Linux-Hardware Digest #62, Volume #10 Mon, 19 Apr 99 06:13:43 EDT
Contents:
Re: Recommended ULTRA SCSI / SCSI 3 Cards/Hard Drives? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ati stereo f/x ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI with SCAM? (Richard Preston)
Re: 3com / US robotics 56K (steve harris)
Re: LILO refuses, stops after 'LI' ("Duy D.")
SCSI makes the kernel faults (Andrea Zanin)
IDE detection problem ? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Linux on SUN Sparc? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Newbie--3c509b can't recognize (Charles Pouliot)
Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please Help! -> Adaptec SCSI AVA1502 <- ("Gene Heskett")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Recommended ULTRA SCSI / SCSI 3 Cards/Hard Drives?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 05:55:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Alan W. Jurgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What are people using?
> >
> > Want to do Ultra Scsi / scsi 3 around 40 mb/s or 80 mb/s transfers...
> > what works well in linux? what cards are supported the best...
>
> The motherboard (Intel L4400GX) that I'm using has a builtin dual channel
> Adaptec 7896 controller (one channel LVD, one channel single ended) that works
> with 2.0.36 (at least long enough for me to compile the 2.2.5 kernel) and
> 2.2.5. I'm using two IBM 10k rpm 9 gig drives that report model names of
> 'DRVS09V' in /proc/scsi/scsi. The guy who built my system said the disks run
> cooler than the Cheatahs he has installed in other systems (heat was a big
> concern in my setup).
>
> I believe I've seen reports that the TekRam ultra2 controllers also work well.
>
Did you need to do anything special to get Linux 2.0.36 up and running? Did
2.2.5 offer better support for the Adaptec 7896? TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ati stereo f/x
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:26:19 -0700
Hi there->
I am looking for a sound driver for linux. I need one for an ATI Stereo
F/X. If you've got one, or know where to get one, please let me know.
thanks so much everybody.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Preston)
Subject: Adaptec 2940UW SCSI with SCAM?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:38:09 GMT
My brother is using the Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller with SCAM (whatever that
is). It didn't work with Red Hat 5.1 and I was wondering if anyone knew if it
works with Red Hat 5.2 or S.u.S.E. 6.0 or any other Linux distribution.
Thanks,
Richard
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From: steve harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 3com / US robotics 56K
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 03:42:37 +0000
[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. The
> closest model number I can find is 1787, and I can't find any technical
> details that tell if this one would probably be compatible, too. I'm curious
> if anyone else out there has had any success with this model.
>
> Also, if you know of another 56K modem that works well with linux, I wouldn't
> mind hearing about that, either.
>
> thanks in advance for any advice,
> rob kent
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rob, I'm using a courier running 230400 dte. Its about $250 though.
The rockwell externals will run 230400. (zoom, diamond, others probably)
I bought a lucent but they will not run 230400 dte yet. Only 115200.
An external is the safest bet.
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: "comp.os,linux.setup",comp.os.linux.setup,"comp.os,linux.hardware"
Subject: Re: LILO refuses, stops after 'LI'
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:03:50 -0400
Keith Rhodes wrote:
> I have just installed RedHat 5.2 on my second system
> (a home-grown 80486/8MbyteRam/2.5GbyteDrive),
> that has previously run RedHat 4.2 and 5.1 without too many problems.
>
> Yesterday I installed three times:
>
> 1. and 2. via FTP from my main system, whose CDROM drive is much faster,
> over ethernet
> 3. from the system's own CDROM drive.
>
> In all three cases, the installation goes according to plan.
> But when I reboot I get LI and, er, that's all.
> I can reboot from the boot floppy I made during the installation,
> and the system seems to run normally.
>
> LILO on the hard drive, however, hangs after printing the two first
> letters.....
> Seltsam nicht wahr?
>
> Now, I've checked /var/log/messages, and the hard drive geometry looks
> correct
> (in any case, I don't think LILO gets as far as reading any boot
> parameters),
> and I don't know where else to look.
>
> Can anybody shed some light on this?
>
> Keith.
I experienced the same problem several times when there're a more than one
fat32 partitions on the disk. I manually edited the /etc/lilo.conf file so
that lilo will only boot linux. When the problem is fixed, I used
linuxconf to add windows to lilo. Hope this helps some what.
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:21:36 +0200
From: Andrea Zanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI makes the kernel faults
good morning
this is a preatty urgent problem that prevent me to set up a linux
server on my company (against M$ NT of course)
below you can find the kernel message anyway the problem happen when i
make I/O on the scsi channel controlled by adaptec 2940
example
mkfs -c -v /dev/sda1
this happen sistematically.
