Linux-Hardware Digest #421, Volume #9 Sat, 13 Feb 99 19:13:42 EST
Contents:
Re: PS/2 Mouse not working. HELP (Mike Matz)
Re: linux can't mount root fs (mlw)
Modem problms ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: External Modems (gus)
Re: duplicating a linux boot drive (Evgueni Tzvetanov)
Re: Suit & Shirt & Tie for Church (BodySync)
Re: 56k modems. (Adam Zygmunt)
Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36 (Andrew Heckerling)
I don't want come back to Windows NT ...! ("Giuseppe Frangiamone")
Re: System performance on differrent processors. PPC, SPARC, ALPHA, and INTEL
("Richard Payne")
Alphas... (Evgueni Tzvetanov)
SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2 ("Brian Wildasinn")
Re: LINUX on 680x0 parallel computer system ("Norm Dresner")
Does anyone know of a VGA overlay board with NTSC compatible output? ("Norm Dresner")
FS: DEC Alpha System (Errol Lanier)
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From: Mike Matz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.answer,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse not working. HELP
Date: 12 Feb 1999 08:03:04 -0600
Are you sure you compiled the kernel with PS/2 mouse support? It's an
option that you need to add, I believe. I had the same problem when I
upgraded to 2.2.1, but now it works fine.
Mike
Aaron Mitchell wrote:
>
> I am running slackware 3.6 on a Laptop computer. When I was using the
> old 2.0.35 kernel my mouse worked perfectly with the psaux module. I
> recently upgraded the the 2.2.1 kernel and now my mouse does not work.
> The new kernel uses built in ps/2 support. I have checked to make sure
> that it is enabled. I have compiled the kernel and installed it. All
> of the other features, ie. cdrom, networking, modem, sound all work
> perfectly. I just can not run X (because of no mouse) and I can not use
> the mouse in the shell. Whenever GPM is run I get the mesg that the
> device /dev/mouse is not found. or I try the /dev/psaux and still get
> that it is not found. I do not know what else to do. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Aaron
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux can't mount root fs
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:32:51 +0000
Frank Berwanger wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I've got a boot problem.
>
> During the boot process linux writes:
> VFS: Cannot open root device 30:2b
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 30:2b
>
> The interesting part is, that I can boot, when I use the root
> disk, I#ve made under dos via setup. I click through the linuxrc-program
> and enter /dev/hda2 as root filesystem to boot.
>
> I use Suse linux 6.0 with kernel 2.0.36. Linux was installed on an existing
> Linux partition, but I had to install /usr on an SCSI Drive (don't ask).
I can't tell from your message what the problem is, however, I can tell
you that is a module which is required to mount root is not loaded.
If you are running a custom kernel:
make sure the correct block device(s) are in the kernel -- not modules.
Make sure ext2 fs is loaded in the kernal, not a module.
If you are not running a custom kernel;
Were you ever able to boot?
if no, then the kernel does not have the required modules, you may need
to make
a custom kernel that contains the correct drivers.
if yes, what changed between the time you could boot and the time you
could not.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit the Mohawk Software website: www.mohawksoft.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem problms
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 21:32:11 GMT
Hello, sorry to bother everyone with another modem problem. BUT...I am
really interested in getting away from Windows...Here is my deal. I
just installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 boxed set. Evertyhing seems to be
going fine but I can't get my internal modem to work. It is NOT a
winmodem, however, it is a PNP modem. I have read every FAQ I can get
my hands on and i still can't figure it out. I have fooled around
with the ISAPNP program for hours trying to get it to work, but to no
avail. Someone, please help me get my modem to work.
My System:
AMD K6-266
64 MB SDRAM
32 MB EDO RAM
5.7 gb Maxtor HD ( partitioned with Win95b and RHL 5.2 )
Diamond Viper V330
Logicode 56K WINModem
Supra 288i PNP NON-WINModem
Sony 32x CD-ROM
Again, if anyone can help me configure the ISAPNP utility or whatever
it is that I need to initialize this modem ( the Supra) I would be
forever indebted and well on my way to leaving WIN95 behind for my
girlfriend to use :-)
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: External Modems
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:56:26 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nik Alston wrote:
>
> Can I assume that ALL external modems will work fine with Linux, as they
> cannot be classed as winModems ????
>
> nik
Yes.
The only drawbacks of external modems are that they need another power
source, and consume a serial port.
But then, they free an isa slot, and are guaranteed not to be
"winmodems". Also, they have "dasblinkinlites". I find also that
sometimes the modem misbehaves (I have an external USR Sporster) and
needs to be "reset" by switching off, then on. This would require a
(hard) reboot if it was internal.
