Linux-Hardware Digest #96, Volume #9 Sun, 3 Jan 99 17:13:50 EST
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Is my hard drive gonna take a nosedive into oblivion? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux RH and Samba Y2K ready? (Guenther Wieser)
ISDn Asuscom isa pnp card in suse 5.3 (Fx Fraipont)
Re: Installing on IBM 486BL 75MHz Motherboard (Paul Price)
Re: Help!!! X-Windows and SiS 5596 ("Ken McCord")
Re: linux wannabe! (Henrik Hovi)
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought (Jasper Janssen)
Re: Damaged ext2 filesystem (Miikka-Markus Alhonen)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! (Henrik
Hovi)
Re: Microsoft Elite keyboard (Henrik Hovi)
Re: Hardware requirements (Henrik Hovi)
Re: symbios scsi support in linux? (Andreas Bombe)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is my hard drive gonna take a nosedive into oblivion?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:52:15 GMT
I recently got Red Hat 5.1 installed and working on an old 486 with a 360MB
Western Digital Hard Drive. No problems. I've been using it as a webserver.
My father also has an old 486 running Win95. He upgraded to a larger hard
drive and gave me the original one, which was a 340MB seagate drive circa
1993. (CHS 768/14/62, total size 341.31MB). I created a linux/native
partition on it and created an ext2 fs on it and mounted it (/dev/hdb1) under
/home, so as to have more space for the httpd directories and such.
This worked fine for about 3 months, and then one day i couldn't access the
httpd directory, the ftp directory, and one user directory on that drive,
because when i tried to it gave me weird i/o errors. running fsck didn't
help, repeatedly giving the message "Uncorrectable Error" and other stuff.
being from a DOS/WIN background, I decided "what the hell, I'll just reformat
the drive and start again."
Reading some HOWTO, i was reminded that under linux, (as opposed to dos),
"formatting" a HD is done at the factory, and all i could (easily) do was
make the file system again. So thats what i did, using the find-bad-blocks
option. The computer has now been "making the file system" for two hours now,
giving me hundreds of the following errors: "DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest Error", "SectorIdNotFound", "AddrMarkNotFound", and occaisionally
"Uncorectable Error". The error messages give CHS information, and the errors
seem to be occurring mostly around cylinders 146-7, and 485-7. (and more,
it's not done yet...)
So, (sorry this is so long), What's going on? Has the surface of the disk
really been damaged or scratched or something, so that iron filings are
flying everywhere and scratching other portions of the disk? Should I just
chuck the drive now because it's just going to rapidly deteriorate into
nothing? Or has, somehow, the formatting information on the drive been
erased/corrupted, so that if I actually COULD do a low-level format, maybe
the disk could be fixed? If so, how would I do that? I should also mention
that the computer had been hacked into (it was on a college network) several
times before this occured, so it is possible (though it seems to me unlikely)
that this damage was caused intentionally.
I would appreciate any help/advice anyone could give me. I would like to get
the computer back into working shape soon.
Thanks,
chris
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From: Guenther Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.samba
Subject: Re: Linux RH and Samba Y2K ready?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:38:11 GMT
For samba see http://www.samba.org and go to documentation. I can
remember that I saw a Y2K faq there.
Johnny El wrote:
>
> Hi folks
> Any idea where can I get information on Y2k ready for RH Linux and Samba ?
> is there an official y2k supported Linux RH+Samba Released?
> TIA,
> Johnny El
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G�nther Wieser
creative-it/G�nther Wieser Software KEG
http://www.creative-it.com
Student of Telematik at Graz University of Technology
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From: Fx Fraipont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDn Asuscom isa pnp card in suse 5.3
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:35:11 +0100
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has anyone been successful in installing an Asuscom ISDN adapter in suse
5.3. I read that the Hisax driver could be used, but my card is not
recognized. Iread all the information that was available, but can't get
it to work. can anyone help?
