Linux, you should be able to use the AudioPCI driver in the
> 2.2.X kernel.
>
I must admit, the configuring of my sound card seems a little bit
strange
to me. I've been working on this problem only for a few hours, but so
far
I haven't succeeded. First question is: do I need the plug&play tools?
I've listed what /proc/pci contains:
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 1).
Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min
Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: ATI Mach64 GB (rev 92).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe6000000].
lsmod on my system:
Module Size Used by
uart401 5904 0 (unused)
sound 56408 0 [uart401]
soundlow 224 0 [sound]
soundcore 2116 3 [sound]
serial 17076 0 (autoclean)
unix 9876 37 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11388 1 (autoclean)
fat 24864 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
but pnpdump gives me this:
# $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.17 1998/11/10 22:45:04 fox Exp $
# This is free software, see the sources for details.
# This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK
#
# For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5)
#
# For latest information on isapnp and pnpdump see:
# http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
#
# Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER -DABORT_ONRESERR
#
# Trying port address 0203
# Trying port address 020b
# Trying port address 0213
# Trying port address 021b
# Trying port address 0223
# Trying port address 022b
# Trying port address 0233
# Trying port address 023b
# Trying port address 0243
# Trying port address 024b
# Trying port address 0253
# Trying port address 025b
# Trying port address 0263
# Trying port address 026b
# Trying port address 0273
# Trying port address 027b
# Trying port address 0283
# Trying port address 028b
# Trying port address 0293
# Trying port address 029b
# Trying port address 02a3
# Trying port address 02ab
# Trying port address 02b3
# Trying port address 02bb
# Trying port address 02c3
# Trying port address 02cb
# Trying port address 02d3
# Trying port address 02db
# Trying port address 02e3
# Trying port address 02eb
# Trying port address 02f3
# Trying port address 0303
# Trying port address 030b
# Trying port address 0313
# Trying port address 031b
# Trying port address 0323
# Trying port address 032b
# Trying port address 0333
# Trying port address 033b
# Trying port address 0343
# Trying port address 034b
# Trying port address 0353
# Trying port address 035b
# Trying port address 0363
# Trying port address 036b
# Trying port address 0373
# Trying port address 037b
# Trying port address 0383
# Trying port address 038b
# Trying port address 0393
# Trying port address 039b
# Trying port address 03a3
# Trying port address 03ab
# Trying port address 03b3
# Trying port address 03bb
# Trying port address 03e3
# Trying port address 03eb
# Trying port address 03f3
# No boards found
I do not what to make of this...
Any hints?
Thanks
Johannes
--
Johannes Rest, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
software design & management GmbH & Co. KG
Thomas-Dehler-Str. 27, D-81737 Muenchen, Germany
Tel.: +49 89 63812-438 Fax: +49 89 63812-444
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon Bubblejet BJ4200
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 04:26:15 -0500
This printer wasn't on the list of printers when I installed Linux -
can someone give me any info on how to configure the system to
support it? The Canon website doesn't recognize any operating
systems other than Winders and Mac OS.
TIA,
Harry
(Could you post replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] also? Ta.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Hess)
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
Date: 19 Feb 99 10:31:48
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Glew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
First, as someone else has commented, the ECC codes I am familiar
with are not special - an error anywhere, in the data or code, is
detectable. The ECC part is not special.
<...>
So, again, my question is this:
What fraction of disk surface errors span 1 block,
2 blocks, 3 blocks ... an entire track?
- i.e. what degree of parity group interleaving
would be required for an acceptable level
of protection?
Compare this to
What fraction of errors are correctable by block ECC?
<...>
Finally, the term "Same disk RAID" is a poor one. Better to call it
"same disk block parity groups".
If protection of data is the goal (and not performance), then why not
just ECC the entire track? Read performance shouldn't be greatly
affected (drives generally read the entire track into a buffer
anyhow). Write performance would obviously require a write-after-read
that isn't currently required - but that would also be the case with
parity groups.
The advantage would be that a "track" is a very natural unit for a
drive to work with. On write, the controller could read the existing
track, merge the new changes, and write the new track with no
rotational delay. Given that many bits to work with, the ECC should
be able to handle substantial centered drop-outs (if a scratch takes
out 1000 bits on each side of a specific point, for instance). You'd
also maximize the available bits-per-track, because you wouldn't
require block markers or gaps between blocks (there would be a gap
per-track, and presumably one could use an encoding which allowed you
to start reading a track from any point).
Inter-track problems would clearly be harder to handle, if only
because the seeking involved would itself decrease reliability. In
that case having multiple drives is clearly a win,
--
scott hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (408) 739-8858 http://www.doubleu.com/
<Favorite unused computer book title: The Compleat Demystified Idiots
Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:50:57 +0100
From: Fabrizio Albonico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Startup prgrams Red Hat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> When i installed my Red Hat version 5.1 on my laptop everything went OK. But
> when i want to start pcmcia service by typing 'pcmcia start' it doesn't work.
> It only works when i execute it by using 'sh pcmcia start' When i create a
> file name DODO and change it to executable by typing 'chmod +x dodo', I can
> only run it by typing 'sh dodo'. I would like to know what am i doing wrong.
> In what way can i change 'sh pcmcia start' to 'pcmcia start'. I don't want to
> execute sh all the time. Currently i'm running bash as my shell.
