Linux-Hardware Digest #953, Volume #13 Tue, 28 Nov 00 07:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Fake DVD-ROMs with mkisofs (Yasuyuki Saito)
Re: Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram? (Johan De Wit)
Re: hard drives: Can I just unplug one's power cable, leaving the flat data cable
still plugged in? ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: Cdrecord. (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Booktree 869 TV chip ("Adam Short")
UDMA and KT133 chipset (Jacek Trzcinski)
Socket Dual Serial I/O Card on WinBook Si2 (Jim Rothrock)
Re: Xircom RealPort CardBus RBEM56G ??? (Michael Keller)
Re: Gateway/ALR Motherboard VRM ("Brian McKerr")
Re: ATA66 HDD sharing with CDROM/CDRW/ZIP? (Romain Guilleret)
Using a ATA/66 disk with a ATA/66 cable on a Linux 2.2 system (Romain Guilleret)
Re: Video card recommendations for new system? ("Rob")
Re: head-banging hard drive - any help? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?=)
Re: Multiport Ethernet cards (Robert Depenbrock)
Re: Icp-Vortex 6518RS Scsi Controller, SuSE 7.0 (Anton Dischner)
Re: Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?=)
hardware question ("David Johnston")
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From: Yasuyuki Saito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fake DVD-ROMs with mkisofs
Date: 28 Nov 2000 08:17:49 GMT
Hello,
In article Message-ID:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at comp.os.linux.hardware
Eric wrote:
= Yeah, write it using the UDF Filesystem.
= DVD's are not formatted with iso9660, but with the universal disc format
= (UDF)
=
= Unfortunately, there's only read support for UDF in linux for now.
I know we can write some files to the UDF
formated DVD-RAM on Linux. Please refer to below
Web page:
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~bfennema/udf.html
However it has a problem that we can not write a
file on UDF in Windows which is written in Linux,
namely, the file is read-only for Windows. We can
read and write a file in Linux which is written in
Windows.
Of cause, there is no problem if we use UDF media
on Linux only. ;-)
Or, We can use DVD-RAM on ext2 alike a HDD.
Please refer below Wep page:
http://beam.kisarazu.ac.jp/~saito/linux/dvd-ram/dvd-ram-english.html
--
Yasuyuki SAITO
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From: Johan De Wit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:15:20 GMT
Hi,
Try minix. I'm running it on a 486dx2 - 32 Ram. Don't know if apache i=
s=20
ported to it. There are webservers running this OS.
Greetings
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: hard drives: Can I just unplug one's power cable, leaving the flat data
cable still plugged in?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:35:11 GMT
Shriller.
Folkert Rienstra wrote in message <8vurnk$4fi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ignore the (technically challenged) stalker.
>
>"Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:k_YT5.4832$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>: Your posts are becoming more shrill.
>:
>: Folkert Rienstra wrote in message
>: <8vp75a$55h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>: >Make a new chapter for UDMA harddrives in your required study material.
>:
>:
>:
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.periph.cdrom
Subject: Re: Cdrecord.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:38:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Federico Baraldi) wrote in
<8vu4sg$7un$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hi all, I've a Mandrake 7.2 and a problem using my ATAPI cd-recorder.
>
>Here what's happening ....
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 480s
>cdrecord: Errore di input/output. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
>error
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00
>Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
>
>Any help/hint would be appreciated !!
I had the same error messages, only after write, while trying to fixate.
Turned out to be a defective CDRW unit.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Booktree 869 TV chip
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:28:30 GMT
TV in with a BT848/878 card is supported under Linux but I'm not too sure
about TV out. If anyone knows I'd like more info about this myself as I have
an ATI Xpert 2000 VIVO and I'd like to get both the VI and VO functions
working. Not too sure about the chipsets involved, I'm away from my box and
at work at the mo' but I'll check later.
Adam
Sir Joltalot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a TNT2 Ultra card in my system and I'm wondering if anybody's
> figured out how to get the onboard Booktree 869 TV chip to work in
> Linux. I'd like to use the box to display MP3 visualisations on my TV..
