Linux-Hardware Digest #625, Volume #9 Wed, 10 Mar 99 21:13:40 EST
Contents:
ISDN mit NiccyGo von Dr. Neuhaus (Berthold Lankl)
Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX (Jeff Gentry)
Strange fdisk problem (Brian)
Re: Linux DSL ("James K.")
Scanner on parallel port (Howard Close)
Re: Linux killed the drive? Coincidence? (Dipso)
Re: hard disk partitioning problems (David Kirkpatrick)
cdrecord+hp7200+ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: winmodem or not winmodem ? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Does anyone know a web site which obviously mensions about AGP video (William
Heymann)
Re: Help! with canon bj610 (Tonny Sejr Kromann)
Re: Diamond Stealth II 220 & Linux 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PROBLEM: Diamond FireGL1000 Pro ("Linux Wannabe")
Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2??? - HowTo-URL (James Gray)
Re: Linux DSL (Colin)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (wizard)
Re: Help Asus P2B-DS owners! (wizard)
Is there any way to find out if I have a win modem? (".")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Berthold Lankl)
Subject: ISDN mit NiccyGo von Dr. Neuhaus
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:00:26 +0100
Kann mir jemand behilflich sein bei der Installation einer passiven ISDN
Karte vom Typ NiccyGo von Dr. Neuhaus?
Ich habe Linux von der Firma Suse Version 5.3.
Vielen Dank,
Berthold Lankl.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Gentry)
Subject: Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX
Date: 1 Mar 1999 18:45:44 GMT
Hilaire Fernandes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: It seems that some K6 with some motherboard and Ram wont't work with
: Linux, event it that works with NT or Windows.
There was a bug with the *original* versions of the K6 (I believe
this was fixed in early August, 1997) that only reared its ugly
head in very specific cases. One of these was compiling a linux
kernal with certain RAM configurations ..
This has been long since fixed.
--
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You're one of those condescending UNIX users! ...."
"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Strange fdisk problem
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:18:18 -0600
Has anyone ever seen anything wierd like this? Fdisk reports the right
space on the drive, but "df" shows only about half as much. Take a
look at the sizes of sda6 and sda7 in fdisk vs what their sizes are in
"df".
[root@norad /home]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 8715.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8715 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 1001 1025008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 1002 1002 8715 7899136 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1002 1002 1128 130032 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 1024 1129 2129 1025008 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 2048 2130 3130 1025008 83 Linux native
Command (m for help): q
[root@norad /home]# df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1 991995 353364 587381 38% /
/dev/sda6 496627 60418 410559 13% /var/lib/pgsql
/dev/sda7 496627 176192 294785 37% /home/ftp
This is on a Redhat 5.1 system with DPT 3334UW controller. We have alot
of setups like this and this is the only one I have seen this on.
Any ideas?
=====================================================
Brian Feeny (BF304) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal
Network Administrator ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)
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From: "James K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux DSL
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:47:15 +0000
> hey you guys... screw DSL/T1/ADSL.. CATV (cable) is a bargain if its
> in your area, i pay $40/month. i get 3mbs in, 1mbs out its nice :)
I feel lucky to have DSL in a small community while large areas of
metropoles won't have it for some time, or have horrible back logs.
Cable would be nice if were available... as long as I don't have to buy
TV service along with the connection!
--
Insert funny saying here.
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From: Howard Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scanner on parallel port
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:57:43 +0000
I have a Micom Scanner which shares lpt1 with my printer but
can't find a driver.
Working with MS software it is described as TWAIN32
(whatever
that might mean). I have searched all of the usual
archives
for Linux drivers for scanners but they all seem to be
for
SCSI scanners except for one at sunsite which was for an
Epson
parallel board (and I couldn't persuade it compile
anyway).
Can anyone advise me ?
As ever I am very grateful for help and advice. Thanks to
your
help I now have my Linux box connected to the Net. Each
little
adventure makes me a little less dependent on BillG and
his
clones.
Howard Close
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From: Dipso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux killed the drive? Coincidence?
Date: 10 Mar 1999 21:59:58 GMT
This site has been a big help to me if you can't get the drive to respond.
http://www.wdc.com/service/
Dipso
Stephen La Joie wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I installed Linux last weekend onto my master drive, which went smoothly
> > enough; however, after the install was complete my slave hard drive (an 11
> > month old Western Digital Caviar 5.1 AC35100L) went south.
