Linux-Hardware Digest #729, Volume #14 Sat, 5 May 01 00:13:08 EDT
Contents:
RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160 ("Shelby S. Evans")
Re: linux machine croaked :( (John-Paul Stewart)
Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: linux machine croaked :( (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: run two linuxes (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Gigabyte GA-6vxdr7 SMP barfs with 2.2.17 (Dean Carpenter)
Re: insmod/modprobe not responding (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
ftP?? ("dubcaller")
Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160 ("Shelby S. Evans")
Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: ftP?? ("Ian Jones")
Re: Newbie question (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a JE) (Frank Hahn)
Re: binding network cards under linux. (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: TV-out under Linux / ATI Expert PLay 2000 card (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: IS YOUR PC SPYING ON YOU 5766 (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: BP6 + Mandrake + reboot problem (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system? (Sam Piper)
How to do a compressed dump backup? (james montoya)
Software RAID using the HPT370 under linux? ("Peter R")
HP 5200c ("Micah Yoder")
Re: Bad A7V133 MB ("Giles Hjort-Tyson")
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From: "Shelby S. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:21:27 GMT
I am trying to get RH7.1 working with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller,
which RedHat claims to support right on the outside of the boxed set I
have purchased.
I have not been able to get RH to install on the drive (Seagate
ST318417W), and RedHat tech support (both web-based and phone) have
failed to help me with the problem. In fact, RedHat's phone support
technician just told me the RH hardware group plans to "downgrade the
29160 to 'community support'" !!!
The SCSI bus now only has one device, the Seagate drive. The RH install
script manages to partition the drive (by any of the 3 methods
provided--auto, disk druid, or fdisk), but when it gets to the point of
actually formatting the drive and installing the packages, virtual
console #4 shows that either the SCSI bus/device is timing out, or that
the interrupt handler is not syncing (which results in a kernel panic).
The failure type seems to be a function of the parameters set in the
SCSI bios either for the adapter itself (ID 7) or for the drive (ID 1).
I have concentrated on various combinations of enabling/disabling wide
negotiation and max sync rate for those two devices.
Suggestions on how to get this controller and drive to work?
Thanks. Please respond by email.
Chris Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux machine croaked :(
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:36:57 GMT
Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> I have a machine at home with runs redhat 7.0.
>
> 1) I opened the case to replace the dead cdrom drive, and when I tried
> to power it back up, it wouldn't. No PS fan, no LED's, no beeps,
> nothing.
I've met some rather picky motherboards that have done this
to me.
Check all of the ribbon cables inside. Improperly seater or
unseated IDE ribbon cables have caused the above symptoms in
machines I've worked on. Also make sure you've got your
master/slave jumpers correct on the new cd-rom.
Check to make sure all of the add-in cards are properly
seated in their slots. Again, I've seen an improperly
seated graphics card cause all of the above symptoms on an
ATX board (even the PS fan bit). It doesn't really make
much sense to me, but give it a try.
Some motherboards and BIOSes are great about beeping out
error codes. Cheaper boards just play dead.
Good luck, and HTH.
J-P Stewart
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 01:38:41 +0200
Shelby S. Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> console #4 shows that either the SCSI bus/device is timing out, or that
> the interrupt handler is not syncing (which results in a kernel panic).
> The failure type seems to be a function of the parameters set in the
> SCSI bios either for the adapter itself (ID 7) or for the drive (ID 1).
> I have concentrated on various combinations of enabling/disabling wide
> negotiation and max sync rate for those two devices.
> Suggestions on how to get this controller and drive to work?
Use a different kernel. Apparently RH fouled up on the adaptec scsi
support they compiled. I have seen references to a new install kernel
available on their website. Please check the bugfixes/errata.
Peter
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Subject: Re: linux machine croaked :(
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 04 May 2001 19:50:04 -0400
"Ron Freidel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The previous reply covered alot of detail but I would also like to
> include the possibility of a switch on the ps itself?!!?
Which reply is that? Please quote relevant portions of the article
you're replying to.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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Subject: Re: run two linuxes
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 04 May 2001 19:55:27 -0400
"Troy Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the "current state of red hat"?
Releasing new versions which are unusable directly out of the box. In
particular, glibc and gcc, I believe, were non- or barely-functional
as of RedHat 7.0.
