Linux-Hardware Digest #967, Volume #9 Thu, 8 Apr 99 15:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Re: IBM ServerRaid Controller (Michael McCaffrey)
Re: KDE Question (Andrew Yim)
Re: Modem/internet not working ("Jamie Hushower")
Re: Is this a Win Modem? (Credence Ross)
Xeon vs non-Xeon PII/PIII systems (Steve Beresh)
Re: HP Deskjet 710c ("Chris")
Re: Is this a Win Modem? (Lew Pitcher)
Unable to compress data on tape drive (Scott W. Petesen)
Re: Is this a Win Modem? (jason)
Re: cdda2wav & CW-7582-B - problems ("Tim")
last sector of MO disk not readable ("Horst Carius")
Re: Where can one get prebuilt linux systems? ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E.
Larson))
Re: Any recommendations for a good Linux PC? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Where can one get prebuilt linux systems? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Where can one get prebuilt linux systems? ("Peter MacKay")
Re: Spurious characters on Dell keyboard (**Nick Brown)
Re: Help with CD Writer - Yamaha CRW4416S (Jon Gunnar Rue)
Re: FLOPPY cannot be accessed with SuSE 6.0 (Nick Zentena)
Re: What is AGP - in vidio card terms? (Patrick McCall)
Re: ftape and Iomega ditto 2gb (Scott W. Petesen)
Re: Most effective SCSI setup for Linux (Rod Roark)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Leslie
Mikesell)
Re: HELP: Seagate SCSI TapeStore 8GB will not store full capacity. (Scott W.
Petesen)
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From: Michael McCaffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM ServerRaid Controller
Date: 8 Apr 1999 14:32:07 GMT
Manuel wrote:
> Does anybody know how/if it's possible to run Linux on a IBM PC
Server
> 330 with a serverRaid Controller? It seems like it is not supported yet
> but
might be possible that someone created a driver.
>
I contacted IBM on 4/7/99. Tech
support at reports that the IBM PC Server 325 with a serveRaid controller is in the
early stages of development.
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From: Andrew Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: KDE Question
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:59:27 -0500
Pressing ctrl+alt++ or ctrl+alt+- should toggle the different display
resolutions for you. I belive if you run xf86config you can specify if
you want to use virtual desktops that are bigger than the screen.
HTH
> James Liston wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > How do I resize KDE so that it will fit on my screen better? I have
> > already played with my monitor settings and that isn't it. I seem to
> > be missing part of the right hand side where the clock is supposed to
> > be. Or at least I think I am missing the clock. Maybe I should also be
> > asking how to check to make sure the clock is turned on.
> > Any info for resizing the screen would be helpful.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James Liston
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From: "Jamie Hushower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem/internet not working
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:28:03 -0800
Have you set up your serial ports? Read the man page on setserial if not.
Also, watch the massages during boot (or enter "dmesg | more") to check that
the system is correctly detecting your serial ports.
-Jam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7e0sp5$18s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have entered all thr right info in linuxconf's client taks's section, I
>have set up my modem using the correct com port, and when running Usernet
(or
>is it Netuser), nothing happens, well it runs the ppp script but nothing
>happens to my phone line and no noises come from my modem.
>
>I suspect it is my modem because I cannot seem to get mincom to work - I
can't
>type anything in to it when it is ran.
>
>I'm baffled by this one, can anyone help?
>
>-Mark.
>
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:09:06 -0700
From: Credence Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this a Win Modem?
Thanks for the info, guys. But is there no way to _definitively_ tell
if any given modem is a Win Modem. For instance, if such-a-such a modem
has a such-a-such chip/specification than it surely is/(is not) a Win
Modem... I'll definitely need to know this if I have to replace this
modem I just got, and don't want to shell out the dough for a fancy USR
Modem or an external.
Thanks,
Credence
**Nick Brown wrote:
>
> Dominic Leland wrote:
> > Another way that it is a Winmodem (as far as linux is concerned) is that it
> > is a PCI modem. I have heard it said that pci modems will never work in
> > linux. This is probably because the manufacturer would have to release the
> > specs or release a linux driver themselves.
>
> This might be true of Winmodems (although I'm sure that someone,
> somewhere is beavering away at reverse engineering some of those), but
> the fact that it's a PCI card surely won't stop a regular modem working
> under Linux. Incidentally, there are a number of ISA Winmodems as
> well...
