Linux-Hardware Digest #396, Volume #9 Tue, 9 Feb 99 16:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: Mylex RAID controllers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+
Re: Exabyte Mammoth and cheap media? (Tomasz Korycki)
Re: Can't see Modem (Andrew Comech)
IBM PS/2 95 Server (Greg Bodnar)
Re: Problems with Linux on a new Dell (Grant O'Rielly)
Re: Initio UltraWide SCSI adapters? (Keith Oldham)
850Hd prb with CHS settings, EzDrive, old bios. - Advice? ("Jeff Kowalczyk")
Re: At wit's end: keyboard hanging (Wallace Owen)
Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT cable
modem) ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E Larson))
SCSI Tape problems (Harry Brueckner)
Laptop Battery in Linux ("Ahmed Abukmail")
Re: Must I run /sbin/initrd to attach Zip drive? (Lyle Taylor)
Gtk+ and compilation errors making a newbie go MAD! :-) ("The Grogers")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Mylex RAID controllers
Date: 9 Feb 1999 14:55:31 GMT
In redhat.general Malcolm Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# (see http://www.varesearch.com/) so there must be a driver available
# somewhere. I'd guess Leonard Zubkoff may be involved.
Leonard works for VA Research, so ... They might have the driver available,
but you can probably find at least some info off the dandelion page:
http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/
(they had something listed about the 960 the last time I went by there)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+
Date: 9 Feb 1999 18:52:11 GMT
it part of the standard 2.0.x source
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:39:09 -0700, John Calcote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>HI! Anyone got a lan driver for an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+. Please
>don't tell me to modify the source for the Intel EtherExpress PRO card.
>;-) Thanks in advance.
>
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Linux'er since 0.97 :)
UIUC Class of 2002; ECE
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aviation, rc-air models
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Exabyte Mammoth and cheap media?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 01:36:12 -0500
"Bryan K. Wright" wrote:
>
> Stuart R. Fuller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Bryan K. Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> <stuff deleted>
>
> : Interesting. You say that you're going to use this tape drive for backups,
> : but want to use the cheaper tapes that are known to not work in this drive.
> : Why bother doing the backups, then?
>
> : After all, the purpose of doing backups is to be able to restore them at some
> : point in time. If the tape drive is known to not work with these cheaper
> : tapes, then why bother? I would think that if the data is sufficiently
> : important to backup, then the cost of the media should a lesser consideration.
>
> : Stu
>
> I think you're missing the point, Stu. Obviously, I'd like to find
> cheaper tapes that WORK with this drive. Otherwise, I'll return it
> and get 8505 drives instead. Here's the math:
>
> 1 Fuji 160M 8mm tape = $11.00 = 14 GB
> 3 Fuji 160M 8mm tapes = $33.00 = 42 GB
> but...
> 1 Sony 170M 8mm AME tape = $93.00 = 40 GB
>
> Bottom line:
>
> $93.00 > $33.00
>
> And, since the cost of 3 8505 drives is about the same as the cost of
> one mammoth, plus you get the added flexibility of using different
> drives for different things, why should I keep the mammoth and pay
> so much for the specialized media?
Well, remember one thing, though: every time You use _non_ AME cartridge
in 89xx, You'll have to clean the drive before next use. As cleaners are
good for 12 or 20 cycles only, that will pile up, too. Personally, I
just swallowed hard and bought 10 AME cartridges: they're good and
they're faaaaast!
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From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't see Modem
Date: 9 Feb 1999 01:53:21 -0500
Try talking to modem and dialing out from minicom.
It is excellent for modem diagnostics.
Cheers,
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Bodnar)
Subject: IBM PS/2 95 Server
Date: 9 Feb 1999 07:18:34 GMT
I've come across an old IBM PS/2 9595 Server, and I'm looking for some
information. The FAQ's list an address for PS/2 linux installations,
but the site comes back with no DNS entry. I've been unable to find
mirror sites, either.
What does it take to get a PS/2 to boot from floppy, other than it's own
reference disk? If it turns out to be a hopeless situation, I'll end up
ripping it apart and turning it into a disk farm, but I think it could
make a nice linux box...
Greg Bodnar
University of Alberta
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant O'Rielly)
Subject: Re: Problems with Linux on a new Dell
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 19:53:10 GMT
William Kellerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: The sound card drivers are not available yet. I read where they should
: be
: available in the spring.
