Linux-Hardware Digest #855, Volume #12 Sun, 14 May 00 00:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: ecrix VXA-1 tape drive, experience reports? (John Hagen)
Re: Swapping HD on IDE problem! (John McKown)
Re: Help needed with sound (LhD Administrator)
Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed? (Hal Burgiss)
Linux install of IBM Valuepoint - HELP!! ("Terry Srader")
Re: Linux vs. CR(A,E,?)Y II (Steve Martin)
CD Music Problem (Anthony Ewell)
VIA Chipsets: which? (Mark Hawkes)
fixed modem woes, thanks to those who tried to help (The Red Knight)
sound card... (Aaron McGowan)
Re: sound card... ("Risto A. Paju")
Re: sound card... (Aaron McGowan)
LAN/modem combo card... (Aaron McGowan)
Re: sound card... ("Steven M. Duhaime")
some advice. ("Steven M. Duhaime")
Q&A from this NG 14 May ("K.Tsakaloglou")
Re: VIA Chipsets: which? (Doug Alcorn)
Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed? (Doug Alcorn)
Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed? (Hal Burgiss)
alsa and midiman dio2496 (Bryan)
Anyone using the Toshiba SD-R1002? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
via82cxxx_audio module loaded, but no sound (Doug Alcorn)
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:35:43 -0700
From: John Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ecrix VXA-1 tape drive, experience reports?
Volker Apelt wrote:
>
> Does anybody use a Ecrix VXA-1 tape drive?
> Do you recommend it ?
Yes! It's a very solid little drive.
> Compared to DAT tapes with comparable write speed, it seems to be overpriced,
> but their advertising states VXA technology is much more robust and
> reliable on restore because it is similar to DLT (as they say).
I have heard tales of DAT unreliability and fragility. No personal
experiences, but our sys admins at work hate DAT and think it's
unreliable. I decided to buy mine because of the performance and the abuse
case histories detailed on VXA's web site.
Someone posted a couple of months ago here and said they'd actually tried
the boiling/freezing/coffee immersion with their own VXA-1 and it worked
as advertised. I think it's a solid drive, just wouldn't want to willingly
try a restore off a previously submerged tape myself, if I can help it.
I'd like to preserve the heads as long as possible.
Check DejaNews to find that article.
> I am worried about the rotating head. Isn't it the main cause for
> restore failures with DAT tapes?
I don't know about that. No failures yet. It does make a noise that sounds
an awful lot like tape stretching on retension.. Tech support told me the
rotating head was scrubbing itself, nothing to worry about.
> How reliable is it's technology really?
Not qualified to comment on that either. I know that the tape is thicker
than DAT and that tape thickness is good. The packet write sold me as
well: I've been frustrated in the past by the need to restore a file that
was in a damaged frame. With the packet write feature, only the affected
file is lost, not the whole frame.
> ( data from a current magazine (ix 3/2000, page 84) )
> ####### VXA-1
> Drive: ~ 2000 DM internal
> SCSI-II
> linear recording, multi headed, rotating head
>
> write 2,3 MB/sec ~ 1GB in 7min 23sec (already compressed data)
> read 2,6 MB/sec
I've seen between 2.4 Mb/s on a 600 MB partition with dump and 3.3 Mb/s
with on a 1.2 MB partition (no compression at all, files or hardware).
Seems to stream better the larger the partition and file sizes. :-)
I have a Buslogic BT-948 host adapter and the VXA-1 is an external unit.
It functions *better* than advertised. I talked with Ecrix's tech support
and the Buslogic is not even the fastest adapter to use with this drive.
Buy an Adaptec for that; ask 'em which kind.
The only problem I had was figuring out the block size to use (64000), but
that's not the drive's fault. Ecrix's tech support was great (no 1 call
and that's it bullshit) and helped me tune my backups under Linux 'til I
could get it to stream.
PS. I hesitated long before buying this unit. I entered the contest on
Ecrix's web site and nothing. Then they emailed me and offered the drive
at 20% off. I had some spare cash from overtime, so I went for it. No
regret, save that I don't backup as much as I should..
Enter the contest and see if they don't discount it to you after 5-6
weeks. If you enter before the end of the month it might be much sooner
than that (they apparently do promotions at the end of the month).
HTH,
--
john hagen ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Swapping HD on IDE problem!
