Linux-Hardware Digest #437, Volume #9 Mon, 15 Feb 99 07:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: Can't mount vfat (FAT32) partition under 2.2.1 (David Brown)
ls120 Floppy Drive IDE Help!! ("Giordani Fabio")
Re: Need NIC Recommendation for Stock RH5.1 ("Coleman Ammerman")
Re: Dual booting.. (Steve Limkemann)
Re: Lemarx ColorJet 1000 (Matthew C Weigel)
Re: HELP! /dev/lp? (Jeff Howard)
DVD (Thomas Huber)
Problems with bios translation on AIC 7895 HA (Remy de Ruysscher)
Ftape/Ditto problem (Jochen Winter)
Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc - Getting on my tits! ("Jim Orfanakos")
Performance problems with AIC7xxx (Sebastian Goettel)
Re: Linux and Acer travelmate 312/313T (Wolfram Saringer)
Re: remounting root device on boot (Dirk Nuyens)
Re: Ensoniq setup problem (Dirk Nuyens)
Re: SBLive! & Linux? ("Highway Hunter")
Re: Where to get cheap PC box for linux? (David Fox)
Re: How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker? (Gerd Roethig)
Re: Mounting a ZIP-Drive ("93")
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From: David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't mount vfat (FAT32) partition under 2.2.1
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:06:14 -0600
Ha!
I figured it out. Just in case anyone runs across this message and made a similar
error, here's
what it was:
When I compiled 2.2.1 I made a mistake in selecting the character set to be used in
interpreting
the filenames under fat/vfat. I selected the first option (Codepage 437(?)
US/Canada) in
menuconfig, rather than the ISO Latin 1 character set way down below.
So, the low-level processes all saw /dev/hda1 as a valid fat32 partition, but the
filenames were
all psuedo-corrupted by my use of an incorrect character set.
Woulda been nice if there had been some kind of error message there instead of a
console hang, but
hey... this is how I learn about all this stuff...
D
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From: "Giordani Fabio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ls120 Floppy Drive IDE Help!!
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:49:09 +0100
LS 120 Floppy Driver ATAPI interface (hdd?)(120 Mbytes & 1.44 Mb floppy).
I need mounting !
Help Please !
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From: "Coleman Ammerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need NIC Recommendation for Stock RH5.1
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:05:28 -0600
Well I got two of these NetGear FA310TX REV-D1 babies for my linux box....
and the nightmare began...
I couldn't even get one to function reliably -- let alone two!
I even used the provided drivers ... to no avail.
I was forced install two non-pnp isa ne2000 compatible cards -- no problem.
I even went out and bought two LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 PCI LAN Cards...
I put one in along side my ne2000 -- they worked!
I was feeling kind of lucky, so I ripped out the ne2000 and replaced it with
the other LinkSys.
Nada -- nothing, ever again... same symptoms as two NetGears -- one would
work 50% of the time..
and never both at the same time...
I'm not saying these are bad boards -- cuz I have three in my other WIN98
PCs...
Just the combination of these cards (maybe two), linux, and the provided
drivers really sucks!!!
oh -- I even tried the 0.90k tulip driver as well...
very frustrating,
(let me know if anyone else figures this out!)
-coleman
Warrior wrote in message ...
>In article <xMzx2.435$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "John Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From: "John Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Need NIC Recommendation for Stock RH5.1
>>
>> I installed dual NetGear 10/100 PCI cards in three machines under RedHat
5.1
>> with no problems. The cards are inexpensive ( ~$25.00 US) and supported
>> using the Digital Tulip drivers.
>> synthetic wrote in message <7a53cp$767$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>
>> I would like to solicit comments on the best NIC(pci) to install in a
>> stock RH5.1 box. I am trying to choose between Intel, 3Com, and SMC
(unless
>> someone knows of any better brand name cards). I would like to use 100m/b
>> pci cards to network 2 win98 boxes to a Linux server.
>I'll second this. I've NetGear FA310TX 10/100 pci and never had a single
problem with it. Comes with a linux
>driver, works `out of the box', fast and reliable.
>--
>Bye, Warrior.
