Linux-Hardware Digest #395, Volume #9 Tue, 9 Feb 99 13:14:52 EST
Contents:
Re: intel motherboards for linux (Christian Wagner)
Re: installing/using an old IBM tape drive (M. Buchenrieder)
Adaptec CLONE ISA SCSI, RH5.2? ("Lewin A.R.W. Edwards")
Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT cable
modem) ("J. Clarke")
Re: Hardware Specification for Linux Web Server (Thomas Neurauter)
Re: Linux Hard Drive install- directory problem (jingles)
Re: 3Com Model 5687 (Vladimir Pasman)
Re: Must I run /sbin/initrd to attach Zip drive? ("Mitchell Maltenfort")
Re: Sound Blaster Live! (Shashank Misra)
kernel 2.2.1, taper and Colorado 5GB IDE TBU (John Thompson)
Re: Epson stc600 monochrome printing? (Lyle Taylor)
Re: Linux requires DOS (Miguel Cruz)
Re: tar file portability (Danny Willis)
Re: Linux lock's up computer completly. (Codifex Maximus)
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From: Christian Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: intel motherboards for linux
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 13:49:42 +0100
Try this page and type in your motherboard...
http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/
I made a first search for you for =
Intel Motherboards.
The result is:
> Your CDB server query:
> =
> CATEGORY=3Dmain:VENDOR=3Dintel
> =
> 3 results:
> =
> =
> =
> MAIN: INTEL AL440LX
> =
> Type
> p2
> Bus
> pci,isa
> Driver
> This component is supported.
> =
> =
> =
> =
> MAIN: INTEL PORTLAND
> =
> Enth=E4lt
> Intel 82440FX
> Intel PC87307IBU/VUL
> =
> =
> Type
> p2,single
> Revision
> E139761
> Bus
> pci,isa
> Frequency
> 200-300MHz
> Driver
> This component is supported.
> =
> =
> =
> =
> =
> MAIN: INTEL VS440FX
> =
> Enth=E4lt
> Intel PC87307-IBE/VUL
> =
> =
> Type
> 686,single
> L2-Cache
> 0KB
> Bus
> pci,isa
> Frequency
> 150-200MHz
> Driver
> This component is supported.
> =
> =
Greetings,
Christian
-- =
We are the small voice that whispers to you in the lonely hours of
the night. We call to the darkness within all of you. We came from =
the dark and to the dark we shall all return.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: installing/using an old IBM tape drive
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:15:16 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James D. Freels) writes:
[...]
>I connected the tape drive into my scsi chain and rebooted the Debian
>2.0 system still running 2.0.36 of the kernel. Both the bios and
>linux recognize the drive as a Tandberg MOdel tdc3600 drive.
Yup. I had the same, for a very long time. It is still laying
aroung somewhere on the various shelves containing HW components...
>I have
>found some information on the drive on the Tandberg home page. I have
>some old 150 Mb tapes that I can use, but I think that the drive may
>also be able to use 250 Mb tape cartridges as well.
The TDC3600 does solely allow 150MB tapes, unless you find a way
to update the firmware.
>The problem is that even though the kernel recognizes the drive, I am
>having trouble using it. I cannot find a "HOWTO" such as "how to
>connect an external scsi tape drive" or something to that effect. In
>"Running Linux", Welsh & Kaufman, 1995, on page pp of chapter 1 it
>does list the Tandberg 3600 as a "verfied scsi tape drive" for Linux.
It is really simple. All you need is "mt" and "tar" . It's much more
handy to use "taper" , though.
>For example, if I issue the command
>mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl
>I get the following error message
>mt: /dev/st0: Input/output error
This operation is not supported by the drive. And if it is an external tape
drive, make sure that the drive is properly terminated. The various "mt"
options aren't available on every tape drive.
Try
mt -f /dev/st0 status
Michael
--
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't mungle your address.
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From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Adaptec CLONE ISA SCSI, RH5.2?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:18:32 +1100
To do some development, I recently reformatted my home PC and installed
RH5.2, and everything's fine except that I can't get my SCSI card to
work. This is a problem since my Zip and CD-R drives are SCSI!