> it'd be good for parties (a 17" monitor's too small, and 25" TVs are
> *way* cheaper than 25" monitors).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -caffeine
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From: Jacek Trzcinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA and KT133 chipset
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:28:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi !
My problems concerns motherboard SOLTEK SL-75KV+ with KT 133 chipset.
Utilizing latest kernel (2.4.0) or patched kernel 2.2.17 I 'm not able
to force my disks work in UDMA mode.
With 8GB Seagate and 6.4 GB Fujitsu I get messages like "seek
error -sector not found" or "crc error". With Caviar 1.6 GB I can
set by means hdparm -d 1
dma mode and it works in dma mode ! (transfer from about 3.5 MB/s goes
to
6MB/s)
And finally I have problem with sound. On CD delivered with
this motherboard I found driver for linux for kernel 2.5.15. I installed
it
but unfortunatelly can not play midi files( with wave and cd is OK).
Do You know any solution of my problems ?
Thanks in advance.
Jacek
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From: Jim Rothrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Socket Dual Serial I/O Card on WinBook Si2
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:34:41 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using a Socket Dual Serial I/O card on a WinBook Si2 notebook. The
card appears to be recognized correctly, but when I try to write data
through the card, the serial I/O hangs up. I have a break-out box
attached to ttyS1, and the TD, RTS, and DTR lines are green (negative
voltage) when no I/O is being done. Then, when I type the following:
ls > /dev/ttyS1
TD stays green, and RTS and DTR become red (positive voltage). The ls
command hangs until I press <ctrl>c. When I perform the above procedure
with the notebook's built-in serial port, I/O works properly. Does
anyone have any idea what the problem might be?
--
Jim Rothrock | >> The Secret Lab <<
(818) 526-3950 | The Feature Film Visual Effects Division
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of The Walt Disney Company
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From: Michael Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xircom RealPort CardBus RBEM56G ???
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:13:14 +0100
Hi Cameron.
Cameron wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if Linux supports a Xircom RealPort CardBus Ethernet
> 10/100 + Modem 56 (RBEM56G-100) PCMCIA card? I am mainly interested in
> using it with Red Hat, and also Mandrake (both are the latest versions).
I got the ethernet and also the modem of that card to work with kernel
2.2.18pre21 (debian woody), even the optional ISDN adaptor works
flawlessly in this configuration.
> If this card does work under Linux, can you help me with DETAILED
> instructions on how to configure Linux to use/work with the card, please?
> (E.g. which config files to modify, which network settings, which "adapter"
> to use, etc. etc. etc.)
With the pcmcia package delivered with debian woody the card is
recognized as soon as it is inserted, the modem is set to use the first
free ttySX.
hth & Greets
Michael Keller
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From: "Brian McKerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gateway/ALR Motherboard VRM
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:31:52 +1000
Found one at http://www.compgeeks.com
"Brian McKerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8vujo0$dkd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
>
> does anyone know where I can buy a VRM for a gateway/alr 8200/8200r
> motherboard ? I managed to pick one up cheap and I would like to use the
> seconds CPU.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Brian.
>
>
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From: Romain Guilleret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA66 HDD sharing with CDROM/CDRW/ZIP?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:07:28 +0100
TurnProX wrote:
>
> HALLO there, your message
>
> >I have upgraded the motherboard and it now supports ATA/66. I have an
> >ATA/66 hard drive from another system and want to replace the ATA/33
> >drive with it in the above setup. I have, I think, heard talk of
> >problems where ATA/66 drives share an IDE channel with another
> >(non-ATA/66) device (something to do with not being able to get maximum
> >transfer rates etc.).
>
> The problem is , that when you connect NON ata/66 (so ata/33) stuff to
> an ata66 controller, the controller will work on the LOWEST ata for
> ALL stuff on it. So, if you put an ata66 and an ata33 disk to an ata66
> controller, the controllerspeed will be reduced to ata33, also for the
> ata66 harddisk!!!!!!
That's not what I read at
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/ultra_ata_66.html:
Can I mix Ultra ATA/33 and Ultra ATA/66 drives on the same cable?
