Linux-Hardware Digest #242, Volume #11 Mon, 13 Sep 99 03:13:47 EDT
Contents:
Re: What's Better: Suse 6.2 or Mandrake 6.0 ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FS: HP 9000/720 ; $150 (Bryan)
Re: how2print? Brother hl-720 (rob)
Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk. (Charles M)
Re: Newbie... games, Linux & lotz of questions... ("Brian Cagle")
Any Non-Booting SCSI-2 Cards. (just me)
Help: C-Media on RedHat 6 (Kenneth V. Adair)
Linux Security ("TURBO1010")
Re: libNoVersion.so.1 ("Richard S")
tnt2 and 32bpp (chris)
Re: NE2000 only does 80KB/sec (Tim Moore)
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! (Lisa Evans)
Re: wierd bug: NS communicator crashes sending mail (Tim Moore)
Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk. (Henry Luk)
Need Help on 2 things... ("Sondy Coker")
Re: How To Format Old Linux Partitions?? ("Andrew J. Norman")
Install Linux .... (canal)
Re: LINUX and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890 (Peter Hutnick)
Re: P6DGU memory? (Peter Hutnick)
Re: 17" SGI Monitor p/n GDM-1601 ; $100 ("Kent Rankin")
Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk. (Vilmos Soti)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What's Better: Suse 6.2 or Mandrake 6.0 ??
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:02:47 GMT
Slackware 4.0
Don't you hate when people answer questions like that in newsgroups...I
sure do.
OK, I almost have the real answer
the public currently likes
Mandrake 6
over
Suse 6.1
but the KING OF THE HILL is the slacker with 1400+ votes
here are the results
http://www.linuxcare.com/buyer_guide/
good luck with whatever distribution you choose
Andy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luckydaze1) wrote:
> Whats the difference between these two versions of Linux and which one
is
> better in your opinion?
>
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FS: HP 9000/720 ; $150
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hpux,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:24:23 GMT
SPAMMERS SUCK.
the linux group that you cross SPAMMED to is NOT a for-sale group.
get a clue, eh?
In comp.os.linux.hardware Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SPAMMED forth:
: The system is located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449.
:
: It is configured as follows:
[snip]
: Thanks,
: Kent Rankin
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From: rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how2print? Brother hl-720
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:39:13 -0600
Tomasz 'tsca' Sienicki wrote:
<snip>
> # ----------------------------------------------------
> Auto detection found the following:
>
> /dev/lp0 : Not detected
> /dev/lp1 : Not detected
> /dev/lp2 : Not detected
> # ------------------------------------------------------
<snip>
I'm not familiar with that autodetection tool, but I'd start
there. Do you have parallel support in your kernel?
rob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles M)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk.
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:34:00 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hello all, A long time ago I installed RH5.1 on this box and after
> trying a few things gave up on the idea of using more than 8GB of my
> 13Gb disk (I understand the BIOS limitations problem). In a while I'll
> be getting a new system and reformatting this one. I have tried adding
> 'append hda="1647,256,63"' to the lilo.conf file. This didn't work.
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
Actually, depending on your BIOS, there may not be any BIOS limitation.
As far as the disk size, you probably have Logical Block Addressing LBA
set to on in your BIOS, since Windows doesn't work well with large drives
(NT is a bit better in that regard). You may also have jumpers on your
drive for LBA. A number of things to try. You may have to temporarily
turn off LBA (in BIOS, on jumpers, whatever) so Disk Druid can see the
drive, probably need to use linear mode at the end of the install (so you
won't get the dreaded LI on boot up), and then turn LBA back on when you
re-boot after install (or you once again get LI). It can be a mess
getting it all just so.
Another option is if you know the correct disk geometry cylinders,
sectors, etc, use fdisk. In fdisk you can force the drive to that
specification, no matter what the computer thinks it is (just make sure
you've really got your number right). That will force the system to allow
you the whole disk for partitoning. You'll still have to play around with
linear mode in the final part of the install (you probably need it), but
you can avoid messing with BIOS and jumpers by using fdisk.
CMM
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From: "Brian Cagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie... games, Linux & lotz of questions...
