Linux-Hardware Digest #253, Volume #11 Tue, 14 Sep 99 19:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Floppy won't mount ... ("Bryan Cameron")
Re: Need Help on 2 things... (Kent Carpenter)
Abit BP6 et UDMA 33-66 (Bergeron Bernard)
Diamond/ Dell V770D (Chris Sims)
Re: " No CDDB Entry" "Error Getting CDDB Entry" ??? (Bergeron Bernard)
Re: RH 6.0 not recognizing RAM > 64M even after lilo.conf edit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help with video and monitor (Jesse Singh)
Need an honest appraisal of CPU performance (xero33)
Genius GE2500III PCI Ethernet Card ("waid")
Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk. (Gavin Parker)
Re: anyoen tried a BE6? (David Isaac Stclair)
Re: [A] Trackman Marble FX (Anthony Love)
Re: SV: Abit BE6 (ATA66) Question ("David St.Clair")
Re: What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ? ("David C. Hoos, Sr.")
Re: What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ? (Jeremy Fincher)
Re: UDMA problem? SOLVED! (No thanks to Maxtor) (Uelo Mets)
Re: AMD K6-2/300 (OldUncleMe)
Re: Is 128K ISDN hopeless?? Maybe not?? (Robert Kesterson)
Re: SB PCI 64 and Suse 6.2 (Luckydaze1)
" No CDDB Entry" "Error Getting CDDB Entry" ??? (Luckydaze1)
Apache Digital - experience & opinions? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Guillemot TnT2 16 Mo (Bergeron Bernard)
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From: "Bryan Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy won't mount ...
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:32:38 -0700
What type of file system is on the floppy?
if it is a linux floppy (ie ext2) type mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
if it is a dos floppy type mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
you can also edit your /etc/fstab to add one of these lines (if they are not
already there). Once the line is in your /etc/fstab all you have to type is
mount /mnt/floppy
Hope this is the right answer:
Bryan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi , I'm new to this, and tying to find my way through HOWTO's, and
>other help facilities. However, i did not yet find the reason why my
>floppy won't mount.
>
>Here is the scene :
>
>IDE 1 master : HD Dos partition (win 95 boot)
>IDE 1 slave : CDRom
>IDE 2 master : HD Linux partition
>
>Whenever I want to Linux, I use a LILO from a bootable floppy (I have
>not yet the LILO with multiple OS on 1st HD ... problems 1 by 1 ... :-)
>
>So I get the Mandrake (6.02, KDE) thing, and it works alright, except
>that the CD Rom mounts alright, but not the floppy.
>I get the error :
>
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
>many mounted files systems
>
>(Though I booted on a floppy !)
>Any thoughts ?
>
>TIA
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From: Kent Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Help on 2 things...
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:26:19 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sondy Coker wrote:
>
> 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.
Sounds like a DNS (domain name server) problem.
Have you gotten the DNS addresses from your ISP and entered them into
the appropriate file?
On a RH distro its /etc/resolv.conf (not sure on SuSE) and goes
something like this:
nameserver 111.111.111.111
nameserver 111.111.111.111
using the specific addresses for your ISP's DNS
>
> 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
What kind of error? During the install, or when trying to insert the
module?
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From: Bergeron Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit BP6 et UDMA 33-66
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:46:31 +0200
Je possede une carte mere Abit BP6
Cette carte mere possede 2 connecteurs IDE en UDMA-33 et 2 connecteurs
pour l'UDMA-66 ...et je ne reussis pas a faire reconnaitre un disque dur
par linux...(le HD marche en UDMA-66)
J'ai essaye avec des nappes dUDMA33 comme avec des nappes UDMA66
(je m'en fiche de le faire fonctionner en UDMA66...mais j'aimerais bien
pouvoir brancher 8 blocs IDE...).
Que faire?
Merci d'avance
ps: (je le mets en ps pour ne pas me faire incendier)
rien avoir avec linux, mais si vous avez la BP6...aidez moi: je n'arrive
pas a overclocker les celerons (j'essaye de passer de 6*66 a 6*72...et
ca plante!!!)
