Linux-Hardware Digest #152, Volume #10 Mon, 3 May 99 23:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Re: Q: HP NetRAID 3Si + booting LINUX (Dark Jedi)
Re: question on hard drive size
Re: bios
funniest printer-problem (peter)
Re: 3C905B + RedHat 6 + dhcp = problem??? (Brendan Rempel)
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: Q: HP NetRAID 3Si + booting LINUX (Christian Wiese)
Re: vectra 486/50 as a server ("David Murray")
Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? (Amit Chakradeo)
MUSTEK ScanExpress 12000SP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Avatar Shark 250/MB removable HD supported w/Linux? (Michael Carmody)
Re: iMac, LINUX machine (Robin Jackson)
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: Modem problems : new newsgroup required. (Jody Walker)
Re: Help! Problem with Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370) (CIMEBOAT)
CMI8330 failure (Kyungjin Ahn)
server watchdog timer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where find the address range? (Derek Lucas)
Re: serial port monitoring (�5�HH575-UAZWKVVP-7H2H48V3)
Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Sound Card HELP! (Stephen Bell)
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From: Dark Jedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Q: HP NetRAID 3Si + booting LINUX
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:47:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christian Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> Is there anybody out there, who can tell me if it's possible to boot
> Linux from a harddisk that is connected to the HP NetRAID 3Si controller
> ???
>
> thank you very much
>
> best regards
>
> christian
>
>
yes, it is possible. is the netraid controlling the drive or disabled and
being used as the world's most expensive SCSI controller? it will work both
ways, if you want it to. just got through testing linux on a 3SI card, went
in beutifully and without a hitch. -- --- --- --- --- The spammers say
"Just hit delete." How ironic, my delete key seems to be attached to their
account....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: question on hard drive size
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:52:28 -0700
On Mon, 03 May 1999 00:33:09 -0400, Paul E. Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:7gedbf$fcd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> whats the biggest hard drive linux can support?
My largest partition is 7G on a 20G disk (DeskStar).
Couldn't tell you about the upper bound though. I have
yet to reach it in my meagre client usage.
>
>To the best of my knowledge there is no limit for the size of a HD.
>
>The maximum size of a single filesystem (what's usually on one partition
>although the MD driver allows to span a filesystem across multiple
>partitions and drives) depends on the filesystem you are using. For ext2fs
>that should be somewhere at about 2 or 4 TB (yep, that's terabyte)
>
>The maximum size of a single file depends on the platform you are using. On
>64-bit machines it should be 2 or 4 TB again, on 32-bit architectures it's
>currently limited to 2GB.
>
>For more details please consult dejanews.
This fellow may have heard of all of the >8G problems.
Personally, I had no trouble. Then again, I don't have
any WinXX partitions to get the way. Although, as soon
as I find my BeOS CD, I can test how Linux and Be get
along on a 20G disk.
I used DiskDruid to partition the disk btw.
--
Microsoft subjected the world to DOS until 1995. |||
A little spite is more than justified. / | \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: bios
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:55:12 -0700
On Mon, 03 May 1999 04:47:35 GMT, Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have linux installed on a 233 cyrix with 64 meg of memory.
>No problem with usage...but after about 24 hours of up time the system re-
>boots back to a login prompt. I have re-set the applicable bios settings
>(hopefully) yet it still happens. It does have Power management settings
>available.
>
If your BIOS is resetting itself, that alone is a dreadful problem
not likely related to what OS you're running.
Muck about in /var/log/messages and see if there's anything interesting
going on before/after the system reboots itself.
--
Microsoft subjected the world to DOS until 1995. |||
A little spite is more than justified. / | \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: funniest printer-problem
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 23:13:46 GMT
I have a hp-deskjet510 which run fine for years on all my computers.
Now I decided to put it to my old linux-server again with a gigabyte-
586sg-mainboard.
and now the following thing happens:
when plugging in the parallelport the busy-light of the printer turns on
immediately and I can do nothing (no reset, no testingpage, no changing
catridge and no printing of course). Ok maybe wrong port-mode or wrong
adress/IRQ.
