Linux-Hardware Digest #904, Volume #14 Fri, 15 Jun 01 10:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Xpert 2000 (Rage 128 "SM") Woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card for Linux? ("SDJo")
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card for Linux? ("SDJo")
Re: ide-tape.o errors (Leonard Evens)
Re: ide-tape.o errors. Thank you!! (Leonard Evens)
Re: Dynalink Cardbus Card (Bas Mevissen)
USB to 4 RS-232 linux device (Arne)
Boot on Compaq RAID card 5300 ("Fabrice Streicher")
SuSE 7.1: Error messages about usb ("Markus Kiener")
Re: aec 6710d scsi with acer 620s scanner, can it be used under linux?? ("jontee")
Two identical HDUs, but Linux disaggrees (Mea Culpa)
Re: RH 7.1 & failed ppp interface ("Klaus J. Osswald")
Re: USB to 4 RS-232 linux device (Sensi Millia)
Multiple cameras (Janne Tuukkanen)
Re: SCSI emulation (Ian Briggs)
Re: ide-tape.o errors (Robert Davies)
News - Novità ("Daniel")
EIDE RAID Card Ideas ("Eric Braeden")
Move my Raid from NT to Linux ("Daniel Seehof")
Re: Move my Raid from NT to Linux (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card for Linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: VIA686b bug and Linux (Michael Perry)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Xpert 2000 (Rage 128 "SM") Woes
Date: 15 Jun 2001 09:36:17 +0100
Just a "me to".
However, I can add that the Mandrake 8.0 distro fares better by
installing the FBDEv X server. Unfortunately, although this server
drives the card, it seems to do it very slowly.
If any response is privately posted to Ross, I would appreciate a
copy.
Thank you,
--Camille
"R. Ross Gore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello;
>
> I am putting a RedHat 7.1 server together and am using an ATI
> Xpert 2000 for the video card. I am able to go through the X-windows
> based install, but when trying to boot (post-install) to X-windows
> the screen just flashes several times and never successfully starts
> X-windows.
>
> Running the Xconfigurator manually, the correct settings are
> displayed for the monitor and video card but the test of the
> X-windows environment fails with "There is a problem with
> your X configuration".
>
> I have also tried the setrage command to try to get this working.
> Has anybody resolved a problem like this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ross
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From: "SDJo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card for Linux?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:14:52 +0800
Which model you using now??
"cfeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Xircom's cards work good... have both a Xircom PCMCIA modem card, and a
> Xircom PCMCIA ethernet/lan card on my RH laptop.
>
>
> SDJo wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Anyone can tell will PCMCIA ethernet card can use in Linux, eg: Redhat
> >
> > Many Thanks
> >
> > Joe
>
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From: "SDJo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card for Linux?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:20:16 +0800
Which model you using now ?? Many Thanks
"cfeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Xircom's cards work good... have both a Xircom PCMCIA modem card, and a
> Xircom PCMCIA ethernet/lan card on my RH laptop.
>
>
> SDJo wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Anyone can tell will PCMCIA ethernet card can use in Linux, eg: Redhat
> >
> > Many Thanks
> >
> > Joe
>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ide-tape.o errors
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:43:42 -0500
Denis Leroy wrote:
>
> Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > HELP!
> >
> > I have an HP/Colorado 4/8 GB Travan-3 tape drive in a newly constructed
> > RedHat Linux 7.1 system. The tape drive is currently configured as
> > /dev/hdd and I have /dev/tape linked to /dev/ht0. (Or is that /dev/ht0
> > linked to /dev/tape...) I am trying to restore files from a backup made
> > on another system. That system had no problem writing to the same drive
> > (it was moved from the old system to the new). mt commands appear to
> > work fine. E.g., I can retension the tape with 'mt retension'.
> > However, tar can't read from the drive. I get the following error
> > messages when I try:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > [root@c1125351-a backup]# tar -xzf /dev/tape
> > tar (child): /dev/tape: Cannot read: Input/output error
> > <...snip...>
> > [root@c1125351-a backup]#
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > If I look in /var/log/messages, I see this:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > May 29 11:01:26 c1125351-a kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
> >
> > May 29 11:01:26 c1125351-a kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8,
> > key = 5, asc = 2c, ascq = 0
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > I remember having the same problem with the same error/log messages when
> > I initially got the drive going in the original system. Unfortunately,
> > I can't for the life of me remember what I did to resolve the problem
> > the first time. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Greg
>
> The solution is to use the device in SCSI emulation mode, it'll work just fine.