Basically, IMHO, external modems are far superior.
gus
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From: Evgueni Tzvetanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: duplicating a linux boot drive
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:05:28 -0600
You can make a mirriring, like in most network OS. I'm not sure in which of
all HOWTO files I've read it, but you can check into /usr/doc/HOWTO or
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini
Good luck!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it possible to make a "backup" boot drive, such that if my
> boot drive goes down, I can pull it out and install the backup
> drive and quickly get back to work?
>
> There's too many installed packages to do a 'clean reinstall' so
> I would like to actually copy the existing files from the current
> boot drive to the backup.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Edmond
>
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From: BodySync <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suit & Shirt & Tie for Church
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 21:19:00 +0000
Thomas \"Tom\" Yeaple wrote:
>
> Hi mom:
Take your suit and tie, and...well you know the rest.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Zygmunt)
Subject: Re: 56k modems.
Date: 12 Feb 1999 14:55:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> Can some one recomend a "hassle free" LINUX compatable 56K modem.
>Thanks!
If you really want to go internal, I'd recommend an ISA modem, preferably
one that is not plug and pray. Be sure that the box states that it works in
DOS, or at least Windows 3.1. Jumpers are good, too. A couple days ago I
bought an Award V.90 internal ISA at Best Buy. It's got a jumper to turn off
PnP, and a couple of others for COM port and IRQ. I just set these to my old
modem's settings, popped it in, and it worked like a charm in Linux.
Hope this helps,
Adam Z.
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From: Andrew Heckerling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: 13 Feb 1999 22:22:20 GMT
To see if the kernel knows the correct size, I would try hdparm -i {device},
which lists, among other things, the number of sectors which are accessable
in LBA mode. The answer to your other question is long, and has a lot to do
with some DOS stupidity. Basically, the kernel can usually get the full
geometry from the drive by asking it to identify itself, and then it will
use either that or LBA to talk to the drive. Because of the way the partition
table is structured, it can't use the same geometry that is used by the disk
without actually limiting you to 504 MB. Thus, there are two geometries; one
which fdisk uses to write the partition table, and another which the kernel
uses to access the hard drive. To prevent mass confusion, the fdisk geometry
must be the same one used by other operating systems on the disk. This
geometry is usually the one used by the BIOS, but this system breaks down
at about 8 GB because linux gets no more than 1024 cylinders that way. For
various reasons which I haven't completely figured out, in certain cases
the number of cylinders is not corrected to represent the full capacity of the
drive.
If you want to see the geometry being used to partition your drive, try
hdparm -g {device}.
good luck
Raphael Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Thank you to everyone for some very helpful suggestions. I will try them out
: as soon as I get back next week. (Just out of interest how would I ascertain
: that the kernel knows the correct size?) The one thing that bothers me is that
: the quote below sounds like a bug. If the kernel is clever enough to use
: lba_capacity when it is needed then shouldn't fdisk be? If I find out the
: correct details for my drive who can I send this to so the next guy has an
: easier time?
: Cheers,
: Raphael
: Andrew Heckerling wrote:
:> Raphael,
:>
:> I have a similar Maxtor hard drive, and I had the same problem you did
:> partitioning it. At least in my case, it turned out that the kernel
:> really did know the correct capacity. As I understand things, the ide
:> driver in 2.0.36 will use the LBA capacity of the drive if the drive is
:> too large to be addressed with the geometry which it gets from the BIOS.
:> So your problem probably isn't the capacity that the kernel is using to
:> talk to the drive, but rather the capacity given to fdisk. In many cases,
:> the kernel will get the fdisk geometry from the BIOS, and that will not
:> be more than 8 GB.
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From: "Giuseppe Frangiamone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: I don't want come back to Windows NT ...!
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:42:00 +0100
I've trying to migrate from Windows NT company server to Linux but I've a
big problem with the SCSI controller.
I've installed Linux RH52 and after the kernel 2.2.1-4.
I've an aic7880 controller and I get timeouts errors coping files. These is
a part of log/messages:
at boot :
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi : detected total.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: IP-Config: No network devices available.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Partition check:
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host
adapter> found at PCI 16/0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419
instructions downloaded
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host
adapter>
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id
1, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id
3, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DORS-32160W
Rev: WA6A
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: starting. named 8.1.2 Thu Sep 24 02:47:08
EDT 1998 ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/src/bin/named
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN)
loaded (serial 1997022700)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: listening on [10.57.9.181].53 (eth0)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: Forwarding source address is
[0.0.0.0].1024
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id
4, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 28388-XXX
Rev: 5.AC
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Sequential-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 6.67 Mbyte/sec,
offset 15.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-506
Rev: 8S05
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: CD-ROM
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0,
id 6, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 15.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[281]: Ready to answer queries.
