Linux-Hardware Digest #969, Volume #13 Fri, 1 Dec 00 16:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Red Hat Linux 6--sound for root, not for users
Re: Recognizing multiple CPUs (kenaniah)
Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro Sound (Rodney)
printer epson photo 1270 (Alessia Satta)
Re: I am confident you will help me with "LI" from LILO; I'm one answer away from
the Linux promised land (Roger)
Re: Hardware Based IDE RAID (Driverless and OS Independent) (milanuk)
Re: Configuring a cd-rw (max)
Re: X windows ("Darren Welson")
Re: a NIC card that works with RH7? ("Jan Andersson")
Ejecting 2G Jaz drive ("James W. Haefner")
Re: root password changed, need help ("Ian Ellis")
Re: 3com509b problem ("Jan Andersson")
Re: Fake DVD-ROMs with mkisofs (Joseph Morris)
IDE CD-RW ("Ian Ellis")
USR 5610 and USB (Paul Pygeon)
need an ISA network card that works! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux & 4 printers (Jwbat)
Re: Backup Hard Drive... (Hugh Gibson)
Re: need an ISA network card that works! (John Peach)
Re: a NIC card that works with RH7? (Yidao Cai)
Re: Backup Hard Drive... (Joshua Baker-LePain)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux 6--sound for root, not for users
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:30:07 -0000
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:30:06 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I have a Red Hat 6 linux system using Gnome, Enlightenment, and an
Ensoniq
> >1371 soundcard. Sound works fine for the Root account, but will not
work
> >for any users. I get an Esound error in Enlightenment. This should be
a
> >simple problem of file permissions, but I don't know what to assign
where.
> >Thanks for any help.
>
> machine# chmod 666 /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer*
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
Tried that, didn't fix the problem. Thanks for helping. I'm still
stumped.
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From: kenaniah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Recognizing multiple CPUs
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:42:33 -0500
Actually, I would recommend just installing the smp kernel after you have
the second processor in. It's just an rpm install. Some motherboards
didn't like the fact that there was an os trying to use a processor that
wasn't there.
Besides, it's cleaner that way.
Mark
J Sloan wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Does Linux automatically recognize multiple CPUs on bootup?
>
> Well, here's the login banner from my system:
>
> Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
> Kernel 2.4.0-test12 on a 4-processor i686
>
> > We will be
> > initially installing it on a single CPU system, but more CPUs are on
> > order. If we install the new CPUs, will we have to re-install Linux to
> > take advantage of them? How many CPUs can Linux currently utilize? We
> > will most likely be using Redhat.
>
> Red Hat provides SMP and UP kernels with their distros
> ever since about 6.0 or earlier. Just select the SMP kernel
> during install - if you forget, you can always install the
> SMP kernel later - it comes in a convenient RPM package
> which takes about 10 seconds to install.
>
> You can run the SMP kernel on UP systems if you want.
>
> You will want to install Red Hat 7.0, and then upgrade
> to the 2.4 kernel whan it comes out (probably by the
> end of the year) to get max performance.
>
> jjs
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From: Rodney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro Sound
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:44:38 -0800
What bttv version are you using? And also are you using the external out
in the back of the card or is it the sound through the pci bus. I still
can't get it working, but you post really is helping. Do you have a URL
for information on the newer bttv options and the msp3400 option or
did you just look through the code?
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 14:42:48 GMT
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
> Subject: Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro Sound
>
> Hi Rodney, I had a very similar Problem, I solved some minutes ago. Although
> I too have a PCTV pro an in the cardlist is said this requires the
> bttv-option to be set to card=11, this causes problems. Leaving this
> parameter free, setting it to card=1 or card=39 instead, works properly,
> where before only a short hissing noise occured, when I changed the channel.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Sublimix
>
> ***snippet from modules.conf*****
>
> alias char-major-81 bttv options bttv card=39 radio=1 pll=1 options tuner
> type=5 options i2c scan=1 options msp3400 once=1 dolby=1 mixer=1 post-install
> bttv v4l-conf -a 0xe0000000 pre-install bttv (/sbin/modprobe -k "i2c";
> /sbin/modprobe "msp3400"; /sbin/modprobe "tuner") post-remove bttv
> (/sbin/modprobe -r "tuner"; /sbin/modprobe -r "msp3400"; /sbin/modprobe -r
> "i2c")
>
> ***********
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rodney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well this is may problem .... I don't have sound with my Pinnacle Studio
> > PCTV Pro card. Below is some details
> >
> > Kernel 2.2.17 patched w/ i2c-2.5.4, bttv-0.7.48
> > Labels on chips on the card:
> > (Micronas MSP3451G AZ)
> > (Conexant Fusion 878A)
> > (Temic 3x7 732 --- Front End 4039 FR5 ...)
