Linux-Hardware Digest #190, Volume #11 Mon, 6 Sep 99 09:13:26 EDT
Contents:
Re: Setting Up Linux Shell--Need HD (Tim Moore)
[NEWBIES]CDWRITE Question? (Teo The Teo)
Re: D-Link DFE 530TX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help: scanner Best Buy 9630 S on Linux System (Ralf_Berger)
alsa 0.4.1 (Mark Krischer)
Problems with RHat 6.0 and HP (Einar Fredriksen)
Re: probs with external modem (Nick Roux)
Re: Assessing performance bottlenecks in a server? (Tim Moore)
install cdrom problems
Re: SCSI Tape, help ("James Mandy")
AGP-CARD (Folkerts AO,01142933)
processor serail number (Pierre JEAN)
Re: Unusable space on 13.6GB hard-disk (Len Brown)
epson stylus colour 3000 under linux? (mirko heuegger)
Elitegroup P6BXT-A+ MB & onboard sound (Rodger Ryan)
Re: Maxtor Dimond Max Corrupt problem (Laurie Robert Young)
printing with brother HL-1040 (Vladimir Kamenov)
Linux and hardware RAID ("Alan Murphy")
How to have a sound with a Sound Expert de Luxe 16 Plus with linux (Dupont Michelle)
onboard NCR 53c94 scsi controller not supported ? (Frederic Vanden Poel)
Re: SCSI Tape, help (Giulio Harding)
Re: Linux and hardware RAID ("Tony Platt")
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 02:07:26 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting Up Linux Shell--Need HD
> I'm attempting to set up a box for linux shells. No restrictions. If you
> have an extra HD laying around no matter how
> big but needs to be IDE, and would like to make a donation. E-mail me if you
> may be able to help.
Which kind of linux shells? As you probably already know, but some
people might not, the older pre-2.0.34 shells (aka the 'green-slime'
shells) will only work with Seagate 1.2GB and smaller drives provided
they also have a double-ended ribbon cable (two red stripes, on the
outside edge wires). From 2.0.34-2.0.36 shells (aka 'dog-days'), only
the 2.1-6.4GB ISA drives work as long as the ribbon cable is grey. The
more modern shells (aka "Troll-house Cookies") most anything works. You
should still post your linux shell color so people can send you the
right disk.
--
timothymoore "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
bigfoot WS Burroughs.
com
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From: Teo The Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [NEWBIES]CDWRITE Question?
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 01:33:51 -0700
After I setup my IDE HIVAL 2242 CDRECORD
I do a cdrecord -scanbus and its show:
scsibus0:
0) 'HI-VAL ' 'H2242 ' '1.06' Removalble CD-ROM
cdrecord: Waring: controler returns wrong size for CD capabilities page
1) 'NEC ' 'CD-ROM DRIVE:282' '4.55' Removable CD-ROM
My Question is what is the CD capabilities page?
How do I fix it??
Thankyou :)
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Subject: Re: D-Link DFE 530TX
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 Sep 1999 09:47:15 +0200
"jaems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have the exact same card and the same problem....I've had no responses as
> of yet....let me know if you hear anything!
>
I got it working by using the via-rhine driver downloaded from
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ethercard.html
I can't give you the exact string to put in conf.modules since I'm at
work but it was no problems to get it running. Good luck!
/Larss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralf_Berger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Help: scanner Best Buy 9630 S on Linux System
Date: 06 Sep 1999 09:39:07 GMT
Hey,
I have a "Best Buy 9630 S" scanner and would like to use
it on my Linux (Suse R6) System.
What I have read so far, only some scanner can be used on
linux systems, so I'm wondering if anyone has experience with
this type of scanner ?
Thanks,
Ralf
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Phone: +34 91 3393555, ECN: 840 3555
Madrid/Spain
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From: Mark Krischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alsa 0.4.1
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:57:21 +1000
has anyone gotten this to work?
i've unmuted everything with amixer (basically Master and PCM) but for
the life of me, i can't seem to get sound out with aplay *.wav
syslog writes: snd: snd_pcm1_flush_playback: timeout, skipping waiting
blocks
thanks in advance.
