Linux-Hardware Digest #989, Volume #9 Sat, 10 Apr 99 22:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card (Bill Anderson)
Re: Sound Card advice? (Tonny Sejr Kromann)
Re: Promise IDE Cards (Tim Moore)
SCSI-cd problem (Tonny Sejr Kromann)
mounting hard drives ("pschless")
Re: Winmodems, the final word (I wish). ("Johannes")
e-machines for linux (Bruce W. Cox)
Re: How do I swap disks in RedHat 5.2? (Regit Young)
Re: Ax59pro and Linux..How well does your system work? (Bruce Stephens)
Re: Suggestions from PCI linux modems (John Thompson)
Re: Western Digital HD Problems in Linux and NT (John Thompson)
PCMCIA and floppy on laptops.. ("eon sol")
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Andrew Comech)
Re: 3com / US robotics 56K (Andrew Comech)
3com/USRobotics VSP (Just Me)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Anderson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:16:48 GMT
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 22:00:31 GMT,
Stuart R. Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bill Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Jon Slater wrote:
>: >
>: > Can anyone recommend a fast PCI Ethernet card for Linux?
>: >
>: > Thanks!
>: > --
>: > Jon D. Slater QualComm Inc.
>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6150 Lookout Road
>: > Phone: (303) 247-5037 Boulder, Colorado
>: > Fax: (303) 247-5167 80301
>:
>: Sure can. I reccomend a fast NIC card over a slow one any day! :-)
>:
>: Seriously, I use a SYMBIOS combination wide-scsi and 10/100 that runs
>: great for me.
>: AFAIK, there is but the one, IIRC, it is an 875.
>: Saves on PCI slots, too ;-)
>
>Do you have a manufacturer, model, dealer, etc? I'm out of PCI slots, and
>need to add a SCSI controller. This would work out great!
>
http://www.lsilogic.com/products/sym53c885.htm
It is a wide SCSI, w/a 10/100 based on the yellowfin gigabit ethernet chip.
I am running a pair of then (one runs the narrow CD/CDR, the other runs
the wide drives).
Works great for me.
Bill Anderson
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From: Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Card advice?
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:23:59 +0000
Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote:
> Any advice on quality, support, 1st hand knowledge/experience, etc would
> be VERY welcome. <As would insider knowledge of quality/progress of SBLive
When I was using 2.0.36, I worked for weeks with recompilations and isapnp,
trying to get my AWE64 working. I didn't succeed :-(.
So I bought the OSS-driver. After 5 minutes I had sound. No need to think about
ISA-bus IRQ and so on. It takes care of the whole thing. I will recommend this
driver. It costs $20 and perhaps $10 for some extra midi-stuff.
However I also heard or read that the sound-drivers with the kernels have been
reworked. Maybe you should try the 2.2.5 first. I haven't tried since I already
bought the driver from http://www.opensound.com/
--
Good luck
Tonny
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:14:29 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise IDE Cards
The Promise Ultra/33 card provides two more ide channels sharing a single IRQ. RH5.1
or later autoprobe it correctly. It's a UDMA controller not hardware raid.
Below is a clip from dmesg. The two DHEA drives are the first stripe set, the DTTA
drives are a second stripe set. For software RAID0, two drives on the same ide
channel yield 1/2 single drive performance, on different ide channels the performance
is doubled.
...
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 33
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f
ide: Promise Technology IDE Ultra-DMA 33 on PCI bus 0 function 88
ide: Enabling DMA for Promise Technology IDE Ultra-DMA 33 on PCI bus 0 function 88,
port 0xa400
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa408-0xa40f
hda: Maxtor 88400D8, 8011MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1021/255/63, UDMA
hdb: ASUS CD-S340, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hde: IBM-DHEA-36481, 6197MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=12592/16/63, UDMA <ide2 master>
hdf: IBM-DTTA-371440, 13783MB w/462kB Cache, CHS=28005/16/63, UDMA <ide2 slave>
hdg: IBM-DHEA-36481, 6197MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=12592/16/63, UDMA <ide3 master>
hdh: IBM-DTTA-371440, 13783MB w/462kB Cache, CHS=28005/16/63, UDMA <ide3 slave>
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xb800-0xb807,0xb406 on irq 10
ide3 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xa806 on irq 10 (shared with ide2)
...
