Linux-Hardware Digest #839, Volume #12 Thu, 11 May 00 01:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: dds-1 VS dds-3 (Michael Meissner)
modem woes for redhat, desperate for some help (The Red Knight)
Re: RH6.1 on ExtremeRaid 1100 (Cokey de Percin)
COM1 not recognized (Adrian Hoe)
SBlive + athlon? (Brett Hall)
Re: inkjet printers and postscript (Mark Bratcher)
Re: modem woes for redhat, desperate for some help (Mark Bratcher)
Automatic scripting for serial device (Christopher Massa)
Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM? ("Darrell Earnshaw")
IBM = Maxtor ? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Hard drive problem (Steve Dunbar)
Trident Cyberblade 17 AGP 3D graphics notebook card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Maxtor 40G IDE w/o BIOS support (Vince Waldon)
Re: inkjet printers and postscript (Steve Dunbar)
Re: can only see 31G of 40G hard drive (Vince Waldon)
Re: booting from zip disk (macabre)
Re: Cisco 605 PCI DSL modem (macabre)
Re: portable CDRW (macabre)
Re: Linksys NC100 not working (macabre)
Re: boca NIC (macabre)
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Subject: Re: dds-1 VS dds-3
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 May 2000 22:25:51 -0400
"Daniel Gélinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have write a lot of cassettes backup with a 2Gb SCSI
> tape backup in dds-1 format, no datcompression.
>
> Now I have a new SCSI 24Gb tape backup dds-3 with
> datcompression. I can't read the old cassettes on my new tape backup!
In general yes. I think I had 1-2 tapes that DDS-3 tape drive wouldn't read,
thatn the DDS-1 drive had no problems with (of course the tape may have been
bad, and since I don't believe the Archives that I had as DDS-1 drives had
error correction).
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
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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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:32:30 -0500
From: The Red Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: modem woes for redhat, desperate for some help
I am really hoping someone can help me out with this, as I am a newbie
to LINUX/UNIX.
I have an external 33.6 newcom modem on ttyS1. I am running Redhat Linux
6.2.
I tried using GNOME's RH PPP dialer, and first it didn't see my modem,
but I was able to choose what ttyS it was on, and it walked me through
the rest. When I went to activate it, the TR light on the modem keeps
going on and off, so I know it sees it, but I don't get a dial tone or
dialing. Here is the PPP stuff from my /var/log/messages:
ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttyS1 at 57600
ifup-ppp: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
WvDial: WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
WvDial: Initializing modem
WvDial: Sending: ATZ
WvDial: Modem not responding
pppd[708]: Connect script failed
pppd[708]:Exit
So I thought that maybe RH PPP didn't make the link to /dev/modem, so I
ran modemtool and set the link with that and tried again, this time
using the "ifup ppp0" but got the same results.
I also added/modified the following files: /etc/ppp/scripts
/etc/ppp/options and /etc/resolve.conf
I know the modem works with Redhat as I had it set up with redhat 5.2
but did an upgrade to 6.0 and got the problems I am having now, so I
upgraded again to 6.2.
Since the failure is it not getting a response from my modem, I am
guessing (hoping?) that it is something really simple that I didn't do.
Oh, I also checked it with an old external 14.4 to see if my modem
wasn't working but got the exact same thing.
If someone knows how to fix this or steer me in the right direction, I
would greatly appreciate it, I want to get off Windows!
Thanks from a linux newbie
~The Red Knight
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.1 on ExtremeRaid 1100
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 02:37:55 GMT
macabre wrote:
>
> http://www.utter-macabre.com
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Lee) wrote:
> > I am building the following web server and would like some comment
> > from anyone with a similar setup.
> >
> > Supermicro PIIIDME
> > Dual P3 667MHz
> > 512MB P133 SDRAM
> > Mylex ExtremeRAID 1100 16MB
> > Seagate 9.1 Cheetah 10000rpm (3 drive RAID 5)
> > Seagate Scorpion 24 STD224000N-SB
> >
> > Plan to run RedHat 6.1
> >
> > Is it true that RH will not boot from the Raid drives?
Nope, see below
> > Do I need to have a EIDE drive to boot from?
Nope again see below
> > Can I connect the DAT drive to one of the ExtremeRAID's scsi channels
> > or do I need to get the PIIIDM3 or PIIIDM6 instead?
