Linux-Hardware Digest #197, Volume #14 Thu, 18 Jan 01 07:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux only system with Promise UDMA66... how do I boot new kernel? (Nader)
Re: Installing Linux RH7 (Jeff Moore)
AHA-29160 and others on my Linux ("Patrick Hsieh")
Which method is right for me? ("Ho-il, Kang")
Genius Netmouse Pro under Linux-Mandrake 7.2 / XF86 4.01 ("mir")
Multiple SCSI controllers? (Rod Roark)
Re: Alternatives to Intel Processors
MB + PCI NIC + Linux problem ("Slatec")
MB + PCI NIC + Linux problem ("Slatec")
Re: eata failes to load on dual SCSI EISA-system (Gereon Wenzel)
HP T1000e parallel port drive, ftape modules, compilation of FTAPE (Basil Fowler)
Re: Porting linux to MS-5000 car navigation system? (Harri Haataja)
[Urgent] Install Redhat 7 & Raid 5 & Adaptec 3200s ("David Mahé")
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Gereon Wenzel)
Re: hdparm settings for IBM-DTLA-307060 (JJK)
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (JJK)
How to install Mylex Acceleraid 170 raid card? (Herbert)
Re: 3dfx module for the 2.4.x kernels ("gwen")
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux only system with Promise UDMA66... how do I boot new kernel?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:08:22 -0800
What is in your lilo.conf?
I had similar issues with HPT366 patch of 2.2.16. My boot= and root=
had to be changed from /dev/hda5 to /dev/hde5.
You could try passing it the ide parameters as a workaround if the
kernel isn't configured to boot properly from the HD controller. FOr
example, I had to type ide0=0xb400,0xb802.
Bob Gamble wrote:
> I installed Debian Potato with a patched ide kernel 2.2.18pre21. Though
> the soundcard and cdroms don't work on it, I figured I would get them
> working after compiling kernel 2.4.0. When I installed the system, the
> choices of partitions to boot from were /dev/hda, and /dev/hde1.
> However, /dev/hda couldn't be found, which left me with /dev/hde1...my
> root partition, and a message told me that the MBR would be installed on
> /dev/hde.
>
> It boots fine until I compiled the kernel. When boot fails, I get the
> message: "Cannot open root device 2101 or 21:01 - Please append a
> correct root = boot option"
>
> I realize that /dev/hda would be ideal for booting, but the installation
> gives me no choice of hda. Since I'm booting off of my root partition,
> I figure that's where the above error message is coming from. During
> the initial installation, I haven't had to pass any boot parameters to
> the kernel, because the kernel that installs is patched. In compiling
> kernel 2.4, I made sure to include support for the Promise card and all
> its recommendations. If I can't solve this, my only solution I can
> think of is to go back to a dual boot system with Windows handling the
> Promise card issues. Thanks for any input.
>
> Bob Gamble
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux RH7
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:10:21 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install an ide hard drive, install RH7 on the ide and specify your raid
array.
When this runs you can move the ide and reinstall onto the raid.
Read the boot-raid-howto on www.linuxdoc.org.
Jeff Moore
Michele Sarica wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I hav a great problem installing Linux RH7 on my System : i hav
> motherboard Abit - KT7-RAID with Highpoint HPT370, HDD IBM 30.7 Gb
> UATA-100 7200 rpm. Linux can't find my HDD so i can't install it... and
> obviously i can't install the kernel patch for RAID UATA-100...
>
> What can i do?
>
> Thank u in advance!
>
> Michele
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From: "Patrick Hsieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.storage.moderated,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: AHA-29160 and others on my Linux
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 19:29:49 +0800
Dear all,
I just built my Linux box with AHA29160 SCSI adapter and others as the
following:
Main Board: Abit VP6
CPU: Pentium III 800
RAM: 128MB SDRAM*1 + 64MB SDRAM*1
SCSI Adapter: AHA-29160
HD: IBM Ultra160 10000RPM 18GB
NIC: Intel 82559, 3Com905
OS: SuSE Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2.18 with ReiserFS filesystem
The problem is when I type "make dep" or "make clean" udner /usr/src/linux
the whole Linux hangs there.
Also when I use cpio to copy a big directory tree to another, the system
hangs. All I can do is reset the computer.
Is there any know problem about it? Any suggestions or comments are
appreciated.
Patrick
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From: "Ho-il, Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.embedded,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Which method is right for me?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:04:05 +0900
sorry my poor english.
I must use special multi-function video board on linux/X-Window
environment.
It have follow functions.
1. VGA function (include 2D Acceleration)
2. TV Encoding (NTSC & PAL Output)
3. Video Capture & Playback(include PIP & Overlay)
4. Alpha Blending
then... how can i development driver program?