--mk
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From: Einar Fredriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with RHat 6.0 and HP
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:29:06 +0200
Has anyone installed RedHat 6.0, or other Linux, on a HP vectra XU 6/200
or similar pc (200 MHz Pentium PRO, 32 MB ECC RAM, On-borad Adaptec 7880
SCSI adapter)?
I've tried several times, it hangs when starting syslog at boot, or at
starting X if I don't load syslog.
Any help is appreciated.
Einar.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Roux)
Subject: Re: probs with external modem
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 09:40:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These are good modems. I am running the 56k Microcom OfficePorte
external. Works like a dream.
Nick
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:28:19 +0100, "Ruairi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have one of those Intenral Winmodem which Linux does not recognise.
>
>In the meantime I purchased an externa 33.6 Micocom OfficePorte Voice modem
>on the assumption that external modems are 'real' modems and that it would
>work. I think Microcom is owned by Compaq
>
>However, I cannot get the system to recognise it. In minicom I set the
>modem up and when exiting it says 'initializing modem' and nothing at all,
>no lights or anything flash on the modem. When the words initializing modem
>disappear and the terminal screen appears but when I try and type AT on the
>keyboard nothing appears on screen. All I can do is press CTRL A Z for
>help. It does'nt matter what com port I place it on.
>
>The modem works ok in windows.
>
>Any one know if this modem can work with Redhat 5.2? I think the modem may
>be plug and play, even if a plug and play modem is external will there still
>be probs. Plug and Play is a guess, there's nothing in the modem doc to say
>plug and play.
>
>thanks,
>
>Ruairi
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 02:54:33 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Assessing performance bottlenecks in a server?
This sounds like a heavily used server and I'd be very wary of basing
any performance conclusions on listening to disk seeks.
Try running vmstat and a single shot top* in a 30 second loop for 24
hours and see if the hog processes aren't easily identified. A little
correlation on the log file should tell an accurate story of which
processes are grabbing resources.
* e.g.- 'vmstat -n 30' and 'sleep 30; top -Sbn1'
Dean Pentcheff wrote:
>
> I'm looking for pointers on assessing bottlenecks in a Linux server
> (Dell 2200 - non-raid). It's serving as a departmental support box,
> running Cyrus IMAP, Apache, IMP webmail frontend, sendmail, DHCP,
> cacheing-only DNS, Samba, and maybe a couple of other things that
> slip my mind at the moment...
>
> It's doing quite impressively well, but I'd like to be reasonably
> intelligent about upgrading it. I'm not sure how to assess whether
> I'd be better off (for instance) getting a second CPU or shifting to
> some sort of raid disk system. Or even how to assess whether one or
> more applications are sucking an unreasonably large amount of CPU or
> disk usage (other than just staring at ps and top listings). For
> example, I have this creepy feeling that either sendmail or Cyrus's
> deliver are grossly inefficiently thrashing the disk (this based on
> eardrum instrumentation...).
>
> I'd appreciate pointers to relevant FAQs, HOWTOs, or other documents
> that people have found useful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Dean
> --
> N. Dean Pentcheff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Biological Sciences, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208 (803-777-7068)
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bigfoot WS Burroughs.
com
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: install cdrom problems
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 07:31:09 GMT
Trying to install mandrake 6.0.Boots of cd just fine until you get to
installation type:select cdrom get this message mount failed,i could not
mount a cd on device/dev/hdc.From Alt-F4 get <4>hdc:Cdrom_pc_intr:The
drive appears confused(ireason = 0x 1) <4>hdc:lost interupt.
On initial boot up I can see that it detects my cdrom.
I tried to install from hard drive and could not make start-up disk or
install lilo.
I have a P75,48megs ram,nec cdrom:273,win98 on first hard drive,with
two logical partitions and this drive, also has a drive overlay.Second
hard drive is where I'm trying to put linux(drive is 1.7g).
