Linux-Hardware Digest #195, Volume #14 Wed, 17 Jan 01 20:13:06 EST
Contents:
Sv: To switch to Linux or not? Advice please. ("Primax")
Re: 3dfx module for the 2.4.x kernels ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hard drive Image and cloning (Electromik)
Re: ATA100 Drives and RH 7.0 (Gilles Turgeon)
Re: To switch to Linux or not? Advice please. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need SCSI Controller Advice
Re: Compaq NC3210 Fast Ethernet driver for Linux (Michael Schulz)
Tyan 2510, Symbios SCSI, 2.2.18? ("Adrian Blakey")
Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Opportunity (Jarrod Ditmore)
Re: ATAPI ZIP-100 PECULARITIES? (Paul Bristow)
Re: Scanjet 4200C (Jarl Friis)
Re: A longish question on networking Linux & Windows 98 (Juha Laiho)
Re: Hard drive Image and cloning (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards (Chris Lopeman)
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From: "Primax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sv: To switch to Linux or not? Advice please.
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:41:53 +0100
I think that you will be must more happy, having Redhat 7 and Windows 2000
at the same time. don't switch right now, you will always run in to some
problem like, a program the you can't get for linux, or Windows.
The Redhat 7 release is must better, and easy to use. and somthing like
drivers for Geforce will if not already be made.
Windows 2000 is I think the best OS from Micro jet.
Regards
Primax
jelb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en
nyhedsmeddelelse:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cross posted to alt.os.linux; comp.os.linux.hardware and
> comp.os.linux.questions
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I like the Windows GUI. After five years using it I know my way around
> it very well. I love it - but I'm sick sick sick of blue
> screen/lockups. I've got Windows ME and, I don't know if it's because
> I haven't re-installed it in many months but man it locks up several
> times a day. Due to the IE browser mostly, and some games.
>
> So... I'm thinking (again) of switching to Linux - or maybe Apple's
> OS. Last year I downloaded a half dozen of the well known
> distributions. I liked Corel the most but it won't run with my current
> graphics card. Soon I'll be replacing this system though so maybe now
> is the time I'll switch.
>
> Now a few questions:
>
> 1 ) Is there a more newbie friendly distribution than Corel's yet? It
> is nice but still has a long way to go to being as easy to use as
> Windows. (Sorry but it's the truth).
>
> 2a ) If I run VMWare will I be able to run every Windows program?
>
> 2b ) Will I take a speed hit? I intend to get a Celeron 700 system
> with at least 128 MBs PC100 RAM.
>
> 2c ) Will VMWare allow me to just kill Windows and restart it whenever
> it hangs? If I can without a reboot that'll be great - assuming Linux
> really doesn't hang very often. Then I can ease my way into learning
> Linux instead of having to jump right in and also find programs,
> similar to the Windows ones I use, right away.
>
> 3 ) Will any motherboard that accepts the Celeron 700 work with Linux
> or are there some that are better than others? Some I should avoid?
>
> Lastly
>
> 4 ) I'll be getting a new 2D/3D card to replace my old Voodoo II. I'm
> thinking maybe a GEFORCE2 MX AGP 32MB but I'm open to ATI and, of
> course, 3DFX still. I might want one with TV Out/Vid Capture too. Any
> recommendations - for or against?
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone that replies.
>
> jelb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3dfx module for the 2.4.x kernels
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:06:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Olivier CARO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I am looking for the sources of the 3dfx voodoo2 module for
> the 2.4.x linux kernel.
>
> I downloaded the sources of this module for the 2.2.x kernel
> a few months ago on linux.2dfx.com, but it now seems to be
> down.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Olivier CARO
>
>
Hi Olivier,
Sorry, but there are no modules for the 2.4.x kernels as far as I
know...
Try this site for the original Voodoo2 drivers:
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/drivers/cards/video/3dfx/voodoo2.shtml
The Voodoo3, 4, and 5 cards are supported in the newer DRI drivers
series. It wouldn't make much sense to use DRI with older cards like the
Voodoo2 anyway...these cards have limited support with some of the newer
releases that are out for Linux these days. My personal advice would be
to get a Voodoo3 PCI card at least, upgrade to X 4.0.2 and select the
DRI options when building your 2.4.x kernel.
Just my $0.02. Good luck.