: Bill
The CS4236 sound card (chip? since it's integrated) is supported by the
newer kernels -- 2.0.36+ I'm using this on a Dell XPS R400, although the
"default" parameters are incorrect, I had to check the IRQ and addresses
from Win-98 and enter them by hand. Supposedly the sndcfg stuff in
REDHAT-5.2 works with this card, but I never had any luck -- I just
recompiled the kernel with the sound stuff built-in (the CS4232 stuff
supports the *36 version) with the "right" parameters and it all worked.
grant
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Oldham)
Subject: Re: Initio UltraWide SCSI adapters?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 18:39:13 GMT
I've just put together a new system including an Iwill ultraSCSI card
and the Initio patches that came with Suse 5.3 work fine ( hdparm
reports ~8 MBytes/sec with Quantum 6.4G )
Keith Oldham
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"R.H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Kyle Gonzales wrote:
>
>> Do anyone have any experience with these boards? Are they good or bad?
>> They claim to support Linux. Any feedback would be appreciated.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kyle Gonzales
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>I have a SIIG PCI Fast SCSi BusMaster and I really like it, but I can only
>use in DOS or Win98 as neither SIIG or initio will help me in getting my
>kernal configured properly and I've gotten limited responses to my posts
>in various newsgroups. If I was you I would find out just which adapters
>your kernal supports and buy one of those so that you don't have to go
>through the same hassle.
>
> Roger
>
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From: "Jeff Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 850Hd prb with CHS settings, EzDrive, old bios. - Advice?
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:24:00 -0500
I have an old Western Digital Caviar 850 drive, which I was using with RH5.2
to some success a couple of weeks ago. The computer it's in is a heap of a
486, with an old bios that has the 540Mb limitation. We always used EZ drive
with the 850 on this machine, and there were some bogus CHS parameters in
the BIOS (which has no concept of LBA, btw) set that worked.
Noticing that linux was capable of dealing with the drive CHS directly, I
got fancy and removed EZdrive, and set the bios to the real drive CHS
values. I don't think it liked that. As expected, I lost the ability to boot
from the HD, but with a boot disk, everything appeared to work ok on linux.
Granted, I wasn't doing much taxing
work with the machine.
The actual drive CHS, btw, are 1654, 16, 63.
I currently have the BIOS set to:
Type 47=user 826,32,(wpcomp=65535),(lzone=65535), 63
I don't know about those precomp and landing zone values, how is that
calculated. I though a wrong setting there might have to do with the knock.
So now, the drive fails RH5.2 CD installation somewhere in the middle, with
different errors each time. Sometimes they are termination codes, sometimes
a hang, once it did that knocking drives do when they go toes-up.
The drive is checking out OK in WDDIAG, but of course I've forgotten what
those old CHS paramters were. They didn't match the drive, that's for sure,
but they did work with DOS, Win9x, and recently linux.
I don't have the CompuAdd manuals, and they didn't address big drives
anyway. Anyone have any idea how I'd guess the old CHS parameters, so I
could slap EzDrive back on there and get a linux box back? Thanks.
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From: Wallace Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: At wit's end: keyboard hanging
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:31:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> My Dell Dimension P133 keyboard freezes every couple of days while using X.
> The only was to restore control is to REBOOT. Not acceptable.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Specs: Linux 2.0.36, glibc, XF86SVGA on an STB Velocity 128.
>
$15.00 will tell you if it's a hardware problem. Get a cheapo keyboard
and if it works you found the problem. If it doesn't you've got a
spare. I've not heard of any problems with X and keyboards, and have
never had any myself. Does the mouse still move? Can you use it to get
out of 'X'? When you do is the keyboard still unresponsive?
// Wally
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc,linux.samba
From: whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E Larson)
Subject: Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT
cable modem)
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 08:16:26 GMT
In article <79ljm8$15v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E Larson) wrote:
>
>> Ouch.... I bought my AutoSensing hub last week at Best Buy for $99.95 of
>> course CompUSA had them for $129.95 two floors down. As for NIC's I like
>> anything with the DEC Alpha chip, I wonder what Compaq has planned for it?
>
>The Alpha is a CPU. Compaq still owns that portion of Digital Semiconductor.