> >
> > Are there actually any advantages for me to use the DM3 or DM6 instead
> > of the DME in this particular system?
Can't answer that
> > Is the PIIIDME a good choice or is it still going thru teething problems?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any input.
> >
> > Derek
I'm running a AcceleRaid 250, which is a little brother of the 1100,
set up in RAID 5 with 3x9.1 10k (IBM) drives and I had no problems at
all installing/booting off it. I did make a seperate /boot partition,
but with the newest Lilo, you may not need to do that. I have all my
'slow' devices Cdrom, Cdwriter, HP DDS3 tape and an HP T4000/8 on a
seperate controller. Note that you will have to >disable< the bios of
your second controller regardless of whether it's built in or add on.
I personally prefer an additional card rather that having it on the
mother board, but that's personal and either works fine. Also note
that the device names are different ie: /dev/rd/c0d0 for the first
logical drive. I suggest reading the Docs in the source for more info.
Best
Cokey
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From: Adrian Hoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COM1 not recognized
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 02:27:42 GMT
Hello,
I am running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 on Toshiba Satellite 2520CDS with
96MB RAM and a Xircom 56K fax/modem card.
My Linux recognized the Xircom 56K card modem in slot 0 and attached as
ttyS1. I would like to connect my PalmPilot via COM1 or ttyS0 but my
system does not recognized ttyS0. It gives "Cannot connect to pilot.
(check pilot path)" error. I have my pilot path points to /dev/ttyS0 and
the access privilege is correct.
Here's my rc.serial:
#! /bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
# Initializes the serial ports on your system
#
# Distributed with setserial version 2.14
#
# To activate this script
# 1. edit this file `rc.serial' to reflect your needs/hardware
# 2. add a hash-character `#' to the beginning of the next line
#exit 0
# to *enable* this script! (Or remove that character to *disable* it
!)
# Configuration part
# Standard flags you want your serial devices to have
# Examples: SAK, pgrp_lockout, session_lockout
STD_FLAGS="session_lockout"
SETSERIAL=/sbin/setserial
WILD=false
SUMMARY=true
# Variables & Functions
FailCnt=0
CmdCnt=0
SetSerial() {
local r
CmdCnt=$[ $CmdCnt + 1 ]
${SETSERIAL} "$@"; r=$?
[ $r != 0 ] && FailCnt=$[ $FailCnt + 1 ]
return $r
}
# new style booting
export SVIBooter=/sbin/booter
if [ -x $SVIBooter ]&& $SVIBooter test; then
exec - > /dev/tty10 2>&1
SVIBooter=booter
$SVIBooter list "rc.serial rc.serial"
$SVIBooter add_menu "BLANK2"
$SVIBooter add_menu "T2 Confiuration of Serial Ports:"
$SVIBooter add "wild Wild interrupt detection"
$SVIBooter add "automatic Automatic configuration"
$SVIBooter add "manual Manual configuration"
$SVIBooter add "summary Summary extraction"
$SVIBooter end
$SVIBooter activate "rc.serial"
# FIXME: this is only a starting point to visualize in which part
# a machine-freeze occured...
# Neither are there enough checks for return-values, nor checks, if
# anything is run at all! (Probably this is best solved with clever
# configuration assistance from COAS sometime RSN! :*)
else
SVIBooter=false
fi
echo -n "Configuring serial ports...."
$SVIBooter item wild
# Do wild interrupt detection
#
if ${WILD}; then
SetSerial -W /dev/ttyS0
fi
r=skip;[ $CmdCnt = 0 ]||{ r=ok;[ $FailCnt = 0 ]||r=fail; }; $SVIBooter
$r
###############################################################
#
# AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION
#
# Uncomment the appropriate lines below to enable auto-configuration
# of a particular board. Or comment them out to disable them....
#
# NOTE! Although the automatic configuration is enabled by default,
# I strongly suggest that you comment out this section and use the
# manual configuration section instead. It's more work to set up, but
# it's more reliable.
#
###############################################################
$SVIBooter item automatic
FailCnt=0; CmdCnt=0
# Do AUTOMATIC_IRQ probing
#
AUTO_IRQ=auto_irq
# These are the standard COM1 through COM4 devices
#
# If you have an internal modeme with a Rockwell Chipset, add a
"skip_test"
# to the /dev/ttyS3 line below. (It's not added by default because it
will
# screw up people with 8514 displays).
#
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS0 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS1 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS3 ${AUTO_IRQ} autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
....