> >
> > I think maybe the sound is working I just do not know how to control
> > mixer?? With the old msp3400 driver that came with the kernel, before
> > patch, I had sound through the external sound port .... As far as I can
> > tell the video part of the driver works fine. I've read all the documents
> > I could find but don't really know what to do next. Can anyone point me in
> > the right direction.
> >
> > Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > This is some output from dmesg:
> > ...
>
>
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>
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From: Alessia Satta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer epson photo 1270
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 19:04:04 +0100
Have someone experienced the printer epson photo 1270 under red hat?
is it supported with full functionality?
Thanks
Alessia
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From: Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: I am confident you will help me with "LI" from LILO; I'm one answer away
from the Linux promised land
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:29:00 -0500
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Dear sirs, I am able to boot Mandrake 7.2 by floppy, however from hard
> disk I am stuck at lilo's "LI", which I use as it is better documented
> than grub (stuck too). I have windows on hda and boot linux on
> hdb. Apparantly hdb's geometry is not properly autodetected in BIOS. I
> suppose the strategy is to enter the manufacturer's specs into BIOS
> and lilo.conf rather than put wrong info found in BIOS into
> lilo.conf. Below are excerpts.
> # dmesg
> Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000
> SiS5597
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, 28629MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63,
> UDMA(33) ***58168/16/63 aparantly has the number of cylenders upped to
> agree with the true size instead of the artificially low 16383 specified
> by
> Quantum. I wonder how the kernal gets this number.
> Partition check:
> hdb: [PTBL] [8191/32/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 >
> ***is the wrong 8191/32/63 now imprinted into my kernal from what the
> bios said that day I installed mandrake? Shall I worry
> about this even though I can boot by floppy?
> Shall I reinstall mandrake after manually editing bios cmos settings?
> If I say yes to LBA in my bios it forces heads=255.
> Would just using "normal" instead of "lba" be ok when configuring
> bios?
>
> my bios:
> BIOS Date: 01/22/98
> BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
> BIOS ID: 01/22/98-SiS-5598-<SP97_V>C-00
>
> # hdparm -g /dev/hdb
> geometry = 8191/32/63, sectors = 58633344, start = 0
> ***ok, these incorrect values are spread far and wide
> in my computer, but i thought it doesn't matter at least to linux...
> # hdparm -i /dev/hdb
> Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, FwRev=A01.0F00, SerialNo=614019446573
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=58633344
> ***yes, 16383/16/63 is what the quantum docs say
> I assume the number of cylinders are delibrately kept below a barrier.
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
> # hdparm -I /dev/hdb
> RawCHS=16/21298/0, TrkSize=63, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=12590
> (maybe): CurCHS=63/64528/251, CurSects=-1400897264, LBA=yes,
> LBAsects=458752
> ***could these two rawly reported lines give me a clue as to how hdb
> actually talks to my computer?
> # fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> Disk /dev/hdb: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 29084 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes
> ****again, wrong values branded into place...
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 507 511024+ 83 Linux
> ***well, one puts /boot on a low cylinder
> I assume lilo doesn't need to read "/" to know where /boot is.
> /dev/hdb2 508 11194 10772496 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 508 760 254992+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb6 761 1774 1022080+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb7 1775 5837 4095472+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb8 5838 9222 3412048+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb9 9223 10236 1022080+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb10 10237 11194 965632+ 83 Linux
>
> # cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hdb
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> #lba32
> #linear
> prompt
> timeout=150
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> # get the numbers from your drive's docs:
> disk=/dev/hdb
> # bios=0x81
> sectors=63
> heads=16
> cylinders=16383
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdb6
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append=" hdc=ide-scsi"
> # append=" hdc=ide-scsi hd=16383,16,63" ***i have a lilo problem
> not a kernal problem, so no need to pass this line?