This is an ISA SCSI card shipped with my CD-R drive, it is totally
unbranded, and the chips have had their identification filed off :-(
Win9x detects it as "Adaptec AHA150X/1510/152X/AIC6X60" but Red Hat
doesn't want to know about it. It is at port 340h IRQ 10, which is not
the factory setting but is necessary to avoid conflicts with other
adapters in my system.
Anyone been able to get a card of this type working with Linux? At least
I want to be able to use my Zip drive, preferably also CD-R so I can
back up all my source (and *big* dev tools downloads) when I move to
America.
I suspect that it's compatible with one of the Adaptecs explicitly
supported in this Linux release, but I don't know where to find the
header files (or whatever) needed to force the drivers to probe specific
ports/IRQs.
While I'm at it, will cdwrite work with drives that don't support DAO
(which my Sony CDU-926S doesn't)?
--- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards <http://www.zws.com/>
Realtime & Embedded HW/SW Engineer
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Reply-To: "J. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "J. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,linux.redhat.misc,linux.samba
Subject: Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT
cable modem)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:36:17 -0500
Before you spend for Fast Ethernet, do some tests. I've never managed to
successfully record a CD-R across a Fast Ethernet, even when the data was
contained entirely within the RAM cache of the server (eliminates disk
performance as an issue). The problem appears to be latency--while the data
rate is high, it's not consistently high for all machines--there are short
gaps that are long enough to interrupt the stream.
Just a suggestion, but you'll likely get more benefit by installing a fast
drive in the local machine and using it to buffer the files you're working
on, then copy them back up to the server or delete them if you don't need to
do that. Of course the best of all worlds is to do both.
--
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at eye bee em dot net
Microsoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:01be5318$54742190$0200a8c0@mycompnt...
>The reason I would like to use 100-BaseT Ethernet at home is so that I can
>use SMB-mounted drives as source for CD-R. 10-BaseT is too unreliable for
>any serious CD-R recording, especially at 4x and 8x speeds. 100-BaseT is
>the only practical solution for this, also when I am doing disk intensive
>tasks directly ober the network, such as using vcdgear to convert a .dat to
>a .mpg (500 MB+ file) over a network mounted drive, 10-BaseT takes upwards
>of an hour to do this, which is a total waste of time. If I has 100-BaseT,
>network mounted drives would be basically about as fast as local drives.
>
>�Comprende?
>
>
>Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> Christian Aasland wrote:
>> >
>> > As stated, the switches are really expensive... not really sure a full
>switch
>> > is better than a hub for small networks, as switches only prevent
>collisions
>> > on busy nets.
>>
>> I have found that, on small networks, a switch can dramatically improve
>> throughput if the server is on a 100 Mbps port and the rest of the nodes
>> are on 10 Mbps. I've seen such a switched setup (one server and 20 WS)
>> equal the performance of a shared 100 Mbps network with a similar
>geometry
>> and traffic.
>>
>> With the cost of 10/100 switches dropping it is a practical solution for
>a
>> small office. I don't think the home user with less than four or five
>> machines will get any discernible advantage unless he is running some
>> bandwidth hungry client server apps. For surfing the net it is moot.
>Even
>> a full T1 is not going to saturate a 10Mbps ethernet.
>>
>> --
>> Stephen Carville
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> Management: The art of hiring intelligent, skilled individuals and then
>> ignoring their advice.
>>
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From: Thomas Neurauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware Specification for Linux Web Server
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:18:05 +0100
Peter Stephen Drage wrote:
>
> I am going to be using it for development, my external site is hosted on a
> linux server and I want to mirror this at home, so that I can develop
> scripts and test them with out the need to be online.
For your jobs you should simply get a
PII-350 with 128MB memory. This will do
far more than you said you're going to do.
I was running 12 virtual web-hosts on
a 486/66 with 32 MB memory and 1,5 GB disks.
It worked fine (except running perl-scripts
for cgis and other purposes).