# cat /etc/raidtab
raiddev /dev/md0 # DHEAs
raid-level 0 # it's not obvious but this *must be
# right after raiddev
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 16
device /dev/hde7
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdg7
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md1 # DTTAs
raid-level 0 # it's not obvious but this *must be
# right after raiddev
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
chunk-size 32
device /dev/hdf2
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdh2
raid-disk 1
--
Direct replies to bigfoot.com with username 'timothymoore'
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI-cd problem
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 00:42:15 +0000
I just installed a SCSI-cdr. It gets detected, but with xcdroast /
cdrecord there comes errors. I suppose I should look at my scsi-setup,
but I don't know exactly what to do. I'm unable to find the device-file,
so I can't try mounting a cd.
Hope someone can give me a hint.
--
Thanks in advance
Tonny (on kernel 2.2.1)
Here's the dmesg:
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 6/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=11, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 407 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R820T Rev: 1.03
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
(scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
and some of the info from xcdroast 0.96e:
write track data: error after 0 bytes
CDB: 03 00 00 00 12 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 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 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
/usr/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1: Input/output error. flush
cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 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 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 120s
Trouble flushing the cache
Writing time: 50.011s
/usr/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1: Input/output error. close
track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 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 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 480s
END og message
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From: "pschless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: mounting hard drives
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 07:47:01 -0500
I have two hard drives inside my computer. linux is installed on my d
drive, or hdb.
anyone know how I can mount my c drive or my d drive into linux?
please email me.
thanks for your time
Patrick
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From: "Johannes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems, the final word (I wish).
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:28:02 -0400
Not only is the installed base formidable, but so is the economic leverage
exerted by Misrosoft via the winmodem. You can be sure that MS and friends
would really like to slow/prevent the spread of any competing systems-
including linux. They have done/ are doing this through the use of
proprietary technology, and through the use of intense financial pressure
against computer manufacturers and retailers to keep them from offering
non-MS boxes. It seems quite difficult- more difficult than just two or
three years ago- to find a new, lower-priced computer that does NOT have a
winmodem installed.
Having nearly all new computers equipped with a vital device that _only_
works with MS may be the single best strategy that MS has for keeping its
user base over the next 5-7 years.
I've felt for a long time that it is necessary to tackle the winmodem head
on if linux is to make any serious penetration into the general public
market. Granted that it is junk, that a real modem is much better. But it is
likely that the winmodem will "go away' once it has been cracked, except on
the cheapest boxes, since its real purpose is to extend monopoly rather than
communication. Once linux + mac + other alternative systems reach a certain
level of penetration, say around 15%, it will be impractical for any
business or manufacturer or etc. to insist on toadying to the MS monopoly
any longer- it will be too costly. At this point the major linux battle will
have been won.
Johannes
d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) wrote in message ...
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Depuydt) writes:
>
>> Final Question ??
>>
>> Why the hell would you wanna buy a winmodem in the first (last) place.
>> A *real* modem doesn't eat up processor time.
>
>Many people already own them, so the question is irrelevant.
>--
>David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
>UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce W. Cox)
Subject: e-machines for linux
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:36:25 -0400
hi
I'm thinking about getting one of the e-machine computers from office
depot. its a celeron 366 with 3.2 gig hd 32 meg of ram ,cd rom,etc
on their web page www.e4me.com they say that they do no support
for either nt or linux. has anyone put linux on one of the e-machines?
i m thinking about usig caldera/red hat
thank you
Bruce w.cox
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do I swap disks in RedHat 5.2?
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:45:30 +0800
Peter,
There are a few ways to do this, check:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
Essentially, all you need is to do is transfer the files with permission
intact, avoiding /proc and the mount-point of the new disk for obvious
reason :), edit fstab and lilo.conf in the new disk, installed the loader,
change the id and reboot.
Cheers,
Regit
Peter J Arnold wrote:
> G'day good people,
> I have a standard Redhat 5.2 install on a 486 box with a scsi card. I
> currently have RedHat install on sdb as per:
> ######
> # cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/sdb5 / ext2 defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> elle:/export/opt3/distribs /opt/distribs nfs
> user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1
> elle:/export/online_doco/www /opt/www nfs
> user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1
>
> # df -k
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/sdb5 1980209 374207 1503654 20% /
> /dev/sdb1 16833 770 15194 5% /boot
> elle:/export/online_doco/www
> 673699 578969 93982 86% /opt/www
> #####
>
> I want to swap the disk sdb for another smaller scsi disk and transfer
> all the current installation over onto the new disk.
>
> I currnetly have both old and new disks installed but the new one is not
> fdisked or formated.
>
> Can I boot off the current installation, fdisk, format and transfer all
> the data to the new disk, swap SCSI id's (between old and new disks) and
> reboot?
