Linux-Hardware Digest #311, Volume #14 Wed, 7 Feb 01 15:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat ("Ezra N. Harrington")
Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat (David)
Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Minolta PagePro Color (PCL5C) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Minolta PagePro Color (PCL5C) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tape drive for Linux ("John P")
Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk (Krish)
Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat (Joachim Feise)
Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help: Promise ATA100: Possible? (Harald Lettner)
Re: ALCATEL USB SpeedTouch ADSL modem & Linux RH 7.0? (Trattner Josef)
Problem with Soundblaster PCI 128 (Thor Kristoffersen)
Re: Light + long battery life ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kernel 2.4.1 and XCDRoast (James Tappin)
Compaq ML350? (Eric Kasten)
Re: AVM Fitz PCI (V2.0) and SUSE 7.0 (Lee Webb)
Re: winbond 6692 will not work (Roel)
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From: "Ezra N. Harrington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:32:28 -0500
Thanks everyone for their advice. I tried re-seating my memory last
night. The contacts looked fine. The machine continued to crash. My
fans were all spinning away, and my hard drives didn't appear to be any
hotter than normal.
Luc Leblond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> actually, if you got time to recompile your kernel,
> enable that option : <snip>
I doubt my machine would stay up long enough for me to complete a kernel
compile. :)
> btw, what's the size of your drive ?
> show me a : fdisk /dev/hdX or /dev/sdX
The disk Linux is installed on is 18 Gigs. My partition table is
something like this (from memory):
/dev/hde1 32MB /boot
/dev/hde2 9GB win98 fat32
/dev/hde5 extended partition
/dev/hde6 7GB /
/dev/hde7 100MB /tmp
/dev/hde8 1GB /home
And I got a swap partition somewhere in there too. I'll check what it
is exactly tonight. The reason it's /dev/hde is my motherboard has 4
ide ports, and 3 and 4 are the UDMA66 ports. This hd is plugged into
port 3.
Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A non-repeatable crash points strongly to a hardware fault.
> But I presume the machine is not unusually unstable under
> MS-Win98, so that points back at software. Confirm.
Yes, win98 is not _unusually_ unstable, but it does crash periodically.
> Bad memory is always a possibility, but it'd have to be pretty
> bad to cause a crash that quickly. But check it out anyways
> with memtest-86.
I just grabbed that memtest86 from freshmeat. I'll stick it on a floppy
and run it at home tonight.
> You mention PCMCIA services. Is this a laptop? <snip>
Actually, it isn't a laptop. Apparently the custom installation of
RedHat I did included pcmcia services. Go figure... :)
--
____________________________________
Ezra N. Harrington
Cisco Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
7025 Kit Creek Road v 919-392-9617
RTP, NC 27709-4987 f 919-392-4538
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Date: 7 Feb 2001 9:38:45 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Peter T.;
PTB> Anyway, the canonical incantation for tar is
PTB> tar cpvlfC - /usr . | tar xpvlfC - /mnt/hde2/usr
etc, etc for all the different partitions I currently have.
If one would do this for the whole fstab listing, making an image on a
new controller and drive, would it then be possible to to edit the
/mnt/hde2/etc/fstab, change the filesystem specs to reiserfs, then
reboot after makeing a kernel on *that* disk that would boot off-board
controllers first? I think there's a bios option that might have to be
set too...
That controller is a maxtor (aka promise) ata-100. If that could work,
it would make a quick way to migrate an old ata-33/ext2 lashup to
ata-100 and reiserfs.
Hmm, I see one potential gotcha, my lilo hasn't been replaced yet, and
the partition is a 16 gigger. Anything else one should take into
consideration?
Cheers, Gene
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:04:44 GMT
"Ezra N. Harrington" wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone for their advice. I tried re-seating my memory last
> night. The contacts looked fine. The machine continued to crash. My
> fans were all spinning away, and my hard drives didn't appear to be any
> hotter than normal.
>
> Luc Leblond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > actually, if you got time to recompile your kernel,
> > enable that option : <snip>
>
> I doubt my machine would stay up long enough for me to complete a kernel
> compile. :)
>
> > btw, what's the size of your drive ?
> > show me a : fdisk /dev/hdX or /dev/sdX
>
> The disk Linux is installed on is 18 Gigs. My partition table is
> something like this (from memory):
>
> /dev/hde1 32MB /boot
> /dev/hde2 9GB win98 fat32
> /dev/hde5 extended partition
> /dev/hde6 7GB /
> /dev/hde7 100MB /tmp
> /dev/hde8 1GB /home
>
> And I got a swap partition somewhere in there too. I'll check what it
> is exactly tonight. The reason it's /dev/hde is my motherboard has 4
> ide ports, and 3 and 4 are the UDMA66 ports. This hd is plugged into
> port 3.
