Linux-Hardware Digest #250, Volume #14 Thu, 25 Jan 01 23:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: High Class PC and Linux (Michael Meissner)
Re: webcam i linux (Trygve Selmer)
Re: What is the kernel module for realtek 8139??? (Andreas Hinz)
Re: adding second drive to ATA66 controller (ekk)
Re: US Robotics modem and SuSe 6.4 ("Peter T. Breuer")
QDI on board sound (steve)
Re: Promise Fasttrack 100 RAID 0 ("Mike Löschau")
Re: Sound with internal PC speaker (Jeff East)
Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story...... ("Tina Carter")
Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL??????? ("Tina Carter")
Corel Linux Sucks :( ("Tina Carter")
Re: To Linux Nazi ("Tina Carter")
Re: To all linux user...... ("Tina Carter")
Re: Diagnosing hard crashes (Andreas Mohr)
Re: ide cd-rw and scsi harddrives (Dances With Crows)
SBC Project ("Christian Beaumont")
Re: powerspec 1660 as linux machine (Cruiser)
Athlon motherboard suggestions (with RH 7.0) ("Anthony Pioli")
Re: IDE CD-R and SCSI harddrive ("mpierce")
How I Got My ATAPI Tape Drive To Work (Pete Ritter)
Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support (Gary Nappi)
FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux (schlomo)
Re: A7V promise IDE controler WITH UDMA MODE ("Tina Carter")
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Subject: Re: High Class PC and Linux
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jan 2001 17:11:05 -0500
Josef Schürle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
(note, I hack compilers for Red Hat, and not Linux, so take what I say with
appropriate grains of salt)
> Hello!
>
> For research work we want to use a high class PC with linux(SuSE). The
> PC will be configured with 2 Processors, 4-8 GByte RAM and several SCSI
> hard disks.
You need to go to the 2.4 kernel to use more than 4 gig of memory. Since it
was just released, there are probably still some teething problems....
> Is it in general possible to use this configuration with Linux? Which
> components (especially board) are recommended? Should we us the
> (cheaper) AMD-Processors or Intel-Processors(we heard, that AMD-P.
> produce arithmetic errors)?
Dell and VA Linux will be happy to sell 4 processor machines with lots of
memory, disk, etc:
http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_pedge_pedge_6400.htm
http://www.valinux.com/products/4450ts.html
Note, these come with Red Hat Linux, but you should be able to put SUSE on if
desired. If you buy machines with Linux installed, then you don't have to make
sure whether or not the components are supported by Linux.
--
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: Trygve Selmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: webcam i linux
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:11:19 +0100
"Tom A. Seljeflot" wrote:
>
> Jeg har litt problemer med å få til mitt web-kamera i RH7.0
>
> Kameraet heter TerraTec USB (ikke pro).
> Jeg har kompilert med CPiA i 2.4.0 kjernen.
> feilmeldingen lyder som så når jeg setter i kameraet :
>
> usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
>
> Jeg er ny på linux så jeg håper noen der ute vet hva dette kan være.
>
> Tom A.
Hi Tom,
>From one norwegian to another: When posting to an international group,
use english! Otherwise use the norwegian groups
(no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse).
I do not know anything about web camera, so here is a translation:
I have some problem with my web camera in RH7.0
The camera's name is TerraTec USB (not pro).
I have compiled with CPiA in the 2.4.0 kernel.
The error message when I plug in the camera is:
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
I am a Linux newbie, do anyone out there know what this is?
Trygve.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: What is the kernel module for realtek 8139???
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:23:04 GMT
In article <p00c6.1066$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Morten F. Klausen wrote:
>
>What is the kernel module for realtek 8139???
>
Hi,
rtl8139.o ;-)
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Andreas Hinz
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding second drive to ATA66 controller
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:44:33 -0500
Yes, I checked each of these when I did it before (the machine has not been
available for shutdown since I tried the first time), and the one thing I did
notice was that the BIOS only saw 19 of the 80 GB. That is interesting . . .
