Linux-Hardware Digest #136, Volume #13 Wed, 28 Jun 00 09:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Postscript printing using serial port ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
parallel port programming ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems with Hot Rod 66, Fireball lct10 (kenneth.r�[EMAIL PROTECTED])
large disks (> 32 GB) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Scanner HP Scanjet 5100c ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Compaq Deskpro: strange problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 - distortion problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dual or single processor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP, Linux, and tape drives :-( ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Slim cases for rack-mounted solution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
GeForce driver installation for a linux newbie. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
USB driver for Sony Vaio laptop? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
large disks (> 32 GB) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Microstar versus asus k7v ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sound Card CS4236B Line Input doesn't work fine (sergio.fern�ndez.mu�[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Driver for IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Panasonic Cr5X CD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Video card lag ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
phone line network cards supported? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thoughts on this configuration? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Proliant 3000 and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI ISDN cards ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thoughts on this configuration? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Postscript printing using serial port
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Koenraad Van Nieuwenhove
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I have troubles printing on a Apple Personal Laserwriter NT
(postscript
level 1) under SuSE 6.4 using the serial port (ttyS0)
I got it working up to the point that it prints the first page of a
document (most of the time I'm using emacs). But I don't succeed to
print more than one page. After the first page the led blinks for
about
one minute (lpc says that the queues are empty) and then just stops
blinking, so the remaining pages never got printed. Printing very
simple
postscriptcode or more difficult postscriptcode (different type of
fonts
and graphics) works, but only for one page... (fyi, when I go back to
Windows 98 I can print multiple pages).
I tried with long and short documents with always the same results.
Only
the first page is printed, the others never come out.
I tried Xon/Xoff and hardware flow control (both supported by the
LaserWriter).
I tried to change a lot of the parameters in printcap (especially
:ty:
parameters).
I tried to change the timeout settings using setserial without
success.
My system is a Pentium III/667 MHz, 128MByte RAM, 20 GByte harddisk.
The serial ports are at the standard addresses/IRQs and have a build
in
FiFo (16550 type of UART)
Is there a tried and ready printcap(?) to get my printer printing all
the pages?
Thanks,
Koenraad Van Nieuwenhove
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: parallel port programming
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:06 GMT
From: Ruediger Knoerig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi folks!
Last week I tried to write an interface program to a parallel port
PIC
programmer, which was supplied only with DOS 16 Bit Software. DOS and
Win
shit are history :-). The main task is to set D0 and D1 according to
a
synchroneous serial connection, so I tried a simple fopen() with
/dev/parport or /dev/lp0 (as root) and unformatet writings with
fputc() -
big fail. Is there a better way to get this job done?
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From: kenneth.r�[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with Hot Rod 66, Fireball lct10
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
I am running Mandrake 7.0 with the standard 2.2.16 kernel and the IDE
patch
from Hedrick to get support for my Hot Rod 66 HPT 366 based PCI card.
Currently, I have both the hard drive (Fireball lct10, 10G on hda,
onboard)
and cdrom (hdc, onboard), on the mainboard controller. (Gigabyte
ga5ax
rev3.0, ALI Aladdin V chipset)
Compile is successful (Enabled HPT366 support, USING_DMA_FIRST), and
the
Hot Rod is properly detected on bootup. Everything OK so far.
However, if I switch the Fireball over to the HOT ROD 66, and try to
boot
from it, the kernel hangs when it tries to probe the hard drive now
on hde.
Passing hde=noprobe to the kernel makes the kernel boot proberly
again, but
of course, now the hard drive is not detected :( ide.txt says to pass
the
drive geometry to the kernel at boot time, but this does not help
(wrong
values?)
Any experiences?
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: large disks (> 32 GB)
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Espen Sand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use those new
large IDE disks (72 gigs) that arrive on the market
these days? By "use" I mean I want to access the
whole disk.
If so:
1) Is the BIOS important if I am not going to boot
from one of those? (I would guess not, but I better
ask)
2) What (experimental) linux kernel should I go for?
What have been used with success if any?
