Linux-Hardware Digest #133, Volume #9 Fri, 8 Jan 99 12:13:32 EST
Contents:
Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems? (M Sweger)
Re: HP DeskJet 8xx: Linux Compatible? (garv)
Re: Data recovery tools? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AIC 7896 ("Sascha Bohnenkamp")
SoundCard S3 SonicVibes Chipset (Bernhard Dobbels)
Linux on a SparcBook 2 (Nico van Rossum)
Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent ("Larry Herzog Jr.")
Re: PLEASE HELP !!! PLEASE HELP !!! (Darren Greer)
Re: Can I use the IDE on my sound card with a 486 (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Symbios UII ncr53c8xx.o (rtp)
Re: help with hardware........ (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Re: Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems? (David T. Blake)
LILO/NTLDR and >8.4G hard disk =death (Chetan Ahuja)
CS4236B audio on Dell Precision 210 ("R. Timothy Edwards")
Can't get my Soundblaster 16 card to work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mouse running wild in X ("G.M.Trias")
Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent (C. C. McPherson)
NEC CD-ROM Reader Model#CDR-37 parallel-SCSI (Chad Eddings)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems?
Date: 8 Jan 1999 12:53:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Has anybody gotten Linux v2.1.132 working with the Scsi 2940U/UW Dual
adapter with SCSI Bios v1.33S2 and a 9.1Gig Western Digital hard drive?
Presently, I'm using DosLinux (the latest) and on bootup, the SCSI card
seems to be recognized for SCSIDs configurations (such as terminations)
and interrupts, but hangs forever and never sees the 9.1Gig WD hard drive
on SCSID0. Are there still problems with the 2940 SCSI driver?
The SCSI card has the AIC 7895 chipset too.
I see the Adapatec has agreed to help the Linux driver people out
developing SCSI drivers for Linux. How is this going, particularly
in resolving problems?
Here is my configuration and partition setup.
c:\ MSDOS and Win95 partition of 2Gigs running Doslinux from here
(at least I'm trying to).
d:\ NT4.0 and FAT of 2Gigs
e:\ MSDOS partitions of 2Gigs
f:\ MSDOS partitions of 2Gigs
H:\ MSDOS partitions of the remaining disk space.
NT4.0 works okay when I boot into it and it recognizes the disk.
MSDOS works okay when I boot into it from the boot menu and recognizes
the disk.
After booting into MSDOS and starting setup.bat (the DOSlinux mini
boot before installing the full install) it hangs trying to find
the disk.
I would think that if the SCSI driver can't find the attached
devices it would time out and tell the user that no devices
found or that something may be conflicting/misconfigured instead
of just hanging.
Any help appreciated, since I'll have to revert back to my
100mhz 1Gig IDE machine (thats out of space) and can boot
without problem any version of DOSLINUX from my new 333mhz
9.1GIG ultra SCSI machine (DELL Optiplex GX1) that now the
only Unix that it'll run is NT4.0. :)
--
Mike,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 8xx: Linux Compatible?
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:26:53 GMT
Allen Flick wrote:
> Am at work, so I can't remember the full number of my
> "Windows" printer at home, but I've installed RH5.2 Linux
> at home and can't seem to be able to print to the darn thing.
>
The correct number might be helpful. We now have winmodems, winmice and
winprinters!?
My HP 855C works fine with RH5.2; it's not offered, so I selected
5xx-6xx in setup.
Best wishes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Data recovery tools?
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:15:34 GMT
nU-bEE,
Check out www.recovery.de and their product TIRAMISU. I used it to
successfully recover data from 3 FAT32 partitions (there's a FAT16 version of
the software as well) when I destroyed the partition table with DOS 6.22. As
long as the data hasn't been overwritten, it can be recovered.
It's free to download and evaluate whether your data can be recovered, then it
costs about $190 to register so that you can actually do the recovery. Bloody
cheap, compared to the professional data recovery prices I was quoted...
N.B. It only does 2Gb at a time, so do mulitiple recoveries, starting at
different sectors. Use PQ Partinfo (free to download from www.powerquest.com)
to check out your partition info.
Good Luck,
Tim
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nU-bEE) wrote:
> argh!!!
> it happened!