Alex Ramos
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From: Electromik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard drive Image and cloning
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:31:20 -0500
I want to make an image of a drive and clone that image to a larger
drive: REGARDLESS of the content of that original drive.
Any pointers to a 'How to" or any tips appreciated.
Using Mandrake 7.2.
Electromik
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From: Gilles Turgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA100 Drives and RH 7.0
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:35:55 GMT
Michael Brown wrote:
> As far as I know, it should work fine. Maybe not at ATA100 but is should at
> least work at ATA33 or maybe 66 (depending on the kernel)
>
> Jeff Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:ntL56.4761$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I was wondering if there are any problems with installing Red Hat 7.0 on a
> > machine that has ATA100 hard drives. The motherboard is an Asus A7V?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
It's work but it's a little bit tricky. See this site for more information.
http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html
I have followed the information on this site and I was able to install RedHat
7.0 on my A7V directly on the ATA100 disk (Western Digital 30G 7200RPM).
The installation work fine, but don't forget to do a bootable floppy because
the first boot don't work if your partition begin past the 1024 cylinder.
Install, boot with the floppy, go to /etc/lilo.conf and change (ou add) "lba32"
in place of "linear".
Enjoy.
The diffence is spectacular.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: To switch to Linux or not? Advice please.
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:29:41 GMT
Hi there all,
I originally tried Linux a year and a half ago in the form of ZipSlack,
a Linux distro small enough to fit on a Zip disk. It was fine, but
didn't give me what I wanted. Around march of last year, I gave Peanut
Linux a try. It's a small, bare-bones distro somewhat based on Debian.
It comes loaded with pretty much everything one needs to start using
Linux. Peanut can run in a Windows/FAT partition (okay) or its own
filesystem (ext2fs).
It really depends on what you want to do. For instance, on my 350 MHz
AMD PC, I split my hard drive into two partitions, one for Linux and one
for Windows. I also have a utility for Windows called Explore2fs, which
allows me to view the contents of my Linux partition. I really don't
have much use for VMware (partly due to CPU/hard drive size
constraints); I like to run these things natively. Also I have
StarOffice in Linux, which allows me to read MS Word/Excel docs well
enough.
My main uses for Linux are:
Web surfing (I find this easier, because of the accelerated 2d, hardware
modem requirements, and better PPP utilities that do more than just ping
and tracert)
Programming
HTML
some graphics (2d/3d modeling)
and yes, even some gaming (large strides have come in this dept.
especially in the last year, though more needs to be done, e.g., better
video/sound card support, more dev/distro support)
Just my own experiences...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Need SCSI Controller Advice
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:49:16 -0000
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:50:46 -0000, Howard Arons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I'm looking for a PCI SCSI controller for my DAT drive. It's just SCSI-2, so
>nothing fancy is needed. Right now I'm using an Adaptec 1520B ISA card.
If SCSI2 is all your after, you can get a Tekram card for $30
that will do the trick. Hell for $80 you can even get a well
supported Tekram SCSI U2 card.
>
>Is anyone using the Adaptec 2930 or 2906 with Linux OK?
>
>Any other recommendations?
Peruse Tekram.com.
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From: Michael Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq NC3210 Fast Ethernet driver for Linux
Date: 17 Jan 2001 21:53:22 GMT
Hi,
Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone knows if such a beast exists, or if the card can
> be used with aqnother driver?
Have you tried the e100.o Driver from Intel ? I Guess this Card is
based on the Intel 82559 Chipset.
bye
michael
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From: "Adrian Blakey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tyan 2510, Symbios SCSI, 2.2.18?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:09:18 -0800
We have some new machines with Tyan thunder motherboards in them. They have
Symbios SCSI chips on the mb, which are a 53C1010 chip. We built a nice
2.1.18 kernel with new driver
for the SCSI. it is very unstable.
We keep getting: Kernel panic assertinon k != -1 failed line 10128
Anyone out there with a similar working configuration able to offer some
advice?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.laptop
Subject: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:12:57 GMT
Can anyone tell me with great certainty if I can get all my hardware
configured under a major distrubution (I prefer SuSe)? I plan on
purchasing the following:
Dell Latitude CSxH P3-500 13.3 12GB 128 24X ETH-56 (xircom combo
NIC/Modem)
I had a very similar one (Latitude CPia) and all worked reasonably well.