I used this same package with win95 on this machine with no problems.
This drive crashed for some reason,so i upgraded to win 98 on first drive
and installed a second drive for linux.
Any help would be appreciated
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From: "James Mandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape, help
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:56:03 +0800
Everything I try gives me:
Cannot write to /dev/st0: Input/output error
or
/dev/st0: Input/output error
when doing mt commands.
I just changed some jumpers on the drive to see if it was that, but its
still not working for me.. ideas?
Cheers, James
pk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7qv7l7$kvg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /tmp (or what ever directory you want)
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From: Folkerts AO,01142933 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AGP-CARD
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:01:14 GMT
Well, I've got an asus agp-videocard and I can't get X running... the card has
the intel 740 chipset... does anybody know this problem and how to solve it?
I'm running redhat 5.1
reactions via email please ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Auke Folkerts
Netherlands
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pierre JEAN)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.software.services,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: processor serail number
Date: 30 Aug 1999 14:46:45 GMT
Hi every body
Does any one know the intel assembler instructions to read and manage
the processor serial number for the pentium III??
Thanks to reply in my E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unusable space on 13.6GB hard-disk
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:31:08 GMT
cdchase wrote:
>
> Len-
>
> Since you are obviously starting from scratch...and you now have a
> kernel & fdisk that sees the drive...I would highly suggest deleting
> the entire partition table an rebuilding it. The problems fdisk reports
> CAN be problems in the future, i.e., when you go to write data on the
> overlapping area in one partition, then delete it from another! This is
> probly remnants of your previous difficulty when it thought it was the
> wrong size drive.
>
> -Dan
>
Dan: I really did start from scratch, including complete repartitioning of
the disk, so there can't be any remnants of the previous mess. I printed a
detailed list of the new partitions with fdisk, specifying boundaries in
sectors instead of cylinders, and I still can't see any conflicts. It
would now be so much work to repartition and reinstall yet again that I
think I'll just take the chance, making sure I don't ever completely fill
up any partitions. Yes -- I'm an optimist.
Len
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From: mirko heuegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: epson stylus colour 3000 under linux?
Date: 6 Sep 1999 10:48:39 GMT
Hello!
I'm trying to setup an epson stylus colour 3000 unter linux.
With cat <filename> /dev/lp0 i'm able to print ascii characters, but with
lpr <file.ps> i get only "mud".
gs version is 5.10 and driver is stcolor
any suggestions or hints?
Thanks in advance
mirko
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From: Rodger Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Elitegroup P6BXT-A+ MB & onboard sound
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:50:17 GMT
Has anyone out there got Linux with sound running properly on the
Elitegroup P6BXT-A+ motherboard using the inbuilt sound system ???.
If so could you please outline the steps taken.
Thank you in advance
Rodger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurie Robert Young)
Subject: Re: Maxtor Dimond Max Corrupt problem
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:56:15 GMT
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 21:31:09 GMT, josh simpson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Howdy,
>Based on my experiences with a 10.2 Gig Maxtor hard drive and an older
>motherboard/BIOS (the kind which doesn't recognize drives larger than
>8.4G), I can say with confidence that you do not need a new motherboard to
>run both Linux & Win9x. And yes, I am using the EZDrive overlay software
>that came with the drive, which provides a translation scheme that allows
>Windows9x to "see" the full drive even when the BIOS does not.
Actually I think the promlem was DOS Fdisk messing up and overlapping
a windows partition with the Linux one - so when windows wrote to the
end of the disk
uuuruhghghghghghhghghghhhhhhhh
thanks anyway
Laurie
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From: Vladimir Kamenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing with brother HL-1040
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:24:03 +0300
Hallo,
I have a brother HL-1040 printer. Unfortunately, I can print only with
300x300 dpi resolution, although the printer supports 600x600 dpi.
Any solution (e.g. driver, etc.)?