> While I was configuring the Linux partitions I deleted unfortunately a
> Dos partition with important data on it! The partition itself is now
> shown as Free Space in PQMagic.
> Does anyone of you know of any tools which will recover my data??
> please help me, it's really important!
> thanks in advance...
> nU-bEE
>
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From: "Sascha Bohnenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AIC 7896
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:33:35 +0100
Michael Br�nnert schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Is there a chance that a linux will work together with a AIC 8796
>Dual-Channel-U2W-SCSI-Controller by Adaptec included in some modern
>Board like the Gigabyte 686BXDU?
current kernels should already run!
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From: Bernhard Dobbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundCard S3 SonicVibes Chipset
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:21:07 +0100
FlagPoint Soundcard with S3 SonicVibes Audio Accelerator
Is there anyone who has this card used in Linux.
I would appreciate some help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nico van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on a SparcBook 2
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 15:11:43 +0100
Hello *
Does someone knows of Linux works on a SparcBook 2
and if zo, How can I install it or where can I find more info
Tanks in advance
Nico van Rossum
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Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.networking.general,iu.linux
From: "Larry Herzog Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:23:15 -0600
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Clay Bond wrote:
> I turned my DX4 into a linux box, and all went well re: the
> installation until we got to the ethernet card. I had had
> a nameless ne2000 clone in the machine that worked under
> windoze, but noway, nohow would linux even see it. Hours
> of kernel compiling, etc. later, I got a D-Link and put it
> in.
>
> <snip>
>
> Please, can anyone give me such a recommendation? I
> know there must be such a card out there, and I'll have
> to order it since no computer store here carries anything
> but brand-x crap cards. But that's fine. My students
> can wait a week or so.
I've used at least a dozen different brands of NE2000 compatible NICs with
Linux and have never had a problem....Do you have the setup disk for any
of them?? Did you set the config on them manually??
_______
Larry Herzog Jr. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,
UND Aerospace but in humility consider others better than
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yourselves." -- Philippians 2:3
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP !!! PLEASE HELP !!!
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:57:15 GMT
Of course there is always the possibility that he is trying to get
someone at hdtv fired....and is just masking his e-mail to do so.
DrGreer
On Thu, 07 Jan 1999 16:54:08 +0000, David Shepherd
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-->Whilst this obnoxious person has been winding everyone up, there has
-->been mention of what his ISP would think of his antics. Assuming he uses
-->an ISP. I just pointed my browser at www.hdtv.com and it turns out to be
-->a company called Image Circuits, consulting engineers specializing in
-->the design of digital video systems. There is no mention of providing an
-->Internet Service, so it would appear that he is an employee. Perhaps
-->the management of Image Circuits would be interested?!
-->
-->Dave
-->
-->Wendy & Joe Velazquez wrote:
-->>
-->> What are you ?
-->>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Can I use the IDE on my sound card with a 486
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 08:37:14 GMT
"Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a '486 computer which only can handle 2 HDs. My sound card has an
>IDE connector. Can I use this in LINUX?
Yes.
>Are there any restrictions on
>what kind of drive I can connect to it (e.g. are CD-ROM drives okay)?
No. A standard IDE port can be used for any IDE devices, since the
IDE controller doesn't really do anything. You'll have to lookup the
settings of that port to get Linux recognizing it, though. Use a
boot option like that
ide1=0x1E8,11
to get it working (YMMV, of course) .
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
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From: rtp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Symbios UII ncr53c8xx.o
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 03:19:14 -0600
Grant,
Thanks for the reply! I've had the same thoughts on new floppies. I tried to
"cp" the images to disk which resulted in the same error.
ron parker
Grant Leslie wrote:
> I think you might need to redownload the files.. could be corrupted
> and you might try new floppies..
>
> Also try just a simple cp "image filename" /dev/fd0
>
> rtp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >I've found the following boot image and instructions for the ncr53c8xx.o
> >controller at redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh5.2-errata-general.html. The
> >problem is I don't know how to create a bootable floopy with the
> >"boot.img" and "supp.img" files. I've tried the following "dd" commands:
> >
> >*dd if=/home/rtp/bootdisk/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
> >*dd=/home/rtp/bootdisk/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
> >These builds resulted in "failed boot" while initrd is loading.