--
Espen Sand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Scanner HP Scanjet 5100c
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Louis Cyfer wrote:
>
> Does it work under Linux and how?
Yes, it should.
Check out http://www.mostang.com/sane
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/ Marcel Pol / / / (_)__ __ ____ __
/ / / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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SuSE 6.3 Kernel 2.2.13
This sig is stolen.
But it was released under GNU, wasn't it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Compaq Deskpro: strange problem
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: John Mamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all,
I've just installed RH 6.2 on my new 666 mhz Compaq Deskpro EN with
a
Matrox Millenium Video card. Installation went smoothly, I accepted
most of the defaults. The system has been showing strange behavior.
When I reboot, the linux OS boots O.K. but the X-server hangs. I
type
"startx" and the server starts to come up (changes the screen,
resolution etc) starts to paint some windows, and then hangs and cuts
out the keyboard. I can't even get back to a terminal. I have to
power
the system down and reboot. Now for the wierd part. If I repeat
the
power down, reboot cycle a couple of times, eventually the X-server
boots. Once booted it seem sto run fine, until I have to bring the
system down again.
Has anybody experienced anything like this? My suspicion is an
x-server
config problem. Any advice would be appreciated.
thank you
john mamer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 - distortion problem
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I'm running SuSE 6.4 with XFree86 to 3.3.6 and a ATI Rage 128 XPERT
2000
graphic card. Everytime I move a window around in KDE, a distortion
appear on
the screen.
I've tried different color modes (32, 24, 16 bit), resolutions and
video
frequencies. But with no effect. Also a "no_accel" doesn't help very
much.
Is there any help to fix this?. Thanks,
Stefan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dual or single processor
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John F. Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Sat, 17 Jun 2000 14:52:39 +0100 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
JFC> I am about to upgrade my conmputer -
JFC> Should I go for a dual celeron 566, or a single P3 650?
JFC> I'm running Suse linux 6.3 with 128Mb Ram,
Hi John this depends from the work you want to do with the
system.
If you want one mono-task-programm run very fast the P3 is the
choice,
if you have a multithreaded/multiprocess environment,
Database-, File-, Print-, News-, Proxy- and other Serverprocesses or
if you have more than one active user using cpu intensive programms,
or
if you are developer who develop software (make -j "n-of-CPU+1") then
the multi cpu system is the choice.
Here my thoughts for the SMP controverse in a Table:
Mono CPU | Multi CPU
============================================
Singleuser Games |
Internet Surfer |
| Internet Surfer + Proxy + INN + DNS on same host
| Networkserver Samba|NFS and other
| more useres at same time with KDE or Gnome (KDM etc)
| Developer (make -j n runns a build faster)
| 3D Developer, Rendering in Background Process
Single User host |
The point is: How many work is to do synchronously ?
Good Luck
Jojo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP, Linux, and tape drives :-(
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HP SureStore DAT24 works fine. It's 24 GB and is fast.
Actually they have a web page about how to operate tape drives (for
unix
in general, but works in Linux).
cai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew McDonald)
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:33:26 +0100,
Richard Clafton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Tim Haynes wrote:
> > >"Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >> www.oseu.co.uk\news.htm
> >
> > >Aaaaaaaaaaargh!. WTF??
>
> Sorry! www.oseu.co.uk/news.htm
ITYM, http://www.oseu.co.uk/news.htm
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GeForce driver installation for a linux newbie.
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wooly mammoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:13:19 GMT in comp.os.linux.hardware:
wm> I am a complete newbie to Linux. Just installed Mandrake 7.0. I
have the
wm> GeForce drivers for Linux. How do I install them? The name of the
file I
wm> have is Riva-X-GLX-1.0-libc5-i386-dyn.tar.gz . I don't even know
what
wm> tar is but I assume it's used for a compressed file. How do I
wm> un-compress it? Where do I place the resulting files and what do
I do to
wm> install the drivers? Thanks.
You can test the file:
tar tvzf Riva-X-GLX-1.0-libc5-i386-dyn.tar.gz
You can eXtract the files:
tar xvzf Riva-X-GLX-1.0-libc5-i386-dyn.tar.gz
The manual to aktivate should be inside the archive.
