Linux-Hardware Digest #645, Volume #9 Fri, 12 Mar 99 23:13:47 EST
Contents:
Re: Corel Linux (James Knowles)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Johan Kullstam)
can't install linux with Ava 1505 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and 486 (Bob Nixon)
Re: Corel Linux (Rod Roark)
Re: Power Down with Linux? (Colin)
Help needed with tape drive (TRAVAN NS) ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
Re: Internal ATAPI zip incompatible? (Fred Scott Thompson)
Re: Dual Processors (Allen)
Re: Linux on a Celeron? (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Hardware choice (Allen)
Large (10 Gig) IBM DeskStar Drive (Geoff Shukin)
Re: can't install linux with Ava 1505 (Nils Freese)
Re: Multi-Head (Henry)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Brian
Langenberger)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(John Thompson)
Re: Linux System Backup: tape file system ? (John Thompson)
Re: install exabyte tape drive (Ken Rogers)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Christopher Browne)
Re: fat32 problem ("Mike Deissler")
[Fwd: Floppy still acting up. . .] (bryan)
Re: AGP/Diamond Speedstar A50 8MB (Ed Wilts)
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:10:56 +0000
Rod Roark wrote:
> Tsk-tsk -- age and gender discrimination in the same breath!
I'll assume you were trying to be funny.
> Regardless, I expect Linux will be there sooner than you think.
And how long do you think that I think it'll be?
> There are too many very smart people trying to make it happen for
> it to turn out otherwise.
Reread my post. I didn't say that it would not happen. On the other
hand, be honest. It still has a ways to go. Linux is an unbeatable
system. It is making terrific inroads. As I said, it's not there yet. It
was not a criticism, just an observation.
Sir James the Grumpy SWE doing battle with a Deadline. *grin*
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Mar 1999 19:56:20 -0500
John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ummm...not quite... bottom end single processor Alpha servers are about
> the same price as top end Intel dual processor servers - single 533Mhz
> 21164 w/ 256MB ram & 9gb disk runs about $4500, dual 500Mhz Pentium III
> w/ 256MB ram & 9gb disk runs about $4500... Alpha servers go up in
> performance & price from there, Intel Servers go down in performance and
> price from there...
there *are* quad intel boxen. they also generally cost more than
$4500. still, i'd rather have a fast alpha.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't install linux with Ava 1505
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:20:34 GMT
Hello how i make a boot disk for recognize this card.
I need it for install linux redhat 5.2
My Teac cdrom is connected to this card......
thanks for an answer
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From: Bob Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and 486
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:15:38 GMT
Tom Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <vd1G2.442$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Hi
> >
> > Will Linux work well on a 486? I've found a sale on IBM
> 486sx33/8mb/270hd
> > for $79.
> > Is this an OK machine for me to try Linux out on or should I get the
> > P75/16m/850 for $199?
> At our user group meeting last night, the presenter was using two of them
> to demonstrate firewalls, IP masquarading, DNS, and so on. Our area has
> recently been blessed with both cable and DSL access for 75%+ of the area
> residents, so everyone's been asking him "how do I..."
> A 486-66 w/8meg, text only, is perfectly suited for this type of thing --
> throw two "cheap" NIC's in it [isa slots only], and you have an instant
> firewall that can easilly handle T1 speed connections
________________^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think not. An old ISA nic card on a 486 will be damned lucky to do
200KB/sec in the configuration you discribe. Expect some serious slowdowns
on the boxes inside the 486linux firewall. This setup MIGHT be ok for
slower dailup on even ISDN but not with DLS or cable modems. I'm frankly
tired of hearing about this myth (probably started with success on dialup
connections) and have NEVER seen any data to support these old ISA 486's
keeping up with the >200KBytes/per second transfers often seen with cable
modems & DSL.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Get a P133 or > with (=>32Megs) for
this task and use PCI nic's.
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: 13 Mar 1999 00:12:44 GMT
James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Linux does have a long way util it can pass the "mother" test, i.e. "but
>can my mother use it?"
Tsk-tsk -- age and gender discrimination in the same breath!
Regardless, I expect Linux will be there sooner than you think.