> >
> >Do I need this updated image (forgive me, I am very new to linux)? If
> >I do need the updated boot.img can someone give me instructions for
> >building the bootable floppy. Meanwhile, I'll be attempting to decipher
> >the man pages and any other clues I can find. Thanks Much!
> >
> >ron parker
> >
> >After entering the seemingly impenetrable vortex, I am all the more
> >commited to keeping Redmond, WA in my rearview mirror.
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moritz Moeller-Herrmann)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,cern.linux
Subject: Re: help with hardware........
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:51:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:27:35 -0000, Andre Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>I'm new with Linux, and started by instaling Red Hat 5.3.
>Everything works except for some of my hardware. It is detected by SaX, but
>under KDE I can't put to work/configure.
>The hardware is the following:
>
>- Video Highway Extreme (TV & radio PCI card)
Possibly supported. Compile new kernel for support. (check kernel docs)
>- Zoltrix 33.600 HSP336i (Winmodem)
Sorry, manufacturers don�t want to give out details. Not supported.
>- Aztech SC-128 PCI audio card
Might be an option in the kernel. If not check www.opensound.com for a
commercial ($20) driver. Worth the money IMHO.
>- Diamond Monster 3d (3DFX card)
Check the Voodo-Howto. Also look for mesa and glide in your docs.
>
>If anyone could help configuring these above, it would be excelent, for I
>can't work with it so far.
>Thanks to all.
>
>
>--
>Andre Antunes
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
--
Moritz Moeller-Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 3585990
Why do you pay BIG BUCKS for "micro" software with BIG BUGS?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T. Blake)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems?
Date: 08 Jan 1999 07:20:46 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger) writes:
>
> I see the Adapatec has agreed to help the Linux driver people out
>developing SCSI drivers for Linux. How is this going, particularly
>in resolving problems?
That is not really how it works. The Adaptec drivers, after the support
period started, were updated furiously. The newest 2.0.* series
drivers support all but the most recent BIOS from Adaptec. The
2.1.* kernel series is close behind. My stuff all works fine
on a 1-2 year old 2940 U2W card.
--
Dave Blake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chetan Ahuja)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: LILO/NTLDR and >8.4G hard disk =death
Date: 7 Jan 1999 21:16:29 GMT
Hi,
I have an apparently unsolvable problem but I will state it
here and see if anybody else has any ideas.
I described my problem earlier in the article titles "LILO: NTLDR
not found... Tough problem!!" (only in comp.os.linux.misc.. my
fault) Here it is in short again:
I have two hard disks. call them hda and hdc.
The disk hda is an 8.3 GB disk containing two ntfs partitions te
first of which is the C: of my NT4 installation.
The disk hdc is a 10.1 GB IBM disk containing my 2 linux
partitions. There is a small 10 MB boot partition with lilo map
files and the boot image under it...( to beat the 1024
cylinder restriction according to a LILO how-to), the second
partition is the root partition and the third partition is the swap
partition.
I have tried various different configurations , IDE assignments,
NTLDR/LILO conbinations etc to make this a successful dual boot
system but to no avail because of the following contraints:
1) NTLDR wants to be on the Primary IDE channel so the NT disk has
to be hda.
2) LILO apprently has problems with >8.4 GB disks if they are not on
the primary channel. ( that's my deduction from what I have seen so
far)
3) I must have the two disks as masters on two different IDE
channels because they both are UDMA/33 disks and I want them both to
take advantage of this feature to the full extent ( right??). At the
very least, the linux disk MUST be able to take advantage of the UDMA
feature because I have to run I/O intensive computations on that.
After giving up on LILO to be able to do the booting by itself, I
tried the NTLDR according the Linux+NT-Loader miini-how-to.
so I installed LILO on hdc1 ( which is entirely within the 1024
cylinder limit to ease things for LILO ) and then copied the boot
sector of hdc1 on C:\ of the NT disk and told NTLDR to load that oot
sector as linux ( all according to instructions.) That should start
LILO right? But it stops after showing "LI" which I gather is a
sign that LILO is having problems with the partition table of a
large disk.