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:44:59 GMT
I can only answer the qustion about the V770. If you go to Nvidia's website
(www.nvidia.com) and go to the Driver's section, you can download the Linux
driver for the V770. Follow the FAQ and instructions that come with the
download, and you will be set. If you are like me, and couldn't get X to
run, and thus couldn't use Nutscrape to get the drivers, type 'lynx' at the
command prompt, and press 'g' to goto a URL, type in 'www.nvidia.com' and
navigate through the pages to the drivers. Lynx may seem a little difficult
to use, but it can be a life saver.
Good luck!
Brian
Jagermy$ter '99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I'm completely new to Linux.
> Having unpacked & Installed my new SuSE Linux 6.2, i'm having a few
> questions.
>
> * Is it possible to play my Windows-based games under Linux? (ed. Toca2,
> Need 4 speed)
>
> * Why can't I use the Viper 770 driver for my 770 Ultra card, while it is
> supported by my version of Linux? (It gives an error message when
selecting
> the viper 770. I'm running with the Viper 550 drivers, wich works fine,
but
> obviously not taking the full advantage of my card.
>
> * I have installed the drivers for my Teles Bri16.3 ISDN adapter, with no
> problems. But how can I use my card to connect on the Internet? The
Dial-up
> software that I could find in X supported only analog modems??
>
> * Is it possible to acces my FAT32 partition of my harddisk on wich I have
> installed Windows 98?
>
> * Does anyone know a good cd-recording program for Linux, like Nero? Maybe
> there is a Nero version for Linux??
>
> * My Linux package contains 6 cd's, but only using the 1st 3 cd's. What's
> with the other 3 cd's??
>
>
> As you see I have quite a lot questions, but then again, I'm completely
new
> to Linux, so please explain the sollutions very detailed :-)
>
> My system:
>
> Asus P2B-F mainboard, bios rev. 1010.07
> Intel Pentium III 500
> 128 MB 100Mhz memory
> Diamond Viper V770 Ultra 32MB AGP videocard
> Creative SB. Live! Value soundcard
> IBM DTA 7200rpm 10,1 GB HD on IDE 0 with 2 partitions, on the 1st I have
> installed MS Windows 98 (Fat 32) and on the 2nd partition installed Linux
> 6.2
> Quantum Fireball 13,4 GB HD on IDE 0, currently empty.
> A-Open ATAPI 36x cd-rom on IDE 1
> Toshiba XM-6201B SCSI 36x cd-rom
> Teac CD-R56S-600 SCSI cd-recorder
> NCR symlogic SCSI controller
> Canon BJC-6000 printer (anyone any experinces with this one with Linux???)
> Iomega Zip 100 paralel (on 2nd LPT port)
>
> Please reply to:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just me)
Subject: Any Non-Booting SCSI-2 Cards.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 04:18:58 GMT
Hello,
I'm want to use my Symbios 20810 (pci) which is based on the
53C3810 chip in a Linux Box. I can't find it on the Redhat list.
Is there another one supported? If not I'll guess a Buslogic
would be good, but which one?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth V. Adair)
Subject: Help: C-Media on RedHat 6
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:33:58 -0700
I use a c-media soundpro chip built into my motherboard as my sound card.
Unfortunately I cannot get it working under RedHat Linux 6.0 . I found a
linux driver for it on their website and followed their instructions but
cannot get the driver working. The problem is that when I issue a final
'modprobe cmpci' command I always get an error that the device is already
in use. I was wondering if anyone else has worked with the c-media chip
under linux and has and knows what is wrong?