>ICQ# 24496762
>Tagline for Sunday, February 14, 1999
>--- Free advice is worth what you pay for it
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From: Steve Limkemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual booting..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:06:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.setup Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Limkemann wrote:
>>
>> In comp.os.linux.setup Stephe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Well not sure what I'm doing wrong but maybe someone can explain.
> ---deleted some details on dual booting---
>> booting Windoze. See http://www.wwnet.com/~stevelin/booting.html for
>> the details. (Version 21 fixes the bugs covered on the page.)
> Steve, the above referenced URL returns "file not found" for both the
> file
> "booting.html" and for ~stevelin, though www.wwnet.com is reachable.
> Maybe the author moved?
Sorry 'bout that, a slip of the finger. I normally verify that the
address is correct, but somehow it slipped through. It should have
been http://www.wwnet.com/~stevelim/booting.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew C Weigel)
Subject: Re: Lemarx ColorJet 1000
Date: 15 Feb 1999 07:19:49 GMT
In article <7a8a0u$hk3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lexmark printers are Windoze only printers. They will not work under linux.
Not strictly true. They also work very nicely in OS/2.
While I realize this doesn't help you, it *does* seperate them from
winmodems which rely on the computer for a lot of stuff.
--
/-------------------------------------------------------------------------\
--Matthew OS/2 | Lignux Lab Consultant--
\\--Weigel Be | NeXT Programmer--//
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From: Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! /dev/lp?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:15:56 -0600
Mark Bratcher wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a printer on LPT1 (/dev/lp0) and no LPT2 or LPT3 ports on my
> hardware. Just LPT1.
>
> I have a printer on LPT1 which I know that Linux can't use because it's
> a Winprinter.
>
> The weird thing is that if I run printtool, it says that Linux has
> detected /dev/lp1 but not 0 or 2. Why does it see a /dev/lp1 and not a
> /dev/lp0? All of my I/O addrs, DMA, and IRQ values are normal default
> values.
>
> Oh yea, I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2 with 2.0.36 kernel.
>
> Thanks.
> Mark
A default out-of-the-box install of RH5.2 sets up the first par. port
(lpt1) as LP1. I don't know why they did it that way. After installing
the 2.2.1 kernel, my par. port was changed to lp0, as it should have
always been IMHO.
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From: Thomas Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:24:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody have a DVD Drive running with linux?
I'm wondering if I could use a Creative DVD-Encore kit with linux...
Thanks for replying.
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remy de Ruysscher)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Problems with bios translation on AIC 7895 HA
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:50:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have an Adaptec 7895 (Dual UW) onboard, when
I partition my hdd's (two IBM DDRS-34560W 4,3Gb SCSI)
disks I get all errors about overlapping partitions.
The disk geometry is 4343 cyclinders. I have partitioned
it using fdisk.
When I change the geometry to H=255, S=64, C=555 (as used
by the Buslogic HA) I don't get ANY errors!!!
Do I have to REPARTITION my entire HDD using the new
geometry? Is there an option in the Adaptec BIOS
to use this geometry?
Is there a way to use these settings as default in Adaptec BIOS?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jochen Winter)
Subject: Ftape/Ditto problem
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:56:41 +0100
Hy linux-specialists...
I�ve been trying since several days to get ftape with my IOMega Ditto 2GB
internal (connected to floppy-port) working.
But whenever I try to compile ftape (make) I get the following error:
fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_interrupt_wait�:
fdc_io.c:388: incompatible type in initialization
fdc.io.c:402: structure has no member named `timeout�
...
I tried different kernel-versions (2.0.36, 2.1.132, 2.2.1) and different
FTape-versions (3.04d, 4.02), but I get always the same problem...
What is it I don�t see? Am I just too blind, any special option in the
kernel ( I tried some) or can there be a hardware problem (allready at
compilation process)?
Please help
Jochen
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From: "Jim Orfanakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ATI 3D Rage IIc - Getting on my tits!
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 06:16:02 -0500
I have it working on my RedHat 5.1 using SVGA server. There is a slight
screen flutter on the right side when I move my mouse in that area.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7a7mmc$7mm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello!
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me? I've just got this nice new machine with
an
>ATI 3D Rage IIc graphics card (Mach64GT, Internal DAC Type) and can I get
it
>to run XFree under RedHat 5.2 (apollo)?
>
> Can I heck.
