Linux-Hardware Digest #492, Volume #9 Tue, 23 Feb 99 23:13:30 EST
Contents:
Re: Speed of CDROM in RH 5.2? (Markus Wandel)
Parallel port break-out box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AGP Graphics card? (David Buckley)
Problems with an emachine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please explain IRQs 2 and 9
Re: TV Tuners and Linux (Neil Moore)
Linux Question ("G�sli Gu�mundsson")
Re: Zip Drive Parallel Port Printing (John Thompson)
TV Out card for Linux (Greg Thorne)
Re: Problems with an emachine
Re: RH 5.2 Support for AGP? (Dan Nguyen)
Re: Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI problem (Todd Bordeaux)
Re: CDROM Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Q: SB AWE64 PCI PnP, Slackware 3.5 with Kernel 2.2.1 = {"suicide-10 (Jose Urena)
Banshee under X ("h3mp")
Re: Exabyte Mammoth and cheap media? (Todd Bordeaux)
Re: DVD (Gordon Vrdoljak)
Is there a FAQ concerning the Maxtor DiamondMax 17.2gb HD? (the mengsk files)
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring (Todd Bordeaux)
Re: PPP !!! ("Vincent")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Speed of CDROM in RH 5.2?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 15:53:53 GMT
In article <7arqgb$2v6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bill Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How does the support for an IDE CDROM in linux deal with the speed of the
>mechanism? Specifically, I have a pair of duplicately configured PCs, one
>running RedHat 5.1 and the other running Windows95. When ripping CDDA audio
>tracks, the Windows95 software is *considerably* faster. I'm using cdparanoia
>9.4 on the linux machine and AudioCatalyst on the 95 machine.
>
>What gives? How do I get linux to read faster (it's a 24x drive)?
If you read the various documentation files that come with cdparanoia,
cdda2wav, cdrecord etc. you will find that ripping audio data is not an
exact science. The more effort you put into it, the less risk of missing
or duplicating a sector somewhere.
On my machine, cdparanoia reads at abot 0.1x whereas cdda2wav reads at 3.5x
but on bad CDs cdparanoia gets it right and cdda2wav doesn't. I'm sure other
software running at other speeds could be found even under Linux, ever mind
Win95.
Note the 3.5x ripping is with a "40X" drive which illustrates what you will
read in the FAQ files -- that a drive's data performance has little relation
to its audio extraction performance.
Markus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Parallel port break-out box
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:48:41 GMT
Does anyone know of a device I can insert between my parallel port and my
Kodak Advantix Film Drive scanner that will allow me to see the commands
being sent to my scanner? It would have to support EPP, if that makes a
difference.
The software that came with the scanner only runs under Windows and the
manufacturer won't publish the technical details.
Thanks,
--AM
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From: David Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: AGP Graphics card?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:14:05 +0000
I currently have an SiS 6326 AGP card. It runs X ok, but not as well as
my old ViRGE dose. I want to upgrade, has anyone any suggestions on
what card to get? Unfortunately I have to run Windoze, for reasons that
have to many buts in for the moment. Any suggestions, I`d like to get a
Savage 3D, but there aren't any drivers yet. I'm going to be using it
for a lot of graphics so any suggestions should account for 8mb+ of
memory (4mb just don't cut it any more)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with an emachine
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:05:15 GMT
We've been experiencing intermittent machine hangs with an emachine
e-tower 333. We're running a completely stock 2.0.36 kernel (straight
from the Redhat 5.2 distribution). The e-tower has 32Mb of memory,
a Promise Ultra40 SCSI controller (NCR 58x SCSI chip) and a Netgear
310XT (?) (Tulip) ethernet NIC.
The machines hang vbery intermittently - sometimes they will run for
up to 6 days with no problems, and then just freeze. No keyboard interaction,
screen is dead etc. Other times the machine will freeze just as we are typing
on it. We've swapped machines a few times, but still have the same problems.
We were hoping to use these systems as inexpensive NFS servers for some large
IDE/SCSI-RAID disks we have acquired, but we'd need them to be much more
reliable than this to do that.
If anyone has any suggestions for how to diagnose this, or what to do, we'd
very much appreciate hearing it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Please explain IRQs 2 and 9
Date: 22 Feb 1999 17:14:12 GMT
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:26:24 GMT, Rodney M. Bates
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I installed some additional hardware and am very tight on IRQs.
>
>What is the story on IRQ 2 and 9? Can I assign a device to
>neither, both, only one? only a specific one?
>
>Rodney M. Bates
Well, AFAIK, You cannot use IRQ 2 _OR_ 9... IRQ 9 cascades IRQ 2 or
something like that.
