Linux-Hardware Digest #836, Volume #12 Wed, 10 May 00 15:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Adaptec 19160 / 29160 support in RH6.x?? (Thayer Andrews)
Re: inkjet printers and postscript (Rod Smith)
Re: disk mirroring --- system image (Rick Hoffman)
Linux on a Compaq ProLiant 1600R ("Nicolas Melay")
Re: disk mirroring --- system image (bill davidsen)
Re: inkjet printers and postscript ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Problems: Joystick and SCSI CDRW (Henrik Carlqvist)
How to send signal to parallel port in linux? (Eric Yung)
Re: hardware incompatiblility or kernel problem? (Yuzheng Ding)
Poweroff with Abit BP6 and 2.2.15 (Rafal Wysocki)
Re: disk mirroring --- system image (Andrey Vlasov)
TI PocketMate 200 link ? (Michael Will)
Re: Poweroff with Abit BP6 and 2.2.15 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-R config confusion ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: disk mirroring --- system image (Rick Hoffman)
Re: DVD .- (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Server Keyboard, Mouse & Monitor Frozen (Henrik Carlqvist)
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From: Thayer Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 19160 / 29160 support in RH6.x??
Date: 10 May 2000 17:12:16 GMT
I haven't posted my experiences to linhardware but I can tell
you that the 19160 works fine for me under RH6.1. I didn't have
to do anything special since the card was autodetected and the
aic7xxx driver was loaded and seems to be working fine.
-Thayer
LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <8f958s$o71$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: "Rickard Westerberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> Is the Adaptec 19160/29160 SCSI controller card supported by Linux?
:> Has anyone had success with this setup using RH 6.2?? Please share
: your
:> experiences!
: See
: http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1143
: You will see the basic specs, which Linux driver to use and actual
: *ratings* from people who have tried to use this product under Linux.
: Linux hardware info in a *database*: what a concept!
: Don't forget to add a report on how well the 29160 works for you!
: --
: 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] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: inkjet printers and postscript
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:14:32 GMT
[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.
For most uses, a non-PostScript printer with good Ghostscript drivers can
do as well, though. As you suggest, the printer compatibility database is
an excellent resource for tracking Linux printer compatibility.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Rick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: disk mirroring --- system image
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:17:55 -0400
shahzad, I am also trying to do that very same thing. Except I have an
extra disk drive that I want to use to backup Linux. What simplier way to
back it up than to just copy ALL files to another HD? I also want the
backup to be fully functional. I have been racking my brain and asking
this question until I am nearly blue in face. Nobody is being very
responsive in this area. It almost seems as if there is something to
hide. Like this is something so conceptually simple that Linux is not
capable of handling and no one wants to admit it. I know that sounds a
little skeptical but I am reaching the end of the rope.
There is a thread that I started and have gradually guided the kind people
that have been responding into this area. I have now narrowed down the
64000 dollar question in no uncertain terms and it is waiting for an
answer. The thread titled re: LILO 1024 cyl thing is currently waiting
for an answer from Robert Heller who has been so very helpful with
answering a lot of my questions. He totally skipped over this one and I
am hoping it was just a mistake and not because he has no answer.
hoffy
shahzad bhatti wrote:
> Hi,
> I am swapping my disk drive on my linux redhat system. I want to copy
> entire image of my system to new disk drive. I currently have two
> partitions, first is swap and second is system
> and user area. Can someone suggest best way to do this?
> (I have about 3Gig space filled with system and user area)
> Thanks in advance.
> - Shahzad Bhatti
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From: "Nicolas Melay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on a Compaq ProLiant 1600R
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 19:06:43 +0200
I'm trying to setup Slackware 7 on a ProLiant 1600R with a Smart-2SL RAID
controller.
Even if Smart-2 support is in the kernel, Slackware bootdisks don't have it.
Can I find a bootdisk with this driver somewhere?
If not, are there any distibutions with support for Smart-2 controllers and
which ones?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: disk mirroring --- system image
Date: 10 May 2000 17:30:27 GMT
In article <8fc0kn$bld$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
shahzad bhatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I am swapping my disk drive on my linux redhat system. I want to copy
| entire image of my system to new disk drive. I currently have two
| partitions, first is swap and second is system
| and user area. Can someone suggest best way to do this?
| (I have about 3Gig space filled with system and user area)
If the disk is identical you can copy the raw disk, otherwise copy the
data and then rerun lilo. For full copy, boot from floppy or CD, then
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=100k
For data only copy, create the partitions you want on the other side,
mount them, and copy the data. Say you have filesystems /, /boot, and
/home, you could:
mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/boot /mnt/home
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/boot
mount /dev/hdc3 /mnt/home
cd /
find . boot home -xdev | cpio -pBdm /mnt
lilo -b hdc -r /mnt
What I did was to mount the new root on /mnt, create the mount points
and mount the other partitions, and then copy all the data in the
normally mounted filesystems to their new homes. You want to do this on
a system in single user mode, otherwise it should be fine. The
fundementalist paranoid can boot from floppy and do this, too, by
creating two mount points. The trick is to cd to the old root, and call
it . just as I typed it.
