Linux-Hardware Digest #939, Volume #13 Sat, 25 Nov 00 09:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Looking for scsi parts. ("D. Stimits")
Re: Partitioning ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Setting up a printer under RedHat7 (sigh)
Recommended Motherboard for overclocking Celerons under Linux? (Dr Aldo Medina)
Re: Software RAID (John Nelson)
Re: Setting up a printer under RedHat7 (sigh) (Robert Kiesling)
Re: Newbie needs help with video card config.... (NEWSNODE)
Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner? (Alexander Neumann)
Re: suse 6.4 problem (NEWSNODE)
Re: Looking for scsi parts. (B'ichela)
Re: Looking for scsi parts. (Robert Kiesling)
Re: D-link 229PCT (NEWSNODE)
ATI all in wonder 128 ("Yann Helloco")
Re: playing video shuts down ppp ("David Cunningham")
Re: Geforce2 + X (Max Lungarella)
Re: ATI all in wonder 128 ("grandos")
Fake DVD-ROMs with mkisofs (Joseph Morris)
AMD 760 chipset and Linux (Eric Frey)
Re: fsck 43.9% non-contiguous ???? (NEWSNODE)
Re: modem type for juno (NEWSNODE)
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:10:21 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Looking for scsi parts.
B'ichela wrote:
>
> I have an old Storage Dimensions box that holds four Full
> hight HDs, Long ago before I got it. you could set the box to a
> Scsi-ID and the drives had Scsi-LUNS. These luns were created by
> converting the actual Drive scsi addresses into LUNS by the card
> inside the box. When I got the box the original SCSI-ID to Lun card
> was lost and the owner never found it.
> I am looking for a replacement that can be retrofitted in to
> do the same thing! Either the original Storage Dimensions card or a
> generic card.
> What I need is the formal name of this type of thing and who
> sells it, either new or used, prefferaby USED. This thing is used under
> Slackware Linux 3.9 with a Adaptec
> AVA-2825 Vesa Local Buss Scsi host adaptor. Right now the drives are
> individualy set to seperate Scsi IDs using a standard 7 Scsi Device
> 50 ping cable with Centronics-50 pin connectors on each end.
> Due to the fact that I running out of Scsi-IDs I REALLY want
> this darn adaptor!
> My card is already set under Linux to probe for Scsi LUNs and
> I want to use them! Original Dials on back of box allowed me to set
> Scsi Ids without opening box. I need those cables too! Silly 9 pin IDE
> plug assemblies Plugs are actually a 3 x 3 matrix! Dials still there but
> unused right now.
> I appoligize this is off-topic but I really would like to
> restore the box to its original setup. You may post here or email me
> with info if you desire.
> I only ask here as I know Linux people are very resourceful
> in finding such items. Being a heavy Linux user I am asking for help
> from others who have the knowledge of where to look!
>
> --
>
> B'ichela
I associate LUNs (Logical Unit Addressing) with RAID. I don't know if
just an internal RAID card would be enough, or whether it would also
require additional software (beyond the RAID capable kernel and tools).
My guess is that a RAID card that supports LUNs would be enough.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:17:41 -0500
> I am tired of messing up my partitions.. please can someone explain this to
> me:
>
> I have a 45 Gb Harddrive and want to run Win98 and Linux Red Hat 7.0 on it.
> I want to have a 5 Gb C: drive, 10 Gb D: drive, 10 Gb E: drive for windows.
> I want to use the rest for Linux (i.e. 256 Swap + approx. 20 Gb for Root,
> Usr, etc.)
>
> I have tried to install windows first. I made C:, D: and E:.
> When I installed Linux it would not boot because of the limit in sectors for
> lilo.
> I'm tired of using boot disks.. to much work to compile and update the
> kernel..
>
> So.. therefore I deleted D: and E: to install Linux. This worked nice..
> But when I should reinstall my D: and E: windows partitions I used fdisk in
> Dos and
> propably overwrote the Linux installation in some kind.. After that Windows
> wouldn't start
> either.. aargh...
>
> In what order should I do this, and should I use fdisk in DOS?
Yes, it's probably best to use DOS fdisk to set up the DOS partitions,
since it will respect DOS's arbitrary limits (only one primary partition
per drive, and who knows what else). Then use linux fdisk to carve up the
rest and change the partition types.
