Linux-Hardware Digest #197, Volume #11 Tue, 7 Sep 99 03:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: Curse this iomega zoom card! ("Dave Nejdl")
Iomega Zip Drive problems ("Proxima")
Re: Linux kernel compile problem (Kurt Wall)
Re: An interesting modem problem (Dave's Not Here)
Re: Modem setup help (Keith the Wonder Wookie)
Re: EAST TIMOR ("Karrde")
Re: Best PC for Linux Mandrake (Alex Parfenov)
Mandrake 6.0, ESS 56K PCI on com4, help ! ("Frank")
Re: Linux & Stollman ISDN adapter (Zlatko Rek)
Re: HOW TOO with the HOW TOO's????? ("Robert L. McCormick")
Re: HOW TOO??? How do I set up my ISP account through my external modem??? (Brandon)
Re: Iomega Zip Drive problems (Brandon)
Re: Building new Linux server - opinions (Michael Meissner)
Re: Building new Linux server - opinions (Michael Meissner)
Re: clustering two dual-celerons (Jeremy Fincher)
Re: which modem to buy? (Brandon)
Re: clustering two dual-celerons ("Robert L. McCormick")
Re: which to buy USB zip or RW-CD ("Bil Carter")
Re: Best PC for Linux Mandrake (Jeremy Fincher)
Re: RedHat & Sparc IPX install troubles (James C. McPherson)
Re: Dual Pentium II shows as Dual Celeron... (OldUncleMe)
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From: "Dave Nejdl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Curse this iomega zoom card!
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:37:39 -0400
wow, this is exactly what I am dealing with now, exept I only have the zip
drive, not the jazz. I have been asking this question alot lately and I've
gotten two answers:
1) you don't need boot parameters in the first place, it should be
recognized automatically (I don't believe it but thought I'd mention it).
2)forget about it, get a new scsi controller, the zoom never works.
Mark Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm having problems installing some Iomega hardware I was
> given. I have a Zoom SCSI card, a Zip100 drive, and a Jaz2G.
> This is all far too nice not to use, so I set it up under
> Win98, no problems.
>
> Re-compiled the kernel with scsi support (I asked for
> support auto-loaded rather than as modules, but I don't
> think this is the main problem). Added
>
> append = "aha152x = 0x340,11,7,1"
>
> in etc/lilo.conf (port and irq from Windows device manager)
> and got "device not found" messages from Redhat 6.0. Back to
> Windows. The zoom card is now at 0x140,11. Apparently the
> PnP routines are shoving this card around to different
> locations.
>
> Can someone tell me either
>
> 1) (my favourite) the Zoom jumper settings to lock the card
> in place.
>
> or
>
> 2) how to force it to be recognized at a given location and
> irq.
>
> It's probably obvious that I don't have any docs for any of
> this stuff, and the jumper settings aren't available at
> www.iomega.com.
>
> Please help me before I am forced to start spamming the
> alt.binary.huge_breasts hierarchy with this question.
>
> best wishes, mark s.
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From: "Proxima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega Zip Drive problems
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:19:43 -0700
Hi ..
I have a 100 MB IDE internal zip drive. It gets detected as hdd when Linux
is loading but I don't know how to access it .
Any help appreciated
Thanks
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From: Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,fa.linux.kernel,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Linux kernel compile problem
Date: 7 Sep 1999 03:41:37 GMT
In comp.lang.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to compile Kernel 2.2 from the RedHat 6.0 distribution.
> All goes well during the "make boot" until the end, or at least I think
> it's near the end where the kernel is compressed. The process stops at
> this point:
Way off topic in comp.lang.c. I recommend one of the groups in the
comp.os.linux.* hierarchy.
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.4/arch/i386/boot'
> gcc -D__kernel__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.5/include -E -traditional
> -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bootsect.s
> as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> make[1]: as86: Command not found
For some reason, `make' cannot find the assembler, `as86'. Sounds like an
installation.