Thanks
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From: Paul Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing on IBM 486BL 75MHz Motherboard
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 13:01:14 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 22:46:23 -0700, Paul Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi all. I'm having problems trying to install Linux 2.0.29 (or 2.0.27)
> >on an IBM Blue Lightning 486/75 mother board. I have one IDE hard disk
> >(540M) that seems to be auto detected correctly, and one IDE CD, also
> >detected. There is 28 MB installed memory and no other cards.
> >
> >I've tried booting off of the diskettets I created, as well as booting
> >via DOS from the CD. All attempts stop at the same place. I get the
> >following output:
> >
> >>>> kernal: initializing network devices <<<
> >(some stuff here)
> >
> >>>> kernal: check CPU <<<
> >(some stuff here)
> >
> >>>> kernal: show kernal version <<<
> >Linux version 2.0.29 ...
> >
> >>>> kernal: initializing character devices <<<
> >(some stuff here)
> >
> >>>> kernal: initializing block devices <<<
> >Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 2880K size
> >hda: MAXSTORE MXT-540 AT, 521MB w/256kB Cache, LBA, CHS=1024/16/63
> >hdb: DF7910C(-D0161 ), ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> Disconnect the CD-ROM and try again. Some ATAPI CD-ROMS are not compatible
> with the normal ATAPI driver.
>
> >---------------
> >This is where the system stops dead.
> >
> >Can anyone give some help?
This was it! Thanks a ton for the help.
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From: "Ken McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!!! X-Windows and SiS 5596
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:45:23 -0500
Do a DejaNews search for my step-by-step instructions on setting up this
chipset. Article was posted in December.
Ken McCord
Simon Huggins wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am trying to install X-Windows on RedHat Linux 5.1, and have tried the
>default VGA and SVGA drivers, but I get the message that there is not
enough
>memory available - ie. 0Kb. This is probably because I have to allocate a
>portion (from 128Kb - 2Mb) of main system memory to the Video Card - the
>card itself has NO on-board memory. Is there any way around this anybody?
>I'd be very grateful for some help on this.
>
>Also, I am trying to install the Audiodrive 1868 Card on Linux, but cannot
>get any of the setting to work, despite trying to work from my Windows 95
>System Setup printout. Any Ideas?
>
>Many Thanks,
>
>
>Simon Huggins, England.
>
>
>
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From: Henrik Hovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux wannabe!
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:14:42 +0200
James Barley wrote:
> As a newcomer to linux, I've a couple of questions that have I'm sure been
> asked before, but here goes...
>
> Two things I can't get to work, and I miss dearly are my scsi flatbed
> scanner, (AGFA Snapscan) and my printer (Epson Color 600).
> I can get some basic ascii text to print but no color or any of the many
> features the printer is capable of.
>
> Any suggestions on what I can do, or where I can look for help, would be
> helpfull...
>
> BTW Happy new year all...
>
> Jim...
Uh... I don't know about scanners if they don't work like harddrives, but I
know something about printers... Does that Epson have dips? Changing the
printer settings helped on my Canon. Does it even print test pages?
-Iron Devil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jasper Janssen)
Subject: Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 20:18:42 GMT
On 03 Jan 1999 06:37:45 -0500, James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm in the market for a new monitor, and I've decided to go with a 19
>inch of some type. My chief uses for my computer are coding, web
>browsing, email, graphic arts, etc -- in other words, mostly text
>based uses. I play games occasionally, but only a small fraction of
>the time compared to the other uses.
Sounds like me.
>I would like to be able to run at 1600x1200, but I'm not sure how well
>suited 19 inch monitors are for this type of activity. I like
>cramming a great deal of things on the screen, though, so I'd like to
>push as high as possible -- 1280x1024 would be fine if necessary. If
>it matters, I have an ATI All-in-Wonder (4 meg), and from what I've
>heard, it can push higher end resolutions/refresh rates without a
>problem.
