Linux-Hardware Digest #72, Volume #10 Tue, 20 Apr 99 15:13:45 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Simon Cooke")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Simon Cooke")
PIONEER DR-A24X ATAPI CDROM Solution???? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HDB boot config (Keith Rhodes)
AHA1480A + ARCHIVE Python 04106-XXX DDS-3 tape = I/O error (Yakov Korkhin)
Re: HELLLPPPP (Alpine)
Re: Syquest SparQ 1.0GB drive ("David Travers")
Re: Help: mcd driver does not read IRQ settings from bootstrap (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 5.2! (I am sending this to multiple NGs) ("Patrick
Lam")
Drive limit under Linux (Jon Handiboe)
HP Kayak XW ("Alex Balboa (HPTi|crimmins) " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Re: RFC - DSL LinModem (Mark Curry)
how do you access a CD or extra disk drive???? (Robin Jackson)
OnStream SC30 and Linux (Dale Gass)
Re: Configure 2 ethernets SMC Elite 16( WD8013) with RH 5.2 ("ryan")
Re: parallel port not found ("Remy")
HDD Spindown - For a Year! ("David Peavey")
Re: PowerNIC CN930E ethernet card (CNet) ("Jan Johansson")
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From: "Simon Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:58:44 -0700
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i seem to recall a certain operating system limiting filenames to
> just 14 chars until fairly recently. this particular annoyance is now
> (largely) fixed and (almost) everyone is happy.
>
> microsoft, in their incompetance, botched the move to long filenames
> horribly.
Ummm... how?
I know it's not the solution I would have gone for, but I don't see anything
particularly botched about it; it's more robust than having a "cognomen"
file that's basically a mapping table for the entire folder.
--
Simon Cooke
(The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not reflect
the views of the Microsoft Corporation).
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From: "Simon Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:57:18 -0700
Martin Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7f5rqt$eku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >I never mentioned 8.3 filenames.
> >
> >I will not defend that crappy design.
> >
> Don't dump on it until you can write your file system to run in 128K.
In that case allow me...
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????
Even a 32 character limit would have done.
Alas, DOS 1.0 was based around the CPM-style "file extents" way of doing
things; it used the same data structures for most things so that CPM
programs could be ported easily. So that's why it happened. And once it
happens, it's etched in stone around here :(
--
Simon Cooke
(The views of this poster are his and his alone, and may or may not reflect
the views of the Microsoft Corporation).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PIONEER DR-A24X ATAPI CDROM Solution????
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:13:43 GMT
Hi,
It happens that my cdrom is a PIONEER DR-A24X ATAPI. I cannot mount
it in RedHat5, but using it to install RedHat is okay.
Is there any solution for mounting it in RedHat Linux?
Wayne
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HDB boot config
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:46:47 +0200
John McKown wrote:
>
> I am relatively sure (>90%) that MS products (DOS, Windows) are written so
> that they MUST boot from the first IDE drive.
Not so... if you look at
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/LILO-7.html
you'll find an example of fooling WinDoze into thinking it's being
booted from C: when in fact it's on scsi disk. Hope this helps...
Keith
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From: Yakov Korkhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: AHA1480A + ARCHIVE Python 04106-XXX DDS-3 tape = I/O error
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:37:32 +0000
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I am trying to use Seagate Scorpion DDS-3 (ARCHIVE Python 04106-XXX)
drive attached to Dell Inspiron 7000/RedHat5.1/kernel2.2.6/pcmcia3.0.9
via AHA1480A. Upon tape insertion 'mt status' reports everything
correctly. But when I try tar/dd the drive refuses to write
(Input/output error) after which 'mt status' does not want to recognize
tape any more. The drive can be reset either by turning it off/on or
after 'mt datcompress; mt rewind'.
The drive itself is fine: works under FreeBSD, SGI IRIX, DEC UNIX, WinNT
etc.
So my question: is the problem adapter (pcmcia 3.0.9) or kernel
specific.
Is there anybody out there who runs this drive: a) on a desktop box
under kernel 2.2.x ? b) on a laptop with AHA1480A . If anybody had any
luck with the drive/AHA1480A, what was the trick?
Thanks in advance, Yakov
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Yakov Korkhin
Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
260 Whitney Ave./JWG423, P.O. Box 208114, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: ++1-203-4325027 FAX: ++1-203-4325239
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I am trying to use Seagate Scorpion DDS-3 (ARCHIVE Python 04106-XXX)
drive attached to Dell Inspiron 7000/RedHat5.1/kernel2.2.6/pcmcia3.0.9
via AHA1480A. Upon tape insertion 'mt status' reports everything correctly.