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux Security
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:57:02 -0700
After having my system compromised, and someone being able to create another
account on my system equivalent to root, I managed to nuke my system, and
now am ready to start all over. I want suggestions as to how to secure the
system, so that it's not compromised anymore. I have to have ftp since I
transfer files from remote locations to home. Telnet, I can do without if
there is an alternative, and I want to run apache. Don't care about mail,
finger, talk or anything like that. Suggestion are welcome, so that this
mishap doesn't happen again. Thanks in advance
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From: "Richard S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libNoVersion.so.1
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 23:52:34 -0500
Same problem here. I tried two of the SuSE rpms. The xrage.rpm failed =
dependency "libNoVersion.so1 is needed by xrage-1.3-0". The SuSE =
xfsetup-3.3.5-1 failed dependencies as follows: =
"libc.so6(GLIBC-2.0);libc.so6(GLIBC-2.1);libdl.so2(GLIBC-2.0); =
libdl.so2(GLIBC-2.1); libm.so6(GLIBC-2.0);libm.so6(GLIBC-2.1). Running =
Linux-Mandrake 5.3 (Red Hat 5.2). I'd like to try the "frame buffer" =
work around but I'm too much a newbie to understand the instructions.=20
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> I downloaded several RPMs in an attempt to make my ATI =
All-In-Wonder 128
> card work. When I tried to install the RPM, I found that it has a
> dependency on libNoVersion.so.1. Online help at SuSE lead to an RPM =
that
> conflicted with my current setup. Any suggestions?
>=20
>=20
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From: chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tnt2 and 32bpp
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:27:27 -0500
I have a recent kernel (2.3.6), and from the nvidia website, the latest
drivers. I do not yet have my tnt2 card, which I just bought on ebay. It
looks like I'm going to have to reinstall a Win32 partition to use this
card to play quake3, which I do not want to do. The Linux TNT driver
uses xfree, and doesn't seem to support >16bpp. Well, I already have
that with a decent framerate with my old Voodoo2 card. I want the
texture size and 32 bpp! Am I up a creek?
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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:23:09 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NE2000 only does 80KB/sec
How are you doing mounts? How is your network set up? How are the card
jumpers set?
What is the ftp speed when you do a get/put to /dev/null?
In general you should expect to get around 850KB/s on a quiet wire. I
have two NE2000's, one on a PCI 472MHz Celeron 300A and the other on a
ISA 486 DX4/100.
The fastest transfer is ftp from a RAID0 filesystem on the 300A to
/dev/null on the 486, which gives 1150KB/s. The slowest is from the
300A to disk on the 486, which was 663KB/s. If disk subsystem speed is
substantially different on one side it can influence perceived network
speed depending on transfer direction:
/dev/md0:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.56 seconds =114.29 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 1.70 seconds =18.82 MB/sec
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 3.67 seconds =17.44 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 13.10 seconds = 2.44 MB/sec
Both NICs are on a direct point-to-point network, half-duplex. The
drops and framing errors indicate the 486 side is not as clean as the
300A:
2.2.5-15 kernel (RH 6.0)
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 40 33 d0 f5 88
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 3.
486:% ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:33:D0:F5:88
inet addr:192.168.10.11 Bcast:192.168.10.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:203530 errors:0 dropped:38 overruns:0 frame:25
TX packets:129728 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:25 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
2.0.38 kernel (RH 5.2 base)
ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00f 8/15/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xa000, IRQ 11.
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xa000, IRQ 11, 00:80:C8:C1:18:DB.
300A:% ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:C1:18:DB
inet addr:192.168.10.10 Bcast:192.168.10.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:126280 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:201147 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:25
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xa000
Mount options: async,rw,rsize=4k,wsize=4k,udp,nfsvers=2,intr,bg,hard
FTP: wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-18]
--
timothymoore "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
bigfoot WS Burroughs.
com
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From: Lisa Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:13:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*****snip
>
> This world is not always the paradise the young would like to believe
> in, but its what we (speaking for humanity as a whole) make of it. If
> you want to change it, offer your physical presence there, and do what
> you can. BTW, you'll need food, guns, ammo, and kevlar underwear.
Just
> don't tell the frogs about the underwear, its better they think its
> magic when you get up and walk away. You might even be famous for 15
> minutes...
>
> Cheers, Gene
> --
> Gene Heskett, CET, UHK
This goes out to all my lovely flamers:
It's amazing how much indignation can be provoked when you try to get
Americans to peer out of their insular, all things beef and ammo, truth
justice and the american way, precious little world. I'm an Australian.
I would never try to justify my governments' actions over East Timor.
