Linux-Hardware Digest #266, Volume #14 Sun, 28 Jan 01 23:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Hey! Dial Up Question! (coma)
suitable backup hardware? (Florian v. Savigny)
Re: Corel Linux Sucks :( ("Josh")
Re: suitable backup hardware? (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: NIC: loadable module doesn't compile (Michael Mueller)
hpt 368 ATA controller - lost interupt when checking partition (Ralph Wesseling)
CD Writer for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: suitable backup hardware? (Duane)
Re: Clusters.... (William Park)
Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem?? (Joe Pfeiffer)
Re: CD Writer for Linux (Andreas Mohr)
Re: ATAPI ZIP-100 PECULARITIES? ("Robert M. Taylor")
Re: CDWriter Access - Strange denial (Andreas Mohr)
Re: CD Writer for Linux (Young4ert)
Re: Serial Terminal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!! (schlomo)
FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!! (schlomo)
XBox - a Linux port ? (John Silva)
Re: Hey! Dial Up Question! (The Saint)
Re: CD Writer for Linux ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
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From: coma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.2600.hackerz,alt.hackers.groups,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Hey! Dial Up Question!
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:28:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On the cyberdate of 28 Jan 2001 08:56:32 -0600, The Saint
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> came down from the planet of
> alt.2600.hackerz with a universal translator and a message that
> interpreted as :
>
> >
> >Actually, he should've told you he copied it word-for-word from here:
> >http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/troub-33.shtml
> >
>
> hmm, good reading, thanks
> --
> mrrelaxed
>
> windows: crash tested by dummies
> linux: for the ride of your life
>
> (Newsgroup FAQ's)
> http://www.althacking.com
> http://www.alt2600hackerz.com
>
You're right, SHE should have mentioned that.
I thought I had copied the link with the rest of the information.
I should have re-read my post.
Thanks for the correction......
later....
--
=:o\
coma
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian v. Savigny)
Subject: suitable backup hardware?
Date: 29 Jan 2001 00:45:39 +0100
Hello,
I need advice on what hardware is suitable for Linux to back up my
stuff sequentially (here I want to say that I do not want to burn
CD-ROMs because I would like to update the backups frequently - say
every other week or so).
I use an ordinary PC architecture, with an IDE controller. I do use an
old QIC-80 tape drive now (with a capacity of about 120 MB) which has
given me the chills each time I had decided to repartition my
computer because all my valuable data were on those tapes then... I
frequently have problems with this device, the characteristic of which
is that I never can figure out what the exact reason is: the ftape
driver, the distro (strangely, things don't work under SuSE 6.4 but
under 6.0), the tar program, the tape - a restore from one tape seems
to have damaged the filesystem, the next one works out: I think I
would like to have something I can feel more comfortable with.
The SuSE manual states that "since these devices [floppy tapes] are
critical to access with regard to timing, problems with saving or
restoring may often turn up." [hope I got the translation right]
Maybe this is the reason. Can anyone confirm that? Do you have any
advice what you think may be suitable for me: reliable, for a moderate
amount of data to backup (the size of the media may be under 1
GB). And - you guess it - affordable?
Is it more reliable to use a streamer which is directly connected to
the IDE controller? Or buy an SCSI adapter and an SCSI streamer?
Florian von Savigny
______________________________________________________________________
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corel Linux Sucks :(
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:50:16 GMT
Caveat Emptor
"Let the buyer beware"
J.
"Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Cs4c6.2023$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suitable backup hardware?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:09:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florian v. Savigny wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I need advice on what hardware is suitable for Linux to back up my
> stuff sequentially (here I want to say that I do not want to burn
> CD-ROMs because I would like to update the backups frequently - say
> every other week or so).