But when I try tar/dd the drive refuses to write (Input/output error) after
which 'mt status' does not want to recognize tape any more. The drive can
be reset either by turning it off/on or after 'mt datcompress; mt rewind'.
<br>The drive itself is fine: works under FreeBSD, SGI IRIX, DEC UNIX,
WinNT etc.
<br>So my question: is the problem adapter (pcmcia 3.0.9) or kernel specific.
<br>Is there anybody out there who runs this drive: a) on a desktop box
under kernel 2.2.x ? b) on a laptop with AHA1480A . If anybody had any
luck with the drive/AHA1480A, what was the trick?
<p>Thanks in advance, Yakov
<pre>--
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Yakov Korkhin
Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale
University
260 Whitney Ave./JWG423, P.O. Box 208114, New Haven, CT 06520-8114, USA
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: ++1-203-4325027 FAX: ++1-203-4325239
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From: Alpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: HELLLPPPP
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:48:39 -0400
try /
not /jaz
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From: "David Travers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Syquest SparQ 1.0GB drive
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:12:40 +0100
I have a SparQ drive and it works fine with linux.
You simply treat it as another hard drive (I have the internal version).
Let's say you have the drive on /dev/hdc1
Create a directory such as /sparq and mount the drive into that directory.
If the drive was formatted under Windows then you may wish to mount the
drive as vfat (not ext2), or you will get corrupted filenames and data etc.
This will allow you to read/write to it.
To eject the disk, first unmount the drive and then press the eject button.
Treat the drive as how you would treat an IDE CD-ROM drive under linux.
If the model is the external parallel port version then the information I
gave will be pointless as this does require a driver and I have no
experience of setting that up.
If you require any more info, e-mail me direct.
wesa wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've read that Redhat Linux v5.2 is incompatible with IDE removable
>media, including Syquest's. Does anyone know of driver for the SparQ
>1.0GB drive for Redhat 5.2?
>
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: mcd driver does not read IRQ settings from bootstrap
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:17:37 +0200
Vasile Marcu wrote:
> Unable to get IRQ11 for Mitsumi CD-ROM
>
> The IRQ11 is the default value compiled in the driver. I tried to
> make mcd use 10, the real one (11 is used by the network card)
Did you also set any jumper on the controller card to make the CD use
IRQ 10?
> by adding an append line in lilo.conf
> append = "mcd=0x300,10"
>
> Still, I get the same error as if the driver ignores the append line
Pardon my stupid question, but did you run /sbin/lilo after editing
/etc/lilo.conf? Not running lilo would cause it to ignore any changes to
lilo.conf.
What does Linux say about your CD when you reboot?
regards Henrik
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From: "Patrick Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 5.2! (I am sending this to multiple NGs)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:45:02 -0700
I finally got my mouse to work (mysterically) after I switch to logitech
mouse, change the monitor resolution to VGA!! Then I tried to switch back
to MS mouse compatible, and it still works!!
I don't know why this fixes the problem, but that's ALL I have done!
Good Luck.
Patrick.
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From: Jon Handiboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drive limit under Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:45:48 -0400
We are using a Dell PC running RedHat 5.2 as an archive file server.
System has two AHA-2944 Differential scsi cards. We are trying to
connect two 9 disk enclosures to the system, one of each card. Each
drive is 18GB. Looks like we have run into a drive limitation under
linux. Seems we can only connect 16 devices to the system, across the
two cards, before we run out of minor numbers. Is this a true linux
limitation? Seems we can only go up to /dev/sdp, /dev/sdq shows:
brw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 9, 0
Has anyone else out there tried to connect more than 16 disks to a linux
box?
thanks,
Jon Handiboe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Alex Balboa (HPTi|crimmins) <balboa>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Kayak XW
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:53:22 GMT
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I am currently trying to install Redhat 5.2 Linux on the following
system configuration:
HP Kayak XW Series W3 PC workstation
Running Microsoft Windows NT
4.00.1381
IE 4.0 4.72.3110.8
x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 1
AT/AT compatible
130,476 KB RAM
FastRAID
(using the ArrayConfig utility
and Array 1000 Family Manager driver: Adaptec Array1000 Family Adapter)
The CI/O manager (HP RAID device manager)
IDE mass storage driver: (Intel PIIX PCI Bus Mater IDE Controller)
Symbios SCSI mass storage driver: (Symbios Logic PCI (53c8XX))
Sound Driver: Analog Devices SoundComm Driver
Network Driver: HP Ethernet Family Adapter
Video Driver: HP Visualize Fx4 OpenGL driver (Hewlett-Packard
VisualizeFX Video).
