Linux-Hardware Digest #490, Volume #9 Tue, 23 Feb 99 10:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: 386/486 Motherboard Schematics (Pat Crean)
SoundBlaster 16 SCSI 2 card (Jim Dovey)
What generic SCSI II card for 2.0.9 and DAT ? (Andy Heath)
Re: Linux requires DOS ("D.S.Hunnisett")
Re: Windows & Linux File Transfer ? (John Thompson)
Iomega ditto easy 800 (Tobias Elfert)
ALI V chipset and hdparm question (Morten Henckel)
Thinkpad 760 and Linux (Erik FAURE)
Video capture with ASUS cards (Gabor Csuri)
HELP with Dell dimension series (June Seek Choi)
Re: Driver for Trident 975 Video chip/Board (Juani)
Re: When FSCK can't fix it... HELP! (David J Whalen-Robinson)
problem with digital 21143 nic ("herbert koller")
Using a tape drive as a disk drive ? ("Mark Smith")
Using a tape drive as a hard drive ? ("Mark Smith")
Re: AGP Graphics card? (Jason Clifford)
Help! Over 8.4G disk! ("Itchie Whitemore")
Why am I unable to run X in 800x600 or higher res? (Linux Newbie) ("Jorge Padron")
Re: Help dial on KDE ! (Bill Van Dyk)
ProAudio Studio (pas2.o) sound card and Redhat 5.2 ?? ("Horton, Stephen
(EXCHANGE:RICH4:F224)")
Re: Problems with DPT PM2044UW (John Burton)
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring (clh01)
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From: Pat Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 386/486 Motherboard Schematics
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:25:02 -0500
Probably a bit smaller than you're looking for (and a bit pricey, as well), but
you might check http://wearables.stanford.edu and the links to manufacturers
thereon....
Pat
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Christopher Burnside wrote: >O.k. Thanks for
some help. Would you happen to know of a good chipset to work >with. I may be
on a super small budget, but I would like to get the best >performace for the
buck. Thanks >
>Chris Burnside
>
>
>
>Martin Harriss wrote:
>
>> Try contacting one of the companies that make the support chipsets. They
>> ususally have designs (based on their chipsets, of course,) for motherboards.
>> But these are only paper designs, and may need some tweaking to make work.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Martin
>>
>> Christopher Burnside ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : I'm looking for schematics for 386/486. we are running linux and it is
>> : networked. The problem is we have a severe size constraint and we must
>> : make a smaller board. The only thing is we don't want to get into a lot
>> : of development time trying to come up with a new computer. we just want
>> : to rearrage an exisiting design that we know already works. It can have
>> : isa or pci. Built-in sound/video or networking is o.k. A built-in
>> : network card would be awsome, but not a nessecity. Thanks
>>
>> : Chris Burnside
>> : Purdue University
>> : Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
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From: Jim Dovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 SCSI 2 card
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:15:36 +0000
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How do,
I've just hear that I can get some 17Gb SCSI cards for a song, and I'd
like to press my SoundBlaster 16's SCSI interface into action, but I'm
not sure how to go about it. I know about the kernel options et al, but
when I tried setting it up in the RedHat install procedure, it wasn't
recognised. OK, I admit there weren't any SCSI drives attached to it at
the time, but it finds the chipset, yeah? Or will the whole test come
out blank without a drive attached? Here's what I have according to the
Adaptec EZ-SCSI manual that came with the card (it was part of a
second-hand computer, you see). I quote from the manual:
AHA-1510/1520/1522 -- Non-Bus Master host adapters for PCs qith an AT
(ISA) bus. Creative SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 also resides in this
category.
AIC-6260/6360 -- SCSI protocol chips. Creative SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2
uses the AIC-6360 controller chip.
...there are others, but these are the only ones to mention SoundBlaster
cards, so I presume these are the ones. The kernel (and the RedHat
config) include options for the Adaptec 152x cards, which are the ones
I've chosen before and which have returned an answer of "you do't have
one of them in your system"...
I'm rather looking forward to getting a nice 17Gb disk, so I'd love it
if someone could tell me if I'm going to get any joy out of this, or
whether I'm going to have to get a standalone SCSI card for Linux to
recognise it.
Thanks in advance,
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Heath)
Subject: What generic SCSI II card for 2.0.9 and DAT ?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:08:38 GMT
Help - What generic SCSI II card for 2.0.9 and DAT
I need to put a SCSI card (only need SCSI II) in a machine
running 2.0.9 ELF (pre glibc) to drive a DAT drive. Soon I shall
be putting Redat 5.2 on there but not yet.
