Linux-Hardware Digest #167, Volume #10 Wed, 5 May 99 21:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: entering the linux world (Supratim Sanyal)
Re: /dev/hda1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced (bill davidsen)
Re: Adaptec 3940 UW and MANY devices (Michael Meissner)
Re: Von Windows und Linux =?iso-8859-1?Q?=FCber?= einen LinuxServer (Detlev Reymann)
Re: pci chip driver (ellis)
Netfinity 7000 (Thomas Goetz)
"Drive Size To Big" When Installing RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: halt -p not working??? help (Matthias Kilian)
Re: How do you know if you have a WinModem? (Eric Fierke)
Re: IDT Winchip and Linux? Doesn't work? (Graham Watkins)
Re: Trouble setting up Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ (Bob Miller)
modems fo Linux (Julio Sameiro)
Re: iMac, LINUX machine (David Huff)
Re: Intel 440GX Chipset (Kevin)
Re: USR 56k Int Voice/Faxmodem and COL 2.2 (Lyle Taylor)
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP ("Abe Fazel Poor")
Re: Adaptec 3940 UW and MANY devices ("Bill Frisbee")
Linux Problem - Hard Drive Crash? ("Matthew Western")
Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Intel No Privacy)
Re: funniest printer-problem (peter)
Re: Xircom Credit Card Modem 28.8 (Michael Meissner)
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From: Supratim Sanyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: entering the linux world
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:13:21 -0400
Suggest you do NOT overclock.
> Celeron 300a (overclocked of course)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: /dev/hda1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced
Date: 5 May 1999 22:28:30 GMT
In article <7gjsmn$ib4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Of course the ultimate answer (TM) is sct's journalling extensions,
| which among other things make `fsck' very fast and integrated into the
| standard `mount' call. The alpha version is due out Real Soon Now.
Do understand that use of jfs just ensures that the data on the disk is
what you intended to write. A full fsck checks to see that what is on
the disk is valid. Some directory botch days ago wil not be in the jfs
log, you have to look for it.
Having used a jfs on AIX for years I don't see it as a particular
solution, it doesn't prevent as many problems as a full fsck, and it
slows the system by making a lot of i/o synchronous instead of cached.
On a clean shutdown you don't need it, on a hard crash it may not be
enough.
Sure would like to disable the mount count with a lilo option or some
such, there are times when I need a system up *now* not after the time
it takes to frolic through 40GB of RAID storage.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
One common problem is mistyping an email address and creating another
valid, though unintended, recipient. Always check the recipient's
address carefully when sending personal information, such as credit
card numbers, death threats or offers of sexual services.
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940 UW and MANY devices
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 May 1999 18:30:57 -0400
I didn't see the original article, but replies were talking about 28 cdrom
drives hooked up to a system. Bear in mind, that as it stands right now, the
maximum number of scsi devices you can have in an entire system is 16. The
devfs patches may solve this problem.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Detlev Reymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,ger.pc.linux
Subject: Re: Von Windows und Linux =?iso-8859-1?Q?=FCber?= einen LinuxServer
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:40:58 +0200
Nicolas Keller schrieb:
>
> Ich will von meinem Arbeitscomputer auf meinen LinuxServer (486er) drucken.
>
> Kann mir jemand eine Schrittanleitung geben?
Sieh mal auf
http://www.mnd.fh-wiesbaden.de/~dreymann/linux
Da steht eine genaue Anleitung (nicht nur) f�r Dein Problem
Gru�
Detlev
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ellis)
Subject: Re: pci chip driver
Date: 5 May 1999 19:12:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Holger Blinzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to run a pci interface chip (PLX9080) on Linux.
Doing a quick grep of the kernel source I see that the PLX-9080
is already supported. What do you want to do with it?
--
http://www.fnet.net/~ellis/photo/linux.html
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From: Thomas Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netfinity 7000
Date: 5 May 1999 19:40:20 GMT
Hello,
I want to install SuSE-6.{0,1} on a IBM Netfinity 7000 Server with
4 Processor and 2 Gigabyte Mainmemory. If I want to boot a single-
processor-Kernel the system had 960MB Main-Memory. Setting the
page offset parameter the system do a hard reboot after decompressing
the kernel. If i build an SMP-Kernel the Kernel detect all four Proc.
