Linux-Hardware Digest #532, Volume #9 Mon, 1 Mar 99 00:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: Does Cyrix support linux (Sun Jong Kwoun)
Will this work with Linux? (Sandip Srivastava)
Re: Weird Hard Drive Error Messages - help! (Mark Hahn)
IDE PowerDrive and Linux? (Pascal Haakmat)
sangoma router cards ("louis sypher")
Repeat : Partitions trashed, help !? (David Cook)
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From: Sun Jong Kwoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Cyrix support linux
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:21:36 +0000
then how about Cyrix MediaGX MMX 233MHz?
thanks
Sander Dol wrote:
> Yes!!
> I run it happily on a Cx86200MhzMMX without ANY problem!!
> The latest kernel even let you specify this processortype.
>
> Regards,
> Sander
>
> Kishore wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I fear,
> >
> > And Is it easy to load on Cyrix does it have any problems?
> >
> > Thanks for the input.
> >
> > -Kishore
> >
> > ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> > http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Sandip Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Will this work with Linux?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:52:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does Linux support the following hardware?
DVD-ROM drive - If the DVD part doesn't work will the CD part work?
Graphics Blaster Riva 128zx video card
Zoom 56K modem, PCI or ISA
SoundBlaster PCI 64, 128, or Live
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Weird Hard Drive Error Messages - help!
Date: 1 Mar 1999 03:22:06 GMT
> hdb:hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
this probably means that your IDE cable is too long, or wired wrong.
the BadCRC part is referring to the one extremely valuable feature
of UDMA: that it checksum's all transfers. BadCRC indicates that
the checksum was bad, so the driver will retry the transfer.
(note that SCSI, at least until Ultra2, does nothing as good as this,
so UDMA is actually more reliable!)
IDE cables must be 18" or shorter, and if you have one drive, it should
be on the end, not in the middle (which leaves a stub.) further, some
drives (probably drive/controller combinations) are pickier, and need
down to 9" cables.
> I've got redhat 5.2, and my hard drive is a Western Digital AC22500. I have
as I recall, 5.2 has a "heritage" kernel, namely 2.0.3[456]; I don't recall
whether those old kernels supported UDMA retry properly. switching
to 2.2.2 will make the problem go away (unless it's a cable prob, of course)
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 04:58:14 +0100
From: Pascal Haakmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IDE PowerDrive and Linux?
I got a IDE PowerDrive (manufacturer TEAC) for very cheap. It's an
obscure device that acts both as a CD player and as an optical drive. Is
there any way I can make this thing work with my Linux (RedHat 5.2)
system? I've seen some mentions of the PowerDrive in DejaNews but these
all seem to concern the SCSI version of the PowerDrive. Thank you.
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Reply-To: "louis sypher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "louis sypher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sangoma router cards
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:06:31 -0600
anyone have any experience with installing these cards in a linux/novell
environment?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Repeat : Partitions trashed, help !?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:50:34 GMT
I'm reposting this because I've had no responses at all so
far. Can anyone help me ? I'm worried that the last 5 months
or so of e-mail, news, programs, etc has been lost.
================ original article ================
Summary : Something is very confused, either in my partition tables
or BIOS or elsewhere. Also, I seem to have hard disk problems.
The details : I have two IDE hard disks - one 2.5 Gb, one 6.4 Gb.
The 2.5 G is the original disk in the machine, and has 520Mb DOS/W95
partition, the rest for Linux (5 partitions - swap, /, /var, /usr and
/home). The 6.4 is a relatively recent addition, and contains swap,
/, /var, /usr and /home partitions (much larger ones than the ones on
the 2.5 G).
I am running RedHat 4.0, I have a Cyrix 6x86 P133, 96M RAM,
IDE CD-ROM, sound card, Matrox Millenium, modem.
When I bought the 6.4 G drive, I was intending to install a newer
version of Linux onto it (rather than risk "breaking" my system with
glibc/libc issues [1] ), copy over all my old files, backup all the
DOS files I wanted to keep, then give DOS more of the 2.5 G drive
(perhaps all, if I was feeling generous :-).
