Linux-Hardware Digest #503, Volume #9 Fri, 26 Feb 99 02:13:48 EST
Contents:
EPP support using /dev/fd0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring (Peter Seebach)
Re: Elite Linux machines (was Re: Is there a FAQ concerning the Maxtor DiamondMax
17.2gb HD?) (the mengsk files)
Re: PCI modems in linux? ("Edward Anders")
Drivers for Teles S0/16.3 PnP (Ricardo D'Aguiar)
Printing ("x")
Re: Primary master hard disk fail (Gary Momarison)
hdparm usage (Andy Jaworski)
Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Midi with SB AWE64 ISA ? (Daniele Bernardini)
Re: Printing under Linux (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36 ("Charles Sullivan")
color printing with HP deskjet 600 ? (Michael Brunsteiner)
Re: Epson Photo 700 (George Schroeder)
Video driver (fht)
Re: Dell PowerEdge 1300 with RAID (Thomas Bendler)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: EPP support using /dev/fd0
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:51:19 GMT
Does the lp driver in the 2.2.1 kernel support EPP mode?
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Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:12:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andy Glew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyway, we are talking single disk RAID for magnetic media to death. How about
>single disk RAID for CD-R and CD-RW --- probably the most popular archival
>storage format around nowadays? Head crashes should not be an issue here.
>What are the error modes for CDs?
It might be really interesting to talk to the guys who did the operating
system for the 3DO console; their filesystem had single-disk RAID for both
reliability and *speed* - it would magically seek to the closest copy of a
given block. Not sure how it was implemented.
-s
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the mengsk files)
Subject: Re: Elite Linux machines (was Re: Is there a FAQ concerning the Maxtor
DiamondMax 17.2gb HD?)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 04:04:35 GMT
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:47:16 +1100, Ian Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I hope I haven't opened a can of worms by continuing this thread and
>renaming it...
Aw c'mon let's recreate an episode of WCW! tis better than spam!!!
>Ever heard of RAID?
Yup.
>I'm looking at maybe hooking up two IBM 10.1G drives in a RAID-0 array. As
>long as they are on different channels, they can both be accessed at the
>same time. I might also have to get a Promise UDMA interface since I
>already have an IDE disk and CDROM. About AUS$800 for 20.2G (18.8GB :)
>capable of probably over 20MB/s!
If that's the case go SCSI :)
>Actually, I believe Andrew Tridgell (of Samba fame) has ported Linux to an
>NEC supercomputer they have at the ANU (Australian National University in
>Canberra). That'd be pretty 'elite'.
Ok I'm getting one tomorrow. BTW how much are first born sons worth?
Just wanted to know.... :)
>In that case you might want to at least stick to the x86 crowd so that you
>can still run your Quake2 executable (I know I'm worried about that). My
>K6-2 300 runs pretty well. Just waiting for the K6-III.
I'm gonna get a quad PII-450. When yer playing quake ya gotta go quad.
'tis a tradition!
>What video capture card are you using? I'm looking at one from
>linuxmedialabs.com which does hardware MJPEG compression.
woah. I'm using the usual bt848 deal... STB TV PCI. :)
>> I need a DVD player. Maybe I'll get an external
>> one.
>
>Linux can't do much with DVDs. We can read the disks OK, but the
>filesystems on them are pretty closed or something. Or maybe they're not.
>I think someone might be working on getting UFS (no not the BSD Unix
>FileSystem) working for DVDs.
There's a guy working on mpeg-2 decompression for DVD's. :)
/|/|engsk
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From: "Edward Anders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modems in linux?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:40:19 -0800
I have the same modem and have been turning my mind to mush trying to get it
to work. It only works half the time in Win98. I plan on dumping it for an
external.
Ed
Nik Alston wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>
>>I have a Diamond Supra Express 56i PCI and I can't seem to make it work
>>on linux. I checked at the Diamond Page and there's a paper that says
>>that Supra's are Traditional Modem. It has a rockwell chipset. I've
>>heard that rockwell has proprietary pci comunication protocoll. Is the
>>case for this modem ???
>
>
>i have one of these and spoke to diamon tech support. This modem is
>controllor-less, i.e. it NEEDS drivers to work properly, and they only have
>drivers for Windows (95/98/NT)
>
>nik
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ricardo D'Aguiar)
Subject: Drivers for Teles S0/16.3 PnP
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:49:50 GMT
Does anyone knows were I can get Teles S0/16.3 PnP for Windows NT4.0 /
Linux or SCO Unix
Thanks
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From: "x" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:25:20 GMT
is the epson stylus 600 suppoted in teh latest kernel. with 2.0.36 ib can't
get my hy dpi printer to go above 300 dpi.