:-) Thomas Neurauter
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:45:38 -0500
From: jingles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Hard Drive install- directory problem
I don't know if this is the same error you're experiencing... and i tend to
be windy :)
I had a working installation of slackware 3.5 but wanted to try redhat
I downloaded the Mandrake dist. (Redhat 5.2 + KDE) from sunsite.uio.no to a
fat32 partititon.
I imaged the boot/supplemental/rescue floppies and started up the
installation. Everything was fine until it asked for the path to the RedHat
files (/dev/hda7 in /mandrake). It would say "that path didn't seem to
contain a RedHat tree" or something like that.
To make a long story short:
#1. When I downloaded the files in Win98 with CuteFTP2.8, the casing of the
directory names was lost. (i.e. RedHat became redhat and RPMS became rpms).
#2. After much frustration/cursing/futile web searching/cursing/new
partition creation/cursing/futile ng searching/cursing I become aware of #1
#3. I copy the files to an ext2fs partition and make sure the directories
have the same casing as on the ftp server I got them from.
That fixed it. When I tried to install again it went through without a
hitch...
All I have to do now is get X running with my CL Banshee :(
I hope that helps someone.
eric malloy wrote:
> hi all;
>
> i installed., it was a disaster.. i got everything right.. but then when
> it wanted to know where the install packages and files were it kept
> saying:
>
> error opening directory
>
> it was on /dev/hda5/ then the path was /
> because i had a fat16 partition when i downloaded and downloaded the
> directory trees the same way it was.. i downloaded from
> ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/mirror/redhat-main/redhat/redhat-5.2/i386
>
> now i am back on NT., but i still have that fat16 partition, and i want
> to try installing again if anybody can tell me how to fix this problem..
>
> Thanks,
> eric malloy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vladimir Pasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com Model 5687
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:44:29 -0600
Yes, I'm using it. Didn't even have to run isapnp (by hand that is, i.e.
Linux did all the job for me). A great help to figure it out was setserial.
The only problem I had with it
was that it interfered somehow with the sound card, so I had to play with
sndconfig
to make it work. See if you have any IRQ problems. Also, what kind of
motherboard do you have. I'm not sure if any VIA motherboard has had a
similar
problem, but DFI had an IRQ bug, so I was forced to reflash BIOS.
PS. Here is what I'm running:
RH5.2
DFI AT motherboard with AMD K6/350
Allan Chunn wrote:
> The facts:
>
> 1) The modem is not a Winmodem
> 2) I've verified on the web that others have successfully got it to run
> with Linux
> 3) I've used isapnp on it -- appears to set the modem up correctly
> 4) Running RH 5.1
> 5) Read every How-to I can find
> 6) It still won't run
>
> Anyone here using this modem?
>
> Thanks
> Allan
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From: "Mitchell Maltenfort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Must I run /sbin/initrd to attach Zip drive?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:31:00 -0700
Just to check one small thing - I have SCSI support as a high-level driver
configured into the kernel.
The low-level (device) drivers are modules, if I recall correctly.
Does that make a difference?
Lyle Taylor wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>If you configure your kernel to include the SCSI driver in the kernel
>(not as a module), you're fine.
>
>Cheers,
>
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From: Shashank Misra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live!
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 19:27:42 -0600
Hey Lone,
No SBLive under linux. Wait awhile- there's apparently a new linux guy
working for Creative Labs, and ther'll probably be a driver out sometim
in the next year or so.
s
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: kernel 2.2.1, taper and Colorado 5GB IDE TBU
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:40:47 -0600
I have just finished compiling kernel 2.2.1 and am trying to
use taper with my Colorado 5GB IDE tape drive. The kernel
appears to recognize the drive, as evidenced by
/var/log/messages:
Feb 8 11:53:30 starfleet kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at
0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Feb 8 11:53:30 starfleet kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at
0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Feb 8 11:53:30 starfleet kernel: hda: WDC AC26400B, ATA
DISK drive
Feb 8 11:53:30 starfleet kernel: hdc: 36X CD-ROM, ATAPI
CDROM drive
Feb 8 11:53:30 starfleet kernel: hdd: HP COLORADO 5GB,
ATAPI TAPE drive
When I try to use taper ("taper -T ide") the drive appears
to respond correctly but always eventually fails with a seg
fault:
---clip from taper_log---
Mon Feb 8 12:11:47 1999: Backing up file
/home/skylar/Office50/config/nedland.bmp; actual size 29808,
on tape size 29808.