Good Luck
Jojo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USB driver for Sony Vaio laptop?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ujwal Sathyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Thu, 15 Jun 2000 04:25:42 GMT in comp.os.linux.hardware:
US> Hi,
US> I have a Sony Vaio PCG F480 laptop, and Mandrake Linux works
great on
US> it. However, the USB ports don't seem to work. Does anybody know
if
US> there is a driver I can use to make them work? I have Mandrake
7.1.
Ask Sony!
And if Sony refuses support & drivers then boycott Sony!!
Every manufactuerer should be boycotted if they do not
deliver support and driver modules for Linux.
Every company who does only deliver it's products only for Windows
should be punished also!
mfG
Jojo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: large disks (> 32 GB)
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:02:10 GMT, Espen Sand
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use those new
>large IDE disks (72 gigs) that arrive on the market
>these days? By "use" I mean I want to access the
>whole disk.
>1) Is the BIOS important if I am not going to boot
>from one of those? (I would guess not, but I better
>ask)
>2) What (experimental) linux kernel should I go for?
Kernels before 2.2.14 had problems accessing IDE disks over 32G.
These
problems have been fixed. You shouldn't need a development kernel at
all.
As for the BIOS, it might be beneficial to set it to "No drive
present" on
the interface where you've plugged this monster drive. Older BIOSes
will
more than likely barf when they see a drive reporting a 68G
capacity[0].
DOS may not be able to use the drive, but so what? Also, fdisk may
have
problems with the drive since the number of cylinders will be huge.
Try
cfdisk.
[0] In Marketing-speak, 72G = 72*1000*1000 bytes, not 72*1024*1024
bytes.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long
at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children
and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell
"So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or
Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help!
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Alberto BARSELLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jonathan McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Get into linux, detected fine. fdisk it to full size(it's for data
storage) and
> format using mke2fs. Formated fine.
Did you run a bad blocks check? It will take ages, but it's good to
do at least once on a newly acquired drive.
> Mounting it went fine the first time, used it, benchmarked it, etc.
fine. I did
> notice however that the size only ended up being:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 56450776 5408896 51041880 10% /us1
>
> when the total should be a few gigabytes higher.
Check the reserved block percentage and lower it.
(man tune2fs) I think mke2fs reserves 5% for root, which in a 61Gb
is
quite a lot of disk space...
> I rebooted and upon boot it said my /dev/hda1 had errors and forced
a check. It
> just went too long, so I killed it.
Weird. Was it unmounted correctly?
(BTW I'm not sure of the max size of a single filesystem, maybe it's
worth checking out).
> Jun 23 20:15:08 kerr kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked
fs, running
> e2fsck is recommended
> Jun 23 20:15:08 kerr kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)):
> ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free blocks count for group 0,
stored = 7691,
> counted = 7704
This is FS errors.
> Before, other errors I got were like:
> Jun 22 21:35:48 kerr kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {
DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Jun 22 21:35:48 kerr kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x10 {
SectorIdNotFound },
> CHS=65535/12/54, sector=66060026
This is disk error. If they tend to happen always at the same place,
create a mini-partition around those tracks and run badblocks in
write
(destructive) mode to see what happens.
Hope this helps,
Alberto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Microstar versus asus k7v
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: "ye_olde_jp" <ye_olde_jpATyahooDOTcom>
Or you could go one better and get an Abit KA7-100. Another
alternative
would be the MSI K7T Pro. Both of these motherboard are far superior
to
anything ASUS can dish out :)
y-o-p
"Mark Faine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8j861n$gg8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a 700Mhz Athlon and I'm looking for a mobo, I have a price
on a
> Microstar for $130.00 and the K7V for $165.00. I know the k7v is
supposed
> to be better but I'd like to get some suggestions and 2nd opinions.
Also
> compatiblitty questions, I'll be running windows 2k and linux
mandrake 7.1
?
