Linux-Hardware Digest #779, Volume #12 Mon, 1 May 00 14:13:09 EDT
Contents:
setting up /Win after the fact? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!! (Mario Klebsch)
Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux. (Mun Sing)
Re: Linux Uses Less Power? ("Gabor Z. Papp")
Re: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux. ("Tim Prince")
Re: VGA Woes in X ("john.devoy")
Re: reliable cheap modems for linux? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E5NdRew?= yEonG)
SIIG PCI parallel Port (Ignacio Taboada <"i t a b o a d a "@ u p e n n 5 . h e p . u
p e n n . e)
Number Nine SR9 video card and X ("M.A. Reid")
Re: Best Linux server components questions (Dallas Times)
Re: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: VGA Woes in X (Tilman Kranz)
Re: setting up /Win after the fact? (Dances With Crows)
Re: SB Live help. (kricke)
Re: Newbie: Pls advise installing Dual boot Dual HD Mandrake 7 (Tilman Kranz)
IDE UDMA/33 woes... ("Justin R. Miller")
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (Michael Meissner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: setting up /Win after the fact?
Date: 1 May 2000 15:34:03 GMT
Hi, here is my situation:
* I partitioned my harddrive with Partition magic into two partitions.
* I installed Win2000, worked on it for a week and then it crashed and
I can't recover any of the data.
* Now I've installed RH6.2 on the other partition and would like to go
into the Win2000 partition and recover the data. I.e., I'd like to
set up the /Win directory in Linux.
* Then, I'd like to reinstall Win2000 back onto the other partition.
Can this be done? If so, can anyone give me some advice/tips?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 16:03:23 GMT
On Mon, 01 May 2000 10:02:13 -0400, Gary Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Michael O'Reilly wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is not a Linux specific question but I do have a dual boot
>> >> Win95/RH 6.1 system. I would like to add a CD-RW drive, and I'm
>> >> wondering what the pros and cons of IDE vs. SCSI drives are. Is there
>> >> any significant adavantage of one over the other?
>
>A couple folks have responded as though Michael asked about multiple
>drives on an interface. I believe he was asking which interface
>would be best for a dedicated CD-RW.
>
>I'm also currenly looking at the issue. One of the things that is swaying
>me towards SCSI is that linux (and other open unix products) support
>SCSI natively. As I understand it, if you want to use an IDE CD-RW
>interface, you have to tell linux that all your IDE interfaces are
>SCSI and use some type of translation software (which to me is spelled
>K-L-U-D-G-E).
If you're just going to be using low speed devices then Tekram
sells a $30 PCI that should fit the bill quite nicely for you.
Whether or not treating two classes of devices that are supposed
to act similarly is a kludge or not, it works well enough in
practice. There really are no significant constraints going one
way or the other with this.
>
>I looks to me like the Adaptec 2930 fits the application fairly well.
>It appears to be supported by linux and freeBSD. Its $99.00 on the
>Adaptec web site.
>
>Now all I have to do is find an external CD-RW to move amongst
>systems with the 2930's that I'm planning on buying.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mario Klebsch)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!!
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:12:43 +0200
Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc> writes:
>This is the output from lspci:
>00:0e.0 Class 0783: Syba Tech Ltd Multi-IO Card (rev 92) (prog-if 15)
> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
>ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
><TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
> Region 0: I/O ports at f800
>I have tried to configure this port as LPT2 by setting the IRQ to 9 and
>the IO to 0x278 in modules.conf.
I am not an expert on this topic, but why are you using 0x278 as
IO-Address?
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
> Region 0: I/O ports at f800
^^^^
It seems prety obvious, the I/O-ports are located at 0xf800. Since you
have tried to use 0xf800, my guess would be, that the port layout is
different that for a single parallel port. It seems to be a multi I/O
card. So you probably have some other ports there, too. They cannot
all occupy the I/O address 0xf800.
73, Mario
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Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mun Sing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
Subject: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux.
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 09:08:17 -0700
Hi guys,
I need some help from the pro. out there.
I bought a CALDERA Linux last week and I having problem getting the
modem up.
It seems that Linux is not able to detect the hardware and I am not able
to get anything from the Compaq site.
Not I am not able to get any support from CALDERA too.....
It is a CONEXANT HCF v90 56K Data Fax PCI Modem.... and don't see there
is any device drivers in the Kernel too.
Please if any one can provide me some information of how to get my modem
to work.
Thank you,
Mun Sing
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From: "Gabor Z. Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Uses Less Power?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 16:22:17 GMT
* Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| In the BIOS, setting things up the CPU got hot very quickly, so I only dared
| spend about 30 secs in the BIOS at a time. In Linux the CPU stayed cool and
| for simple stuff like reading e-mail etc. the temperature was stable enough not
| to need the fan.
I run all of my K6-2 350 CPUs without fan with linux. Also
without powersupply fans.
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From: "Tim Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
Subject: Re: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux.
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 09:39:13 -0700
I have assumed that one of the reasons for configuring boxes with modems for
which there are no linux drivers is to make sure that the box builder
doesn't have to support linux. My wife wanted to be sure I didn't try linux
or W2K on her box, so she has an HCF etc.