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From: Chris Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond/ Dell V770D
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:00:22 -0400
The Dell variant of Diamond's V770 32Mb video card (V770D) does not seem
to be supported. Does anyone know of a way to work around this? Are
there drivers available to upgrade?
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From: Bergeron Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: " No CDDB Entry" "Error Getting CDDB Entry" ???
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:00:59 +0200
Luckydaze1 wrote:
> I have a SB PCI 64 and I'm running Suse 6.2 When I try to play a music CD I
> get this error on the CD player. What are these errors and how do I correct
> them?
> I'm a newbie so please give me simple steps. Thank you very much.
Le CDDB permet a ton ordinateur de consulter une base de donn�es (locale ou
distante) pour connaitre le nom des chansons sur un cd...
A priori, si c'est juste pour ecouter...tu t'en fiches!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup;
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 not recognizing RAM > 64M even after lilo.conf edit
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:20:13 GMT
First you need to recover from the lockup by
booting with your RH CD and choose the "upgrade"
option. This should only rewrite your lilo.
After successfuly booting into RH 6.0, do the
following:
Edit your lilo.conf with "mem=191m"; ie, 1mb less
than the total amount in your TP. Rerun
/sbin/lilo.
Should work like a charm.
I would suggest you test this first by pressing
the tab at lilo prompt and passing the "mem"
command with your rh label.
Good luck.
Madhu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am having a hard time getting Redhat 6.0 to
recognize the additional
> RAM over 64 Megs on my thinkpad 600e. Everything
I read says that the
> 2.2.5-15 kernel should automatically recognize
the additional RAM. It
> did on my desktop.
>
> Everything is default except for XFree86 3.3.5.
>
> After the initial install top gave me 64. I
tried passing variations
> (from the lilo docs, redhat support sight, as
well as deja postings)
> of append "mem=192M" to Lilo during the
install, at boot and finally
> appended the /etc/lilo.conf and reran
/sbin/lilo, which locked the
> machine on boot. It locks after apm and clicks
about 12 times in about
> a second.
>
> When looking on deja I came across a post that
it might be a BIOS or
> hardware issue. The mother board has two slots
and a 32 soldered on.
> It came with a 32 in the first slot. When I go
into the BIOS it sees
> the RAM and NT sees it no problem. I thought it
might be an issue with
> the first RAM slot so I switched the two DIMMs.
That didn't work so I
> went on to rerun lilo.
>
> Lilo reran without error and echoed the two boot
image names. No
> errors. Now it locks up.
>
> Any insight? I am at my wits end.
>
> wayne
> ------------------------------
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mystical powers of the
> Universe, you would say hocus pocus.
>
> Now we call tech support
> ------------------------------
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From: Jesse Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with video and monitor
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 12:56:42 -0700
Hello I just installed rh6.0. During install I hit a snag on some of the
options for my vid card and monitor.
I have a S3 Inc. Trio 3D (86C366) video card and a NEC MultiSync XP21
monitor. I tried to set up the monitor refresh rates manually. The vid
card was unsupported. It won't let me finish this part of the install
because I am not picking the right options for the vid card ( i think).
Any ways I now can only get to Run level 3
thanks for the help in adcance
jes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xero33)
Subject: Need an honest appraisal of CPU performance
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:20:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My current box is as follows:
430TX MoBo
Intel Pentium 200Mhz MMX CPU
96MB RAM
6.4GB HD
4MB PCI Video
It runs in a dual boot with Windows NT 4.0/SP5 and Linux Mandrake 6.0.
Under Windows NT, I run the following: MS Office 97, IE5, Netscape,
PageMill, Outlook 98, Systat, HomeSite and ArcInfo. Under Linux, I
run the following: StarOffice 5.1, Corel WordPerfect, Netscape, and
Gimp.