>
> Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A non-repeatable crash points strongly to a hardware fault.
> > But I presume the machine is not unusually unstable under
> > MS-Win98, so that points back at software. Confirm.
>
> Yes, win98 is not _unusually_ unstable, but it does crash periodically.
>
> > Bad memory is always a possibility, but it'd have to be pretty
> > bad to cause a crash that quickly. But check it out anyways
> > with memtest-86.
>
> I just grabbed that memtest86 from freshmeat. I'll stick it on a floppy
> and run it at home tonight.
>
> > You mention PCMCIA services. Is this a laptop? <snip>
>
> Actually, it isn't a laptop. Apparently the custom installation of
> RedHat I did included pcmcia services. Go figure... :)
With it freezing after being up and running for a while sounds like a
possible overheating problem but with it crashing at boot time before it
even gets the system up and running is odd.
Have you tried re-seating the CPU and possibly any sound, video,
ethernet and/or modem cards.
One other thing would be to get any and all updates that you may need
from redhat's ftp site.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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Completed more W/U's than 99.043% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:15:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Ezra N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having quite a problem with linux on my personal machine (a dual
> boot with win98 and linux). I have basically no idea what the problem
> is, so any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Here is what is
> happening:
> I tried to install RedHat 7 on my machine, but, after successfully
> installing, it would always hang on boot. It never crashed in the same
> place either, but it was always when the daemons were getting started
> (sometimes during the starting of the at daemon, sometimes when pcmcia
> services were started, etc.). I just kind of attributed it to some
> RedHat 7 bug, and tried Slackware 7.1 instead.
> So Slackware also installed fine, and even booted fine. I was happily
> editing my lilo.conf file when my system decided to hang. Every time I
> boot, my machine will run for some amount of time (sometimes 10 minutes,
> sometimes an hour), and then hang just like RedHat did at boot.
Do you have an AMD K-6(-2?) chip. I know I had trouble with 2 machines
with this chip with exactly the same problems.
--
Best regards,
Stephen Jenuth
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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Minolta PagePro Color (PCL5C)
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:31:44 GMT
In article <94mb4f$i1d$00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Moeller Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to use an Minolta PagePro Color with
Linux SuSe.
> The printer emulate PCL5C
>
> What driver works for this configuration?
> (mayby without colorprinting)
>
> Dirk Möller
>
Having given up trying to get this combination to
work 6-8 months ago, I'd be very interested to
find if you manage to get it working. If memory
serves, when I was last looking there did seem to
be some sort of relationship being announced
between minolta and SuSE. I don't know whether
anything useful came out of it though...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Minolta PagePro Color (PCL5C)
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 17:32:21 GMT
In article <94mb4f$i1d$00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Moeller Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to use an Minolta PagePro Color with Linux SuSe.
> The printer emulate PCL5C
>
> What driver works for this configuration?
> (mayby without colorprinting)
>
> Dirk Möller
>
If you manage to get this working, I'll be interested to know. I gave
up trying to get this combination working 6-8 months ago. If I
remember rightly at that time there was some sort of relationship
between Minolta and SuSE starting to happen, I don't know whether it's
produced anything useful yet though...
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From: "John P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Tape drive for Linux
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:04:29 -0000
Hi all,
I want to start taking regular backups of the HD on a Linux box (P166,
RH6.1) - it's a 4Gb hard disk I think.
Are there any special considerations before I buy one to make sure it works
with RedHat? I don't really know much about tape drives but I'll have to get
an ATAPI one as the machine is quite old. What is a standard tape size
anyway, am I likely to have problems finding ones that hold 4Gb?
Any pointers to resources on setting it up, software etc?
Thanks
John
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From: Krish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 01:58:58 +0800
Check out the mini-Howto on Hard Disk Upgrade found in
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade (on RedHat 6.2, can't vouch for
the other distro's).
This worked beautifully for me.
================================================
Jeff Moore wrote:
>
> I just bought a new hard disk and I am wondering how is the best way to
> copy my old system to it completely.