>
> Whatever options I try, I get a lovely screen which is fine
vertically-wise,
>but there are 4 repeated images horizontally.
>
> All I ask is for 1024x768 in 8bpp on my ADI Microscan 5P. My previous
card
>(Expercolor DSV) worked fine so I know that it isn't monitor settings that
are
>screwy, just the card ones.
>
> If anyone has sucessfully got one of these cards running then please
could
>you let me know because I'm dammed if I know how. If possible I'd
appreciate
>it if you could email me at:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the Z's)
>
>since I don't check these newgroups as often as I do my mail.
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Rich.
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:15:33 +0100
From: Sebastian Goettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Performance problems with AIC7xxx
Hi,
we've just set up a SuSE-Linux 6.0 system and discovered the following
in /var/log/boot.msg:
> <6>(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7896/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 12/1
> <6>(scsi0) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
> <6>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 407 instructions downloaded
> <6>(scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7896/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 12/0
> <6>(scsi1) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
> <6>(scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 407 instructions downloaded
> <4>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.5/3.2.4
> <4> <Adaptec AIC-7896/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
> <4>scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.5/3.2.4
> <4> <Adaptec AIC-7896/7 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
> <4>scsi : 2 hosts.
> <4> Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330 Rev: S65A
> <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <4>Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> <6>(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> <4> Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L708
> <4> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <6>Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> <6>(scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 5.7 Mbyte/sec, offset 32.
> <4> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS Rev: 1.03
> <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> <6>(scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 5.7 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> <4> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: N*32
> <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <4>Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> <4> Vendor: IBM Model: DGHS18Z Rev: 03B0
> <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> <4>Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> <6>(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 5.7 Mbyte/sec, offset 30.
> <4>scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI cdrom 3 SCSI disks total.
As you can see above, sda is negotiated at 20.0MB/s while sdc just gets
5.7MB/s. Though both are ULTRA-FAST (8bit) scsi devices.
Bios settings have been checked. We also tested unsuscessfully the
no_reset option. Any further suggestions?
Thank you,
Sebastian
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From: Wolfram Saringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Acer travelmate 312/313T
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:24:55 GMT
raoul signorile wrote:
> I'm looking for someone who has installed linux on Acer travelmate
> 312/313T subnotebook.
> I want to know if everything (video card, audio, cdrom and modem) works
> well under linux o.s.
> Is there any bug ?
>
> thanks raoul
I did install it via a DOS partition. Did not try to get the sound card
working, as I do not have any need for it.
The modem will be of some interest, the cdrom is the problem why I am
here: I cannot get it working. It just gives I/O errors when accessing the
disk (i.e. mounting it), although it seems to be recognized as an ATAPI
Disk. Same for the SuSE 6.0 boot disk: After loading the PCMCIA drivers,
it says, yes, there is a CDROM, no, I cannot mount it...
The video card works fine. Its a Neomagic chip that is supported by XFree
(at least the version included with SuSE 6.0.
Hope that helps. If there are any news regarding the CDROM, please let me
know. BTW: 32MB RAM are not enough.
Wolfram.
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--
Wolfram Saringer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSG Bernhardt, Saringer & Grundschober Net Consult
==============================================
Why should I crawl through cramped Windows
when I can run around freely in UNIX???
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From: Dirk Nuyens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: remounting root device on boot
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:39:44 +0100
Bill Simpson wrote:
> Every time I boot up I get the message:
> remounting root device with read-write enabled.
that's normal: your root disk is first mounted read-only and after a while
(when it's safe?) it is mounted read-write so you can work on it
>
>
> Then every once in a while on boot up I get a message to the effect that
> the max mount count is exceeded; machine sits there a while doing
> something (fixing something up?), then boot proceeds OK.
that's normal too: after 20 mounts (standard) your filesystem will be
checked, your filesystem will also be checked if it was not cleanly
unmounted (after a reboot without a graceful shutdown); several things are
checked (e.g. unexisting files, free space, etc.), for a large disk this
could take some time
>
>
> I wonder if something is wrong with my set-up, and how to fix.
nothing is wrong! you could skip the filesystem check for filesystems you
don't want checked but i wouldn't advise that (only for special purposes)
>
>
> (BTW, how do I see a listing of all those messages that scroll by when
> booting up? It's not in dmesg)
dmesg is indeed incomplete (dmesg prints the kernel ring buffer, not all
messages that scroll by are send to the kernel log /var/log/messages), but
you can use [shift]-[page up] and [shift]-[page down] to walk around in
your VC buffer
>
>
> Thanks very much for any help.