Red Hat 5.2
gs 4.03
Thanks
--
Vlado
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From: "Alan Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and hardware RAID
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:31:34 +0100
Hi,
Im looking at putting together a file server runing linux (Most Likely
RedHat 6), this machine MUST have some form of RAID, I would prefer it to be
Hardware. Anyone got any suggestions/experience of specific RAID
controllers
Thanks
Alan
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From: Dupont Michelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to have a sound with a Sound Expert de Luxe 16 Plus with linux
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:03:53 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi,
I installed the debian distribution on my PC. The version of the kernel
is 2.2.5.
I can listen to a cdrom but no sound with xanim. The sound card is a
SoundSound Expert de Luxe 16 Plus (AZT2316A, AZT816 and CS4248-KL).
How does I have to configure the kernel before compiling it for the
sound?
Thank you very much in advance,
Michelle Dupont
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UNIPC
Universite de Liege
Tel: 366.23.38
Fax: 366.23.55
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Hi,
<P>I installed the debian distribution on my PC. The version of the kernel
is 2.2.5.
<P>I can listen to a cdrom but no sound with xanim. The sound card is a
SoundSound Expert de Luxe 16 Plus (AZT2316A, AZT816 and CS4248-KL).
How does I have to configure the kernel before compiling it for the
sound?
<P>Thank you very much in advance,
<BR>Michelle Dupont
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UNIPC
Universite de Liege
Tel: 366.23.38
Fax: 366.23.55
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From: Frederic Vanden Poel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: onboard NCR 53c94 scsi controller not supported ?
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 11:57:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A friend has bought 10 ICL ergo pro's (486 dx2-66, 8Mb) to
be used as simple NAT boxes (linux ipmasq) on cable and
dsl providers to share internet connections.
The ICLs have onboard scsi (NCR 53c94) but this chip seems
only supported on NCR machines with MCA bus, on certain macs
and suns, but not on onboard ISA. While browsing some of the
scsi kernel sources I noticed there's a generic 53c94 driver in
2.2.12, but how do I get it to run on onboard ISA ?
Frederic Vanden Poel
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 07:37:08 +0930
From: Giulio Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape, help
James Mandy wrote:
>
> Everything I try gives me:
>
> Cannot write to /dev/st0: Input/output error
> or
> /dev/st0: Input/output error
> when doing mt commands.
>
> I just changed some jumpers on the drive to see if it was that, but its
> still not working for me.. ideas?
I've got a HP35480A and I've been having nothing but trouble
since I purchased it (had success with a conner DAT though :).
Basically, I can't succesfully read or write to or from a DAT -
between I/O errors and SCSI bus timeouts, nothing works. Trying
to view or extract a tar on a DAT I'd made earlier, sends the
drive off (presumably reading) for a while. Despite using the
'v' option with tar, I get no feedback, and the drive just sits
there, reading a bit, going 'clunk', sometimes rewinding a
little, then reading again - and so on. Eventually, I get some
sort of SCSI timeout. <sigh>
The conner drive works fine... (and the DAT's themselves are
fine)
So: does your drive actually make any motions when you send
either mt or tar commands to it? If not, then it could be
perhaps a SCSI configuration error. If so, then it could be a
'HP error' like I'm getting :/
And as a side-note, could anyone recommend what SCSI settings I
should be using with such a tape drive? I haven't been able to
find out much on the web, and I'm looking for recommendations
for such values as 'Command Queueing' and 'Synchronous
Transfers' - what do tape drives usualy take for SCSI settings?
Well, hope you have more luck than me :)
Cheers,
________________________________________________________________________
Giulio Harding
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8303 6182
Department of Computer Science Voicemail: +618
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and hardware RAID
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:22:53 +1000
Compaq raid controllers are supported
also Mylex DAC series and others
I only have experience with the Compaq ones tho sorry
Tony Platt
Alan Murphy wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>Im looking at putting together a file server runing linux (Most Likely
>RedHat 6), this machine MUST have some form of RAID, I would prefer it to
be
>Hardware. Anyone got any suggestions/experience of specific RAID
>controllers
>
>Thanks
>
>Alan
>
>
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