I've never extensively used RH, but many people have commented that
any version ending in ".0" is horrifically unreliable.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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Subject: Re: Gigabyte GA-6vxdr7 SMP barfs with 2.2.17
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean Carpenter)
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:57:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jurriaan kalkman) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>On 4 May 2001 15:32:13 GMT, Dean Carpenter
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi All -
>>
>> Just got some eval equipment in today to play with, with the Gigabyte
>> GA- 6vxdr7 motherboards in them. The NICs show up as EtherExpressPro
>> 10/100 nics, pretty normal. These are dual P3 boards with dual 933
>> cpus and 512meg memory.
>>
>> After apic_write.
>> Before start apic_write.
>> Startup point 1.
>>
>> And there it sits.
>>
>> Otherwise, any ideas ?
>The first hint people always give with this kind of smp trouble:
>
>'add noapic to the lilo arguments'.
>
>So that's my hint :-)
Heh - thanks for the hint. I tried that. Same thing, or rather, almost
same thing. It got one extra line ...
Waiting for send to complete.
Or something similar to that - I'm not at the box right now. But still
no go ...
Dean.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: insmod/modprobe not responding
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:28:48 GMT
"Dr. Marcus Naraidoo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but these commands are never executed. I have tried to add
>
> append "aic7xxx='seltime:0.extended.no_reset.verbose:0x39'"
>
> to the /etc/lilo.conf file.
This probably goes without saying, but you *did* rerun
LILO from the prompt after making these changes, yes?
- jonadab
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From: "dubcaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: ftP??
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:40:50 GMT
Hi All,
I have a linux ipchains router connecting to dsl. Red Hat 7.0
I've been able to setup a FTP server using port 21 using IPCHAINS and
ip_masq_ftp... works great
However, using different ports provides better security.
Has anyone had any sucess w/ this type of setup??
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From: "Shelby S. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:50:47 GMT
Thanks Peter. Unfortunately, the bug fix to which you refer
does not seem to be there, not yet anyway. In fact, at this
very moment the 29160 is currently listed in the RedHat
hardware compatibility list as "certified," the pinnacle of
their compatibility ratings, even higher than the
merely "compatible" assigned to the 2940W driver that has
been working successfully in this box under Linux for about
5 years.
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Shelby S. Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > console #4 shows that either the SCSI bus/device is timing out, or that
> > the interrupt handler is not syncing (which results in a kernel panic).
> > The failure type seems to be a function of the parameters set in the
> > SCSI bios either for the adapter itself (ID 7) or for the drive (ID 1).
> > I have concentrated on various combinations of enabling/disabling wide
> > negotiation and max sync rate for those two devices.
>
> > Suggestions on how to get this controller and drive to work?
>
> Use a different kernel. Apparently RH fouled up on the adaptec scsi
> support they compiled. I have seen references to a new install kernel
> available on their website. Please check the bugfixes/errata.
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: LC 2000 network problem. Please help
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:51:41 GMT
"blongk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ifconfig shows the config. of eth0 and lo. It shows the right IP address,
> Bcast, Mask and other things. However the route shows only the field names
> (Destination, Gateway....) and stops right there. I have to press control-C
> to get to the cammand prompt again. However, route -n shows the complete
> table.
Weird.
Can you ping your own IP address? Can you ping 127.0.0.1?
Can you ping localhost, or your own hostname (the one that's
associated with your IP on the ethernet)?
Just trying to narrow things down a bit.
- jonadab
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From: "Ian Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: ftP??
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 17:54:01 -0700
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"dubcaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I've been able to setup a FTP server using port 21 using IPCHAINS
> and ip_masq_ftp... works great
>
> However, using different ports provides better security.
Correction, using different software provides better security.
Different ports are just ... different.
Can't you use scp? If you want to offer files to the world, use http.
There is nothing to be gained by using an ftp server except perhaps a
few new entries in your passwd file ;-(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:43:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer) wrote:
> Kind of off subject, but I'd consider getting a newer version of RH if
> at all possible. IIRC, one of the older versions (maybe it was 6.1) had
> some security flaws in the stock kernel that was shipped. Of course, if
> you roll your own bleeding edge kernel, this won't necessarily apply.