I was wondering if some one has installed Redhat 5.2 Linux on such a
system and, if so,
please advise on any special procedures or drivers that I would need.
Thank you in advance (please forward your replies to the newsgroup and
my email)
Sincerely,
Alex Balboa
--
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Alex Balboa, Ph.D. 939-I Beards Hill Road, Suite 193
High Performance Technologies, Inc. Aberdeen, MD 21001-1734
Integrated Modeling and Testing Phone: 1-410-297-8567
Programming Environment & Training 1-410-278-7536
ARL PET MSRC FAX: 1-410-297-9521
Senior CTA Analyst Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET
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I am currently trying to install Redhat 5.2 Linux on the following system
configuration:
<br>HP Kayak XW Series W3 PC workstation
<br>Running Microsoft Windows NT
<br>4.00.1381
<br>IE 4.0 4.72.3110.8
<br>x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 1
<br>AT/AT compatible
<br>130,476 KB RAM
<br>FastRAID
<br>(using the ArrayConfig utility
<br>and Array 1000 Family Manager driver: Adaptec Array1000 Family Adapter)
<br>The CI/O manager (HP RAID device manager)
<br>IDE mass storage driver: (Intel PIIX PCI Bus Mater IDE Controller)
<br>Symbios SCSI mass storage driver: (Symbios Logic PCI (53c8XX))
<br>Sound Driver: Analog Devices SoundComm Driver
<br>Network Driver: HP Ethernet Family Adapter
<br>Video Driver: HP Visualize Fx4 OpenGL driver (Hewlett-Packard VisualizeFX
Video).
<p>I was wondering if some one has installed Redhat 5.2 Linux on such a
system and, if so,
<br>please advise on any special procedures or drivers that I would need.
<br>Thank you in advance (please forward your replies to the newsgroup
and my email)
<br>Sincerely,
<br>Alex Balboa
<br>
<br>
<pre>--
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Alex Balboa,
Ph.D.
939-I Beards Hill Road, Suite 193
High Performance Technologies, Inc. Aberdeen, MD 21001-1734
Integrated Modeling and Testing Phone: 1-410-297-8567
Programming Environment & Training
1-410-278-7536
ARL PET
MSRC
FAX: 1-410-297-9521
Senior CTA
Analyst
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: <a href="http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET">http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET
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From: Mark Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RFC - DSL LinModem
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:55:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arran,
> Umm, here's a little bit of info about DSL that might help.
>
> First it's a digital line so there isn't really a need for a modem (no
> need to modulate/demodulate in a purely digital environment). The DSL
Uhh, wrong. The 'D' may stand for digital, but the line is analog.
The signals are quite definetly modulated, and a DSL modem is required.
> line usually requires a proprietary hardware splitter to peel it off
> of the POTS line. The splitter then spits out a signal in ethernet
> format so that any box with an ethernet NIC can connect to it.
Uh no again. The splitter is usually a fairly simple low pass filter.
Prevents the high frequency DSL spectrum from interfering with
phones, and anwering machines. Usually the splitter only affects
the line to POTS; the DSL line is just fed through untouched to the
DSL modem.
Ed, as to your questions. I'm a little confused for what you're
looking for here. Most DSL service from telecos connects
you to an ISP. It requires a DSL modem, which usually connects
to the PC via a Ethernet connection. Some give you a static
IP address, giving you 100% on time to the internet. Others
may use DHCP like cable modems. There are different implementations
all of which give different rates. Things are beginning
to take a turn for the better with the G.Lite stadards.
Sounds like from your message, that you may be thinking
about building your own DSL modem? You'd be
taking on quite a big project....
For tons of info:
www.adsl.com
--
Mark Curry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove the animal from the domain to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: how do you access a CD or extra disk drive????
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:45:15 +0100
Hi
How in hell do you mount a cd or extra disk drive??
They are both SCSI on a PC card to a laptop.
I have fdisked the disk and built file system on it but HOW do I access the
damn thing??
Also I want to install samba.
Its on my CD but HOW do I access the CD??
mount CD-ROM and mount /dev/cdrom both error?????
Robin
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From: Dale Gass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: OnStream SC30 and Linux
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:04:08 -0300
After wating a month on back order for the SC50 tape drive, and finding
out they're not even shipping, I changed my order to the SC30 drive, and
good old InMac (Canada's MicroWarehouse) had it to me the next day.