So I enter the bios-setup and IMMEDIATELY AFTER ENTERING THE BIOS the
busy-light goes off and the printer goes to normal mode. when leaving the
bios again (independent of the port-settings I selected: I tried all
adresses/irq�s and portmodes from abraham to zacharias) the printer
switch to its nasty busy-light-on-mode again !!
what the heck is going on here ?
when hanging a canon-bj200 to the same cable this one seem to have a
quite normal behavior.
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
goldfisch.atat.at
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From: Brendan Rempel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3C905B + RedHat 6 + dhcp = problem???
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 17:48:03 -0600
This resembles a question/answer on another group and the question I put up.
One reply came direct from Redhat, so they know about the problem with pump
and dhcp. The posting is in the comp.os.linux.setup subject "RH 6.0/DHCP
Problem". Another suggestion is to enter IP addresses in manually.
Brendan
Mark Astley wrote:
> Let me guess: it hangs for about 30 seconds and then fails? I
> experienced a similar problem with an AMD PCINet/II. The problem
> seems to be the "pump" program, which starts up your interface via
> dhcp and sets up appropriate routes. Here's an extract from
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup:
>
> if [ -n "$PUMP" ]; then
> echo -n "Determining IP information for $DEVICE..."
> if /sbin/pump -i $DEVICE ; then
> echo " done."
> else
> echo " failed."
> exit 1
> fi
> else
> ...use other method to bring up interface...
>
> For me, this hangs for a while and then finally outputs failed. If
> you run pump manually, i.e.:
>
> pump eth0
>
> You get something like:
>
> ...weird dhcp error message...
> Operation failed.
>
> With a non-zero exit code. Very cryptic. Anyway, pump DOES seem to
> initialize the device correctly, but it doesn't set up the routes you
> need. Here's my hack to get things to work:
>
> if [ -n "$PUMP" ]; then
> echo -n "Determining IP information for $DEVICE..."
> /sbin/pump -i $DEVICE
> ifconfig $DEVICE up
> route add default $DEVICE
> echo " done."
> # if /sbin/pump -i $DEVICE ; then
> # echo " done."
> # else
> # echo " failed."
> # exit 1
> # fi
> else
> ...use other method to bring up interface...
>
> As you can see, very high tech :) Haven't contacted RedHat about this
> yet.
>
> cheers,
>
> mark
>
> Denis Laventure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Anyone tried this combo? The dhcp doesn't seems to work... Before
> > installing RH 6, I was running RH 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 and it was ok.
> > Now that I have RH 6 with kernel 2.2.5, I must configure my lan
> > manually...
> >
> > Can someone help me with this?
> >
> > Denis
> >
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Mark Astley
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/~m-astle
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous?
Date: 03 May 1999 03:30:21 -0700
jesus christ, if it bothers you that much stick it in closet across the room.
-ckm
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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 03:24:03 +0200
From: Christian Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Q: HP NetRAID 3Si + booting LINUX
Thank you Dark Jedi,
naturaly I don't want to use the NetRAID 3Si just as a SCSI-Controller. I want
to mirror the Systemdisk of a NetServer LPr and attach an external
RackStorage/8 System.
Do you have expierences with that kind of configuration under Linux ?
Dark Jedi schrieb:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Christian Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hi folks,
> >
> > Is there anybody out there, who can tell me if it's possible to boot
> > Linux from a harddisk that is connected to the HP NetRAID 3Si controller
> > ???
> >
> > thank you very much
> >
> > best regards
> >
> > christian
> >
> >
>
> yes, it is possible. is the netraid controlling the drive or disabled and
> being used as the world's most expensive SCSI controller? it will work both
> ways, if you want it to. just got through testing linux on a 3SI card, went
> in beutifully and without a hitch. -- --- --- --- --- The spammers say
> "Just hit delete." How ironic, my delete key seems to be attached to their
> account....
>
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vectra 486/50 as a server
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:14:16 GMT
I used to have a 386 with 20 MB of RAM running Linux and acting as a file
server and webserver for about 5 computers. it was also IP masquerading.