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
>
> Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Beresh)
Subject: Xeon vs non-Xeon PII/PIII systems
Date: 8 Apr 1999 17:43:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We're planning to purchase a new workstation and are trying to decide if
the Xeon chip offers any advantages over a comparable non-Xeon chip
which would be useful to us. My understanding is that the Xeon's faster
and (optionally) larger L2 cache is ideal for cache-limited
applications, but how can we determine if our work is cache-limited?
Our workstations are used for scientific computing, mostly raw number
crunching and image processing.
I'm assuming, of course, that linux can fully take advantage of the
improved L2 cache in the Xeon.
Thanks for any advice.
--Steve
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Dept of Aerospace Engineering * "I hate quotations."
University of Texas at Austin * --Ralph Waldo Emerson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,freeserve.help.unix
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 710c
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:48:26 +0100
I think youll find that this is a win printer (Windows Only)
Chris
Harold Sargeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On 07 Apr 1999 23:48:17 +0100, Tommy Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >RedHat 5.2
> >
> >I can't get any response from my new HP Deskjet 710c.
> >Using the printer setup tool I try moving it
> >around from /dev/lp0 to /dev/lp2 and printing test pages
> >to its queue and direct to the port. Only /dev/lp1
> >does not give a device error, but even it doesnt print.
> >
> >It works fine on Win98.
> >
> Under win98 which LPT port are you using? They correspond to the
> same numbers. You are more than likely using LPT1 which will be
> /dev/lp1 under Linux.
>
> Try (as root) to print a text file by typing
> cat file > /dev/lp1
> and see what you get. You may get a staircase effect and the rest
> blank but it is a start.
>
>
> --
> Harold Sargeant
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Is this a Win Modem?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:48:52 GMT
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:09:06 -0700, Credence Ross
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the info, guys. But is there no way to _definitively_ tell
>if any given modem is a Win Modem. For instance, if such-a-such a modem
>has a such-a-such chip/specification than it surely is/(is not) a Win
>Modem... I'll definitely need to know this if I have to replace this
>modem I just got, and don't want to shell out the dough for a fancy USR
>Modem or an external.
The only consistant way is to ask the manufacturer if the will
guarantee that the modem in question can be used as a modem in Linux.
Since most manufacturers have taken to labeling their modems as
"O/S requirements: Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows xx" (if only
because the bundled *application *software works on those platforms
only), you can't use the labels as a consistant guide. (Yes, I know
that *some* WinModem manufacturers label them as "Requres
Windows95/etc", but even non-winmodems are labeled that way).
You can't consistantly go by the modem name/model number, as some
manufacturers do not indicate windows-only modems in the model name
or number. However, if you see the letters HSC (Host Software
Controller), or HCF, or the terms "controllerless modem", "WinModem",
or "Windows Only modem", then don't buy it.
If it can be jumpered, then it probably isn't a WinModem.
If it's a VESA card, then it's probably not a WinModem.
If it's an external modem, then it's probably not a WinModem
(however, at the moment avoid it if it says USB or FireWire).
>Thanks,
>
>Credence
>
>**Nick Brown wrote:
>>
>> Dominic Leland wrote:
>> > Another way that it is a Winmodem (as far as linux is concerned) is that it
>> > is a PCI modem. I have heard it said that pci modems will never work in
>> > linux. This is probably because the manufacturer would have to release the
>> > specs or release a linux driver themselves.
>>
>> This might be true of Winmodems (although I'm sure that someone,
>> somewhere is beavering away at reverse engineering some of those), but
>> the fact that it's a PCI card surely won't stop a regular modem working
>> under Linux. Incidentally, there are a number of ISA Winmodems as
>> well...
>>
>> --
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
>>
>> Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
>> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott W. Petesen)
Subject: Unable to compress data on tape drive
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:55:11 GMT
We don't seem to be able to use compression with a hp dat 8gb drive.
We have tried tar -xzvf, even changed the dip switches on the drive to
use compression regardless of what the software tells it.
Still we are running out of room.
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Web Page: www.wwa.com/~scooter
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ICQ 8287204
Packet E-mail:
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this a Win Modem?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:57:54 -0400
A great resource for questions of this nature is
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
I believe this is the site another poster was referring to.
