Linux-Hardware Digest #809, Volume #10 Wed, 21 Jul 99 08:13:18 EDT
Contents:
Re: LINUX: Can't get ASUS P2B-DS to Recognize RAID for Redhat 6.0 install (Robert
A. Hayden)
HP Laserjet 3100 and Linux ("Michael Gibson")
FUJITSU ATAPI MO (Gerber van der Graaf)
Re: Promise Ultra/66 EIDE Controller (Tim Moore)
resolution switching problem: PLEASE HELP! ("Hahn Huang")
HELP! Printer (stylus 640) not working ? ("Rohit Bhargav")
severe SCSI hard disk problems (Michael Lachmann)
SCSI 53C416 and RH 4.2 ("Alex Abreu")
CD-RW & SCSI cards & Iomega Zip Plus ("Chris Liddell")
X and Diamond Viper V550 (Sami Rintamaki)
Red Hat 6.0 on Toshiba Satellite 4060 XCDT? (Georg Rehm)
Networking ("Andrew Scutt")
Re: LINUX: Can't get ASUS P2B-DS to Recognize RAID for Redhat 6.0 install (Marc
SCHAEFER)
Re: Cases with Speed Display (gus)
Re: Cant get Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI to work (Aaron Turner)
PCI Pace video camera? (Martin Young)
Re: SCSI 53C416 and RH 4.2 (Robert Sheskin)
Re: LINUX: Can't get ASUS P2B-DS to Recognize RAID for Redhat 6.0 (Mattias
Bergvall)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert A. Hayden)
Subject: Re: LINUX: Can't get ASUS P2B-DS to Recognize RAID for Redhat 6.0 install
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 07:24:05 GMT
Milton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Have you read?
> http://metalab.unc.edu/linux/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html
Please note that this is a HARDWARE RAID controller and not software. The
use of md subsystems is for software. As far as the OS is concerned, it
is talking to a single scsi device, the controller handles digesting
parity and all that.
--
=-=-=-=-=-=
Robert Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 16570192
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From: "Michael Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Laserjet 3100 and Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:05:48 GMT
How can I get my HP Laserjet 3100 to work under Linux??
Any help welcome.
Michael
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From: Gerber van der Graaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FUJITSU ATAPI MO
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:16:00 +0000
As I asked for a driver for the FUJITSU MCC3064AP ATAPI 3.5" Magnetic
Optic drive some time ago, so now and then people ask me whether a
driver has been found or builded for this device. Actually no new
driver has been built, but I got a solution from one of the newsgroup
members. It only can use MO disks with 512 bytes/block,i.e. 120, 230,
540 Mb,. Therefore, MO disks of 630 Mb (2048 bytes/block) can not be
used. Solutions for the MO SCSI drive exist already (for example at
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~orschaer/mo/), but I was
unable to aply them the for ATAPI drive (by means of SCSI
simulation). If somebody has experience with this, I would rather like
to hear from he/she. Also if somebody has built a driver for reading
the 630 MB disks, I will be interested.
Gerber Van der Graaf
e-mail: bachelor.upc.es
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the approach to make the fujitsu ATAPI work is to force the ide-floppy
driver to also accept type 7 atapi devices, i.e. MO drives. ATAPI is
fairly standardized and the LS120 and ATAPI floppy drives the driver was
written for seems sufficiently compatible with the fujitsu MO drives.
it's just that the MO is very slow with this driver, in the range of
500kB/s.
the changes are not enough for a patch, and I use 2.1.126, not any of the
stable kernels. change the following, based on 2.1.126:
1) change the probing code to utilize the ide-floppy driver for an MO:
search for
case ide_floppy:
and replace with
case ide_floppy:
case 0x07:
half a page down, insert after
printk (" drive\n");
this statement:
if (type==0x07) type=ide_floppy;
this effectively patches the probing process to think it's an ide floppy.
then, in ide-floppy.c comment out the following code (this is dirty)
// else if (gcw.device_type != 0)
// printk (KERN_ERR "ide-floppy: Device type is not ...etc etc etc
warning: back up your disk drives before trying these patches. you're on
your own, and this neither tested nor clean nor structured code. it's a
hack, and a bad one with no attempt to do it right.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:39:38 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra/66 EIDE Controller
> Is there a recent distribution of Linux that works with Promise
> Technology's Ultra/66 EIDE controller?
No.
> I know RedHat 5.2 had problems
> with Promise IDE controllers...
I've used U/33 PCI controller in kernels 2.0.34-37, 2.2.5 and 2.2.10
without a problem. Even Promise's old ISA bus EIDE 2 channel controller
works transparently in an old Dell 486.
--
direct replies substitute timothymoore for user name
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: "Hahn Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: resolution switching problem: PLEASE HELP!
