Linux-Hardware Digest #976, Volume #12 Fri, 2 Jun 00 16:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: nVidia TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3 3500 or Creative Annihilator Pro? ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: Why does my VXA-1 tape only hold 14GB? ("Bryan K. Wright")
Re: Digiport for RedHat 6.1 ?? ("Panos")
Second fan for case? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Delayed NIC initalisation ("Will Tatam")
looking for the right motherboard... (James Scott Olsson)
Re: SIS5571+Fujitsu MPE3102AT (Henning Lorenzen)
Re: Why does my VXA-1 tape only hold 14GB? (David C.)
Re: Dell Inspiron 3800 and RedHat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
rockwell/conexant modem drivers (lfcom)
Re: [LhD] Are the rumors about Linux compatibility issues with Athlon motherboards
just rumors or are they true? (Joe Pfeiffer)
Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16 SCSI controller settings? (Gary Dale)
Galaxy (AZTECH) Sound card problem (NKolvix)
Re: Additional hard drive for Linux (David C.)
Re: Additional hard drive for Linux (David C.)
Re: Sound Modules (Craig McCluskey)
Re: accepting a call from a modem (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: College, Ethernet, etc... (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: corel linux (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Keyboards (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Linux seems to disable my active partition (Henrik Carlqvist)
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: nVidia TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3 3500 or Creative Annihilator Pro?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:23:27 -0400
Nvidia cards work very well with Linux, I'm using both the TNT and the
TNT2 and I've had no trouble with either.
Haral Tsitsivas wrote:
>
> I am configuring a new PC (to run RH Linux 6.2) and I have a choice
> of these three video cards:
>
> 16MB nVidia TNT2 M64 Pro graphics Card
> 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 16MB with TV Out Only
> Creative Annihilator Pro with 32MB - DDR RAM
>
> Which works the best (drivers available, reliable, fast) on Linux?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> --Haral Tsitsivas, UniSolutions Associates (http://www.unisol.com/)
> System Accounting & Chargeback
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From: "Bryan K. Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does my VXA-1 tape only hold 14GB?
Date: 2 Jun 2000 18:10:23 GMT
Hi folks,
Just a quick update: I got back in contact with the
people at Ecrix, and they pointed me to a utility called "vxatool"
from:
http://www.ecrix.com/support/download.html
which lets you configure the drive for "speed" or "capacity". (I don't
know yet exactly what it does to the drive.) The way the drives
are shipped, they're set for "speed". I've set one of my drives
for "capacity" now, and here are the results of dd'ing with 64k blocks:
489687+0 records in
489686+0 records out
14.790u 8763.530s 9:02:01.38 26.9% 0+0k 0+0io 145pf+11w
which gives 489687 x 65536 = 3.21 GB, a substantial improvement over the
20 GB I was seeing under the same conditions before changing the
optimization.
One note about vxatool: it's only available for Microsoft
operating systems, so if you want to use it you'll have to make
a bootable DOS floppy with the appropriate ASPI scsi driver in the
config.sys file. Hopefully this will change sometime.
I'll be trying a real backup this weekend, using tar and
pulling data across the network. I'll post an update and let you
know what I see.
Thanks again for all the advice!
Bryan
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From: "Panos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digiport for RedHat 6.1 ??
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:35:04 +0300
ok, ok, i mean digiboard... :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Second fan for case?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 18:41:34 GMT
Was I hosed?
I recently ordered an Addtronics case from a vendor with 2-fans.
When I received it and was installing the mobo when I suddenly realized
there was only one fan in the case and contacted the vendor.
Their reply was that I was sold a case with two fans, one in the power
supply and the second in the case.
This was not what I envisioned as a case with two fans since I've never
seen a power supply for a PC without a fan.
Your opinions?
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From: "Will Tatam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Delayed NIC initalisation
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:14:00 +0100
I solved the problem by editing the /etc/conf.modules file to read:
alias eth0 ne
options ne io="0x300"
In addition to using netconf
--
Will Tatam
www.netmindz.co.uk/will
"Will Tatam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8h690q$e88$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i am runnign red hat 5.1 on my machine, and have configed the NIC unsing
> netconf.
>
> However, when my machine starts it repost that the initalisation of eth0
has
> been delayed - why & how do i trigger it later ?