- Mike
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From: Neil Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV Tuners and Linux
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:45:59 +0000
My Apologies...my news client screwed up and sent my internal mail address at
work...it should read [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many thanks
Neil Moore
Neil Moore wrote:
> I have a TV Tuner based on a brooktree chipset and was wondering how to
> configure this to work under linux and where to download viewing software.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Neil Moore
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From: "G�sli Gu�mundsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Question
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:15:12 -0000
I�m a windows 98 man who is trying to get out like stop smoking.
I tryed to install Linux but i don�t have any drivers for the screen card
that is Matrox MGA G-200 8Mb where can i get them and is there any other
user friendly setups for linux. When i tryed to install linux it fucked up
my computer. ?
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip Drive Parallel Port Printing
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 08:46:02 -0600
Richard W. Edwards wrote:
>
> 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.
You need to unload the ppa module (rmmod ppa) and then load
the lp module (insmod lp) to use the printer while the ZIP
drive is attached.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Thorne)
Subject: TV Out card for Linux
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:49:31 -0600
Does anyone know if the Trident 9750 w/TV out works with the latest
version of X? Does the TV out functionality of this card work? What
software do you need to do TV out? Also, if this card does not work, can
someone suggest a TV out card where the TV out will work under Linux?
I've read lots of articles in this group about TV tuners, but haven't yet
seen anything about TV out.
-G
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Problems with an emachine
Date: 22 Feb 1999 17:40:35 GMT
Heh... that's the first complaint I've ever heard about the
e-machines...
Well, first, I'd try compiling your own kernel, with just the features
you need.
If that still don't work, I'd trouble shoot the computer and figure
out what hardware is causing the problem. If your chip is over-
clocked, you should take it down, as well.
- Mike
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:05:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We've been experiencing intermittent machine hangs with an emachine
>e-tower 333. We're running a completely stock 2.0.36 kernel (straight
>from the Redhat 5.2 distribution). The e-tower has 32Mb of memory,
>a Promise Ultra40 SCSI controller (NCR 58x SCSI chip) and a Netgear
>310XT (?) (Tulip) ethernet NIC.
>
>The machines hang vbery intermittently - sometimes they will run for
>up to 6 days with no problems, and then just freeze. No keyboard interaction,
>screen is dead etc. Other times the machine will freeze just as we are typing
>on it. We've swapped machines a few times, but still have the same problems.
>We were hoping to use these systems as inexpensive NFS servers for some large
>IDE/SCSI-RAID disks we have acquired, but we'd need them to be much more
>reliable than this to do that.
>
>If anyone has any suggestions for how to diagnose this, or what to do, we'd
>very much appreciate hearing it.
>
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 Support for AGP?
Date: 24 Feb 1999 03:25:00 GMT
Brian McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Does linux support AGP?
AGP only has slight differences with PCI.
: In particular does it suppot 3D Blaster Banshee AGP by Creative Labs?
Currently there is no official drivers, but there are alpha drivers,
and also use the framebuffer driver. Creative Labs will also be
making drivers.
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 09:47:07 -0800
From: Todd Bordeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI problem
Scott Olipra wrote:
> Thank you for your help. I have a couple questions:
>
> When you say read the source, is that the kernel source? If so, what am I
> looking for? Should I be looking to resolve this issue by editing and
> re-compiling the kernel, issuing command-line options, or removing this from
> the kernel so that I can use a module to get it running?
>
> Thanks again!!
>
> -Scott
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter T. Breuer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 1999 1:14 PM
> To: Scott Olipra
> Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI problem
>
> In article <7aphac$ejq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> : ***This may help for the solution: When I type this command, modprobe
> : returns an error that states, "ERROR: DEVICE OR RESOURCE BUSY."
This also means that it is not found - I get this regularly when I boot my
laptop without
the Zip drive attached.
>
>
> : -Looked through all loaded modules with "lsmod" and all active processes
> : with "ps -ax". I see no reason Linux would say it's busy.
>
> look at dmesg and find out! Use the verbose=1 (or more) option with the
> module
> load.
>
> : -Examined boot messages. There's a line that says "SCSI: 0 host(s)
> detected
> : total". There are no errors surrounding this statement, so I'm assuming
Check the interrupt and I/O port assignments.
>
>
> Well, that strongly suggests that you have the driver loaded in the kernel,
> not loadable as a module! Because it's loaded and running.
>
> : -Issued "isapnp". The card is not seen by this command.
>
> Then it's not pnp. Good. Read the source to see what options to apply at the
> module load.
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDROM Problem
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:15:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Serge Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 as a dual boot with Windows98. Originally I
was
> > able to mount and umount my cdrom without any problems. Now when I try to
> > mount the cdrom I get 3-4 lines of "tray open or hardware not ready"
followed
> > by the following lines: isof-read-super: bread failed, dev16:00 iso_blknum
16
> > block32 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc I
tried
> > running fsck in single user mode, deleting and re-establishing the link
> > between cdrom and hdc in /dev, but neither if these steps fixed the
problem.