When I am using this machine, I am constantly multitasking with up to
5 different programs open and working at once. I do not do anything
like video editing/capture or play games. Majority of work is report
writing, data crunching, internet researching, and website
development.
The machine is O.K., but I have some spare $$$$ and want to build a
newer, faster system (within monetary constraints). What I need
advice on is what friggin' CPU to use. I have read all of the reviews
at Sharkys and Anadtech and Tom's, but I am still confused. It seems
that Celerons would be a economical way to go and leave me some money
for more RAM. From what I can tell a Celeron 433 would be similar to
a PII 400 and just a bit below a PIII 450. Is this right? These
tests were all done in controlled setups. WHAT ABOUT SOME FEEDBACK
FROM PEOPLE WHO USE THEIR BOXES IN THE CONDITIONS OUTLINED ABOVE??
WHAT REALLY WORKS?? I don't need the newest and fastest by any
stretch. Nor do I want to deal with overclocking or the PIII serial
number issue. I also want to stick with Intel so please no replies
lauding AMD.
I am considering the following:
Abit BX2 or BM6 Mobo
Intel PII 400 (Slot 1) or Celeron 466 (PPGA)
128-192MB PC1000 SDRAM
Two 6.4 GB HD (Most likely Western Digital)
8-16MB AGP video card (Matrox or Diamond)
Enlight 7237 250W case
Teac Floppy drive
CD-RW (maybe)
What do people think of the components outlined above for the way I
plan to use this box? I am just trying to build a responsive box that
doesn't slow TOO MUCH when I have multiple programs up and running and
that is reasonably fast without killing my checkbook.
Thanks for everyone's feedback. Please feel free to email at the
following:
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From: "waid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Genius GE2500III PCI Ethernet Card
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:37:05 +0200
Is this network card supported by Linux.
If so how do I get it to work, and what version does it need.
Just installed Linux, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Paul
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From: Gavin Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can only see 8Gb of 13Gb disk.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 19:40:12 +0000
In comp.os.linux.hardware Web Serf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
You could have been caught in the old 2GB 'limit' of ext2 filesystems.
And partitioned 4 primary/extended partitions of this size.
As you can have only 4 primary and/or extended partitions, fdisk would
be correct in informing that it could add no more.
For confirmation, could you post the output of:
fdisk -l
This should allow a much better diagnosis.
Gavin
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From: David Isaac Stclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux
Subject: Re: anyoen tried a BE6?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:35:25 -0400
Wahlau-eh the News-Man wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:18:05 -0400, "David St.Clair"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I'm using a BE6. It works in ATA33, but not ATA66 yet. I still got my
>>UDMA66 HD to work by using a 33 pin ribbon cable intstead of the 66 pin
>>cable it came with. Linux works after that. Very nice board.
> what distribution are you running? hmm.. stable board eh?
>
> regards,
> wahlau-eh.
>
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I'm running Redhat Lorax Beta right now, but it worked also with Redhat
6.0
Board is suppose to be stable. I hear its good for overclocking too, but
I havn't tried that. It comes with a temperature sensor.
--
_______________________________
David I. St.Clair
North Carolina State University
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From: Anthony Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [A] Trackman Marble FX
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:27:05 -0400
Question, Does it have all the features enabled like the scroll lock
button??
Thanks,
Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> since some folks told me it would work, I bought a Logitech Trackman Marble
> FX and it works just fine. Protocol Microsoft and all is set!
>
> Thanx everybody,
>
> Henrik Becker
>
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From: "David St.Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SV: Abit BE6 (ATA66) Question
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:28:59 -0400
I've tried that. It seems to boot the hpt366 stuff fine, but hangs on
detecting irq's. If anyone has got this working, let me know. I'm using a
Quantum Fireball Plus KA13.6
David St.Clair
ZiGzAg wrote:
> u can patch the 2.2.12 with support for the hpt366 controller (ata66)
> but, i haven't tried to boot off the controller into linux, but i have read
> hat u can give lilo instructions to access the controller ...