Hope this helps,
-jason
Credence Ross wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info, guys. But is there no way to _definitively_ tell
> if any given modem is a Win Modem. For instance, if such-a-such a modem
> has a such-a-such chip/specification than it surely is/(is not) a Win
> Modem... I'll definitely need to know this if I have to replace this
> modem I just got, and don't want to shell out the dough for a fancy USR
> Modem or an external.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Credence
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From: "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.apps.cdwrite,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cdda2wav & CW-7582-B - problems
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:43:33 +0100
Yotam Medini wrote in message ...
>I realized that I'd better updgrade to kernel 2.0.36, recompile
>the kernel and add magic append in my lilo.conf.
What is your append="[guff]" that you've added to /etc/lilo.conf?
>( By the way, the reason I did not disable ATAPI CD-ROM support
> as Thomas Zajic strongly suggested, is because my CD-ROM is
> a 4-CD changer, and I use 'eject -c <0|1|2|3>' to select the CD
> and I cannot use it with the SCSI emulation. )
Can't remember about the 2.0.x kernels (haven't used them since about
2.1.100 was around) but certainly for 2.2.x if both ATAPI and SCSI drivers
are present the native driver is used. You can force the use of the SCSI
driver for your cdwriter (which is necessary) using "hdx=ide-scsi" either
from the lilo prompt or as append="hdx=ide-scsi". The ATAPI driver will then
be used for the cdrom jukebox and the SCSI driver for the cdr.
Out of interest, what does cdrecord -scanbus report for you at the
moment? It should report all "SCSI" drives visible to it.
Hope that helps,
Tim.
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From: "Horst Carius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: last sector of MO disk not readable
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:58:24 +0200
Hallo,
I don't know who can give me an answer.
Following is my problem. When you look at the boot log than you see that
there
is a MO drive with a media which has 446325 Sectors, but when I read the
media
I am not able to read the last sector. The output of the DD utility programm
gives me always the same result.
Thank you in advance for any answer.
Best Regards Horst Carius
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
at boot log: <----
446325 Sectors
<4>SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 446325 [217 MB] [0.2
GB]
console log:
amd350:/home # dd if=/dev/sdc of=allmodata.img
446324+0 records in <---- 446324
records
446324+0 records out
amd350:/home #
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From: whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E. Larson)
Subject: Re: Where can one get prebuilt linux systems?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:40:51 GMT
In article <7ei67p$5eu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kyle Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a place where I could buy a prebuilt system running some
>form of Linux?
>
>I'm looking for something in the 200MHz range, preferably not packaged with
>a monitor since I have a spare one.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
www.pricewatch.com look under Complete Systems - PC - specifically the K6'sand
the Celeron's.
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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Subject: Re: Any recommendations for a good Linux PC?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Apr 1999 12:51:11 -0400
"Kurt Euler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone recommend a reputable x86-compatible computer manufacturer which
> sells a low priced model with a complete Linux installation on it?
>
> I am a pre-newbie (I've just been reading about Linux) but want to
> install/learn about it on a PC whose hardware I KNOW supports Linux. I
> figure the best guaranty for hardware compatibility is getting a machine
> that that has Linux pre-installed.
>
> I'm not looking for a the high end Linux server range, like what Dell
> sells -- just a low to medium powered Pentium machine that runs Linux upon
> power-up right out of the box.
>
> Should include VGA card and 10BT NIC.
Hmm, this weeks Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net/) lists a new vendor
(http://www.thelinuxstore.com/) which sells low end Linux systems. Their
bottom end system is $649 (add ethernet for $65) without a monitor. I know
nothing about them other than looking at their web site. Penguin Computing
(http://www.penguincomputing.com) has a system listing for about $1k (again
seems to be without monitor).
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PO Box 98, Ayer Massachusetts, USA 01432-0098
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can one get prebuilt linux systems?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:47:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At that price, you won't find anything terribly new.
I recently bought a second-hand PC from a computer shop near me: I paid
about $220 for motherboard (MMX166), case w/power supply, and a Matrox
w/2MB VRAM. I recycled an old monitor, KB, quad-speed (!) CD drive,
sound blaster, SCSI card and drives (some of the above cannibalised from
obsolete servers at work), treated myself to a new mouse and modem, and
off you go. Installing Linux was not too hard.