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 04:12:59 -0400
I'm trying to switch resolutions using the CTRL-ALT-+/- but it's not
working. The only way I can change it is by going into XFree86Config and
changing it and rebooting (and BTW, the MS-Intellimouse driver seems to
always screw up after I load up XFree86Config and i have to go to "setup"
and quit and save out of that to get the Intellimouse driver to work...THAT
has me baffled). I'm running at 1600x1200 and I'd like to be able to switch
resolutions more easily. I suspect that it's also the reason why I can't
get Q3atest to run fullscreen.
Please CC: my e-mail address as well as responding in the
newsgroup...THANKS!
Hahn
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From: "Rohit Bhargav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! Printer (stylus 640) not working ?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:37:53 +0200
Hi,
I have got a epson stylus 640 printer.
I am unable to get it to work in Linux ?
Is this unsupported ? the h/w compatibilty list says that the drivers are
alpha/beta.
How do i get the printer to work in linux.
TIA.
- Rohit
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From: Michael Lachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: severe SCSI hard disk problems
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 03:42:26 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
We are using an 18Giga drive as the main drive in our
lab. (We thought getting a big drive would solve our
space problems...) The drive worked well for a couple of
months, and now (last 2 days) it started to misbehave.
In fact, things are so bad by now, that it is mounted
read only for the time being.
The symptoms are as follows:
some days ago, one of the partitions was at 75%
capacity, (out of 12G) but reported 'no space left on
device'. We rebooted the computer using
shutdown -F, to force a fsck. This reboot had a lot of
problems. The following type of errors where reported:
=====
Jul 20 22:50:45 charles kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 8
lun 0 return code = 28000002
Jul 20 22:50:45 charles kernel: extra data not valid Current error
sd08:07: sense key Data Protect
Jul 20 22:50:45 charles kernel: Additional sense indicates Write
protected
Jul 20 22:50:45 charles kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:07, sector
0
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and so on. fsck for some of the disk partitions, and was
successful for others. Eventually, with manual fsck, we
managed to get the machine back up.
After some time it continued to produce messages as
mentioned above, as well as these:
----
Jul 20 22:50:45 charles kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,7)):
ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 857747744,
count = 1
----
Other symptoms included files not written to, contents
of files being lost, and so on (all this happened
earlier today). Now all the partitions are mounted
read-only, and it seems that some of the files are in a
state that they where in 2 days ago (i.e. edits got
lost).
We are running kernel version 2.2.5, and are using a
Buslogic scsi adapter (a cat of /proc/scsi/Buslogic/0 is
below)
Two more hints at what could be causing the problems are
these:
We also have a tape drive on the same computer, also
scsi. Since these errors occured, the tape drive could
not be accessed. (Which makes it hard to do a backup)
Some users were running simulations, and the results got
dumped into many files under one directory. It seems
that each directory contains ~19000 files, for a total
of ~1G data. These simulation where run on other
computers, and the disk was mounted through NFS. The
computer on which all these problems happened is our
file-server.
Eventually, the /var/log/messages file grew to be 25M,
and syslogd, and klogd took ~40% of the cpu time.
The problems where not limited to one partition, but to
several partitions on the same disk.
What would you recomend to do? (Well, other than opening
the computer and trying to push all the cables back into
their sockets) Does this seem to be a hardware problem?
Could it be related to the recent file-system
corruptions? (Though I thought 2.2.5 was still early)
Should we backup, reformat and then restore everything,
or contact the manufacturer?
Thank you very much!
