Linux-Hardware Digest #237, Volume #14 Wed, 24 Jan 01 05:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why? (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Microsoft FUD here? (Mark Post)
Re: [HELP]: LS-120 Setup as Floppy /dev/fd0 (Gerhard Wanderer)
Re: Serial Terminal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Microsoft FUD here? ("Shane Baker")
System reliability (Tom)
Compatibility ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compatibility (Dances With Crows)
Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed (Michael Meissner)
Re: upgrading/adding a 2nd drive (Chris Elvidge)
Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why? (moonie;))
Re: Serial Terminal (Harri Haataja)
Re: Linux on an SGI INDY workstation (Harri Haataja)
Can I use joystick at linux? (Carfield Yim)
Re: zip drives on linux (jonasbn)
Re: hdparm (bob)
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why?
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:11:08 -0800
> This would be a problem for me as well, as I was just getting ready to order
> this board. I would like to point out that I have been using the vt686 (FIC
> 503a) for about a year with NO problems at ATA/66. Anybody else having any
> problem with the vt686b?
> --
> moonie ;)
>
Just so everyone knows, the 686b started appearing on motherboards in
the last _few weeks_. It's _brand_ new. So direct comparisons between the
vt686 and the vt686b are irrelevant.
Marcus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 02:10:49 GMT
On 23 Jan 2001 08:53:39 -0800, Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In dealing with "Tina", I began to wonder if we were dealing with a
>Microsoftian prank, but I didn't want to say anything. Now that
>someone else has raised the issue, I'm wondering how we address it.
Go to deja.com, and do a search on "tina carter." I think you'll find
everything you need to know there.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: Gerhard Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HELP]: LS-120 Setup as Floppy /dev/fd0
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 06:56:08 +0100
Youngert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I finally finished setting up my Linux system with an LS-120 UHD ATAPI
> Floppy drive and would like to be able to use it as a 1.44MB floppy drive
> with the mtools utility, i.e. mdir, mcopy, etc. Everytime when I issue
> "mdir a:", my Linux system complained with the following messages:
>
> init: set default params
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
>
> Does anyone know how I can setup the LS-120 drive acts as a 1.44 floppy
> drive?
I have removed /dev/lp0 and made a link /dev/hdc -> /dev/fd0 (if hdc is
your LS-120). With this i can use the mtools for the LS-120.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Serial Terminal
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:36:12 GMT
Roland Scheike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I try to connect a Siemens/Nixdorf TC20 terminal to
: a linux box via the serial line.
: My settings of the terminal are:
: v.24/ 38400 / 8n1/ xon,off, ANSI
Don't use xon,xoff!
Use Hardware Flowcontrol.
And make sure you get your cable right.
The serial cables for those terminals are very likely none
standard.
If you don't have docu on it, this means try and error. :-)
Good Luck,
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:13:45 +1000 (EST)
Reply-To: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:50:07 GMT, Mike Edwards wrote:
>A quick search on yahoo produced this nugget:
>
>http://macworld.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/storyforums/macworldforums/_2000_03_30_upgradejeopardy/forum.pl?read=44
>
>MS-sponsored FUD or not, she seems to despise anything non-Wintel. Gee,
>when I was 16, I hated the status quo--I would've loved Linux if it had
>been around at the time.
I agree on both points.
FWIW, this girl seems a sandwich short of a picnic. (Apple and Communism in
the same sentence?)
Regards
Shane Baker
Canberra - Australia's national capital
_____________________________
sbakerATpcug.org.au - please correct the obvious from my email address if replying
direct
Australian Pets newsgroup - aus.pets <<>> Australian Dogs Page -
http://www.pcug.org.au/~sbaker/dogs.htm
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System reliability
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:36:28 -0800
I have been having some problems with system reliability of late.
The problem: My system tends to hang (I suspect a hardware problem due to
the nature of the crash) very frequently, whereas it used to be completely
stable. Every time it hangs I am running X-windows, and am in the process
of moving my mouse.
My system:
Tyan dual Pentium Pro motherboard
2 Pentium Pro 200 MHz processors (256k cache)
Adaptec 2941 SCSI controller
4 Seagate SCSI drives
UMAX SCSI scanner
Matrox video card
I doubt the rest of the details are terribly significant.
My system originally ran 2 IDE drives and kernel 2.0.27, with extremely
good results. The longest uptime I managed was around 3 months; longer
than that and things like an accidental bump of the power switch or
completely clogged fans would end the stint.
This all came to an end about a year ago when one of the drives died,
taking my system with it. It was at this time when I switched to an all
SCSI system after obtaining the drives. At the same time I started using
the 2.2.9 kernel.
I had the occasional crash with the 2.2.9 kernel, but after upgrading to
2.2.16, stability returned for awhile.