r=skip;[ $CmdCnt = 0 ]||{ r=ok;[ $FailCnt = 0 ]||r=fail; }; $SVIBooter
$r
###############################################################
#
# MANUAL CONFIGURATION
#
# If you want to do manual configuration of one or more of your
# serial ports, uncomment and modify the relevant lines.
#
###############################################################
$SVIBooter item manual
FailCnt=0; CmdCnt=0
# These are the standard COM1 through COM4 devices
#
SetSerial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550 port 0x3F8 irq 4 ${STD_FLAGS}
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16450 port 0x3F8 irq 4 ${STD_FLAGS}
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS1 uart 16450 port 0x2F8 irq 3 ${STD_FLAGS}
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16450 port 0x3E8 irq 4 ${STD_FLAGS}
#SetSerial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16450 port 0x2E8 irq 3 ${STD_FLAGS}
r=skip;[ $CmdCnt = 0 ]||{ r=ok;[ $FailCnt = 0 ]||r=fail; }; $SVIBooter
$r
echo "done."
###########################################################
#
# Print the results of the serial configuration process
#
###########################################################
$SVIBooter item summary
FailCnt=0; CmdCnt=0
if [ -n "$SUMMARY" ]; then
SetSerial -bg /dev/ttyS?
if [ '/dev/ttyS??' != /dev/ttyS?? ]; then
SetSerial -bg /dev/ttyS??
fi
fi
r=skip;[ $CmdCnt = 0 ]||{ r=ok;[ $FailCnt = 0 ]||r=fail; }; $SVIBooter
$r
$SVIBooter complete "rc.serial"
=================== end of rc.serial ================
And this is my /proc/tty/driver/serial:
serinfo:1.0 driver:4.27
0: uart:16550 port:3F8 irq:4 tx:0 rx:0 CTS|DSR|CD|RI
1: uart:16550A port:2F8 irq:3 baud:9600 tx:498021 rx:2357282
RTS|CTS|DTR|DSR|CD
2: uart:unknown port:3E8 irq:4
3: uart:unknown port:2E8 irq:3
Can anybody please help?
Thank you.
--
Adrian BY, Hoe
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From: Brett Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBlive + athlon?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:42:41 -0700
I'm looking for a new sound card after experiencing much grief with my
monster sound mx300 on my new athlon system (hard locks computer after a
few seconds of sound, tried switching slots, hacked drivers, etc to no
avail). I'm looking at the sb live value but wanted to make sure that
I'm not going to have the same problems with it that I'm having with my
current sound card. So any comments on using the sb live in an athlon
system (epox motherboard with via kx133 chipset)?
-brett
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: inkjet printers and postscript
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:45:40 -0400
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <glgS4.443$p92.157@firefly>,
> "Warren B. Hapke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Rhodri Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >: I am wanting to buy a printer to use with my linux box at home to print
> >: postscript figures. Unfortunately a laser printer is too expensive.
> >: According to the Printer HOWTO one can use an inkjet printer and send
> >: postscript to it via Ghostview. Does anyone have experience of doing this,
> >: and know that it works?
> >
> > Look at this site for information on Linux-compatible printers:
> >
> > http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
> >
> > In particular, there's a Lexmark printer recommended at that site
> > that's available at buy.com for less than $100.
>
> Actually, I just checked, and the Lexmark Optra Color 40 (the printer to
> which you're referring) is no longer listed on buy.com's site. They had a
> limited number available from their "clearance" section; I guess they've
> sold out. :-( It's a good printer, though. It might still be available in
> clearance bins somewhere else.
>
Try www.egghead.com
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem woes for redhat, desperate for some help
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:50:54 -0400
The Red Knight wrote:
>
> I am really hoping someone can help me out with this, as I am a newbie
> to LINUX/UNIX.
> I have an external 33.6 newcom modem on ttyS1. I am running Redhat Linux
> 6.2.
> I tried using GNOME's RH PPP dialer, and first it didn't see my modem,
> but I was able to choose what ttyS it was on, and it walked me through
> the rest. When I went to activate it, the TR light on the modem keeps
> going on and off, so I know it sees it, but I don't get a dial tone or
> dialing. Here is the PPP stuff from my /var/log/messages:
> <snip>
Sounds to me like, for some reason, Linux isn't seeing your serial port
ttyS1.