>
> modprobe ide-scsi
> modprobe st
>
> drive is now available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
>
> -denis
I tried this, but attempts to access the device through mt or
tar respond that there is no such device. Of course, there is
such a device, but something can't find it. Any suggestions?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,redhat.general,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ide-tape.o errors. Thank you!!
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:59:30 -0500
Denis Leroy wrote:
> The solution is to use the device in SCSI emulation mode, it'll work just fine.
>
> modprobe ide-scsi
> modprobe st
>
> drive is now available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
>
> -denis
The first time I tried it, I got a "no such device response".
I noticed that the ide-tape module was loaded, so I removed
it, but that didn't help. Finally, I removed the ide-scsi
and st modules and reloaded them. Then it worked. Or at
least I was able to do mt status and tar tvzf
Now I have to figure out the most effective way of making sure
the ide-tape module is not loaded to start and then to load the
other modules.
Although this is an effective workaround, someone should fix
the ide-tape module. It worked fine up to kernel 2.2.14.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Bas Mevissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,fj.os.linux.networking,nl.comp.os.linux.netwerken
Subject: Re: Dynalink Cardbus Card
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:56:48 +0200
In article <9gb540$okr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hi,
>
> Any of you know a way of configuring the Dynalink L100CLV CardBus 10/100
> Ethernet Adapter for RH Linux??
>
> Gr.
>
> Mario
>
>
>
Red Hat 7.1 heeft standaard een 8139too driver geinstalleerd. Die zou wel
eens kunnen werken voor jouw kaart. Gebruik dan config regels van Albert
Damens posting en vul 8139too in als driver.
Bas.
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From: Arne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB to 4 RS-232 linux device
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:12:46 +0200
Does anybody know a supplier in Europe (pref. Netherlands) who sells linux
compatible USB to RS-232 (COM) port devices. I need to have 4 RS-232 ports
connected to 1 USB port.
Greetz,
Arne Koopman
Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Fabrice Streicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot on Compaq RAID card 5300
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:32:21 +0200
Hello,
I would like to know if I can boot on the card RAID Compaq SMART
5300 in Mandrake 8.0.
Thanks
--
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3 Rue du Parc
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Tél : 03.90.20.56.60
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From: "Markus Kiener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 7.1: Error messages about usb
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:24:58 +0200
Hello!
My configuration:
SuSE 7.1, Dual Boot system with Win98, LILO
AMD Duron 700
IBM DTLA 30 GB
Currently I have only connected an USB hub to my PC and an CANON N650U which
I do not use with Linux at the moment.
Every time I start Linux I get the messages:
Jun 16 09:41:18 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jun 16 09:41:18 linux kernel: hub.c: get_hub_status failed
Jun 16 09:41:20 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Jun 16 09:41:53 linux last message repeated 11 times
Jun 16 09:41:56 linux kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Has anyone an idea what these messages mean?
Thanks in advance,
Markus
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From: "jontee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: aec 6710d scsi with acer 620s scanner, can it be used under linux??
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:33:49 +1000
a bit more about this
i have downloaded vuescan for linux
but still have no idea about drivers for this shitty scsi card
i got some from acers site but they are not for this card
I do have another scsi card a dc390 or something ( a tekram ncr copy)
its running the scsi cd burner but has a different outlet thing on the back
to what the scanner uses.
the scsi cable for the scanner looks a bit like a parallel port cable
whereas the tekram has lots of little holes( my eyes aren't good enough to
count em!!!) in 2 rows.
is there any way i can get an adapter and plug the scanner into the tekram?
and if that's a yes how much grief am i looking at (apart from the
sacrificing the black goats) to get it to work on there without stuffing up
the cdr?