Which method is right for me?
1. Write all functions into Linux Device Driver exclude VGA function (
VGA function writed into X display driver )
2. Write all functions into X display driver.
3. Write basic functions into X display driver and others into library.
4. use other method. (please explain to me )
5. Audio & etc.
thanks for your help.
Hoil, Kang
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "mir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Genius Netmouse Pro under Linux-Mandrake 7.2 / XF86 4.01
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:26:42 +1300
Hello
I have a Genius Net Pro on my PS/2 mouse port (the mb is an Abit BE6). It
used to work right after a while when I used XF86 3.36 with the Gentus Linux
(from Abit). But when I switch to Linux Mandrake the mouse no longer worked.
When I configure Mandrake with XF86 4.01 to use the Genius driver instead of
the standard PS/2 driver my mouse will basically get out of control when I
move it. Mostly it gets stuck in the corner and behaves erratically like
performing button presses without actually touching the mouse. If I use the
mouse as a standard PS/2 mouse then I don't have the scrolling abilities
that I paid for.
Is there a way of actually making this mouse work correctly under
Linux-Mandrake?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:38:46 -0800
I have a customer who wants a (Athlon-based) machine with four SCSI
controllers, one for each hard drive. He thinks it will make for a
faster system. I'm not even sure if it would work (BIOS/driver
conflicts?), much less be faster. Has anyone heard of such a thing?
-- Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to Intel Processors
Date: 18 Jan 2001 17:38:11 +0900
>>>>> "cybertesla" == cybertesla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cybertesla> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
cybertesla> Michael Marano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I just read the "Cheap Linux Box" How-to type thing at
>> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html by
>> Andrew Comech (I have to thank him for giving me an excellent
>> starting place!)
>>
y'know, i think that if cheap is what you're looking for, a used
system might be the best deal. you can get an smp compatible
sparcstation 10 or 20 (i think these can run up to 4 processors,
though plopping in an extra procesor or 2 or 3 will obviously cost
more), or an old sgi machine for ridiculously cheap prices sometimes.
keyboards, monitors, mice, ram, etc. can be a more or less of a pain
depending on what you want to do with the box. (and the box, some of
these beasts will work with pc or mac compatible stuff.) considering
what you get, pc hardware is kind of expensive.
cybertesla> workstations. These are NOT Intel compatable chips.
$~:ls /usr/src/linux/arch
alpha
arm
i386
ia64
m68k
mips
mips64
parisc
ppc
s390
sh
sparc
sparc64
who needs intel?
ciao,
g.m.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You mean you don't want to watch WRESTLING from ATLANTA?
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From: "Slatec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.aopen,alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: MB + PCI NIC + Linux problem
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:37:40 GMT
Hi there!
I'm trying to build a Linux router box. But I am having big time problem
getting Linux to recognize the NIC. The board is a AOpen AP53/AX53. They
share the same BIOS. So I guess they are about the same. Pentium 133, 48
MB EDO RAM, ATI Mach64 card (tried a Alliance ProMotion AT3D card in case
there's a conflict with the NIC).
I've tried a Realtek 8029 PCI card. Also tried DLink DFE-538TX, which is
based on Realtek 8139. They won't work. I wonder if it's a Realtek chipset
problem. They both are PCI card. I don't have other PCI NIC.
modprobe ne2k-pci
It says that the PCI BIOS assigned IRQ 0 to the card! That doesn't make
alot of sense. I've flashed the BIOS to the latest version. I've assigned
an IRQ to the slot. But that doesn't seem to have any effect at all. Tried
modprobe ne2k-pci irq=xx. But I think the driver doesn't take any irq
parameters...
So I try the D-Link card. No luck either. Won't pick up the card. There
are some assertion stuff errors when I modprobe.
However, the SMC EtherEZ that I have works.
What else did I miss? Or what else should I try?
I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.2. Fresh installation. Bare minimum stuff.
Basic Linux + networking. No X. Didn't even install gcc/make/stuff like
that.
Please help/advise. Thanks for your time!
Slatec
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From: "Slatec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.aopen,alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: MB + PCI NIC + Linux problem
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:37:40 GMT
Hi there!
I'm trying to build a Linux router box. But I am having big time problem
getting Linux to recognize the NIC. The board is a AOpen AP53/AX53. They
share the same BIOS. So I guess they are about the same. Pentium 133, 48
MB EDO RAM, ATI Mach64 card (tried a Alliance ProMotion AT3D card in case
there's a conflict with the NIC).