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Primary master hard disk fail
Date: 24 Feb 1999 09:26:45 -0800
James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just built a system w/ an Award BIOS dated 07/02/1996 and a IBM
> DTTA-351010 disk... I get a 'Primary master hard disk fail' message
> from the POST, but I can mount the disk using a "rescue" disk. I ran
> lilo and e2fsck on the IBM disk, but to no avail. Is it a BIOS problem?
BIOS problem? Just reading between the lines here, but I'm guessing it's
more likely to be a primary master hard disk failure.
You could try another disk in its place. If that doesn't work, then
you'd investigate the disk controller, then the motherboard. Or
try the disk in another computer. There's always a chance that bad
HW will ruin good HW, so it's best to do your experimenting with
old HW on which you do not depend.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Jaworski)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: hdparm usage
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:04:58 -0600
Hi there,
I finally got a fairly complete system running under RH5.2 with the newest
kernel updates (2.2.2) and I am getting interested about tinkering with my
system a little. In particular I started thinking about using hdparm to
possibly improve my HD performance. My question is: how dangerous is
hdparm? Can I mess up my drive so bad, that it would be unusable?
I have a Pentimum 233/MMX (overclocked slightly to 266) with 64MB SDRAM and
a newer 6.8GB UDMA Maxtor drive. When the kernel boots it shows me that I
have DMA support for my drive.
I just ran hdparm to see what I got. It indeed reports that DMA is on, but,
for example, for I/O it shows that I have standard I/O (16 bit). Then I ran
hdparm -T and hdparm -t. The first one reported the cache transfer rate of
about 33MB/s and the second one the drive transfer rate of about 12.5MB/s.
Could I try 32 bit I/O to see what happens?
Any info will be welcome. Thanks in advance,
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:30:09 GMT
In article <7avcdl$d140$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen) wrote:
> In article <7auioa$g8k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | In article <7asj1e$8hr6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen) wrote:
>
> | > The Duplidisk gives the reliability protection of RAID-1, but lacks the
> | > performance benefit, since with traditional RAID-1, if you get multiple
> | > reads to a single drive you can read one off the mirror, while with a
> | > single virtual IDE device you don't get that benefit.
> | >
> | > bill davidsen
> |
> | As you say, people looking for RAID 1 want it for the mirroring protection
it
> | offers, that is, being able to write the same data to two drives at the same
> | time. Not being able to read from both drives is irrelevant. Think about
> | it. If you only have one drive and are not doing mirroring, you're reading
> | from only one drive.
>
> But that's not how RAID-1 works. Real RAID-1 with independent access to
> each drive lets a smart operating system (or controller) process a read
> on one drive, and then the next read on the 2nd drive if the first is
> busy, and choose the drive with the heads closest to the desired data
> to reduce access time. Remember that Linux (these are Linux groups) has
> RAID-1 built in, so our choices are not limited to SCSI, expensive
> RAID controllers, etc.
>
> Traditional database applications benefit from this, as do applications
> which are really read-mostly database applications, such as usenet news,
> bbs operation, web servers, and any other application in which access is
> mostly querries.
>
> Where I see using this is for my boot/system drive, because the mirrored
> boot is a pain to install. Assuming the price is right it would be a
> time saver.
>
> --
> bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bill, it's not only a time saver. With hardware IDE RAID 1, such as the
DupliDisk provides, the second drive is not simply a copy. It's a bootable
replica of the first drive that will take over automatically (without human
intervention) if the first drive goes down. So your system just keeps
chugging along even though you've got a dead drive. You bring the system down
and replace the bad drive at a time that's convenient for you--not in the
middle of a busy work day.
Donna Barron
http://www.arcoide.com
>
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From: Daniele Bernardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Midi with SB AWE64 ISA ?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:14:37 +0100
Bas van Nunen wrote:
>
> Daniele Bernardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound
> > -
>
> > and the file is
> >
> > AWE32
>
> Yep, I know,
> but what I meant was:
> the 'sound' directory is not included....... ;-)
>
> --
> BvN
>
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> Student of Information Management and Technology.
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Well then download the kernel 2.2.2 source and untar ungzip it
and you will have it as well :)
good luck,
Daniele
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printing under Linux
Date: 26 Feb 1999 05:57:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gregory Leblanc allegedly wrote:
>I know how to get simple directory listings and plain text to print on
>my printer, but what about color images from GIMP? I've got a couple
>of color HP inkjet printers, and I wanted to do some of image
>processing from there. Thanks,
You look into installing GhostScript(1) The GIMP should, however, have
several built-in printer drivers, just right click the image you
want to print and select the "print" option from the menu. You may
have to experiement a bit to find the driver that works with your
printers.