> > Any suggestions?
> >
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> what kind of command do you use to mount your CD-ROM drive?
I've used both mount /dev/cdrom and mount /mnt/cdrom.
>
>
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: SB AWE64 PCI PnP, Slackware 3.5 with Kernel 2.2.1 = {"suicide-10
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:03:17 -0500
Are you sure you have the AWE64 PCI not the new Creative AudioPCI?
They have different chips and use different Drivers
They are Both 16 bits sound with 64 instruments,
but I think that the AWE64 has dedicated memory banks for intruments,
In the other hand I know that the AudioPCI uses a file and system memory for
instruments
Anyway, As far as I can tell isapnp is of no use for PCI devices.
the Docs that you are reading are probably assuming that you have the ISA
version of the AWE card
Mark Tigwell wrote:
> I have tried everything to get this to work. I even tried downloading a
> commercial driver (yes, even desparate enough to pay ca$h). All of the
> references and docs I can find on the subject seem to contradict each
> other. So many people have these sound cards... surely there is a nice
> _simple_ HOWTO out there that doesn't send you spinning in every
> increasing circles from kernel docs -> isapnp -> awe driver ->isapnp ->
> kernel etc etc. If I had the experience, I'd do it myself - but my
> programming on Linux just ain't up to it.
>
> Does someone know how to make an SB AWE64 PnP work with kernel 2.2.1 and
> Slackware (which doesn't have that nice sndconfig thingo that Red Hat
> does - but is better in so many other ways) ? I get nothing, nada, zip -
> no matter what I do.
>
> I've tried:
>
> 1. Installing the awe driver, compiling kernel with low level support.
> (messed with isapnp.conf for _hours_)
> 2. Compiling kernel (2.2.1) with PnP and in-built SB support
> 3. Compiling the kernel with no sound support and installing the
> commercial driver, but wouldn't install under my kernel, despite claims
> it would
>
> Desparate,
> Tigs
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "h3mp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Banshee under X
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:08:40 -0000
I cant configure my banshee under x on redhat 5.2 linux the prob is that the
system on svga server
Can somewone help me please mail me :
tanks ..
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:07:35 -0800
From: Todd Bordeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Exabyte Mammoth and cheap media?
Michael P. Kearney wrote:
> Bryan K. Wright wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> problem statement deleted
>
> > The bottom line is: does anyone know of either (a) a cheap
> > source for 8mm 170M AME tapes or (b) some way I can persuade my drive
> > to write on the cheaper tapes I've been using? (For reference: the
> > system the drive is attached to is a Linux box with an Adaptec 1542
> > controller.)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Bryan
> >
> > --
> > ===============================================================================
> > Bryan Wright |"If you take cranberries and stew them like
> > Physics Department | applesauce, they taste much more like prunes
> > University of Virginia | than rhubarb does." -- Groucho
> > Charlottesville, VA 22901 |
> > (804) 924-7218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ===============================================================================
>
> Can't help you on (a), the new AME media has been constrained for about
> a year as
> Sony has had trouble getting the manufacturing "recipe" right. The good
> news is that
> the backlog has been diminishing quite a bit in the last several
> months. Perhaps
> with the ramp-up from a second source the supply will let the price
> drop.
>
> (b) Can't be done, at least not without access to the firmware.
> Mammoth is an
> upgrade path from MP to AME. I don't believe the next drive, Mammoth
> II, will
> support MP at all.
>
> These are, of course, mine own opinions, I don't make official
> statements for anyone,
> much less the company I work for.
> --
> Michael P. Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Advisory Software Eng. Software Development
> Exabyte Corp., 1685 38th St Boulder, CO 80301
Add my comments to this (20+ years in hardware maintenance) - buy cheap
monitors, cheap cases, cheap disk drives. Tape media is backup for catastrophes -
BUY THE BEST YOU CAN AFFORD!!!
Todd Bordeaux/Process Engineering Group
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From: Gordon Vrdoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DVD
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:22:41 -0800
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Hello Mathew,
Any expected release date for a test version of the player? I think it is
going to be immensely popular once released.
Thanks.
matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
> I am working on a project to bring DVD playback support to Linux. Right
> now my project is focused around the DVD add-on card for the Matrox G200
> series cards. http://pulsar.doobie.org (It is down now, but will be up
> later today.)
>
> I was contacted by the head guy at Sigma Designs. They are very
> interested in having their card supported under Linux. At first it seemed
> like we were going to have a joint project, but I have not heard back
> from them in several weeks. The last message I recieved was that they
> were looking into doing the driver themselves. (That is bad, because it
> probably won't abide by the V4L2 API and they'll have to make a release
> for every kernel version.)