thanks
"jontee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9fvos8$un$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have the abovementioned hardware in a dual celeron
> machine ( home assembled) the scanner works with win but the card is a
> windows only affair according to acer
> i can't afford to replace the scanner but it's the only thing that i can't
> get to work under linux, I have Vmware so I can use those few win only
apps
> that I need for Uni but without direct linux support of the scsi and
scanner
> I have to reboot to windows
> any ideas I did see a post somewhere that someone had gotten a similar
setup
> working but it was vague( like me most of the time, but two vagues do not
> make clarity)
> thank s for any help
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mea Culpa)
Subject: Two identical HDUs, but Linux disaggrees
Date: 15 Jun 2001 04:07:35 -0700
Hi,
I have the following problem: I have the following IDE-setup:
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: WDC AC26400R, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DHEA-36480, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IBM-DHEA-36480, ATA DISK drive
hdd: CD-ROM 40X/AKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, (U)DMA
hdb: 12692736 sectors (6499 MB) w/476KiB Cache, CHS=790/255/63,
UDMA(33)
hdc: 12692736 sectors (6499 MB) w/476KiB Cache, CHS=12592/16/63,
UDMA(33)
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
For some reason, although /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc are identical HDUs,
their specs differ. However, @ my BIOS, I specified them both to LBA,
which resulted in the same CHS-setup. Because I want to do striping
(RAID), I will run into trouble with this.
Questions: Why is Linux doin' this? How can I make them identical from
Linux-point-of-view?
I'm using kernel 2.4.4.
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From: "Klaus J. Osswald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 & failed ppp interface
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:22:02 -0700
type 'man pppd' . The ppp errorcodes are all expained in that manual.
cfeller wrote:
> This makes no sense... have an Pentium 233 MMX processor running on a
> VX-98 motherboard w/ 128 MB of RAM. Modem is a Zoom model 2919
> (internal). The modem works great under Redhat 5.2, 6.2, 7.0, ....
> oops~! Not 7.1 I upgraded both my PC and my laptop to 7.1. No
> problems on the laptop (laptop uses PCMCIA modem), but under the PC, I
> get "failed to activate ppp0 with error 6" What is error 6?
>
> If this is relevant, the motherboard likes to assign the modem to IRQ
> 10, so I have to setserial /dev/ttyS2 IRQ 10 I did try removing that,
> but it did not change the error message.
>
> Please advise.
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From: Sensi Millia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB to 4 RS-232 linux device
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:19:28 +0200
Ik denk dat het sneller is als je het zelf maakt...
Ga eens kijken bij de PIC familie op www.microchip.com
Er zijn hier zeker microcontrollers te vinden met aan de ene kant een USB
poort en aan de andere kant een UART
Arne wrote:
> Does anybody know a supplier in Europe (pref. Netherlands) who sells linux
> compatible USB to RS-232 (COM) port devices. I need to have 4 RS-232 ports
> connected to 1 USB port.
>
> Greetz,
>
> Arne Koopman
>
> Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Janne Tuukkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple cameras
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 14:04:18 +0300
I haven't been with Linux for some time, so don't quite know
what is supported, what is not and what is in-between...
But... I should create a small (and cheap) security camera
system, and thought that Linux box with two or three USB web cams
would do the job.
After a rapid seek from the web I couldn't find very clear
information about the matter, so I came here.
I needed system as follows:
a) 1 PC box with Linux OS. No network connection
b) 2 640x480 pixel cameras connected via USB
c) Drivers and API for getting 1-3 fps from each camera individually
I know that if I'll go to local comp store and buy the box and the
cameras, and get some Linux distribution cd's somewhere, I'll spend
next two weeks shouting, crying and throwing things ;) So the question
is: Have this been done? If have, with what kind of hardware? If
have, with what kind of software?
JanneT
p.s. btw, is there some restrictions in ext2 fs for the number of
files in a directory? If I some reason end up to store
frames as individual jpg images, there will be over a million
distinct files in one week period. Hey, don't laugh! Some
times pure brute forcing is the best way ;)
--
Janne Tuukkanen Fools ignore complexity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pragmatists suffer it
Simple Script Security: Some can avoid it
http://projannet.port5.com/ Geniuses remove it - A.J.Perlis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Briggs)
Subject: Re: SCSI emulation
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:30:11 +0100
Ian Briggs wrote:
:I'm a bit clueless here as I've always been content with the default
:RedHat kernel modules. Does this mean I edit a line in /etc/lilo.conf to:
: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 hdd=ide-scsi
:(and then run /sbin/lilo), and this will load the necessary modules on
:bootup -- or have I totally misunderstood?
Having looked back through a few days' postings on similar topics, I think
the change to /etc/lilo.conf should be something like:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
{other stuff}
Yes?