>
> You definately over wrote the Master Boot record. If you installedthe software to
> read the large drives (another kludge to get around
> MS-Dos' stupid limitations) that came with the WD drive this is most
> likely your problem. This software changes the bios so that the heads
> is increased to some number that DOS can handle. Without it, your
> bios isn't modified so Windows/Dos can read your 5.1 Gig drive.
>
> Drives bigger than 2 G come with this software on a floppy, because
> 2 gig is as high as DOS can count to by itself. (Maybe Win 98 is different.)
>
> I doubt the drive went south. It has a 15 year MTBF.
>
> > It now reports S.M.A.R.T. status as bad on boot up, and scandisk can't
> > read/repair the "end" of the drive.
>
> Yes, Scandisk can't count as high as Linux does. :-)
>
> > Does this seem like an extremely unfortunately timed coincidence, or could any
> > part of a Linux install cause something like this?
>
> Most likely, you've hosed your MBR.Want it back? Well, you'd lose your Linux
> install, but from your Win 95/98 boot disk
> type "fdisk /mbr" (or was it "fdisk mbr"?) and then reinstall your big disk
> software
> (EZ-Drive or whatever...)
>
> Be sure to make a boot disk for linux, tho'.
>
> > I'm sure it's the former, but thought it's worth asking, just in case...so I
> > don't fry another drive. <g>
>
> This situation is a pain. You need to go into your computer's bios settings
> andreconfigure the drive to work without the stupid software WD provides. I just
> bought a Maxor drive and it said that it would only install EZ-drive if my
> computer
> needed it. It lied, my computer reads the disk just fine without it, but the
> software
> installed it anyway! You can fix your bios on newer mother boards. Linux doesn't
> need this bios change because it's smart enough to use absolute sectors and not
> the c-h-s that MS-Dos gets all wrapped up over. If your mother board is new
> enough, you can do it. I think it needs to be set to LBA or something.
>
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
> --
> Chill out. It's just my opinion,
> even if it IS true.
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard disk partitioning problems
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:56:40 +0000
Klaus,
Its a problem if your bios is not dealing with the "large" disk
correctly or differently than linux. But I think a 6.4 is probably not
above your bios limit - guessing - and the the problems stem from
"blowing" by the warnings. I've never been able to get by the things
that got messed up in druid.
d
Klaus Voelker wrote:
>
> The version of fdisk I use doesn't even allow you to create more than four
> primary partitions. I am using the following partition table:
>
> hdc1 256MB Linux native (/)
> hdc2 128MB Linux swap
> hdc3 Extended
> hdc4 ~2MB DOS 16-Bit
>
> The extended partition then contains:
>
> hdc5 256MB Linux native (/home)
> hdc6 2048MB Linux native (/usr)
> hdc7 768MB Linux native (/usr/local)
> hdc8 768MB Linux native (/opt)
>
> From what I read in the HowTo's, the problem is that Linux and Windows
> interpret the partition table in a different way: Linux uses linear mode (that
> means, it goes strictly by sector number), while Windows uses some scheme
> involving cylinder, track, and sector number (which is quite complicated for
> large hard disks because of some BIOS limitations). Unfortunately, I don't
> get a clue out of the HowTo's on how to work around or fix the problem...
>
> David Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> > Klaus,
> > Just a guess but there is some confusion with druid and making
> > partitions - it sometimes lets you define things and the checks are not
> > very robust. Later is will make some adjustments on its own to correct
> > thing and the corrected partitions may not be exacely as specified.
> > If you use fdisk - safer - you can only make 4 primary partitions, or
> > three primaries and make one extended - the extended then becomes the
> > housing for more parts numberer from 5 and up.
> > So I'm not help on what to do now but if you did make several parts
> > and it complained and you went on anyway you probably got caught by the
> > above and may be experiencing problems because of it. But this may be
> > usefull info should the worse occur and you are required to revisit disk
> > druid and fdisk.