NOTE: LILO load linux properly *IF* I put the linux disk on the
first IDE channel. So apparently LILO has problems with the large
disk ONLY IF ITS ON THE SECONDARY IDE CHANNEL. But if I do that, I
can't boot into NT ( on choosing NT I get the message "NTLDR not
found" apparently becasue NTLDR is searched for on the first IDE
channel ONLY even if my lilo.conf says otherwise ( and yes I did
remember to run lilo everytime I changed lilo.conf))
So in short I am at my wits end. If you have managed to read
though upto here, please suggest anything that comes to your
mind. Also, in all of my trials, I don't think I have left any of
the MBR's or partition BR's qith their original contents. So
anything I do will have to take care of each boot racord once again
( though I can repair NT boot record from repair disk)
( BTW, my BIOS is fairly recent and does recognize the larger hard
disks. As I said, I CAN make lilo work for linux IF linux hard disk
is on the first IDE channel)
Please please help...
Thank you
Chetan Ahuja
--
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From: "R. Timothy Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CS4236B audio on Dell Precision 210
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 16:16:00 -0500
The Dell Precision 210 series workstation uses a standard Crystal
Semiconductor
CS4236B. However, when I try to load the cs4232.o module into the
kernel, I get
a little "pop" out of the speaker, suggesting that it was responding to
initialization, and I get no error messages out of the kernel module,
but I
don't get any audio. In the process, it disables the beep which doesn't
come
back after the module is unloaded. Has anyone encountered this type of
problem and, more to the point, does anyone know of a solution?
---Tim Edwards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't get my Soundblaster 16 card to work
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 21:47:33 GMT
Hello !
After recompiling my kernel several times, I'm stuck. I have a
Creative Labs PnP Soundblaster 16 card. Windows tells me:
IRQ 5
I/O 220h-22Fh
I/O 330h-331h
I/O 388h-38Bh
DMA 1
DMA 5
my hardware analysis program tells me:
Adlib detected, Port 389h
Soundblaster 16, DSP 4.13 detected
Port: 220h, IRQ:5, DMA:1, DMAHIGH: 5, Midi: 330h
Midi-Port: no
The soundblaster values (220, 5, 1, 5) look like standard, but what is
the Adlib ? How should the stuff be configured ? I have SuSE 5.3. Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Eggert
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From: "G.M.Trias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse running wild in X
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 23:38:43 -0800
> >
> > Try mouseconfig. If that doesn't work, disable 'gpm' in your using "ntsysv"
> >
>
> Well, I too encountered similiar kind of problem when I upgraded my Linux
> system to Mandrake 5.2 (RedHat 5.2 equivalent) My mouse is Genius Netmouse
> Pro. I tried mouseconfig and disabling the gpm, but the problem persisted. So
> basically I had to reinstalled the whole package again. But this time during
> the installation process, instead of choosing Netmouse Pro as my mouse, I
> picked the generic PS/2 mouse instead. That fixed my problem. My friend had
> the exact problem, but he tweaked around with gpm and got it to work,
> strangely it didn't apply in my case.
>
> johan
>
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Um...when you used mouseconfig, why didn't you just choose the generic PS/2
mouse?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. C. McPherson)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.networking.general,iu.linux
Subject: Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 16:02:10 -0500
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Clay Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Please, can anyone give me such a recommendation? I
> >know there must be such a card out there, and I'll have
> >to order it since no computer store here carries anything
> >but brand-x crap cards. But that's fine. My students
> >can wait a week or so.
>
> The nameless NE2000-compatible brand-x crap cards that they sell at
> Computer Clubhouse work fine for me, the PCI version at least. I've
> got one working nicely with a Cyrix P120 and one with a P2-400, both
> running RedHat 5.1.
>
> --Mark
>
>
I would have to agree with mark the NE2000-compatible cards are
good (I have 2 systems on them), also have no problems with the
old 3com 3c509's (3 systems on them), and 2 systems running the
ISA linksys NE2000 compatible card (all you do is turn off PNP on
the linksys card and specify your IRQ and IO). I prefer the old
NIC's, I have better luck with them.
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From: Chad Eddings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEC CD-ROM Reader Model#CDR-37 parallel-SCSI
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 16:54:39 -0600
Does anyone know how I would installed Linux with the above CD-ROM?
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