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the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:31:29 -0500
I'm not sure I remember your original starting point, but if you have
free space on your hard drive above your FAT32 partition, go into
the 'expert' menu of the RH5.2 fdisk. Change the number of Cylinders
to the correct LBA value (Heads and Sectors will probably already be
correctly recognized), then return to the main fdisk menu. fdisk will now
allow you to specify partitions above the 1024 cylinder boundary.
If you ask it to verify the partitions, fdisk is likely to complain about
overlapping partitions because _part_ of it still thinks the highest
cylinder
is 1023.
Make sure you create a small /boot partition entirely below the 1024
cylinder
boundary if you intend to boot via LILO on the hard drive.
Regards,
Charles Sullivan
Dann Church wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>Charles Sullivan wrote:
>
>> kernel v2.0.36 _doesn't_ know the correct size, and won't believe you if
>> you tell it the correct size, if the number of heads is > 16 as would
>> usually be the case with LBA enabled. (Ref: Large-Disk mini HOWTO
>> and my own experience.) kernel v2.2.0 and higher are OK in this regard.
>>
>> fdisk gets part of its info from the kernel and part directly from the
>> drive.
>> fdisk v2.8 (shipped with RH5.2) gets confused with LBA large drives.
>> fdisk v2.9i fixes the problem.
>>
>
>That sounds great, but is there a way to work around this when you are
doing a
>fresh install from the RH5.2 CD. I've seen references to using the
parameter
>hda=C,H,S but when I give this option (as well as expert) from the
installboot
>prompt, it doesn't seem to help. I'm a little leary of using fdisk to muck
>around with the sectors on the FAT32 partition as I've recently had to
>reinstall Win98 (what a joy) after experimenting with such things.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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From: Michael Brunsteiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: color printing with HP deskjet 600 ?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:33:10 +0100
i did some graphics using GIMP ...
now i'd like to print that stuff;
for my printer (HP deskjt 600) however there
seems to exist no driver that supports
color printing ... (i use apsfilter and ghostscript)
printing works with the djet500 backend, but only for
grayscale images, moreover these images seem to be
converted to postscript before printing, which
results in quite poor printing quality
is there any tool for printing color images
(e.g. jpeg's) directly with a HP deskjet 600 ??
i found some stuf on sunsite (Linux/system/printing/...)
called magicfilter, colorpower, ...
is there anyone who has some experience with these
tools and a deskjet600 (i want to stress the number 600, as
this printer seems to provide more problems than any other
HP deskjet machine)
thanx for any hints
mic
_____________________________________________________
Michael Brunsteiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8805193>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Schroeder)
Subject: Re: Epson Photo 700
Date: 26 Feb 1999 05:57:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have used magicfilter and Ghostscript 5.50 to print from WP8 to an
Epson 700 photo. This does not use the extra colors of the 700, and I
have not used this extensively, so try at your own risk. The printcap
entry is
Epson|color:lp=/dev/lp2:sd=/usr/spool/lp2:sh:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/epson700p-filter:rs
WP8 is setup to use the QMS magicolor Laser Printer driver.
I got the filter "epson700p-filter" somewhere on the net, but since I
don't recall where, I have included it below.
#! /usr/local/bin/magicfilter
#
# Magic filter setup file for Epson 700 photo printer
# THIS FILE IS UNTESTED!
#
# This file is in the public domain.
#
# This file has been automatically adapted to your system.
#
# wild guess: native control codes start with <ESC>
0 \033 cat
# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/local/bin/gs @stc700.upp -q -sOutputFile=- -
0 \004%! filter /usr/local/bin/gs @stc700.upp -q -sOutputFile=- -
# TeX DVI
0 \367\002 reject Cannot print DVI files on this printer.
# compress'd data
0 \037\235 pipe /bin/gzip -cdq
# packed, gzipped, frozen and SCO LZH data
0 \037\036 pipe /bin/gzip -cdq
0 \037\213 pipe /bin/gzip -cdq
0 \037\236 pipe /bin/gzip -cdq
0 \037\240 pipe /bin/gzip -cdq
# troff documents
0 .\?\?\040 fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE`
0 .\\\" fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE`
0 '\\\" fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE`
0 '.\\\" fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE`
0 \\\" fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE`
# ditroff
0 "x T ps" pipe /usr/bin/grops
0 "x T dvi" reject Cannot print DVI ditroff files.
0 "x T ascii" pipe /usr/bin/grotty
0 "x T latin1" pipe /usr/bin/grotty
0 "x T lj4" reject Cannot print LaserJet 4 ditroff files.