I found that the 4 internal SCSI drives pumped out a heck of a lot of
heat, and if I wasn't careful about the cooling of the system, it would
crash during the summer.
I no longer suspect system cooling to be an issue, since it's much cooler
now and I've got the case off. However, a couple months ago, I noticed
one of the 5 volt contacts on my power connector to my motherboard
overheated and burnt out. Soon thereafter, among great system
instability, the other 3 cooked as well (I've got an ATX system). I
solved this by soldering a new connector to the back of the motherboard,
bypassing the cooked contacts. During the procedure, I took the
opportunity to unplug every single thing from the motherboard in order to
re-seat all contacts (including the RTC and BIOS). Upon re-assembly, I
have had these frequent crashes when using X-windows.
Suspecting a corrupted BIOS configuration, I re-set the BIOS (using the
motherboard jumper), and suspecting SMP issues, I've run a single
processor kernel, all to no avail.
What can I do to try and figure out what is wrong? Every time my system
hangs it appears to be a hardware problem since no <Alt><SysRq> keys
work, and there are no messages logged.
Help!
___
TTTTT OO M M The sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick. |~~~|
T O O MM MM @o o@
T O O M M M So if it is in it or if it is on it, it is *
T OO M M as it is, be it in it or on it. `-'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Compatibility
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 03:52:49 GMT
Is an Actiontec 56K PCI Pro Internal Data/Fax Modem V.90 & K56flex
compatible with Linux 7.0? I haven't been able to find it in the
Compatibility List for Linux or the product itself. I've gotta find an
56K MODEM for Linux -- I'm working in a remote location without DSL,
ISDN, or cable.
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Compatibility
Date: 24 Jan 2001 04:46:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 03:52:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>Is an Actiontec 56K PCI Pro Internal Data/Fax Modem V.90 & K56flex
>compatible with Linux 7.0? I haven't been able to find it in the
>Compatibility List for Linux or the product itself. I've gotta find an
>56K MODEM for Linux -- I'm working in a remote location without DSL,
>ISDN, or cable.
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodems.html
If your modem says "OK" or "LT" by it, you can probably get it to work.
If not, you might as well go sell it and buy an external modem that
connects to the 9-pin serial port on the back of the machine. Those
Just Work, and they're a sight easier to set up than internal models.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 Jan 2001 00:08:21 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In comp.os.linux.alpha Cluster B. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > But in alpha, Ultra-160 is not supported in internal SCSI controller
> > yet, I know.
>
> You mean by that that various built-in SCSI controllers you can find on
> some Alpha boxes are not of Ultra-160 kind (which may be true, as this
> is a hardware limitation) or that Linux kernel on Alpha will not support
> Ultra-160 (which is obviously false and easily refutable by a simple
> experiment with some sym53c81010 controller and current drivers)?
It also maybe the Ultra-160 cards need byte-level access, and the kernel wasn't
built to target the appropriate alphas that have byte instructions. The
original Alpha only did 32 or 64 byte loads/stores. To store a byte you had to
load a word, insert the byte, and store the word.
> The situation is _exactly_ the same one for x86 boards with this
> difference that I do not recall ever seeing x86 machine with a builtin
> SCSI controller. But maybe there are some?
Many of the high end x86 motherboards have built in scsi controllers, like the
ASUS P2B-DS I have in my machine for instance.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.is.linux.setup
Subject: Re: upgrading/adding a 2nd drive
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:32:26 +0400
Marcell Stoer wrote:
>
> Hi, I installed RH7 on a 1Gb some time ago and of course have now run
> out of disk space. It was predictable, but I had no choice. I want to
> add a 4.3Gb drive to my system and not do a re-install. I have been
> looking through the Howtos (Adding a Second IDE ... etc), but am not
> completely clear on creating a linux partition with fdisk and then
> moving files to the new mounted drive.
>
> I used fdisk to delete the old partitions. When I run fdisk and ask it
> to print the partition table it shows nothing after I deleted them all.
> If I then type a 'd' to delete another partition it asks which one:
> (1-4). I was trying to make sure I got them all, but was confused when
> it gave me a choice when I thought there were none left.
>
> Anyhow, should I create a single large partition, format it as linux
> native, mount it as /hdd2 and then create directories such as /hdd2/usr
> there. Then move all the files under /usr to /hdd2/usr and symbolically
> link /usr to /hdd2/usr? This is all new to me and I am trying to find
> the easiest way to get back space on my first drive (it has less than
> 20Mb left). I want new S/W to install on the new drive as well.
>
> How should I approach this? Have I missed a Howto that describes this in
> detail? I've gone through the RH docs, but cannot find an answer there
> either.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcell
>
> mstoer at uvic dot ca
I did exactly that some time ago (a few days).
1) create primary swap and primary native partitions on /dev/hdb (30Gb
as it happens).