Did you check /var/log/messages to be sure it identified it? or check
/proc/ioports.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Christopher Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Automatic scripting for serial device
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 23:17:15 -0400
Hello all,
I have Linux installed on an AT&T laptop that I am using to communicate
with a hardware device.
I am able to communicate with the device through minicom.
What I want to do is set up a script so that Linux will send a request
to the serial device say every hour.
I also want the script to be on the "lookout" if the serial device
reports back an error message to send a command to the device.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Christopher Massa
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Darrell Earnshaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Driver for Panasonic/MKE CDROM?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 03:18:06 GMT
Yes, quite correct Tim. I actually did use 0X250 - it was a typo. Sorry.
I gave up in the end and acquired an IDE CDROM. Hopefully (when I have time
to fit it), the problem will disappear.
Thanks anyway.
-- Darrell.
Tim Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It's been years since I've used one of these. A couple things occur
though:
>
> 1. You say that the CT1810 card is set for IO address of 0x230 but you
later
> say that you've tried to load the module with "linux sbpcd=0x250,1". Why
are
> you using 250 here instead of 230?
>
> 2. The second parameter you mention (,1) represents the type of CD
connected
> where 0=LaserMate, 1=SB, 2=Soundscape, 3=Teac16bit. I remember having to
cycle
> through the CD types until I found one that worked.
>
>
> Darrell Earnshaw wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have recently installed RH60 on an old Pentium system that has a
Panasonic
> > CR563B CDROM, which in turn uses a Create CT1810 interface card. (The
CDROM
> > is not IDE, alas.) The jumpers on the CT1810 card are set to the default
> > address of 230 (JP1).
> >
> > When I initially installed Linux, I selected CDROM type of
"SoundBlaster",
> > and the boot diskette obviously found a suitable driver, because the
rest of
> > the installation worked directly from the RH CDROM without problem.
However,
> > now that Linux is installed, I cannot find a driver that wil allow me to
> > mount the CDROM. All documentation seems to suggest that the SBPCD
driver is
> > the one to use, but this driver does not seem to recognize the device.
(When
> > I issue the command: "mount -t iso9660 /dev/sbpcd /mnt/cdrom", all I get
is
> > a couple of messages about scanning for certain devices, followed by a
> > failure to locate a suitable device. Likewise, issuing the following
command
> > "linux sbpcd=0x250,1" to the Lilo BOOT: command doesn't seem to make any
> > difference.)
> >
> > I've tried posing the problem on the Red Hat Installation mail reflector
> > without any success. Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Darrell.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: IBM = Maxtor ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 03:56:23 GMT
I am in the midst of replacing a WD 5400rpm drive (relatively new) with
IBM 7200 rpm drive, due to subtle corruption on the WD. I find I now
own a Maxtor instead, despite what the box says. Nothing against
Maxtor really:
/dev/hdc:
Model=Maxtor 51369U3, FwRev=DA620CQ0, SerialNo=K3H2GVEC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=26520480
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4
My big disappointment is that it appears noticably slower with 'hdparm':
[root@feenix /root]# hdparm -t /dev/hda (WD 5400 master on IDE0)
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.39 seconds = 18.88 MB/sec
[root@feenix /root]# hdparm -t /dev/hdc (Maxtor/IBM 7200 alone on IDE1)
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.51 seconds = 14.19 MB/sec
Kernel 2.2.15 SMP on Abit BP6 with 128M, both with identical hdparm
settings and BIOS settings. The WD is considerably cheaper as well. I'm
a little miffed ATM.
Anyone with firsthand experience of both drive mfgs? This WD is the
second one I've had problems with, so I was hoping for something better,
and willing to pay extra.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard drive problem
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:21:05 -0700
"Steven M. Duhaime" wrote:
> ...
> He upgraded his HD to a
> 20gig drive just the other day. His bios only supports 8gig drives. He
> can boot windoze with some sort of bios extension program that resides
> in the MBR. My question is whether it is still possible to install Linux
> on this drive. Can he just insall in on the bottom 8gig?
...
See <http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html>.
-- Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Trident Cyberblade 17 AGP 3D graphics notebook card
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:13:43 GMT
I can't get this card to work with XF 3.3.6, XF 4.0, AcceleratedX's
demo or anything. It is in an HP Pavilion N3215 and I can't even get
a display at all. I called HP and they said it was a "Cyberblade 17"
like their web site says. I see a Cyberblade i7 on Trident's site but
no mention of the "17". I don't know what to think except for the sad
reality that the chipset is simply not supported yet. I'd hate to
have to install 98 for a month or so while I waited on drivers for
this chipset.
Has *anyone* had any experience with these new chipsets on the HP
Pavilion series? They used to have the SMI LynxE chipset which was
(finally) supported. As soon as they get support for that, they
switch on us.
Thx in advance for any help...
benster
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From: Vince Waldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maxtor 40G IDE w/o BIOS support
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:29:56 -0600
I had the same problem... formats and mounts Ok, but touch it with any file
and fsck throws a wobblie.
After sweating out various combinations of heads, sectors, etc. , and
turning off the drive at the BIOS level, I thought: what about the kernel?
Sure enough, the notes for 2.2.15 say "fixes support for large disks".
Upgraded the kernel to 2.2.15 and it's working perfectly now.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have tried the same trick here, and it *appears* to work, i.e. it sees
> the entire disk and mounts correctly.
>
> *BUT* if you fsck the disk, all hell breaks loose: it sees duplicate
> blocks all over the place. Has anyone had the same problem ?
>
> The problem is, Linux filesystem is complete crap, 'fsck' is complete
> crap, and century-old-technology-BIOS is complete crap, so i don't know
> who to believe here... :-(
>
> In article <3911078e.104639492@news-server>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tiklmelmo) wrote:
> > Paul: I love you man!
> > the halving cylinders/doubling heads thing worked like a CHARM
> > I've been messing with this crap for a week now :)
> >
> > On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 00:42:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul
> > Halliday) wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:52:44 -0600, Keith Rohrer
> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >: Does anyone know how to configure such a drive for its full
> capacity under
> > >: Linux without BIOS support? I have to install the capacity
> limiting jumper
> > >: or the machine will not boot, even with autodetction turned off or
> a
> > >: specific geometry and mode chosen.
> > >
> > >Are you running any other OS's on the same drive? If so, I don't have
> > >a solution (other than new motherboard or a hopeful BIOs upgrade).
> > >If Linux is the only OS then you can use the full 40Gb provided you
> > >are booting off another drive (alternatively a Linux boot floppy disk
> > >should do it).
> > >
> > >To be able to use the full 40Gb under Linux;
> > >1. Reposition the jumper on the Maxtor drive so the full drive
> > > capacity is accessible.
> > >2. _Remove_ the hard drive entry form the CMOS settings (i.e. Go in
> to
> > >
> > > the BIOS and tell it that there is no drive installed on the IDE
> > > channel). This should allow the machine to boot without problems.
> > >3. When in Linux (installation disk or off another hard drive), run
> > > fdisk and type in 'x' (followed by RETURN) to enter expert mode.
> > > Then half the number of cylinders and double the number of heads
> > > (type 'c', hit RETURN and enter 39703 and RETURN, then type 'h',
> > > hit RETURN and enter 32).
> > >4. You can now partition as much of the 40Gb as you want (just type
> > > 'r' and hit return to enter the normal, non-expert menu mode).
> > >
> > >Note that the original drive geometry is actually 79406 cylinders, 16
> > >heads and 63 sectors (as reported by Maxblast - at least for the
> > >7200RPM version I have). Linux (or maybe just fdisk) seems to have a
> > >16-bit limit on the number of cylinders, so you can't enter more than
> > >65,536, but the above instructions will let you use it without
> problem
> > >- working much like the EIDE solution used to solve the old 500Mb IDE
> > >limit. I've been able to partition it and save a few Gig of data to
> > >the last 38-40Gb of the hard drive without any problems, so it
> appears
> > >to be working. You can mount the partitions after a reboot without
> > >having to tell it anything about the new geometry (it gets it from
> the
> > >partition table).
> > >
> > >Personally I have problems because I want to run Win95 on it too (I
> > >need the space for all those computer games ;), so I'll probably buy
> > >one of those 1GHz overclocked Athlons for £200UKP and a new board (my
> > >current board is a TMC TI5VGF, 2Mb cache, 8 months old yet even the
> > >BIOS on that isn't capable of more than 32Gb and just locks up. :-(
> > >
> > >Paul.