Poor brain-damaged Windows can get terminally confused if all of the WinDOS
partitions don't come first on the drive. So, your first plan was probably
best: first C:, D:, and E: partitions, then all of your linux partitions.
To get around the size limit in lilo, use a recent version-- haven't tried
it but I'm told that recent versions of lilo don't have the 8 GB
constraint.
Good luck,
Andrew.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Setting up a printer under RedHat7 (sigh)
Date: 25 Nov 2000 05:18:16 GMT
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:08:00 GMT, i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for the posts...but I'm trying to figure out how to
>troubleshoot my printer.
>(please see my previous post for specific config files)
sorry for the irrelevant comments.
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
this is extremely thorough, if nobody here
can clear the problem up for you.
MP
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From: Dr Aldo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recommended Motherboard for overclocking Celerons under Linux?
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:04:54 -0600
Some propose me the Abit SA6R, but I don't know if there is some
compatibility issue
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From: John Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Software RAID
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 23:14:42 -0800
This one time, at band camp, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said...
> Tut tut. No, it doesn't slow it appreciably, provided the disk writes
> are on two separate controllers (ide). Yes, two commands will be
This is the only "right" way to do RAID1 on IDE/ATA disk drives. Otherwise, if you put
both drives on the same channel and the master dies, the array dies. Rather defeats
the
purpose.
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Subject: Re: Setting up a printer under RedHat7 (sigh)
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 07:20:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:08:00 GMT, i
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the posts...but I'm trying to figure out how to
> >troubleshoot my printer.
>
> >(please see my previous post for specific config files)
>
> sorry for the irrelevant comments.
>
> http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
>
> this is extremely thorough, if nobody here
> can clear the problem up for you.
Hardly irrelevant. You're right. The OP should have thought to look
there first. The LDP site is the _first_ place to look for any such
information. Then, think about posting to a NG.
But then, most of us already knew that. Sorry for the rude
interruption.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NEWSNODE)
Date: 25 Nov 2000 08:11:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help with video card config....
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE, find out the correct information for your
hardware; call Dell, call Asus, find their websites whatever. You can pop your
monitor and/or video card using incorrect horizontal/vertical sync rates.
Trust me, I've got a monitor in the closet that didn't make it through my
X-windows learning curve. Luckily, it was only $30 at the flea market, but
it's a 9'' SVGA and I really wanted to be able to use it. But it's toast.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Neumann)
Subject: Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner?
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:54:18 +0100
Problem is solved!
Thanks for all reactions.
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NEWSNODE)
Date: 25 Nov 2000 08:58:10 GMT
Subject: Re: suse 6.4 problem
The first thing I would do is boot the rescue system and do an fsck on your
partition(s) to clean up any disk errors; I've seen crashes like this on SuSE
5.3 & 6.3 when packages don't install correctly. However, this probably won't
allow your system to boot, it will just fix your filesystem so you can move on
to the next step:
Go back to the installation "Add/Remove Packages" section and remove the
package associated with the crash. I am not sure what "airport.o" is, but it
might just be some X-game stuff. If so you can skip it for now and try to
reboot. Then, when you've got things in order a little bit you can always try
to reinstall it if want it.
If you still can't boot, you may have to do a reinstall. in which case you
might want to rethink having a single 8GB partition; Linux typically has
management problems with partitions that large. In addition, you'll find that
fsck takes a long time to check it and may even crash with an "out of mermory"
error due to the large inode table that must be manipulated.
As an example of a more efficient method, I laid out my one Linux system with
(2) 8.4GB Maxtors using 15 partitions each. Each of the major directories
(/usr, /bin, /doc) have their own partition on one drive, with none much larger
than 1GB, plus I have a second drive for /pub, /pub/uploads, etc. It's a bit
more work in the begining, but a lot safer and more efficient in the long run.
Hope this helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Looking for scsi parts.
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 02:51:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:10:21 -0700, D. Stimits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I associate LUNs (Logical Unit Addressing) with RAID. I don't know if
>just an internal RAID card would be enough, or whether it would also
>require additional software (beyond the RAID capable kernel and tools).