When I ask our technicians to order a card they can only
come up with the latest whizz-bang do everything 90mph
ultra-wide SCSI III device which isn't quite in the hardware list
(at least for 2.0.9) for example "Adaptec 2940UWOF Ultra Wide Open
Firmware SCSI Card Kit" because that's what people want to sell me.
What I want is something generic that works
(PCI slot or ISA - I don't care as lonmg as its fast enough
for the DAT).
What card should I tell them to get that you can still get easily
and will work with 2.0.9 PCI bus machine and a DAT ?
(It has to work *before* I put rh5.2 on).
Will the 2940UWOF work with kernel 2.0.9 (re-compiled of course) ?
Please COPY replies to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
as I don't want to miss them
Thanks
Andy
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Andy Heath, Senior Lecturer [EMAIL PROTECTED] o
Sheffield Hallam University. Tel: +44 114 2534904 /\
Sheffield, England Fax: +44 114 2533161 () ()
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From: "D.S.Hunnisett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux requires DOS
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:01:15 +0000
nah all you need to do is fire up fdisk and set the bootable flag on your
linux primary partition then install lilo there
inventor wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan E. Snow) 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.
>
> BOB.
>
> >I am trying to get a hard disk to boot that has never booted an OS
> >before. LILO is no use, even though it writes an MBR -- apparently,
> >it requires the presence of a DOS MBR first in order to work
> >correctly! No matter what I do with linux all I get is "PRESS ANY KEY
> >TO REBOOT" when trying to boot the new disk.
>
> >Can anybody verify this?
>
> >My last runin with this problem was solved only by trashing a complete
> >linux install, deleting all partitions, run DOS FDISK /MBR
> >repartition and reinstall. Not exactly how things are supposed to
> >work! especially the need to use a DOS utility to install linux is
> >annoying.
>
> >Can anybody think of a more elegant solution?
>
> >Please respond by email, I will post a summary.
>
> >TIA
>
> >jon.
>
> >
> >------------------
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows & Linux File Transfer ?
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:40:52 -0600
Nathan Lynch wrote:
>
> Duncan Mercer wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes just mount you windows partitions to linux
> >
> > eg mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
>
> Hey, this was a big help to me. I've been trying to transfer a file
> from my Win95 machine to my Linux box using a floppy, and mounting the
> floppy with the msdos filesystem type wasn't working. (I was trying
> this because vfat isn't listed as a Linux filesystem type in Running
> Linux 2ed.) Using the vfat type to mount the floppy solved the problem.
>
> However, mkfs doesn't accept vfat as a filesystem type, as in:
>
> mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0 1440
> mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory
>
> So I used mkfs with the msdos type, then mounted the disk using the vfat
> type. It works fine. I'm wondering why it is that I can make an msdos
> filesystem on the floppy device and then mount it as vfat, though. Any
> input is welcome.
Yes. As others have pointed out, vfat on FAT16 is just a
cobble-job that uses extra directory entries to store the
long filenames. The difference is not in the file system
itself but in knowing how to use the weird combination of
attributes vfat uses to mark the long names on FAT16.
That's all the "vfat" switch does on a FAT16 filesystem.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Tobias Elfert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Iomega ditto easy 800
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:29:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo allerseits,
wie kann ich meinen Iomega Ditto Easy 800-Streamer, der an den
Parallelport angeschlossen wird, unter Linux (Suse 6.0) ansprechen?
FTaper ist ja leider nur f�r den Anschlu� an den Floppy-Port gedacht.
:-(
MFG Tobias
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und Stroemungsmaschinen)
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Diese Nachricht wurde ohne Zuhilfenahme von Microsoft-Produkten erstellt!
Wer einen Rechtschreibfehler gefunden hat, darf ihn behalten !
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From: Morten Henckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALI V chipset and hdparm question
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:45:33 +0000
Hi
Im the "lucky" owner of a ALI V chipset based motherboard (ASUS P-5A)
I have been experimenting with hdparm and can not get DMA mode 2 to work
apperently ?
Anyhow do I need special software for this (Red Hat 5.2 Off the shelf
now) or are there any special tweaks in relation to hdparm and ALI V
chipsets/IDE controllers ?
Thanks in advance and I think its a pitty if WIN 98 is faster than
LINUX so any ideas appriciated.