>
> I think that it is something to do with ifconfig but that exactly is the
> syntax ?
>
> --
>
>
> Will Tatam
> www.netmindz.co.uk/will
>
>
>
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From: James Scott Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: looking for the right motherboard...
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:47:40 -0500
Hi, I'm looking for a motherboard with onboard sound, video and (preferably)
networking. I'd like it to have as small a form factor as possible,
including the thickness of the entire package- this means I wouldn't want to
use a slot 1 style processor- and processor performance isn't too much of
an issue really. Can anyone recommend a board that would fit these
qualifications? I just want to be confident the linux support of the
onboard hardware is as good as possible before I buy the board... :) I
don't care about how fast the networking is or how good the video is, but
sound should be as nice as possible...
thanks in advance for the help!
scott olsson
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midgets." - Murray Gell-Mann
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From: Henning Lorenzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIS5571+Fujitsu MPE3102AT
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 20:49:35 +0200
> guess #1: wrong UDMA initialization. Try to flush new BIOS
>
> guess #2: you have system running at 75/83 MHz and
> PCi running at 37.5/41.5 Mhz, i.e. old drive
> tolerated overclocked PCI while new does not
> tolerate it. Try to set PCI to 33mhz
my system already runs at 66/33 MHz (FSB/PCI), so #1 is a better guess,
that the BIOS is broken. But I think the kernel "Generic PCI IDE chipset
support" doesn't work on my system. I deactivated that option and now it
seems to work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Why does my VXA-1 tape only hold 14GB?
Date: 02 Jun 2000 15:17:26 -0400
"Brian W. Antoine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David C." wrote:
>>
>> And he's using an ISA-based SCSI card (Adaptec 1542, IIRC). It may
>> be unable to sustain that kind of rate. Especially if it's using a
>> 5MHz bus speed (the default for the 1542).
>
> Somebody in comp.periphs.scsi pointed out that the PCI -> ISA bus
> interface penalizes the ISA bus and you can only get around
> 1-1.5MB/sec on ISA cards in a PCI bus machine.
This will depend greatly on the chipset used as the PCI-ISA bridge
logic.
Did this somebody mention which chip has this handicap? There are quite
a large number of PCI-ISA bridge chips in use these days. Maybe he was
referring only to the Intel chips? What about the ones from VIA? Or
ones from other vendors? I can't believe that all of them are crippled
this badly.
> This roughly agrees with the tests I've been running using a 1542CF
> and the VXA-1, which give me about 70MB/min during backups.
But that doesn't say anything about the ISA bus. Have you tried this
drive on a system that doesn't have PCI? Say, a 100MHz 486 box with ISA
and EISA (or ISA/VLB)? If that system performs just as poorly, then
your problem isn't the PCI-ISA bridge.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 3800 and RedHat 6.2
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 19:21:00 GMT
Hi,
I have an Inspiron3800, 700Mhz PIII, 256mb RAM, 12GB hard drive, etc. I
needed to use both Win98
and Linux RH6.2 and I had the same problems, but I fixed them :-)
The solution was to remove LILO from MBR (with "fdisk /mbr" in DOS at
the C: prompt, read the
Lilo-howto and Loadlin-Howto for more info)and to use Loadlin to
boot the system.
A very useful web page is: http://www.eskimo.com/~praxis/win98.html
If you make sure that you run the sound card executable before calling
loadlin (in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file), the sound card (Maestro3i) will work in linux (use
sndconfig --noprobe) !!!
Also, if you use Loadlin instead of LILO and leave the MBR empty, the
Save-To-Disk option will also
work!! This is because the BIOS of I3800 (and of some Latitude CPx
laptops) use a separate
partition (formatted as OS/2 hidden) for the "Save-to-disk" file. This
is great because the
save-to-disk file does not nead to be on the C: drive anymore but,
UNFORTUNATELY, the MBR must be
empty (without LILO). Otherwise, after the first save-to-disk, the BIOS
will load the info in the
MBR and will start LILO instead of loading the info from the
Save-to-disk partition!!
I realy think that Dell should fix this BIOS problem FAST because
otherwise the Linux users can not
take advantage of the Save-to-Disk feature without if they do not have
at least one Windows
partition on their hard drive (from which to boot with Loadlin)!!!!
