Linux-Hardware Digest #262, Volume #13 Wed, 19 Jul 00 01:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Any one that know when ("Børre Nordbakken")
Re: SCSI devices - Hot removal? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Rack-mount server with built-in RAID, redundant power supply, Linux? (Dan
Harkless)
Re: Rack-mount server with built-in RAID, redundant power supply, Linux? (Dan
Harkless)
Re: Firewall/Gateway hardware requirements (Jason Loll)
Re: Newbie needs help with Linux/Hard drive (Chem-R-Us)
NETGEAR FA311 same MAC addresses? (David Burns)
Re: Netgear ethernet problem (David Burns)
Re: Red Hat 6.2 - Driver needed for Linksys LNE100Tx 10/100T PCI card (John
Kakareka)
Re: Network hw_addr different on laptop vs. desktop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What modem (Mark G. Besch)
Re: lilo boot problem: hangs on LI (Chem-R-Us)
advice needed: best vid card? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Intel i810 chipset, AC97 sound driver ("seumas")
Re: modem problems with linux (Chris Ahlstrom)
Re: SMP Computer ("mzvukwiaa")
SCSI hard disk sector size. ("Keith W. Sheffield")
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From: "Børre Nordbakken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any one that know when
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:21:29 -0100
Adaptec AAA131U2 wil be supported ?
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Børre
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Date: 18 Jul 2000 20:31:30 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI devices - Hot removal?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Dan Jones;
[snip incriminating evidence :) ]
>> slips while plugging it back in. I certainly don't recommend the
>> proceedure.
>>
DJ> In case someone wonders what "don't recommend" means in this
DJ> context, it means that the drive may get fried. The power
DJ> connector does not have to slip. I used to be pretty blaise about
DJ> doing this until I found a drive model that was very sensitive
DJ> to this. It only took two destroyed drives to change my
DJ> behavior.
Thats one of the reasons I didn't recommend it either. Been there, done
that, like you, more than once ):
Cheers, Gene
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From: Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rack-mount server with built-in RAID, redundant power supply, Linux?
Date: 19 Jul 2000 00:39:09 GMT
Bart Stuut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Currently both Compaq and IBM have great support for Linux. But if
> > > you are looking for a company that specializes in Linux boxes check
> > > out http:://www.valinux.com.
> >
> > VALinux does not offer any rack-mount systems with built-in hot-swap
> > RAID arrays (they were one of the first companies I checked). Do Compaq
> > and/or IBM?
>
> Sorry Dan, but they do. It is their FullOn 2200 series you want to look
> at. If that is not rackmountable RAID-5 I do not know what is.
Thanks, Bart. That was somewhat boneheaded of me. I was looking at the
photos expecting to see accessible front drive bays (like the boxes we
currently have) as evidence of true hot-swap capability. Instead, the 2200
has a security cover that hides the drives, and VA doesn't have any photos
of the box with the cover off (just some diagrams in PDF files that you have
to drill down to find).
I think I'll suggest on their feedback form that they add such photos.
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From: Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rack-mount server with built-in RAID, redundant power supply, Linux?
Date: 19 Jul 2000 00:50:26 GMT
Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Bart Stuut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > Currently both Compaq and IBM have great support for Linux. But if
>> > > you are looking for a company that specializes in Linux boxes check
>> > > out http:://www.valinux.com.
>> >
>> > VALinux does not offer any rack-mount systems with built-in hot-swap
>> > RAID arrays (they were one of the first companies I checked). Do Compaq
>> > and/or IBM?
>>
>> Sorry Dan, but they do. It is their FullOn 2200 series you want to look
>> at. If that is not rackmountable RAID-5 I do not know what is.
>
>Thanks, Bart. That was somewhat boneheaded of me. I was looking at the
>photos expecting to see accessible front drive bays (like the boxes we
>currently have) as evidence of true hot-swap capability. Instead, the 2200
>has a security cover that hides the drives, and VA doesn't have any photos
>of the box with the cover off (just some diagrams in PDF files that you have
>to drill down to find).