> read-only
>
> # lilo -v -v -v
> Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Secondary loader: 11 sectors.
> Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Mapping message file /boot/message
> Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Message: 1 sector.
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
> Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Setup length is 7 sectors.
> Mapped 1301 sectors.
> Mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd.img
> Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> RAM disk: 748 sectors.
> Added linux *
> <dev=0x81,hd=2,cyl=3,sct=46>
> "ro root=346 hdc=ide-scsi"
> Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
> Device 0x0341: BIOS drive 0x81, 16 heads, 16383 cylinders,
> 63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
> Setup length is 7 sectors.
> Mapped 1301 sectors.
>
> By the way, to those who plan to tinker,
>
http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~robn/linux-docs/chs-translation-how-it-works
> though dated, says:
> "Read this so that you understand the possible data integrity
> problem that a WD EIDE type BIOS creates. Any BIOS that has a
> "LBA mode" in the BIOS setup could be a WD EIDE BIOS. Be very
> careful and NEVER chage the "LBA mode" setting after you have
> partitioned and installed your software."
> --
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>
>
try also executing 'lilo'
>$ lilo
to check and re-write lilo.conf to your boot sector
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From: milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware Based IDE RAID (Driverless and OS Independent)
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 19:08:47 GMT
In article <908ki4$dud$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Arco makes an IDE RAID controller that is strictly hardware based. It
> does not require any device drivers or IRQ's. It connects directly to
> the IDE controller on the motherboard.
>
> Visit www.duplidisk.com or (800) 458-1666.
>
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>
So, does anyone else out there on the list have any experience good or
bad w/ these controllers?
Monte
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From: max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuring a cd-rw
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 19:27:22 GMT
Doddy wrote:
> I have just installed SuSe v7, but it hasn't recognised my cd-roms.
> I have managed to install my standard cd-rom drive which is primary on the
> second channel.
> However I'm still having trouble with the CD-RW drive.
> Can anyone help with instructions please, on installing and then using it
> productively
>
> Thanks
> doddy
>
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hello,
have a read of http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html and you
should be able to sort it out.
max
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From: "Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X windows
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:20:02 -0800
I am running a SSH connection to the router and cannot run X this way.
_ <_> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>If you want to run X apps on the router, I don't think you need an
>X-server installed on the router. You should be able to start the X
>app i.e. xterm -display 192.168.x.x. using your Xserver's IP
>address and it will display on your Xserver. If you ssh to the
>router, you can skip the '-display' command. I may be missing
>something here though.
>
>The key here is that you said you want to be able to start X remotely.
>What exactly do you mean by that? Run X apps on the router and
>display them on your workstation?
>
>_
>
>
>On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:50:58 GMT, "Darren and Marla Welson"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I installed RH62 on a router box without X, but now I want to be able to
>>start X remotely. When I go to install an RPM, I keep getting NUMEROUS
>>dependencies and do not know where to begin. Can someone tell me what X
>>related packages I need and in which order to add the RPMs?
>>
>
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From: "Jan Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a NIC card that works with RH7?
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:09:55 +0100
Hi
The same with my 3Com 3C509B-TX, thought it should be easy to install but
been messing
around changing motherboards and trying all kinds of stuff but no luck.
Jan
>
> Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8vhdo3$pfq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know of an ethernet card that is *gaurenteed* to work with
> > RH7? The Redhat hardware compatibility site lists my linksys EtherFAst
> > 10/100 as compatible and "very easy to install", which has turned out to
> > be untrue, so I no longer have any faith in the info on their site.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Subject: Ejecting 2G Jaz drive
From: "James W. Haefner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 12:51:11 -0700
Hi,
I am running SUSE 6.3. I have a SCSI based internal 2G Iomega Jaz drive and an
external 1G Jaz
drive. The 1G drive works fine. When I attach the 2G drive to the SCSI card I get
the following
symptoms:
1. Both the BIOS and the kernel recognize both drives correctly on bootup
2. When I insert a disk in the 2G drive, the drive light flashes repeatedly and after
about 10
seconds, the disk is ejected. The disk is PC formatted.