>
> -Mark
>
>
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From: sergio.fern�ndez.mu�[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound Card CS4236B Line Input doesn't work fine
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Sergio Fern�ndez Mu�oz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello. I have compiled ALSA (version 0.5.7, 0.5.8 and 0.5.8b). I have
a
sound card CS4236B (Cristal Sound). It sounds fine (I can hear music,
I
can speak using MIC input, etc). But I have a problem. Line volume
capability seems to be broken. I move volume line control but it
doesn't
work. I think it could be an ALSA driver problem, but I don't know if
it
could be a sound card (hardware) problem.
If anyone has an idea to fix this problem, please help me.
Thanks
Sergio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Driver for IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hexdump)
Hi All,
I recently aquired an old IBM PS/2 (9557) which contains an equally
old
nic., an IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet. I was wondering if anyone
out
there knew if there is a linux driver that can be used with this
card.
More curious than anything else, but any help would be greatly
appreciated.
--
Hexdump
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Registered Linux User # 168737, http://counter.li.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Panasonic Cr5X CD
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:30:15 GMT, Mike Nevin
<<bKY55.2478$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the
ether:
>Anyone know whether you can run a panasonic interface CD on Linux
(Definite
>7) If so how? It runs from an Aztech Souncard interface.
Probably. The module you'll need is under "Non-ATAPI, Non-SCSI
CD-ROMs"
when you "make menuconfig". Since you didn't give the exact make and
model of the CD or the sound card, I can't tell you the exact option
you'll need, but you'll probably recognize it when you see it.
If you're asking whether you can install Linux on a computer that
only has
that particular CD-ROM drive available, that's also possible. You'll
have
to boot from a boot/install floppy (all major distros provide these)
and
select your particular CD-ROM drive from a list of drives before
beginning
the install process (under "Non-SCSI, Non-IDE CD-ROMs" again.)
--
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at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children
and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell
"So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or
Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Video card lag
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:58:52 -0700, Dragonia Radar Freedom, C.S.
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I've got Linux Mandrake 7.1. My video card is an Asus v3800 TNT2
Deluxe
>with 32 meg RAM. I've tried both the Riva TNT2 and nVidia TNT2
drivers
>and both present me with the same problem.
>My video card is snail-slow when doing anything complex like openGL.
Sounds to me like you're using Mesa instead of the 3D hardware
acceleration. This is the default, because not everyone has a nifty
3D
card and few cards have 3D Linux support as of yet.
Anyway, when you say "drivers" up there, did you mean "the standard
X-Servers that come with Xfree86", or "nVidia's binary-only
beta-quality
accelerated X servers"? At the moment, the best advice I can give
you is
to install Xfree86 4.0 and grab nVidia's evil binary-only
3D-acceleration
extensions. They're on nVidia's website somewhere. Xfree86 4.0 can
be
downloaded in source form from http://xfree86.org/ but it's about 60M
worth of source. Mandrake may have RPMs for X 4.0 available--use
those if
you can.
Good luck; I tried this 6 months ago and discovered that I could run
Quake3 and only Quake3--anything else that tried to use OpenGL caused
X to
die messily.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long
at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children
and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell
"So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or
Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: phone line network cards supported?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: "Larry Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have the Diamond HPA 2.0 (10 MBPS card) and have been unable to
find Linux
support for this card.
I emailed Diamond and got the usual "We don't support
blah.....blah.....blah...... I am keeping on eye out for one at
linhardware.com
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I just moved houses, and can't get the network cable between 2 of
my
> computers. I was in the store browsing, and saw a couple of
different
> brands of NICs that use the phone line vice 10BaseT or RJ45 to
> interconnect the cards. Before I buy, I want to know if they're
> supported under Linux. Two of the specific brands I saw were:
>
> 3Com HomeConnect home network phoneline kit (based on 3c410 chip)
> and
> Diamond MM HomeFree Phoneline 10MB PCI (based on BCM4210 chip)
>
> Anyone got any experience with either of these?
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert A. Yetman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thoughts on this configuration?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
> > Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > the problem with tape is that
> > > 1) they are *way* too small compared to todays 20GB hard disks.
(this
> > > is shared by CD-R)
>
> > Not really.