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 16:46:05 -0500
On Sat, 13 May 2000 20:11:37 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>sed's man page says that you can use any other character as divider as
>well (so that you don't have to escape the slashes). e.g:
>
>sed 's:/dev/hdc:/dev/hdb:g' <fstab >fstab.new
>
I totally agree. I tried 3 or four different ways and just never seemed to
get the syntax correct. I guess that the correct way was just too simple
for me <grin>. Where I went wrong was looking too closely at the man page.
What I say said:
\%REGEXT%
So I, like an idiot, kept starting all the commands with the \ character.
Needless to say, that didn't work. Thanks for a GOOD example!
John
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed with sound
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 22:26:14 GMT
In article <vVZS4.777$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Renee Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it has something to do with my IRQ. In Windows and DOS, my
> souncard works fine under IRQ 5, but in Linux, the soundcard wont work
> unless it is on IRQ7. What the hell is this? Why does linux insist
I use
> an incorrect IRQ?
It probably is... But remember that the IRQ is not
necessarily "incorrect", it's just that PnP or similar machinations set
it up differently under Linux and Windows. Try toggling the PnP
settings in your BIOS. If you have an IRQ conflict, try to get it
resolved by reserving some IRQ's or switching the card out of PnP mode.
--
LhD Administrator
Linux Hardware Database
http://www.linhardware.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 22:42:18 GMT
On Sat, 13 May 2000 18:39:53 GMT, Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>/dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.50 seconds = 11.64 MB/sec
Sux the big one. My Maxtor 7200 is a tad better. My WD 5400 is much
better than this in UDMA33 FWIW. As a matter of fact:
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.71 seconds = 11.21 MB/sec
This is a 2-3 year old WD 4.3 gig sharing a channel with another WD.
2X400 SMP BP6 with plain-jane 2.2.15. 2.3.x already has the latest ide
patches IIRC.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Terry Srader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux install of IBM Valuepoint - HELP!!
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 23:28:47 GMT
I have 5 IBM Valuepoint 486 pcs that i'm wanting to install linux on.
problem is that i have no cdrom drives for these machines. can anyone help
me to do "floppy"
install so i can ftp linux from 6.2 server?
also, i read somewhere that on install to the valuepoint pc, must tell linux
the type of hd or something like that??
any help is appreciated.
regards
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux vs. CR(A,E,?)Y II
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 23:32:15 +0000
I don't know what drugs you guys are on, but they must
be something special.
sin(0) = 0.
cos(0) = 1.
They teach this in junior high. Even I remember this.
BTW, what the heck does any of this have to do with Linux?
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 17:47:34 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Music Problem
Hi,
I am using red hat 6.0 and an ensoniq audio PCI card.
I can not get music CD's to play.
When I start xplaycd, everything seems to be working visually
(the time counter runs, the track indicator gets all the tracks
correct, etc.). X11amp works fine. My XFce noises all sound off
the way they should. Under Windows NT (this is a multiple boot
system) the CD-ROM plays music without problem.
Also, sometimes when I try to get the CD to play and loose
track of time, it will actually start playing. But, this anomoly
can take over an hour to occur.
Does anyone have any ideas what is going on and
how to fix it?
Many thanks,
--Tony
aewell @ gbis dot com (remove the spaces and replace "dot" with ".")
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From: Mark Hawkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA Chipsets: which?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:45:17 GMT
Apollo Pro 133A or KX133
Which is the least problematic chipset to get for Linux?
Any opinions gladly appreciated :-)
__________________________
Mark Hawkes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.luna.co.uk/~hawkesm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Red Knight)
Subject: fixed modem woes, thanks to those who tried to help
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:47:35 GMT
Just wanted to post (with windows no less) a thanks to the group for
those that tried to help. The problem was the data ribbon from my
motherboard to the serial interface, once I replaced it, it works like
a charm!
thanks again.
~The Red Knight
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From: Aaron McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound card...
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 20:57:45 -0400
to anyone who can help:
I have installed turbolinux workstation on my laptop computer and I'm
having no luck whatsoever with my sound card. I need to find a driver
that will work with an ESS solo 1 chip (supposedly SB pro compatible,
but I haven't had any luck with that driver). thanks in advance.
Aaron
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From: "Risto A. Paju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card...