[...]
Kurt
--
The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days.
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:14:06 -0500
From: Dave's Not Here <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: An interesting modem problem
David Robb wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Jaton Communicator v.90 ISA internal modem (Cirrus 5650
> chipset, hardware DSP and all). The modem has been verified as working
> under Windows. It is installed at the very standard COM2 - IRQ3, port
> 0x2f8.
David Robb Writes:
I remembered that the modem had jumpers on it (I bought one like that
specifically so I could force it to do my bidding, but forgot about it).
And as soon as I forced the serial port, everything worked fine!
Thank you to those who offered ideas for fixing this.
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith the Wonder Wookie)
Subject: Re: Modem setup help
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 04:17:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:54:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith the
Wonder Wookie) wrote:
>First off, I am a Linux newcomer woking my way up the learning curve.
>Here is my question. After replacing a Winmodem with a SmartLink 56k
>ISA modem I have been trying to set it up with many problems. I run
>"statserial" and it detects my modem on cua2. I ran "minicom" with
>the initialization strings removes and I can get the modem to dial and
>talk to my ISP. My problem is that I don't know how to dial a number,
>run a logon script, and keep the connection open so I can sun programs
>like Netscape. I know this if probably a trivial problem but I could
>really use the help. Thanks.
>
>Keith
Thank you for all your help but I have found the problem. I had the
wrong IRQ set on the modem. After reading the HowTo-Modem for the
third time I read the section on IRQ problems and slow modem responce.
One problem solved, one hundred to go!
Keith
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From: "Karrde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.fan.starwars
Subject: Re: EAST TIMOR
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:54:10 -0600
Send Harley over there. I hear he's primed to kick some Indonesian @ss.
;-)
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From: Alex Parfenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best PC for Linux Mandrake
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:16:11 -0400
Hey,
I can make a of couple suggestions:
Video: TNT2 ultra chipset is nearly twice as fast as TNT and Vodoo3 and is
priced below either, which makes it an excelent buy. (Besides, it is also
the fastest accelerator on the market). If you can't affort TNT2 Ultra, get
TNT2 - 15% difference in speed.
Sound: 128PCI Creative Labs Sound Blaster - excelent performance under both
Windows and Linux
CPU: Although you have made your choice, still, take a look at overclocking
new celerons - celerons are a lot more stable. Basically overclocking a
Celeron consist of changing your bus speed from 66Mz to 100Mz - 33%
increase. I have a 366 Celeron running (stably) at 550Mz. Just think what
a 450 Celeron can do... And oh
yea, get an Abit mainboard.
Monitor: Sony's appreture grill technology (two black lines across top and
bottom on the screen) are now used by number of manufacturers, including
Iiymana and Mitsibishi. Take a look at their true flat monitors - it's
something else, especially Iiymana's that does 1600x1200 at 85Hz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm looking for the best value spec in a high-end Linux PC (I use
> Mandrake 6.0 - wonderful product). My 486 is being retired. I have read
> various HowTo's and I guess the issues boil down to AGP cards and other
> components. I want a system to do netcam, tv and radio, voice over the
> net and quake 2 & 3. Is there a single video card for that lot (Voodoo
> 3500 TV ???)
>
> The following I decided on, more or less, feel free to object:
>
> P3 @ 450MHZ (overclock to about 600Mhz)
> 512K L2 cache (is more cache significantly better?)
> 128M fast SDRAM
> 8G+ Ultra IDE Disk
> Soundblaster 64 (recommendations ?)
> nVidia TNT 16M AGP graphics card (recommendations ?)
> CD-RW (recommendations ?)
> 3com 905 10/100 ethernet (recommendations ?)
> 19" or 21" monitor (recommendations ?)
>
> I see DELL/GATEWAY flamed a lot and some video card makers who don't
> support open source. I'm in London, UK so if you can recommend a good
> local vendor from personal experience, please do. Any and all advise
> appreciated.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 6.0, ESS 56K PCI on com4, help !