>My guess is that a RAID card that supports LUNs would be enough.
Now I am a wee bit confused. RAID?? I cannot remember exactly
what RAID is! Now it may be possible that this WAS a raid box. but if
so would a standard controler drive a box with a Raid card that does
what I want?
You see All I want to do is set the main address of the box to
1. while having drives inside (they are different sizes btw). as the
following modified example
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: MAXTOR Model: LXT-535S Rev: 8.74
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 01
Vendor: MAXTOR Model: XT-4380S Rev: B5A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 02
Vendor: MAXTOR Model: XT-4380S Rev: B5A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
Does anyone have the adaptor card that goes inside the Storage
Dimensions unit that does this? Originally there was such a board in
the unit itself.
I also would like a SCSI cdrom case that does the same! I want
to get a few more Hitachi CDR-3750 drives (they are single speed but
nice caddy type drives) and stick them into a box with a similar
layout. Barring finding another Hitachi. Is there any currently
produced drives that uses CD Caddies? I find them indispensable for
fast loading and minimal CD Damage.
This is very useful as I have hyperactive cats!
--
B'ichela
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Subject: Re: Looking for scsi parts.
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:06:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela) writes:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:10:21 -0700, D. Stimits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I associate LUNs (Logical Unit Addressing) with RAID. I don't know if
> >just an internal RAID card would be enough, or whether it would also
> >require additional software (beyond the RAID capable kernel and tools).
> >My guess is that a RAID card that supports LUNs would be enough.
> Now I am a wee bit confused. RAID?? I cannot remember exactly
> what RAID is! Now it may be possible that this WAS a raid box. but if
> so would a standard controler drive a box with a Raid card that does
> what I want?
> You see All I want to do is set the main address of the box to
> 1. while having drives inside (they are different sizes btw). as the
> following modified example
>
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> Vendor: MAXTOR Model: LXT-535S Rev: 8.74
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 01
> Vendor: MAXTOR Model: XT-4380S Rev: B5A
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 02
> Vendor: MAXTOR Model: XT-4380S Rev: B5A
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
>
> Does anyone have the adaptor card that goes inside the Storage
> Dimensions unit that does this? Originally there was such a board in
> the unit itself.
> I also would like a SCSI cdrom case that does the same! I want
> to get a few more Hitachi CDR-3750 drives (they are single speed but
> nice caddy type drives) and stick them into a box with a similar
> layout. Barring finding another Hitachi. Is there any currently
> produced drives that uses CD Caddies? I find them indispensable for
> fast loading and minimal CD Damage.
> This is very useful as I have hyperactive cats!
Plextors, http://www.plextor.com/, are known mostly as Sun peripherals.
But they're expensive. The Plextors, not the cats.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NEWSNODE)
Date: 25 Nov 2000 09:11:58 GMT
Subject: Re: D-link 229PCT
I am sending you via separate e-mail the D-link setup/diagonostic programs.
Their DOS programs so you'll need a minimal DOS boot disk plus a disk to hold
the utilities.
Just boot the machine with the card installed to DOS, then swap disks, change
to the A drive and type setup. Beforehand you'll need to know which io/irq is
free in your system so you can set the card to ones that don't conflict.
There, you should have it in the morning e-mail.
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From: "Yann Helloco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI all in wonder 128
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 11:01:19 +0100
Hello,
Does anyone ever set up ATI all in wonder 128 card with Linux? I'm
looking for solution but I can't find.
thanks in advance ;)
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From: "David Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: playing video shuts down ppp
Date: 25 Nov 2000 12:03:35 GMT
Are you using a "winmodem"? Certain kinds of modems lack a built in UART
chip. The analog wave conversion ADC and UART functions are handed over to
the drivers for the modem. Unfortunately this forces the CPU to perform
this conversion so that you can send and receive data over the modem. Mpeg
video is a *very* CPU intensive operation. It's possible that the MPEG
decompression burns up so much CPU time that there's precious little CPU
left over to decode the modem signals so modem communications slow way down.
This used to happen to me. If you can confirm you are in fact running a
winmodem, well you'll really need to upgrade your modem to fix this issue.
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> hi
>
> i regularly watch .mpg and .rm movies on linux while surfing the net.