Then I ran lilo to recreate the boot sector, for the example I assumed
that the boot is in the MBR.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979"(tm)
The hardest test of maturity is knowing the difference between
resisting temptation and missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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Date: 10 May 2000 9:3:6 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: inkjet printers and postscript
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Rhodri Evans;
RE> I am wanting to buy a printer to use with my linux box at home to
RE> print postscript figures. Unfortunately a laser printer is too
RE> expensive. According to the Printer HOWTO one can use an inkjet
RE> printer and send postscript to it via Ghostview. Does anyone have
RE> experience of doing this, and know that it works?
RE> I do not need high quality, as I can use a laser printer in work.
RE> I looked at the Ghostview web page of compatible printers,
RE> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html, but it seems that
RE> none of the latest HP or Epson printers is in that list. Eg. the
RE> HP 610CL or HP
RE> 840C. Basically any inkjet printer under $200.
You'll be advised that those <$200 printers are all going to say on the
box that they need some version of windows. Those printers have been
emasculated, with all the smarts being written into the windows only
drivers, thereby moving the duties normally associated with the printers
rasterizer engine onto the host machines cpu.
The printer makers and apparently M$ have entered into all sorts of NDA
agreements, and will not publish or disclose anything that would allow a
ghostscript driver to be written. The linux/beos/BSD/sun/solaris/AIX
folks are all in the same boat. No drivers for these dummys.
Do your printer shopping by first being concerned that the box *doesn't*
say it requires windoze of some variety. That will raise the price
some, but the end result is a better printer, and a cpu that isn't
overwhelmed while its printing a file.
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
© 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems: Joystick and SCSI CDRW
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:34:20 +0200
Jaideep Tibrewala wrote:
> Now, when I try to play music CDs from my SCSI-CDRW,
> I cannot hear any music. What do I need to do to make this work?
Did you connect any audio-cable from the CDRW to your soundcard? What
are the mixer settings of your soundcard? Does the CDRW have a
connection for headphones? Do you hear anything in the headphones?
regards Henrik
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From: Eric Yung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to send signal to parallel port in linux?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 01:56:51 +0800
I want to send a certain self-defined bit sequence
to the pin in the parallel port of PC which has been
installed linux.
I want to use perl to control. Any one can help? thanks.
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From: Yuzheng Ding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hardware incompatiblility or kernel problem?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:49:07 -0400
> Have you checked your RAM modules? Maybe one of them is broken and
> causes the errors.
Well I know bad RAM chip may cause problem in kernel decompression (crc
error); I had seen this. But I could not understand this gzip case -- With
kernel you pretty much always use the same memory range to do the
decompression, but gzip being a user application can be loaded anywhere, can't
it? And why gzip is the only one (that i know of) that malfunctions?
I did test the memory using a DOS testing program a while ago. Are there mem
testers under Linux (preferrably one that also tests the cache)?
ED
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From: Rafal Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Poweroff with Abit BP6 and 2.2.15
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:17:25 +0200
Hi,
I was able to poweroff my Abit BP6 board with the apm=smp-power-off kernel
parameter, but I've noticed recently it does not work with the 2.2.15
kernel. Is it posible to poweroff an SMP board with 2.2.15 and how?
Regards
Rafael
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: disk mirroring --- system image
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:31:04 -0700
Hi,
you can use dump - restore as well. And it doesn't require tape or any
another drive.
On Solaris I use (from man ufsrestore)
example# ufsdump 0f - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7 | (cd /home;ufsrestore xf -)
so you can do something like
root# dump {level 0} - /dev/{hdxx|sdxx} | (cd /mount_point; restore
{options} -)
but in case if the size of partitions should stay unchanged you can
restore to
/dev/{newhdxx/newsdxx} and later you can create additional partitions
which
will take available space.
read man dump restore and almost sure you will find example there.
Andrey
shahzad bhatti wrote:
> Hi,
> I am swapping my disk drive on my linux redhat system. I want to copy
> entire image of my system to new disk drive. I currently have two
> partitions, first is swap and second is system
> and user area. Can someone suggest best way to do this?
> (I have about 3Gig space filled with system and user area)
> Thanks in advance.
> - Shahzad Bhatti
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Will)
Subject: TI PocketMate 200 link ?
Date: 10 May 2000 18:23:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does anyone here have an idea on whether (and how) the Texas Instruments
Pocket Mate 200 Link System is supported?
I would love to connect my little pocket organizer to my PC but I do not
like software from redmont.