Oops. I spoke too soon. It's true that VA Linux does have rackmounts with
hot-swap RAID, but they _don't_ apparently offer ones with redundant power
supplies, which was another requirement I mentioned in my original post.
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From: Jason Loll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Firewall/Gateway hardware requirements
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:08:11 -0500
blowfish wrote:
> Chris Pitzel wrote:
> >
> > > I am considering buying a 2nd hand Pentium 133 with 16M ram to use as a
> > > Firewall/Gateway/Router for a small network. The network has half-a-dozen
> > > users, is 100M Ethernet and has some fastish computers involved (700Mhz, with
> > > 1.4G anticipated next year). The network is connected to the Internet via a
> > > 1.5Mbit cable modem. Is the Pentium 133 enough to ensure it will not become the
> > > bottleneck ?
> >
> > Yes, most definitely a Pentium 133 would do just fine. I would
> > recommend that you upgrade the RAM to 32megabytes, and use good quality
> > and well supported NIC's (I use 3com 3c905-TX's here on a Pentium-66 in
> > a similar environment).
> >
> > The bottleneck is your internet connection, and definitely not your
> > machine. Even a 486 would be adequate for your connection.
>
> If you have to spend more than $30.US for an old clinker, then, waste
> more money on upgrading anything. You're better off buying a hardware
> router. A few are available for ubder $100.00US, real easy to set up
> from your browser, has IP-packets filtering, ports forewarding, DMZ,
> WAN, LAN 10/100Mb/s ports and so on. Can piggie back to more hubs if
> needed.
>
> Not to mention without adding more annoying noises from the fan,
> powersupply fan, and HD.
> And the room that it takes. Especially when you already have 5, 6
> machines running, and possible adding more soon. The noise is
> unbearable.
>
> Other than you already have an old clinker laying around *AND* not
> having to spend more than $10.00US on it. I'd say, just let the 'Linux
> running as a cheap firewall/router" idea to rest. It's not worthed.
>
> - Alex / blowfish.
Could you please give me some names of hardware routers so I could do more research?
Also, a dumb quiestion, do you need a modem for the router, or how do you connect it
to your computer?
Thanks, Jason
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:08:50 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help with Linux/Hard drive
George/USA wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have an old PB 300CD that I put a Western Digital 3GB hardrive in.
> How can I recover the missing 1GB of space? Im installing Debian 2.1
> as the only operating system on the machine. I have removed the EZ-bios
>
> boot manager so that it will actually boot, but while reinstalling
> Debian
> I see that it is still not reporting the correct amount of space on the
> hard drive.
> Anybody have any pointers or suggestions??
Are you sure that you're not letting the
1G = 1000x1000x1000
(1,000,000,000)
versus
1G = 1024x1024x1024
(1,073,741,824)
thing throw you off?
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Chem-R-Us
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From: David Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NETGEAR FA311 same MAC addresses?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:25:26 GMT
I am having some trouble trying to get two netgear cards activated on my
redhat 6.2 installation. When I examine the interfaces using ifconfig,
they both report the same HWaddr! I exchanged one of the cards at the
store where I purchased them (same department store chain, different
location) and got a third card with the same address.
Is there any way out of this mess without changing cards? The cards
were purchased too long ago to get a refund and the same price range
alternative (for a merchandise exchange) is the linksys card which I
have had trouble with in the past.
Thanks in advance,
-- David.
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From: David Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear ethernet problem
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:43:11 GMT
Jeff Avallone wrote:
>
> I just recently bought a Netgear FA311 Ethernet card, installed it in my
> system (RedHat6.1,P166,64MB RAM,kernel 2.2.15). I bought it because it
> said that it supported Linux on the box (it does, I've all ready talked
> to the company, all they told me was what driver to use).
