Linux-Hardware Digest #469, Volume #14 Mon, 12 Mar 01 01:13:04 EST
Contents:
CDROM problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: laser printer for Linux (Michael Meissner)
Fujitsu HDD crash under kernel 2.4.2 (Kirill Kozmin)
Fujitsu HDD crash under kernel 2.4.2 (Kirill Kozmin)
HP cd-writer installation? ("mpierce")
Re: Dual HDD question (Dances With Crows)
Re: Device # (John Thompson)
Sound Card ????? (mmcca)
Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o (William Daffer)
problem loading ncr53c8xx driver for tekram DC390U2W (Nate Affleck)
Re: 2.4.2 vs Adaptec 7896 (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o ("Tanvir Hassan")
Video Card BT878 and friends (John Westerdale)
Re: any experience with cobalt? ("Matt O'Toole")
what is device ide1(22,0) and why it keep saying VFS: Disk change detected ? ("susie
chu")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CDROM problem
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 01:20:33 GMT
I have a Panasonic CD-RW 8x4x32x.
I was able to mount it in Mandrake 7.2.
However, when I tried to access the drive, I got the following error:
[root@localhost /mnt]# ls
cdrom/ disk/ floppy/ windows/
[root@localhost /mnt]# cd cdrom
bash: cd: cdrom: Input/output error
This CDRW works just fine in my dual-booting windows 2000.
Following is my system configuration:
Celeron 433
Abit VH6-II ATA100
Quantum Fireball 30GB ATA100
Panasonic CDRW 8x4x32x
nVidia TNT2 16Mb
Hope someone can help.
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Subject: Re: laser printer for Linux
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Mar 2001 20:36:32 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter) writes:
> Won't it also try to use DHCP to grab an IP address if it doesn't have one
> assigned? If you have a DHCP server running somewhere on your network,
> maybe the printer will grab an address from it. Once it does that, a
> portscanner will find all HTTP servers on your network.
Or if you have root access on the machine running DHCP and its running
something like Linux, you can look in /var/log/messages and see the last
message from DHCP about its host ID and ethernet address.
In a lot of these network devices, you can also set things up with RARP and
friends, or temporarily move your host to a given IP address. It helps to
actually read the manual in this case.
--
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: Kirill Kozmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fujitsu HDD crash under kernel 2.4.2
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:38:56 +0100
At least it looks so!
I compiled the kernel 2.4.2 with DMA for HDD by default. The speed I got
after
restart according to hdparm was around 16Mb/sec. After a while when I
tryed write some files on disk, it started to sound very strange, at
console I got following messages:
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing
blocks
not in datazone - block = 778923311, count = 1
and
kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
After reboot fsck found a lot of broken inodes.
Configuration:
Fujitsu MPE3136AT.
1stMainboard SDII with AMD-751 and VIA Super South 686A
Athlon 600Mhz
What is it? Can it be because of overheating?
Please, send a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when replying
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From: Kirill Kozmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Fujitsu HDD crash under kernel 2.4.2
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:39:15 +0100
At least it looks so!
I compiled the kernel 2.4.2 with DMA for HDD by default. The speed I got
after
restart according to hdparm was around 16Mb/sec. After a while when I
tryed write some files on disk, it started to sound very strange, at
console I got following messages:
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing
blocks
not in datazone - block = 778923311, count = 1
and
kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
After reboot fsck found a lot of broken inodes.
Configuration:
Fujitsu MPE3136AT.
1stMainboard SDII with AMD-751 and VIA Super South 686A
Athlon 600Mhz
What is it? Can it be because of overheating?
Please, send a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when replying
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From: "mpierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP cd-writer installation?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:08:49 GMT
Mandrake7.2, kernel2.4.2
Previously I had an HP8210e USB cdrw which worked fine under Linux.
The device failed and was replaced with the newer model HP8230e which I haven't
been able to get to work.
Has anyone been able to get the USB version of this writer working under linux?
If so, could you detail how?
Marvin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Dual HDD question
Date: 12 Mar 2001 02:15:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 00:52:32 GMT, Timur Insepov staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>I have two HDDs in my box. One is a 28GB which is used only by Windows and
>9GB which is used solely by Linux Redhat 7.0. Everything works out fine, but
>in Windows, I can't see the 9GB HDD and in Linux, I can't see 28GB hdd. Is
>there anyway to have them recognize each other.
In Linux, just
mkdir /mnt/windoze (only do this once!)
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze -o umask=000
...then your Windoze drive will be accessible under /mnt/windoze.
Please note that this will only work if your installation uses FAT32;
NTFS requires some fiddling and it's unsafe to write to an NTFS
partition under Linux atm.
As for accessing Linux partitions under Doze, explore2fs is the best
solution. Do a Google search on "explore2fs", I know it works under 9x
and NT, but it might bomb under 2K since Microsoft saw fit to change a
bunch of stuff in the lowlevel filesystem handling for 2K. HTH,
--
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: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Device #
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:10:53 -0600
mpierce wrote:
> Can someone tell me what device is char-major 97?