Good luck,
Nick
PS for the display, choose LCD screen 1024x768, 16-bit in the
Xconfigurator tool...
In article <8ftqnf$9gi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthias Saou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've installed RedHat Linux 6.2 on a brand new Dell Inspiron 3800
(P3-500
> 128MB RAM, 6Go), without any major problems.
> Here are the minor ones : ;o)
> - I can't get the sound to work... it's an ESS Maestro 3i sound chip!
I haven't
> found anything regarding this chip and Linux, I guess it's just too
recent! :(
> - In XFree86 (3.3.6), when I have some large bright windows on the
desktop,
> some strange flicking happens around on the window edges... I had the
same
> problem on an Armada 1500c and I just had to change one value in the
> XF86Config file to correct the problem. Has anyone got the proper
refresh
> rates lines for a 14"1 TFT Dell 1024x768 XGA display? (with a mobile
ATI
> Rage chip with 8MB).
>
> Any help or pointers would be much appreciated :)
>
> Matthias
>
>
In article <8gplj3$opg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article
> <wseU4.25952$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Richard Ortt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have been successfull at installing Linux on a
> Dell 3800 laptop.
> > Everything is working well except for a few
> problems. Any help in solving
> > these is appreciated.
> >
> > 1) The system has a Maestro 3i Sound Card.
> Unfortunately, this doesn't look
> > like it is supported yet; however, the Maestro 1
> and 2 cards are. Any
> > suggestions for alternate drivers?
> >
> > 2) The system is supplied with an Actiontek Soft
> Modem. I know this will
> > probably never happen, but if anyone has any
> suggestions, I will certainly
> > listen to them. I will probably end up getting
> an additional PCMCIA modem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Rich Ortt
>
> Same deal with my laptop, a new Dell Latitude
> CPx. The sound, anyway. It doesn't have an
> internal modem.
> I did a little research and experimentation with
> the existing Maestro 1/2/2E driver, and got some
> very very minor results (i.e. uncontrollable
> high-pitched tone upon module init). After
> emailing Zach Brown, author of the driver, I
> learned that the Maestro 3 series uses a
> completely different method of hardware access,
> which isn't compatible with the old series. So I
> guess we're out of luck until ESS wakes up :( ,
> unless someone hacks one together soon. Wish I
> had the programming knowledge to go beyond simple
> hacking of existing drivers.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: lfcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rockwell/conexant modem drivers
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 19:30:06 GMT
hello linux-men
My corel linux is not able to detect my modem (conexant chipset)
I have found web site for windows drivers, but not for linux.
Could you please help me?
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LhD] Are the rumors about Linux compatibility issues with Athlon
motherboards just rumors or are they true?
Date: 02 Jun 2000 13:19:11 -0600
I'm running a Gigabyte 7IXE quite successfully.
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From: Gary Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95
Subject: Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16 SCSI controller settings?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 19:49:38 GMT
I got the system running under Windows 98 and changed the card to use a
different IRQ for the SCSI controller (not necessary under Windows 98). I even
eventually got Corel Linux to install (using the boot disk created by the v1.1
download CD but installing from the v1.0 deluxe CD). Unfortunately, I'm now
having the same problem I had with Caldera 2.3 - it hangs when trying to start
the SCSI controller after it reboots.
How can I tell Linux which IRQs to use on the card (esp. if I have to yank the
card to get Linux to boot)?
hac wrote:
> Gary Dale wrote:
> >
> > I have an old PAS-16 sound card with a built-in SCSI controller (made by
> > Trantor) that I have connected to an old NEC-84 CD-ROM reader. This
> > works when I use the old DOS drivers and MSCDEX but when I try to use
> > the native mode Windows 98 drivers I get an error relating to the SCSI
> > controller as follows:
> > "The driver information file (SCSI.INF) is telling this child device to
> > use a resource that the parent device does not have or recognize. (Code
> > 17.)"
> >
> > I have tried to set up Corel Linux 1.0 on this box as well but it hangs
> > when it tries to start the card's SCSI controller. I got Caldera 2.3 to
> > install using the LISA install - the Lizard install would hang also -
> > but then it hangs if I reboot when it tries to start the SCSI
> > controller.