>
> For the cost, yeah.
>
> > Travan NS-20 drives hold 10G uncompressed.
> > DDS-3 DAT holds 12G uncompressed
> > DDS-4 DAT holds 20G uncompressed.
> > Ecrix makes a 33G (uncompressed) drive.
> > OnStream makes drives that hold 15G and 25G uncompressed.
>
> Unless my memory is totally failing me, a 4/8GB Travan (slow) was
> about $350 (for SCSI). Considering that 4GB backs up 66% of my
> smallest hard drive, 13% of my largest, and 9% of the total, that
is
> totally unsatisfactory. Doing a full backup would require 11 tapes
> and several days.
>
> Tapes also cost in the neighborhood of $20-$30, again, unless I've
> been smoking some strong crack.
>
> > There are also larger capacity drives based on 8mm and DLT
mechanisms.
> > There are also changers which can auto-load multiple tapes, if
your
> > bacup size gets to be really huge.
>
> Yeah, I'm in the mood to spend over $10,000. On a device which, in
> all probability, I will never need.
>
> You can have "Told you so!" rights the next time I frag my system -
> the clock is ticking, I'd say it'll be about two weeks - but until
> then, I'll spend my money on things I'll use.
the only thing that is cheap enough and has enough capacity to backup
today's gargantuan hard disks is .... more hard disks!
which brings me to my favorite cheap and dirty backup method.
1) rescue one obsolete box from the dumpster. a 486 or early pentium
should do. one with pci slots would be nice, but don't bother
being choosy.
2) equip it with a network card.
3) put in a giant IDE drive (optimize cost and capacity not speed).
now, just rsync to your primary machine over the lan every once in a
while. turn off the backup queen when you're not backing up. it can
be done for under $300.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Proliant 3000 and Linux
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: John Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There are some pretty good deals on Compaq Proliant 3000's out there
right now and I was thinking of getting one. They have SMP
motherboards, hot swappable drives, dual scsi-3, etc..
I usually use clones, so I have some concerns.
I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has one running
Linux. Any significant install/operational issues? Do you have to use
Compaq drives? Is the CPU a standard P-II, or does it have to also
come
from Compaq.
Thanks for the help
john
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United Systems Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PCI ISDN cards ?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: "Sjoerd Venema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
"Alastair Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:8j8bmu$bao$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm currently setting up a dual boot system. As my current ISDN
adaptor is
a
> Draytek USB model, I am now looking for an internal solution.
>
> Easily available locally are :
>
> Fritzcard PCI
> ASUS PCI
> Eicon DIVA PCI
> (Also possibly the ELSA PCI offering).
My expierences with Fritzcard and Eicon are that they are easy to
configure.
Never tried ASUS.
Sjoerd
>
> Can anyone recommend the 'best' of these ? I believe all are
supported
> through HiSax for Linux. (I will be using it with Corel Linux 1.1
and Red
> Hat 6.2 ... plus other Linux dists).
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT
From: John W Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
well if you give you particular distrobution you want to use and the
video
card we could be more specific. The general answer is yes, you can
yse
linnux. At the very least youll be fine in text mode. My video card
is not
supported either, but the ocmputer runs fine, even in Xwindows. I
cnat get
the 3d acceleration to work on it, even though ive tried several
supposed
drivers for that.
But he final answer is yes, you can use it. :)
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My video card is not supported by Linux... does this mean I can't
run
> Linux with this video card?
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thoughts on this configuration?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:08 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
>Unless my memory is totally failing me, a 4/8GB Travan (slow) was
>about $350 (for SCSI). Considering that 4GB backs up 66% of my
>smallest hard drive, 13% of my largest, and 9% of the total, that is
>totally unsatisfactory. Doing a full backup would require 11 tapes
>and several days.
So you have roughly 40GB of drive space which you *don't backup*??
I hope I have the wrong end of the stick here, or that's gotta hurt,
even if
you only rm -rf the wrong directory.
Incremental backups also make life easier, so a 'full' backup isn't
necessary every day, and how much of that 40GB *needs* backing up?
Frinky
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