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Steve Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: inkjet printers and postscript
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:39:02 -0700
Rod Smith wrote:
> In article <glgS4.443$p92.157@firefly>,
> "Warren B. Hapke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Rhodri Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >: I am wanting to buy a printer to use with my linux box at home to print
> >: postscript figures. Unfortunately a laser printer is too expensive.
...
> Actually, I just checked, and the Lexmark Optra Color 40 (the printer to
> which you're referring) is no longer listed on buy.com's site.
...
I just checked, and it is there now, at
<http://www.us.buy.com/clearance/product.asp?sku=70000013>, but they
only have 3 left. You'll need to add some additional RAM to it, but this
is probably one of the better printer choices available for use with
Linux. I have an Optra Color 45N (big brother of the 40) and its
Postscript output looks quite a bit better than I had been getting from
Ghostscript on my HP 890.
-- Steve
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From: Vince Waldon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can only see 31G of 40G hard drive
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:31:17 -0600
Nah, turns out it's the kernel. Upgrading from 2.2.9 to 2.2.15 fixed her right.
kevin metcalf wrote:
> check the faq, as far as I can tell, linux can't see more the 32 gb,
> even in LBA.
>
> macabre wrote:
> >
> > http://www.utter-macabre.com
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vince Waldon
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm running a ASUS P5A-B motherboard, RedHat 6.2, and attempting to add
> > > a Maxtor Diamondmax 40G hard drive. Unfortunately I can only get Linux
> > > to recognize 31G.
> > >
> > > The motherboard has been flashed and properly recognizes all 40G.
> > > hdparm reports CurCHS of 16383/16/63 and CurSects=66060037 with LBA on
> > > and LBAsects=80041248. fdisk recognizes the actual drive geometry
> > > (4982/255/63) which works out to the correct number of LBAsects, but
> > > after a mke2fs du reports only 31G on the drive.
> > >
> > > I've read thru the Large Drive HOWTO and tried all the tricks including
> > > removing the drive from the BIOS, trying NORMAL and LARGE along with
> > > LBA,etc. A scan thru deja suggests halving the cylinders and doubling
> > > the heads, but this is not possible as this drive has 255 heads already.
> > >
> > > I see lots of people talking about how they've added 10G to their
> > > system... anyone got any tricks on how ???
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance !!
> > >
> > > Vince
> > >
> > >
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: booting from zip disk
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:32:08 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frédéric
Petit) wrote:
> hi all, after reading the Bootdisk-HOWTO, I tried to make a bootable
> zip disk from a loop block device.
>
> My rootfilesystem is 14Mo, and I use a kernel made by a 'make zImage'.
>
> And I do :
>
> dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/zip bs=1k => N records
>
> then
>
> rdev /dev/zip /dev/zip
> rdev -R /dev/zip 0
>
> and finally
>
> dd if=rootfs of=/dev/zip bs=1k seek=N
>
> So, when I reboot from my zip drive, I have this :
>
>
> Loading............. <= OK ;-)
> Uncompressing Linux.
>
> invalid compressed format (err=1) :-(((
>
> What's up ?
>
> ThanX in advance.
>
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cisco 605 PCI DSL modem
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:32:23 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <1bdS4.4849$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andy Boyce"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Im interested in getting my Cisco 605 PCI DSL modem running under linux, but
> I have yet to see any drivers. If you have any information on how to make
> it work or why it wont please let me know.
>
> TIA
> Andrew Boyce
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: portable CDRW
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:32:37 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <8fbh8d$o42$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tim Shen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have just installed madrake 7.0 on my laptop which is great. I want to buy
> a portable (PCMCIA or Parallel) CDRW. The documentation says that almost all
> ATAPI CDRW will work on linux but is this also true of portable models?
>
> please help before I shell at the readies.
>
> Thanks.
>
> nothernewbie
>
>
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys NC100 not working
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:32:52 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <8camc9$gh6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I checked with Linksys and they told me the NC100 does NOT work with
> Linux.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: macabre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boca NIC
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:33:18 GMT
http://www.utter-macabre.com
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Herman Chen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone using BOCA-ISA 10-baseT NIC (NE2000 clone) with Linux? Any
> problems? loss packets?
>
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