I didn't think there would be a size limitation with the BIOS, i.e., the master
drive is 12 GB. Could this have something to do with it?
Ken
Mark Bratcher wrote:
> Not having any other info, I would check the dumb stuff first:
>
> 1) Cables all fully connected (sometimes in the process of navigating around the
> inside of the PC, connectors pull partially loose)
>
> 2) The jumpers are properly set on the drives (double check)
>
> 3) The BIOS recognizes both drives properly. Make sure it can auto detect both
> drives and see them as master slave and the correct capacities.
>
> You shouldn't have to tell LILO anything about the second drive (unless you made
> the new drive the master and the old drive the slave, which would not work).
>
> Mark
>
> ekk wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > Sorry to bother you again - I'm trying to put a 2nd drive on the same
> > cable as the first on my promise controller. According to the
> > documentation I've found on the web and with the controller, it should
> > be as simple as setting one to master an the other to slave. But, I've
> > done that but it hangs during boot at 'Verifying DMI Pool Data'.
> > Everything is fine with only one drive. Do I need to tell Lilo
> > something before I install the drive?
> > Thanks,
> > Ken
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: US Robotics modem and SuSe 6.4
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:24:10 +0100
Dale Elisabeth Atems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also have a 5610 PCI modem in a Dell Dimension L733r running under
> RedHat 6.2. lspci -v returns the I/O port address (0xdff0) and also
> IRQ == 9. However,
> setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0xdff0 irq 9
> sets only the port, not the IRQ; the IRQ remains at the original
> value, 2.
> What am I doing wrong???
Nothing, 2 = 9 mod IBMPC.
(it's a long story - go hit an ibm designer).
Peter
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From: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: QDI on board sound
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:53:53 +0000
Hi All,
I have a QDI Kinzet7T motherbaord with onboard sound, this dose not
work has any one out there had any similar problems or know how to fix
this. I have tried to disable the sound from the bios (and the jumper)
and use an old ISA card but with no luck (even windows failed to see the
new card. I am running MAndrake 7.1
Cheers Steve
Ps sorry if this is already posted but after looking I found no mention
of QDI of the VIA KT133 chipset
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From: "Mike Löschau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack 100 RAID 0
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:16:02 +0100
"Thees R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:944qa8$359$04$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Wer hat den unter LINUX jemals zum Laufen bekommen , und vor Allem: WIE ?
> Es geht um S.u.S.E. 7.0 und Mandrake 7.2
>
>
also ich konnte zumindest suse 7.0 darauf installieren.. nur beim booten
kommt immer nur ein LIL-
bin gerade dabei das modul von RedHat anzupassen.
ich hoffe das es damit geht.
ansonsten kann ich es nur mit der suse cd starten..
installation abbrechen und installiertes system starten
dann gehts.
cu mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff East)
Subject: Re: Sound with internal PC speaker
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:34:08 -0500
] has anybody experiences with sound output with
] internal PC speaker? I'd like to put some different
]
] Are there somewhere howtos, infos, etc about?
My 2.2.17 kernel docs mention getting a kernel patch for PC
speaker sound. I just checked, and they have patches for 2.2.12 to
2.2.18.
ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/pcsp/
__________________________________________________________________________
"If there's nothing wrong with me, then there
must be something wrong with the universe." - Beverly Crusher
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story......
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:26:57 -0500
> So get it, install it, use it.
I got and installed it and using it.
> Problem?
Sound card doesn't work, modem doesn't work :(.
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL???????
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:25:40 -0500
> - How long have you been using computers?
I have been using it since first computer came which was 286 dx with 2mg
rams.
> - Do you have any formal training in computers?
No but I have done all work myself, Learn dos "myself" etc etc.
> - Are you comfortable with taking the cover off your computer and
Believe it or not this girl (tina) bought all part like case, motherboard,
cpu, ram, hardrive etc and made her computer.
> installing and removing cards, RAM, etc.?
Funny you asked this, I just bought 128 sdram and installed them, and I have
installed TV Tunder myself too and as stated b4 I made this computer by
buying parts, not like ibm, jet boot etc.