I've tried a Realtek 8029 PCI card. Also tried DLink DFE-538TX, which is
based on Realtek 8139. They won't work. I wonder if it's a Realtek chipset
problem. They both are PCI card. I don't have other PCI NIC.
modprobe ne2k-pci
It says that the PCI BIOS assigned IRQ 0 to the card! That doesn't make
alot of sense. I've flashed the BIOS to the latest version. I've assigned
an IRQ to the slot. But that doesn't seem to have any effect at all. Tried
modprobe ne2k-pci irq=xx. But I think the driver doesn't take any irq
parameters...
So I try the D-Link card. No luck either. Won't pick up the card. There
are some assertion stuff errors when I modprobe.
However, the SMC EtherEZ that I have works.
What else did I miss? Or what else should I try?
I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.2. Fresh installation. Bare minimum stuff.
Basic Linux + networking. No X. Didn't even install gcc/make/stuff like
that.
Please help/advise. Thanks for your time!
Slatec
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From: Gereon Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eata failes to load on dual SCSI EISA-system
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:48:09 +0100
O.K. first part solved, IRQ 15 was mapped to PCI.
Tomsrtbt loads eata correct now, but isn't able to fdisk due to missing
partition table
SuSE detects the WD1003 emulation as hdc, hdd and occupies IRQ 15
eata load failes cause dev or resource busy.(irq15 is shown to be mapped
to ide1)
How to load from installdisk without ide probe?
is there any ide=noprobe?
Gereon Wenzel
Gereon Wenzel schrieb:
>
> I have an IBM Server 300 (EISA/PCI) and want to install an eata
> Smartcache III
> Array controller.
> System has an AHA 2742T as primary SCSI (slot 5)Card for Boot and CD
> Rom.
> The PM 2021 (slot3) has 16M Cache and Raid modules installed and 5 IBM
> DPES 1080.
> configured a 2disk raid 1 for swap and /usr and 3disk raid 5 for
> anything else.
> DPTMGR is set to Solaris as OS.
>
> Now my experiences:
> Suse 6.3 Boot detects the WD 1003 emulation on sec port
> after detecting hdd 'irq probe failed' system freezes.
> Tomsrtbt loads up, but eata driver freezes the system after
> detecting eata(2) on 0x58cc (this should be the adaptec adress)
>
> switching to the DPT as primary card,
> suse boots up, but driver failes after trying to detect the secondary.
>
> Any hints how to fix the problem?
> Got the same configuration running NT on a SNI PCD-5T without any
> problems.
>
> Gereon Wenzel
>
> PS: BTW does anybody know if DPT site is mirrored somewhere or
> is adaptec the only site where I can find DPT stuff?
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From: Basil Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP T1000e parallel port drive, ftape modules, compilation of FTAPE
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:07:23 +0000
I want to use my HP Colorado T1000e parallel port tape drive with
RH 6.1 and 7.0.
Having studied the documentation, it seems that I need three modules
'ftape.o', 'zftape.o' and 'trakker.o'. Both the distributions
mentioned
above have the first two modules.
However, I cannot find the module 'trakker.o' anywhere.
I have tried to compile my own version of ftape-4 from source, but it
always
fails with the following error messages.
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.2.12/.config',
needed by `../../include/linux/autoconf.h'. Stop.
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.2.12/.config',
needed by `../../include/linux/autoconf.h'. Stop.
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.2.12/.config',
needed by `.ftape-setup.d'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Can anyone help with the compilation problem or point me in
the direction of help,
OR
point me to a source where the module 'trakker.o' can be downloaded.
Thanks in advance
Basil Fowler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Porting linux to MS-5000 car navigation system?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:28:55 GMT
The Pluisman wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Would it be possible to port linux to a car navigation system like VDO
>Daytons' MS-5000 ?
>
>Since this system runs on a 32 bit RISC Processor, has 16 mb flashRom,
>16 mb Ram, a 240x400 tft (colour) screen, a cd-rom-drive, a rs-232
>interface and an audio-out, it seems to me that all ingredients for an
>embedded linux system is there.
>
>Anyone knows if this has been done before? Anyone has more technical
>details?
Not me.
Check out ports pages (esp those with the same processor family) and
do some searches. Most porting projects announce themselves in hope
of help.
The question is usually availability of specs and in some cases
MMU design etc.
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From: "David Mahé" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Urgent] Install Redhat 7 & Raid 5 & Adaptec 3200s
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:31:09 GMT
I have a problem for making my raid device with Disk Druid.
I add a partition with a "linux raid" type then I press OK but the button
Make raid device is not available. (I cannot click on it) So I can't
continue.
My controller is an Adaptec SCSI 3200s and I have 3 disks of 35 Go.
