Linux-Hardware Digest #479, Volume #9 Sun, 21 Feb 99 20:13:28 EST
Contents:
Re: Old ISA ethernet card - Recomendations? (corgard)
P2B-DS: Severe Linux system time problems? (Andrew Leahy)
Re: EPSON Stylus Color 740 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP Deskjet 692c ("LucasNM")
Re: Help please ! (Peter Eddy)
Re: Unable to mount CD(SB32/CD820E)-Help! (Mark Gilmore)
Re: Acer canner (Geoffrey Gibbons)
Sound Card Problem (Pavel Greenfield)
Re: Dual CPU's ("Tim (TJ) Snider")
Re: Partitioning crashed HD? (Hans Kingma)
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG ("Anthony W. Youngman")
Re: CD-ROM Permission denied.. (David M)
Re: More than 8 LUN-selectable CD-ROM drives? (Mark Tumbrel)
Sony PRD-150 CD-ROM on PCMIA card (BDUNLOP)
HP CD-Writer+xcdroast (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FBl?= Rauko)
Re: how do I change resolution? (Andri Saar)
Re: is 2.2.1 kernel SMP-compatible? (Eric Lee Green)
Re: FS: 7 Sun 3/50 and 3/60's (Hello Kittyhawk)
sndconfig: "error opening /dev/audio", (SB32 + RH5.2) (Tod Liebeck)
Zip Drive Parallel Port Printing (Richard W. Edwards)
configuration registers (Rajesh Raju)
Does Linux support Ditto 2G parallel tape drives? (Ken Arromdee)
USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard (Shane Brewer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (corgard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Old ISA ethernet card - Recomendations?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:44:17 GMT
Remember with an ISA bus, you are at best going to get speeds of 25 to
33 MHz. Therefore, buying a 100 Mbit/sec (=100 MHz) card will simply
be overkill on an ISA bus.
I know personally of no 100 Mbit/sec ISA ethernet cards, but I
certainly am not the last word on the subject. Linux supports NE2000
clone cards very well. As far asperformance goes, unless you're going
to do IP mulicasting of MPEG video over your home network, a 10
Mbit/sec network should do fine until you upgrade all computers to PCI
bus.
I have had good success with www.egghead.com (the surplus direct
section) I have purchased well over 20 ISA ethernet cards (for Linux
machines) at prices ranging from 5.99 to 7.99 per card. I have also
noticed on the site that if you miss a good deal, simply wait 2-3
weeks, and the same product will reappear.
Hope that helps.
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:05:16 -0500, "Arcady Genkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>Can you guys recomend what used ISA networking card should I buy?
>
>I am going to network 2 computers. The other one already is a PCI
>full-duplex 100Base-TX/10Base-T with Reltek 8139 chip (ne2000 for PCI).
>Should it influence my decision as to what to buy? I have heard that ne2000
>clones are poor performers.
>
>What transmission speeds do you suppose I will be able to get out of it? I
>know 100Base is capable of 200 Mbps in full duplex mode. Any ISA cards match
>that?
>
>Also, how safe is it to buy from online auctions, like Ebay? There seems to
>be tons of old hardware for sale there...
>
>Thanx a lot for any input!
>
>Arcady
>
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From: Andrew Leahy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: P2B-DS: Severe Linux system time problems?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:12:06 GMT
Hello,
We recently purchased a P2B-DS with dual Pentium II 400Mhz chips. The
problem we are having is that the system clock under Linux is nowhere
near accurate--it can be off by as much as several minutes per hour.
The CMOS clock is not affected.
The problem occurs with the default 2.0.36 kernel distributed with
Redhat 5.2 and all of the Linux 2.2 kernels we have tried (using both
single and dual processors and making sure that rtc support is compiled
in). Using adjtimex to adjust the number of ticks makes things a little
better, although "adjtimex -compare" cannot give me a fixed frequency
offset to adjust by. (Is this a sign of trouble?)
