Linux-Hardware Digest #181, Volume #10 Fri, 7 May 99 17:13:34 EDT
Contents:
FA: Linux analog ISP equipment (Rob Wehrli)
Re: How to distinguish ECC memory? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WinPrinters... Re: Winmodems and Linux (Grant Taylor)
Adaptec AVA-1505 (Catherine BRIAND & Geoffrey CHARRA)
Re: With dual-processor system, is SCSI a must or is Ultra-DMA enough? (David Morgan)
Re: AWE 64 pnp card installation question ("Carlos Manjarres")
RAID and MEDIUM ERRORS - HELP!!! (Dan Warren)
Re: Newbie vs Linux: Comment on this system. (Rod Roark)
Re: postscript on nec 870 bogus... (mgm)
Re: CD-AUDIO ("David Bildstr�m")
Re: okipage 6e printing problem in Redhat ("Lee Sharp")
Ethernet on Linux (Nissim Hadar)
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From: Rob Wehrli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FA: Linux analog ISP equipment
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:20:19 -0700
First, thank you for letting me post here. I normally do not SPAM
people, however, since all of this equipment is new, and is VERY
LOW PRICED, I thought my fellow Linuxers would want to know.
See auctions.amazon.com and search for "Linux" to find some of the
best analog equipment starting at $25 and $55 for ALL NEW COMPONENTS
with NO RESERVE PRICE. These pieces are new, great for startups or
small business needs/customers and come in original packaging--most
of the static bags are unopened!
Digital network upgrades forces sale, my loss is your gain!
Included are:
2 Port Sangoma Frame Relay/X.25 Card
GTEK 6-Port Modem Super Serial Card w/pig tail cable
Equinox SST Modem Pool (takes 16 modems)
Cyclades 16 Port Cyclom Ye Card/DB-25 Chassis
Cyclades 8 Port Cyclom Zo Card/DB-25 Octopus cable
These work great with either Windows NT or Linux, and of
course, most other UNIX products. Will COD to any US location.
Take Care.
Rob!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: How to distinguish ECC memory?
Date: 7 May 1999 18:13:38 GMT
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems Tango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I just bought a new computer with a single 128MB ECC module (CL2). I
> have doubts that it is really ECC. Is there a way that I can tell
> between ECC and non-ECC memory? A program that can detect that, or by
> physicaly looking?
You can count the memory chips on them and figure out the
bit-width of your memory. Depending on the specific module
this can be very simple, but can also be very tricky.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: WinPrinters... Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: 07 May 1999 14:58:45 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
> The whole GDI thing confuses people away from the issue. There is no
> such thing as a "GDI printer," as such.
Absolutely. It's merely a question of the only driver software being
only for Windows, and the protocols needed to write free software
being undocumented. Some "GDI" printers are supported under
non-Windows systems like OS/2 and the Macintosh.
It may be useful to point out there there *are* "WinPrinters" which
are supported by free software. This support is usually the result of
a reverse engineering project. All printers could be supported but
for the fact that the largest amount of effort would be needed for the
cheapest printers; there's little incentive if similarly priced PCL
alternatives exist, and less incentive still when the only the
crappiest printers need all this extra work.
The following printers are among the "WinPrinters" which work with
free software:
- The Lexmark 7000/7200/5700/5000 all work at 600dpi color and mono
due to the heroic efforts of Henryk Paluch. There is also a 1200
dpi mono driver from Stephen Taylor for the 5700.
- The Okidata Okipage 4w supposedly works perfectly with the driver
kit from Marcin Dalecki, who reverse engineered this printer's
protocol.
- The Brother HL-720 and HL-730 are supported perfectly by a new
Ghostscript driver.
That said, there are still reasons not to buy most of the above
printers:
- The Lexmarks are the cheapest printer possible. A new cartridge
for the cheap Lexmarks costs 50% of the cost of the printer (which
wasn't much to begin with). The per-page cost is poor, at best.
There's a reason thee things are free with a new computer. ;)
- Comments in the Okipage 4w driver readme suggest that unlucky use
could make the printer melt itself. This hardly sounds like a
robust mechanism...
- The low-cost Brothers are often characterized as flimsy. They do
work at 100% with free software, though, and are probably quite
suitable for low-volume printing.
As always, the complete Printing HOWTO printer database is at
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Catherine BRIAND & Geoffrey CHARRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec AVA-1505
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 20:42:17 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If anyone knows where I could get Linux drivers for Adaptec AVA-1505
SCSI card that would help !!!
Or maybe could you help for the string (I have no idea the way it work)
to enter to
make it work at last !!!
something like modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9,7 ????
Actually, I can't install Linux on my computer because I don't have any
IDE CD-ROM
and the install package is
unable to read the f...k.. names on Win98 which are Rpms instead of RPMS
and so on...
Thanks to all.
Gef.
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| Catherine BRIAND et Geoffrey CHARRA ||
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Morgan)
Subject: Re: With dual-processor system, is SCSI a must or is Ultra-DMA enough?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:05:16 GMT
On 20 Apr 1999 03:33:52 GMT, Highbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i guess it depends alot on what the system is intended for. if its
>just crunching numbers, screw scsi, but if your talking NFS server,
>or high traffic web -- get the scsi, it doesnt even have to be
>anything steller, my 1991 micropolis grim reaper specials even perform
>much better than an ide can.