They've been abhorrent. And don't laud your right to bear arms over the
plight of small peoples like the East Timorese. Your country has
reserved the right to arm every oppressive, tyrranical government the
world has seen. Where did Saddam get his weapons, hmmm? Straight from
Uncle Sam.
I love the response "Well if you care so much, go over there and
fight," like a three-year-old. I wasn't asking for the US to go in and
fight. No one expects them to. This is Asia, and there are no
communists, so, like, who cares? Australia is leading the peace keeping
effort, and the US is wishing us luck. So much for all the fighting
we've done in your wars - Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, etc.
Anyway, have a nice time playing with your little nerd boxes and making
your little Bill Gates jokes. Rest assured that no one is ever going to
walk in and hack your children to death, because you're Americans, and
hell, you're all armed to the teeth just in case.
Lisa Evans
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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:40:37 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: wierd bug: NS communicator crashes sending mail
Netscape 4.5x & 4.6x do this when a name lookup never returns.
Try using strace in attach to PID mode (-p option). Just prior to the
action that causes a hang, launch strace with Netscape's PID. In my
case the log file pointed out it never returns from a name lookup* and
instead falls in to a memory allocation loop (sbrk() calls).
* bogus From: address used for antispam. I just added my posting
aliases to /etc/passwd as so:
NotARealAddress:*:1000:100::/bin/noshell
notArealAddress:*:1000:101::/bin/noshell
--
timothymoore "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
bigfoot WS Burroughs.
com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: Henry Luk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:25:09 GMT
Reply-To: Henry Luk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hello all, A long time ago I installed RH5.1 on this box and after
> trying a few things gave up on the idea of using more than 8GB of my
> 13Gb disk (I understand the BIOS limitations problem). In a while I'll
> be getting a new system and reformatting this one. I have tried adding
> 'append hda="1647,256,63"' to the lilo.conf file. This didn't work.
> Any ideas?
I also bought a new hard drive which is 13GB, and when I used DOS fdisk,
it didn't see the space after 8GB. The reason is that your motherboard
BIOS is old. Here are the options that you can do:
1. flash your BIOS: go to your motherboard manufacturer's web site and
find if there is any update to the BIOS according to your motherboard.
But be careful, if the update is not successful, your motherboard is dead.
2. use the driver (a diskette provided by the manufacturer) of the new
hard drive to make partition. The driver program inside can see all
13BG.
3. This option is what I take to resolve this problem. I use RH6.0 fdisk
to partition my 13GB hard drive. RH6.0 fdisk can see all my 13GB. For
other versions of RH, I am not sure if they can see all 13GB space.
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From: "Sondy Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Help on 2 things...
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:42:24 -0500
The first thing I need help on is get Netscape to see that I have a PPP
connection. I'm using SuSE 6.2 and I have a Jumperd modem which is set at
COM3, IRQ4 that seems to work under Linux. I have my modem setup correctly
but the only thing is when I use kppp Netscape give the error that it cant
find the www.suse.com website, and anyother sites that I try.
Second is that I have a Sound Blaster Live Value! and ever time I try and
install the SBLive Linux driver it give me an error. I dont know the exacte
error but I can find out agian. IF anyone can help out let me know.
Thanks,
Sondy Coker
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To Format Old Linux Partitions??
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:49:04 GMT
First off partitions are partitions regardless of who made them. It is
true that Partition Magic lets you play some neat tricks with shrinking,
reordering, etc...but the fact remains that they are still just standard
partitions.
So to clear a partition manually just unmount it, and then remake
the file system. To do this you will normally want to use the standard
"mke2fs" utility (see the man) and then adjust the parameters with
"tune2fs". As an example:
> mke2fs -c /dev/hda1
would generically reformat the first partition of the first IDE drive and
perform bad block testing. For fancier invocations see the man pages.