but the init.-process of the AIC7895 fail. You got timeouts (these
are only an effect with the SMP-Kernel) I supposed a Problem with the
IRQ's possbily an IBM-own APIC or similiar. Does anybody know what
can help
Thomas Goetz
p.s. i tried noapic Kernel Option and extended RTC in the Kernel
but this don't help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "Drive Size To Big" When Installing RedHat 5.2
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:02:03 GMT
Hi.. I have a 12.7G QF EX hard drive and apparently Red Hats Disk Druid &
Fdisk wont allow me to create a linux native partition. Ive seeked help from
teachers at Tafe and students & also looked through the linux webpages but to
no avail. I understand with RedHat 5.2 you have to create two partitions but
it wont let me create the first. In the Disk Druid partitions screen I can
see my Win98 partition which occupies the whole hdd besides the 1gig
partition i have reserved for linux which I am supposed to delete then
replace with the linux native partition but when I go to create it It says
the drive is to big. It seems to be that Disk Druid is going on the size of
the whole hard drive and not the partition reserved for linux alone. Ive also
removed Windows and setup a linux partition without 98 but it still wont
create it on the disk. The main error is that it says "Drive size to big" (or
similar).
I would appreciate any information as Im sure that someone has accomplished it
without messing around with the cylinders and so forth in FDisk, and there
would have to be some high end servers out there running big hard drives with
linux installed on them...
So any help would be greatly appreciated..
Aaron H
(all replys please send to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Once again Thanx......:)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Subject: Re: halt -p not working??? help
Date: 5 May 1999 18:27:09 GMT
> either that had kernel 2.0.36. So if anybody has a idea what it can be please
> answer. I am going to test to put the halt command in a file under
It *may* be that your motherboard/bios doesn't implement APM features
correctly. For example, on my motherboard (AOpen ax59-pro, with Award BIOS), I
get a general protection fault and have to switch off the machine by hand.
Regards,
Kili
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From: Eric Fierke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do you know if you have a WinModem?
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 16:20:06 -0400
I may be wrong here, but I think there's only ONE pci modem on the market
that is NOT a winmodem, and I don't think its the CL. In general, with
ISA (non PnP) modems available for as little as $30 on sale, your best bet
would be to replace it.
Eric
> I can't seem to get my modem working in Linux 2.0 (RedHat 5.2) and
> 2.2.5. I simply get no response from an 'at' command. I configured
> /dev/ttyS2 with the parameters from Windows 98 using 'setserial'.
>
> I'm suspecting it's because it's WinModem-based. The card uses the PCI
> slot. The file, /proc/pci, sees a Cirrus Logic modem but says it's an
> unknown device.
>
> How do you know if the internal modem in your PC is a WinModem? The
> manual that came with my PC doesn't say anything about this. This is
> the diagnostics I get back from Windows 98 in Modem Properties.
>
> Port: COM3
> Installed: Cirrus CLM Data Fax Voice
>
> When I select COM3 and click on the "More Info..." button, I get:
>
> Port: COM3
> Interrupt: 5
> Address: E800
> UART: NS 16550AN
> Highest Speed: 115K Baud
>
> Cirrus CLM Data Fax Voice
> Identifier: PCI\VEN_1013&DEV_4000&SUBSYS_0000000 ... (seems to be
> truncated)
>
> Command Response
> ATI1 000
> ATI2 OK
> ATI3 CL-MD5620DT-QC-BC
> ATI4 OK
> ATI5 32K DSP RAM Present, Upgradable to 56K
> ATI5 002
> ATI5 Host I/F: PCI
> ATI5 DSP Code Location: Internal ROM
> ATI6 US
> ATI7 Cirrus Logic, Inc.
> AT+FCLASS=? 0,1,8
>
>
> -Steven
>
>
>
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From: Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDT Winchip and Linux? Doesn't work?
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 21:19:07 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Bechhaus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hi,
>
>I have tried to upgrade an old PC (Gigabyte HX Mainboard, Cyrix
>P150+ CPU) with an IDT Winchip 225. On the first look, it seemed
>to be an ideal upgrade for older socket 7 boards: Pentium
>compatible, both MMX and 3Dnow! support, really cheap.
>
>On the second look, it showed a good performance boost under
>Windows (yuk!), reaching a Pentium rating of 241 at 3,5x60
>(3,5x66 didn't work, 3,0x60 is slower). The dip switches had to
>be to 1,5x60, which is interpreted as 3,5 by the IDT Winchip.
>
>Encouraged, I tried to boot Linux. However, both SuSE 4.4
>and SuSE 6.0 failed directly after loading the kernel from
>FD. Since both the Cyrix and the IDT Winchip CPU claim to
>be compatible to the Pentium, I see no obvious cause for
>this problem. Has anybody tried to run Linux with an IDT
>Winchip and succeeded? If yes, what problems did you
>encounter and how did you solve them? Anything that needs
>to be patched an/or recompiled?