>
> So anyway, I've compiled the tulip driver into my kernel (I got the
> latest version from www.scyld.com/network like Netgear told me to), and
> it doesn't get detected. I've been up and down the Ethernet-HOWTO, it
> doesn't really help. Windows95 (my system's a dual boot) found the card
> with no problem and reports that it's on IRQ 9 (so does my BIOS), and
> the IO range is E400-E4FF (nothing is using this, I checked
> /proc/ioports). The BIOS lists it after POST as Bus number 0, Device
> number 9, Function number 0, VendorID 100B, DeviceID 0020, and IRQ 9. It
> also shows up in /proc/pci, if that helps with the problem. From the
> looks of it, the only thing that can't find it is the tulip driver!
>
> Anyway, I've got no clue what's going on here, so if anyone's had
> experience with Netgear's stuff then I'd be very thankful for any help
> you can give me.
I got the fa311 working, but there was a driver
provided on the floppy that came with the card.
Let me know if you still need them and I will
email them to you. The instructions for install
are in the comment in the front of the fa311.c
file. Netgear just recently (within the last
week) put up some support information on their
site that may also give the linux files.
By the way, can you check the MAC address on your
card (and anybody reading this that has bought the
card). I have purchased three fa311's that all
have had the same MAC address, according to
ifconfig. Here is the address my cards report:
HWaddr: 08:00:17:09:4A:00
The addresses are driving me bananas.
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From: John Kakareka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2 - Driver needed for Linksys LNE100Tx 10/100T PCI card
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:51:16 GMT
try http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
This is the one that worked for me.
John
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Tracy Flynn wrote:
>I need to find the driver files for the Linksys LNE 100Tx 10/100T PCI card.
>The references given on the driver disk lead nowhere.
>
> FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/tulip.c
> FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/kern_compat.h
>
>
>Any help is appreciated
>
>Tracy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network hw_addr different on laptop vs. desktop
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:01:46 GMT
This is a follow up to my original post. The problem turned out to be
related to a change in v3.1.18 of the PCMCIA driver software. That
change made "use of 16-bit memory windows instead of the old 8-bit
windows". Well, apparently that's not directly compatible with the ISA
PCMCIA adapter provided with the Aviator2.4, causing every other by to
be read as FF.
I switched back to a 3.1.17 version and at least the hardware address is
being read correctly now. My network still isn't working, but it's a
start.
Thomas Dorris
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From: Mark G. Besch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What modem
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:19:06 -0500
Just about any external modem will work. Internal modems have been a problem
since the WinModems came out with soft settings and Windows drivers that
basically don't work well. I have met with USR reps and told them how bad their
WinModems are. I worked as a tech at a chain store and if I knew that we were
going to install the modem for the customer, I reccomended that they spend the
money on a good USR internal or get an external and save themselves both the
install fee and the hassles involved with internal modems. Go with an external
modem, and you won't regret it. Otherwise, there are no cheap, fast, internal,
non Winmodems. Try http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html for information
on modems. It's what I used before I bought mine. Look at the packaging on the
modem very carefully before paying for it, as it is sometimes almost impossible
to tell. And the sales people rarely know themselves. It helps if one of them
actually runs Linux. Hope this helps.
mark
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, jkauffman wrote:
>Having spent several hourse unsuccessfully trying to get
>linux (Mandrake 7.1) to recognise mt modem, I had a poke
>around in the supplied documentation and have reached the
>conclusion that it is one of the so called 'winmodems'. My
>question is can anybody recommend a reasonably cheap modem
>that is compatible with linux. Also, how can I tell if a
>modem will be compatible? Will any Hayes compatible modem
>do?
>
>Comments appreciated
>
>
>* Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:54:25 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo boot problem: hangs on LI
dan wrote:
>
> i have windows 98 on the "C:" drive (/dev/hda1)
> i have rh 6.2 linux on the "first" scsi drive (/dev/sda1)
> the scsi drive is 9Gbyte and has 1100+ cylinders
> the root partition was created first, and is about half of the disk
> so /boot should be below the 1024th cylinder ?
> the boot disk (/dev/hda) is 13G, with a 6G partition with win98
> on it
> the bios has LBA on for the ide disk
Typically the "LILO hangs on LI" problem is caused by a boot partition
that straddles the 1024 cylinder limit. By putting your boot directory
into a partition of its own and that is well within the 1024 cylinder
limit, this problem almost always clears up.