Sounds like me too, only I do it on a 17", where most people regard me
as crazy for using 1280*1024 :) With 4 meg, and a relatively "older"
card, you might have a problem running at optimum 24 bits color depth,
tho. I used to run a S3 virge/dx at 1280*1024*8bpp, and since I
upgraded to a G200, the quality of my display is much better:
Steadier, sharper, 32 bpp color :)
>Right now I'm looking mainly at:
>Iiyama VisionMaster 450
>Viewsonic G790
>Optiquest V95
I use the predecessor to the current Iiyama 17" Pro (I think they're
called 400Gt now, or something) - it uses the same diamondtron tube as
the current one, and I've never regretted getting it. They're
relatively cheap, yet almost up to eizo/nec quality. Of the others,
I've never heard, unfortunately :)
>Any suggestions, recommendations, horror stories, etc would be great.
You're welcome.
>Also, what advantage, if any, does using a BNC cable offer? Should
>this be an important factor in my decision?
Well, most BNC cables are standard VGA up to 10 cm before the monitor.
It's nice to have a monitor with dual inputs tho: You can have either
a normal card a 3d card (Voodoo-type), or two comps on them, and
respectively autoswitch or mnually switch between them. Also, just in
case standards for VGA cables change, BNC will prolly still be here. I
wouldn't make it a big factor: Quality is much more important.
Jasper
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From: Miikka-Markus Alhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Damaged ext2 filesystem
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:59:51 +0000
James Youngman wrote:
> You may be able to use the "-b 8193" option to e2fsck in order to fix
I tried that but it didn't work. e2fsck now reported this kind of
message:
e2fsck 1.04, 16-May-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda3
The filesystem superblock is corrupt. Try running e2fsck with an
alternate
superblock using the -b option. (8193 is commonly an alternate
superblock;
Hence, 'e2fsck -b 8193 <device>' may recover the filesystem.)
Then I remembered a program called ext2ed (version 0.1). I tried it and
it gave me wrong results with every superblock copy, for example the
main copy:
s_blocks_count = 17829729 (while it really is 2104514)
s_free_blocks_count = 17308568 97.08 % (while it should be about 50 %
free)
s_mtime = 931808139 Mon Jul 12 22:35:39 1999
s_wtime = 931832311 Tue Jul 13 05:18:31 1999
s_lastcheck = 931045342 Sun Jul 4 02:42:22 1999
(My computer's clock has never been this much ahead the real time, not
even now).
Most of the other sections have a value 16777472 (0x1000100), for
example s_creator_os, which should be 0 (Linux).
s_magic = 61267 (0xef53) # This is the only real value
Superblock copy 1 (in block 8449, not 8193):
s_blocks_count = 0
s_free_blocks_count = 0
s_mtime = 0 Thu Jan 1 02:00:00 1970
s_wtime = 0 Thu Jan 1 02:00:00 1970
s_magic = 0
Superblock copy 2 (in block 16897)
s_free_blocks_count = 1380015967 253.87 %
and so on (I didn't check all the copies, only 1-100)
> this. The good news is that most of the data on the root partition is
> still intact. I know this because you can run fsck *at all*.
I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you that this partition is not my root
partition. My root partition is totally on a different hard disk
(/dev/hdb1).
First I thought the whole partition is gone, but then I remembered how
to read bytes directly from the partition: dd if=/dev/hda3
In the beginning there were only NUL bytes after 0x5400 bytes, but then
I saw something that might be a directory in position 0x42000. After
that there were more directories and other files. Apparently most of
data of the partition still exists, but I can't get to it easily.
So, how can I find out where would there be an undamaged version of the
superblock, or how can I build a new one without destroying all the data
which still exists there?
-- Miikka-Markus Alhonen <http://www.info.tampere.fi/~yphmiial/>
1 bulls, 3 cows.
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From: Henrik Hovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 20:57:43 +0200
James Barley wrote:
> THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote in message <368ac138.9350398@news>...
> >HEY MAN !!! I AIN'T PAYING SH** FOR LINUX !!! AND I WILL CONTINUE
> >POSTING FOR HELP UNTIL IT'S DONE !!! SO EITHER YOU HELP OR GET LOST
> >AND STUFF A PIE IN YOUR FACE, FARTFACE !!!