>
>-- Frank
I can't tell you much that's useful as I am very new to this.
I only managed to get Linux running halfway decently a couple of days
ago and an extremely large book could be written on what I don't know
about it.
However, I can tell you that I have installed it on a machine with IDT
Winchip 200 and it seems to be working OK. Could it be that changing the
CPU takes something away that LILO needs to work? Perhaps a reinstall
would help.
The other thing is that I struggled with SUSE for months and never got
any further than the command line prompt - X Windows just did not want
to play. Finally I installed Red Hat and got more stuff working in a
day and a half than I had managed in the previous 3 months.
I realise that this doesn't get you much further along but at least it
shows that there *are* ways to get it done
--
Graham Watkins
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a
monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
F.Nietzche - 'Beyond Good and Evil'
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From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble setting up Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 22:43:06 GMT
> I am having trouble setting up my network card. my /etc/conf.modules says:
>
> alias eth0 eepro
> options eth0 io=ox300 irq=03
>
> When I boot I have no problem (i have also tried eepro100 but with that
> module the "bringing up interace eth0" fails.) with the eth0, it says:
>
> bringing up interface eth0 [OK]
>
> I can also ping localhost and the cards IP-adress but none of the other
> machines in the network.
>
> And I don't know what to do from here so I hope some of You can help me
I like the Intel cards, so I was more than happy to try to use them with
Linux. Unfortunately, I tried several times to get my EtherExpress Pro/10+ on
different machines without any success. I could also ping the card in the
machine, but nothing would work otherwise. I tried all the Intel modules (but
focused on eepro100) and all kinds of stuff. I also tried a bunch of
different settings in Softset2....I even tried different IRQ and base
addresses. I ended up just giving up - I dropped in a 3Com 3905B card and all
went well.
I've had no problems with the Pro/100B card, on the other hand. I've got some
SMC EtherEZ cards I bought four or five years ago when I first started getting
into networking and got my CNE that I'll probably put to use sometime soon.
-> Bob Miller
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From: Julio Sameiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modems fo Linux
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 23:38:43 +0100
Hi!
sorry but i'm more & more confuse..
... urgent need to upgrade modem... should be Linux compatible...
... but still a linux first stepper...
what 56K modem u suggest?
what's wrong with USRobotics 56K?
thanks
J�lio Sameiro
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From: David Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iMac, LINUX machine
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 14:38:16 -0500
Don Saklad wrote:
>
> My associate offered me and my family a couple of iMac machines.
>
> Are there any LINUX machines?
Besides the references to the LinuxPPC page, here's a nice page
specifically on running LinuxPPC on the iMac:
http://w3.one.net/~johnb/imaclinux/
Regards,
--
_
__| |_ David P. Huff | "Linux: Because reboots
\_ _} [EMAIL PROTECTED] | are for upgrades."
\_( Texas Instruments, Inc. |
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From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Intel 440GX Chipset
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 19:59:39 +0000
I've got a VAResearch XMP with the MS440GX Motherboard. It's working
great with dual PIII Xeons @500MHz.
Hefin James wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know if Linux supports the Intel 440GX Chipset?
> We are just about to purchase 4 high spec servers, and we are undecided
> whether to stick with the 440BX chipset, or go for the 440GX Chipset.
>
> Thanks,
> Hefin
--
Kevin der Kinderen
WinStar
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From: Lyle Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: USR 56k Int Voice/Faxmodem and COL 2.2
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 15:27:53 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Russell E. Smith" wrote:
>
> I seem to be running into problems getting my modem to work under kppp.
> Whenever I set it to the correct port (/dev/cua2 or /dev/modem). But
> whenever I attempt to query the modem, It says the modem is busy. I am
> running COL 2.2 w/ KDE. A walkthrough would be greatly appreciated, but any
> help would do.
You need to configure /dev/cua2 so that it uses the proper IRQ and
port. By default, cua2 uses the same IRQ as cua0, but a different
port. This doesn't work. I don't know why they did it that way, but
they did. Try running the following command as root:
/sbin/setserial /dev/cua2 auto_irq autoconfigure
That tries to determine the correct IRQ and port to use. If it works,
then you're set, except that you'll need to do it everytime you boot.
Place the line in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that it will be called
each time to boot.