Even NTP cannot remain syncronised, and will lose a couple of seconds
over a six minute period. A heavy load exacerbates the problem
considerably (to the extent that xntpd seems to give up trying if the
system is subjected to a heavy load for an extended period).
We have an identically-configured Pentium system which has (relatively
speaking) no problem keeping system time, so I'm beginning to suspect a
hardware problem. Has anybody else encountered such a problem before, or
does anybody have any advice about how to debug this?
Thanks for any information/suggestions.
Andrew Leahy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: EPSON Stylus Color 740
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:49:05 GMT
OK. I flew to SF and back this week, so there was LOTS of time
on the plane, besides for sleeping. I managed to reverse
engineer the weaving on the ESC 600 and 800 *.upp files, and
apply them to a 48-jet/color printer like the 740. I need to
work on the color correction more, since the common values
used in the 600 and 800 are washed out on the 740. I suppose
I should merge the 500 tables in there, since that seems to be
what was used on the doctored-up 740 .ppp (non-weave) I found
on the net.
I have the weaving partly done for 720*1440, but need to check
my work, and then figure out the WeaveInitial parameters. That's
the worst part, IMHO.
Anyway, here's what you'd probably really like to know:
360*360
-dupWeaveYPasses=3
-dupOutputPins=48
-dupWeaveYFeeds="{47 50 47}"
-dupWeaveInitialYFeeds="{1 1 46}"
-dupWeaveInitialPins="{ 16 48 32}"
720*720
-dupWeaveYPasses=6
-dupOutputPins=48
-dupWeaveYFeeds="{47 47 47 53 47 47}"
-dupWeaveInitialYFeeds="{1 1 1 1 1 43}"
-dupWeaveInitialPins="{ 8 48 40 32 23 15}"
I can't say too much about 720*1440 yet, other than that I
think I want to use 46 output pins, and step 23 units between
passes.
Dale Pontius
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> The Epson Stylus Color 740 will work using
> stc500p.upp (320x320) and stc500ph.upp (720x720).
> under the uniprint driver. However this driver
> does not use weaving. I tried a quick guess based on
> stc600p.upp and stc800p.upp but only managed to
> produce the usual dump of many pages ( i.e. printing
> a data file as text). Hopefully someone will figure
> out the weaving....
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From: "LucasNM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Deskjet 692c
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:42:06 -0300
Reply-To: "LucasNM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I wasn't found how to install it in on-line documents.
Help me!
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From: Peter Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help please !
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:03:10 -0500
Have you tried XF86Setup? You need your monitor's horizontal and
vertical refresh rates and some basic info about your video card.
Assuming that your card's supported, that is.
Peter
John van der Zanden wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get my diamond speedstar a70 working for xwindows.
> I can start Xwindows, but not in 800x600. The icons are Huge !! Help me
> please
>
> John
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From: Mark Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unable to mount CD(SB32/CD820E)-Help!
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:50:22 -0500
Check to see that you have CDROM support compiled into your kernel. The
SB CDROM may not be a standard a standard ATAPI/IDE device. . . Read
the Kernel HOWTO if you never compiled a kernel before.
5texasgs wrote:
> Config:
> RH5.1; Kernal 2.0.34; SoundBlaster CD820E piggybacked(slave)
> with HD(master) on same ide port; 486/33 Intel.
>
> Install:
> During INSTALL, autoprobe fails to identify my CD,
> so I first boot DOS6 (with drivers) and then
> successfully install RH5.1 from CD.
>
> Problem:
> mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
> gives "/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device".
> In fact, I can't even open CD player to insert
> a CD (works fine if boot from DOS).
>
> Other vital stats:
> /proc/devices includes...
> Block Devices
> 1 ramdisk
> 2 fd
> 3 ide0
> 9 md
> /proc/filesystems...
> ext2
> msdos
> nodev proc
> /etc/fstab includes...