Kyle Boyd wrote:
> Does anyone know of a place where I could buy a prebuilt system running some
> form of Linux?
>
> I'm looking for something in the 200MHz range, preferably not packaged with
> a monitor since I have a spare one.
--
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Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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From: "Peter MacKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can one get prebuilt linux systems?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:56:40 -0700
I am not sure why you would want to do this. You can purchase Red Hat or
some other installation for about 50 bucks and the installation really is
very easy. Why pay someoe else?
>>Does anyone know of a place where I could buy a prebuilt system running
some
>>form of Linux?
>>
>>I'm looking for something in the 200MHz range, preferably not packaged
with
>>a monitor since I have a spare one.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Spurious characters on Dell keyboard
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:52:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll try that. It says "101 keys" and the diagram doesn't change to 102
keys (to reduce left-shift and include the backslash; I have UK too !)
when I select "uk", but it seems to work (the backslash is there). I
had kind of assumed that "Dell 101" would be something old-fashioned,
and that all keyboards nowadays were generic. If the spurious backquote
comes back, you'll be hearing from my lawyers (none of this no-price,
no-warranty nonsense !) :-)
Jason McCaul wrote:
> I don't know if your using X but if you are try changing the keyboard in
> XF86Setup. There is a specific Dell keyboard listed. I have a Dimension
> XPS300 and I use the standard 102 keyboard which seems to work fine for
> me.
--
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Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Gunnar Rue)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help with CD Writer - Yamaha CRW4416S
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:18:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999 23:03:01 -0600, Gabriel L. Somlo <Gsomlo@cs. wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I just bought this new cd re-writer, it's a Yamaha CRW4416S and I guess
>I can't write CDs with it.
>
>I installed it in my system (dual PPro, BusLogic bt958 scsi controller,
>and the stuff I have hooked up looks like this:
>
>%> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
>Attached devices:
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: QUANTUM Model: XP32275W Rev: LXY4
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
> Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0e
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3801TA Rev: 3386
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
>I can mount the device (/dev/scd0) and read stuff off of it.
>
>The problems start when I try to do what the cd writing howto says:
Well, I can't really say what is wrong for you, but I had to compile the
kernel with scsi-generic support before anything would work, with burning I
mean. Got some new sg* devices in /dev.
[jgunnar@localhost /etc]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.8a14 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
scsibus0:
0) *
1) *
2) 'YAMAHA ''CRW4416S' '1.0f' Removable CD-ROM
3) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-ROM PX-32TS' '1.03' Removable CD-ROM
4) *
5) *
6) *
7) *
[jgunnar@localhost /etc]#
Mostly I have used this burner under X with XCDRoast.
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From: Nick Zentena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FLOPPY cannot be accessed with SuSE 6.0
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:59:25 GMT
Jean-Jacques GOLAY wrote:
>
> I am quite desperate as I cannot make my floppy work with Linux SuSE
> 6.0.
Try adding this line to your fstab
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Make sure you have a dir /floppy. You should now to be able to just
type
mount /floppy
Nick
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Nick Zentena
SuSE 6.0 Linux 2.2.5
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick McCall)
Subject: Re: What is AGP - in vidio card terms?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:56:25 GMT
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:30:08 -0400, Les Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I plan to add a video card to my system to replace the display function
>built into the system board. I know the BIOS will allow this because
>some of my co-workers have already done so.
>
>I want to get a display system with much more ram than the built in 2meg
>I have now. The system I have is an IBM PC 350 which has a mix of ISA
>and PCI card slots. My question is this, is AGP a designation for an
>imbedded graphics processor system on the video board, or is it a
>system board bus designation?
>
>If it's the later, then I must skip all the cards that advertise AGP. I
>would appreciate a comment or two from someone who has walked this path
>ahead of me.
>
>--
>Les Hazelton
AGP, Advanced Graphics Port, I believe, is a type of card edge
connector on the motherboard that has been designated just for AGP
graphics cards. Like ISA and PCI buses are different, so is AGP. Go
to any motherboard site that has pictures, and you will see on an AGP
motherboard that one of the slots are set back a little farther than
the rest, and looks similar to a PCI slot. That is the AGP slot. If
you are looking to upgrade your machine that has only ISA and PCI,
then yes, skip all AGP cards. Most AGP cards are offered in a PCI
form, anyway.
