Linux-Hardware Digest #216, Volume #9 Tue, 19 Jan 99 06:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: Manual Switch boxes, Any hope? (BL)
Re: System too big ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and Iomega's Jaz 2GB? ("Michael Faurot")
The Death of ISA and Linux/Intel (Wayne Dyer)
PPP Setup for Uswest.net Dial in ("d0om")
Which is easier: loading windows first or linux (James Huff)
Re: AcerOpen Modem Problem (Grant Leslie)
Linux and Pacbell's ADSL (Justin Young)
Re: MODEM PROB NEED HELP (Grant Leslie)
Re: Asus P2BLS Motherboard ("Mark Van Bogart")
Signal 7 during install (AMD K6-2, FIC2013) (Pranab Nag)
Re: 3com 3c905b card loses Mac address (Rob Clark)
Re: Linux dual cpu system (Christophe KUMSTA)
Re: which distribution package do you recommend? (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Diamond Fire Gl 1000 Pro supported? (Gary I Kahn)
Re: Adaptec AHA-1505 question - i/o address (Eric Wurbel)
Compaq Armada 3500 video chip ct65555 (Frederik Cheeseman)
Again: parallel zip problem (Daniele Malleo)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! (yank_mydoodle)
Re: Modem to accept 56K "INCOMING" data call (E Smith)
SoftOSS2 in 2.2.0pre7 (Grant Leslie)
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 (macks)
Re: Adaptec AHA-1505 question - i/o address
Re: LILO and 10 GB drives (Dr A O V Le Blanc)
Re: Linux on Gateway P590 (Grant Leslie)
Good looking ATX tower cases. Does it exist? (Gaute Lindkvist)
soundcard Crystal 4236B (Dirk Brinkmann)
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Manual Switch boxes, Any hope?
Date: 19 Jan 1999 02:43:36 GMT
Reply-To: no.spambots.please
the active boxes are THE way to go. they retime and repeat the video signal
AND keep the keybd/mouse alive.
even at 1600x1200 (really!) the switchbox is 99.9% transparent. pretty good,
I think!
get one - it works.
In comp.os.linux.hardware Angel Alexander Maga?a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: gus wrote:
: >
: > Regardless, the digital boxes are useful in that they shadow the
: > existance of monitor / mouose / keyboard to the "inactive" machine at
: > all times, including boot. This is very useful. I don't recall the linux
: > box forgetting that it had a keyboard, but manual switch boxes can
: > seldom cope with Microsoft intellimouses (and other "advanced" mice I
: > suspect) which uses all (8?) data lines in the cable wheras traditional
: > mice only use 7 and the manual sqitch does not swith the last ... ;-).
: > Then again, the digital box I have now struggles to cope with it as
: > well, and takes a few seconds to get it up and running after a switch.
: > Thus I have two mice, one keyboard, and one monitor.
: >
: Would this solution be applicable the other way around? I have a RHL
: 5.1 machine that works fine, but when I use my manual switch box to
: change to my Win98 machine, I loose the monitor and keyboard. I
: currently have a similar setup to yours, two mice, one keyboard and one
: monitor.
: Any comments are greatly appreciated.
: TIA,
: Angel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: System too big
Date: 12 Jan 1999 19:27:27 GMT
In his obvious haste, Aaron and Hifumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: Ruben Decrop wrote:
:> I try to recompile to kernel in order to include sound support. I
:> include the sound system as a module. When I do a 'make zImage' the
:> resulting kernel is 521K but I get a complaint that the system is too
:> big.
: Try 'make bzimage' instead. It makes a compressed kernel.
Surely you mean a MORE compressed kernal.
zImage is compressed too, after all.
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Iomega's Jaz 2GB?
Date: 19 Jan 1999 04:42:16 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Does anyone know if Linux 5.2 works with Iomega's Jaz 2GB?
Works fine.
: Where would one get the necessary drivers for Linux to Jaz backup?
Use whatever archive tool you want. However Jaz disks are not cost
effective for archival purposes when compared to tape.