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
>
> ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
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From: Geoffrey Gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Acer canner
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:46:08 -0800
Rick Knight wrote:
> Has anyone been able to get the Acer image scanners to work under
> Linux? I've just finnished dumping Win NT in favor of Linux (RH 5.2)
> and the only device I have that I can't use is my scanner. According
> to the HOWTO, I have the only unsupported flatbed scanner available
> (my luck).
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Knight([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Have you had a look at the SANE homepage: www.mostang.com/sane
It likely contains more up to date info than the HOWTO. The scanner that
I am
using presently (UMAX 1200S) won't work, according to the HOWTO.
SANE rpm's are available in the contrib directory of RH mirror sites
that have a
contrib directory.
Good luck...
Geoff
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From: Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.seup
Subject: Sound Card Problem
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:22:55 -0500
Hi,
I think I configured my sound card (SB16) correctly. It works under
windows. I've compiled (2.0.36) in the support for my card and for
/dev/audio and /dev/dsp. Here's an excerpt from dmesg:
////
Sound initialization started
<Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
<Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5
<Yamaha OPL3 FM> at 0x388
Sound initialization complete
////
Looks OK, doesn't it?
However:
1. There is no /dev/audio in /dev
2. cat file.au > /dev/dsp is 10% content 90% annoying distortion
3. Playing CD's produces no sound at all.
What else can I try?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Pavel
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PS: A SCSI question to follow....
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From: "Tim (TJ) Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual CPU's
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:18:56 -0800
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From: Hans Kingma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning crashed HD?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:54:14 +0100
I guesss it must have been a coincidence than. Thanks for your time anyway. Let's
put the harddisk in intensive care and go and fight with Quantum....
hans
Robert Schiele wrote:
> That's correct, there is such a signature, but the absence of that
> signature does not influence the bios in detecting the disk, it only
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From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.xdsl
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:54:54 +0000
Reply-To: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <7acjnn$avp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Penfold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>
>
>> >That's flat-out ridiculous. How can MacOS crash anything? What "some
>> >systems"? It's amazing how these people always think that working in a
>> >computer-related firm grants them carte blanche to talk out of their ass
>> >about things they don't even approach understanding.
>> >
>> >miguel
>> The OS has nothing to do with crashing anything remotely. Network
>> packets are network packets. That's the entire point of networking.
>
>Actually for a long while one of the other ISP's in town sent all of their
>MAC users to us for service. It seems that everytime this lady with a MAC
>logged on ... the term server she connected to would lock up and cause it to
>reset. I know the network admin over there so I beleive him.
>
It's fixed now, but maybe she tripped over an old bug in Radius. There
was a section of non-re-entrant code that permitted interrupts :-(
The US supplier couldn't understand why it was okay (mostly) in the
States, yet crashed bang on 6pm every weekday over here. The thing was
the statistical probability of a crash was fairly low with maybe 100
attempted logins a second, but 6pm is when UK phone charges drop from
3p/min(6c) to 1p/min(2c) and Demon would typically get a couple of
thousand attempted logins - the probability of a fatal interrupt thus
rising to nearly 1.
Maybe their Radius server had that sort of bug ...
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From: David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Permission denied..
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:12:18 -0600
A CDR is not writeable. try mounting the CDROM read only
http://man.he.net/man8/mount
check out the -r or the -o ro option
-DavidM
friend wrote:
> I've got a problem with my Mitsumi 4x CD-drive or better, with Linux.
> If want to use it (/dev/hdc) => linux writes: Permission denied. So I
> tried chmod 0777...
> However I cannot mount it. I've tried mount -t vfat /dev/hdc,
> or e.g. mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc ?
> Why does Linux still write Permission denied, although I'm root.
> I hope someone can help me. Thanks
> Peter
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From: Mark Tumbrel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: More than 8 LUN-selectable CD-ROM drives?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:45:05 -0800
Joachim Franek wrote:
>
> for i in 8 9 10 ; do mknod /dev/scd$i b 11 $i; done
>
> for i in 8 9 10; do mkdir /cdrom/$i; done
>
> Joachim
Thanks, this wasn't the problem though. I'd already made /dev/scd8 and
/dev/scd9 with the appropriate major/minor by hand. It turns out that
the problem seems to be related to the tool I was using to read digital
audio. cdparanoia claims it can't read from /dev/scd8 or /dev/scd9, but
they exist. cdda2wav doesn't have this problem. I can figure it out
from here, but thanks for the help.
