Linux-Hardware Digest #785, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: MSI694 and Promise ATA100 (Jabroni154)
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test9? ("À̽ÂÇå")
Excellent NIC card for Redhat (Jeff Moore)
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test(6,7,8)? ("À̽ÂÇå")
Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive ("Joachim Ring")
Re: Ghost partition (Jeff Moore)
Re: Please recommend a webcam and good SW for it. (Jeff Moore)
Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive (Jeff Moore)
USB connect of Visor with 2.2.18pre17 (Holger Schauer)
Re: Mystery Processor wont run Redhat 6.1 (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Ghost partition (Eric)
Re: Mystery Processor wont run Redhat 6.1 (Grzegorz Mazur)
backup with ecrix vxa-1 (Peter Maas)
Re: ATA100 & RH7.0 ("Christopher Keller")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jabroni154)
Subject: Re: MSI694 and Promise ATA100
Date: 26 Oct 2000 08:06:22 GMT
>
>Do you have the global parameter: "linear" in your "lilo.conf" file?
>
>JRT
>
>
Yes, I do
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From: "À̽ÂÇå" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test9?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:31:16 +0900
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test9?
Thanks....
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Excellent NIC card for Redhat
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:34:02 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought a combo pack from CompUSA and it works great.
I bought the D-Link 10/100 Network in a Box, 5 Port Network Kit,
DFE-910, with two DFE-530TX+ 10/100 NIC cards and a 5 port 10/100 auto
switching hub.
I installed the cards and changed the nic modules and it came right up
and works great.
I have yet to initialize it in 100mbs mode but I have it up serving
appletalk netatalk to two macs at 10mbs and it works great the first
time.
I am currently using a cyrix 6x86 166+, RedHat 6.0 with the RealTek
RTL8129 / RTL8139 (rt18139) module driver, using IP masquerade firewall,
caching dns, netatalk, leafnode news server, and smtp mail, and I have
checked all these servers and they all work great.
Good Job D-Link.
Jeff Moore
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From: "À̽ÂÇå" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test(6,7,8)?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:38:30 +0900
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test(6,7,8)?
Thanks......
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From: "Joachim Ring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:48:24 +0200
> Here's exactly what you're looking for:
>
> http://home.austin.rr.com/bkeryan/slram/
unfortunately he seems to use win, maybe a reason to convert?
joachim
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghost partition
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:47:02 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's not a ghost partition.
Linux installs the extra 2> partitions in an extended partition map (hda2
extended partition, not primary partition) all the partitions 5> are
included in this extended partition. This is not necessary if you have =<4
partitions, if you use fdisk you can make all your partitions primary
(1-4). This is not too important as a user, but if you reinitialize with
more than 4 partitions then you will have to make an extended partition to
hold the partitions 5 and above. Don't forget your swap partition which
doesn't show up in your boot or fstab sometimes, and is required for swap
virtual memory, but does not have a file system designation. Just be sure
to make your /boot partition completely below the 1023 cylinder if you use
fdisk so your kernel and lilo can boot properly. swap and /boot partitions
are both required and very important, read about disk partition
requirements before you try to use fdisk. This is required reading for
installing your own partitions for initializing your hard disk. Also very
important that you know how to do this if you ever use more than one hard
disk or scsi disks possibly.
Hope this helps you in your future install endeavors.
Jeff Moore
Mark Post wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:32:05 -0500, "Clifton T. Sharp Jr."
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >At startup, I have three partitions; 'fdisk' shows the two I put there.
> >Ideas?
>
> >[from 'dmesg' output]
> >Partition check:
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda4
>
> >[from 'fdisk']
> >Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >/dev/hda1 1 33 265072 82 Linux swap
> >/dev/hda2 * 34 2495 19776015 83 Linux native
>
> What does cfdisk show? I've always liked it more than fdisk.
>
> Mark Post
>
> Postmodern Consulting
> Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
> To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please recommend a webcam and good SW for it.
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:55:36 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have one camera that works good. It is an old Connectix Color Quickcam,
pc parallel version, connected to the standard parallel port. The drivers
for it are easy to get on the internet and it is easy to compile and
install. It is a little slow but the picture quality is very good. The
package I use is the Qcam for linux with Qseeme for linux, and I have
connected to my local reflector with it to send video over the lan and it
works fine. You may have a hard time finding one, but I know it works
very good. It is not flaky or jumpy, and has good codecs that are
available.
I use RedHat 6.0 and I am upgrading to 7.0 soon. I hope the Qcam still
works with 7.0.
Hope this helps you in some way.
Jeff Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Georg Acher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > But that is not a real barrier, reverse engineering helps a lot:
>
> > http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~acher/quickcam/
>
> Yes, I already knew of that site. It is pretty impressing to be able
> to (partially) reverse-enineer the protocol like that, but if Logitech
> was smarter, it would not be necessary.
>
> /EA
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 05:02:37 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another alternative is to use multiple 64k swap partitions. RedHat supports
this and it is a very stable way to increase your swap space.