> > d
> >
> > Klaus Voelker wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently installed a new 6.4GB harddrive (Quantum Fireball) on my
> > > system (Abit BH6 board with Celeron 300A, running RedHat Linux 5.2 and
> > > Win95). I'm using it as secondary master. I created several partitions
> > > to use under Linux, as well as one large DOS partition, to use under
> > > Windows 95. I encountered the following problems:
> > >
> > > * Disk Druid would not accept the first partition I defined, and reply
> > > with 'unknown error'. If I ignore this and define additional
> > > partitions, they are accepted. Since this seemed very suspicious to me,
> > > I chose to use fdisk to partition my disk:
> > >
> > > * When using fdisk's 'verify partition table' option, it complained that
> > > my Linux partitions would overlap, although they certainly do not by
> > > sector number. Does this simply mean that the second partitions starts
> > > in the middle of a cylinder, so that two partitions share the same
> > > cylinder? Is it OK to ignore these warnings, or might there be serious
> > > trouble here?
> > >
> > > Well, I chose to ignore the warning messages, and both the Linux system
> > > and the DOS partition work fine by themselves. However, I configured
> > > the partitions in such a way that there was NO overlap reported between
> > > my last Linux partition and the DOS partition. Nevertheless:
> > >
> > > * After working under Linux for a while, my DOS partition became
> > > unusable, and could be read neither by Windows95 nor under DOS. I had
> > > to reformat the partition. This, however, messed up the Linux system
> > > and made my last Linux partition unusable.
> > >
> > > It seems that there IS some overlap between the last Linux partition and
> > > the DOS partition, or, that Windows and Linux don't agree on the
> > > location of the partitions. I tried to read the HowTo's on this topic,
> > > but didn't feel smarter afterwards. Can anyone give me detailed
> > > instructions on how to resolve this problem????
> > >
> > > Thanks!!!!
> > >
> > > Klaus
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > --
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cdrecord+hp7200+
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:03:07 GMT
Hi there,
I am trying to burn CDs from linux. I have the following setup: HP 7200+
CDWriter, Redhat5.2, kernel 2.0.36, cdrecord 1.6, mkisofs 1.11. scsi
emulation was compiled in the kernel. The CDR is the only device on the IDE
interface, harddisk is SCSI.
Making an image with mkisofs works
fine. I can mount it and check it, as explained in the CDWRITING-HOWTO. When I
want to write the image to CD, I get the following:
[root@gauss /root]# cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0,0 /mnt/dosfat/mathcd.img
Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '2,0,0'
scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'HP '
Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 7200 '
Revision : '3.01'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Track 01: data 547 MB
Total size: 628 MB (62:16.00) = 280200 sectors
Lout start: 628 MB (62:18/00) = 280200 sectors
Blocks total: 333491 Blocks remaining: 333491
Starting to write CD at speed 2 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
cdrecord: Unknown error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 01 80 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 02 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 1A EE 04 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru
0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 786432 bytes
Sense Bytes: F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 1D 08 00 00 00 00 00 00
cdrecord: Unknown error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 02 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 1D 09 04 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru
0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 120s
Trouble flushing the cache
Writing time: 68.136s
Fixating...
cdrecord: Unknown error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 02 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 1D 09 04 01 00 00
Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming ready) Fru
0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 480s
Fixating time: 6.593s
cdrecord: fifo had 152 puts and 25 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 6 times full, min fill was 94%.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? When writing audio CDs, I get the
same timeout. Using xcdroast gives also the timeout, but writes a few tracks
on th CD (making it unusable :-(). I have to mention that the same setup
under WinNt works fine and writes data and audio CDs very well with Nero. In
fact writing CDs is the only reason I still have an NT partition and I would
like to get rid of it as soon as possible. I hate to be dependent of
Micro$oft for writing CDs. So please help me out of it!
-- Philippe
============= Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ============
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: winmodem or not winmodem ?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:35:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>hello
>I plan to buy a modem to be connected at home
>wisecom sends an external modem called Internet 56000 voice modem
[...]
If it's external, it's not a winmodem.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't mungle your address.
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From: William Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anyone know a web site which obviously mensions about AGP video
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:44:22 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Last I tried it, the i740 support for X was not very good (i.e., slow
> > > as molasses). Good low-cost AGP cards I have found are the ATI Xpert
> > > 98 and ATI Rage IIc.
> > >
> > > -- Rod
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
> > > http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> >
> > umm,that is interesting information.
> > If i740 slows down X performance,
> > I have to consider to buy another card.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
> I don't have this card, but I know that http://www.xfree86.com does list
> the cards that can be used in the most recent release. You might try
> looking there to see if it is supported in the most recent release.
>
> April
The G200 runs very well under Linux I am using a Millenium G200 AGP
under Linux right now and have had no problems with it.