NB i boot the kernel with aic7xxx=no_reset parameter
any syggestion, experience ...
thanks a lot lot lot lot
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Memory: sized by int13 0e801h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f9a20
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf04e0
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0510
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 267.06 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127464k/131072k available (968k kernel code, 384k reserved,
2256k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
G4KLX/GW4PTS AX.25 for Linux. Version 0.35 for Linux NET3.035 (Linux
2.0)
G4KLX NET/ROM for Linux. Version 0.6 for AX25.035 Linux 2.0
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #79
Tue Jan 19 12:41:20 MET 1999
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13p with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29
02:46:13 $
tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x23ea00 (0x23e8c0)
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 33
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f
hda: SAMSUNG SV0322A, 3052MB w/478kB Cache, CHS=775/128/63, UDMA
hdc: SAMSUNG SV0322A, 3052MB w/478kB Cache, CHS=11024/9/63, UDMA
hdd: CRD-8322B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 10/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
(scsi0) Not resetting SCSI bus. Note: Don't use the no_reset
(scsi0) option unless you have a verifiable need for it.
(scsi0) The no_reset option is known to break some systems,
(scsi0) and is not supported by the driver author
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.5/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
(scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
(scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 27871-XXX Rev: 1210
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 3 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB]
[8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB]
[8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB]
[8.7 GB]
AX.25 ethernet driver version 0.01
Partition check:
sda: sda1
sdb: sdb1
sdc: sdc1
hda: hda1 hda2
hdc: [PTBL] [775/128/63] hdc1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
sysctl: ip forwarding off
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xb800, 00:60:08:7e:41:36, IRQ
11
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256)
(6 bit encapsulation enabled).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<001257d4>]
EFLAGS: 00010292
eax: c00096e3 ebx: 00000821 ecx: 07c5af94 edx: 0000066d
esi: 00000821 edi: 001c1e4c ebp: 00000400 esp: 07c5acf4
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process badblocks (pid: 304, process nr: 44, stackpage=07c5a000)
Stack: 00000010 02610821 07c5aec4 001c1e4c 0263ea18 0000066d 00126035
00000821
001c1e4c 00000400 00000010 0261d400 07c5aec4 00000000 00000001
001299c3
00000821 001c1e4c 00000400 00000000 06c822a8 00004000 0053a200
00000400
Call Trace: [<001c1e4c>] [<00126035>] [<001c1e4c>] [<001299c3>]
[<001c1e4c>] [<001c1e4d>] [<001b62b2>]
[<0012397e>] [<0010a9c5>]
Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 0f f9 ff
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<001257d4>]
EFLAGS: 00010292
eax: c00096e3 ebx: 000b0302 ecx: 02b21d98 edx: 0000066d
esi: 00000302 edi: 000b256f ebp: 00000400 esp: 06ebaefc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process syslogd (pid: 96, process nr: 19, stackpage=06eba000)
Stack: 000b256f 02b1b3dc 00000000 00000000 02b21d98 0000066d 0016d4cc
00000302
000b256f 00000400 000000f7 00000000 07073b00 00000000 0016d67e
07073b00
02b1b3dc 00000000 00000007 00000000 07073b00 00000000 02b21d98
0016d70e
Call Trace: [<0016d4cc>] [<0016d67e>] [<0016d70e>] [<0016d81b>]
[<00125654>] [<0010a9c5>]
Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 0f f9 ff
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<001257d4>]
EFLAGS: 00010292
eax: c00096e3 ebx: 00000811 ecx: 068b6f94 edx: 0000066d
esi: 00000811 edi: 00685e7c ebp: 00000400 esp: 068b6cf4
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process badblocks (pid: 206, process nr: 37, stackpage=068b6000)
Stack: 00000000 02350811 068b6ec4 00685e7c 0721cd18 0000066d 00126035
00000811
00685e7c 00000400 00000000 02358c00 068b6ec4 00000001 00000001
001299c3
00000811 00685e7c 00000400 00000000 06d3d154 00004000 07b93900
00000400
Call Trace: [<00126035>] [<001299c3>] [<001dc790>] [<00123759>]
[<0012397e>] [<0010a9c5>]
Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 0f f9 ff
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE detection problem ?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:31:37 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have kernel 2.0.36 with ide.c 5.53.2. PC is a QDI Titianium I
motherboard, with Award BIOS. After a BIOS upgrade the other day, I
found that LILO wouldn't work. In fact, LILO, [cs]fdisk, etc, were
complaining that the partition table didn't match their idea of the
disk's geometry.