Also, the version of Gnome that came with RH 6.0 was VERY
buggy. Of course, this only matters if you use Gnome.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a JE)
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:10:02 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 04 May 2001 12:40:01 GMT, Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to compile linux-2.4.4 kernel on my linux machine comprised of
> an Asus K7M Mobo and an AMD Athlon 500MHz CPU. When configuring the "USB
> support", I get stuck and am confused as to which UHCI support to choose:
> CONFIG_USB_UHCI or CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (Alternate JE Driver). Can anyone
> please shed some lights in this matter?
>
I don't know what light I can shed but I just compiled both in as
modules. So far, the USB_UHCI driver has worked. I have connected
both a Canon Powershot G1 digital camera and a Sandisk Compactflash
reader and both have worked.
I have the 2.2.19 kernel installed. I have an Asus TX97-XE motherboard.
--
Frank Hahn
All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of
the United States.
-- Vic Gold
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: binding network cards under linux.
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:09:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ashley pestkowski) wrote:
> Is there anyway to bind two network cards together under Linux to
> create a redundant connection to a switch? If one of the cards fails
> the other one takes over, reducing the link from 200Mb to 100Mb.
>
> I am trying to keep this as simple as possible. I understand the ideal
> solution would be by using a cluster but I am only interested in doing
> this on a single machine. I know for a fact this can be done under NT.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
You "know for a fact" this can be done? Have you done it? I'd
be VERY surprised to find out that it's possible, unless I'm
misunderstanding what you're asking. The problem is, each
network interface on the same LAN needs a distinct IP address.
It might be possible to fool Linux into assign the same IP
address to both cards, since it might not know they're
on the same LAN, but if you do this and plug both into the
same switch, I'd be very pessimistic about the ability of
the other machines on the LAN to talk to the one with the
dual interface. You're going to screw up the ARP tables of
every machine on the LAN, no matter *what* OS it's running,
unless my understanding of TCP/IP is really flawed.
Now, getting the OS to detect if eth0 loses connectivity
and reassign its IP and routes to eth1, that might be
possible. But I don't think you can get both of them
using the same IP address on the same LAN at the same
time. TCP/IP doesn't work that way UIAGM. The uniqueness
of each address is *important*.
Of course, you could have two ethernet cards on the
same LAN with *different* IP addresses, no problem,
but in that case if one of them fails its IP address
will be unreachable by the other hosts on the network.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: TV-out under Linux / ATI Expert PLay 2000 card
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:18:47 GMT
David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't forget to use a TV compatible resolution ! :-)
What, about 320x200? And the pixels still won't be square.
You might consider one of those SVGA projector units.
They cost money, but they typically can display real
monitor-quality images on the nearest available flat
white vertical surface at larger-than-monitor size.
Just a thought.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.embedded,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: IS YOUR PC SPYING ON YOU 5766
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:27:02 GMT
> How do you get to post a file into usenet without using any newlines?
Certain very broken newsreaders automagically rewrap your text
in the window as you type it but only include the newlines you
actually type when sending.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: BP6 + Mandrake + reboot problem
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 01:35:01 GMT
Jerry Broszkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reset button does not work neither does power off.
If the reset and power-off buttons don't even work,
I'd say you have a hardware problem. Those buttons
don't rely on software (e.g., the OS) to do their
thing, UIAGM. They're hardware-level controls.
Unless you've got a fake "power" button like the
one on the keyboards of some PowerPC-era Macs or
the one-way on-only buttons on accursed iMacs.
- jonadab
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From: Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I enable eth0 from SuSE rescue system?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 21:39:07 -0400
I'm trying to repair a hardware compatibility issue and have to apply
an rpm to patch the kernel. SuSE tech support has provided the patch
(8mb) but I need to enable my linksys card (ISA) to ftp the file over.
I have the rescue system running, but do not know how to manually
configure eth0 and turn on the ftp service so I can move the rpm and
then install it. eth0 needs to have an ip addr of 200.0.0.100 (for
the moment) to avoid getting slammed by the firewall.
Thanks.
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From: james montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to do a compressed dump backup?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:43:28 -0600
Does anyone know the device name that provides a compressed dump backup
on Redhat linux?
I am currently using dump -0auf /dev/nst0 which isn't compressed.
On a SUN Solaris system it is /dev/rmt/0cn for example.
Thanks in advance,
jm
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Reply-To: "Peter R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Peter R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Software RAID using the HPT370 under linux?