> - You say your modem works well under Windows ME--does that mean you
> have a dual-boot machine?
What's boot dial machine? Sorry did't get this one. You mean lilo?
> - Exactly what make and model number is your modem? (You may need to
> open your computer and read the card--or see what Windows tells you.)
Lucent Vinus Modem 56k. Internal.
> - Just because your modem works with Windows ME, does not mean it will
> work with Linux. Some modems rely heavily on software to run properly.
I know and I decided to give up on this internal modem, I think it's Win
modem. Note there is no doc about modem when I bought it :( But I am goin to
buy 56k external modem. Which one is good and with in 130$?
> - Did you have any problems installing Corel Linux?
Only when I installed in my old machine "IBM 486" this one is Celeron 400
mhz, with 160 sdram and 10 gig hardrive and 8 mb video card. I installed
like I do windows me. No Problem.
> - Can you use other programs successfully?
Yes I think so. I like play that game in GUi 'chinese one' the cardy thingy.
> - Have you tried re-installing?2
Yes I did yesteraday b/c My Corel linux didn't installed "make" command. Now
I got one. Oh by the way wvdial can't find my modem. :(
2> - Do you know what the command "man" is for?
It's for helpy thing.
> OK, I just read s2ome of your previous posts and I see you are a 16 year
> old Finnish girl living in Canada. I think you need to do some more
> reading--especially the documentation that came with your computer.
> Also, since Linus Torvalds homself is a Finn, I'm sure there are some
> Finnish-Linux sites out there where you might be able to more easily
2> communicate. Here's a couple:
I end fighting with them too :( They hate me....... Linxu nazi u know :(
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux Sucks :(
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:33:10 -0500
I won't lie to you it's corel linxu sucks....... Beside having idiot modem,
and onboard sound card :(
IT JUST SUCks :(.....
I am going to buy external modem make my lif easy and if that doesn't work,
I can always bother everyone here.
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To Linux Nazi
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:42:50 -0500
> If you expect help here you might want to can the attitude. That post was
> totally uncalled for.
You are wrong, my attitude help this group to evolve into new era where my
style love and humanity is dominated and respected.
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To all linux user......
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:36:43 -0500
I don't why and how I only end up fighting with linux people. Never in my
life I DID this.
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diagnosing hard crashes
Date: 26 Jan 2001 01:44:51 GMT
Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Aptiva 865 running Linux appears to be creaking and crashing more and
> more. The symptoms include
> - fails to reach the Lilo prompt on boot (i.e. just a flashing cursor)
> - spontaneous reboot (as in typing at terminal shell one second,
> power-up screen the next)
> - hard crashes (total lockup of sound, graphics and keyboard, no Alt-SysRq-
> recovery possible).
> The system hardware looks like this:
> Athlon 650MHz
> 200W power supply
> Elsa Erazor III video card (basically a TNT2U)
200W power supply with that kind/amount of hardware ??
Many people buy 350W or 400W power supplies for their Athlon.
I figure they have a reason...
In short: Athlon is known for power problems, and if you have a TNT2, then
it's even worse.
Andreas Mohr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ide cd-rw and scsi harddrives
Date: 26 Jan 2001 01:45:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:42:46 +0900, Saender A. Clark staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I have a machine with two scsi harddrives on scsibus 0 - redhat 6.2 ,
>kernel 2.2.16- sees them as sda and sdb
>When I loaded the ide-scsi module and rebooted, the cd-rw was now seen
>as sda and I got a kernel panic because it didn't know where to look for
>boot instructions.
>
>I tried changing fstab and lilo.conf (and ran lilo) to reflect this
>change, but no joy. All it has done is make it impossible for me to get
>into the machine at all.
>
>Any ideas how to get linux to boot from the now moved devices?