3. Same result when I remove the 1G drive from the system.
4. Also same result if I bootup with a disk in the 2G drive.
Obviously, without being able to keep the disk in the drive, I cannot format it as
ext2.
Any ideas?
Jim
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: root password changed, need help
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:07:33 -0000
Hi,
You need to get in to single user mode.
Have you got Lilo installed? If so, boot the machine. When the Lilo prompt
appears, type in the lilo configuration name for linux, followed by 'single'
(e.g. 'linux single', where 'linux' is the name in the lilo.conf file). This
will start the machine in a cut down mode, with super user access. When the
shell prompt appears, change the password with passwd, as normal.
If you don't have lilo installed (e.g. you use a biit floppy), I'm not too
sure how to get in to single user mode. You could always create a boot disk
from a Linux distribution CD, then from use it to get into a shell - mount
your root disk, and manually doctor the passwd & shadow files in /etc.
Good luck.
Ian
"Bulent Sarinc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> somebody has changed root password and i cant get into my linux box on
> i386
> debian version
>
> heeeeelp please
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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From: "Jan Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com509b problem
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 21:19:43 +0100
Hi
I have the 3C509B-TX card and cannot make it work either. I have tried to
run the DOS
configuration utility but it does not give med the choice to disable PnP
which puzzles me.
Is the TX suffix significant and represents a PnP only version ?
Regards
Jane
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From: Joseph Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fake DVD-ROMs with mkisofs
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:12:33 +0000
Yasuyuki Saito wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have never seen trouble with UDF.
I might give it another try, if Windows supports it.
> =
> = I wanted ISO9660 because DOS can read it too...
>
> Hmm, I think that you have to use CD-RW drive. ;-)
The purpose of buying the DVD-RAM drive was to shrink the pile of CD-Rs
down to something manageable...
>
> Do you know Explore2fs ?
I tried it a few days ago. It wouldn't see the DVD-RAM drive, only the hard
disks.
> You can access files on ext2 and write them to
> DVD-RAM in Windows.
>
> --
> Yasuyuki SAITO
> http://www.kisarazu.ac.jp/~saitou/
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE CD-RW
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:12:59 -0000
Hi,
Is it possible to use an IDE CD-RW drive in Linux at the moment?
The drive is a Memorex CDRW-4420. My kernel is 2.2.16 (the installation is
mainly RedHat).
cdrecord seems to only care about SCSI devices. I haven't looked at SCSI
emulation yet.
Cheers
Ian
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From: Paul Pygeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR 5610 and USB
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:15:02 -0500
Hi all,
I've a US Robotics (real) modem 5610. Because it is hard
configure for using Com 5, I use setserial /dev/modem (on ttyS1) irq 9 port
0xec00 autoconfig for my Linux configuration. Everything works great except
if
I try to install USB. A terminal tell me that my modem is busy.
cat /proc/pci tell me that USB and modem share same IQR (9) and
port for USB is 0xe000.
Anyone can help please
Linux Mandrake 7.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: need an ISA network card that works!
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:05:15 GMT
Hi
I was trying to set up a small network (+ IP Masquerade) at home. I
didn't want to experiment with a new OS on my "good" computer(if you
can call a
computer with a windows OS good :) ) so I found took an old compaq (of
all things) and set up Mandrake7.1 on it.
Anyway here is my problem. I have @home service and managed to get it
running fine (thanks to your guys help :) ) but now I guess I need a
second network card in order to set up the masquerade. Am I right.
Cable to eth0 on linux box and then eth1 on linux box to my other
computer? Well this compaq is so old it only has two PCI slots. both
used (video and current network card). Where do I put my other card.
(ISA?)
In my exploring I have heard alot of talk about the woes of using ISA
with linux (especially PnP?). Does anyone recommend any certain kind of
ISA network card? non PnP or does that matter? any make and model? any
hints? or am I just in for a good time regardless of what I get?