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott W. Petesen)
Subject: Re: ftape and Iomega ditto 2gb
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:03:45 GMT
Are you using the new ftape driver? I have the internal version
working only with the 4.02 driver. See the ftape home page.
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 01:26:49 GMT, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>Is anyone running ftape with a Iomega Ditto 2gb tape drive. External
>unit connected through parallel port.
>
>I have set up ftape. When I run Taper or any other backup app it scans
>the system and only tries the floppy drive.
>
>In conf.modules I have the line added-
>
>alias char-major-27 zftape
>options ftape ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none
>
>
>
>
>
>I have also tried
>alias char-major-27 zftape ftape=trakker,bpck-fdc
>ftape=a,a,n,n,pp
>
>
>Obviously this isn't right.
>
>Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
>
>George
>
>
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Scott W. Petersen - N9SLA
Web Page: www.wwa.com/~scooter
Elgin, IL - USA
ICQ 8287204
Packet E-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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PLEASE note e-mail address is scooter @ wwa.com
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Most effective SCSI setup for Linux
Date: 8 Apr 1999 16:05:01 GMT
Johannes Niess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick McCall) wrote:
>>I am in the process of constructing a "new" Linux box, using a Pentium
>>100 MHz and 16MB RAM. I want to use SCSI, preferably one form of an
>>Adaptec 2940 card. I plan on using this computer for web browsing,
>>word processing, learning more about the operating system, and
>>possibly hosting a LAN with three or four users and programming (for
>>college classes). Can anyone recommend anything? Something not too
>>expensive... I've seen good deals on 2940U and UW cards, and they
>>appeal to me having fast transfer rates. Fast SCSI-2 and Fast Wide
>>SCSI seem old, but it may end up working just fine. I need another
>>opinion; I'm just not sure what I need.
>You don't need SCSI for theses small systems. A 1 GB EIDE hard disk is
>sufficient. Save the SCSI money for more ram. You get a lot more speed
>by using more memory.
I'll second this. SCSI is usually a needless expense for a 1- or
2-drive system. See http://www.sunsetsystems.com/tip-scsi.html for
my long-winded version of this opinion.
Your money will be much better spent on more RAM and a more modern CPU
(e.g. K6-2, Celeron or P-II).
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 8 Apr 1999 12:01:11 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthew Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The bad news is that it can't be done perfectly for various reasons;
>basically, because of UNIX's multiuser, multiprocess nature, the odds
>of the deleted data being overwritten before you recover it are much
>higher than with single-user systems.
I wouldn't mind having a filesystem that worked like a NetApp where
you could set 'snapshot' intervals and an image would be frozen
as a backup and subsequent disk activity happens by writing changed
blocks elsewhere. If you make a mistake in deletions or overwrite
something you can retreive a copy from the snapshot directory.
Of course if I wanted this badly enough to pay for a NetApp, I could
just plug one into the network...
>I would rather see a system convention where files are moved to a
>trashcan directory somewhere, and deleted dynamically when more space
>is needed. This would be a better solution in general.
This covers a very small subset of the possible things you can do
wrong. I almost never delete things and find that I wanted them
later but I have frequently overwritten files with new versions
that turned out not to be an improvement.
Les Mikesell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott W. Petesen)
Subject: Re: HELP: Seagate SCSI TapeStore 8GB will not store full capacity.
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:06:57 GMT
How do you know it is only 900M? We are having a similar problem
with a dat drive.
On 02 Mar 1999 15:09:37 -0500, Ed Soniat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have a:
>Seageat TapeStore 8GB SCSI 2 drive.
>On a AHA 2940 UltraWide
>RedHat 5.2 Kernel 2.032.
>Mt status reports SCSI 2
>blocksize 512 Density 0x45 unknown
>It will only hold about 900M. (Way short of the 4 Gig)
>Tar exits with Exiting do to earlier error (no earlier error reported)
>Dump asks for a new tape very early.
>cpio does no better.
>
>The various mt commands like rewind,status,retension seem to work
>
>The rewind/norewind devices work as expected.
>
>Just can't get 4 Gig on it.
>
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