I used it for about a year before upgrading to a Pentium. I see no reason
a 486/50 wouldn't work!
--DavidM
Wizard01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7gjbmn$7i8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I want to set up a Vectra 486/50 as a home network....it has a NIC
already
> installed, and I plan to upgrade it to 32M ram.
> Anybody know if this setup will work? If not, what would I need to add
> (required and/or recommended)
> I *would* like to upgrade the motherboard, but I have *no* idea where to
> find a low profile mb that would fit
> Any help would be appreciated!!!
>
> Paul
> freelandp<at>usa<dot>net
>
>
>
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here
Date: 03 May 1999 03:27:39 -0700
post an entire driver in a non-binaries newsgroup? Have a little
consideration...some of us have leaf-sites.
-ckm
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From: Amit Chakradeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ?
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 11:13:46 -0700
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> David Guyon Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there any trouble or dissadvantage ?
>
> lack of blinkenlights.
> lockin to one arch.
> the joy of plug-and-play.
> risk of software or `win'-modem.
> can't toggle power without killing the whole computer.
> hotswap is difficult at best.
>
How do you "hotswap" modems ???
> --
> johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MUSTEK ScanExpress 12000SP
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 17:19:16 GMT
Anybody Now, how to bring my Mustek 12000SP width the bundled SCSI-Card (an
Domex-Clone (?)) to work in Linux ??
Thanx
RS
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From: Michael Carmody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Avatar Shark 250/MB removable HD supported w/Linux?
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 11:26:34 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After snooping around I was able to answer my own question. For those
who have one of these drives, they are supported along with lots of
others. The site where I found out about this is:
http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
Michael Carmody wrote:
>
> Is there anyone out there who has the Avatar Shark 250/MB removable
> drive working with Linux? If so could you share any knowledge you have
> about setting it up with us?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Subject: Re: iMac, LINUX machine
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:54:44 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Saklad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Subject: iMac, LINUX machine
>From: Don Saklad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Organization: MIT
>Date: 03 May 1999 02:37:57 -0400
>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
>
>My associate offered me and my family a couple of iMac machines.
>
>Are there any LINUX machines?
>
>After checking out The LINUX Store,
>http://www.thelinuxstore.com
>
>it is still unclear to me.
If you want Linux on an iMac you need LinuxPPC.
Go to www.Linuxpppc.org.
Robin
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous?
Date: 03 May 1999 03:29:25 -0700
"Victor Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No zap since the the water is not ionized. It is far pure than your tape
> water.
not my tape water!
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 04:21:09 +0000
From: Jody Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Modem problems : new newsgroup required.
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> [Note FollowUp-To: header]
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >I think we need a different newsgroup just to address the
> >issue of installing modems on Linux. There have been
> >"39 MESSAGES" in the past 2 days just addressing modems...
> >so do we have a problem here??
>
> [...]
>
> Yes. There are too many people unwilling to read the messages
> already posted first, prior to posting the 40th message with
> identical content.
>
> I fail to see how _another_ group would help there.
> Just one more group for useless crossposting isn't highly
> desirable, IMHO .
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
> Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
> Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
I have an idea. How about a HOWTO devoted to nothing but getting modems
configed in Linux. Or would that be to simple to correct this problem.
Jody Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CIMEBOAT)
Subject: Re: Help! Problem with Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370)
Date: 3 May 1999 22:00:06 GMT
Try two things
1)run sndconfig --noprobe using the cards parameters for I/O,DMA,IRQ,etc
2)Try turning your PNP option OFF(IN BIOS) if you have that feature
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From: Kyungjin Ahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CMI8330 failure
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 16:52:19 -0400
i tried every possible method i know, but failed to get sound. The first
method was following that CMI_mini_HOWTO, and second, i compiled kernel
2.2.7 and referred to the cmi8330 document included in it.