>
> chris
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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:08:35 -0500
Jeremy Fincher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
<large snip>
> >Most all C366 do 550, lots make it to 600 mhz and higher.
> That's not true. Many will not make it to 600mhz.
>
Since when is lots > (all -many) necessarily not true?
It may well be true that Many will not make it, but since
all > > many, lots make it may well be true.
One should be careful before pontificating.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Fincher)
Subject: Re: What to buy for kick-ass system upgrade ?
Date: 14 Sep 1999 19:18:33 GMT
>IMO, dual cpu's just aren't the way to go, and most that have
>'em (o/c'd anyhow) report the same performance levels as those with
>just one.
That's probably because those people are using a non-SMP OS, or simply don't
understand SMP.
I run windows NT on an Abit BP6 with dual celeron 366s overclocked to 550.
Now, I won't see a performance increase if I decide to run set@home. Nothing.
It will be just like if I only had one processor. But that's the thing: I have
two processors. I can run 2 instances of seti@home, and finish twice the work
units in the same amount of time. Now I see my performance doubled.
SMP makes multitasking better since separate processes most likely end up on
separate processors. Certain programs also run better even all by themselves.
Photoshop and quake3 both take advantage of dual processors.
>Most all C366 do 550, lots make it to 600 mhz and higher.
That's not true. Many will not make it to 600mhz.
Jeremy
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Have a good day, and good luck in your endeavors!
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:35:52 +0300
From: Uelo Mets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: UDMA problem? SOLVED! (No thanks to Maxtor)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <7qnlrk$oqc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Maxtor 91360U4 (13.6gig U/66), but it runs very s.l.o.w.l.y.....
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.61 seconds =79.50 MB/sec
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.26 seconds = 3.01 MB/sec
>
> (This drive is a U/66 drive attached to a U/33 MB-integrated controller;
> Debian Potato with 2.2.10 kernel.)
>
> The problem turned out to be a claimed interaction difficulty between
> the drive and the (Award) BIOS: the drive reports that it is U/66 on
Another possibility could be to get a recent BIOS from the MoBo
manufacturer site and flash it. This is what worked for my Chaintech
6BTM board (BX chipset) and Quantum CR disk (UDMA66).
This BIOS (IDE only) was in Autodetect mode and needed no settings.
Ylo Mets.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2/300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:57:22 GMT
It was: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:38:38 -0400 and with STARTLING insight,
"David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
posted "Re: AMD K6-2/300"
to "comp.os.linux.hardware" :
-->
-->
-->Jaakko Heikkila wrote:
-->>
-->> I am having problems running Linux (RedHat 5.2) with K6-2/300 and AOpen AP5T-3
-->> motherboard. Booting usually gives irq timeout errors, filesystems get corrupted
-->> and new installation hangs when it tries to read from cdrom. When my processor
-->> is manufactured if its date code is AFR? Is it possible I have a faulty K6?
-->
-->I've got the same MB and K6-2 300, but I've overclocked it to 333...
-->Slackwware was fine with it, RH 5.2 was fine with it and RH 6 is fine
-->with it. What bus speed are you running on the MB? The AP5T-3 pretty
-->much will not run well with anything over 66mhz Also, what BIOS do you
-->have? If you don't have 1.80, Linux cannot identify the CPU properly
IIRC, the AFR designation on the k6-2(300) means it tops out at 66mhz bus
speed. This is for the cpu, and would be true used on any motherboard.
OTOH, I had one of the non-bus-speed limited 300's and it was fast as any
procesor I've had and stable even at 100mhz fsb.... /ts
tenox @ home dat com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kesterson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is 128K ISDN hopeless?? Maybe not??
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:03:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:24:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kesterson)
wrote:
>
>I have a USR/3Com Courier I-Modem that I am trying to get running on a
>128K ISDN connection. It has been running fine for months on a 64K
>connection, but I can't make it do 128K no matter what I try.
OK, after contacting byterunner's tech support, I reconfigured the
jumpers on the byterunner card for "unix mode" and now I can establish
a connection with both B channels and the serial port at 230400 baud.