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:03:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'SB compatible' cards are almost never hardware compatible, and the
apparent SB compatibility is achieved by a proprietary driver which, of
course, is only available for windoze. However, the latest stable kernel
(2.2.15) includes ESS Solo 1 support - do compile it with that module.
--
Risto A. Paju
http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which
divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being
correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough." - Niels Bohr
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From: Aaron McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card...
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:25:56 -0400
Risto,
thanks a lot! I am very new to linux, and now I will show my true
ignorance: I don't exactly know how to compile with a new kernel. I found
2.2.15 at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org but now that I have it I'm not sure what
to do with it.
Aaron
"Risto A. Paju" wrote:
> 'SB compatible' cards are almost never hardware compatible, and the
> apparent SB compatibility is achieved by a proprietary driver which, of
> course, is only available for windoze. However, the latest stable kernel
> (2.2.15) includes ESS Solo 1 support - do compile it with that module.
>
> --
> Risto A. Paju
> http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
>
> "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which
> divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being
> correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough." - Niels Bohr
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From: Aaron McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LAN/modem combo card...
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:29:03 -0400
to anyone that can help:
I'm using netscape on my accursed windows98 at the moment only because I
am finding that my combination LAN/modem card (made by Actiontec, or
whatever they used to call themselves) won't work under linux. if
anyone knows of a driver for such a beast, I would appreciate the help.
Aaron
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From: "Steven M. Duhaime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card...
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:19:21 -0400
Aaron McGowan wrote:
>
> Risto,
>
> thanks a lot! I am very new to linux, and now I will show my true
> ignorance: I don't exactly know how to compile with a new kernel. I found
> 2.2.15 at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org but now that I have it I'm not sure what
> to do with it.
>
> Aaron
If you go to www.linux.org and hit the support button you will find a
link to many How-To's. There is a kernel how to that will get on the
right path.
steve...
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From: "Steven M. Duhaime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: some advice.
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:25:22 -0400
I don't know very much about graphics cards and such, so I could use
some advice. I have a 19" monitor. I'd like to run it at resolution
greater than 1024x768 with "True Color" 32bpp I think it is. Even 24bpp
would suit me just fine. Could someone suggest a video card which is at
least moderately supported by Linux? I've considered the GeForce 256,
but I don't think I need 32 meg of ram, and I'd like to have somehting
with a bit more support. Besides I only have 2x agp and I don't think
I'd be able to take full advantage of the 256.
Does someone have a video card they are happy with that does these
things?
steve...
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q&A from this NG 14 May
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 05:15:42 +0300
Questions and answers from this newsgroup (archived by subject) can be found
at http://server.hellug.gr/LUGistics/en/pub/QA_articles_main.php3
Links suggested in those messages are categorized at
http://links.hellug.gr
K.Tsakaloglou
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: VIA Chipsets: which?
From: Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:28:47 GMT
Mark Hawkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Apollo Pro 133A or KX133
> Which is the least problematic chipset to get for Linux?
>
I have just gotten a mobo with the kx133. The only problem I have had
is the pickiness of the mobo for memory. I had to upgrade from
generic pc133 memory to a name brand. I'm also having some
performance problems with my udma-66 maxtor drive. I don't know if it
is the drive or the ide controller.
--
(__) Doug Alcorn | program == list of computer instructions
oo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | firmware == program that is not user modifiable
|_/ http://www.lathi.net | software == program that a user can modify
Cincinnati, OH | "If you don't have the source, it's not software"
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Subject: Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed?
From: Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 02:26:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) writes:
> On Sat, 13 May 2000 18:39:53 GMT, Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >/dev/hda:
> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.50 seconds = 11.64 MB/sec
>
> Sux the big one. My Maxtor 7200 is a tad better. My WD 5400 is much
> better than this in UDMA33 FWIW.
Is this just how slow Maxtors are or is it my ide chipset?
--
(__) Doug Alcorn | program == list of computer instructions
oo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | firmware == program that is not user modifiable
|_/ http://www.lathi.net | software == program that a user can modify
Cincinnati, OH | "If you don't have the source, it's not software"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 03:03:04 GMT
On Sun, 14 May 2000 02:26:49 GMT, Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) writes:
>
>> On Sat, 13 May 2000 18:39:53 GMT, Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >/dev/hda:
>> > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.50 seconds = 11.64 MB/sec
>>
>> Sux the big one. My Maxtor 7200 is a tad better. My WD 5400 is much
>> better than this in UDMA33 FWIW.