> >
> > I thought maybe there was a problem with an interaction with the video
> > card because it seemed to have trouble with the graphical Linux installs
> > so I switched to a different type of card (from an old ISA VGA board to
> > an ATI PCI Rage Pro) but the problem persists.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions.
>
> Sounds like an interrupt conflict. I have one of these cards, and
> have used the SCSI controller with a hard disk and a tape drive, in
> addition to the CD-ROM drive it came with. It is very slow, from
> about 300k to 600k bytes/sec, so not very useful.
>
> The Linux drivers require that you use different interrupts for the
> sound and SCSI portions. I think that the DOS drivers may have
> allowed the same interrupt for both. I'm not sure about Windows, but
> suspect it wants two interrupts. I haven't used the SCSI portion for
> years. But I can verify that it is possible to make it work in DOS,
> Windows 3, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Linux. I'd be
> surprised to find an OS it wouldn't work with, as the NCR, later
> Symbios, now LSI Logic, SCSI chip was quite common, and well
> documented.
>
> The Trantor DOS drivers are buried someplace on the Adaptec FTP
> server, if you want to try using it with more than just the CD-ROM
> drivers it came with.
>
> --
> Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NKolvix)
Subject: Galaxy (AZTECH) Sound card problem
Date: 02 Jun 2000 19:52:36 GMT
Hello again,
I�m running RH6.1 and want to instal & use my sound card. Sndconfig
recognises the card and builts conf.modules but it does'nt work.
Rebooting ends up in "device busy" [FAILED] - message.
But a look ad /proc files does'nt show any "double bookings".
conf.modules looks like:
alias sound galaxy
pre-instal sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sgalaxy io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=3 sgbase=0x220
sounds reasonable after checking thru windooffs.
Anyone any hint?
Best Regards,
NoKo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Additional hard drive for Linux
Date: 02 Jun 2000 15:54:51 -0400
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
>> Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
>>>> "Chris Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd to install a second hard drive for use with Linux, but I need
>>>>> some help. I have a Compaq Presario 5660 and am out of space for
>>>>> an IDE hard drive. I also don't have any more parallel ports to
>>>>> use. I have two open ISA slots, and that's it.
>>>>
>>>> You can add additional IDE controllers. Linux supports up to four
>>>> (yielding up to 8 drives).
>>>>
>>>> If you think this might not be enough, consider a SCSI card.
>>>> Narrow SCSI supports up to 7 devices. Wide SCSI supports up to 15.
>>>> (Of course, you'll never come close to the limit, since
>>>> cable-length limits will almost certainly kick in first.)
>>>
>>> differential SCSI supports *much* longer cables. while high-voltage
>>> differential is dead, there is a very alive low-voltage version.
>>> with U2W/LVD you can have a 12 meter cable. i am sure you can put
>>> 15 hard drives on that much cablage.
>>
>> I didn't say otherwise.
>
> you did say cable-length limits would kick in first. true for
> single-ended. not so true for differential.
LVD's 12m limit will allow you to attach 15 devices, but only if you use
very short cables. I don't think most people will be able to keep all
their cables this short.
>> But even with 12m (approx. 39') of cabling, 15 drives may be
>> difficult. Especially if most of them are external. The cables I
>> see most often are between 1.5 and 3 feet in length (14 of them will
>> consume between 21 and 42 feet).
>
> a UW/HVD controller can do a 25 meter cable!
Sure. But do you really want to spend the extra money for HVD?
Remember, we're talking about someone who has only an ISA slot left in
his computer. Somehow I don't think he's going to be hanging high-
performance drives off of whatever controller he ends up getting.
> <URL:http://www.centrix-intl.com/> click on scsi accessories (i'd give
> a direct url but frames suck) find a sym8751d UW/HVD controller for 79
> USD. now to find HVD hard drives.
OK...
> if you are going internal...
>
> <URL:http://www.cablemakers.com/lvdpri.htm>
>
> go to the bottom of the page and look at the SCS3-4916-308 and
> SCS3-4916-205U.
OK. These cables cost $164 and $250. Not an inexpensive cable.
(Although to be fair, any 17-connector differential cable will probably
cost this much. These are actually sold as LVD cables.)
I noticed that you didn't mention the cost of HVD drives.
I started searching for them. Found nothing on Pricewatch.
The only models I was able to find are the Quantum Atlas-I and Altas-II
differential drives. I couldn't find a vendor that sold them.