> >
>
> Nobody should take this stuff personally,
> I'm sure his attitude will change, once he becomes a teenager and matures a
> little..
He? Grow up? Maybe someone should tell him that in I almost had to pay 350 FIM
(1 FIM = about 0.2 USD) for my Red Hat... but there was christmas and my dad
paid 140 FIM for it :)
-Iron Devil
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From: Henrik Hovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup
Subject: Re: Microsoft Elite keyboard
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:24:15 +0200
K R Davies wrote:
> I recently bought a Microsoft Natural Elite keyboard (Hobson's choice at the
> time) and it has worked out rather well typing wise. The problem is, it
> seems to slow down my computer at certain times, usually during heavy disk
> access. The NUMLOCK light flashes off briefly and (unrelated) the ALPHALOCK
> light (and indeed the key) only works when it feels like it. This slow down
> is consistent enough for me to know that the keyboards the problem, swapping
> it for another solves the problem every time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Kenvyn Davies
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds scary... (Microsoft I mean) DO YOU HAVE A WARRANTY? Well it might just
be this ONE keyboard but if a second one does that, you should consider getting
your money back somehow. BTW are you surtain that you are using the right
driver? It might have something to do with that.
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From: Henrik Hovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Hardware requirements
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:27:25 +0200
Bill Pitz wrote:
> As long as you aren't going to be using the server capabilities to the
> maximum all of the time, I would take more RAM over CPU power. You *might*
> be able to pull this off with 32 megs, but it would be pushing it. Better
> to get 64 just in case.
>
> I have setup 486/50 boxes with 12mb ram doing IP masquerading for 10-20
> clients and it works without any problems.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Ok, I have gotten some outstanding info from you guy on the subject
> > already but would like to revisit it for a reason or two... I am looking
> >
> > ot get a CHEAP linux box (W/o) monitor to use as a file server, database
> >
> > (small or no instance of Minisql or something), HTTPD, FTP, email etc...
> >
> > i also want to use it as a router (Ip masuareding) 1-4 clients, and a
> > friend of mine and I are working on deveolping a web interface for a
> > command line driven MP# player. I would like to use this boxes power to
> > play the mp3 over a sound card and wire the linux box into my altec
> > lansig speaker set on my NT box... Samba will be running if possible,
> > and I would like to possible run X and use a X client on my NT box to
> > run X windows if pssible.. OS will be RH5.2. I was thinking under $400
> > so maybe a p133 with 32 or 64 megs? I found a P200 32megs for $450 but
> >
> > am a college student so I am thinking more like $200... Any ideas or
> > minimum requirement, places of purchase to check? etc... Let me know!
> > Thanks!!!
Uh I would say 32 is enough even on a server (depending on the bandwidth
ofcourse) but if you think about using the X window and playing some quality
games I would recommend 64megs
-Iron Devil
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From: Andreas Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: symbios scsi support in linux?
Date: 2 Jan 1999 21:27:03 GMT
Keith W Sheffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a tekram motherboard that has built in Symbios SCSI BIOS for
> working with adapters using or compatible with Symbios Logic 53C8xx SCSI
> chips. This allows global or device specific settings to be configured
> from the bios setup screen.
> Are these controllers supported in Linux? I noticed that the NCR 53C8xx
> chips were and was wondering if they were compatible (or the same chips
> for that matter).
You don't have to care about the BIOS, it's the chip support that
matters. The BIOS is required for booting from SCSI disks and to carry
user settings. Linux can read these settings if the BIOS is a Symbios
or compatible BIOS, but that is not required (the driver can just as
well be configured directly with boot/module parameters).
> Or should I just stick with an Adaptec or one of the tekram boards
> listed in the hardware compatibility HOWTO?
As I said, it's the chip that matters, not the board. I have an Aresys
SCSI card with a Symbios 53C875 on it, and it works just fine (the BIOS
is Symbios compatible, so even the settings are read automatically).
--
Andreas E. Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://home.pages.de/~andreas.bombe/
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