# Portable bit-, grey- and pixmaps
0 P1\n reject Cannot print PBM/PGM/PPM files on this printer.
0 P2\n reject Cannot print PBM/PGM/PPM files on this printer.
0 P3\n reject Cannot print PBM/PGM/PPM files on this printer.
0 P4\n reject Cannot print PBM/PGM/PPM files on this printer.
0 P5\n reject Cannot print PBM/PGM/PPM files on this printer.
0 P6\n reject Cannot print PBM/PGM/PPM files on this printer.
# HP Printer Control Language (PCL) -- assume start with reset code
0 \033E\033 reject Cannot print PCL files on this printer.
# HP Printer Job Language (PJL)
0 \033%-12345X reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer.
0 "@PJL " reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer.
0 @PJL\t reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer.
0 @PJL\r reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer.
0 @PJL\n reject Cannot print PJL files on this printer.
# GIF files
0 GIF87a reject Cannot print GIF images on this printer.
0 GIF89a reject Cannot print GIF images on this printer.
# JFIF (JPEG) files
0 \377\330\377\340\?\?JFIF\0 reject Cannot print JPEG images \
on this printer.
# TIFF files (the last two bytes of the "magic" is really a version number;
# but the magic is really lame and as far as I have understood the version
# number has never changed and never will, so we include it.)
0 MM\0\x2a pipe Cannot print TIFF images on this printer.
0 II\x2a\0 pipe Cannot print TIFF images on this printer.
# BMP files (even lousier magic -- Microsoft strikes again!)
0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x0c reject \
Cannot print BMP files on this printer.
0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x40 reject \
Cannot print BMP files on this printer.
0 BM\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\?\x28 reject \
Cannot print BMP files on this printer.
# Sun rasterfiles
0 \x59\xa6\x6a\x95 reject Cannot print Sun rasterfiles on this printer.
# SGI Imagelib (IRIS RGB) files
0 \x1\xda reject Cannot print SGI RGB files on this printer.
0 \xda\x1 reject Cannot print SGI RGB files on this printer.
# FIG files; reported by Steven P. Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
0 #FIG reject Cannot print FIG files on this printer.
#
# Standard rejects... things we don't want to print
#
# Various archive formats
257 ustar\0 reject Attempted to print a tar file.
257 "ustar \0" reject Attempted to print a tar file.
0 07070 reject Attempted to print a cpio file.
0 PK\3\4 reject Attempted to print a zip file.
20 \xdc\xa7\xc7\xfd reject Attempted to print a zoo file.
# Binaries (Linux): reject with email message
0 \013\1d\0 reject Attempted to print a compiled binary.
0 \100\1d\0 reject Attempted to print a compiled binary.
0 \007\1d\0 reject Attempted to print a compiled binary.
0 \314\0d\0 reject Attempted to print a compiled binary.
0 \177ELF reject Attempted to print an ELF object.
0 \007\001\0 reject Attempted to print an object file.
216 \021\001\0\0 reject Attempted to print a core dump file.
0 !<arch> reject Attempted to print an archive.
0 =<ar> reject Attempted to print an archive.
# Don't confuse this one with troff!
0 .snd reject Attempted to print Sun/NeXT audio data.
# optimistic troff magic
0 . fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE`
# wacko troff magic
0 ''' fpipe `/usr/bin/grog -Tps $FILE`
# Default entry -- for normal (text) files. MUST BE LAST.
default text
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:27:18 -0500, Callahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:don't know where else to ask this question so I thought I would start here.
:Anyway I have a Epson Photo 700 printer and can not get files in star
:office 5.0 or word perfect 8.0 to print. I can get them to print with
:Ghostscript and the Uniprint driver. My printer is not listed and I
:don't know which printer I should use that would closely emulate it. Any
:suggestions? Thanks
:
:Brad Cramer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
:
:
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From: fht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video driver
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 01:29:25 -0300
Hi, did anyone use the chipset Trident 3DImage 975 succesfully in Linux
or in other X-window?
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From: Thomas Bendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 1300 with RAID
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:19:04 +0100
Thomas Bendler wrote:
> I plan to use Linux on this maschine. After looking at the configuration
> I see no problems except of using the RAID Controller. Searching several
> databases help me to find out that the PERC/2 Controller is an Adaptec
> 7897. Looking up the Hardware-HOWTO offers me that this controller won't
Sorry but I just realized that the RAID Controller in the PowerEdge 1300
is not a Adaptec but a SymbiosLogic 53C895. This one is support by Linux
as I read in the README for the 53C8xx driver.
Regards Thomas
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