: What type of SCSI controller would one have to get to work with Linux
: and Jaz?
Any SCSI host adapter supported by the kernel. I'm using an older
Adaptec 2940 (non-ultra). I would need to be using a host adapter
with Ultra support though to be able to get the maximum throughput out
of the drive though.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne Dyer)
Subject: The Death of ISA and Linux/Intel
Date: 19 Jan 1999 07:13:47 GMT
With the impending death of ISA, I'm wondering about the future of PnP PCI
cards in Linux. I'd like to upgrade my P200 to a PII, and build a machine
for my Dad with the leftovers, but right now I have four ISA cards. I can
consolidate my separate PPort and Serial cards with a single purchase, but
many boards have only one or two ISA slots. PC99, IIRC, is supposed to
eliminate the ISA bus.
What's the future for PCI (Serial/Parallel cards are my current worries)
and efforts to get us off the mobo like USB, Firewire in Linux?
I've searched, but I haven't easily found much info on existing
projects, short of OSS/Linux. HAve I overlooked anything, or are we
consigning ourselves to legacy HW for the near term?
-W-
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From: "d0om" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: PPP Setup for Uswest.net Dial in
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:10:11 -0800
Hello,
I have PPP 2.2 setup on Red Hat 5 and have my modem working.
I can connect to one of my ISPs to the internet using PPP in Linux.
However, I cannot seem to configure PPP to connect to USWest.net.
If anyone has the ISP Uswest.net and can dialup to it in Linux, can you
please send me the chat script and the options you used?
USWest.net, of course, doesn't provide information on setting up a
connection in Linux, unlike my other ISP to which I can connect just fine.
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Huff)
Subject: Which is easier: loading windows first or linux
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:46:02 -0800
Hi,
I would like to make my computer dual boot for Linux and then have a tiny
partition for Win98. Which would be easier to load and get running first?
Does it matter? I've done both seperately on different machines but never
both on one machine. What about possible LILO conflicts?
Any direction or readmes would be appreciated.
Bonus question: The disk will be a 12GB partitioned drive. Should I use
fdisk to do the partitioning or do it all in dos? Or just do a small
partition (say 4GB for Windows, load Win on that. Then somehow(?) get
Linux to reconize the remaining space that will be raw and need to be
formatted for linux to use?
It all seems fraught with peril (especially when dealing with Windoze). I
just want to do it right the first time.
Thanks,
James
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From: Grant Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AcerOpen Modem Problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:56:48 -0400
Windows can be funny about it's COM? numbering... try some of the other
/dev/cuax or more correctly /dev/ttyS0-3 :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Under windows
> the modem is set up on COM4, IRQ3 and I/O 02E8h-02EFh.
>
> When I issue the command
> echo "ATDTXXX-XXXX/n" >/dev/cua3
> to test the modem, I receive no dialtone, dialing or busy signal.
>
--
"It looks so lovely, and fragile. Imagine how many millions of people
are living on it, and don't even realize how fragile it is."
Alan B. Shepard, 1971, said with a tear in his eye, on the
Apollo 14 mission looking back at earth from the moon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Young)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux and Pacbell's ADSL
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:59:53 GMT
Hi,
apologies for the cross post (I wasn't sure which newsgroup into which
I should post this). Is anyone using Linux and Pacbell's ADSL now?
I'm curious as to the performance. In addition, I know that Pacbell
doesn't support Linux. However, I'm thinking that it should be a
breeze since the communication is through a NIC card rather than a
specialized modem card.
Let me know.
Thanks in advance.
--Justin
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From: Grant Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MODEM PROB NEED HELP
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:59:40 -0400
http://www.krftech.com/windrv/index.html
and a hardy "Good Luck"!!! maybe someone will use this to toolkit to
make a driver, but, looks like a GPL one is out of the question
--
"It looks so lovely, and fragile. Imagine how many millions of people
are living on it, and don't even realize how fragile it is."