It seems to fail to detect only the sound portion, i mean, WSS, MPU_401,
joystick.. seem to be configured correctly but while booting, i get the
message "LD 3 ... failed.."(i don't remember that message right now) and
it suggests putting (VERIFYLD N) in "isapnp.conf" file.
as for irq for sound, ruuning in windows98, irq 5 is allocated for it,
and i did the same thing under linux. Why do I fail to get sound from my
CMI8330??? Somebody plz help me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: server watchdog timer
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 22:03:47 GMT
Hi,
I need to install a watchdog timer device for my server (one that
watches the box and reboots it in times of trouble). The only company
I know of that has something like this that works for linux is
Industrial Computer Source in San Diego.
In particular, I am interested in their products PCI-WDT 500/501
Has anyone had experiences with these products, good or bad? How easy
is it to install/use the devices?
Thanks in advance,
edmond
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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 18:13:25 -0400
From: Derek Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where find the address range?
Might wanna try looking at the /proc directory. ie: /proc/ioports,
/proc/interrupts
--
Derek Lucas
Systems Technician
OneNet Communications, Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one.net
On Mon, 3 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone know where I may find the address range of my loaded network card
> inside Linux? I know the address is 0x300, but that is only the beginning
> address. What I want to know is the full range. It is not documented
> anywhere in my card's manual, but I believe the kernel returns this value,
> after it loads the card, in some log file of sorts, but I don't know where.
>
> Thanks
>
> --Daniel
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (�5�HH575-UAZWKVVP-7H2H48V3)
Subject: Re: serial port monitoring
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:27:27 GMT
Reply-To: netnoice-NOSPAM-#@freemail.it
I have had your same problem, I searched in http:://linux.box.sk for
serial, and I found samplin ,it should be a wonderfull program, but I
can't compile it. Try and say me.
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 06:26:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am testing a smartcard reader which comminocate with host via serial port.
>Does anybody know of any tools to monitor the serial port activity?
>
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From: Stephen Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq Soundscape Sound Card HELP!
Date: 4 May 1999 02:34:37 GMT
Hi Jay,
I have a soundscape card working to some degree.
you need to load the soundscape microcode into the card
after power on, I do this by running ssinit from
/etc/rc.local
You will need the microcode file that came with the
windows drivers for the card. (they're also on the ensoniq website.)
there are several for different variants of the card.
I'm using whateverthenameis.co1 (sndscape.co1???)
^^^^
It is a while since I did this but ssinit is in the "snd-kit" tarball.
I compiled the sound driver directly into the kernel not as a module,
most of the sndconfig options are fairly obvious,
All this works fine with 1 card in the machine.
I have two midi cards in the machine.
1) Ensoniq soundscape
2) Roland MPU-401 ()
I can play midi files on both the ESS & MPU401 using playmidi
but haven't been able to get the ESS to play midi from a controller
keyboard sending midi via the midi IN port just yet.
(works under win3.1 though :( ... )
I do have trouble initialising the ESS card with both cards in the machine.
I have the ESS set on DMA 1, I'm pretty sure it uses DMA 0 for loading
the microcode, I noticed that the MPU-401 devise is using DMA 0, this
could explain this problem .
Both cards work if
I cold boot to windows (this loads the microcode)
Warm boot back to linux
An error message does appear during card initialisation but
because the microcode is already loaded into the card it
doesn't matter.
Cheers,
Steve
: Hi,
: I have an Ensoniq Soundscape sound card and I can't seem to get it to
: work...
: Any ideas would be helpful!
: The specific error I get when configuring with "sndconfig":
: ------------------------------------------
: The following error occurred running
: modprobe program:
: /lib/modules/preferred/misc/sscape.o:
: init_module: Device or resource busy
: sound: Device or resource busy
: ------------------------------------------
: "sndconfig" can detect my card a Ensoniq Soundscape, but
: the above failure message occurs when it trys to test it.
: I am running RH 5.2, Kernel 2.0.36
i
: Address specifics:
: Address resources: x0330-x033F
: IRQ 5, 9
: DMA 1,3
: In Win95 it uses the following:
: MIDI, 330, IRQ 9
: WAVE, 338, IRQ 5, DMA 1
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