>
>Is this just how slow Maxtors are or is it my ide chipset?
Got me. I am very disappointed so far with a brand new Maxtor.
I notice that my Maxtor does better side by side against my cheapo WD
with bonnie (benchmark test). It may also be that hdparm is a bit one
dimensional and is hitting a weak spot in Maxtor. I have the Maxtor
alone on IDE1 and 2 WDs sharing IDE0. I am wondering also if my board
does better with drives on IDE0. Probably shouldn't, but have no good
way to test this ATM.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: alsa and midiman dio2496
Date: 14 May 2000 03:27:33 GMT
anyone have one working with the alsa sound drivers?
the midiman card is listed as supported but I'm having problems
getting the driver to work. alsa builds and installs ok but I can't
access the sound device on playback (and haven't even tried record
yet; I'd be happy to get playback, alone, working).
the modules are seen in /proc/modules:
% cat /proc/modules
nls_iso8859-1 2236 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3744 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9308 1 (autoclean)
fat 30208 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
tulip 31864 1
snd-mixer-oss 4116 0 (autoclean)
snd-card-ice1712 2636 0 (autoclean)
snd-ice1712 12996 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-ice1712]
snd-pcm 28152 0 (autoclean) [snd-ice1712]
snd-timer 7680 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 24032 0 (autoclean) [snd-ice1712]
snd-mixer 22384 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-ice1712 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-mpu401-uart 2116 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-ice1712 snd-ice1712]
snd-rawmidi 8696 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3232 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd 33248 1 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-card-ice1712
snd-ice1712 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-de
but 'aplay' gives this error:
% aplay -r sample.wav
Aplay: version 0.5.7 by Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Using soundcard 'M Audio Delta DiO 2496 at 0xcc00, irq 10'
Playing WAVE '/mnt/Wav/01.wav' : Signed 16-bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
Aplay: unable to set channel params
and aumix gives this:
% aumix
aumix: no device found
any hints as to how to get this card to work?
thanks,
--
Bryan, http://Grateful.Net (ANTISPAM: email is my name at my web's domain)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Anyone using the Toshiba SD-R1002?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 03:51:44 GMT
Anyone using the Toshiba SD-R1002 CD rewriter/DVD?
If, so any problems?
Thanks.
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Subject: via82cxxx_audio module loaded, but no sound
From: Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 04:00:47 GMT
I have an Epox 7KXA motherboard that comes with the VIA 82C586
chipset. Included is the VIA 82cxxx audio codec. I compiled it as a
module and loaded it. It appears to have loaded OK. I can even start
up xmms and play an mp3 file. The catch is that there is no sound
coming out. I have powered speakers plugged in, but nothing. BTW, I
know the speakers work cause I use them with a portable cd player all
the time.
Here is the contents of /proc/driver/via/0/info:
VIA 82Cxxx Audio driver 1.1.6
Via 82Cxxx PCI registers:
40 Codec Ready: yes
Codec Low-power: no
Secondary Codec Ready: no
41 Interface Enable: enable
De-Assert Reset: yes
Force SYNC high: no
Force SDO high: no
Variable Sample Rate On-Demand Mode: enable
SGD Read Channel PCM Data Out: enable
FM Channel PCM Data Out: disable
SB PCM Data Out: disable
42 Game port enabled: no
SoundBlaster enabled: no
FM enabled: no
MIDI enabled: no
44 AC-Link Interface Access: no
Secondary Codec Support: no
And /proc/driver/via/0/ac97:
Vendor name : Unknown
Vendor id : 4943 4511
AC97 Version : 2.0 or later
Capabilities : -headphone out-
DAC resolutions : -16-bit- -18-bit-
ADC resolutions : -16-bit- -18-bit-
3D enhancement : Reserved 27
POP path : pre 3D
Sim. stereo : off
3D enhancement : off
Loudness : off
Mono output : MIX
MIC select : MIC1
ADC/DAC loopback : off
Ext Capabilities : -var rate PCM audio- -slot/DAC mappings-
--
(__) Doug Alcorn | program == list of computer instructions
oo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | firmware == program that is not user modifiable
|_/ http://www.lathi.net | software == program that a user can modify
Cincinnati, OH | "If you don't have the source, it's not software"
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