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 00:21:35 -0400
Hi,
I am new to Linux. The modem works fine under Windows 95 (com3), and nt
which has to be on com4 (I have to change modem from 1st or 2nd PCI under 95
to 3rd or 4th pci slots under nt, they do not work at the same time. In
fact, I have 95, nt and linux at the same HDD, now the modem only works for
NT at 4th PCI slot on the ABIT BH6 MB).
Under Linux, however, kppp keeps telling me "modem is busy", at ttyS3. I
also tried other ports, did not work. The IO address is 0x400, not a crazy
number, so I hope I can make it work. With setserial /dev/ttyS3 -a, I got
uart unknown.
Is the modem "bad" or anything else I can do?
Thanks.
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From: Zlatko Rek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux & Stollman ISDN adapter
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 07:21:41 +0200
Clifford Kite wrote:
>
> Zlatko Rek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : I have external ISDN adapter (Stollman TA+PP2) connected to /dev/ttyS0
> : on my desktop PC. The problem is following: after receiving a few KB
> : from Internet (ftp,http,news) the transfer is stalled. Upload to the
> : Internet (ftp) works flawlessly (7.5KByts/s).
>
> [edited]
>
> : /usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript" \
> : /dev/ttyS0 115200 crtscts defaultroute noipdefault \
> : name XXX remotename YYY debug
>
> : /etc/ppp/options: empty
>
> : ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> : inet addr:194.249.158.138 P-t-P:193.2.4.238 Mask:255.255.255.0
> : UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> : RX packets:1750 errors:321 dropped:321 overruns:0 frame:0
> : TX packets:2110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> : Collisions:0
> : Memory:1bc9038-1bc9c04
>
> : Where these errors for RX packets came from?
>
> I'd try fiddling with the asyncmap option, asyncmap 0 and asyncmap a0000
> would be candidates. A surprising number of similarly obscure problems
> are cured this way.
I've tried these two options, but the problem is not solved. The PC motherboard
is Intel Livermore (LM440LX) with integrated serial ports. Should I try with
external IO card?
As I remember, a year ago, I tried to connect PC and notebook with direct PPP
connection and the problem was the same, but I was thinking that I made a bad
cable.
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From: "Robert L. McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW TOO with the HOW TOO's?????
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:30:26 -0500
The HOWTOs are a set of docs that cover a range of topics to help you
install, configure, and use
linux. Check out the link below for the latest HOWTOs:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/linux.html
"Kevin C." wrote:
> Hay there.. I am really new to the whole linux thing.. what is the HOW TO
> thing that everyone talks about.. how do I access it...
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Kevin in Alaska.. :)
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:37:22 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW TOO??? How do I set up my ISP account through my external modem???
I'm prety sure Mandrake is similar/same as Redhat and if so just go into
X windows and use the network configuration tool in Control Panel. GOto
the necessary tabs and enter the necessary information and it should all
work as long as your modem does, which since its an external u should
have no problems.
Brandon
Kevin C. wrote:
>
> Hi there.. I have an external modem that I am not sure is fully setup
> correctly. I have used the "modemtool" command to select the com 2 setting
> that its plugged into. The system I am setting up here is a windows 98 /
> linux-mandrake 6.0 dual boot system. The modem works fine on my windows 98
> setup. But I have no idea how to setup up my ISP account on linux-mandrake.
> I am a newbie to the linux world but am wanting to learn BADLY...
>
> So I am in hopes that someone could give me some step by step instructions
> on how to setup my ISP account. I have standard ISP setup... Meaning that I
> don't have a IP address and just my login name, password and as well as my
> DNS numbers (primary and secondary numbers) and using a TCP/IP protocol.
>
> Thanks and I hope I was simple in my question and I hope it has enough
> information listed to help with my problem. But thanks for reading my post
> and I hope to hear from some one soon...