On this box, I have
DEVICE DIR
==================
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 /
etc. etc.
This way, my boot partition is always contained within the 1024 limit,
regardless of what size the / partition may happen to be.
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Chem-R-Us
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: advice needed: best vid card?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 03:51:29 GMT
Hi everyone,
As I will be upgrading my computer soon, I'm looking for a new video card
to replace my Voodoo3 2000. I need good performance, good Linux
software support, and a reasonable price. I asked a friend and he
recommended the Matrox G400, while others claim nVidia is best, and
still others drool over the Voodoo5. What do you think?
Thanks!
Jim
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From: "seumas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel i810 chipset, AC97 sound driver
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 16:18:27 +1200
I'm running oss from http://www.opensound.com/ and it works perfectly on the
i810. It does ask for registration and about $30 but seems to run while
just giving me warnings. Very easy install.
Rob Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8l1o38$qcn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running Suse 6.4 and am trying to find drivers for the i810 chipset
> which if I'm right manages (other things) the sound for my computer. From
> what I can gather this manager implements AC97 specification.
>
> So, 1) has anyone had success driving the i810 chipset to produce good
> noises? and
> , if not, 2) can anyone point me to the AC97 spec
>
> Cheers for now
>
> --
> Rob Sykes
>
> Remove NOSPAM to e-mail
>
>
> --
> Rob Sykes
>
> Remove NOSPAM to e-mail
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: modem problems with linux
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:15:34 GMT
"jim, jan & jason salotti" wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> Gotta problem with a modem! System is running Caldera 2.4 edesktop with kde.
> We have a askey V1433VQH-U modem. Using kppp to dail and the connection and
> the chat script keeps timing out. We need a patch or drivers or instructions
> on how to fix. We are newbees so keep it as simple as possible.
>
> thanks,
> Jim & Jason Salotti
I found Askey modems to suck. Good luck!
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From: "mzvukwiaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP Computer
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 03:23:05 GMT
In article <8l1uj4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rob Love"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a Mandrake Linux user, I am running an AMD K6-2 475mhz
> processor
> with 96mb RAM. It doesn't cut it. I need more power. So I am going to
> build a new computer from scratch. I am really interested in building a
> multi-processing computer, but I don't really know where to start. I
> don't need to run any ridiculously big programs. But I think that with
> two processors running multiple processes would go a lot smoother than
> they do now. Also I will buy more RAM. Any ideas on what I should look
> into to build a kick ass Linux SMP machine.. I'm thinking 2 PIII
> 550s.....
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Love
>
>
Ive just gone through the process of building a dual-celeron with the Abit BP6
mainboard and Im very happy with it. I would reccomend overall with a
SMP system, dont skimp on hardware - get plenty of RAM, get a good NIC, go
with a tried and true AGP card. A good place to start (even if you dont want the
dual-celeron action) is the BP6 website. You can find Linux tips, SMP benches,
just general advice and q&a's.
http://www.bp6.com
Luck ~
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bdl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux 2.2.16bdl #2 SMP Sun Jul 9 22:25:14 PDT 2000 i686
7:23pm up 2:48, 2 users, load average: 2.37, 2.75, 2.51
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From: "Keith W. Sheffield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI hard disk sector size.
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 05:05:30 GMT
I have an IBM DFHS SCSI-II hard drive that has a sector size of 514
bytes instead of the normal 512. According to the IBM web page this
drive can have a sector size from between 256 & 744 bytes. I've tried
using my Tekram controller's low-level format function to reformat the
drive, which according to the documentation should fix it. However, it
doesn't.
I also downloaded some IBM dos utils for hard drives, but they won't
touch it because the ID string says it's a Tandem 4265-1 rev 1011 disk.
I came across the following in the old SCSI HOWTO:
"All direct access SCSI devices with a block size of 256, 512, or 1024
bytes should work. Other block sizes will not work (Note that this can
often be fixed by
changing the block and/or sector sizes using the MODE SELECT SCSI
command)"
Anyone know how to fix this?
--
He who laughs last probably made a backup.
Keith W. Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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