This is really f***ed up; a CD-RW should not appear as "sda" no matter
what. When you get back into the system, make sure that ide-scsi
support is built as a module, not directly into the kernel, and this
should not present a problem to the booting process as long as you're
not using a RAMdisk. (RAMdisks are completely unnecessary if you
compile SCSI support, SCSI disk support, and support for your particular
brand of SCSI adapter directly into the kernel. Their only purpose is
for installation and rescue systems; IMHO RedHat's reliance on the
RAMdisk causes more problems and confusion than it solves.)
Also go into the BIOS and disable (U)DMA for this device; CD-ROM-type
devices don't need it, most of them can't use it, and trying to use it
with a CD-ROM can cause funky errors like that to happen.
Anyway: boot from a bootdisk (you DO have a bootdisk, right?
http://www.toms.net/rb/ if you don't, and keep 2 or 3 copies around) or
boot from a bootable CD ("linux root=/dev/sda3" or wherever your real
root partition is) then see if you can make those changes discussed in
the first paragraph. HTH, bonne chance....
--
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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From: "Christian Beaumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBC Project
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:54:45 -0800
Hey, I'm working on a SBC project based on ARM 920T core which will
hopefully end up with a cool and cheap small thing that is networkable. I
would love comments if anyone can spare the time. You can find a bit more
about it over at my recently hatched web site http://beatbuggy.net
cheers,
-chris
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From: Cruiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: powerspec 1660 as linux machine
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:59:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I recently got given a PowerSpec 1660 PC. By today's standard it's a
little
> underspecced (1 Gig drive, 16Meg of memory), but I have managed to get
> RedHat Linux 6.2 up and running on it, as well as get it connected to
an
> ethernet via a network card in it. I even managed to get Gnome to run
by
> guessing the right video settings for the X11 setup.
If your're running it as a router and a web server I wouldn't worry too
much about X. Just telnet into it and set up what you need to.
>
> Now what I want to do is to upgrade this machine a little to use it
as a
> webserver (for about 5 people), and as a network router. To do this I
need
> more memory, another hard drive, and another network card. I have
talked to
> Microcenter (who make this machine) and it seems I can get the memory
no
> problems. But beyond helping me with the memory they are essentially
> useless. I need to know answers to the following questions and was
hoping
Keep in mind that the kind of memory you would get would be EDO or FPS
simms, which aren't being made anymore (at least not cheaply). You're
looking at $90 for 32 megs, and you have to buy them in pairs on that
system. I don't think Microcenter carries 16 meg EDO any more. Try
getting them used, maybe (?).
> some Linux person could help me out:
>
> a) can this machine support 2 drives and 2 ethernet cards (are there
> enough slots/ports?). I think so just looking at the spec sheet, but I
> am not sure (at present I have one ethernet card plugged into the
modem
> slot, so I should be able to use the other PCI slot for the second
card
> ...).
>
> b) how big an EIDE drive can the second internal drive be? Microcenter
> weren't sure, but guessed at 6Gig. Anyone know the correct number?
Also
> will any EIDE drive do the trick, or does it have to have a specific
> thickness, etc?
I had a problem getting an 8 gig drive to be seen by a P200, so 6
sounds about right, maybe even 4.
Most drives are 3 1/2 inch wide. Check to see if the 1660 has any funky
rails, which I doubt (you could reuse them anyway). You can get a 5 1/4
inch Quantum Bigfoot, but I've seen too many of them fail.
>
> c) I guess I need an ethernet card that plugs into the PCI bus slot.
Any
> suggestions for this. A Linksys 10-100 card seems a good bet ...
>
For Linux I like 3com cards, but they can be a hassle in a router when
you have two of them. I've used Lynksys cards too, (a 3com and a
Linksys together in a router, with Red Hat) and they do fine.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated since Microcenter's people know
> nothing, and this seems like a workable solution for my needs.
>
> thanks
> graham
Fred
Microcenter Tech Support
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From: "Anthony Pioli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Athlon motherboard suggestions (with RH 7.0)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 02:39:34 GMT
Hi all,
I am going to upgrade my computer with a new CPU, motherboard, and HD.