Thank You for your help. You guys are a god send.
Take Care,
Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jwbat)
Date: 01 Dec 2000 20:19:27 GMT
Subject: linux & 4 printers
I was hoping to connect 4 printers using parallel ports under linux. Do
multi-port parallel cards exist for linux? The printers will all "exist" in
the same room, fairly close to the computer, so this seems like the
best/simplest solution? Any ideas/pointers/experience would be muchly
appreciated.
Thanks,
JWB
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From: Hugh Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Backup Hard Drive...
Date: 1 Dec 2000 15:26:30 -0500
In comp.os.linux.misc Jeffrey Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to find the "best" solution to the problem of backing up a
> drive and/or the data stored on it (the box is mainly a storage location
> for backed-up files over the network... some have already been tarred and
> gzipped...), using RedHat 6.2 on Intel...
> Since hard drive storage is sooo cheap nowdays (40 GB ide is around $150)
> I would like to have a fileserver that has 2 (or maybe even 3) drives
> that provide redundancy and backup, instead of going the expensive, slow,
> and unreliable (unless you get the very expensive) tape backup route...
> The pre-requisites for the solution are that it is as inexensive as
> possible (I might have to put up multiples of these boxes) and that if
> one of the drives fails, it has to be back up as quick as possible
As you don't want to be running from the disk you are backing up, may
I suggest you do a small, simple 2nd installation (just the base, and
networking).. should only take up 50MBytes or so.
When you want to backup/restore, boot to the cut-down installation, and
use dd, tar, cp etc... (whatever you wish) piping the output through the
net to the file-server machine.
What I tend to do (because hard disk space is so cheap) is backup
the active partition to a spare partition, using cp -a.
If the working partition goes belly-up, boot up the small installation,
and cp -a it back! I have used cp -a many a time to copy installations, and
it works well! (you can also use dd if you wish)
Hope this helps, Hugh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Peach)
Subject: Re: need an ISA network card that works!
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 21:01:11 GMT
I forget the brand name, but I bought an NE2000 where you can boot to
DOS from a floppy and set the IRQ and address directly on the card. It
then comes up fine with append="ether=3,0x300,eth1" in lilo.conf
In article <90909n$ona$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|>Hi
|>
|>I was trying to set up a small network (+ IP Masquerade) at home. I
|>didn't want to experiment with a new OS on my "good" computer(if you
|>can call a
|>computer with a windows OS good :) ) so I found took an old compaq (of
|>all things) and set up Mandrake7.1 on it.
|>
|>Anyway here is my problem. I have @home service and managed to get it
|>running fine (thanks to your guys help :) ) but now I guess I need a
|>second network card in order to set up the masquerade. Am I right.
|>Cable to eth0 on linux box and then eth1 on linux box to my other
|>computer? Well this compaq is so old it only has two PCI slots. both
|>used (video and current network card). Where do I put my other card.
|>(ISA?)
|>
|>In my exploring I have heard alot of talk about the woes of using ISA
|>with linux (especially PnP?). Does anyone recommend any certain kind of
|>ISA network card? non PnP or does that matter? any make and model? any
|>hints? or am I just in for a good time regardless of what I get?
|>
|>Thank You for your help. You guys are a god send.
|>
|>Take Care,
|>
|>Adam
|>
|>
|>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
|>Before you buy.
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a NIC card that works with RH7?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:00:24 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Does anyone know of an ethernet card that is *gaurenteed* to work with
> > > RH7? The Redhat hardware compatibility site lists my linksys EtherFAst
Intel EtherExpress 10/100
Netgear FX310 TX
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email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Backup Hard Drive...
Date: 1 Dec 2000 21:08:11 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Martin Gregorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2000 12:56:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Volker Apelt) wrote:
>>You know that backup is more than just having a second
>>copy of everything? good backup software maintains an
>>archive, too.
>>
> Any recommendations for archiving backup software for Linux?
amanda (www.amanda.org) is rather nice. It takes a bit to set up, but
once you do, it practically maintains itself.
On the other hand, a cron job and good records will do the job too.
If you want to use dump, make sure to get the latest version from
dump.sourceforge.net.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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