> I can install the new disk as a second disk and mount the partitions,
> but how do I copy the important files to it so they are intact, and in
> the right place.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff Moore
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From: Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inexplicable crashing in Slackware and RedHat
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 10:09:18 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Ezra N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm having quite a problem with linux on my personal machine (a dual
> > boot with win98 and linux). I have basically no idea what the problem
> > is, so any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Here is what is
> > happening:
>
> > I tried to install RedHat 7 on my machine, but, after successfully
> > installing, it would always hang on boot. It never crashed in the same
> > place either, but it was always when the daemons were getting started
> > (sometimes during the starting of the at daemon, sometimes when pcmcia
> > services were started, etc.). I just kind of attributed it to some
> > RedHat 7 bug, and tried Slackware 7.1 instead.
>
> > So Slackware also installed fine, and even booted fine. I was happily
> > editing my lilo.conf file when my system decided to hang. Every time I
> > boot, my machine will run for some amount of time (sometimes 10 minutes,
> > sometimes an hour), and then hang just like RedHat did at boot.
>
> Do you have an AMD K-6(-2?) chip. I know I had trouble with 2 machines
> with this chip with exactly the same problems.
I doubt that that's the problem. I am running a machine with a K6 for over
two years now with Slackware, and don't have any problems.
There are a couple of things that can cause this:
- bad memory or bad contacts
- CPU overheating, e.g., the fan dying. The fan bearings can wear out,
especially on cheap fans
- disk overheating, data is read, or stuff is written to logfiles, etc., and
if there are problems you might get bad data into memory or the disk stops
answering
- general overheating of the whole system. Make sure that there is enough
air circulation in the system, and cables are not blocking the circulation.
-Joe
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Filesystem transfer to new disk
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:22:54 +0100
In comp.os.linux.hardware Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Peter T.;
> PTB> Anyway, the canonical incantation for tar is
> PTB> tar cpvlfC - /usr . | tar xpvlfC - /mnt/hde2/usr
> etc, etc for all the different partitions I currently have.
Just so. That doesn't bother me, since I like to be thorough .. and it
wouldn't bother a novice at all, since they likely have only one
partition.
> If one would do this for the whole fstab listing, making an image on a
> new controller and drive, would it then be possible to to edit the
> /mnt/hde2/etc/fstab, change the filesystem specs to reiserfs, then
> reboot after makeing a kernel on *that* disk that would boot off-board
You might want to also rerun lilo, but yes, you could do all that.
> controllers first? I think there's a bios option that might have to be
> set too...
> That controller is a maxtor (aka promise) ata-100. If that could work,
> it would make a quick way to migrate an old ata-33/ext2 lashup to
> ata-100 and reiserfs.
> Hmm, I see one potential gotcha, my lilo hasn't been replaced yet, and
> the partition is a 16 gigger. Anything else one should take into
> consideration?
Nothing that you don't seem capable of catching. No, nothing else comes
to mind (you'll want to prepare swap separately).
Peter
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From: Harald Lettner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: Promise ATA100: Possible?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:58:37 +0100
Dave Gough wrote:
> I'm planning on building the box with a Promise Technologies UltraATA
> 100 card (not the Fasttrak100 or a heavier model; we don't need all the
> extra features at this point). Promise has got RH6.2/7.0 drivers on
> their support site, but only for the Fasttrak models, and I can tell you
> that this doesn't play well with the install of Redhat 7.0. (The distro
> I chose to go with, for a variety of different reasons.) Has anyone
> gotten a Promise PCI Ultra100 controller to work, and if so, how is the
> most efficient way of going about getting it there?
>
hi!
i've got rh7 running on an asus a7v with the onboard ata100 contr. made by
promise, which (i think) is the same as the ultra100 card.
after getting through the install-trouble it works fine and with the 2.4
kernel even at full-speed.
heres a link that helped a lot:
http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html
ciao harald
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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:55:26 +0100
From: Trattner Josef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ALCATEL USB SpeedTouch ADSL modem & Linux RH 7.0?
I have the same Problem!
at present there is no driver! Ask Alcatel if a new driver available is
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From: Thor Kristoffersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with Soundblaster PCI 128
Date: 07 Feb 2001 20:11:06 +0100
I can't get my Soundblaster PCI 128 (CT5880) to work in RedHat Linux
"Fisher". I have tried it with the 2.4.1 kernel from www.kernel.org, as
well as the 2.4.0-0.99.11 kernel that comes with "Fisher".
The card is recognized by Linux, and I can start the xmixer, but there is
no sound from programs like xmms or mpg123. When playing a CD there is
sound, but using the mixer controls yields weird results (like, for
example, the sound being muted when I touch the master volume control).