Alan B. Shepard, 1971, said with a tear in his eye, on the
Apollo 14 mission looking back at earth from the moon
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From: "Mark Van Bogart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus P2BLS Motherboard
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:47:05 -0600
I installed linux to my first scsi drive using the AIC7890 kernel boot disk
from Slackware 3.6. If you can get the AIC7890 patch files and patch the
2.0.35 source, then you can create a new bootable kernel just fine.
I downloaded the patched 7890 source file to a Windows PC, copied it to a
diskette, copied the patch from diskette to /usr/src, patched the source,
and created a new kernel. Better yet, if you can load your network card
right after installation and then download the 2.0.36 kernel source and do
the proper installation steps for a whole new source tree, then you can skip
the patching.
John Basso wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Does anyone have any experience with the ASUS P2BLS motherboard
>with Linux? Specifically, integration with the on-board SCSI and
>LAN controller.
>
>TIA
>
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> fax: 205-461-6259 of a Huntsville, AL 35805
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From: Pranab Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Signal 7 during install (AMD K6-2, FIC2013)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:45:20 -0500
My computer config: AMD K6-2 300 Mhz in a FIC PA2013 MB, 64MB of PC100
DRAM.
2 months back I installed RH5.1 without problem. Recently I did a clean
install of RH 5.2 and it failed with signal 7. So I tried to install RH
5.1 but that failed too.
I could install RH 5.2 after I turned off the CPU ext. cache. After
installation I turned the ext. cache ON again. On the surface there does
not seem to be any problem.
However, after reading about others having problems with K6-2 I am
worried that I will start seeing major problems sooner or later. Can
anybody please tell me if I should run any particular test? Or should I
just forget about it?
-Pranab
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Subject: Re: 3com 3c905b card loses Mac address
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:06:33 GMT
In article <780rdi$t88$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>time the MAC address reported by the 3c59x driver was "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"!
>Multiple reboots produced the same result each time: Win 98 got the right MAC
>address and was able to obtain an IP and talk to the network, Linux continued
>to see ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as the MAC address. :-(
These are really flake-o cards for a 3Com product-- we've got a bunch of
them and they're a headache. This is a known problem with some
combinations of hardware.
Here's the official answer:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html#pnpos
Good luck!
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Christophe KUMSTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux dual cpu system
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:24:39 +0000
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> ASUS P2B-D motherboard
> 2x128Mb Corsair CAS 3 PC100 RAM
> 2xPentium 450Mhz cpus
Hi Dale,
I currently use a PIIB-D motherboard with 2-PII266 and it works
perfectly.
For the others chipset , no idea. The SMP is OK.
But I've got a pb when I decided to make this station a diskless
station with an etherboot bios ROM on the network card ! The SMP support
is no more detected !!!
I think this is cause the Bios is hided by the kernel download or
ramdisk download by bootp , but I'm not sure.
Have you any idea ?
thanks.
-- KUMSTA Christophe
-- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-- real-time system developper
-- RT-Linux (Use the source luke)
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: which distribution package do you recommend?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:48:54 -0600
M. Wimmer wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I collected some general information about linux on the internet, but
I must
> admit, that I am a 100% newbie in this field. I would like to "learn
by
> doing" about this powerful operating system.
> Can you recommend a distribution package?
> It should cost less than about 20 Euros.
> It should be run off my second, smaller SCSI - HD (Controller NCR
C810 is
> supported).
> It must support my Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM graphics card and
Panasonic CR
> 581-M CD-ROM drive.
> Maybe there is a package with a very comfortabel user interface?
> I am a medium experienced USER of Windows 95.
>
> Best regards and many thanks for your suggestions
>
> Manfred Wimmer
> Remove "no_garbage_mails_" from the adress to reply by eMail.
I began with Linux RH 5.0 that came in the back of the book "Learn Linux
in 24 Hours" by Bill Ball, from SAM's Publishing. It ran very nice. I
have installed RH 5.2 for myself and several friends. It, too, runs
very nice. While running RH I saw some info about KDE (an X windows
client) and loaded the beta-4 version onto RH. VERY NICE! It is what
WinXX is supposed to be.