As an alternative you can just install SuSE. The install should at one
point prompt you to repartition the disk (just keep the existing ones) and
then later it should prompt you for whether or not to reformat the
partitions (and here you would let it) The advantage of this method is of
course that it will use version of the formating utility that corresponds
to the distribution. In your case this is not a big concern, but for
individuals who are upgrading from an early SLACware version or a home
brew this can cause difficulties (especially if you distribution was
early in the 1.2 kernel days)
Andrew J. Norman
______________________________________________________________
Dept. of Physics Phone: 757-221-3571
College of William & Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
______________________________________________________________
On 13 Sep 1999, Luckydaze1 wrote:
> I want to install Suse 6.2 over RH 6.0 but used Partition Magic to make the
> old Linux paritons and I don't want to lose these partitons and start over. How
> can I
> format these partitions so no files are left on them so I can install Suse on
> those same partitions??
>
>
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From: canal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install Linux ....
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:31:17 GMT
My name is Weslley Canal ,I'm Braziliam .I have a Computer AMD K6-III 450
Mhz , Main Board M598lmr . The sound , the video and modem are
onboard ,and I didn't get to config video ,sound and modem with Linux
because the video ,sound and modem are onboard .
I need of program for to config my computer correct with Linux .
Excuse me ....I don't speak English very well !!
Thank you ,
I'm waiting the answer ...
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From: Peter Hutnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:55:01 -0500
Well, Mathais refuses to give many specifics, but I think I may have cracked
it.
It is a 6300 or a 6350 with DUAL 7890's that won't play nice if probed.
Pass the noprobe argument at boot time. I can't be bothered to look up the
exact syntax.
Mathias,
If you would be so kind as to tell me what model of "Dell" you have it would
be ever so helpful. (I need model, type and number of each SCSI controller.)
-Peter
Mathias Margulies wrote:
> Could someone tell me how to install LINUX on a DELL with a 18Go hard
> drive and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890 adapter ? Current distributions like
> RedHat6.0 or Mandrake6.0 don't work.
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mathias MARGULIES
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From: Peter Hutnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: P6DGU memory?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 00:46:23 -0500
I have a P6DGU.
I run Red Hat 6, Win 98, and Solaris 7.
My memory is Toshiba THMY7216E1EG-80H, 128MB part. Works great. I
purchased
it at SuperMicro's recommendation. Any of the RAM that they recommend
should
work great.
The 7890 in general should not be used with a bunch of disparate devices
(specifically LVD and SE), but . . .
The P6DGU uses a transceiver to allow LVD and SE devices at the same
time. I
have an LVD HDD, a Plextor CDR, a Pioneer DVD, and a really crappy
narrow
HDD. And it all works great.
I believe, however, that you may only use two of the onboard connectors
at a
time. (This is generally true of SCSI controller with three ports, and I
have no reason to believe that you may use all three because of the
transceiver.)
By the way, the "Manufactures setting" in the BIOS increases the FSB.
It's
not the best overclokcers MB but it has some capabilities.
-Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone have the P6DGU motherboard? If so, would you please tell
> me what brand system memory you use? I know there are a couple brands
> out there that give people trouble. I know the Supermicro Web site
> list several but would rather get the info from someone using this
> board. Also, is the 7890 Adaptec SCSI that comes with it capable of
> running 7 devices ie, hard drives,scanners, CDRoms, and zip drives?
>
> Thanks,
> Al Teunis
> Muskegon, Mi
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.sgi.marketplace,misc.forsale.computers.monitors,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: Re: 17" SGI Monitor p/n GDM-1601 ; $100
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:58:07 GMT
Whoops, I made a little mistake there. =)
It's a GDM-1630SG.
Thanks,
Kent Rankin
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk.
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 06:47:00 GMT
Web Serf wrote:
>
> Hello all, A long time ago I installed RH5.1 on this box and after
> trying a few things gave up on the idea of using more than 8GB of my
> 13Gb disk (I understand the BIOS limitations problem). In a while I'll
> be getting a new system and reformatting this one. I have tried adding
> 'append hda="1647,256,63"' to the lilo.conf file. This didn't work.
> Any ideas?
Hi,
I also had similar problems. What I did was to set the bios parameters
to 1023/255/63 thus I was able to boot. (It is a rather old bios). When
I fdisked the disk I simply switched to expert mode and redefined the
cylinder count. YMMV. Don't forget to check waht the kernel reports
about the disk when it boots up.
Vilmos
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ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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