I want the fastest CPU around (within reason), and so a 1.2Ghz Athlon
seems to be a good choice for the price. So, which motherboard
do you recommend for this CPU? I will mostly be running a desktop machine
at this point, but I want a fast one (I don't like to wait for g++ to
finish!)
Also, what HD is good? I had thought that SCSI was what I wanted, but now
I am thinking ATA 100 will be fine. I kinda like the IBM drives simply
because they seem quiet! I'm under the impression that RH7.0 does
not like the promise controller, but so long as it works without a fuss on
a simple install of the OS, I'll be happy to wait till it is supported (in
RH7.1?)
or I get the energy to play with newer drivers my self.
My main goal is a highly capable machine, perhaps initially with lower
performance due to RH7.0 not supporting it fully, but with the knowledge
that
in about 3 months(?) RH7.1 will support it.
I know that these are vague-ish requirements, so just a gut feeling,
your own experiences, etc, will be fine to get me started
Thanks!
Anthony
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From: "mpierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE CD-R and SCSI harddrive
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:16:03 GMT
Hac,
Can you explain how you've got the IDE-CDR working, configuration, etc.
I have a zip on USB which is detected but get an error regarding wrong
major & minor numbers on the CDRW which should be scd0.
Marvin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "hac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Hy everybody,
>>
>> I've got the problem, that I can't use my CD-R (which is an IDE device)
>> with my other hardware (SCSI Controller with 3 harddrives, a ZIP drive
>> and a SCSI Scanner).
>>
>> The SuSE support data base says, that ... CD-Writer IDE-SCSI emulation
>> does not work if you have SCSI harddisk and IDE CD-R...
>>
> I have no idea why it would say that, because it's not true.
>
>> Does anybody have an idea how it will work nevertheless??
>>
> Yes. When you use ide-scsi, the ide controller shows up as another SCSI
> controller. There's no problem with multiple SCSI controllers. My
> second IDE channel has an ATAPI CD-R on it, and shows up as the third
> SCSI controller in my system. I don't currently have any SCSI hard
> drives attached, but do have every other type of SCSI device working
> fine. The IDE hard drive works fine, as an IDE device. The ATAPI CD-R
> works fine, as an emulated SCSI device.
>
>
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From: Pete Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How I Got My ATAPI Tape Drive To Work
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:21:45 GMT
Lots of people (myself included) have had problems configuring their
ATAPI tape drives to work on GNU/Linux systems. I finally got mine
working and hoping to spare others' nerves, I'll reveal how.
I configured it to use SCSI emulation. I also compiled relevant support
into the kernel rather than as modules. Here are the configure
parameters (I use make xconfig):
Under "Block devices"
"n" to "Include IDE/ATAPI TAPE support
"n" to "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support"
"y" to "SCSI emulation support"
Under "SCSI support"
"y" to "SCSI tape support"
"y" to "SCSI CD-ROM support"
"y" to "SCSI generic support"
"y" means to compile the support in question into the kernel rather than
to load it as a module. I left everything else as-is. I tried modules
for these items but got unresolved references when one or two were
loaded. If you don't know how to relink and install the kernel, read:
/usr/src/linux/README
I also added to lilo.conf append commands:
hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
where hdc and hdd are my tape drive and cdrom drive.
The tape drive are /dev/st0 and the cdrom /dev/scd0, so I made these
links:
ln -s /dev/st0 /dev/tape
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
since mt(1) can use the TAPE environment variable, I set it:
export TAPE=/dev/st0
On some installations, mt(1) uses a default of /dev/tape I believe, so
you might not need to set TAPE.
That's it! Everything works. I have:
Distro: Mandrake 7.2
kernel: 2.2.17-21mdk
MB: PCChips M805LR
CPU: 1 GHz K7
RAM: 256 MB
Tape: HP Colorado 8 GB ATAPI
CD-ROM: cheap 56X ATAPI
Good luck!