-MT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BDUNLOP)
Subject: Sony PRD-150 CD-ROM on PCMIA card
Date: 20 Feb 1999 20:16:03 GMT
Can anybody tell me anything worth knowing about this beastie so I can use it
in a Linux system (Redhat 5.2) I'll soon be trying to install (hopefully
installed on a Syquest EZ230). The Readme.txt file tells me that the card
identification driver mis-identifies this as "ATA hard disk". This is cured by
recording sony.clb in the cardid.ini file.
Is this an ATA drive, SCSI or what?
I'm trying to install a small Linux system for my training. The company is
switching to a UNIX based system. THis seems to be the cheapest way to get a
little ahead.
Thanks for any help
Billy
Billy Dunlop
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=FBl?= Rauko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP CD-Writer+xcdroast
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:44:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a problem with my HP 8100 and xcdroast. When I try to burn a
CD xcdroast (in simulation mode) always gives me an error: "some drives
don't like fixation in dummy mode" when it's going to finish (simulation
writing). Does anyone knows what this means and how I can make my
CD-Writer work?
I'm using 2.2.0-pre6 kernel with SCSI emulation support and no
ATAPI-CDROM support, well I guess that the kernel is well configured. I
also have an Initio UW-SCSI controller (linux detects 2 scsi hosts).
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:12:01 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: how do I change resolution?
TomWolf wrote:
>
> I have just installed redhat 5.2 but I cant open xwindows because I got the
> wrong resolution. How do I change the resolution?
> Please email me the answere at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Wtih love and respect
> Tom
run Xconfigurator
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: is 2.2.1 kernel SMP-compatible?
Date: 20 Feb 1999 20:27:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:51:54 +0300, Alexander Bortok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>LILO ver.21
>Hardware: 2x Xeon 400Mhz 1Mb cache, embedded Symbios 53C810a SCSI-2
>(CD-ROM), 2x 53C896 SCSI-3(HD).
>
>Any suggestions?
One thing I did just notice -- the 53C896 needs an updated Symbios
driver to work correctly w/Linux. Sorry, I don't have that info here
at home (I rarely need to refer to the FTP site, since we ship the
updated drivers on the updates CD that comes with our computers).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hello Kittyhawk)
Subject: Re: FS: 7 Sun 3/50 and 3/60's
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:54:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
|They don't have a disk in the box, but they do have a scsi port like all
|suns - and network, 2 serial ports etc. The 3/50 has only 4megs soldered
|on board, not expandable which limits their usefullness, but the 3.60
|will take up to 24megs of 1 meg simms, still usable even now.
I have a 3/50 with a 3rd-party ram extension - this
added 8 MB & included a replacement socked PAL chip
|I used a diskless 3/50 as a print server for years - 2 serial ports to
|printers and booted headless and keyboardless across the network. U just
|rlogin to manage. The box is even thin enough to sit the printer on top.
|Am using a sparc 1 for the same job now...
They still function OK as mono X-terms but are
a bit slow & tend to run out of memory. NetBSD
would be a good choice for them if used as a server,
although the kernel should be reconfigured to throw
out stuff that consumes memory but isn't being used
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From: Tod Liebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sndconfig: "error opening /dev/audio", (SB32 + RH5.2)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:57:19 +0000
Recently I reformatted my machine to dedicate more space for Linux and
hit a strange problem installing the sound card. When I run sndconfig
it detects the sound card perfectly (A real SoundBlaster 32 PNP card),
but then when it goes to play the test sound it says error opening
(/dev/aduio). The card is on IRQ 5, with I/O 220, DMA 1 and 5, and I/O
330 for the MPU. These are the exact same paramters it uses in Windows
NT. If I reboot after I do this, the ethernet card will then fail to
initialize properly. The ethernet card is on IRQ 11. I have to readd
the network module to the kernel (I used RH's X-based kernelcfg utility
to do this) and net works fine again. But throughtout all this, the
sound card will never function.