>
> Bill Simpson
--
Dirk Nuyens
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From: Dirk Nuyens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq setup problem
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:43:58 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am a Linux newbie and am having difficulty configuring my sound
> card. The machine is an old Gateway P5-133. The sound card is an OEM
> Ensoniq Soundscape 16bit ISA PnP. I don't know the exact
> model...maybe someone could tell me how to determine the model of the
> card.
>
> Anyway, I have installed RedHat 5.2. I ran sndconfig and it detects
> my sound card and sees all the correct interrupts, dma settings, etc.
> Everything looks fine. When it tries to play the sample sound,
> however, I get the following error.
>
> ISAPNP Error
> LD setting verify failed, this may not be a problem. Try adding
> (VERIFYLD N) to the top of your script.
> Error occurred executing request 'LD 3' on or around line 166 ---
> further action aborted.
the script is in /etc/pnp.conf (your pobably only have to uncomment that
line)
this is because of the bad pnp standard, this error is documented in the
man page of isapnp.conf(5)
>
>
> I don't really know how to interpret this. Any ideas/suggestions?
>
> K
do what is suggested and hopefully it works
--
Dirk Nuyens
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From: "Highway Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.soundcard.sblive,alt.os.linux.caldera,cybergate.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: SBLive! & Linux?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:32:46 +0100
Me Four :)
but is it no possible to use a other driver
Highway
Martin Adler wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Me Three!
>
>Martin Adler
>
>
>On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:48:00 -0500, "Kevin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Just wondering if anyone out there ever got a SBLive! sound card to work
>>with Linux. If so, could you tell me?
>>
>>
>>
>
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Where to get cheap PC box for linux?
Date: 15 Feb 1999 03:44:24 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sian) writes:
> Where can I find a cheap intel pentium box 90 or 100 speed range?
> Don't want to pay too much for said box because right now I wish to
> experiment with linux.
> Any good sources for this?
http://www.onsale.com/category/Desktop_Computers.htm#Section004
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerd Roethig)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:36:19 GMT
Hello,
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:33:06 +0100 Klaus Kocheisen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anthony Pioli schrieb:
>>
>> If a beep is all you want:
>>
>> print "\a";
>>
>> Anthony
>Looks like you didn't read the message of Tobias thoroughly. He wrote,
>that his script beeps happily if run at the console or a terminal but
>not within a cron job. The reason why it's not beeping is that cron is a
>daemon and thus, any job run by cron runs (like cron itself) without a
>controlling terminal. Therefore, any data written to stdout or stderr
>goes to nirvana.
So maybe it helps if output of the script is redirected to something
like /dev/console in the commandline invoked by crond?
I mean a line like
/where/your/script/is/testscript > /dev/console
or
/where/your/script/is/testscript 2> /dev/console
if you want to catch output to stderr.
Just a suggestion, but I am interested in the results, too :).
Cheers
Gerd
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From: "93" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting a ZIP-Drive
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:03:14 -0800
klemens.larisch wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hallo,
>I don't know what kind of device I have to use, if I will mount a
>parallelport
>ZIP if there is another SCSI-adapter present in the system. PPA is
>recognizing
>the ZIP:
>ppa: Version 1.42
>ppa: Probing port 03bc
>ppa: Probing port 0378
>ppa: SPP port present
>ppa: ECP with a 16 byte FIFO present
>ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present
>ppa: Passed Intel bug check.
>ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
>ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2
>ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2
>ppa: Probing port 0278
>scsi1 : Iomega parport ZIP drive
>scsi : 2 hosts.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.13
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Can anyone help me with the correct mount-command? I receive always
>mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device.
Type 'dmesg | more' for the sda number. It's sda2 on mine now and was sda4
on my previous machine. Assuming the zip is MS formatted, type 'mount -t
vfat /dev/sdax /mnt/zip' where x is the sda number and /mnt/zip has been
created as a directory.
Hope this helps, 93
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