Then, last August, I saw an ad for SuSE 5.3 which would include KDE 1.0
automatically installed. I decided to try it because of that, and
because it also came as a subscription for $34 US.
IMHO, SuSE 5.3 is much easier to operate than RH. YaST is a VERY
powerful tool to add or remove software and to change the system
parameters. I'm looking forward to SuSE 6.0. When it comes I am having
a License burning! I will be reclaiming the 800MB I reserved to dual
boot Win95. I have replaced all the Win95 software that was important
to me (Quicken, SkyMap, Mathcad 7.0 and some others) with Linux based
apps. Reformatting both my HD's and installing ONLY SuSE 6.0 is going
to be a very exiting and happy moment!
In the words of a great American whose memory we honor today: "Free at
last, free at last. Thank God Almight, free at last!" -Martin Luther
King Jr.
Jerry
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From: Gary I Kahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Fire Gl 1000 Pro supported?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:51:01 -0500
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> I looking into installing redhat 3.0.3 on my system and am wondering if
> there is support
> for my video card. Where can I look/how do I go about determining that this
> and other components in my system are supported?
>
> Thanks for helping this linux newbie,
> Philip
I have the card, too, and it's supported by XFree86 since
v3.3.3. Your Red Hat v3.0.3 software is pretty dated at this
point. I recommend picking up a newer version. No matter what
distribution or version you get at this point, XFree86 3.3.3.1 is
so new that it's not included except as an update.
While the Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro card now has a driver (thanks
to the efforts and generosity of S.u.S.E), the accelerated
processing of the card doesn't seem to be fully supported yet.
On my system, anyway, moving a window quickly across the screen
causes noticeable delays--the window follows the mouse, but it
doesn't catch up until the mouse stops moving.
Gary
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From: Eric Wurbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1505 question - i/o address
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:37:06 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get my RH5.2 to recognize my Adaptec AHA-1505 scsi host
> adapter.
> I know that it is aha152x compatible, but I don't know what parameters to
> pass it when I do /sbin/modprobe or when I use Kernel Configurator.
> My system is dual boot with NT, NT has the following settings for it
>
> i/o = 340-35f
> IRQ=11
> scsi ID = 7
>
> so I tried /sbin/modprobe aha152x aha152x=340-35f,11,7,1
>
> Am I putting in the wrong value for i/o address?
> How do I find the exact i/o address?
With the parameters of your card, the option line to pass to the module
should be :
aha152x=0x340,11,7
(forget the trailing 1).
Eric
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From: Frederik Cheeseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Armada 3500 video chip ct65555
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:19:35 +0100
To all the users of Linux on a Compaq Armada 3500 / 6266:
Just this bit of information:
The video chip of the Compaq Armada 3500 is the Chips and Technologies,
Inc.
ct65555.
Yours,
Frederick
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From: Daniele Malleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Again: parallel zip problem
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:54:17 +0000
First of all, thanks to all teh people who responded to my previous
post.
None of the advice given to me worked. this is a more detaliled
description of the problem.
I've got an Acer EXTENSA 368D laptop with a parallel ZIP drive.
The problem is: I compiled the kernel with scsi support, scsi_disk
support, parport and parport_pc support, ppa and imm support, all as
modules. By the way, the same configuration has proved to work great on
a
friend's desktop.
When I try to load the imm driver (my ZIP is new and requires this
interface), it finds the adapter at ID6, but then the scsi module
reports
0 hosts.
Here's the exact transcription:
imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 16 bit
imm: No devices found, aborting driver load.
scsi : 0 hosts.
/lib/modules/2.2.0-pre7/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
my kernel version is 2.2.0-pre7, and is working for everything else,
including sound support and PCMCIA ethernet.
my kernel version is 2.2.0-pre7, and is working for everything else,
including sound support and PCMCIA ethernet.
I guess the problem could be with the parallel port, since it can be
used
with the external floppy drive, too, and this feature is transparently
managed by the BIOS, since mtools doesn't bother and just access the
disk as
if it were internal, even if the kernel probe doesn't report any floppy
at
boot time.
Any ideas on how to straighten this thing up?