"Mun Sing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi guys,
>
> I need some help from the pro. out there.
> I bought a CALDERA Linux last week and I having problem getting the
> modem up.
> It seems that Linux is not able to detect the hardware and I am not able
> to get anything from the Compaq site.
> Not I am not able to get any support from CALDERA too.....
> It is a CONEXANT HCF v90 56K Data Fax PCI Modem.... and don't see there
> is any device drivers in the Kernel too.
> Please if any one can provide me some information of how to get my modem
> to work.
>
> Thank you,
> Mun Sing
>
>
>
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From: "john.devoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VGA Woes in X
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 17:43:26 +0100
Isn't 800x600 with 256 colours the limit of VGA? to go higher you need SVGA
support.
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 04:03:13 +0800
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E5NdRew?= yEonG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: reliable cheap modems for linux?
any external modems will do. good luck.
Rob Clark wrote:
> In article <8e7pb4$r2b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> god-eater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Hello, I'm looking for recommendations on reliable internal/external
> >modems for use with Linux. I have many friends with "winmodems" and
> >I'd like to be able to recommend a decent replacement, *price* being
> >the driving factor, so that they can use Linux as well.
>
> Please see:
>
> for mail-order
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html
>
> for retail stores
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/rg/
>
> Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
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From: Ignacio Taboada <"i t a b o a d a "@ u p e n n 5 . h e p . u p e n n . e
Subject: SIIG PCI parallel Port
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:49:43 -0400
Hi,
I have a PC running RH 6.1 (2.2.12). I'd like to know if somebody
has managed to make the Siig PCI parallel Port add-on board work.
In windoze this port is lpt2 and has i/o 0x278 and 0x678 (I thought
it should have only one i/o address ???) and uses interrupt 10.
Thanks for your help.
Ignacio Taboada
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From: "M.A. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Number Nine SR9 video card and X
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 12:35:02 -0400
I have an Aptiva 2171 55U (PIII 500, 96 MB RAM). I've installed
Mandrake 6.5, which works fine, but am having lots of trouble running X
windows. I can get it to start, and can use it for a session, but when I
try to exit from X (i.e. to switch to a text window) my monitor starts to
flash, the power indicator blinks and I can't regain control of the
machine. I am reasonably sure that this is a video card problem--I have a
Number Nine SR9 with the Savage4 chipset, which seems to be only minimally
supported. I have installed XFree86 3.3.6, which was supposed to help,
but did not. None of the video card manufacturer, IBM, nor the Mandrake
help people can help me. If anyone here can be of assitance, I would
appreciate it.
Thanks!
Mike
Michael Reid, M.Sc. student, Astrophysics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton ON, Canada L8S 4L8
Office: ABB 350 | Phone: 905-525-9140 ext. 27348
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From: Dallas Times <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Linux server components questions
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:17:09 -0700
What kind of servers are you looking to run?
What kind of environment (web, office, etc.)?
Web servers, file servers, print servers?
As far as maintainability, windows-type interface is not necessarily the
easiest to maintain (since a lot of GUI interfaces may throw in extra stuff
not really needed), but where available, it's provided by X-windows. (BTW -
most configuration is done via shell or telnet session; you don't even have
to be at the console for the machine for this part). The major part would be
the installation, but after the installation phase, you can pretty much
forget the machine unless you have a power outage or simlar problem.
I can't remember exactly offhand where I read it from, but there are several
linux sites that have excellent articles on linux servers (hardware and
software issues). You may try browsing them for more specific information.
- Ken
Len wrote:
> We may be interested in custom building a couple linux servers. I'm in
> need of some help from people that are familiar with linux server
> hardware.
>
> What components work well for you? As in motherboard, CPU, hard drive
> (ultradma or SCSI?), SCSI card, video card, NICs, and tape backup drive?
>
> We are looking to build a linux server that is easy to maintain and
> therefore, we would like a windows type of operating system. Which
> software do you recommend we install?
>
> I posted another question regarding RAQ 3's vs. PC hardware, but if we
> don't get the RAQs, we will have to determine what hardware to purchase
> for our linux servers.
>
> Also, should what is the difference between AMD and Intel. Should we
> get AMD processors or do we get Intel procesosrs? My supervisor wants a
> very fast processor even though I'm told it really isn't necessary. I
> heard K6-450 or 500's are good, but I'm also wondering about Athlon or
> should we just get a PIII.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux.
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:20:45 GMT
Did you check out :
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
?
(I think it says HCF is not supported)
-Raphy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mun Sing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I need some help from the pro. out there.
> I bought a CALDERA Linux last week and I having problem getting the
> modem up.
> It seems that Linux is not able to detect the hardware and I am not
able
> to get anything from the Compaq site.
> Not I am not able to get any support from CALDERA too.....
> It is a CONEXANT HCF v90 56K Data Fax PCI Modem.... and don't see
there
> is any device drivers in the Kernel too.
> Please if any one can provide me some information of how to get my
modem
> to work.