The funny thing is, in the past two months I have reinstalled Linux
twice on this computer and this procedure worked PERFECTLY. It was as
easy as installing DOS.
I built my own kernel with sound, network, etc. all included... and
everything works fine... but I know the stock Red Hat modular setup
(should) work and I would _MUCH_ rather use it.
I have pulled sound and ethernet cards from other systems (an AWE 64
sound card and a Intel EtherExpress 10/100+ net card) and the identical
problem occurs.
System Specs
Red Hat 5.2 All Updates Applied
Kernel 2.0.36 (2.0.36-3 RPM)
Intel Pentium II
ASUS P2B Motherboard
Matrox Millennium Graphics Card (no IRQ)
SIIG PCI Ethernet Card (uses NE2000 Driver) IRQ 11
Creative Sound Blaster 32 PNP (ISA) (IRQ 5, I/O 220, 330, DMA 1,5)
STB BlackMagic 3D Voodoo2
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
--Tod Liebeck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard W. Edwards)
Subject: Zip Drive Parallel Port Printing
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:29:37 GMT
Ever since, I was able to get my Zip Drive mounted, (RedHat 5.2) Iam
unable to print anything. When I attempt to configure my printer
(BJC4200) Auto detect finds nothing. It is my understanding that the
Parallel Port Zip Drive can be shared with a printer if you have only
one Parallel Port. (Printer cable is attached to the back of the Zip
Drive) Printing can be done as long as the Zip Drive is not being
used. I tried configuring the printer with the Zip Drive mounted,
didn't work, then I tried configuring the printer with the drive
unmounted still didn't work. Both times I got a message saying that
I may have a hardware problem. Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated.
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From: Rajesh Raju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: configuration registers
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:22:06 -0600
HI,
I am writing a driver for one device. I need to find the number of
registers the device has. In solaris there is a command called
ddi_dev_nregs(..), I want an equivalent of this in linux. Can anyone help
me.
Raju
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Subject: Does Linux support Ditto 2G parallel tape drives?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 Feb 1999 19:25:30 -0500
I don't have Linux yet but am trying to find out some information first. I
need to know if Linux supports a 2G Ditto parallel port drive. Looking at the
ftape HOWTO and FAQ gave me some vague information about supporting 2G Ditto
drives and supporting parallel port tape drives and nothing with the two in
the same sentence.
The compatibility section on the ftape home page mentions that 4.00
"supports new hardware, the Colorado Trakker parallel port tape drives,
parallel port tape drives based on the Micro Solutions', Inc., BackPack
interface and the Iomega Ditto Max and Max Pro tape drives." That statement
is ambiguous (does "parallel port tape drives based on" modify "Ditto"?)
and doesn't mention the 2G anyway.
So can I use my drive?
Also, I currently have my printer and tape drive on the same port and only
use one at a time, plugging in whichever is necessary. (I don't bother with
the pass-through parallel port because I don't have enough electrical outlets
to plug in both the printer and tape drive at the same time anyway.) Will
Linux survive being booted up with different devices on the port without
having to reinstall drivers each time?
--
Ken Arromdee |They said it was *daft* to build a space
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |station in a swamp, but I showed them! It
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |sank into the swamp. So I built a second
http://www.inetnow.net/~arromdee|space station. That sank into the swamp too.
================================+My third space station sank into the swamp.
So I built a fourth one. That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the
swamp. But the fifth one... stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5
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From: Shane Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:22:19 +0000
Has anybody been able to get the USB version of the Microsoft
Natural keyboard to work with Red Hat Linux 5.1? I am contempleting
picking one despite my hesitation to fork over more money to M$.
Regardless, please let me know if this is at all possible.
Thanks
Shane
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