Present configuration is with:
setserial /dev/modem baud_base 115200 spd_vhi
The card is set to use 2X clock, so the connection actualy goes out at
230Kbaud (verified by an ATI4 in minicom).
So far so good. Now I can get connected and I can ping outside hosts
just fine. However, as soon as I move very much data across the
connection, it stops responding. I don't know what the magic number
of data bytes is, but I know usually pull up a web site before it
stops responding. It will pull a few graphics and part of the text,
then hang. Redialing the connection will cause the cycle to repeat.
Any ideas on that one?
=============================================================
Robert Kesterson visit http://www.robertk.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luckydaze1)
Subject: Re: SB PCI 64 and Suse 6.2
Date: 14 Sep 1999 18:12:32 GMT
>Subject: Re: SB PCI 64 and Suse 6.2
>From: Detlef Gaisser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 14 September 1999 08:44 AM EDT
>Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Luckydaze1 wrote:
>>
>> I'm a newbie and I need some help settings up my sound card. Can someone
>please
>> give exact steps on how to setup up the sb pci 64? I went into the
>conf.modules
>> file but don't know what lines to add to it or which module I should load
>for
>> it or even how to load the module. Thank you.
>Well its very simple.
>First of all you should know if you have a ES1370 or ES1371 soundchip.
>(written on the card)
>Then go to /etc/conf.modules
>change the lines
>alias char-major-14 off
>alias sound off
>alias midi off
>
>to
>
># alias char-major-14 off
># alias sound off
># alias midi off
>
>and
># alias char-major-14 es1370
>to
>alias char-major-14 es1370
>
>or the line containing es1371
>
>if you now start a mixer programm you should see
>via lsmod an output containing your soundchip and soundcore unter the
>modules-tab.
>
>Now it should be possible to hear all the good Zappa stuff on your
>computer.
>
>Best whishes
Thank you very much. I'm using the 1371
chip. Since I'm very new to all of this I'm still having trouble playing a
music CD. When I run CD player I get a "no CDDB entry" or "error getting CDDB"
what are these errors and how to enter them to get
a CD to play correctly? I tried to test a wav
file and still get no sound. What am I doing wrong? I really appreciate any
help you give me,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luckydaze1)
Subject: " No CDDB Entry" "Error Getting CDDB Entry" ???
Date: 14 Sep 1999 19:33:02 GMT
I have a SB PCI 64 and I'm running Suse 6.2 When I try to play a music CD I
get this error on the CD player. What are these errors and how do I correct
them?
I'm a newbie so please give me simple steps. Thank you very much.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Apache Digital - experience & opinions?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:07:07 GMT
Does anyone have any experience with Apache Digital computers, at
apache.com? Not related to the web server folks (although apache.com
uses the apache webserver) but the name makes usenet and web searches
for information on them difficult - I get inundated with hits about the
_other_ apache.
What I like about them is their system configurator. No mere tweaking
the RAM and CPU speeds on a largely fixed system. Here you pick all the
parts - motherboards (16 choices from 4 mfrs), chassis (32 choices),
power supply, etc. Links to the mfrs spec page on most things to
facilitate the very necessary research. You can't get much more control
short of building it yourself.
However while it's fairly easy to get info on all the parts, I still
lack outside info on the company. Do they assemble the stuff right?
How well do they sanity check what you asked for? Will they alert me if
I pick, say, a motherboard that doesn't fit well in the case I picked,
or a video card that isn't well supported under the OS I choose
(Linux)? Would they even know? And of course the usual questions that
apply to any OEM, like do they stand behind the machines, deal with
problems well, etc etc.
Any feedback is appreciated.
D. Mehrtens
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From: Bergeron Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Guillemot TnT2 16 Mo
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:07:15 +0200
What to think of this video card?
Any advice about buying a video card of the same price?
(ATI128-G400-Voodoo 3)
Thanks a lot...
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