Best regards
Morten Henckel
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From: Erik FAURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Thinkpad 760 and Linux
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:53:16 +0100
Hello,
I want to install on my Thinkpad 760 Linux.
Which distribution can I use ?
I have already RedHat 5.1, but ...
Thanks. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gabor Csuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video capture with ASUS cards
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:25:49 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Has Anybody some code or code level information
for Video Capturing with ASUS V3000/TV or
ASUS V3400TNT/TV ?
Thank You, Gabor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (June Seek Choi)
Subject: HELP with Dell dimension series
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: 23 Feb 1999 06:02:18 -0500
Hi-
I am in the process of buying a Dell dimension series PII's.
My concern is if their video card would run x smoothly. They are listing
video cards called:
ATI xpert98D 8M 3d AGP
STB nVidia ZXV 8M or TNT 16M AGP
They are NOT listed in linux hardware list. Would any one of these work?
Any input will be appreciated.
June
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juani)
Subject: Re: Driver for Trident 975 Video chip/Board
Date: 23 Feb 1999 09:57:15 GMT
You have to install more packages in order to make X work; that library
needed is in xlib-3.3.rpm (or something like that); you also need xbin, xcfg,
xfonts, xsetup and xvga16 (this one even if you plan to install the svga server,
because it's used by the configuration program XF86Setup).
Good luck with the trident; it probably won't run with the svga server;
if you can update to Xfree 3.3.3.1.
--
Juan Ignacio Roman Sanchez
E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David J Whalen-Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: When FSCK can't fix it... HELP!
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 21:33:48 -0500
> Drive light...any harddisk with a acer cd-rom as a slave (for me) and
> the light stays on. all the time until I try to mount a cd when there
> isn't one. not a big deal just an anoyance.
>
I'm not sure if I get 2 messages, but the machine has no monitor, and
it is possible that a slowdown in shutdown allows me to shut it down to
early.
One the problem occured though I had the other odd problem, which
was that every time I fixed the disk with FSCK it worked, but after
reboot, it was like the thing was never fixed.
I did this again and again, until FSCK couldn't even fix the problem
I'll check for a second shutdown message in the future, but
for now I just have to get the thing to run again!
Thanks for the advice.
Anymore suggestions out there?
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From: "herbert koller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with digital 21143 nic
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:19:42 +0100
hi
have a problem with my network card with 21143 digital chip
have someone an alternative
tulip 21x4x is not function
please help me
thanx
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From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using a tape drive as a disk drive ?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:51:18 -0000
Hello,
Just a quick question, their are a few programs out in the Windowz market
that will let you use your tape drive as a disk drive (it gets it own drive
letter and you can drag-drop files to and from it), is there anything
similiar under Linux ?
Regards
Mark Smith
Storage Direct Ltd.
Http://www.storagedirect.com
Http://www.avdev.co.uk
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From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Using a tape drive as a hard drive ?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:54:58 -0000
Hello,
Just a quick question, in the Windowz world there are a few programs that
will allow you to use your tape drive as though it was a hard drive (it gets
a drive letter that you can drag-n-drop files to and from), is there such a
program under Linux that does a similar job ?
Thanks in advance
Mark Smith
Storage Direct Ltd.
Http://www.storagedirect.com
Http://www.avdev.co.uk
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: AGP Graphics card?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:35:31 +0000
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, David McKinney wrote:
> I cant get X to load with my SiS6326 agp card.Any ideas on drivers or?
> Other than that no problems with Redhat 5.2 on m590 motherboard with amd
> K6- 350 overclocked to 400. Any help with this video,please.
The SiS6326 chipset is support only in XFree86 3.3.3 and newer (and the
card is not very well supported yet either). Red Hat ships with XFree86
3.3.2 so you will need to obtain the RPMS for XFree86 3.3.3 which area
available for download from ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/RPMS/ or
from a suitable Mirror site.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: "Itchie Whitemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Over 8.4G disk!
Date: 23 Feb 1999 22:29:48 +0900
I got 10G hard disk in my computer.
But Linux (Slackware 3.1, kernel 2.0.32) only find the 8.4G.
Anybody knows how to do that?
Please Help!
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From: "Jorge Padron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Why am I unable to run X in 800x600 or higher res? (Linux Newbie)
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:39:49 -0500
My "Nanao SF-15" monitor works great at 1024x768 or 800x600 under Windows
95, 98 and NT 4. However, when I run RH Linux 5.2 X, I only seem to be able
to get 640x480 which is just horrible on X or any GUI. BTW, My monitor is
not included in the Xconfigurator list so I'm currently using the Generic
MultiSync setting. When I switch to 800x600 or 1024x768, X freezes so I
have to kill it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
My video card is a (supported) #9 GXE-64 PCI with 2MB memory, not a great
card but it does a very good job under Windows 98, so I suspect it could
work as well under Linux/X if I just get the damm X configuration right.