Cheers, Michael Will
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Poweroff with Abit BP6 and 2.2.15
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:40:56 GMT
On Wed, 10 May 2000 20:17:25 +0200, Rafal Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I was able to poweroff my Abit BP6 board with the apm=smp-power-off
>kernel parameter, but I've noticed recently it does not work with the
>2.2.15 kernel. Is it posible to poweroff an SMP board with 2.2.15 and
>how? Regards
Try
apm=power-off
IIRC, this changed with 2.2.15.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-R config confusion
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:47:36 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Fritz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>>
>>> Incidentally, it looked to be low-level scsi that he had compiled in the
>> kernel?
>>
>Yes. You need low level scsi (see below). But for some reason it must be
>a module.
>
>BTW: If you have a CDROM on the same IDE-Bus as the CD-RW, access it via
>the ide-scsi also. The ide-cd and scsi drivers don't like each other.
>You get funny things with device names if you mix them.
Is this the cause of my problem too?
I have in IDE HP8100 master on the primary IDE with no other IDE stuff.
I have 2 HDs and a PD drive on a Buslogic scsi. I have the standard Mandrake 7.0
setup. The HP is recognised at boot up, and cdrecord -scanbus detects
it on scsi adapter1, but I can't mount the drive. I followed the
instructions in the HOWTO. When I put in a normal CD and try
to mount the drive ro I get:
mount: No medium found
- Richard Kimber
Political Science Resources
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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From: Rick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: disk mirroring --- system image
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:50:12 -0400
I hope you don't mind if I crash this party but I have been trying to get
the same question answered.
I hope you don't mind if I drill you a little because my understanding is
still a little fuzzy.
bill davidsen wrote:
> If the disk is identical you can copy the raw disk, otherwise copy the
> data and then rerun lilo. For full copy, boot from floppy or CD, then
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=100k
>
I am sorry but I don't quite understand what you mean by "the raw disk".
What is that the source disk or the destination?
Also, do you mean "the data" as being everything under /home? Then full
copy is simply everything, right? What is the difference between "the data"
and "full copy". Again I'm sorry, I am having a little difficulty with your
lingo.
It looks like with the "dd" command you should be able to copy one entire
partition to another, no? What is the purpose of booting from the floppy?
Why can't you do this while running on the source disk?
>> For data only copy, create the partitions you want on the other side,
> mount them, and copy the data. Say you have filesystems /, /boot, and
> /home, you could:
> mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt
> mkdir /mnt/boot /mnt/home
> mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/boot
> mount /dev/hdc3 /mnt/home
> cd /
> find . boot home -xdev | cpio -pBdm /mnt
> lilo -b hdc -r /mnt
In this example you are only coping the boot and home directory structures,
right? How does Linux start up on the destination drive with only those
directories. Doesn't Linux need /etc, and/or, /usr, and/or, whatever else
to start up successfully?
The reason for these questions is because I have tried something similar to
this. I mount the destination partitions onto the source such as:
mount dev/hda5 /backup
mount dev/hda6 /backup/usr
The source drive has one partition and the destination drive has two
partitions (both not including swap)
Then I "cp -axf /bin /boot /dev /etc /lib /root /sbin /backup" and then the
rest I copy to /backup/usr.
This is simply not working. The destination drive boots but the startup is
screwed up and the filesystem is screwed up, Xwindows is screwed up, ...
etc.
How much different is the method you just described from the one I am
using? I am not in Linux right now because of another problem so I can't
see what cpio is and what those switches mean but it looks like it would
actually put the data from /boot and /home into the proper place onto the
destination drive with respect to /.
Thanks for addressing all this.
>
> The trick is to cd to the old root, and call
> it . just as I typed it.
I think I know what you mean and that is what is so messed with the method I
have been trying. The partitions/directories on the destination drive are
totally screwed up with respect to /.
hoffy
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD .-
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:00:12 -0700
check this sites and I believe you will discover more about DVD project
http://gdxr2.havoknet.com/
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~lucien/computing/projects/
Andrey
mst wrote:
> "blackbird." wrote:
> >
> > Andrey Vlasov wrote:
> > >
> > > not true,
> > >
> > http://opensource.creative.com/binaries.html
> >
> > > there is driver for drx3 but in development. I didn't try it yet as do not
> > > have
> > > dvd drive yet.
> >
> > It's for Drx2.
> >
> > blackbird.
>
> The location for the dxr3/hollywood+ driver is:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5165
>
> MST
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Server Keyboard, Mouse & Monitor Frozen
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:55:33 +0200
Steve Crossan wrote:
> the keyboard, mouse and monitor have frozen ( num lock light doesn't
> work). I can telnet to the machine, and all it's daemons are working
> fine, just seems to be these three devices have stopped working.
> Anyone know a good trick to re-start them - possibly by sending some
> signal to the devices?
If X is running it might help to kill X. Otherwise, if you are lucky, it
might help to do a chvt to another virtual console.
regards Henrik
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