There are too many very smart people trying to make it happen for
it to turn out otherwise.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Power Down with Linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:10:10 -0500
Clive Andeson wrote:
>
> I had [APM shutdown] working quite nicely in RedHat 5.1 kernel 2.0.36. I have
> upgraded to RedHat 5.2 and kernel 2.2.2 and I cannot get it to work again. Did this
> feature get broken in kernel 2.2.2?
Nope. It still works for me.
--
Reply to "cwv [at] idirect (dot) com"
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help needed with tape drive (TRAVAN NS)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:32:06 -0600
Hello,
I have an AIWA TD-20001 SCSI tape drive which I can't get to work. For
example, using tar, I get the following error:
# tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc
tar: Cannot write to /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I don't think the tape drive can be too far off from being set up right
because mt reports good (I think) status:
# mt -f /dev/st0 status
drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape
drive status = 1157628416
sense key error = 0
residue count = 0
file number = 0
block number = 0
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x45 (unknown).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
(I can't decipher IM_REP_EN.)
Also, "mt -f /dev/st0 retension" does cause the tape to do its thing.
But, mt does get this error:
# mt -f /dev/st0 eof
/dev/st0: Input/output error
It appears I can't write to the tape, but write protect is off. If I
turn write protect on, mt status reports it as on so I trust that it is
off when mt status doesn't report it as on.
--
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:26:03 -0600
From: Fred Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal ATAPI zip incompatible?
i was not able to read the original post, but i had an interesting evening (until
about 2:00 am) with my internal zip drive. i could not make the file system so i
went into fdisk and looked at the partition table. the partition did not end on a
cylinder boundry so i deleted it and recreated it as an ext2 partition. it was
misformed and there were unused sectors. i had to go into x pert mode and monkey
with the drive geometry so that the space came out even. i think i had had to
multiply the number of cylinders by 3 to get it to come out right but it looks
like each drive is different.
Neil Faulks wrote:
> I have not been able to solve this problem myself, but I do have more
> information. The dual capacity reporting is a sign of having an ATAPI2 Zip
> drive. Note that the two capacities differ by 16K. But changing the "A:"
> jumper doesn't seem to have an effect!!!!
>
> We now have four different sorts of ATA(PI) Zip drives - what are Iomega
> playing at!
>
> Despite Jeffrey's success below I have not been able to get ATAPI2 versions
> working under linux at all. I can instantly solve the problem by replacing the
> drive with a non-ATAPI2 model such as P/N 03019D00
>
> I presume that a new Linux driver will be able to cope with these new drives,
> but I haven't found one yet.
>
> All these drives have the same Model number, which makes it very difficult to
> get what we want from our suppliers. Watch out as ATAPI2 Zip drives are now
> being shipped as both OEM (P/N 04057D01) and retail (P/N 02965D04) parts.
>
> I am now fed up with Iomega.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jeffrey D Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and
> > >100646912 bytes as its capacity
> > >
> > > hdd: hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4
> > >
> >
> > I finally solved my problem. I did two things, and I'm not absolutely
> > certain which one or ones did the trick but here they are:
>
> Neil Faulks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Dual Processors
Date: 12 Mar 1999 04:33:28 GMT
I think the Tyan tomcat is a dual pentium? It still matters with the socket 7
CPU's -- don't kid yourself...
it isn't nearly as big of an issue for the PPro and up, but most PPro boards
will require parity fast-paged, or EDO memory, and you may spend more on getting
RAM for your system (that you can't use on another board later) if you go with a
PPro, and at least if you go with a P5, you don't HAVE to use parity RAM, and
may be able to re-use some older RAM from other systems, and if you go with a
newer "slot 1" system, whether you go with parity or not, you will still be able
to (re?)use your investment in RAM. Also, if you go with a Dual-Celeron system
(some hardware surgery required), your costs will be overall less than if you
bought RAM for a PPro system. I speak from experience on this, as I'm using a
Dual PPro system w/ a near give-away board, but after populating the board, with
just CPU's and 256 Mb ram, it has cost about $1100 USd . For that price, one
could've gotten a good dual BX motherboard w/ built-in SCSI, 10/100 NIC, sound,
256 Mb ECC SDRAM, and dual P2's that would certainly be faster than a 200 Mhz
PPro? (even a pair of dual P2 300's)
On 11 Mar 1999 05:00:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tmack) wrote:
>-=snip=-
>
>actually, it doesnt matter that much anymore..