>
> The support for reading DVD movies off of DVD drives is still in heavy
> development. My initial goal is to read an MPEG-II off the hard drive and
> have it displayed out the TV-Out module, then loop it into my TV card.
> This way I don't have to debug an application and a driver at the same
> time.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Damien Ercole wrote:
>
> > Hi all .....
> > I have a Hollywood+ mpeg II decoder card and I was
> > wondering if there is anyway to use it under linux
> > to play DVD movies ?
> > I went on SigmaDesign site (the Hollywood card
> > manufacturer) and I tried to find some kind of driver for
> > linux but they don't have anything (except for windows)
> > Can any one tell me if a driver exists for linux ?
> >
> > Thanx
> >
> > Damien
> >
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Hello Mathew,
<BR>Any expected release date for a test version of the player? I
think it is
<BR>going to be immensely popular once released.
<BR>Thanks.
<BR>
<BR>
<P>matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>I am working on a project to bring DVD playback support
to Linux. Right
<BR>now my project is focused around the DVD add-on card for the Matrox
G200
<BR>series cards. <A HREF="http://pulsar.doobie.org">http://pulsar.doobie.org</A>
(It is down now, but will be up
<BR>later today.)
<P>I was contacted by the head guy at Sigma Designs. They are very
<BR>interested in having their card supported under Linux. At first
it seemed
<BR>like we were going to have a joint project, but I have not heard
back
<BR>from them in several weeks. The last message I recieved was that
they
<BR>were looking into doing the driver themselves. (That is bad,
because it
<BR>probably won't abide by the V4L2 API and they'll have to make a release
<BR>for every kernel version.)
<P>The support for reading DVD movies off of DVD drives is still in heavy
<BR>development. My initial goal is to read an MPEG-II off the hard
drive and
<BR>have it displayed out the TV-Out module, then loop it into my TV card.
<BR>This way I don't have to debug an application and a driver at the same
<BR>time.
<P>-Matt
<P>On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Damien Ercole wrote:
<P>> Hi all .....
<BR>> I have a Hollywood+ mpeg II decoder card and I was
<BR>> wondering if there is anyway to use it under linux
<BR>> to play DVD movies ?
<BR>> I went on SigmaDesign site (the Hollywood card
<BR>> manufacturer) and I tried to find some kind of driver for
<BR>> linux but they don't have anything (except for windows)
<BR>> Can any one tell me if a driver exists for linux ?
<BR>>
<BR>>
Thanx
<BR>>
<BR>>
Damien
<BR>></BLOCKQUOTE>
<PRE>--
Any comments appreciated. Please send them to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as well as this newsgroup.
Gordon Vrdoljak.</PRE>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the mengsk files)
Subject: Is there a FAQ concerning the Maxtor DiamondMax 17.2gb HD?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 02:09:31 GMT
I'm quite sure everyone knows the problem I'm talking about. :)
At one point I had it so bad that /dev/hdd3 was drive N: in windows
and it had a bunch of windows files on it, and yet it was /exodus in
Linux with a bunch of ext2 files in it! All the other partitions (1-8)
were accounted for except for this one.
Also with 8.4 gigs, 6.4 gigs and 17.2 gigs the system manages to give
me a measely 29 gigs when I should have 32 gigs of HD space. I'm
practically losing ~2-3 gigs due to some mysterious partitioning
issues! It's shaving disk space off the top of all 3 drives and I'm
not talking the root filesystem thing either: it's 2-3 gigs off the
potential HD space. even DOS fdisk sees a discrepancy.
Yuck. Musta messed up somewhere.
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:05:11 -0800
From: Todd Bordeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
Andy Glew wrote:
> > Q: why do you say that the parity should be put on a head far away from
> > the data? It seems to me that you either want all of the data and parity
> > blocks to be far away from each other or, if the parity blocks are in the
> > same track, then you might as well have the data block in the same track
> > too. If multiblock errors make same-track parity blocks vulnerable,
> > then surely multiblock errors might hit multiple data blocks in the same
> > track, and so make the parity block useless. I.e. it seems to me to
> > be all or nothing.
>
> I should have said
>
> "..if the data blocks are in the same track, then you might as well have
> the parity block in the same track too."
>
> padpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpad
> padpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpad
> padpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpad
> padpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpad
> padpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpadpad
I missed the first part of this. When RAID is intended to be able to quickly
recover from a bad drive, using the same drive for two mirrors would seem
to defeat the purpose
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From: "Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
hk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,tw.bbs.comp.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: PPP !!!
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:59:38 +0800
the installation guide accompany the suse 6.0 has instruction to setup ppp.
you have to installed suseppp, diald. hoping that you can success
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