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From: Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! with canon bj610
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:11:54 +0000
Check this url:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
--
Tonny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth II 220 & Linux 5.2
Date: 10 Mar 1999 15:24:02 -0600
You'll need Xfree86 3.3.3.1 for this card which doesn't ship w/ RH 5.2
ChrisK
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:10:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DigitalSwitch)
wrote:
>
>How to use a Diamond Stealth II 220 with Linux 5.2 Xconfigurator?
> -Rendition Verite(TM) V2100
>
>
>
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From: "Linux Wannabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PROBLEM: Diamond FireGL1000 Pro
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:03:04 -0600
I am running an intel celeron 300MHz clocked at 450MHz (100x4.5)
I am on a Princceton Ultra 72 monitor
Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro video card
I let it probe my card under custom it goes to a black screen and never
returns. My monitor goes into stand-by mode. I can see this because my power
led goes from green to orange. I dont have any correct drivers for my video
card. If anyone knows where to get some for Xwindows or Xserver please tell
me where I can get them and how to download them so I can view them on disk
if I download them under Windows 98. Thank you for reading this.
Signed,
The Linux Wanna-be User
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From: James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2??? - HowTo-URL
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:14:55 +0000
Once more.....
http://charlotte.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
Duane Smeckert wrote:
> And that howto would be at
> http://www.redhat.com/... where?
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From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux DSL
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:15:42 -0500
BL wrote:
>
> Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : BL wrote:
> : > but after all those charades, we finally got it going. 1.5meg-6meg in and
> : > 384k out. nice... ;-) and $200/mo is reasonable enough for this kind of b/w.
>
> : Two hundred dollars a month?!? Holy s*&t! That's expensive!
>
> : We can get it for CDN$65/month including modem rental! ($100 - $200
> : installation fee, though)
>
> you can get a full T1 download and 384k upload at $65CDN a month? where??
>
> I'm not saying you're lying, but it sounds WAY too cheap for that much b/w.
Sorry. My mistake.
I looked carefully over the specs and it's 900kB up and 120kB down for
now. But I know they're experimenting with 7MB/s transfers in the
Maritimes.
--
Reply to "cwv [at] idirect (dot) com"
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:01:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeffrey J. Potoff wrote:
> wizard wrote:
> >
> > Jim Moser wrote:
> >
> > > Am currently running a K6-2 300Mhz processor with 128Mb of 100 Mhz
> > > memory and considering
> > > upgrading to a faster board and processor. I am pursuing a project which
> > > will require scads of floating point
> > > calculations on large arrays..the results of which are written back out
> > > to disk..about 500 Mbytes worth.
> > > So I'm looking at the new high end processors..PII/PIII and discover
> > > this PII Xeon chip.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any experience with this chip? It very expensive..about
> > > $900. A dual Xeon board from
> > > SuperMicro with both processors runs over $2000. So how much faster is
> > > this chip? Intel's web site
> > > says it has a 512K L2 cache (even more expensive versions have 1Mb and
> > > 2Mb cache) which runs
> > > at PROCESSOR SPEED .. 400 Mhz in this case. The comparable PII-400 chip
> > > has a smaller(?) L2 cache
> > > which runs at 1/2 chip speed. The comparable AMD K6-2 400 chip has a 1Mb
> > > L2 cache but it is off chip
> > > and accessed by the 100 Mhz bus.
> > >
> > > So there you have it. Is the Xeon really worth double the PII price or
> > > triple the K6-2 price?
> > > As far as I can see.. the main difference is the L2 cache speed. Has
> > > anybody seen any benchmarks
> > > on this chip vis-a-via "comparable chips?
> > >
> > > Jim M.
> >
> > Jim;
> >
> > If you intend to develope and run this software under LINUX then why are
> > you even looking at a Intel chip. Simply put NONE of the Intel chips are
> > floating point standouts.
>
> They aren't standouts, but they are cheap and get the job done. I favor
> the Alpha CPU for FP intensive work, but Intel chips are a cost effective
> solution in many cases.
Usally I find that the purchase of Intel based platforms has nothing to do with
performance. This is a point of view based largely on to much time spent in a
large corporation.
If you have to buy a dual processor Intel system to keep up with a Alpha, you
will not see a large price differential. In any event if this problem is
truely FP bound you will not benefit from dual processors unless you can
implement some sort of parrallel processing. Even at that you will not equal
the performance of the Alpha. Now if there is a great deal of integer
processing or systems overhead to deal with then a dual processor Intel may have
an advantage.