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCPD $Name:
V2-BETA-1-PATCHLEVEL-6 $
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The Internet
Software Consortium.
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Listening on Socket/eth0/NIERING
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Sending on Socket/eth0/NIERING
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 >
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sdb: sdb1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sdc: sdc1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sdd: sdd1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sde: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sde: sde1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 4,
s/g segs 16.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
5, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at
0x8000, 00:60:97:7a:3b:aa, IRQ 5
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, 10base2
interface.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and
whole-frame receives.
...
sometimes copying files:
Feb 11 18:04:26 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8968) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8972) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:04:43 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:43 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:43 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:57 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 8968) timed
out - trying harder
Feb 11 18:04:57 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:05:00 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:00 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:00 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:13 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8968) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:05:13 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:05:13 linux kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid
8997, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x0a 06 ca ed f4 00
Feb 11 18:05:15 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8997) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:05:15 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:05:18 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:18 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:18 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Please help me?
Thanks
Giuseppe
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From: "Richard Payne" <payner at timken dot com>
Subject: Re: System performance on differrent processors. PPC, SPARC, ALPHA, and
INTEL
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:09:19 -0500
David A. Frantz wrote in message <7a036n$65e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi All;
>
>After installing the new kernel 2.2.1 on an old 586 laptop (133Mhz), and
>seeing an amazing performance increase, I have to wonder how the kernel
>performs on other architectures. Is the speed up I'm seeing Intel
>specific or have the other platforms seen similar increases in performance?
>To be honest I'm not even sure that the new kernel is available yet on PPC
>or Alpha.
Yes, the kernel has all the different architectures in it. There is no
separate
Alpha, MIPS, PPC kernel.
>
>Is it safe to assume that most of the performance tweaking of Linux 2.2.1
is
>targeted at I386? With the same generation kernel which chip set gets
the
>best performance out of the kernel Alpha PPC Sparc or Intel?
No, at least from the Alpha side. We have seen performance improvements from
the 2.2 kernel. I can't speak for PPC though. I think you'll find a lot of
the
code that was changed is platform generic kernel code.
>
>This question comes to mind because of the availability of low cost PPC
>based machines from Apple and IBM. In fact IBMs "giving a boost" to
Linux
>is what started me thinking about what would be the best hardware platform
>to replace my P2 system.
>
>The big question is given three 400Mhz systems one Intel, one PPC based and
>one Alpha based which is going to perform best all around? I know this
is
>a hard question to ask, and the K7 may be the big contender, but only
>recently has pricing of these other systems made thinking about it
>worthwhile. Since I don't have access to this equipment comments from
>someone in the kow would be helpful.
It's not a difficult question to ask, but it's an impossible questions to
answer!
It all depend on what you will be doing with the machine. Alpha is excellent
at floating point work, but if you are going to be using it for word
processing
the floating point performance of the chip is irrelevant. It all comes down
to
want you want to do with it....
--
Rich Payne
(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com
Looking for Alpha-Linux info?
http://www.alphalinux.org
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From: Evgueni Tzvetanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alphas...
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:38:28 -0600
Hi guys,
I'm interested in second hand, old Alpha machines lately, but I could
not find anything about it. Can you show me a site or something...
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From: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 06:16:36 -0800
Reply-To: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all!
Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.32
seem to be doing the same thing during installation.
they're all saying "No SCSI attached!!!"
Why is it that only Redhat5.2 was able to see my SCSI drive
during installation?
All the other installers gave me one choice only --/dev/hda1
(Linux via Debian & Slackware) or /dev/wd0 (*BSD)-- or
nothing at all if the UDMA drive was unplugged. It's been
a few days, but I think I had to trick Redhat also, by making
the bios select scsi first and removing the ribbon from the
IDE drive. Anyway SCSI first returns 0, then the SCSI Drive
and Card appear to do some sort of download of driver info,
so that the Redhat installer eventually sees the SCSI drive.
Looks like Redhat has a longer probe time than the other
installers. So what should I do?
I was really surprised about Debian since I've had 2.0 running
on a m68k macintosh for quite a while with SCSI disk chains.
Tho this one is a 2940U2W scsi card with matching transfer speed
IBM drive.