>I am currently running a dual p2-233.
>One of the cpu's is a true p2-233, the other is an
>underclocked p2-266. It works, no modifications.
>I have run linux smp in the past on this machine, no
>problems, and am currently using it as an NT station.
>
>
>Tmack
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie--(how DO you exit vi?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: Linux on a Celeron?
Date: 13 Mar 1999 01:34:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:43:35 -0500, Charles D. Balazs, Jr. <> wrote:
>Has anyone ever heard of or experienced problems running Linux on a
>Celeron machine? This would be a Celeron 366...
We've sold a few dozen Celeron-based machines (just the 300A and up --
we refused to sell the earlier "celery stick" processors, they were
too pathetic). No problems reported yet.
Cheap MicroATX motherboards don't support ECC memory, that's the only
problem I can think of. BX chipset is the key -- if it has the BX chipset,
it'll do ECC memory. Much nicer.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"Microsoft views service as what a bull does to a cow." -- Unknown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Hardware choice
Date: 12 Mar 1999 04:33:24 GMT
Huh???
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:42:50 GMT, "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Claude Chaudet,
>
>Buy a brand new 486 system!!!!!!
>
>I'm running with an upgraded PPro system and it doesn't work very
>well. I'm having problems!!!!!
>
>Good Luck,
>James Kosin
>
...snip...
>|
>|Monitor : IIyama vision master pro 450 (19")
no problem
>|Mouse : Logitech USB wheel
No USB support for linux yet, and even after it is avail, wheel support is
unknown--some have post here that they have gotten some use from theirs (wheel
mice that is)
>|CD-Rom : Plextor 40x SCSI
if the adapter is, the all else on SCSI bus will work
>|SCSI adapter : Adaptec 2940 UW2
I think so, but check this group, and hardware compatibility HOWTO's
good link to start with is www.linux.org and the Linux documentation project,
which I don't remember the link to right off the top of my head, but they will
have links to it at the other one.
>|Video card : ATI fury AGP (ATI 128 based)
not sure, check www.xfree86.org ? for latest hardware support...
>|Sound card : SB 128 PCI
I don't think this is supported (yet?)
>|Network adapter : NE2000 - PCI
yes
>|Hard drive : IBM 4.5 Go UW2
if adapter is this will be too
>|
>|I am quite a newbie in the PC world. I don't know if a SCSI-only PC
>can
>|support Linux...
Linux and anything else can work better on SCSI system, depending on what and
how much you demand of system at a time... SCSI handles multi-tasking better.
(So does Linux)
>|
>|Thanks.
>|
>| Claude.
>|
bottom line? A definite maybe :-) (eventually probably)
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie--(how DO you exit vi?)
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From: Geoff Shukin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Large (10 Gig) IBM DeskStar Drive
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 02:13:29 GMT
Hi!
I have a new IBM 10 Gig EIDE drive that I can not get all 10 Gig out of
from Linux. My Diamond Max 2500 10 gig seems to be the same.
I read the Large Disk Howto and see a patch to the older kernels. Does
this need to be done under 2.2?
Is there any way around this other than the kernel patch? Is the kernel
patch reliable?
Thanks
Geoff
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From: Nils Freese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't install linux with Ava 1505
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 02:43:26 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello how i make a boot disk for recognize this card.
> I need it for install linux redhat 5.2
> My Teac cdrom is connected to this card......
> thanks for an answer
What's the problem ? Disable the pnp-feature with
the 1505acfg.exe-tool packaged with the controller,
then build a kernel with scsi-support, scsi-cdrom-support,
and the aha152x.o as driver. Put it on a disk
(make zdisk, or the full-featured way: (look at the
bootdisk-howto))
This should work.
(Do you really need a special boot-disk ?
Can't you use the RH-5.2-bootdisk an do an
"`modprobe aha152x"' ?)
regards
Nils
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From: Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multi-Head
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:04:08 -0500
Hi,
XIG has a product for this. Accelerated X. I have used it at work on a
couple of projects. It supports several types of PCI (and AGP?) boards
in multi headed operation. It is not free but not too expensive.