Jeff Moore
Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windoze is a
shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. Macintosh Rules Linux end user
client implementation. Go Apple Go. Check out the new G4 cube if your into
overkill on client machines, or just like playing multimedia games.
"Greg H." wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Remko & Marlies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to allocate the uncached part of the memory as a RAM drive
> > and use this drive as part of the virtual memory in order to seperate
> > cacheble and non-cacheble RAM? Or should I just donate this 32 MB to my
>
> Here's exactly what you're looking for:
>
> http://home.austin.rr.com/bkeryan/slram/
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Greg
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From: Holger Schauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB connect of Visor with 2.2.18pre17
Date: 26 Oct 2000 12:44:20 +0200
Hi there,
I still haven't figured out how to connect (hotsync) my Visor with my
Athlon-System. Here's what I have: a Visor Deluxe, an NMC-Board with
a Via KX133-Chipset (i.e. USB-Adaptor is the same as on the Via
Apollo-Boards, i.e. UHCI-hub) and both USB and serial-cradle.
Hotsyncing via the serial cradle works fine, USB connect works fine
under that Non-OS called Win98. The system is a Debian 2.2 potato with
glibc2.1.
What I did to get the Visor connect via USB under Linux is to install
a plain 2.2.18pre17 (which I was told should include the latest
USB-backport from 2.4.0pre-Kernels) and re-compile, create new
/dev/ttyUSB*-devices and so forth, as described in the
Linux-Visor-Mini-Howto. On pressing the hotsync-button and starting
coldsync (1.2.6) or pilot-link nothing much happens -- other than that
/var/log/messages grows infinitely. This also doesn't change when I
press the hotsync-button again, only when I remove the Visor from the
cradle I can abort the (not at all working) sync. I have two
/proc/bus/usb-directories (with the same inode number) but the Visor
doesn't show up.
This is what I get in /var/log/messages: at first the device is
detected but then somehow it is instantely disconnected (of course, I
didn't touch it):
Oct 26 08:24:19 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: serial_open
Oct 26 08:24:19 bauhaus kernel: usb-serial.h: serial_open - serial == NULL
Oct 26 08:24:22 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: serial_open
Oct 26 08:24:22 bauhaus kernel: usb-serial.h: serial_open - serial == NULL
Oct 26 08:24:33 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: serial_open
Oct 26 08:24:33 bauhaus kernel: usb-serial.h: serial_open - serial == NULL
Oct 26 08:24:33 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: port 1 connection change
Oct 26 08:24:33 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: port 1 connection change
Oct 26 08:24:33 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: portstatus 101, change 1, 12 Mb/s
Oct 26 08:24:33 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: portstatus 101, change 0, 12 Mb/s
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: portstatus 103, change 0, 12 Mb/s
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned
device number 2
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: kmalloc IF c6f5b400, numif 1
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=0
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: USB device number 2 default language
ID 0 x409
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: Manufacturer: Handspring Inc
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: Product: Handspring Visor
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: Looking at Handspring Visor
Vendor id=082d Product id=0100
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: descriptor matches
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: found bulk in
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: found bulk out
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: found bulk in
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: found bulk out
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter
detected
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: get_free_serial 2
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: get_free_serial - minor base = 0
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: visor.c: visor_startup
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: visor.c: visor_startup - Set config to 1
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: Number of ports: 2
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: port 1, is for
Generic use and is bound to ttyUSB0
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: visor.c: Handspring Visor: port 2, is for
HotSync use and is bound to ttyUSB1
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter now
attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter now
attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: serial driver claimed interface c6f5b400
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug add 2
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: kusbd policy returned 0x0
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: port 1 connection change
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: portstatus 103, change 0, 12 Mb/s
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: kusbd: /sbin/hotplug remove 2
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: kusbd policy returned 0x0
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: visor.c: visor_shutdown
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter now
disconnected from ttyUSB0
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: Handspring Visor converter now
disconnected from ttyUSB1
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: return_serial
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: hub.c: portstatus 103, change 0, 12 Mb/s
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned
device number 2
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: kmalloc IF c6f5b440, numif 1
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=0
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usb.c: USB device number 2 default language
ID 0x409
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: Manufacturer: Handspring Inc
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: Product: Handspring Visor
Oct 26 08:24:34 bauhaus kernel: usbserial.c: Looking at Handspring Visor
Vendor id=082d Product id=0100
And then it goes on and on to detect and disconnect ...
Anybody any ideas?
Holger
--
--- http://www.coling.uni-freiburg.de/~schauer/ ---
"I'm just like you -- you're boring, too."
-- Hagfish, "Plain"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Mystery Processor wont run Redhat 6.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:16:46 GMT
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:48:04 -0400, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi,
> I was given a 90 Mhz computer with 80megs of ram.
>I put in a hard drive that already had Redhat 6.1 installed
>on it. When I try to boot it up, I got a message, "Checking
>if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode....No
>Kernel Panic This kernel doesn't support cpu's with broken WP.