I guess my question is whether the fact that I can only run 640x480 is
because I have the wrong video card settings or is it because of I'm using
the Generic MultiSync monitor setting instead of the "custom" setting?
Thank you in advance,
Jorge Padron
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:44:48 -0500
From: Bill Van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
hk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Help dial on KDE !
tc wrote:
> Hi!
> Remove "lock" in the file "options" in /etc/ppp/ (or thereabouts).
> Worked for me.
>
> bye
> Thorsten
>
> Kevin Chu wrote:
> >
> > i am using SuSE 6.0
> > and i want to dial to ISP by KDE
> >
> > after i dial to isp , it show a error message
> > "The pppd daemon died unexpextedly"
> > I am using IMS 56K (USR x2)
> > i also want to know how to dial to isp on command mode (tty1)
> > Thank you very very much ^_^
I had the exact same error message. My solution was to enable the PAP
authentication. Has worked like a charm, since then.
The exciting details are at:
http://www.sentex.net/~bvandyk/linux/linux06.htm
if you're interested.
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From: "Horton, Stephen (EXCHANGE:RICH4:F224)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ProAudio Studio (pas2.o) sound card and Redhat 5.2 ??
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:47:35 -0600
Does anyone have experience with this?
I recently upgraded from Redhat 5.1 to 5.2 to get the kernel support for
my
ProAudio Studio sound card. However when I run sndconfig, I get the
following.
I also get this message at bootup. Any ideas?
pas2.o init_module: device or resource busy
sound: device or resource busy
thanks,
stephen
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with DPT PM2044UW
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:38:40 GMT
Szymon Juraszczyk wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I've happened to configure a box with DPT PM2044UW PCI SCSI controller.
> There are theorethically two suitable drivers in 2.0 kernel: EATA-DMA and
> EATA ISA/EISA/PCI. Using EATA-DMA driver I've experienced unexpected machine
> reboots, first after two weeks of continuous work, the next ones right after
> the first one. Now I'm trying the other driver. The problem is the machine
> MUST be stable. So there comes my question: is anyone using the above
> controller and if so, which driver is he/she using and with what results ?
Yes, I am using the above controller and yes, I've tried both drivers,
and yes I've had problems with the system locking up under load. I had
the best luck with the EATA ISA/EISA/PCI driver, althought the only way
I was able to get the system rock stable was to reduce the SCSI XFER
rate from 20mhz to 10mhz (in the DPT setup utility).
John
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From: clh01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:41:42 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting
Malcolm Weir wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 1999 11:51:38 -0600, Andy Glew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> caused to
> appear as if it was written:
>
> >> In general, my experience is that drives tend to stick the ECC at the end of
> >> the sector, since it is mainly used for detection, rather than correction.
> >
> >This is pretty much the same as all of the ECC codes I am familiar
> >with from memories and busses: the data bits are in one place, and
> >the ECC bits are at the end.
> >
> >However, you said something different: you said that an error in
> >the data bits could be recovered from, but an error in the ECC bits could
> >not be detected or recovered from. *That* is quite surprising - it means
> >that the ECC bits are not themselves checked or corrected. My suspicion
> >is that you are wrong here. but I am willing to be corrected.
>
> I don't *think* I said that -- although there is a grain of truth to the
> detection part.
>
> I was hypothesizing a situation where an error was located such that it
> would cause an unrecoverable loss of data sufficiently close to the end of
> the user data that a subsequent sector was affected.
>
> However, note Ralf-Peter's post suggests that contemporary disks use largely
> separate detection and correction codes: a CRC to spot problems, and ECC to
> fix 'em. I can see that this might make sense, since that buys one the
> additional bit times used by the ECC to manipulate the data block (release
> it for transfer, set up for the next one, etc.) In the event of a CRC
> mismatch, you can pretty much take as long as you like to recover the data,
> so the cost of a rotation is fairly low...
>
> This implies that there may be a defect in the space used for the ECC code
> which won't, in fact, be detected *unless* there is also a problem in the
> data area. This seems a reasonable compromise, although perhaps not as nice
> from a SMART standpoint as one might like.
>
> Malc.
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