As always, please e-mail any advice, suggestions, hints etc. to my
personal address too.
Thanks in advance,
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yank_mydoodle)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live!
Date: 18 Jan 1999 22:15:07 -0600
Reply-To: *
Both OSS and Creative
Creative Anounced Official support for Linux..just last week
and are looking for driver programers..
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:42:18 -0500, John Borak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has nayone gotten this soundcard to work yet with linux. I got this
>great card with my machine but it doesn't do me any good if I can use
>it. Any help is great. Thanks
>
>-John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (E Smith)
Subject: Re: Modem to accept 56K "INCOMING" data call
Date: 19 Jan 1999 02:06:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Motomu Ibaraki
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for a modem which can accept 56K "INCOMING"
> data call and run under linux.
3Com Courier I-Modem
(requires ISDN phone line)
http://www.3com.com/
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From: Grant Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoftOSS2 in 2.2.0pre7
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:26:14 -0400
I have a Sound Blaster PCI128 Sound, it will work under the 2.2 kernels
when configured as an ES1370, however there is no Hardware Wavetable
Midi on this card, it's done in software under DOS and Win9x, so I
figured I'd just use SoftOSS, I read the www.opensound.com page about
it, and all the Docs I could find in the kernel about it..
It requires sound patches to work.. got em instruments.tar.gz from a
link on the opensound page.
Compiled module for SoftOSS2.. modprobes fine..
But, now what?
NOWHERE did it say where to put the sound patch files..
I even tried reading through the source files ( I'm no programmer so
that didn't help me much ).
I'm stumped.. anyone have SoftOSS working???
--
"It looks so lovely, and fragile. Imagine how many millions of people
are living on it, and don't even realize how fragile it is."
Alan B. Shepard, 1971, said with a tear in his eye, on the
Apollo 14 mission looking back at earth from the moon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (macks)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:21:45 GMT
I have an AMD K6-2 350, I get 699 bogomips...
macks
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:34:20 +0200, "Moshe Bar"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>My 400Mhz has a bogomips of 378.
>
>You may or may not know that Bogomips is NOT a measure of processor speed,
>it is just a calibration loop to measure how long it takes the processor to
>do NOTHING (no-op).
>
>So, careful with those Bogomips figures.
>
>
>Moshe Bar
>
>
>Bjorn Lindgren wrote in message <77rd13$f2c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Hi, anyone run Linux on Intel PII-450 that can post the
>>bogomips number from /proc/cpuinfo
>>
>>Want numbers from as many diffrent ppl as possible.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>--
>>Bjorn Lindgren
>>bjorn(e)chiba.cx
>
>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1505 question - i/o address
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:34:05 -0500
Never mind. I figured it out.
One problem I was having was with my BIOS. I had to manually make the i/o
address unavailable so that the SCSI card could use it.
I also found the i/o address by looking at the physical adapter.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm trying to get my RH5.2 to recognize my Adaptec AHA-1505 scsi host
>adapter.
>I know that it is aha152x compatible, but I don't know what parameters to
>pass it when I do /sbin/modprobe or when I use Kernel Configurator.
>My system is dual boot with NT, NT has the following settings for it
>
>i/o = 340-35f
>IRQ=11
>scsi ID = 7
>
>so I tried /sbin/modprobe aha152x aha152x=340-35f,11,7,1
>
>Am I putting in the wrong value for i/o address?
>How do I find the exact i/o address?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr A O V Le Blanc)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: LILO and 10 GB drives
Date: 19 Jan 1999 09:05:50 -0000
Someone wrote:
>Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19540 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 131 65992+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
>/dev/hda2 * 132 262 66024 83 Linux native
>/dev/hda3 263 19540 9716112 5 Extended
>
>I have a bunch of logical partitions but those are irrelavent.
>/dev/hda2 is my root partition and it is below cylinder 1023.
"w��g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>LINUX doesn't boot from the root partition, it boots from the /boot
>partition. You should have /dev/hda2 set to mount to /boot.