>From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt:
97 char Parallel port generic ATAPI interface
0 = /dev/pg0 First parallel port ATAPI
device
1 = /dev/pg1 Second parallel port
ATAPI device
2 = /dev/pg2 Third parallel port ATAPI
device
3 = /dev/pg3 Fourth parallel port
ATAPI device
These devices support the same API as the generic
SCSI
devices.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: mmcca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card ?????
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:49:02 GMT
Does the alsa-project software able to 'read', or 'play', a music cd
without the analog cable between cdrom and sound card. If so which
cards can take advantage of this capability?
Thanks
MIke
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Subject: Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o
From: William Daffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:28:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Webb) writes:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 01:58:30 GMT, William Daffer wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk) writes:
> >
> >> On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:59:21 GMT, William Daffer
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I just changed my motherboards from an abit bp6 to an asus A7V and
> >> > I'm trying to get lm_sensors working again. I ran sensor-detect and
> >> > it gives me the information to put in the rc.local and
> >> > modules.conf. The problem is that it wants to load a module
> >> > (via686a) which it, and I, can't seem to find.
> >> >
> > My version is 2.5.2-3, the current redhat RPM. There is a later
> > version (2.5.5) available and I'll download and install it this
> > weekend.
> >
> Just to let you know...
> I've got an A7V and downloaded the source to 2.5.5: complied and
> installed no problems. Currently using sensor_sweep_applet for Gnome.
>
> I had problems with the RPM, so maybe getting the src may be the way to
> go.
>
> Lee.
Thanks for the heads up. I meant to do it this weekend, but it will
have to wait a little longer!
whd
--
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Nate Affleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem loading ncr53c8xx driver for tekram DC390U2W
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:06:48 -0800
Upgraded Redhat 7.0 kernel from 2.2.16-22 to 2.2.17-14 using Redhat's
RPMS... now when when i try to load my Tekram DC390U2w using the
ncr53c8xx module I get this:
% insmod nc53c8xx
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 6, function
0
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c8xx: 53c895 detected
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0: rev=0x01, base=0xf3001000,
io_port=0xdc00, irq=5
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0: NCR clock is 40037KHz,
40218KHz
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0: ID 7, Fast-40, Parity Checking
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0: on-chip RAM at 0xf3000000
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0: suspicious SCSI data while
resetting the BUS.
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0:
dp1,d15-8,dp0,d7-0,rst,req,ack,bsy,sel,atn,msg,c/d,i/o = 0x100100,
expecting 0x100
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0: FATAL ERROR: CHECK SCSI BUS -
CABLES, TERMINATION, DEVICE POWER etc.!
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: ncr53c895-0: detaching...
Mar 11 19:01:59 monk kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
I know this thing is being dected by the SCSI bios. What is going on?
Thanks,
..n8
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.2 vs Adaptec 7896
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 04:15:17 +0100
Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> and reset loop. Booting 2.2.16 again I had no problems. Is this a known
> >> issue?
>
> >Yes. Try the new "Gibbs" driver instead. It's in 2.4.3pre3 or you can
> >find patches at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/
> If it will be in 2.4.3 I think I can wait \:)
> Will there be an additional driver for these Controler, the existing one patched
> or the existing one replaced?
The new driver will be named aic7xxx (an so replacing the old driver, if
you don't change configuration) and the old driver will become
aic7xxx_old
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:33:16 +0100
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After following the instructions for compling driver for my new Netgear
> FA311 Ethernet card... and everything appeared to go smoothly, I went to
> test 'insmod fa311.o' and got this error text
> fa311.o : kernel-module version mismatch
> fa311.o was compiled for...
... What?
> while this kernel is version
> 2.2.17-2mdk
DO it again, this time correctly! Compile against the sources of your
running kernel, not against something else. It's likely you are being
befuddled by your distributors use of one set of kernel header files in
/usr/include/linux, and another set in /usr/src/linux/include.
> After browsing the website no luck, I gave in and contacted tech support ( 1
> hour on hold ) latter. I'm told that they only have a version for Red Hat 7
> ...
This makes exactly zero difference (and has no semantics).
Peter
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From: "Tanvir Hassan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 04:51:52 GMT
Note that the numbers are not right for the A7V...I had to hack the source
to make the numbers for the CPU temp to be in the same ballpark as my Win98
sensor. I don't know if it is correct, but it seems to be correct.
"bgeer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:981h9q$7nk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> William Daffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I just changed my motherboards from an abit bp6 to an asus A7V and
> > I'm trying to get lm_sensors working again. I ran sensor-detect and
> > it gives me the information to put in the rc.local and
> > modules.conf. The problem is that it wants to load a module
> > (via686a) which it, and I, can't seem to find.