On rebooting I saw that ide was saying:
hda: WDC AC23200L, 3098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1023/130/63, UDMA
Previously, this has been
hda: WDC AC23200L, 3098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=787/128/63, UDMA
Worried, I rushed into BIOS setup, but both the old and new BIOS
versions correctly auto-identified the IDE disk as 787/128/63.
I went back to the previous BIOS version and everything is OK. So
I thought, maybe the BIOS upgrade has introduced a bug. Off to DOS
DEBUG, where I loaded AH with 8, DL with 80h, and called INT 13h. Well,
in _both_ cases (old and new BIOS) I got CX=11FF and DH=7F, which I make
to be maxhead=127 (range 0-127, total 128 OK), maxsector=63 (range 1-63,
total 63 OK) and maxcyl 785 (range 0-785, total 786 - I won't worry too
much about the one difference - maybe the BIOS takes it for
housekeeping).
So, why would CHS acquire this new value ? Where is the driver getting
its numbers from ? (1023 looks kind of suspicious...) And apart from
anything else, couldn't we envisage a sanity check whereby 1023*130*63
gives a message since it implies 4091 MB ?
Then I thought... a-ha... I have a 4091 MB disk - two, in fact. They
are sda and sdb, on an ncr53c8xx SCSI card, which the PC's BIOS knows
about (that is, I can get their info from INT 13h DL=81h/82h). Support
for this card is not in my kernel (I load a module, some time after the
ide driver loads), so any information that ide has about them must, I
suppose, come from the BIOS. But the obvious BIOS call INT 13h DL=80h
gives me the right numbers.
So I removed both of the 4091 MB SCSI disks and... hda now gives the
correct message. So it would appear that the ide driver gets the disk
id and size from one place, and the CHS numbers from another. I went
into the source of ide.c, but I don't have the experience with the
kernel to know what interpretation to put on the various data structures
relating to disk geometry.
What could be causing this ? I can do more tests (eg, replacing sda or
sdb with a 2100 MB disk, to see what happens), but I'd appreciate any
input first.
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on SUN Sparc?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:33:18 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian has it - try www.debian.org.
Maik Hassel wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I heard about Linux for Suns - where can i get it?
>
> Maik
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From: Charles Pouliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie--3c509b can't recognize
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 04:37:09 GMT
When I installed linux on a Gateway 486 with 3c509b, I didn't have any
problem, but the installation disks warned that 3c509b may not get
autodetected properly (Debian linux) and suggested that if I had problems, to
recompile the kernel with explicitly indicating a 3c509b, and not to
autoprobe/autodetect. Is that what you did when you say you redid the
kernel?
In article <7fe7d4$2pgo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't get linux to find or recognize my ethernet card it's a 3c509b.
> It works fine in NT but I've tried to get it to go in Xwindows, no luck.
> I've redone the kernel and made sure it was enabled--nothing. When I go to
> ifconfig eth0 says it's not a device. It's listed as supported? I'm using
> redhat 5.2. Tthe book I'm using the guy is using the same card as reference.
> Please help. Email replies please to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks
> Kevin
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Computing & Information Science Major
Saint Vincent College
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:02:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Orosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am going to buy a new sound card for my computer and I would like
> to get one that supports Linux and Windows. So far the only card that
> I've liked so far is the SoundBlaster 128PCI. However I'm not sure if
> it is supported in Linux. If anyone can help me in choosing a good
> soundcard for my computer. So if anyone has any suggestions for a PCI
> soundcard PLEASE let me know. I would prefer a PCI sound card but if
> there are some good ISA soundcards also tell me about them.
> Thank you very much
>
> Steve
>
>
NEVER EVER buy Plug'n'Play!! I did, and I regret it deeply!
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Date: 18 Apr 99 20:24:15 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Help! -> Adaptec SCSI AVA1502 <-
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Simone Piccardi;
My AVA 1502 is an ISA, but has no jumpers. Its not found during the
boot by the bios. It does not have a drive attached either.
The question then is, does it have to have a drive attached before
linux, 2.0.36, can see it?
>Probably you missed the IRQ number. Mine is working with 11. I think you
>have to try some different values. With PnP not always what windows says
>is right.
>Ciao
>--
>Simone Piccardi
>Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
>The answer is: "NO!"
Cheers, Gene
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