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 02:54:56 GMT
I just installed my new Abit VP6 with the HPT370 RAID controller and 2 IBM
60GXP 20 GB drives. To my horror, I find out that the HPT370 is only
software RAID and NOT supported under linux.
My question is: is it possible to still use the HPT370 as a dual ATA100
controller and then implement software RAID under linux, or should I just
disable the HPT and buy the 3Ware 6200 hardware RAID controller? Obviously
I would rather save the money if possible.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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From: "Micah Yoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 5200c
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 03:25:29 GMT
OK, I know this scanner is supposed to work. But something seems screwed
up. I'm trying to use it w/USB. Scanimage [hp | -L] is dumping core.
Here's as much info as I can scrape together. Hope someone has some
ideas!
OS: Red Hat 7.1, stock RH 2.4.2+fixes kernel.
[root@eclipse /root]# scanimage hp
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@eclipse /root]# scanimage -L
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Perhaps this offers clues:
[root@eclipse /root]# strace scanimage -L
[...]
open("/proc/sys/kernel/sg-big-buff", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/scanner", O_RDWR|O_EXCL) = 6
ioctl(6, TIOCSCCINI, 0xbfffe244) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for
device)
ioctl(6, TIOCGKISS, 0x401dead0) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for
device)
brk(0x8055000) = 0x8055000
brk(0x805a000) = 0x805a000
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 8) = 0
write(6, "*\0\0\0)\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 42) = 42
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
select(7, [6], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6])
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[], [], 8) = 0
read(6, "", 41) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
[root@eclipse /root]# l /dev/*scanner
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 30 01:12 /dev/scanner ->
usb/scanner0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 30 01:11 /dev/usbscanner ->
usb/scanner0
[root@eclipse /root]# l /dev/usb/scanner0
crw------- 1 micah root 180, 48 Mar 23 23:38 /dev/usb/scanner0
[root@eclipse /root]# cat /dev/usb/scanner0
[root@eclipse /root]# cat /dev/usb/scanner1
cat: /dev/usb/scanner1: No such device
(so apparently the scanner really is connected to that device)
>From usbview's entry on the scanner:
HP ScanJet 5200C
Serial Number: 000000000000
Speed: 12Mb/s (full)
USB Version: 1.00
Device Class: 00(>ifc )
Device Subclass: 00
Device Protocol: 00
Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8
Number of Configurations: 1
Vendor Id: 03f0
Product Id: 0401
Revision Number: 1.00
Config Number: 1
Number of Interfaces: 1
Attributes: 60
MaxPower Needed: 0mA
Interface Number: 0
Name: usbscanner
Alternate Number: 0
Class: 00(>ifc )
Sub Class: 0
Protocol: 0
Number of Endpoints: 3
Endpoint Address: 81
Direction: in
Attribute: 2
Type: Bulk
Max Packet Size: 64
Interval: 0ms
Endpoint Address: 02
Direction: out
Attribute: 2
Type: Bulk
Max Packet Size: 16
Interval: 0ms
Endpoint Address: 83
Direction: in
Attribute: 3
Type: Int.
Max Packet Size: 1
Interval: 250ms
Also, usbview (and reading /proc/bus/usb/devices directly) is quite slow,
taking maybe 10-20 seconds. With other USB devices it happens quickly. Any
chance of a hardware problem? I'm able to use a SanDisk CompactFlash reader
with no trouble.
SANE version is 1.0.3 shipped with Ximian GNOME 1.4.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot!
Micah
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From: "Giles Hjort-Tyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: Bad A7V133 MB
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 03:41:22 GMT
Try running your RAM at 100mhz Cas 3.
"optimator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok, here is the deal. I have been
> fighting with my A7V133 motherboard for
> about a month trying to get it stable with
> no results.
>
> Configuration:
> Asus A7V133 w/ audio
> BIOS 1004a
> Maxtor 30GB ATA/100 HD
> - connected to the VIA IDE controller IDE0(master)
> Old 24x CDROM
> - connect to the VIA IDE controller IDE1(master)
> 512 MB PC133
> Linksys 10/100 Ethernet
>
> I tried installing RedHat7.0 before 7.1 came out
> and I have had the same results from both.
> If I have any large data transfers the system just
> locks. I have tried enabling and disabling all of
> the BIOS HD options(PIO/UDMA/multisector/) with
> no help.
>
> My question,
>
> How can I tell if its the motherboard that is bad?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
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