Check them at http://www.xig.com/
Henrik S�derquist wrote:
>
> I want to use dual monitors under Linux on a P166, anyone have a clue?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Langenberger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 13 Mar 1999 02:23:44 GMT
M. le Rutte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Walter van der Schee wrote:
: ? [...]
: > If you're using Linux, recompile the kernel to include magic SysRq-key
: > hack,
: > if X crashes and doesn't allow you to switch VT's, tap Alt-SysRq+R to
: > switch the keyboard out of raw-mode, then try to switch VT's. If that
: > doesn't help,
: > tap the sequence Alt-SysRq-S (emergency disk-sync), Alt-SysRq-U
: > (emergency disk remount read-only (setting the clean-bit)), Alt-SysRq-B
: > (emergency reboot).
: > [...]
: And than people still say Linux is ready for the desktop?
The worst possible case is the same: hardware reboot of the machine
The difference is, Linux requires that extreme step much less often than
Windows98.
If anything, Windows isn't ready for the desktop.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:08:36 -0600
M. le Rutte wrote:
> Tim Kelley wrote:
> > Well, this happens every now and then even with the best xservers ...
> > but there is an important distinction, which most users don't care
> > about, but it does need to be made.
> I thought Linux was extremely stable.... Better stick to MS, I believe.
"X" is not linux; it runs on top of linux. In the rare
event of an x problem it is usually quite easy to
"CTRL-ALT-[backspace}" to kill the x server and recover
without affecting the rest of linux (which may still be
supporting multiple other users).
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux System Backup: tape file system ?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:04:12 -0600
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> I wrote something that finally calls cpio; cannot tell what taper uses but
> personally I would stay away from anything that is not readable by tar or
> cpio. In case of an catastrophe you might have some problem else since the
> backup programme will be gone too of course.
Although taper is not (AFAIK) tar or cpio compatible it is
small enough to fit on a boot/root diskette set.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Ken Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,alt.salarix.x86,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: install exabyte tape drive
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:22:04 -0500
Lupei Zhu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just bought an EXB-8200 8mm tape drive from ebay. looks like an
> internal tape drive for me, no power cable or
> scsi cable. manual says it uses standard DC supply 5/12v. My concern is
> that if I install it inside my pentium box, will
> the fan is power enough to cool this thing? it requirs 5-40C operating
> temperature (41-104F) and needs air flow
> constantly. Does any one have a similar drive installed in a PC.
>
> thanks a lot
>
> Lupei
Most newer PCs have more than one fan, especially most that have high
capacity SCSI hard drives. You may need an additional case fan for the
drive, but it should work fine unless the PS fan in your system is not
cooling it properly. In some cases the new ATX style power supplies and
enclosed fans do NOT exhause the air, instead the pull in air and this
flows past the heatsinks inside the PS. This can create even more heat
inside a case!! Check your internal temps!!
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 03:25:34 GMT
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:19:36 -0500, wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Christopher Browne wrote:
>> Buying Intel-based boxes might *not* be more economical if you have to
>> spend an extra million dollars on the land and building to house them...
>
>I really can't concieve of any situation were the size of the box is going to
>make an intel sysytem more competitve. If that were so Intel would be seling
>more of there super computers to the goverment. This is especially true if you
>are chosing competitve systems from both manufactures. Not many intel chipsets
>will allow 8MB of cache or large memory systems for that manner.
That's pretty fair. The point I was trying to suggest was not so much
"Here are the precise reasons to pick Alpha over IA-32," but rather
"There do exist considerations beyond the baldly sparse issue of
price."
Alphas are really rather a lot faster than IA-32 on FP operations; that
is an area where they *really* shine. Which means that if you're doing
FP-intense work, as was certainly the case for DD's "rendering farm,"
this makes Alphas "look better." (At least, in comparison with
applications where FP is unimportant, such as with network routers.)
*That,* combined with "big cache," and "big memory space," is probably
the more important reason for Alpha to win out over IA-32 when building
rendering farms.
The "value of real estate" evaluation might be more usefully applied to
the PalmPilot; anything that makes a PalmPilot larger is very bad, as it
prevents it from fitting in a shirt pocket. A few mm of extra length in
any dimension could have crippling effects on its sales.