> i've noticed that when watching movies, i receive almost no data from my
> ppp interface. i stop playing the movies, and i start receiving data as
> normal. i have a dial up account, using ppp-2.3.11 and interface
> /dev/ppp0.
>
> any ideas what the problem could be?
> ali
>
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From: Max Lungarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Geforce2 + X
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:24:47 +0100
hi
> I'm busy designing a new machine and am looking at the Creative Labs
> GeForce2 Ultra DDR (no, I don't know what all that stuff means; I just
> want a decent video card) for my primary head. The nvidia documentation
> isn't particularly clear as to which chipsets it doesn't work with.
>
> Has anyone gotten a Geforce 2 to work correctly under XFree86 4.0.1, or
> can anyone reccomend a decent video cards to use as a primary head?
> (Needs to be fast for X; I won't be playing QIII on this thing).
i got a geforce2 gts (not ultra) to work under xfree4.0.1. it works
really well, and the performances are comparable to the one i get with
win$ - they are amazing :) do you plan to use the linuxstation work 3d
stuff? if not, a matrox g400 would be another good choice.
have fun
max
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Massimiliano (Max) Lungarella
"The best way to accelerate a Windows-box is at 9.8 meters per second
square."
"You have moved your mouse. Windows will now reboot."
... and always remember, the more you sleep, the more you get sleepy.
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From: "grandos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI all in wonder 128
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 14:29:49 +0100
I haven't any problem to install it under a Caldera but it doesn't work well
with XFree. Someone told me to try a commercial X server. I haven't tried
yet.
Cheers
Yann Helloco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
8vo2hs$kv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello,
> Does anyone ever set up ATI all in wonder 128 card with Linux? I'm
> looking for solution but I can't find.
>
> thanks in advance ;)
>
>
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From: Joseph Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fake DVD-ROMs with mkisofs
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 13:35:04 +0000
I have a Toshiba DVD-RAM drive (which only works properly in linux 2.2 since
2.4 is buggered, but that's another story).
For archival of data that isn't going to change much, I want to create
fake DVD-ROMs, using the type-2 carts that are removable and can be read back
in a regular DVD-ROM drive.
My initial experiments used mkisofs to generate a 2.4 gigabyte ISO image
which had to be done under linux 2.4 for it's >2GB file ability.
I wrote the ISO image to the disk using dd (it -seemed- to work, I think the
crashes in 2.4 are filesystem-related rather than device-related) and I had
a fake DVD-ROM which a friend of mine was able to read, even with his old
DVD-ROM drive.
But it isn't right. Windows 95 is destroyed if you try to read the fake disk,
Windows 2K can't read it at all and nor can DOS (which can read real DVD-ROMs).
Any ideas what needs to be done to make the disk fully compatible?
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From: Eric Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD 760 chipset and Linux
Date: 25 Nov 2000 13:15:34 GMT
I am thinking of buying a Micron Millenium XP that uses the new AMD 760
chipset and DDR-SDRAM. I am wondering if there are any gotchas with this
system or chipset and Linux. I know about the problem with RH 6.2 and
Athlon's and that doesn't worry me. Will UDMA-100 work with this? Will
there be other problems? The video card is an NVidia NV15 GEFORCE 256 AGP
with 64 MB DDR. Will this work with XFree?
Thanks for any pointers.
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Eric C. Frey
The University of North Carolina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NEWSNODE)
Date: 25 Nov 2000 13:53:41 GMT
Subject: Re: fsck 43.9% non-contiguous ????
I'd really like to see a more in-depth explanation of your theory since it flys
in the face of conventional wisdom:
For any user, having accessed the first sector of a file, the least amount of
time will be spent if subsequent sectors in the file reside on the same track
or those immediately adjacent. Any lengthy excursions of the head in gathering
all of the sectors in the file takes time, and therefore wastes time.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NEWSNODE)
Date: 25 Nov 2000 14:08:22 GMT
Subject: Re: modem type for juno
Since it's an old, generic 33.6 it's probably Hayes compatable. Go for all of
the baseline stuff: Hayes, no compression, no speed shifting, etc. You setup
program is probably building an initialization string, or will fetch one from a
database, so the no frills approach is always best to start with.
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