Matijn,
one common thing in Linux is its ability to surprise users coming from
DOS/Windows environments. Executable programs are one interesting point!
In order to execute a program under Linux it is necessary either to pass its
full path, or include the directory in the PATH environment variable. Refer to
your manual for setting the path, I currently don't remember the entries for
bash. Another way of doing this is
./programname <return>
(I don't know if bash supports it though, csh and tcsh do).
This tells that a program wants to be executed in the current (.) directory... a
little bit complicated.
To avoid having sixtyfour-thousand directories in the PATH variable, I created a
directory called "shortcuts" and every executable file goes in there. Adding
"shortcuts" to the PATH variable is a quite simple task.
Hope this will help solve your problems. If not, I'm available.
- Fabrizio
============================================================================
RANDOM QUOTE:
You will obey or molten silver will be poured into your ears.
Fabrizio Albonico, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Student in Electrical Engineering @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
============================================================================
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From: Alain Godet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with an Adaptec 2940
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:53:58 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Adaptec 2940 1st generation is not detected by my kernel, loaded
through loadlin. Does anybody know the problem and an eventual solution
?
--
Alain Godet
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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From: Alexander Bortok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: is 2.2.1 kernel SMP-compatible?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:51:54 +0300
Hi there!
I've got a weird problem trying to boot SMP kernel on Intel SC450NX box.
The most amazing thing is that
- 2.2.1 kernel w/o SMP boots quite fine
- 2.2.1 kernel w/SMP boots from floppy but
- booting SMP kernel from HD via LILO produces the following result:
| LILO: smp
| Loading smp........
| Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
I would not be confused if SMP kernel would not work at all
but I don't see any reasons why it doesn't boot _only_ from HD.
LILO ver.21
Hardware: 2x Xeon 400Mhz 1Mb cache, embedded Symbios 53C810a SCSI-2
(CD-ROM), 2x 53C896 SCSI-3(HD).
Any suggestions?
Alexander
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From: Jani Frilander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wintime/TekPal/whatever digitizer tablet
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:42:44 +0200
Hi.
I bought a Wintime/TekPal PaintPAL tablet, and I wrote a little
hack in gpm to make the tablet work with it.
Is here anyone else with same kind of device?
If you have a digitizer tablet of some of the following models,
please contact me.
Wintime models:
KD-1000
KD-4000/OP-1212
KD-5000/OP-1812
WL-504
OP-504
OP-604
OP-1000
OP-606
OP-303
OP-1209
OP-302
OP-403
--
The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms:
Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was
a supported platform.
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From: "Joachim Franek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: More than 8 LUN-selectable CD-ROM drives?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:44:20 +0100
for i in 8 9 10 ; do mknod /dev/scd$i b 11 $i; done
for i in 8 9 10; do mkdir /cdrom/$i; done
Joachim
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From: Stephen Loewinsohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Mystery?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:30:34 -0800
I am using RedHat 5.2 and I have a 56k ISA PnP modem. I have
disabled PnP in the computer's bios. I can talk to the modem and even
get it to dial through minicom, but the response from the modem takes
FOREVER. It takes about a minute and a half for the studid thing to
respond to AT commands.
The word "winmodem" does not apear anywhere on the box for the
modem, and it is my understanding that winmodems simply do not respond
at all under Linux.
I tried an older NON-PnP modem and it worked fine, so I'm guessing
that it does have something to do with PnP.
I have checked the IRQs and nothing else is set for IRQ 3.
Any Ideas? (Besides buying a new modem.)
-Steve
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From: "David Getling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Mystery?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:11:13 -0000
I've got exactly the same problem, using a Hayes Accura Speakerphone
internal modem, under SuSE 5.3. I haven't got round to fixing it yet, but I
think it's probably something to do with modem initialisation strings. Can
anyone confirm this, or suggest a fix?
Stephen Loewinsohn wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I am using RedHat 5.2 and I have a 56k ISA PnP modem. I have
>disabled PnP in the computer's bios. I can talk to the modem and even
>get it to dial through minicom, but the response from the modem takes
>FOREVER. It takes about a minute and a half for the studid thing to
>respond to AT commands.
> The word "winmodem" does not apear anywhere on the box for the
>modem, and it is my understanding that winmodems simply do not respond
>at all under Linux.
> I tried an older NON-PnP modem and it worked fine, so I'm guessing
>that it does have something to do with PnP.
> I have checked the IRQs and nothing else is set for IRQ 3.
>
> Any Ideas? (Besides buying a new modem.)
>
>-Steve
>
>
>
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From: "Trevor Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ZIP Parallel Port Under Red Hat 5.2
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:07:28 +1100
Bill Polhemus wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Believe me, folks, I've spent about four hours this evening
>poring over web pages, and I STILL can't get a good answer
>to the question: How do I get Linux to recognize my Zip
>Parallel Port drive? There's GOTTA be more clarity than
>this!
When I installed RedHat 5.2, I said 'yes' when asked if I had any SCSI. Then
I let it autoprobe, and my ppa was detected.
Now, if I want sda4 to be mounted at boot, I leave a Zipdisk in the drive.
I didn't need to add entries to the conf file.
Trevor Kerr
Melbourne, Australia
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