Thanks in advance.
al767998
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarrod Ditmore )
Subject: Linux Opportunity
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:22:19 GMT
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From: Paul Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI ZIP-100 PECULARITIES?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:35:08 +0100
andy Warkentin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Some Pecularities of the ATAPI Zip Drive...
>
> 1)Unlike the PPA or the SCSI model, when you do fdsik on a disk inside the
> atapi drv, and type in 'p', id prints out the part. table + it says that
> logical bad physical start/end do __not__ correspond... This behavior is
> indifferent which partitions you have... Now, if you put the same disk
> into a PPA drive, and do the fdisk... everything is fine... Iomega sure
> messed this one up...
I guess I need to take this on board. I don't have a Zip drive yet but I
will. Iomega have some "clever" capabilities where they remap the drive so
that if you want to boot from it, it can be seen as a big floppy or as a
partitioned disk. This is what is confusing ide-floppy I guess.
> 2) I was building a small Slackware root-fs in case of emergency... so
> since ATAPI ZIPs are less than bootable I decided to make a LILO floppy,
> with map files on the ZIP and the bootloader on floppy: LILO failed
> telling me that the dirve had an incorrect No. of cylinders... Now I tried
> reconfiguring the way LILO sees it thru the lilo.conf file, i changed
> heads/cylinders. DIDN'T HELP!!!!
Why not just make a bootable floppy then mount the ZIP separately?
Take a look at slackware for the slackzip disk. It seems to work.
> 3) I just found out of a A: drive fuctionality on an ATAPI ZIP, I am not
> sure if its on or off in my computer, because it isn't anyware in ZIP
> docs/how-to... DOS THIS MEAN I CAN BOOT IT?
It depends completly on the BIOS of your computer. It is possible to boot
from a ZIP, if, and only if, your BIOS supports it.
> Thanx for your time... and any replies to past happenings/ questions...
>
> ==================================
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From: Jarl Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scanjet 4200C
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:57:47 +0100
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
>
>
> Someone pls point me in the right direction for getting a scanject 4200C
> working???
>
Have a look at
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net
and
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
That should give you answers, and maybe even a working scanner.
Jarl
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From: Juha Laiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A longish question on networking Linux & Windows 98
Date: 17 Jan 2001 21:41:18 +0200
"Matthew Eagar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm somewhat of a Linux newbie, and I find myself faced with a total
>limiting factor each time I try to use it. Basically, I can get to the
>point where it's up and running, with X working great, running Gnome and
>Enlightenment,
Ok, good.
>but I can _never_ get my internet connection up and running.
Take one step at a time; don't rush off trying to fix problems you don't
yet know you have.
>It's somewhat of a weird setup in my house. First off, I'm on a laptop; an
>Acer Travelmate 521TE to be exact. Nextly, my home network consists of
>three machines, running on a 10 base T coaxial network. Because it's
>coaxial cable, my laptop's built in Ethernet card is somewhat useless, so
>I'm using a PCMCIA card, with an adapter that translates the coaxial cable
>into a sort of flat plug that connects to the card. The PCMCIA card itself
>is a "Compaq Ethernet LAN Card".
So, the first thing to figure out is whether Linux supports this adapter or
not. Coaxial as such isn't a problem (except the common problems coaxial
bus networks have, such as people taking the T-pieces with them when moving
machines aroung, leaving two ends of the coaxial cable lying around..).
Then, after assuring that the adapter is supported by Linux (or after
replacing it with something that is supported), the next thing is to
compile your kernel to include the proper driver for the adapter (or
to arrange the needed kernel module to be loaded).
>My dad (who refuses to take the time to re-network the house with proper
>Ethernet cable), has the cable modem on his PC and is running Windows 98.
Then, before even thinking about the Internet connection, configure
the two machines so that both are able to ping each other. After
that, start finding out how the connection sharing should be done.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Hard drive Image and cloning
Date: 18 Jan 2001 01:01:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:31:20 -0500, Electromik staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>I want to make an image of a drive and clone that image to a larger
>drive: REGARDLESS of the content of that original drive.
>Any pointers to a 'How to" or any tips appreciated.
First, define "clone". If you want to replicate everything including
the partition table and bootloader, you can't. The partition table the
old drive uses will be incorrect for the new drive--wrong CHS values and
whatnot. So forget the "dd" approach.