>
> I use an ordinary PC architecture, with an IDE controller. I do use an
> old QIC-80 tape drive now (with a capacity of about 120 MB) which has
> given me the chills each time I had decided to repartition my
> computer because all my valuable data were on those tapes then... I
> frequently have problems with this device, the characteristic of which
> is that I never can figure out what the exact reason is: the ftape
> driver, the distro (strangely, things don't work under SuSE 6.4 but
> under 6.0), the tar program, the tape - a restore from one tape seems
> to have damaged the filesystem, the next one works out: I think I
> would like to have something I can feel more comfortable with.
>
> The SuSE manual states that "since these devices [floppy tapes] are
> critical to access with regard to timing, problems with saving or
> restoring may often turn up." [hope I got the translation right]
>
> Maybe this is the reason. Can anyone confirm that? Do you have any
> advice what you think may be suitable for me: reliable, for a moderate
> amount of data to backup (the size of the media may be under 1
> GB). And - you guess it - affordable?
>
> Is it more reliable to use a streamer which is directly connected to
> the IDE controller? Or buy an SCSI adapter and an SCSI streamer?
>
>
>
> Florian von Savigny
> ______________________________________________________________________
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I do my backups via NFS to an old 386 running SuSE 5.3 and it works fine.
This should fit your needs; it is reliable, it can easily handle 1 GB and
it is affordable.
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using SuSE 5.3 and 7.0
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From: Michael Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NIC: loadable module doesn't compile
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:08:20 +0100
Hi Russell,
you wrote:
> Have a new computer with two KTI KF-330 NICs, they come with a loadable
> module that is compiled for the 2.2.9 kernel. I have installed RedHat 7
> (2.2.16-22), the source for the module does not compile.
>
> Apparently definitions have changed in linux/netdevice.h and
> linux/interrupts.h. It appears that in netdevice.h
>
> struct device is replaced with struct net_device
> struct enet_statistics is replaced with struct net_device_stats
These changes happened within the Linux 2.3 development tree and due do
not affect Linux 2.2. You are using the kernel headers of Linux 2.3 or
2.4.
Malware
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From: Ralph Wesseling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hpt 368 ATA controller - lost interupt when checking partition
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:09:47 +0100
I have highpoint hpt 368 ata Controller. I am using the 2.4.0 kernel
and experiencing the following problem. When my system is booting up
and gets to the checking partition stage it tries to look at the two
drives hanging off the ata controller hde and hdg, in bith cases it
tries probing the partitions and eventually returns a "lost interupt
message. After about 10 seconds booting continues and the drives can
be read and written to without any difficulties.
Has anyone got an idea of what this message means and what I can do
about it.
Highpoint is not exactly helpful with information or advise so I am
hoping that there are other who have some ideas about this problem.
R
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CD Writer for Linux
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:06:28 GMT
What kind of CD Writer works best with Linux. I am thinking about
buying one....I would prefer it to be an external.
I appreciate any input!
Thanks,
Kurtis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duane)
Subject: Re: suitable backup hardware?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:20:17 GMT
On 29 Jan 2001 00:45:39 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian v.
Savigny) wrote:
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I need advice on what hardware is suitable for Linux to back up my
>stuff sequentially (here I want to say that I do not want to burn
>CD-ROMs because I would like to update the backups frequently - say
>every other week or so).
Hmm... So what is the problem using CDROMs here? I back up twice a
week to CDROMs. At $0.40 each, that is an annual cost of $40 dollars.
If you are backing up "every other week or so", that is an annual cost
of about $10.
>
>I use an ordinary PC architecture, with an IDE controller. I do use an
>old QIC-80 tape drive now (with a capacity of about 120 MB) which has
>given me the chills each time I had decided to repartition my
>computer because all my valuable data were on those tapes then... I
>frequently have problems with this device, the characteristic of which
>is that I never can figure out what the exact reason is: the ftape
>driver, the distro (strangely, things don't work under SuSE 6.4 but
>under 6.0), the tar program, the tape - a restore from one tape seems
>to have damaged the filesystem, the next one works out: I think I
>would like to have something I can feel more comfortable with.