>Compaq sold off the networking and PCI bridge components to Intel. I doubt if
>we'll see any more DEC 21x4x 'Tulip' based NICs since they are competition for
>the Intel counterparts.
Yeah.... my brain took a nap while I typed. That is unfortunate they are a
nice chipset, work well with Microsoft OS's, *nix's, and Netware without a
fuss.
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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From: Harry Brueckner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Tape problems
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:22:03 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello,
I run an Adaptec 2940 UW controller under Linux 2.0.35 and the Adaptec
AIC7xxx driver version: 5.0.19/3.2.4 - I got the same error message when
I upgraded to Linux 2.0.36 and Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version:
5.1.4/3.2.4. The SCSI tape stuff is compiled as a module.
I have several UW disks attached and a SCSI DLT tape drive which is also
an UW device. The tapedrive can write 35 GB to a single tape at a speed
of more than 200 MB/min.
When I write to or read from the tape I sometimes get the following
message:
Feb 7 23:51:11 hostname kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0,
channel 0, id 13, lun 0
Feb 7 23:54:42 hostname kernel: (scsi0:0:13:0) Data overrun detected in
Data-Out phase, tag 29;
Feb 7 23:54:42 hostname kernel: Have seen Data Phase. Length=65536,
NumSGs=1.
Feb 7 23:54:42 hostname kernel: sg[0] - Addr 0x400000 : Length
65536
Feb 7 23:54:42 hostname kernel: st0: Error 27070000.
and tar responds to this (when I am writing to the tape) with:
Prepare volume #2 for /dev/nrmt0 and hit return:
After I hit return (without changing the tape) it continues properly.
The data on the tape, at the area where this might have happened, is
corrupted though.
What is this error message about ?
On another box where I have almost the same configuration but the tape
connected to a seperate controller I dont get this message and I can
write non-stop to the tape.
Any suggestions are welcome. :-)
Harry
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From: "Ahmed Abukmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Laptop Battery in Linux
Date: 9 Feb 1999 20:11:00 GMT
Hello, I have yet another question to get my laptop configured with a real
operating system (Linux). I would like to know how I can make it notify me
of how much battery life is left on the laptop. I heared of something
called APM. If you have any information, I would greatly appreciate any
hints....
Thanks
Ahmed
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From: Lyle Taylor <[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, 09 Feb 1999 02:21:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you configure your kernel to include the SCSI driver in the kernel
(not as a module), you're fine.
Cheers,
Lyle
Mitchell Maltenfort wrote:
>
> I'm trying to figure out if this command is trivial, vital, dangerous or
> negligible.
>
> I recompiled my kernel some weeks ago, following the directions for a
> comparable system (Toshiba 330 CDS) at the Linux for Laptops page and the
> HOWTO for making the kernel ready to talk to a ZIP drive (which I mean to
> get real soon now..)
>
> Anyway, I was going back through my RedHat 5.2 manual and I noticed
> something I somehow skipped over before. The manual claims "an initrd image
> is needed for loading your SCSI module at boot time." It recommends I run
> /sbin/mkinitrd to build a 'proper initrd image.' However, it does *not*
> tell me how to back up the old image if I screw up. As a newbie, I am
> reluctant to do anything without a list of instructions for undoing it.
>
> I plan to be getting the parallel port Zip drive which requires the imm
> adapter. I double-checked what I did for my kernel vs. the new HOWTO at
> http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html. However, I saw no instruction for
> running /sbin/initrd in there.
>
> When I reboot, SCSI support seems to be initializing happily even though no
> devices are found.
>
> So is anyone familiar with these issues who can set me straight? Thanks in
> advance.
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From: "The Grogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gtk+ and compilation errors making a newbie go MAD! :-)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:27:00 -0500
Whenever I try to compile some program, when configure gets to where it
tests for gtk, it gives me a message that it is incorrectly installed.
However, I just installed the newest version that came with gnome, and I
know I didn't move it, (I don't even know where it is). The installation
didn't get any errors, either. Could someone please help me with this!!
There's all kinds of programs I need, but don't have binaries, (or at lease
they don't have recent ones), and I'm a getting to be a very discouraged
Linux newbie!! (Can't I just switch back to Windoze?) :-)
checking for gtk-config... /usr/bin/gtk-config
checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.12... no
*** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for
the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly
installed
*** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case,
you
*** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/bin/gtk-config
configure: error: GTK not installed
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