If it doesn't work, and you know the IRQ, try
/sbin/setserial /dev/cua2 irq 5 autoconfigure
but replace 5 with the correct IRQ. If that doesn't work, you will need
to specify both the IRQ and the port used by the modem like this:
/sbin/setserial /dev/cua2 irq 5 port 220
but replace the 5 and 220 with the appropriate values. If you're using
Windows as well, you can get the correct values from the device manager.
If that doesn't work, I don't know what to tell you.
Good luck,
Lyle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 20:26:43 GMT
How did you change this manually?
> I didn't see any. RH6 installed fine on a clean 18GB WD drive. I did notice
> that fdisk did not get the correct LBA translation for the drive but instead
> used the "real" values. I changed this manually to the LBA values. On a drive
> with a pre-existing FAT partition it got the values correctly.
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From: "Abe Fazel Poor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:11:59 -0700
for some reson my linux mechine doenset read my second HD and thats where i
have some important files
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From: "Bill Frisbee" <bfrisbee*NoSpam*@*NoSpam*webxi.com>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940 UW and MANY devices
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 20:07:07 -0400
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I didn't see the original article, but replies were talking about 28 cdrom
> drives hooked up to a system. Bear in mind, that as it stands right now,
the
> maximum number of scsi devices you can have in an entire system is 16.
The
> devfs patches may solve this problem.
Nope the 3940 is a dual channel UW. 16 devices per channel, unless it is a
limitation of Linux. I have 22 devices all together going under NT.
Bill F.
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Reply-To: "Matthew Western" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matthew Western" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux Problem - Hard Drive Crash?
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:46:02 +0930
I had my Linux box crash overnight with what appears to be a hard drive
problem. On trying to reboot I get a message:
Problem: block on freelist at 017dc790 isn't free.
Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this?
Thanks.
_________________________________________________________
Saulius Varnas - Research Scientist
Lens Design Group
SOLA International Holdings Research Centre (SIHRC)
19 Cooroora Crescent, Lonsdale, South Australia, 5160
E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Intel No Privacy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 21:07:13 GMT
Intel added software trackable individual serial numbers to
their Pentium III chips even though the public doens't want to make it
easier to people to track them online. Intel also added software
trackable individual serial numbers to some of their Pentium II
processors without letting the public know. I do not believe Intel is
tracking all of us and is this big evil company, but I do believe by
adding software trackable serial numbers to their processors makes is
so much easier for bad people to get your information.
Now if you are not worried about people getting ahold of your personal
information, at the end of every email you send add your social
securitiy and mothers maiden name. And every time you post your
opinions on a newsgroup, add your home phone number and address at the
bottom. I know what you are saying, no way would I do that. Well, it
isn't hard for someone to get any of that information on you if they
know some of the other info.
The worst part of all about Intel's software trackable serial
number built in to the Pentium III and some Pentium II chips is that
most people think that they can turn it off.
Intel makes you believe that it is safe to turn off this feature by
software. Before the chip was released a crack was already made that
could turn on and off your serial number without you knowing about it.
Anything that can be done with software can be undone with software.
The answer to this problem is to speak up and let Intel and other big
companies know how important your privacy is to you. Do not buy
another Intel processor until all of their chips are completely ID
free.
Visit these sites for more information and articles
http://www.fightdivx.com/intelboycott.htm
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/
Use these banners on your website and link them to the above sites
http://www.fightdivx.com/intel_p3_banner.gif
http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/images/bbi-banner.jpg
Forward this message to everyone on your email lists
Get the message out that privacy is your #1 concern.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Re: funniest printer-problem
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 00:29:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> > when hanging a canon-bj200 to the same cable this one seem to have a
> > quite normal behavior.
>
> Then your parallel port is still working. Does the hp still work with
> another computer?
>
yes, it does !!
I now run it on another machine with an abit-board and face no problem !
the funniest thing is: I remembered that I already had the printer
connected to the other machine about a year ago for a few month and had
no troubles.
--
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
goldfisch.atat.at
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Subject: Re: Xircom Credit Card Modem 28.8
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 May 1999 18:25:32 -0400
Charles Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --------------74D10CC6174F6C1FFC7D0C8D
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the following two modems will
> work with the RedHat 5.2 version of Linux.
>
> Xircom 28.8 CreditCard Modem FCC# 2U6USA-22701-MM-E
> Xircom 28.8 CreditCard Ethernet + Modem FCC# 2U6USA-22654-MM-E
On my old laptop, I used the 28.8 Ethernet + Modem card, and it worked as an
ethernet and modem flawlessly. Note, I was using 2.2.x kernels and 3.0.8
pcmcia installed over a RedHat 5.2 installation, but I believe it worked with
the kernel/pcmcia 5.2 supplies.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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