2) reboot to single user mode
3) mount /dev/hdb2 on /bigdisk
3) cp -dpviR /opt /bigdisk
3) cp etc with /home /usr/local and some other things
4) rm -r /opt (/home etc. (everything I copied))
5) ln -s /bigdisk/opt /opt
6) (5) for other things
7) add new swap and linux partitions to /etc/fstab
8) reboot normally
Caveats: Backup everything first! (Rename) mv /opt /opt-0 (etc) not rm
until you're sure it runs properly. DON'T do this with /etc or /usr.
HIH
Chris
PS Thanks to Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who agreed this
idea was OK on alt.os.linux.slackware. (Yes I am sysadmin!)
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard
Subject: Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 03:40:53 -0500
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Marcus Lauer wrote:
>> This would be a problem for me as well, as I was just getting ready to order
>> this board. I would like to point out that I have been using the vt686 (FIC
>> 503a) for about a year with NO problems at ATA/66. Anybody else having any
>> problem with the vt686b?
>> --
>> moonie ;)
>>
>
>
> Just so everyone knows, the 686b started appearing on motherboards in
>the last _few weeks_. It's _brand_ new. So direct comparisons between the
>vt686 and the vt686b are irrelevant.
>
> Marcus
I understand this, if you read my post you will see that I understand that
there may be a difference and was looking for people who were using vt686b, not
trying to say that vt686 and vt686b were the same!
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Serial Terminal
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:03:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Roland Scheike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>: I try to connect a Siemens/Nixdorf TC20 terminal to
>: a linux box via the serial line.
>
>: My settings of the terminal are:
>: v.24/ 38400 / 8n1/ xon,off, ANSI
>
>Don't use xon,xoff!
Do.
>Use Hardware Flowcontrol.
That's a sure halt if your cable is wrong.
With XON/XOFF you get away with 3 working wires and especially
with terminals the rest are the tricky ones. Once you know you
can get something thru, start working towards perfection.
>If you don't have docu on it, this means try and error. :-)
And if you start that with rts/cts you get absolutely nothing
on many cables and will have no clue as to where the problem is.
Start on the setting and setup that requires the least amount
of things to be right, then work your way up, component by component.
--
Windows Task Scheduler is a really nifty tool and should probably
be disabled and removed if at all possible.
-- Securityportal.com Jeff pt IX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on an SGI INDY workstation
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:04:46 GMT
Troutman wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (root) graced us with the following:
>
>>I was wondering has anyone tried to install Linux on a INDY workstation?
>>The hardware seems pretty basic. 100mhz MIPS processor and 64megs of
>>ram.
>>
>>Any help would be great!
>
>Have you checked out http://www.sgi.com/linux/ yet?
>
>I tried Hard Hat which was basically Red Hat 5.2 for Indy (the only SGI
>supported for Linux at the time) and I didn't have much luck. I have
>heard that it runs well though. My Indys were pretty old...
I think the mips howto talks indies to great extent.
SGI support is pretty flaky and IRIX does the job great. There's little
reason to use Linux on that or if you insist, there's little reason to
get an SGI for running Linux =)
--
Windows Task Scheduler is a really nifty tool and should probably
be disabled and removed if at all possible.
-- Securityportal.com Jeff pt IX
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I use joystick at linux?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:17:31 GMT
I have a microsoft joystick attach to my sound card, can I use it at linux?
Sent via Deja.com
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From: jonasbn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Jonas B. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zip drives on linux
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:36:09 +0100
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Ruediger Arp wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Ding de Villa"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ive finally gotten linux on my system and all my hardware is working
> > except for my zip drive. . is there a driver out there? help!
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm having a parallel zip100. Below are the two lines I added to /etc/fstab. Also,
> the "imm" module must be loaded (for older drivers it was "ppa", I believe)
>
> /dev/sda /zip ext2 rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
> /dev/sda4 /winzip vfat rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>
> HTH,
> Ruediger
>
Even the USB version of the Zip250 will work under Linux if your kernel is new enough
(2.4.0) or if you have the backport (available under Mandrake).
jonasbn
--
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WWW: http://jonasbn.hjem.wanadoo.dk/
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From: bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hdparm
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:43:33 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you can also run hdparm -tT /dev/hda to get caching speeds
"Corey W. Clamp" wrote:
> Well I don't know exactly what kind of drive you are using, etc etc...
>
> But to test the performance of your drive use "hdparm -t /dev/hd*"
> Then you can enable 32-bit access and DMA with the "-d1 -c1" switches, run
> the test again and see how it changes. Then when you are satisfied with the
> results, write an rc script to apply the settings at boot.
>
> If you need further help email me and I'll see what I can do to help...
>
> Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:94khlg$e0a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Could someone teach me how to optimize my hard disk performance
> > using hdparm ?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Eric Ho
> >
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