--
cpritter
home
com
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From: Gary Nappi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:16:29 GMT
Rich Carreiro wrote:
>
> What is the state (both in 2.2.18 and 2.4.x) of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100
> support, both in terms of integrated motherboard controllers and
> add-on cards (if there is any difference)? I've not been in the
> market for new iron in over 5 years, so I've gotten a bit behind on
> exactly what Linux is supporting these days. I have gone to
> www.linux-ide.org, but didn't find that terribly enlightening - lots
> of utilities and patches, but not much clear documentation on what
> *is* supported.
>
> And if UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 are not supported, does that mean the
> controllers just won't run at those speeds (but will still do
> UDMA/33)? Or does it mean Linux won't even see those controllers?
>
> I'm starting to see more machines/motherboards boasting about
> UDMA/100 support and I want to make sure I don't buy something
> that Linux won't work with.
I was doing some performance testing and found that the transfer rates
in RH 6.2 were FAR higher than the transfer rates in RH 7.0.
It seems like the latest generally available distributions kernel
is throttling back to DMA-33.
Regards,
Gary
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From: schlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 03:25:45 GMT
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1209819290
IBM ThinkPad 365XD Linux ............. [ThinkPenguine]
133MHZ CPU
11" Display
24MB Ram
1.0GB HD
Internal CD-ROM
External Floppy (IBM p/n 10h3980)
AC Adapter (IBM p/n 85G6709)
56K PCMCIA Fax/Modem
Two button mouse
External 1.0GB Sparq Drive including
removable cartridge w/ installed Linux driver
Linux Slackware 3.6 original 4 disc set included
Pre-installed software including Netscape 4.74,
Corel Wordperfect 8, and more...
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A7V promise IDE controler WITH UDMA MODE
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:40:07 -0500
Yes if person is using older linux version I think there is.
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >>Hi There
> >>I didn't know Gig cpu works with Linux there is no info about them...
> >>You sure it's working??
>
> Yes, everything works fine excepting UDMA feature.
> Is there a difference of behaviour between
> Gig cpu and others with Linux?
>
> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >>news:94g6n7$8ru$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>>
> >>> I tried kernel 2.4.0 for using UDMA5 with my A7V.
> >>> Then A7V promise controller has been recognized successfully,
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >>> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> >>> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=
> >>> PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88
> >>> PDC20265: chipset revision 2
> >>> PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >>> PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI
Mode.
> >>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8400-0x8407, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> >>> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8408-0x840f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> >>> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
> >>> VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
> >>> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >>> VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0:4.1
> >>> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
> >>> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> >>> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 07, ATA DISK drive
> >>> hdb: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
> >>> hde: MATSHITA CR-594, ATAPI CDROM drive
> >>> hdf: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CDROM drive
> >>> ide0 at 0x9400-0x9407,0x9002 on irq 11
> >>> ide2 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> >>>
> >>> but boot sequence stops at this point(IRQs or I/Os are incorrect).
> >>> Now it works with generic ide driver with kernel 2.2.18. X-(
> >>> hdparm says:
> >>> > sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb
> >>>
> >>> /dev/hdb:
> >>> setting using_dma to 1 (on)
> >>> HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
> >>> using_dma = 0 (off)
> >>>
> >>> CPU: Athlon thunderbird 1.2GHz
> >>> Kernel: 2.4.0 (slackware 7.1 base)
> >>> ide0: promise Ultra100 (PDC20265)
> >>> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 07, 7162MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=15522/15/63
> >>> hdb: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=5606/255/63
> >>> ide2: VIA VT82C686A
> >>> hde: MATSHITA CR-594, ATAPI CDROM drive
> >>> hdf: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CDROM drive
> >>>
> >>> # /etc/lilo.conf:
> >>> image = /vmlinuz.2.4.0
> >>> root = /dev/hdb3
> >>> label = 2.4.0
> >>> append = "x86_serial_nr=1 ide=reverse idebus=33 ide0=dma
hda=913/255/63
> >>hdb=5606/255/63 hdc=noprobe hdd=noprobe"
> >>> read-only
> >>>
> >>> and I reffered http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/ for setting kernel.
> >>> Does anyone know what should I do next?
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> K. Mori
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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