Mon Feb 8 12:11:47 1999: W: Child Segmentation fault
When starting taper I do get some messages from the ide-tape
driver to the effect that a speed setting is not properly
configured:
Feb 8 12:04:25 starfleet kernel: ide-tape: hdd: overriding
capabilities->speed
(assuming 650KB/sec)
Perusing ide-tape.c suggests that this may be a quirk of the
Colorado drive and that by using "speed == 0" one may
overcome this obstacle:
* Ver 1.13 Jan 2 98 Add "speed == 0" work-around for HP
COLORADO 5GB
But it is not clear to me how, or where this change is to be
made. I'm not a programmer; I don't know c from Martian so
take it easy, please. I feel like I'm making progress (at
least the drive responds now) but I'm not there yet.
Thanks...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Lyle Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson stc600 monochrome printing?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 22:00:46 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Normally, if you're sending black output, the color cartridges won't get
used. It doesn't use the color ones to print black only.
Lyle
Julian Armstrong wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got my Epson Stylus Colour 600 working in Linux (Redhat 5.1) using the
> ghostscript 5.5 uniprint driver (with stc600pl.upp driver) and colour printouts
> look great. However, as most of my printing will just be black and white, I
> want to be able to use the black ink cartridge instead of the colour+black
> cartridge. Does anyone know how to do this? I know there are various options
> for ghostscript like "-dupColorModel=/DeviceGray" but I'm not sure whether this
> forces the printer to use the black ink cartridge only. I'm hoping that some simple
> changes to the stc600pl.upp file may be all that is required.
>
> As a side question, is there any chance that anyone has a Linux program which
> can report the ink levels for the Epson Stylus printers as the MS Windows drivers
>can?
>
> Jules
>
> --
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Well you would be paranoid too if
> UWA, Perth, Western Australia | everyone was plotting against you."
> http://www.uwa.edu.au/student/jules/ | - Jim Hacker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
Subject: Re: Linux requires DOS
Date: 9 Feb 1999 05:04:25 GMT
inventor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since DOS was here ( all over ) first, LINUX must start some place.
> the only other way would, if computers still had them, single stepping
> and entering addresses and data one address at a time.
> With the advent of our modern computer systems, a bootstap rom starts
> things going, and it is looking for, after hardware start, the
> Autoexec.bat file or some such. Linux then starts from here.
Linux has nothing to do with the autoexec.bat file (unless, perhaps, you are
using loadlin). There is no DOS involved in a normal Linux boot.
miguel
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Subject: Re: tar file portability
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Willis)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 06:08:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Lamb) writes:
>I am trying to make dat tapes using tar on a Redhat 5.2 release.
>I am using an old HP dds1 tape drive. I can make tapes that can
>be read on the Redhat system but when I try to read them on a
>HPUX system they can't be read. The tape drive acts like it can't
>find the beginning of the tape. The same behavior is seen if a tape
>is made on the HPUX system and I try to read it on the Redhat system.
I haven't tried to do exactly this conversion before, but here are
some things to check:
1. They may well have different default blocksizes. On the Linux
end, you can read a random blocksize with the magical command
mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0
2. However, that wouldn't make the tape drive fail to sync up at the
beginning of tape. That unfortunately suggests an alignment problem
between the two drives, which is all too common.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www2.shore.net/~dannyw
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From: Codifex Maximus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux lock's up computer completly.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:34:44 -0600
David Steuber wrote:
> Is there a way to test for bad memory, and mark it as unusable?
>
> --
> David Steuber
> http://www.david-steuber.com
> s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
>
> "Hackers penetrate and ravage delicate, private, and publicly owned
> computer systems, infecting them with viruses and stealing materials
> for their own ends. These people, they're, they're terrorists."
>
> -- Secret Service Agent Richard Gill
QAPlus or Norton Diagnostic are OK.
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