This is a bit confused. The boot loader boots the kernel, and the
kernel uses some partition as the root partition. The root partition
can be anywhere, but the kernel and the boot loader may not be
so free. Some boot loaders (e.g., LILO), require that the kernel is
physically located below the 1024 cylinder line. If this is the
case on your system, and if your root partition is at least partially
above the line, you may wish to mount as the directory /boot a
smaller partition from below the line, and to store your kernel
there. Alternatively, you may store your kernel on another partition
(such as a DOS partition) which is below the line.
The second question is this: where is the boot loader located?
The first stage of a boot loader may be located in the Master Boot
Record of a disk, or it may be located in the start of any partition
on the disk. The second stage of a boot loader (assuming it has
two stages) may be located anywhere. LILO has the restriction that
its first and second stages, as well as the map file which it constructs
when it is installed, must be below the 1024 cylinder line. Normally
the second stage of LILO (boot.b) and its map file are kept in the
/boot directory. So normally the partition /boot is on, whether it
is the root partition or something separately mounted, must be
below the 1024 cylinder line.
>Also, a time or two, I've seen problems with having
>multiple partitions set as active, which seems to be the case if that is a
>true FDISK screenshot. If you're going to use LILO, then you only need one
>partition active. With the way I have LILO configured, it is /dev/hda2.
There is no requirement to have any partitions active, and no restriction
on the number. If you use a Microsoft-style boot loader in the MBR,
it will select the partition to try to boot by looking for an active
flag, and if I am not mistaken, it will select the first such
partition that it finds. Note that other boot loaders in the MBR,
such as LILO or GRUB, ignore the active flag completely. Linux also
ignores the active flag, so if you have a completely Linux machine,
you may have as many or as few active flags as you wish. Some
operating systems, such as those produced by Microsoft, will only
boot if their 'root' partition is flagged as active. I look after
a number of machines (currently 75) with four or more operating
systems on them:
Windows 3.1
Windows 95 and/or 98
Windows NT
Linux
FreeBSD
Normally I prefer to have a separate partition for each operating
system. (In the case of the Microsoft systems, this means the
partition type of other Microsoft systems has to be hidden at boot
time.) The Microsoft systems also have the irritating feature
that their 'root' partition must be a primary partition. So
the boot loader has to fiddle with both partition types and
active flags. It is also possible (using some _very_ creative
fiddling) to have more than three or four potential primary partitions,
and to rewrite the partition table in such a way that it actualises
these before attempting to boot them:
partition 1 First potential primary partition, and possibly other
potential primary partitions.
partition 2 Currently actualised potential primary partition.
partition 3 remaining potential primary partitions.
partition 4 Extended partition including remainder of disk.
but I have not put such a system into production use yet, though
I did create one once in order to confirm that it works.
-- Owen
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From: Grant Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Gateway P590
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 05:09:55 -0400
Make yourself a new boot disk on a good floppy, the disk images are on the CD-ROM,
instructions should be with the BoxSet sounds like what you have,
Apunya wrote:
> I've had exactly the same problme installing on my IBM PS1486. I tried it on
> my friends K6 machine - bingo same problem. Looks like Red Hat released their
> 5.2 version with screwed up boot disk. I tried sending an email - no reply so
> far.
> Any others out there with similar problem - please let us knwo if you found a
> solution.
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From: Gaute Lindkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Good looking ATX tower cases. Does it exist?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:03:54 +0000
I would really like to buy a cool designed atx-case, something like
the SGI-models (more standard form-factor of course) only seperatly.
Preferably in a different color than the boring old grey.
Does this exist?
Seems to me that producers of cases have no thought for design
whatsoever.
With a nice lid to cover the components, so that I can still use
my old cdrom and diskdrive, it would be perfect.
If you can, please mail me an URL as well as posting it, as I don't read
newsgroups very regularly but can imagine others would like this
information as well.
In advance thanx
Gaute Lindkvist
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From: Dirk Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: soundcard Crystal 4236B
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:12:03 +0100
Hi!
Could someone tell me where I can find a driver for Crystal 4236B
soundcard. Is it loadable as module?
Thanks
Dirk
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