What actually happened : I copied over the contents of the 2.5 G
drive, then did nothing about if for a few months (because what I
really want to do is back up eveyrthing, but I don't have a tape
drive, but if I do get one I really would prefer a SCSI one, but then
I should upgrade my hard disks to SCSI, but then I'll have wasted lots
of money on the new IDE one ... etc etc - I'm a champion ditherer ;-)
So, just over a week ago, my computer froze (it does this from time to
time, I suspect intense video activity is some sort of factor, but
this sort of random freeze is hard to track down, and it occurs rarely
enough that it hasn't seemed worth the effort).
Upon coming back up, when trying to mount the partitions from the 2.5
Gb, I saw the following :
hda : read_intr : status = 0x59 (DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequestError }
hda : read_intr : error=0x40 { Uncorrectable Error },
LBAsect=1154583, sector=33687
end_request : I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 33687
... and then nothing more (had to be powered down).
Next, I installed RH 5.1 on a spare 500Mb on my girlfriend's computer
(to access man pages, HOWTOs, etc, in case there was something useful
on there). I wrote boot and rescue disks, booted up ok, and even
managed to mount the partitions from the 2.5 Gb and 6.4 Gb drives.
Unfortunately, instead of doing the sensible thing at this point and
copying the files from 2.5 to 6.4 drive, I decided to try to get the
2.5 G drive working properly. I ran lilo again (by mounting the
partitions on that drive, running a "chroot" to the root of it, then
running lilo with the original config on that drive). That didn't
help. I tried restoring the boot sector that I originally wrote when
installing RH 4.0, but that just took out LILO and left that drive
booting W95.
At this point, I think, the partition table on the drive also went
bad. When I boot into rescue mode and run fdisk, it shows that the
first partition /dev/hda1 occupies cylinders 1 to 520 (as it did
before), but each cylinder is now 8064*512 bytes, which means
/dev/hda1 (DOS partition) takes up most of the drive, and some 800,000
sectors are left unallocated. I think it used to be cylinders 1 to
520, but 1024 (or a number close to that) * 512 bytes.
Now I am at a loss. It is possible (maybe) that I can dig through the
last two years worth of pieces of paper that I have accumulated to
find the original partition settings for that drive (yes, I did write
them down, but I've moved since then and they could be anywhere among
thousands of other pieces of paper) - but will that even do me any
good ? I am reasonably sure that nothing has been written to the
drive since the partition table was lost - can I recreate the old one
and access all the old information ? Is there something else I can do
to get at the Linux partitions on that drive ? (... and then
immediately copy everything across to the good (and now bootable)
drive). Or, should I accept that I've lost 3 months worth of
news/mail/files/changes/programs (or maybe pay lots of money to a data
recovery service ? ) ?
Also: the read_intr messages I was getting from the 2.5 Gb drive - do
they mean that the drive has "gone bad" ? (a DejaNews posting I read
suggested that that meant the drive had more bad sectors than the
BIOS/drive/something-or-other could cope with - is that the case ?).
So, to summarise again : I have two problems. A hard drive that may
be going bad or gone bad, but I could (for a while) still read the
data from. Partition tables that have gone bad. I need to at least
recover from the partition tables - if I can do that and copy the old
stuff over, I can reformat (low level format ?) the 2.5 Gb drive and
install things afresh on there.
If you can help, contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or post
here (but I don't guarantee being able to catch replies here, due to
lack of time and having to deal with a stolen bicycle too :-( )
[1] I don't know that there neccessarily would be any - but I'm not
convinced enough that there wouldn't be, either. Besides, it was
about time to do a clean install, and then keep better track of any
changes I make to the system configuration.
Thanks in advance,
David.
(david.cook at pobox.com)
(in Melbourne, Australia)
David.
(david.cook at pobox.com)
(in Melbourne, Australia)
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