I was able to find some HVD tape drives (DLT, DLT-changers, and AIT
drives. All selling for several thousand dollars each.)
Were you able to find any?
> and then there are SCA raid cages which stack drives like it's going
> out of style. you put a couple six drive SCA enclosures out there and
> you can have a lot of drives in a hurry.
Did you forget the original subject?
We were talking about a guy who ran out of IDE ports and has only an ISA
slot left. I don't think he's going to be interested in spending
thousands of dollars on a RAID cage to attach to that ISA slot!
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Additional hard drive for Linux
Date: 02 Jun 2000 15:58:10 -0400
Chris Brooks writes:
> David C. wrote:
>>
>> That's what backups are for. (you _do_ make periodic backups, don't
>> you?)
>>
>> And once you have a full backup, you can replace one hard drive with
>> a bigger hard drive and just restore your backup onto the new drive.
>
> Yes, I make backups (which take 15 hours to complete).
How much data are you backing up here??? My backups move about 3.5GB of
data in about two hours. And this is with a relatively slow tape drive
(28M/min) You must either have a huge amount of data or a really slow
backup device.
> I don't have time to full around partitioning and restoring my drive
> if it crashes.
I've done it a few times on my system. No big deal. Boot a floppy,
create partitions, restore the tape.
> I don't want to replace my hard drive. As I stated earlier, I want
> Linux on one drive and Windows on another.
And you've got your answer in several other posts. Have fun.
-- David
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Modules
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 15:04:18 -0500
Christopher Mylonas wrote:
>
> Aureal went bust.
> there website is still up though.
I looked on their web site but could not find drivers for Linux.
Where can I find them?
Craig
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: accepting a call from a modem
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:03:02 +0200
Viper wrote:
> What I am trying to do is have one computer ring into my linux PC.
> Now the modem rings and the linux modem rings too, but just wont pick
> up. How do I get it to pick up?
To make a modem answer incoming calls you should modify the S0 register.
To make it answer after the first ring you could use an init string like
this:
ATS0=1
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: College, Ethernet, etc...
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:12:53 +0200
Jeff Avallone wrote:
> they recommend an NE2000 compatible card.
>
> Now, I'm not looking for directions on installing it (that's what the
> HOWTO is for), I just need advice/recommendations on what you think
> is best and cheapest.
Maybe it would be a good idea to read the Ethernet-HowTo anyway... It
has a chapter about which cards to buy and poor NE2000 clones with
problems has a chapter of their own.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: corel linux
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:20:28 +0200
dan wrote:
> i have a 4gig ide hard drive it is the boot drive with corel linux
> on it and i just installed a scsi hard drive how do i set it up
> do i fdisk it or ?????
Yes, you will have to run fdisk to add partitions. Then you will have to
put filesystems on your new partitons. Finally you will have to mount
your new partitions. For more info see:
man fdisk
man mke2fs
man mount
man fstab
You will also find more info in the Hard-Disk-Upgrade mini-HowTo.
> and how do i know if the os see it
If Linux is able to see the disk it probably tells you about it at boot.
You could check this with dmesg. To be able to see the disk it must be
able to see your SCSI-controller. If Linux finds your SCSI-controller
but not the disk you have probably done something wrong with cables or
terminators.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboards
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:26:22 +0200
Marc Baker wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to find out what signals come from the
> multimedia keys of a multimedia/internet keyboard?
I have no experience of such a keyboard, but I would try "showkey" at
console and "xev" in X.
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux seems to disable my active partition
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:31:36 +0200
"Derek M. A. Lee-Wo" wrote:
> I have a system with 2 hard drives. I have a small DOS partition
> with System command and a FreeBSD partition on hda and I have
> Mandrake 7.0-2 installed on hdb.
>
> The problem is that whenever I boot Linux, it seems to be disabling
> the ACTIVE drive flag on hda so I can't boot off of it.
> Does anyone know if this is possible? and if so, how can I fix it.
This is probably not done by Linux but by the bootloader. LILO wouldn't
do such a thing, however, I'm not sure if LILO is able to boot FreeBSD.
Maybe it would help if you didn't use system commander to boot Linux but
instead booted to DOS. Then from DOS you could boot Linux with loadlin.
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