Michael Lachmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
proc/scsi/BusLogic/0 and proc/scsi/sci follow:
cat /proc/scsi/BusLogic/0
***** BusLogic SCSI Driver Version 2.1.15 of 17 August 1998 *****
Copyright 1995-1998 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Configuring BusLogic Model BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI Host Adapter
Firmware Version: 5.05R, I/O Address: 0x8100, IRQ Channel: 17/Level
PCI Bus: 0, Device: 13, Address: 0xE0805000, Host Adapter SCSI ID: 7
Parity Checking: Enabled, Extended Translation: Enabled
Synchronous Negotiation: UUUUUUF#UUUUUUUU, Wide Negotiation: Enabled
Disconnect/Reconnect: Enabled, Tagged Queuing: Enabled
Scatter/Gather Limit: 128 of 8192 segments, Mailboxes: 211
Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 192
Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3
Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
SCSI Bus Termination: High Enabled, SCAM: Enabled, Level 1
*** BusLogic BT-958 Initialized Successfully ***
Target 8: Queue Depth 28, Wide Synchronous at 40.0 MB/sec, offset 15
Current Driver Queue Depth: 211
Currently Allocated CCBs: 35
DATA TRANSFER STATISTICS
Target Tagged Queuing Queue Depth Active Attempted Completed
====== ============== =========== ====== ========= =========
8 Active 28 0 11511 11511
Target Read Commands Write Commands Total Bytes Read Total Bytes
Written
====== ============= ============== ===================
===================
8 10317 1190 194503680
6471680
Target Command 0-1KB 1-2KB 2-4KB 4-8KB 8-16KB
====== ======= ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
8 Read 0 6587 14 4 576
8 Write 0 627 0 0 563
Target Command 16-32KB 32-64KB 64-128KB 128-256KB 256KB+
====== ======= ========= ========= ========= ========= =========
8 Read 9 3116 11 0 0
8 Write 0 0 0 0 0
ERROR RECOVERY STATISTICS
Command Aborts Bus Device Resets Host Adapter Resets
Target Requested Completed Requested Completed Requested Completed
ID \\\\ Attempted //// \\\\ Attempted //// \\\\ Attempted ////
====== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== ===== =====
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
External Host Adapter Resets: 0
Host Adapter Internal Errors: 0
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: QM318000TD-SW Rev: N1B0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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From: "Alex Abreu" <simonet@(spam? no thanx)bhnet.com.br>
Subject: SCSI 53C416 and RH 4.2
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 06:00:49 -0500
Has anyone been able to use an ISA SCSI adapter model
NCR 53c416 (assembled by Symbios and sold with HP scanners and CD-Rs)
with Linux?
My distribution is RH 4.2, kernel 2.0.36. The scsi adapter above has no
jumpers and is supposed to be pnp. It works as a pnp card under Windows 95.
It has only one external scsi port, in which I am planning to plug a CD-R
and Zip drive.
Any information on how I can use this SCSI adapter with my Linux box will be
very welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Yours,
Alex
=================
"If a train station is a place where a train stops, what is a workstation?"
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From: "Chris Liddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW & SCSI cards & Iomega Zip Plus
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:49:40 +0100
Hi Folks,
I've been thinking about getting a CD-RW drive, and I 've seen a lot good
things written about the Yamaha 4x(w) 4x(rw) x16(r) SCSI drives. I just
wondered anyone had experience with these drives under Linux and what their
experience was?
In addition since I don't have a SCSI card at the moment, I am also looking
for recommendations for SCSI cards. Ultimate performance is not an issue as
it would not be used for HDD's, but it does need to work easily under Linux,
and be reasonably priced.
Lastly, does any one know if the Iomega Zip Plus drive works as a normal
SCSI device, or have Iomega done silly things like they did with behaviour
as a parallel device?
Thanks in advance
Chris Liddell
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From: Sami Rintamaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X and Diamond Viper V550
Date: 21 Jul 1999 09:56:33 GMT
What could be the problem with my new equipment and in particular
my new graphics card because my X-server is not working properly with
all resolutions? The problem concerns the 1024x768 mode.
My new graphics card is Diamond Viper V550 RIVA TNT and my old monitor
is Hyundai HCM-421E. I have version 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 and I also have
the patches from Nvidia.
X server operates fine with 800x600 and 640x480 modes but with 1024x768
mode, the screen seems to extend over the upper an lower edges of the
monitor. I still have the manuals for the monitor and I believe that my
modeline settings are about right. This 1024x768 mode is an interlace-mode.
The graphics card, however, does not seem to care about the interlace.
If I set my VertRefresh range large enough in the XF86Config file, I
can use this highest resolution mode with and without the interlace-flag.
The result on the screen is the same in both cases. The picture extends
over the boundaries.
Is the graphics card broken? Or is the monitor? Or am I?
Sami
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Rehm)
Subject: Red Hat 6.0 on Toshiba Satellite 4060 XCDT?
Date: 21 Jul 1999 10:03:34 GMT
Hi there,
Someone out there with experiences installing Red Hat 6.0 on a Toshiba
Satellite 4060 XCDT? Are there any problems or does it work out of the
box (as I assume)?
Greetings,
Georg
--
Georg Rehm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/~georg/
Arbeitsbereich Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft und Computerlinguistik,
Institut fuer deutsche Sprache und mittelalterliche Literatur, Univ. Giessen
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From: "Andrew Scutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Networking
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:00:55 +0100
Hi, I need to run a Linux(RH6) box with 2 intel pro network cards, both on
the same subnet, where if one card dies the other kicks in, hardware
redundancy in other words.
Any ideas?
Is it possible?
--
Regards
Andy
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From: Marc SCHAEFER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: LINUX: Can't get ASUS P2B-DS to Recognize RAID for Redhat 6.0 install
Date: 21 Jul 1999 09:09:54 GMT
In comp.periphs.scsi Robert A. Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: The installation recognized the RAID disk just fine as ID:0:0 and is able
: to install all the software. However, when I boot the RAID disck, I end
: up getting the following in LILO:
Can you boot with the boot floppy you created during the installation of
the system and use the system normally ? If yes, then it's maybe something
due to the geometry, such as Linux and the BIOS disagreeing on some
geometrical parameters.