>Recompile it for a 386." A friend who gave me the computer was running
>an older version of Win95 and when he tried to install
>Win98, he got a message saying that the computer needs
>a processor that is a 486 or better.
If your looking for advice, I'd say to switch Linux distros. Some distros still
come with kernel and tools compiled for the 386 (Slackware is one), and will
work on even your broken CPU.
Other than that, I'd say that you probably have one expensive boad-anchor there
;-)
Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghost partition
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:48:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Moore wrote:
>
> That's not a ghost partition.
>
> Linux installs the extra 2> partitions in an extended partition map (hda2
> extended partition, not primary partition) all the partitions 5> are
> included in this extended partition. This is not necessary if you have =<4
> partitions, if you use fdisk you can make all your partitions primary
> (1-4). This is not too important as a user, but if you reinitialize with
> more than 4 partitions then you will have to make an extended partition to
> hold the partitions 5 and above. Don't forget your swap partition which
> doesn't show up in your boot or fstab sometimes, and is required for swap
> virtual memory, but does not have a file system designation. Just be sure
> to make your /boot partition completely below the 1023 cylinder if you use
> fdisk so your kernel and lilo can boot properly. swap and /boot partitions
> are both required and very important, read about disk partition
> requirements before you try to use fdisk. This is required reading for
> installing your own partitions for initializing your hard disk. Also very
> important that you know how to do this if you ever use more than one hard
> disk or scsi disks possibly.
>
> Hope this helps you in your future install endeavors.
>
> Jeff Moore
>
> Mark Post wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:32:05 -0500, "Clifton T. Sharp Jr."
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >At startup, I have three partitions; 'fdisk' shows the two I put there.
> > >Ideas?
> >
> > >[from 'dmesg' output]
> > >Partition check:
> > > hda: hda1 hda2 hda4
> >
> > >[from 'fdisk']
> > >Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 cylinders
> > >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> >
> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > >/dev/hda1 1 33 265072 82 Linux swap
> > >/dev/hda2 * 34 2495 19776015 83 Linux native
> >
> > What does cfdisk show? I've always liked it more than fdisk.
> >
> > Mark Post
> >
> > Postmodern Consulting
> > Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
> > To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
Jeff.... have you even looked at the partition table shown?
There are no extended partitions there, nor is /dev/hda4 present (which
shows up in the partition check)
This is a bizarre thing.
And to Clifton, could you post a file containing your MBR?
(ie. dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR.img bs=512 count=1)
and post MBR.img (as an attachment)
Eric
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From: Grzegorz Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mystery Processor wont run Redhat 6.1
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:11:51 +0200
mike wrote:
> Hi,
> I was given a 90 Mhz computer with 80megs of ram.
> I put in a hard drive that already had Redhat 6.1 installed
> on it. When I try to boot it up, I got a message, "Checking
> if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode....No
> Kernel Panic This kernel doesn't support cpu's with broken WP.
> Recompile it for a 386." A friend who gave me the computer was running
> an older version of Win95 and when he tried to install
> Win98, he got a message saying that the computer needs
> a processor that is a 486 or better.
Looks like NexGen Nx586, a nice collector item.
Something like Pentium performance and 386-only software compatibility, no
FPU in early models (added later in 90+ MHz variants).
That's exactly what I'd like to find under my Christmas tree...
--
G. Mazur
MyWebPage: http://grafi.ii.pw.edu.pl/gbm (x86 and Matrox secrets/tools)
To see my address and employer - read the mail header...
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From: Peter Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: backup with ecrix vxa-1
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:41:46 +0200
Hi,
we are doing backups with dump and ecrix vxa-1. First it worked
but now we have serious difficulties (probably hardware related).
My question is:
- Which is (in your opinion) the best solution (application +
hardware) for unattended overnight backups of about 30-60 GB?
Thanks for your help,
Regards, Peter.
--
==================================================================
Peter Maas, m+r infosysteme, D-52070 Aachen, Hubert-Wienen-Str. 24
Tel +49-241-875094 Fax +49-241-875095 eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Christopher Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA100 & RH7.0
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 06:48:40 -0700
"jwk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>
> >The Promise controller is not supported in the official 2.2 series
kernels.
> >It is supported with the 2.4.0-test kernels and a back port is available
> >for 2.2 kernels through 2.2.16. SuSE 7.0 includes support for the Promise
> >controller. There is no support in Red Hat 7.0 or Mandrake 7.1.
> >
> also 2.2.17: ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
Correct. However, there may be one other option. RH 7.0 includes the 2.4
pre-patch series of kernels (although it doesn't use them on bootup).
However, according to some friendly folks at RH, it may be possible via lilo
options & expert mode to use this kernel in booting, which should then
recognize the disk correctly as an ATA-100 device. I'm not holding my
breath, but it might be possible.
Option 2, Promise has RH 6.0 drivers for the Ultra100 cards. It may be
possible to use these. I haven't tried this yet, kinda waiting for some
friends at RH to get back to me.
At any rate, I'm kinda just hanging out using my ATA100 drives on ME for
now. I'll post a message to this group if anything comes of it.
-Chris
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