(I have successfully built the array during 4 hours)
Adaptec France gave me a driver to load ( Adaptec I2O ) when I start install
but it doesn't seem to work ! Maybe it is a wrong driver. ( where can I find
another one, adaptec web is not speaking about RH 7 )
Thanks for help.
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From: Gereon Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:38:17 +0100
At least with 2 controllers (aic7xxx and eata)
(3 controllers at all due to the 2742T is twin channel EISA )
i have no problems in a dual P120 SNI PCD-5T machine.
Maybe you will have to disable BIOS in all but one controller,
if you use 4 controllers of same type.
Check the controller manufacturer before, if multiple controllers are
supported.
If the machine still has enough IRQ resorces, it will do.
Easier would be to go for a multi channel SCSI controller.
Gereon Wenzel
Rod Roark schrieb:
>
> I have a customer who wants a (Athlon-based) machine with four SCSI
> controllers, one for each hard drive. He thinks it will make for a
> faster system. I'm not even sure if it would work (BIOS/driver
> conflicts?), much less be faster. Has anyone heard of such a thing?
>
> -- Rod
> http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JJK)
Subject: Re: hdparm settings for IBM-DTLA-307060
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:10:43 GMT
hmmm, this is a Deskstar ATA-100 drive. Download IBM's drive fitness test and
see what that tells you; apart from that, try running a 2.4 kernel or any
kernel with Andre Hedrick's IDE patches included - that might bump up
performance as well.
You can find the drive fitness test (a DOS floppy-based program) at
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm
HTH,
JJK
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm getting very poor performance for a 60 GB ATA IBM-DTLA-307060
>running under 2.2.14-6.1.1smp. The system drive is a 20 GB ATA Maxtor
>connected to the same cable as the IBM.
>
>hda: Maxtor 52049H4, 19473MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63
>hdb: IBM-DTLA-307060, 58644MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=7476/255/63
>
>The performance figures from hdparm -tT are
>
>/dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.65 seconds =196.92 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.25 seconds = 28.44 MB/sec
>
>/dev/hdb:
> using_dma = 0 (off)
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.66 seconds =193.94 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 27.76 seconds = 2.31 MB/sec
>
>From what I've found so far, about the best settings I've seen advised
>are simply to turn on dma, which gives the result
>
>/dev/hdb:
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.66 seconds =193.94 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.25 seconds = 3.01 MB/sec
>
>Using hdparm -c3 -m16 -d1 /dev/hda, puts the rate up to ~3.1 MB/sec
>
>This is clearly much less than the capacity of the h/w.
>Any advice?
>
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Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JJK)
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:10:44 GMT
In article <3a66abc5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have a customer who wants a (Athlon-based) machine with four SCSI
>controllers, one for each hard drive. He thinks it will make for a
>faster system. I'm not even sure if it would work (BIOS/driver
>conflicts?), much less be faster. Has anyone heard of such a thing?
>
customer's right, basically - if you attach more than one drive to a SCSI
controller than all data for the drives has to go over that single controller;
OTOH, most drives have a sustained data rate of about 40 MB/s (if you're
lucky) so a 160MB/s SCSI controller should be able to deal with 2 or 3 drives
easily.
We use Dell PowerEdge servers with 3 Adaptec SCSI controllers; the biggest
problem is that the Adaptec 78xx controller is not supported as well by Linux
as say the Symbios 53c8xx controllers.
HTH,
JJK
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Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herbert)
Subject: How to install Mylex Acceleraid 170 raid card?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:14:37 GMT
Hi,
Does anybody knows how to install a Mylex Acceleraid 170 raid card in
Redhat Linux? I am using Redhat 6.2.
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From: "gwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3dfx module for the 2.4.x kernels
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:16:47 +0100
"Olivier CARO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sed :
> 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.
>
You can try this patch:
710,713c710,728
< ioctl: ioctl_3dfx, /* ioctl */
< mmap: mmap_3dfx, /* mmap */
< open: open_3dfx, /* open */
< release: release_3dfx, /* release */
---
> NULL, /* llseek (2.1) / lseek (2.0) */
> NULL, /* read */
> NULL, /* write */
> NULL, /* readdir */
> NULL, /* poll (2.1) / select (2.0) */
> ioctl_3dfx, /* ioctl */
> mmap_3dfx, /* mmap */
> open_3dfx, /* open */
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 1, 118)
> NULL, /* flush (2.1.118+) */
> #endif
> release_3dfx, /* release */
> NULL, /* fsync */
> NULL, /* fasync */
> NULL, /* check_media_change */
> NULL, /* revalidate */
> #ifdef KERNEL_VER_2_1
> NULL /* lock (2.1) */
> #endif
At least it works for me with a 2.4.0-test12 kernel.
--
Gwen
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