Yes, a legacy ATA specification drive can coexist with an Ultra
ATA/66 drive,
and both devices can attain their maximum performance. However, for
the Ultra
ATA/66 device to attain Ultra DMA 4 mode, an Ultra ATA/66 capable
cable is
required.
Are you sure
>
> So never put ata33 compounds to an ata66 (or higher) controller. But a
> cdrom and other cdmedia is no ata, but IDE. On this situation is NO
> restriction. So you can change your HD to the ata66 and put cdrom's to
> the controller without loosing speed. It works on my suystem GREAT!!
>
> TurnProX, the sucker from Hove
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From: Romain Guilleret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using a ATA/66 disk with a ATA/66 cable on a Linux 2.2 system
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:13:23 +0100
Hi,
I've been using a ATA/66 disk on a CUSL2 motherboard using a ATA/66
cable (40-pin).
Linux detected the disk (kernel 2.2.17, no patch) and all worked fine.
The problem is that it has not always worked.
On an ASUS P3V4X motherboard, it didn't.
I had to use the old IDE cable. With the ATA/66 cable, Linux did not
detect the drive.
Can anybody certify me that I can use a ATA/66 disk with ATA/66 cable on
a 2.2 kernel?
I wish I could enable ATA/66 optimisations once kernel 2.4 is out
without changing the cable.
TIA
Romain Guilleret
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From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Video card recommendations for new system?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 19:28:03 +0800
I'd agree with Sven's recommendations. I've now got a Geforce2 MX and
am very disapointed with its 2D performance. Both my old TNT2 and the
VirgeDX before it were crisper.
Go with the G400 or maybe have a look at a Radeon - I've heard good
things about them.
Rob
"Sven Bovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> Since you seem to be in for 2D, I would get a Matrox G400
> series card. 16 MB ought to be fine, but the 32 MB are
> not to expensive either. I would avoid GeForce based cards
> (there are some issues with the RF filter that degrades
> 2D image quality at high resolution/high refresh rate
> combinations, some people suffer from it and some don't,
> but why take a chance ?).
>
> HTH
>
> Sven
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: head-banging hard drive - any help?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:42:29 +0000
One question: does the drive work well when on its own? I mean, just connected,
but not screwed in the box... It could be a mechanical coupling of two of your
disks (happened to me before), so one tries to make the other rotate at its
speed. My solution was to put one HD upside down.
I have my HD broken since yesterday, making the same noise as yours (except it
does it every second or so), using brand new Mandrake 7.2 (it had worked fine on
an 486 for a year at least with Mandrake 7.0). Just connecting the PS is enough
for it to go wrong, and it is not detected by the BIOS... So I think it's dead.
Is yours dead or not? Could it be the same thing?
Herv�.
Thuktun Flishithy wrote:
> Hi, all...
>
> I'm having a large problem and I'm hoping for some insight here.
> Quick description: I have now experienced two hard drive "failures" in a
> short period of time (one old, one new) and I'm wondering if my system is
> causing them to go bad.
>
> More details:
>
> I have an Asus TX-97e motherboard with 4 IDE devices plugged into it
> -- 3 hard drives and 1 CD-ROM. This system is just about as crammed full
> of junk as it can be -- ISA slots contain sound card & modem; PCI slots
> have the video card and a SCSI controller, which works a CD-RW drive.
>
> This system is on 24/7, but is usually idle (except for dnetc :)
> when I'm not sitting in front of it. A couple of months ago, the 800MB
> drive which was /dev/hdb started doing what I call "head-banging" -- a
> rhythmic "ka-chunk, ka-chunk" about twice per second. Attempts to access
> this drive resulted in errors from the kernel about "device not ready"
> (they were more verbose than that, though I don't have the exact text),
> and shutdown was unable to proceed normally because the drive couldn't be
> unmounted. Since this occurred right after I installed the CD-RW, I
> tried disconnecting it and other devices, thinking my 300W power supply
> might not be powerful enough for all the crap in this machine, but it
> made no difference. A few seconds to a few minutes after power-up, the
> drive started banging away and wouldn't stop.