These other installers appear to probe the
system without looking at a BIOS selection, which for my
box can switch preferences between IDE and SCSI, which
looks similar to load order choice for floppy, CDROM, and C
drive, etc...
So is the only way to get these other OSes up is to unplug
PnP settings for the SCSI card? Or is there some other tweak
to solve this? By the way, only Redhat5.2 had a working
fips20, fdisk programs for FAT32 partitions. Changed the
unused paritions to FAT16, then tried them with Linux native,
but no go with that either.
Any help is appreciated!
Brian Wildasinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
notes: Asus p2b 440bx PII350, Adaptec SCSI Card 2940U2W;
Win98 & Redhat dual booting with Win98 requiring first priority
in LILO to avoid hanging the MBR. Basically I;'ve got a 4Gig
drive with equal parititions for each OS.
Here's some of the /var/log/messages:
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using
exception 16 error reporting.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.0.36
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT
1998
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial
options enabled
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks
of 4096K size
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0
function 33
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, 9671MB w/512kB Cache,
CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdb: VerH, ATAPI CDROM drive
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:253, ATAPI CDROM
drive
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : detected total.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: hda1
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
adapter> found at PCI 12/0
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255
SCBs
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 407
instructions downloaded
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.2/3.2.4
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
adapter>
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D
Rev: DC1B
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel
0, id 1, lun 0
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 80.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 8925000 [4357 MB] [4.4 GB]
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9
>
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
<end of blah blah blah>
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From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX on 680x0 parallel computer system
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:06:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
<79u90q$5du$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Norm Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I'm contemplating buying a (used) parallel computer which consists of a
'30
> : main CPU and several '40 slaves. This isn't quite a symmetric
> : multi-processor, but I certainly could use the '30 as, say, a disk and
> : general I/O server slaved to the others. Does anyone have any thoughts
on
> : the feasubility of this project/madness?
>
> Strongly depends on the hardware. You description of the system
> is not enough to determine the feasability.
>
> How much memory does the main CPU have? ... the Slaves?
> How are Main and Slaves couppled (near,far)?
> What Contoller is used for the disk-storage?
> Ethernet, Serial, Parallel, Misc ... ?
>
> Surely, Linux will not run out of the box!
> But if you have enough documentation for the machine,
> and time to spend on it, then it should be possible
> to make it run.
>
> I assume it is a machine for VME-Bus?!
Yes, it is VME. There are 6 '040s. If I win the auction, I'll know more
in a few days. I'll post an update when I get the beast and see how much
additional hardware is on the boards (although my wife is still talking
about using it for a coffee table)
Norm
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does anyone know of a VGA overlay board with NTSC compatible output?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:15:07 GMT
We're currently using a TrueVision Targa+ board under (AMX, a Real Time
Operating System) which runs over DOS. We want to transition to
(real-time) linux and have three choices:
1) If it works, run the MS-DOS device driver in DOSEMU to initialize the
board,
or 2) Disassemble and write a comparable LINUX driver to initialize the
board
and in either cases 1 or 2 to use the library for which we have complete
source code that is independent of the driver linked with the program,
or 3) replace it with more modern hardware.
It's used with an NTSC input to create a VGA overlay which is then output
via RGB in NTSC to a "simple" TV monitor. We could get a much more complex
external video combiner, but that's also a lot more expensive than even the
labor to disassemble the DOS-driver would cost.
This video stream is not used as the main display of the computer which
also has a separate VGA for user interaction.
What's available that we could use that has LINUX-compatible drivers?
Norm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Errol Lanier)
Subject: FS: DEC Alpha System
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:59:25 GMT
My Carrera Cobra 533 Mhz Alpha system is up for sale.
DEC 21164A 533Mhz Alpha CPU on DEC PCI64LX motherboard, 2MB L2 Cache.
CPU can be upgraded to a 667 Mhz CPU. Balance of two year factory
warranty.
64 MB Memory expandable to 1 GB
1GB Connor SCSI HD
1GB Seagate SCSI HD
Sony 4 Speed SCSI CD-ROM
Colorado 2GB Tape Drive
3.5" Floppy
NEC SCSI-2 PCI Controller Card
ATI Mach 64 w/2MB
SMC Ether Power PCI Ethernet Card 10MBS
3 Button Logitech Mouse
101 Keyboard
Windows NT 4.0 SP3
Asking $2,000 or best reasonable offer.
Please reply via e-mail.
Errol Lanier
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.magpage.com/~dayo/ditto.html
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