This is what lspci -v says about the PCI 128:
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq CT5880 [AudioPCI] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
When I run sndconfig it gets to the point where it attempts to play a
sample, and there it hangs. Looking at dmesg afterwards I find the
following:
es1371: version v0.27 time 16:17:35 Jan 24 2001
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0b.0
es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe000 irq 5
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: sample rate converter timeout r = 0x00a40000
es1371: sample rate converter timeout r = 0x00840000
es1371: sample rate converter timeout r = 0x00840000
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x0001:0x0001 (Unknown)
es1371: sample rate converter timeout r = 0x00840000
es1371: sample rate converter timeout r = 0x00840000
es1371: sample rate converter timeout r = 0x00840000
[etc]
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Light + long battery life ?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 19:16:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Speed is not important (i.e., pentium-200 class is ok). Light
weight
> > (<3lbs) and battery life (>=8hours) is, as is the ability to run
emacs
> > (25*80), perl, and C. Naturally, this requires keyboard
connectivity or
> > a keyboard. Either floppy disk or ethernet connectivity is a must.
> > Modem would be nice. Serial connectivity (especially the non-USB
> > variety) is a pain, to say the least.
> >
> > Does this exist?
>
> No, not really. The closest you'll come is probably a WinCE-class
unit.
> Anything with a hard disk or a continuously backlit screen will need
more
> than 3 pounds of batteries to run for 8 hours.
>
> Try something like an IBM Workpad Z50 and a PocketLinux port.
Actually, this looks pretty close to fitting the bill. Unfortunately,
getting it to work looks like a chore and adventure.
/iaw
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From: James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.1 and XCDRoast
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:38:33 +0000
Scott Prigan wrote:
> Since I compiled and installed 2.4.1 on RH 7.0, I can't get XCDRoast to
> work. (Xsane doesn't seem to work either -- that may be a clue. Neither
> seems to find the devices?!
>
> Now the CD and CDRW -- both SCSI -- seem to work fine for reading CDs,
> even the UDF (which I compiled in or read but not write.). [CD is NEC
> 466, CDRW is Yamaha 6416s]
>
> The aic7xxx is configured as a module. It loads okay to mount CD / CDRW.
> It shows up (with the CD and CDRW identified) during booting.
>
> When I do insmod, however it just loads the module, and doesn't give the
> rest of the info -- but the CD & CDRW work this ways as well as
> automount from KDE. ?? probing problem??
>
> I did NOT put SCSI-emulation in the kernel -- but then again that's only
> for ATAPI-IDE. I have no ATAPI-IDE CDs.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
Sounds like missing scsi-generic support. (module sg IIRC).
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From: Eric Kasten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq ML350?
Date: 7 Feb 2001 19:28:45 GMT
Hi,
Has anyone ever installed Linux on a Compaq ML350? If so, did you
have any problems?
Thanks.
...Eric
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(517) 333-6412
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Webb)
Subject: Re: AVM Fitz PCI (V2.0) and SUSE 7.0
Date: 7 Feb 2001 19:55:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:52:00 +0100, Max wrote:
>Hello,
>
>i have Problems with my ISDN-Card (AVM Fritz PCI (V2.0)) and SUSE 7.0
>(HiSax can not initializied the Card).
>With the AVM Fritz PCI (V1.0) i have no Problems.
>
>Can anybody help me ??
>
Hmmmm...I've got the Fritz 2 on Mandrake 7.2 with no problems...
Does Suse see the card (cat /proc/pci)?
Also, my "mycard" config file says the following:
[lee /etc/isdn/profile/card]$
I4L_MODULE="hisax"
I4L_TYPE="27"
I4L_IRQ=""
I4L_MEMBASE=""
I4L_PORT=""
I4L_IO0=""
I4L_IO1=""
What's yours?
Any other info you can give?
Lee.
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From: Roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: winbond 6692 will not work
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 21:01:07 +0100
Hello
Just compile sync ppp in kernel and yast2 does the rest
Roel
Roel wrote:
>
> hello
>
> On my old pc the winbond 6692 based isdn works. On my new system yast1
> gives an error message: check if files in /etc/rc.config.d/* are
> correct.
> I copied those values from my old machine to the new one, the modem
> tries to login but failes, yast2 says everything is ok but, the modem
> tries to login but failes.
>
> Anyone out there who can help me solve this problem
>
> Thanks
>
> Roel
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