>
> Thanks..
>
> Kevin in Alaska.. :)
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every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:42:09 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega Zip Drive problems
create a mount directory then mount the drive
if u dont know how to mount do a 'man mount' at the prompt and read the
man page for the commmand
Proxima wrote:
>
> Hi ..
> I have a 100 MB IDE internal zip drive. It gets detected as hdd when Linux
> is loading but I don't know how to access it .
> Any help appreciated
> Thanks
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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Subject: Re: Building new Linux server - opinions
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Sep 1999 01:38:47 -0400
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > That said, I/O is *very* important to me - the database development work
> > I do is extremely disk-intensive.
>
> Then blow the processor, get more spindles. Spread your disk load
> out.
>
> FWIW, Doug Ledford, the Adaptec SCSI guy, has been able, with the
> right hardware, to saturate the PCI bus using 10K drives and multiple
> Adaptec cards.
Certainly it can be done if you have enough spindles. For a back of the
envelop calculation, I think I recall the 10k disks are in the 13 MB/second
range of real live data I/O. This means 3 drives will saturate the old 40 MB
Ultra scsi bus (you can get Ultra controllers for ~ $100) and 6 drives will
saturate the newer 80 MB Ultra2 scsi bus (you can get U2W controllers in the
$300 I think). However the original article did say 2-3 drives initially, so
Ultra2 should be fine.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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Subject: Re: Building new Linux server - opinions
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Sep 1999 01:46:16 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm glad you mentioned that. I've thought about the 10K disks, but I
> don't have a handle on much extra throughput I'd actually see when using
> them on a 80Mb/s UW-SCSI-2. I figured the 10K drives would pretty much
> require that I use an Ultra SCSI-III (160Mb/s) interface to get the most
> out of them (of course, I could be wrong about that assumption).
You are wrong about the assumption. I think you are confusing bus speed with
real I/O speed. As I said in another reply, IIRC, todays fastest disks can
only do about 13 MB/second. You want the scsi controller to go faster
than the disks read speed times the number of spindles.
> That said, I/O is *very* important to me - the database development work
> I do is extremely disk-intensive.
>
> > I have a pair of 10k rpm IBM disks in my system and they are fast.
> > Note, 10k drives need cooling (more than the 7200 rpms),
> > but the IBMs run cooler than the Seagate Cheatahs.
>
> This was another of my concerns about 10k drives - heat & longevity.
Note, 10k disks do tend to have 5 year warranties.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Fincher)
Subject: Re: clustering two dual-celerons
Date: 07 Sep 1999 05:49:25 GMT
>> Does anybody think it would be relatively easy to cluster
>> two of the new "Dual Millenium" dual celerons from
>> Future Power? (i.e., two dual celerons = 4 celerons
>> in two boxes
If you're handy with hardware, consider building yourself a dual celeron
system. Those pre-built dual boxen are overpriced, and you'll get more
performance if you build your own system with celeron 366s and overclock them
to 550. That's what I did; feel free to email me with questions.
Jeremy
==================================
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Have a good day, and good luck in your endeavors!
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 01:35:14 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which modem to buy?
goto www.actiontec.com and look for their PCI 56k modem which goes for
around $50.
I bought their Call Waiting modem which was $105 a cuople weeks ago and
it specifically said on their site along with the writing on teh box
that it works in linux and it does.
They give u a manual which provides instructions for setting it up under
dos, 3.1, OS/2, 95/98, linux and even NT i think. It took me about 2
minutes to get it working under linux by using their instructions. All i
had to do was find out what new irq and port it was using and include a
setserial line is rc.local to have it set correctly everytime at boot
up.
If you dont want the features fo their call waiting modem, like i said
they have another $50 modem that is PCI and still works under Linux. I
can't remember if it's available yet or not but u should check it out if
you dont mind using a pCI modem; in my case I had to.