>
> Thank you,
> Mun Sing
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Tilman Kranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VGA Woes in X
Date: 1 May 2000 17:35:44 GMT
Bede McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've dried inserting my own modelines but when i reboot the
> x86config file just restores itself to its default ones.
Greetings,
have a look at my "Screen" section:
# -------- /etc/X11/XF86Config excerpt ------
# The Colour SVGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# some other stuff ...
DefaultColorDepth 32
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# -------- /etc/X11/XF86Config stop ------
You will have to insert/enable defined modes into Subsection
"Display" to make use of them.
Greetings,
Tilman.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: setting up /Win after the fact?
Date: 01 May 2000 13:57:32 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1 May 2000 15:34:03 GMT, Peter Bismuti
<<8ek85b$kc2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hi, here is my situation:
>
>* I partitioned my harddrive with Partition magic into two partitions.
>* I installed Win2000, worked on it for a week and then it crashed and
> I can't recover any of the data.
>* Now I've installed RH6.2 on the other partition and would like to go
> into the Win2000 partition and recover the data. I.e., I'd like to
> set up the /Win directory in Linux.
>* Then, I'd like to reinstall Win2000 back onto the other partition.
>
>Can this be done? If so, can anyone give me some advice/tips?
Maybe, and that's a *BIG* maybe. What type of partition did you install
Lose2K onto? FAT32 or NTFS? If it's NTFS, What you'd probably need to do
is compile NTFS support into the kernel or as a module. See the URL
at the end of this msg. for help on that if you need it. Since you're
recovering data, the relatively safe Read-Only support will be what you
want. Then mount the Lose2K partition with the following commands:
# mkdir /mnt/lose
# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/lose -o ro
You should be able to see the filesystem under /mnt/lose then. If the
filesystem was FAT32, then substitute "vfat" for "ntfs" in the above
commands. Copy all the data you want to save onto your Linux partition.
THen make a backup copy of the drive's MBR and partition table with the
command
# dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsector.raw bs=512 count=1
so when Lose2K br3aks your MBR, you can get it back if you need to.
Reinstall Lose2K. Hope whatever happened doesn't happen again. Good
luck...
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: kricke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live help.
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:59:59 GMT
Jonathan Bertsch wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting my SB Live card to run on Mandrake-Linux
> version 7, I have the driver, but all the support documents are not very
> good. Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
goto http://www.linuxnewbie.org and check the links on the right side there
have sth about sbelive setup
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From: Tilman Kranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Pls advise installing Dual boot Dual HD Mandrake 7
Date: 1 May 2000 17:45:45 GMT
Michael Badt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Please advise regarding:
> 1. Should I format/partition my new HD before installing Linux
> (using what fdisk?) or can I just proceed with my "virgin" HD?
You can and should during installation.
> 2. Should I install Linux (recommended Mandrake Mode) first and
> partition/format the rest (of the HD) under Win98 later (as Windows
> does not recognize Linux partitions will it not "run-over" my Linux
> partition)? Or shall I partition Win BEFORE installing Windows?
If you have no partition to install on, you cannot install
Linux. Therefore, partition your new sec.master.HD during
Mandrake install. Create windows partitions as suitable
but do not format them (I don't think that mandrake install
can create vfat filesystems at all). You should do this step
later on using Win95 FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM, both included
in a standard Windows installation.
Make sure, dos fdisk does not rewrite your MBR. You will not be able
to restore it and cannot boot into linux anymore unless using
secondary boot media like a boot floppy or a bootable cdrom.
> 3. Assuming I'll use Mandrake's (graphical) DrakX, does it
> recognize TWO HDs and will it enable me (under Recommended mode) to
> pick which HD/partition to use for Linux and its swap?
I prefer the console fdisk tool for partitioning. :)
Greetings,
Tilman.
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From: "Justin R. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE UDMA/33 woes...
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 18:01:53 GMT
Hey all,
I've posted a couple times here regarding some UDMA/33 instabilities, as
well as gone through many a mailing list and hung around in IRC as well,
but I haven't really gotten any info that I hadn't already seen.
So...
Does anyone know of some way to test UDMA/33 on a system outside of
Linux? Perhaps like a MS-DOS tool or something like that. I don't have
Windows on my machine, plus I wouldn't trust that anyway as I've heard
the vendors hack their drivers to work. What I'm trying to determine is
if it's Linux support that's flaky or perhaps my motherboard or other
hardware. Thanks for any leads.
Justin
P.S. I can once again give the details of my problem if anyone would
like to try to help, or you could look back in this newsgroup.
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Subject: Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 May 2000 14:02:50 -0400
Gary Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now all I have to do is find an external CD-RW to move amongst
> systems with the 2930's that I'm planning on buying.
Or find an external case that an internal CD-RW fits into. Dirt Cheap has a
case for $75 (you would need a Centronics->SCSI2 cable to connect to the
2930's). You might look into a scsi frame for each of your computers, and a
removable module for the CD-RW, since it would save having to find a plug and
carry cables, etc. I have a 2930 on my system and it uses the standard Adaptec
drivers.
--
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PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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