And does this then load whatever is necessary to run "taper -T scsi" and
access the tape drive via /dev/st0?
Ian
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From: Robert Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ide-tape.o errors
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:16:46 +0100
Leonard Evens wrote:
> Denis Leroy wrote:
>>
>> Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> > HELP!
>> >
>> The solution is to use the device in SCSI emulation mode, it'll work just
>> fine.
>>
>> modprobe ide-scsi
>> modprobe st
>>
>> drive is now available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
>>
>> -denis
>
> I tried this, but attempts to access the device through mt or
> tar respond that there is no such device. Of course, there is
> such a device, but something can't find it. Any suggestions?
Yes, you need to pass some options on boot in your lilo append line.
To set a drive hdc to scsi emulation I have :
append = "reboot=warm hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
This is needed to tell the IDE drivers that they don't 'own' this drive.
I had to put the modprobe ide-scsi in a file called 'boot.local' which is
run before the rc?.d stuff.
Rob
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From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: News - Novità
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:43:22 GMT
Ciao a tutti
Tante novità sul mio sito: www.danielcity.com
- GOSSIP
- INCONTRARSI IN RETE
- RISORSE PER WEB MASTER
E tanto altro.
Vi aspetto numerosi
Daniel
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From: "Eric Braeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EIDE RAID Card Ideas
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:45:30 -0400
What is there about the current crop of EIDE RAID cards
that prevent operation under Linux? Other than the damn
driver source isn't available...In principle, why can't the
cards be made "invisible" so normal drivers for IDE can
be used?
Couldn't the complexity be abstracted and moved off to the
firmware thus simplifying the driver development? Anyone
have any ideas for designing a Linux-friendly EIDE RAID
card? Even though SATA is on the horizon there will still
be plenty of DMA33/66/100 drives available for some time.
What do you think?
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From: "Daniel Seehof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Move my Raid from NT to Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:16:46 +0200
Hi,
does anyone know if and how it is possible to physically move an IBM
ServeRaid formerly used on an Netfinitiy 5100 over to a linux box without
losing data. The hds (4)are formatted ntfs and used as a raid 5. The linux
box is running suse 7.1 and should only act as a file server.
Any help is apreciated!
TIA DANIEL
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Move my Raid from NT to Linux
Date: 15 Jun 2001 13:34:03 GMT
Daniel Seehof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> does anyone know if and how it is possible to physically move an IBM
> ServeRaid formerly used on an Netfinitiy 5100 over to a linux box without
> losing data. The hds (4)are formatted ntfs and used as a raid 5. The linux
> box is running suse 7.1 and should only act as a file server.
You're going to need to offload the data, re-format the partition, and
re-load the data. Linux' NTFS support is read-only.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Ethernet Card for Linux?
Date: 15 Jun 2001 13:39:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:26:36 +0800, SDJo staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>Anyone can tell will PCMCIA ethernet card can use in Linux, eg: Redhat
Do a little research, eh? http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ has a big
list of PCMCIA cards that are known to work. I think that the ones that
have the greatest chance of working are the ones that advertise "NE2000
compatible" or the ones made by 3Com.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: VIA686b bug and Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 13:53:24 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 06:48:58 GMT, Kenneth Rørvik
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hamradio) wrote in <3eo2g9.4n.ln@ALFA>:
>
>>Hi everybody,
>>I'm building a new pc based on an Abit KT7A motherboard, but I'm worrying
>>about its bug of corrupting files when copying them between different
>>disks.
>>Has anybody experienced some of these troubles under Linux or this bug
>>only relates to windoze's world?
>
> This is fixed in 2.4.4 and later.
> --
> Kenneth Rørvik 91841353/22950312
> Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
Definitely so. I have a K7Tpro-2 board running the 2.4.5 kernel with the
latest VIA ide drivers and all seems fine. After compiling the VIA ide
drivers, one gets /proc/ide/via which is full of disk drive information. I
am using twin maxtor 40g drives on one athlon and a single 30g western
digital drive on the other. I have some suspicion about the wg drive so am
upgrading it to dual IBM 45g drives based on a bunch of posts in
comp.os.linux.setup. This issue has been discussed with a lot of worthy
posts and followups there.
One critical issue I should raise is to be careful using hdparm on the 2.4.5
kernel with the VIA drivers. I do not believe hdparm is needed to set any
advanced parameters on the drives being supported by this driver.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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