I have in the past had many problems with tapes. One of those problems
being, if your old tape drive fails, are you going to be able to find
a drive that will read your tapes? With CDROMs, you get a long shelf
life, and it will be many more years (in computer years) before the
technology is obsolete. And I like having all those CDROMs around with
archives of old work.
On the other hand, maybe you like getting the "chills" :-)
>...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Park)
Subject: Re: Clusters....
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:33:04 GMT
Walter Rusin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
: I'm rather new on this group so maybe at first I'll introduce myself. I'm a
: mathematics student from the University of warsaw (for all who doesn't know
: where Warsaw is: it's the capital city of Poland). I simultanously run my
: home computer under Linux (Mandrake 7.2) and Windows ME. I rather use it for
: some mathematical computation then for gaming but sometimes ;-).
: So my question is: does anybody of you have expereince with building up and
: configuring computation clusters ? I'll try to get financial means to
: construct a standalone HPCC with special refference to financial
: statistics/probability computation and I need someone who'd be helpfull if I
: get the money... ;-).
: Thanks in advance...
: Walter Rusin
Well, no experience yet. I have 4 dual-cpu Slackware machines, and I'm
about to link them up into 8-cpu Linux cluster. My motherboards are ABit
VP6. It's too late for me, but don't buy VP6.
--William
--
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
Date: 28 Jan 2001 17:23:21 -0700
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> My USR sportster does it for no reason. Working one day, no toucheee,
> and not working the next. It talks back fine through minicom. Just won't
> dial or pick up. It's about 3 weeks between such events.
>
> Of course, turning it off and on again fixes it. An at&f1 and variants
> does nothing for it.
>
> My diamond supra 56 does it too, much more regularly. Every week or so.
Mine's a 3Com 56K -- I'd have to look up the number again. But it's
never frozen.
>
> You can probably do it yourself, off the top of my head, since the
> modem cards are the same between internal and external versions. It's
> just the mounting that's different. It might be wrth looking inside to
> see if there are two-prong hooks for the leds.
I'll have to look into this....
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
VL 2000 Homepage: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Writer for Linux
Date: 29 Jan 2001 02:01:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What kind of CD Writer works best with Linux. I am thinking about
> buying one....I would prefer it to be an external.
All I can say is: don't buy Acer. Incompatibilities/flaws in firmware.
Andreas Mohr
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From: "Robert M. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI ZIP-100 PECULARITIES?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:06:39 GMT
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...
Mine at work and at home don't exibit this behavior. Window NT does
rename the drive to a different drive letter on some of the PC's with
Asus P3-BF Motherboards though.
> 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!!!!
I use a zip drive to boot either DOS or NT using the drive. If I leave
the disk out I get NT. DOS and the test software is on the zip disk. I
have a bootable Linux disk as well. Boots as a recovery drive if I run
ito trouble at home.
> 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?
>
> Thanx for your time... and any replies to past happenings/ questions...
Check your BIOS settings. Should be there somewhere.
--
Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
===================================================
Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.0 (i686) - Kernel 2.2.16 (tty1)
Osprey login:
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDWriter Access - Strange denial
Date: 29 Jan 2001 02:08:05 GMT
mpierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Problem caused by a lack of irq resources that a bios reassignment for the serial
> interrupt has fixed.
Uh, and that manifested itself in a "wrong major or minor number" error ??
Plain weird. This should definitely be fixed :-\
Andreas Mohr
> Marvin
> --
> In article <es7c6.84218$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "mpierce"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.4.0
>>
>> Have 2 USB devices. Cannot access USB CD-RW and yet, I can access my
>> Zip250 so this indicates that USB has been configured correctly for the
>> kernel. (I have another IDE CDRom which is /dev/hdc; no problems).
>>
>> When I try to mount the CD-RW, I get this error:
>> Could not mount device. The reported error was:
>> mount /dev/cdrom2 has wrong major or minor number
[...]