>
> Any suggestions/help/comments/pointers to relevant manuals etc would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
> --
> Peter Arnold
> +---------------------------+-----------------+
> | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To err is human |
> | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | To moo bovine. |
> +---------------------------+-----------------+
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.aopen
Subject: Re: Ax59pro and Linux..How well does your system work?
Date: 11 Apr 1999 01:36:00 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian) writes:
> > > modprobe i2c-via
> > > modprobe 12c-proc
> > > modprobe gl518sm
>
> > Ah, thanks! That would explain it. Now it works.
>
> Strange enough, it doesn't work on my mainboard. May be my vendor gave me an
> old motherboard? Here is some output from /proc/pci:
[...]
Oh. Looks the same as what I get from /proc/pci. Are you using the
same version (2.2.2) of lm_sensors? Do you get anything in the log
(/var/log/messages)?
You probably need to compile lm_sensors with the same (or roughly the
same) version of the kernel headers that you're actually going to use
it with.
Perhaps there's a kernel dependency? What version of the kernel are
you using? (I'm using 2.2.5-ac6.)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suggestions from PCI linux modems
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:32:59 -0600
Peter Pawlowski wrote:
> The main reason I was inquiring about PCI was due to the fact that I only
> had PCI open, however, if ISA is all that works, I'll have to adjust...
External will also work.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Western Digital HD Problems in Linux and NT
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:38:52 -0600
Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Keats <beautyandthe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >
> >
> >typically, NT is the only OS that i know of that lets you put it anywhere(Linux
> >if booting from floppy), +/- 1023rd cyl, hda-hdd, linux on the other hand, has
> >difficulty with anything other then under 1023rd cyl (514Meg?) on hda for
> >booting purposes. (That is root "/" has to be there) everything else, /home et
> >al can be where-ever..
> Aren't you forgetting about NTLoader.exe? That has to be under 1024
> cylinder limit.
Good point.
> The problem is the BIOS, not the OS. LILO uses bios calls to load the
> kernel, therefore the kernel must be under cylinder 1024 in order for
> the bios call to be able to access it.
Actually, I think the problem is the cpu, which has to start
in real-mode and use the real-mode BIOS to find the devices
it needs to boot. Once your OS has started booting, it can
switch the cpu into protected-mode and wave bye-bye to the
BIOS.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "eon sol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA and floppy on laptops..
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:10:03 -0500
can anyone offer any help here? i'm having a difficult time mounting my
floppy (/dev/fd0). i can format a disk, but after it formats, when it
attempts to verify, i get I/O errors. when i attempt to mount it, i get:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector
/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
when a disk is in and i try to mount it, it endlessly accesses it, until i
pop the disk out.
i've tried mounting both msdos and ext2..
as far as the pcmcia goes, it's locking up when loading modules on boot even
when no cards are in. i have to insert, eject and reinsert a card to get
past this. it doesn't detect any cards properly.
i'm using an nec ready 220t
any help would be greatly appreciated. email : eon (-at-) sol.cc or eon
(-at-) tcac.net
thank you
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Apr 1999 21:58:12 -0500
On 08 Apr 1999 14:45:41 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (who?) writes:
>
>> : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> : Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> : > This is a fiction. Redhat do *not* develop drivers.
>
>> stupid comment, but I cant help but chastise poor english, which I am a
>> master of (poor english for those not following very closely).
>> that do, it should be does.
>
>not if you're from a commonwealth country - which includes new zealand
>(where is the old zealand btw?). in *english* (as opposed to american
>english) redhat is a group entity and considered plural. therefore,
>redhat do.
If you were to say "redHat sucks", you'd say "redHat sucks", though.
Cheese,
Andrew
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
Expect to pay below $50.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 3com / US robotics 56K
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Apr 1999 22:10:08 -0500
On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 21:28:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>
>I'm trying to find a 56K modem that will work under linux. I checked the
>"Linux modems list," aka "Winmodems are not modems," and discovered that the
>3com / USRobotics Sportster 56K, model 1785, allegedly works fine.
>
>The problem is that I can't find any of these being sold anywhere.
Hi, you could fish out some of USR modems (including Linux-compatible;
check the model numbers) on PriceWatch and shopper.com for around $60-70.
But you do not really have to have a USR modem.
Cheese,
Andrew
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
Expect to pay below $50.
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From: Just Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com/USRobotics VSP
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:56:36 -0500
Just wondering if anyone has had any luck yet with a Linux driver for
the 3Com VSP...... I recall earlier that Linux was left out in the cold
as far as getting driver info, but I thought maybe there might have been
new developments that I missed.
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