>
>
> > If your seriously considering chips in the
> > XEON line, then a Alpha is not out of the price range, nor would a PowerPC
> > based machine. You might even be able to find a SPARC in this price
> > range.
>
> Yeah, but why ? Intel is cheap and will have a much better price/performance
> ratio than any Sun platform. These days it really seems that it's down to
> Intel or Alpha if you are doing computational work.
Not really systems built to maximize the performance of an Intel based system
are not cheap. Especially when looking at High performance dual processor
units. I would agree that some of the SPARC units would not be in the same
price performance ball park, however this is not true of the Alpha or PowerPC
line. While the Alpha is currently the fastest FP processor on the market
the PowerPC has a much better balance of Integer to FP performance. The only
reason for not suggesting the PowerPC or the Power series in general is the
limited availability of low cost hardware that is well supported by Linux.
>
>
> > Start looking for Alpha powered units from Microway, ASPEN or
> > DCG to name just a few.
> >
> > The nice thing about a totally open system like Linux is the freedom to
> > choose the hardware of you choice.
>
> Totally open, but the compilers aren't so hot.
True the compilers aren't the best optimizers. On the otherhand they hold
there own as far as usability, compliance to standards and cost. Depending on
how serious this computational task is, specially developed and optimized
libraries may be part of the solution. It is hard to say from the original
post what the requirements are.
>
>
> Jeff
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Asus P2B-DS owners!
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:18:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Marc,
>
> The Adaptec driver that ships on the Redhat 5.1 distribution CD is not
> mature enough to recognize the version of Adaptec chip that Asus uses on the
> P2B series of motherboards. The version on the Redhat 5.2 CD is current
> enough to recognize the chip. The 5.1 version of Adaptec driver only
> recognizes the 788x series chips, found on early high-end motherboards like
> the Intel DK440LX and PCI cards like the 2940UW, 2944UW and 3944UW. The
> Ultra2 chip is the 7896 and is used on most current motherboards (Asus,
> Tyan, Intel) and the 2940U2W PCI cards from Adaptec. The 7896 chip family is
> supported in 2.0.36 releases and higher.
>
> Now if that wasn't confusing enough, I have found out that all of the
> coming high-end motherboards from the motherboard makers listed above will
> be the Symbios/LSI Logic SMDS SCSI chipset and not the Adaptec family.
Hi Jeff;
This may be a good thing for the Linux community. It would be very helpful
if Symbios / LSI Logic supplied the community with a set of drivers for the
chipsets. Or at the very least fully support the developers building the
drivers needed for this chipset. In my book Adaptec just hasn't done enough
to support there hardware under Linux, so I hope they fully fell the pain of
lost market share!!!!!!
Dave
>
>
> -Jeff
>
> Marc Knoop wrote:
>
> > I just built my system yesterday (PII450, 128MB, P2B-DS, IBM 9.1GB U2W,
> > V550) and I am already stumped upon my installation of RedHat 5.1.
> >
> > After booting off the RH bootdisk, I am asked if I have any SCSI devices.
> > I select YES, and then choose 'Adaptec 2740,2840,2940' (I've even tried
> > all Adaptec). Choosing 'Auto___' at the next screen produces an error
> > (can't find it or something like that) and if I choose 'Manual', I have
> > zero idea what these 'module options' are.
> >
> > How'd you guys do it?!? I've installed DOS/W95 on the primary partition
> > of my SCSI drive already.
> >
> > ../mk
> > ***** REMOVE NOSPAM FROM E-MAIL ADDRESS!!! *****
> > ***** (DAMN SPAMMERS) *****
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Jeff Johnson Manufacturer of high-performance
> Vice President computer peripherals for Sun, DEC
> Product Engineering Silicon Graphics, IBM, HP and
> Western Scientific other computing platforms.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there any way to find out if I have a win modem?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:37:59 -0500
Hi!
When I bought my computer, a P2 266Mhz, My 56k modem did not come with
any documentation or driver disks. I use the ISA PnP 56K X2 Voice Fax Modem
driver.... and it shows my true connect speed (which is very low...
24000bps!)
Is my modem a Win modem, and how can I find out?
P.S. When awnsering, please Carbon Copy your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, Charles
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