Brandon
john wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > In <j5%z3.3640$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bert Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
> > >I need to buy a new modem.
> > >The winmodem that came with my PC died from lightning.
> >
> > Cool! How big a lightning rod did you need to use??
> > <chuckle>
> >
> > >I want to install Linux.
> > >What modem should I get?
> > >
> > Avoid PCI modems.
> > Some US Robotics (now 3com) ISA modems will work.
> > Some Zoom internal ISA modems will work.
> > AOpen makes an ISA modem that will work.
> >
> > >Do USB modems now work in Linux?
> >
> > USB support for anything is spotty.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Bert Douglas
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Just my $0.02 worth.
> > Hope this helps,
> > Gordon
> >
> > Sure this is my real e-mail address. Just try
> > to get past my spam filters.
> > There are minor children in this house.
> > Any adult related spam will result in a
> > complaint to applicable athorities.
>
> Check this out...
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
> --
> Please remove *NOSPAM* for Email reply...
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: "Robert L. McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: clustering two dual-celerons
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:34:36 -0500
Check out http://www.beowulf.org. I think they have some info on the
website on how they set up the clusters.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anybody think it would be relatively easy to cluster
> two of the new "Dual Millenium" dual celerons from
> Future Power? (i.e., two dual celerons = 4 celerons
> in two boxes).
>
> I'm not an expert at clustering. Can Caldera Linux be set
> up in a cluster on these machines pretty easily? I've never
> compiled a Linux kernel, but I think I could figure it out
> (I'm a programmer).
>
> Also, what other hardware would I need besides 2 network
> cards and cables...do I need some kind of "hub" or "switch"
> (I don't know anything about networking).
>
> Thanks!
> -Bill
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Bil Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage
Subject: Re: which to buy USB zip or RW-CD
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 02:02:38 -0400
Reply-To: "Bil Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've got both a Zip and a CDRW. For backing up, CDRW is clearly the way to
go, but Zip certainly has its advantages, too. Although my CDRW has a
feature called "file CD" which supposedly lets you drag and drop files off
the CDRW as easily as with a Zip or floppy, the files aren't always
recognized by other CD or DVD drives, and the transfer time is actually much
slower than the Zip. My Zip happens to be an ATAPI device, so that would
explain the speed advantage it has over my 2x CDRW, but there is still
"preliminary" writing that must be done to clean deleted files off the
CDRW. Also, a clean format of a CDRW takes quite a while; sometimes 45
minutes.
My favorite is the Zip.
Randy Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> H Paynter wrote:
> >
> > I need some more storage space for my lap top. Does anyone know which
is
> > better to use a USB zip drive or a RW-CD. I remember reading somewhere
that
> > using a USB port is not the best for data storage devices, is this true?
Has
> > anyone used the USB zip drive, comments. Thanks Hank
>
> I have a USB Zip and it has worked fine. As I recall, USB supports
> something like 1.5 MB/sec of data transfer, so it's more than enough
> for a standard CD-R, CD-RW, or zip. Since CD R/W only writes at maybe
> 4X, USB should be fast enough.
>
> I'm considering buying a USB CDRW myself (Zip just isn't big enough
> for backups, and CD RW media can be bought for as little as $2.50/US$
> each).
>
> Has anybody had any experience with CD R/W and USB? Especially in Linux?
> (BTW, I'm mirroring this message to comp.os.linux.hardware.)
>
> --
> Randy Crawford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.engin.umich.edu/labs/cpc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Fincher)
Subject: Re: Best PC for Linux Mandrake
Date: 07 Sep 1999 05:47:25 GMT
>Hey,
>I can make a of couple suggestions:
>Video: TNT2 ultra chipset is nearly twice as fast as TNT and Vodoo3
No it is not nearly twice as fast as the voodoo3. In fact, the voodoo3 will
outperform the tnt2ultra at 16bpp color depths. And the v3 costs a lot less.