Here's a summary of my experiences:
Tried it under Linux. No dice. It doesn't seem to like the standard
SCSI tape commands (as noted elsewhere in the newsgroups) and even a
REWIND command generates errors. OnStream says they're working with
Linux developers to get drivers for it, which will be great. Does
anybody know *who* they are working with? Seems like quite a secret,
which is a bit worrisome.
So, to try out the drive, I installed the Win98 drivers, and tried a
backup. Well, part way through the backup, I get the Blue Screen of
Death. D'oh! Tried a bunch of things, and what final seemed to fix it
is excluding a couple of directories I had with over 10,000 files in
them. Their drivers don't seem to like these huge directories.
Anyhow, I saw about 30M/minute backup speeds. Not quite the 2M/sec
native transfer rate the drive is supposed to be capable of, nor the
80-90MB/minute that some people have reported on the net. This is on a
PII-450 Dell with lotsa memory. I tried copmressed and uncompressed and
it didn't make any difference.
OnStream says that their performance numbers were seen with an AHA29xx
card. I have an Adaptec 1542C, set to 10MB/sec transfer rate. It's
hard to believe that this would be the bottleneck (especially since
there's no performance difference between setting at 5M and 10M
transfer rate). I've also tried disabling the virus checker, but it
didn't help the speed at all. Any
ideas? I'm half tempted to get a AHA29xx card, but I somehow doubt it
would speed things up at all, and OnStream wasn't much help other than
suggesting that.
One very nice feature of the drive (Win98 drivers, really) is that the
stuff written to the drive shows up as a T: drive on Win98. Backups
create files which are visible on the T: drive (each file turns into a
dir, with versions of the file in the dir). Going into one of the
directories and accessing one of the files, brings it up within 10-20
seconds. Pretty amazing random access.
Using this feature, I managed to get a Linux backup solution working. I
have ARKEIA (excellent backup software) doing backups to the "FILE" tape
device, which is really a smbmount'ed Win98 T: drive with the OnStream.
Seems to be working. Kinda kludgey, but will work until the Linux
drivers are available.
With this setup I'm seeing about 18M/minute backup speeds with
compression; more like 11M/sec without. Hardly stellar; slower than the
DAT it's replacing, but the 15G native per tape is handy, and hopefully
the Linux drivers will realize a lot better speeds. A "dd" to the tape
device will tell me how it will really perform.
Should I worry about having a lemon drive, only seeing half the
potential speed of the drive? (Especially since the Adaptec card, file
system, etc., shouldn't be bottlenecks.) Should I try an Adaptec 29xx
card? (Can I get away with the cheap 2906, or will OnStream just say,
"ohhh, well *we* tried it with a 2940U2W..."?)
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-dale
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From: "ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Configure 2 ethernets SMC Elite 16( WD8013) with RH 5.2
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:36:58 GMT
It is real simple to add the support for the ne2000 card.
get up to speed on the kernel. http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/
there should be a kernel HOWTO there.
then all thats left is to build a kernel with ne2000 support.
ryan
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From: "Remy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parallel port not found
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:44:35 +0200
If you use kernel 2.2.x turn on PC-Style hardware in xconfig before
compiling your kernel.
Remy
Kostis Mentzelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I can't use the onboard parallel port of almost every
> compaq proliant 1600 I have configured
>
> The lpt is on irq 7 at 0x03bc (bios settings) but linux refuses to see
> the port.
> Any thoughts?
>
> Kostis Mentzelos
>
>
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From: "David Peavey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: HDD Spindown - For a Year!
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:41:10 -0700
I have an application whereby I would like to use a Linux machine as a
network gateway. This particular function requires a very high Mean time
between failures (MTBF) - I.E. 10 years without failure. I would like to
set it up to powered up, with the necessary things loaded, and then left ..
possibly forever. I would like to be able to run the thing for upwards of a
YEAR or so without needing the HDD. Basically, the only time that the HDD
would be required is for boot up when power returns after a power failure.
I would turn off all CRON functions that access the HDD. Any error or event
logging could be buffered locally (for example in a ram drive) and then sent
to a remote Monitor and Control system periodically (Say once per hour or
once per day). As far as I can tell, I don't believe the software apps need
the HDD once they're loaded.
My questions are:
1) Can Linux run without the primary HDD spinning? (I would imagine so
since laptops can run Linux - but for how long?)
2) If so, what are the implications of the swap file (could I replace it
with a ram disk?), and
3) how could the the proc file system be handled (another ram disk?)
4) Is there a s/w application (or LINUX configuration) that spins down the
HDD on command or after a timeout?
Any discussion on this would be greatly appreciated.
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: PowerNIC CN930E ethernet card (CNet)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:06:39 +0200
Which chipset is the card based on?
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