One thing you could try, with your system booted with floppy, is to
edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the ``linear'' option. Then run /sbin/lilo
to reinstall LILO. And reboot (CTRL-ALT-DEL) without the floppy this time.
Note that one thing is that LILO cannot load a kernel if the filesystem
the kernel is on has the boundary above the 1024 cylinder. Work-around,
for example automatically done by SuSE Linux, is to create a very small
/boot partition.
: "L 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20"
In the LILO user manual, page 40 (at least for the version I have),
it says that the ``first stage boot loader has been loaded and started,
but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two digit error code
indicates the problem.''.
If you can't fix it (other than booting on a floppy :)), can you
tell me the output of /sbin/fdisk -l ?
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cases with Speed Display
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:45:10 +0100
Sage Mage wrote:
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a AT MidTower case with 3 digit speed
> display??
>
> Sage
Uuuummmmm, you do know what those "speed displays" are, don't you?
I have used a couple of cases with one of these displays. It is wired in
to the "Turbo LED". There are a couple of banks of jumpers to set the
display. One setting for the TurboON and one for the TurboOFF.
So, all it does is put numbers to the turbo switch. My favourite was
jumpering the display so that it showed On or OFF.
Cheers
gus
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From: Aaron Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant get Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI to work
Date: 21 Jul 1999 11:01:12 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I use ALSA with Ensoniq PCIaudio, RH6.0 2.2.15-22 kernel (custom compiled).
: I am completely satisfied.
Who or what is ALSA? I have an ES1370 bases card and RH6.0 2.2.15-22
kernel. I tried using modules and it didn't work and I only got anything
to work using OSS.
Aaron Turner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Young)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: PCI Pace video camera?
Date: 21 Jul 99 10:57:16 GMT
Hello,
I've got a Pace Colour Video Camera which is based on the bt879 chip
as supported by the bttv device driver.
I once got the composite input working on a 2.0.36 system but I've
lost all the config information. I'm now running 2.2.10 and I can't
get the bloody thing do anything.
When the driver attempts to allocate an IRQ it gets 0 (NMI - I presume
this is supposed to indicate an error condition of some sort) and the
BIOS indeed reports that the card doesn't grab one during initialisation.
The message from bttv suggests I check by BIOS P&P configuration - I've
tried every combination of settings the BIOS will allow, but no joy.
Has anybody got this card working? The camera? Is there some kind of
initialisation I need to do to make the card work? Pace were very
unhelpful when I asked them directly.
As an aside, I note that the PCI vendor ID doesn't match any in the
kernel's list. I've hacked around this, however.
--
Martin Young, at STMicroelectronics, \O O \O O
at 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, //\ /\\ //\ /\\ ,^O
Bristol, BS32 4SQ. +44 145 446 2523 / | / \ / | // // ` \\__|O
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah Ah Ah Ah Stayin' alive
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Sheskin)
Subject: Re: SCSI 53C416 and RH 4.2
Date: 21 Jul 1999 06:20:11 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 06:00:49 -0500, Alex Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
->
->Has anyone been able to use an ISA SCSI adapter model
->
->NCR 53c416 (assembled by Symbios and sold with HP scanners and CD-Rs)
->
->with Linux?
->
->My distribution is RH 4.2, kernel 2.0.36. The scsi adapter above has no
->jumpers and is supposed to be pnp. It works as a pnp card under Windows 95.
->It has only one external scsi port, in which I am planning to plug a CD-R
->and Zip drive.
->
->Any information on how I can use this SCSI adapter with my Linux box will be
->very welcome.
->
->Thanks in advance.
->
->Yours,
->
->Alex
->
->-----------------
->"If a train station is a place where a train stops, what is a workstation?"
->
->
This will get you going http://linux-sym53c416-driver.netpedia.net/
--
Robert Sheskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replace "nospam" with "tidalwave" for email
ICQ 5788323
AIM RobertLS
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From: Mattias Bergvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: LINUX: Can't get ASUS P2B-DS to Recognize RAID for Redhat 6.0
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 13:24:09 +0200
"Robert A. Hayden" wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up a new Redhat 6.0 server and I am
> having some problems getting it to properly boot from the hardware
> RAID
Does the Hardware RAID controller make a BIOS accessable device?
If not, I don't think it would be easy booting off of it, as LILO
won't find your kernel image.
> "L 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20"
>
> I do have a 100mb /boot partion as /dev/sda1.
Where on /dev/sda1 is this /boot partition located?
It has to be accessible by LILO/BIOS, in other words, below the first
2GB (1024 cyl) of the disk.
Mattias
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