>
> I have a K7V, not A7V, but while there is a via686 on it, the sensors
> are actually attached to a w83781d & responds with "as99127f-i2c-0-2d"
> when "sensors" is run. I load these modules:
>
> w83781d 16876 0 (unused)
> sensors 5340 0 [w83781d]
> i2c-viapro 3300 0 (unused)
> i2c-core 11484 0 [w83781d sensors i2c-viapro]
>
> --
> <> Robert Geer & Donna Tomky | |||| ||||
<>
> <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | == == Suddenly, == ==
<>
> <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | == == We feel enchanted! == ==
<>
> <> Albuquerque, NM USA | |||| ||||
<>
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From: John Westerdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Card BT878 and friends
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 04:56:05 GMT
All,
Here is the approach I have had luck (prior to Kernel 2.4.X.... still working on
that).
http://www.strusel007.de/linux/bttv/ bttv.latest
Its neighbor
http://www.strusel007.de/linux/xawtv/ xawtv.latest
also get
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/download.html LMsensors latest
1) put all 3 in /usr/local
2) expand into bttv dir, xawtv dir and lmsensors dir.
3) Compile a fresh kernel, include bttv as a module under V4L, boot to it.
(may not be necessary... just protection for my sanity)
4) cd to bttv dir, and do 'make ; make install'
5) cd to xawtv dir 'configure ; make ; make install'
6) cd to lmsensors dir, read INSTALL and follow instructions to make
/tmp/patch-sensors,
cd /usr/src/linux ; patch -p1 < /tmp/patch-sensors (really,,, just cut and
paste from INSTALL).
7) recompile kernel, selecting bttv as module, and picking the sensors revealed by
sensors-detect
load modules for videodev, and friends
insmod videodev
insmod bttv card=40 pll=1 autoload=0 bttv_verbose=2
insmod tuner type=2 debug=1
insmod tda7432
insmod tvaudio tda9850=1 tea6420=1
insmod tvmixer debug=1
Check /var/log/messages for droppings.. Ditch Debug lines when happy.
Now... looking for a nice graphing tool to reveal output from 'sensors' in GUI for
burning off the
spare CPU cycles.
Your Chips and mileage may vary, this works for BT878, TDA6420, TEA9850, TEA7432 or
somesuch... as found on an STB2 card. This has come very far over the last few
months!
(also Kwintv is pretty good too.. though its not perfect for my assault in
XF4.02 etc)
Kernel 2.4.X and RHL 7.1, XF4.0X and such seems yet unstable, from what I have
found to date.
Cheers!
JDW
Training next week... Have a good week! Read Read Read! Tweak poke prod and get
more coffee!
> Ok, I fount it too. That "bttv" on rpmfind has nothing to do with the real
> thing. It's just a single app and a bunch of docs, useless to you.
> Unfortunately, there are many computer generated databases around filled with
> bogus information. The real bttv is a set of drivers, and it comes in one way or
> another, with Linux kernels.
--
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
People are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
Together, they are just incredible." -Albert Einstein
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From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any experience with cobalt?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:01:50 -0800
"reader of news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3aac2121$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've a lot experience with redhat on
> x86 platform and have a web server
> hosted on rackspace.com
>
> Anyway I need another cheaper one
> to do a back up + plus some less interactive back end
> jobs and cobalt servers are the cheapest
> they have.
>
> My feeling of cobalt is weird. I just
> don't know what they heck they are made of
> even though they say it's an x86 processor
>
> As far as software goes how different are they
> from redhat. I wish to install 2.4 kernel on
> it and wondering if there are any special
> issue I need aware of
The Cobalt system is designed to be non- user acessible. You're not
supposed to know what the heck they're made of. They're basically an
internet appliance, with embedded software that you can't mess around with.
Think of it as a Mac-like appliance for non-technical webmasters. If this
sounds good to you, go for it. If not, then maybe you'd be happier with
something else. Even if you knew what the hardware specs were, I'm not sure
how you'd boot and install your own OS, or access the system to modify
what's already there. BTW, I believe Cobalt has switched their OS from
Linux to Solaris anyway, since being bought by Sun.
Cobalts are perfect if all you want to do is host some simple web or ftp
services, but purchasing hosting is not an option (traffic charges,
performance, security, etc.) They're designed to be a simple, easy, low
effort, low cost solution, with no setup or maintenance hassles. Once you
get one going, you'll hardly have to touch it.
I'd ask if the Cobalt will do specifically what you need. It either will or
won't, and that will be your answer.
Matt O.
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From: "susie chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what is device ide1(22,0) and why it keep saying VFS: Disk change detected ?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:28:06 -0800
Hi,
Can someone help me on where is this message come from?
>From my /var/log/kernel
("kern.* /var/log/kernel" in /etc/syslog.conf)
Mar 11 17:08:49 sunrise kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Mar 11 17:09:20 sunrise last message repeated 16 times
Mar 11 17:10:22 sunrise last message repeated 31 times
Mar 11 17:11:24 sunrise last message repeated 31 times
Mar 11 17:12:25 sunrise last message repeated 30 times
Mar 11 17:13:27 sunrise last message repeated 31 times
...
About every minute or so It keeps saying "last message repeated xx times (xx= 30 or 31)
regardless the system is idle or not.
What device on ide1(22,0) ?
By the way the hardware of the system is
hda: IBM-DJNA-371800, ATA DISK drive
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6602B, ATAPI CDROM drive
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet
ISA PCMCIA
the software is a redhat 6.2 (linux2.2.14-5.0) and pcmcia-cs-3.1.20.
Thanks,
---Susie Chu
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