> This drive was several years old, so I just figured its time had
> come, gnashed my teeth, and went out and bought a huge new HD to replace
> it. All was fine until yesterday, when I noticed a clank every few
> minutes while I was working. I didn't realize what it was until later,
> when I was awakened by the head-banging noise again. :( This time, it
> was the shiny new 35GB drive I had replaced the 800MB with (also
> configured as /dev/hdb, since it went on port 1 of slot 0 on the
> motherboard's IDE controller).
>
> Details that may or may not be useful: Both the failed (?) old
> drive and its replacement are Western Digital. Other drives in the
> system are Seagate and Maxtor, though I'm not sure at the moment which
> one shares the bus with the WD. (I'm posting this from work, since I
> have no working computer at home now!) System software is Mandrake Linux
> 7.2, stock kernel (I hadn't gotten time yet to build a custom one, which
> I usually do within a few weeks of installing). The machine usually sits
> idle with an X session running, dnetc client, and the usual daemons (it's
> not a server, so there's not any constant load on the drives; they're
> idle 80% of the time).
>
> If anyone can offer advice as to what to do, or suggestions about
> what could be causing the problem, I'd be grateful. I suppose it's
> possible that these are genuine hardware failures, but the apparent
> pattern makes me nervous.
>
> Thanks,
> Carl H.
>
> --
> Eep?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:46:13 +0100
From: Robert Depenbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiport Ethernet cards
Rafal Wysocki wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am searching for multiport ethernet cards that collaborate with Linux.
> Can You help me, please?
>
Yup !
http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe570tx/
Dlink 570TX works like a charm with Linux.
It has 4 ! DEC/Intel 21040 Chips onboard.
regards
Robert Depenbrock
--
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fon: +49.40.307098-0 fax: -79 http://www.innominate.com
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From: Anton Dischner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Icp-Vortex 6518RS Scsi Controller, SuSE 7.0
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:43:23 +0100
Hi,
did you look at: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/64installation_raid.html
and the references ?
Maybe it's worth a try.
kind regards,
Toni
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Julie Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a mess on my hands and I can't figure it out :(
>
> I have an Asus P2B-F mb with PIII 800 mhz, 256Meg ram, IDE CDrom,
> ICP-Vortex controller with a Raid 5 drive configured.
--
ZXR750H, 55 Mm.
Q: How did the medical community come up with the term "PMS"?
A: "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken.
Posen fuer Anfaenger: http://www.w-klch.med.uni-muenchen.de/dischner
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Best OS for 486/33 SX w/ 32meg ram?
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:51:17 +0000
Mandrake 7.0 for 486 is a good choice too. You can download the CD image
(ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/iso/7.0/i486/mandrake70-2.i486.iso
). I did that, but I was not using X (only 8MB memory...). That worked
like a charm.
Herv�.
shadowlord wrote:
> I would like to use an old 486/33 SX based computer with 32meg ram as
> a web terminal in my home. I tried the QNX demo, but it doesn't work
> with either of my two network cards. (Crystal 8920 and some generic
> card ..)
>
> What flavor of linux would be recommended for this type of machine?
> Simple to setup and maintain would be BIG plusses!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "David Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "David Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hardware question
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:57:15 -0000
Dear all,
I am trying to RedHat6.1 on an old DELL 450SE system. Everything is going
fine until I come to the network setup. The Dell has an eisa bus, and the
network card provided is unknown to me. I was hoping one of you would be
able to identify the card for me, and perhaps tell me which drivers to use.
The card is a full length EISA bus card, with TWO BNC and one AUI connector
on it. Printed on the Cicuit board is the following:
Standard Microsystems Corp
Ethernet 8033EP
Assy No 710.17404 REV A
there are also a couple of stickers on it with the mac addresses of the two
ports and that it was assembled in the USA :-)
The only noticable chip on the whole card is an intel chip with the
following print on it:
NG82355
SZ575
L2362653
Intel '89
If this card is not supported, what alternatives do I have? Is it possible
to put an ISA card in an EISA slot? I recall from way back that someone
mentioned it was, but logic dictates the opposite. Is there someone out
there still making EISA cards?
Any help appreciated!
Dave.
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