--
Wow! Windows now can do everything using shared library DLLs, just
like Multics did back in the 1960s! Maybe someday they'll discover
separate processes and pipes, which came out in the 1970s!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/alpha.html>
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From: "Mike Deissler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fat32 problem
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:51:52 -0800
Hey Rodney,
I'm guessing you recently upgraded your kernel from the source code (you got
somewhere)... I don't know why, but, when you get the source code that way,
it doesn't automatically support fat32 (vfat to Linux). Now, please don't
stop reading because the following gets lengthy; but your next step is
critical !
Please bear with me.... One of the neet things about linux is that you can
CUSTOMIZE it to be exactly what you want it to be, Meaning, you can make it
function only as a FTP server or whatever. When you make those descisions,
you can add or eliminate functionality from the actual complied code of the
kernel by rebuilding it.
Search the web for hints or read /docs/HOWTO (or something like that) for
instructions on how to do it.... But it's definitely not a question on basic
kernel support... Hey, it's a great learning exercise...
mik
Charles Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7cbdhg$l0h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>The original poster has provided conflicting information.
>He says he has RH5.2 installed but his kernel version is
>2.0.32.
>
>RH5.2 is shipped with kernel version 2.0.36, which is
>compatible with FAT32. Kernel 2.0.32 is NOT compatible
>with FAT32.
>
>Rodney Beede wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>What was the exact message of the error?
>>Make sure that the /mnt/disk directory exists, usually the /mnt directory
>is
>>just alone so try a command like:
>>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
>>
>>Also try typing in just "mount" and see if the Windows partition is
already
>>mounted (probably by your /etc/ftab file"). Also double check that you
got
>>the correct HDD, if Windows is on /dev/hda1 then the 6.4gb is the primary
>>master HDD.
>>
>>mesut wrote in message <7c7ri5$7m4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>I have two hardisk. one is 6.4 gb other is 1.7 gb. Redhat 5.2 is
installed
>>>on 1.7 gb hardisk. windows is insalled on other disk. i have tried to
>mount
>>> windows drivers. i used;
>>>mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
>>>mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
>>>mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
>>> those command. but every time i took same mistake. i use 2.0.32 kernel.
>>>if you help me i pleased.
>>>
>>>------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
>>> http://www.searchlinux.com
>>
>>
>>
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: Floppy still acting up. . .]
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 22:46:29 -0500
I get this when trying to mount my floppy drive on my laptop: (the
floppy and the CD-rom are swappable)
[root@localhost ~]# mount /mnt/floppy
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
FAT bread failed
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or too
many mounted file systems
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
I never successfully mounted the floppy since i installed installed,
although I tried to umount it.
The floppy is from a windows machine so I set it to 'vfat' (I also tried
msdos, and ext2).
The drive worked under windows, could it be a setting in the BIOS?
thanks in advance!
~bryan
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From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: AGP/Diamond Speedstar A50 8MB
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:56:35 -0600
dknecht wrote:
> I've just installed RedHat 5.2 and so far it's running. But when I try
> to start Xwindows with startx the initialization fails. Xwindows sais
> that it would not know the chip SiS6326 and sets the RAM on 64k and the
> card type generic.
There are 2 problems. First, you need to upgrade XFree to the latest from
the Redhat updates site.
Secondly, even after you upgrade and run XConfigurator, you'll need to
manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config since the version that gets automatically
generated is in error. Here's the extract from mine:
Section "Device"
Identifier "My Video Card"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
VideoRam 8192
Option "no_bitblt"
Option "no_imageblt"
Option "sw_cursor"
# Option "no_accel" # Use this if acceleration is causing problems
# Option "fifo_moderate"
# Option "fifo_conserv"
# Option "fifo_aggresive"
# Option "fast_vram"
# Option "pci_burst_on"
# Option "xaa_benchmark" # DON'T use with "ext_eng_queue" !!!
# Option "ext_eng_queue" # Turbo-queue. This can cause drawing
# errors, but gives some accel
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
Lastly, as somebody else said, you should make yourself familiar with a few
of the search engines. In particular:
http://www.dejanews.com
http://www.searchlinux.com
You'll find that a lot of the answers you've got have already been
answered. This will save you some time, leaving you more time to try out
new things.
.../Ed
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