And it's more compatible with linux; glide is still prevalent in the few linux
games that exist.
>and is
>priced below either
No way! The v3 3000 costs approx. $130. The tnt2ultra costs approx. $250.
>Sound: 128PCI Creative Labs Sound Blaster - excelent performance under both
>Windows and Linux
If you can get it to work; just get an awe64, it's much easier to configure in
linux. It's ISA, too, so it saves a valuable PCI slot for something that can
actually use the bandwidth.
>CPU: Although you have made your choice, still, take a look at overclocking
>new celerons
I do agree; I have an Abit BP6 with dual celeron 366s overclocked to 550, and
maid <$300 for the motherboard and processors. Mandrake gives me somewhere
around 1100 bogomips.
>Basically overclocking a
>Celeron consist of changing your bus speed from 66Mz to 100Mz - 33%
>increase.
Actually that's a 50% increase.
>I have a 366 Celeron running (stably) at 550Mz. Just think what
>a 450 Celeron can do.
Ok, first off, there's no such thing as a celeron 450. Secondly, you have to
understand the the mendocino core has a theoretical limit of somewhere near
600mhz at room temperature. So no matter how large the multiplier is on your
celeron, you will not get yourself a 7.5 multiplier running on a 100mhz bus.
If you want to overclock a celeron, get the 366. With it's 5.5 multiplier, it
runs at 550 on a 100mhz bus quite well, with an estimated 80% success rate. And
if it's not successful, well, you have a 366mhz processor to give to your
grandma or resell and you only spent $65 on it.
Hope this helps a bit.
Jeremy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James C. McPherson)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: RedHat & Sparc IPX install troubles
Date: 07 Sep 1999 16:17:12 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Thanks for the idea. After some trial and error
> I figured out that
> > Win98 was messing up the rawrite procedure. I
> booted DOS 6.22 and all
> > was well. With a little effort I installed
> RedHat 6.0 via FTP from
> > Linuxberg. Everything seems to be running
> alright except the Sun 4
> > optical mouse will only track up and down - no
> lateral movement. I
> > disabled gpm from starting on boot, but that
> didn't make a difference.
> > Any one have any ideas on how to get it to track
> or do you think the
> > mouse is toast?
>
> That's a typical symptom of having the optical
> mousepad rotated 90 degrees from where it should
> be...
Unfortunately, no it's not a 90degree problem - that would be a "why is my
mouse moving so slowly" problem. If you only get mouse movement in one
direction then yes, your mouse is fscked and you need a new one. The good news
is that you can get mechanical mice to suit - any type5 or later mouse should
do (don't have the details to hand), or check out Genius or MouseSystems.
James C. McPherson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium II shows as Dual Celeron...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 04:38:14 GMT
It was: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:36:03 +0200 and with STARTLING insight,
"Artur Swietanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
posted "Re: Dual Pentium II shows as Dual Celeron..."
to "comp.os.linux.setup" :
-->Greg Leblanc wrote:
-->> (...) L1 is internal cache. It's ON THE PROCESSOR CORE.
-->> L2 cache is (...) NOT on the processor core, and therefore is
-->> NOT internal cache. (...) the external cache is now a part of
-->> the processor.
-->
-->This is some kind of Intel newspeak that I was not aware of (till
-->now). If you read the above, you'll see that L2 which is a part of
-->the processor, is called external. To me that's an oxymoron.
-->
-->Thanks for claryfying my confusion,
-->---------------------------------------------------------------------
-->Artur Swietanowski
L1 in most pc's cpu is built into to the actual processor, where L2 is on
the motherboard or on the board to which the cpu is mounted (in the case
of P2 and P3 intel processors.) In some other pc processors, L2 cache is
actually part of the cpu package so it is then internal, where on the p2
and p3 intel processors it is external (physically) to the cpu, being
mounted on the cpu's circuit board....
tenox @ home dat com
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