If you merely want to copy the files over, that can be done by plugging
both drives in, mounting them, fdisk + mkfs the new drive, and transfer
files using tar or cpio or cp -r. The bootloader will not survive this
transition, naturally, so you'll have to run LILO or do a SYS C: or run
the BSD equivalent of LILO on this new drive. This approach will not
work under a filesystem that Linux does not fully support, meaning
forget using this approach for NTFS.
If you really need to transfer an NTFS volume, you can try this, but it
probably won't work:
0. fdisk new drive, create a partition table that's *exactly* the same as
the old drive's wrt CHS values, except that it has another partition at
the very end that covers the rest of the space on the disk.
1. Transfer the first 446 bytes of the MBR over with dd.
2. Transfer the old drive to the new drive by dd'ing each partition,
leaving the final partition on the new drive untouched.
3. Use NT utilities to format the new partition, if you can even get the
thing to boot....
The Hard-Drive Upgrade Mini-HOWTO ( http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/
somewhere) will suffice if this is a Linux system.
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From: Chris Lopeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:02:44 GMT
Gary wrote:
> Chris Lopeman wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for the link. But I am really looking for
> > actually experience with these products not the
> > manufacture's propaganda.
>
> I work in a test/development lab for IDE RAID controllers,
> and your statement may have some merit when it is regarding
> marketing types, but hardware people like myself have
> individually more experience in the area than most of the
> population at large combined. Granted it may be narrow in
> scope,
> but that would be no different than any user.
>
> Discounting information BECAUSE it's from the manufacturer
> is unfair, short sighted, and not even a little bit self
> serving... IMO that is.
>
Maybe you should try following the thread a little better before
attempting to tear into me. The response I posted was in direct
response to nothing more than a URL to a manufactures ad. Forgive me,
but I can find that information myself. I am not discounting it, but I
am certainly not taking it at face value. Last time I did that I ending
up with the Promise stuff.
>
> So, here I am as a qualified user to answer your question
>
> > Can anyone recommend a good raid IDE controller for Linux.
>
> You really don't want to hear the possible solutions,
> apparently
> you think an anonymous post is somehow more credible which
> by the
> way can also be a manufacturer "Shill" responding, no?
>
Again it wasn't who responded it was the content.
>
> At any rate,
>
> My opinion on IDE RAID is that it's a good economical safety
> net
> that can save your bacon if your drive goes belly up
> regardless
> WHO makes it.
>
Obviously you didn't read the post at all. Because this stuff below is
useless. I already know what RAID is. As I said in the original post
we already have RAID controllers. And we have decided to continue to
use RAID. But we want to know which card works best or at least which
ones work well. And while the stuff your working on may qualify it is
obviously not ready.
>
> Some things it (at least ours) doesn't do:
>
> 1. Eliminate the need for backup.
>
> Viruses, and file deletions happen on BOTH drives, so backup
> is
> still needed, like it or not.
>
> 2. Absolve the user of common sense deployment. Having a UPS
> is a good example of a sensible deployment plan.
>
> 3. Give you 25 meters of cable length. IDE is NOT SCSI,
> never
> was, and likely will not be either.
>
> 4. Make a perfect fit to every possible installation
> scenario.
>
> For example, with our RaidCase II you lose your slave drive
> on
> your primary controller. IDE isn't particularly rich in
> ports, and
> it's a BIG pill to swallow. If you need hot swap however
> (which also
> gives you the ability to backup while the machine is hot)
> you have
> to make a decision and possibly get a new system board with
> 4 IDE ports
> to accommodate this Achilles heel.
>
> We know that native software support is a big issue for
> Linux users,
> message received.
>
> We are currently working on LINUX (in alpha) and Macintosh
> (in Beta)
> support software. Will it perform to your needs? I don't
> know. At
> first blush it (the LINUX APP) won't be as fully featured as
> our
> Win32 applet, but your options are so few now, there's
> little risk
> considering the cost versus the benefit.
>
> Some things you CAN have (at least with our products) using
> IDE RAID
>
> 1. Hot Swap.
> 2. Background rebuild
> 3. Native O/S support
> 4. Remote monitoring
> 5 External warning enabled (for relays and lights/sirens)
> 6. No device drivers
>
> Do you think we'll have a hard time finding people to sign
> up
> to test our BETA LINUX app? I hope not :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
> ARCO Computer Products
> RAID Test LAB
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