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Writer for Linux
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:05:52 GMT
I haad had bad experience with Acer CDRW (6206 and 8432). They both gave
me a lot of problems, not to mentioned trying to write on a CDR media
always failed. When the local CompUSA had a big sale for the IOmega
12x10x32 CDRW on 01/01/01, I went to purchase two units (internal) and
installed one my my Athlon running SuSE-7.0 Pro. With this IOmega CDRW, I
can easily rip the audio CD and write it back on a CDR in less than 6
minutes. While the CDRW was writing, I could even compile the kernel and
the written CDR does not have any hicked up things because the IOmega CDRW
has a burn-proof feature. At least, this is what I could say. BTW, I use
gcombust-0.1.41 and cdrtools-1.10 on my IOmega.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What kind of CD Writer works best with Linux. I am thinking about
> buying one....I would prefer it to be an external.
>
> I appreciate any input!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kurtis
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Serial Terminal
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:01:21 GMT
Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Roland Scheike wrote:
:>My settings of the terminal are:
:>v.24/ 38400 / 8n1/ xon,off, ANSI
OK, Roland.
Prepare yourself a test plug, to find out, if you terminal is ok.
I'm assuming you have a 24 pin RS232 plug at the terminal.
Don't connect the computer at this time.
Put a wire britch between pins 6, 8 and 20.
Put another britch between 4 and 5.
And a third one between 2 and 3.
Like this: 2+
|
3+
4+
|
5+
6+
|
8+
|
20+
Now if you start typing something at the terminal you should
see anything you type appearing at the screen. Depending on
you settings you may see each character appear twice.
Don't continue, until you have this going. If you can't get
this to work, you either have a non standard pinout at the
terminal's connector, or badly messed up settings.
Another possibility is, that your terminal is defective.
The reason, why I'm, contrairy to Mr. Harri Haataja, suggest
*not* to use Xon/Xoff is, agetty by default uses both types of
flow control. That is: it can deal with Xon/Xoff, but
nevertheless requires your cable to be wired for harware
flowcontrol. A second reason is, that you may have Xon/Xoff
characters within your data, which will mess up your screen.
In more than 90% off all cases you can get away with a cable
wired like this:
Computer Terminal
2------------------3
3------------------2
7------------------7
4------------------5
5------------------4
6+
|
8+----------------20
20-----------------+6
|
+8
This will work, if both, the manufacturer of your computer and of
your terminal have done the pinout as written down in the
standard.
Sadly enough, a lot of manufacturers have a tendency to create non
standard pinouts, to force their customers to buy their
overpriced cables and/or use their technical service.
Just one example: Ericson Printers used to use pin 19 instead of
pin 20!
That's why such things as a "break out box" do exist, so you can
find out by try and error. :-)
A last hint: If you got other settings wrong, like the baud rate,
you will see garbage characters at the screen instead of your
login prompt, but you'll see at least something.
Email me, if you still can't get it to work.
Best Regards,
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: schlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: chi.forsale,comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 03:19:34 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: schlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: FA:IBM ThinkPad 365XD p133/24mb/1gb/cdrom/Linux +MORE!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 03:20:12 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: John Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XBox - a Linux port ?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 03:50:44 +0000 (UTC)
After looking recently at the h/w specs on the Microsoft XBox gaming
station it seems like this would be a GREAT Linux box ... and if it
has a price tag like most game stations it would be a 'good buy'.
So ... does this seem like a good target for a Linux port ?
JohnS
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From: The Saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.2600.hackerz,alt.hackers.groups,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Hey! Dial Up Question!
Date: 28 Jan 2001 22:05:40 -0600
begin coma.exe
>You're right, SHE should have mentioned that.
I apologize for that assumption. I usually try to be gender neutral,
but sometimes I assume too much.
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD Writer for Linux
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:07:44 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What kind of CD Writer works best with Linux. I am thinking about
> buying one....I would prefer it to be an external.
>
> I appreciate any input!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kurtis
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
I have nothing bad to say about my Teac 54E with scsi-ide built in to
the kernel. I use cdrecord and xcdroast.
--
Rinaldi]$
Nothing left to say.
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