>
Hi-
By no means am I an expert on this. Tons of folks talk that SCSI is
way to go for performance, and I've agreed, but when I start
compairing performace at storagereview.com of say ibm or maxtor 7200
RPM drives against some good 7200 SCSI drives, AND I take into account
UDMA and I read the UDMA comments in
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-7.html , in some
cases, a good UDMA drive works well, in combination with enough RAM
(and a fairly new motherboard that supports UDMA, BX chipset for
example).
Now, NFS with large writes and reads would break that model, and RAID
would provide much better reliability as well. (not to mention the
many other features of scsi). But for the mony limited folks....
Are the numbers at storage review all wet? I know they don't compair
linux, but my guess is that threadmarks are not that far off.
(for example, at storagereview.com, database, compaire an ibm Deskstar
14GXP and Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 2500 against a seagate barracuda and
cheta scsi drives.)
Interesting stuff to me!
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From: "Carlos Manjarres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AWE 64 pnp card installation question
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:50:54 -0400
Hi there:
I also have a SB AWE64 but sndconf did not detect it.
>From windows I took:
A:220
IRQ:5
DM1:1 (D1)
DM2:5 (D5)
MPU:330 (P330)
to specify in sndconf, but it always fails. What else can I do ?
I have Red Had 5.2 with ppp working fine (kernel 2.0.36 i686)
Any help will be very much appreciated.
Carlos
Ferdinand V. Mendoza wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm also using Mandrake 5.3 and SB AWE64 ISA but I didn't do any
>recompilation. I just type the sndconfig and that's it. Works immediately.
>
>Badong
>
>Jay W. Summet wrote:
>
>> I'm using Linux Mandrake 5.3 (basically RedHat 5.2 + KDE 1.1) and here
>> is what I did to get my SB AWE64 PnP to work:
>>
>> Re-Compiled the kernal adding SB support, then in low level sound
>> drivers added the AWE support.
>>
>> After the reboot, typed "sndconfig" which detected my soundcard, set
>> it's IRQ & DMA etc... and it worked from there....
>>
>> Jay Summet
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:33:52 GMT, "Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I'm having problems installing my AWE 64 pnp sound card with Linux. I'm
>> >using kernel 2.2.4 so I'm wondering if I need to use something like
>> >isapnptools or if I can just use the pnp support that is built into the
>> >kernel. When I compile the kernel with pnp support and loadable module
>> >support and all the sound blaster drivers as modules I get an error when
I
>> >reboot and try to load the sound modules.
>> >
>> > When I type "modprobe -a sound" I get the error
>> >/lib/modules/2.2.4/misc/soundcore.o: unresolved symbol request module
>> >soundlow: No such file or directory
>> >sound: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > I've also tried using isapnp tools but when I type modprobe -a sound
it
>> >doesn't do anything.
>> >
>> > I wondering if there is a how-to out there or documentation that
shows
>> >hoe to install an AWE 64 pnp soundcard (or any other pnp card) with the
>> >newer kernels. I know there are how-to's out there concerning the older
>> >kernels (~2.0.-2.2) but I've read then and they do not mention the newer
>> >kernels with pnp support.
>> >
>> >Thanks for any suggestions
>> >
>> >Wayne Sopko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> >
>
>
>
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From: Dan Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: RAID and MEDIUM ERRORS - HELP!!!
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:57:12 -0500
Can someone decipher these messages for me? My RAID 1 device has worked
smoothly for 6 months but suddenly has given me errors and I don't
completely understand what they mean. Is one of my drives failing? Is
it just bad sectors and if so can I mark them bad so the RAID device
doesn't try to use them? Why doesn't the RAID device just mark the
sectors bad and keep going instead of disabling the drive?
Interestingly, it disables just after the SCSI tape backup starts???
Dan Warren
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is the setup:
Pentium 350 / 128 Mb SDRAM
Adaptec 2940UW
2 Seagate ST34520W 4.5Gb SCSI-2 hard drives
Red Hat 5.2 (2.0.36)
Raidtools-0.5beta1
Errors:
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id
15, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 41 af 45 00 00 26 00
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: Current error sd08:11: sense key
Medium Error
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered
read error
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector
4304682,
absolute sector 4304745
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: RAID1: Disk failure on 08:11,
disabling device. Operation continuing on 1 devices
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: raid1: 09:00: rescheduling block
2152341
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: md: updating raid superblock on device
08:01,
sb_offset == 4441856
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: md: updating raid superblock on device
08:11,
sb_offset == 4441856
Apr 21 00:05:10 andromeda kernel: raid1: 09:00: redirecting sector
2152341 to an
other mirror
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie vs Linux: Comment on this system.
Date: 7 May 1999 20:31:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Local computer shop quoted this system for me.
>Anyone see any problems with it? IE Linux
>incompatibilities.
>
>ASUS P5A motherboard, (3dm,pp,2I,1A,ALI,ATX) [whatever all that means]
>AMD K6-2/400MHZ cpu
>64 meg PC-100 DRAM
>Samsung 6.4 Gig IDE UDMA drive.
>Samsung 32X IDE CD-ROM
>Soundblaster 16 ISA
>USR 56K/V.90 ISA Voice FAX modem.
>(I eyeballed this, it had jumpers for interupt and com port.
>I also know where I can get an A-Open ISA modem)
>ATI expert 98 AGP 8meg video.
>
>That's the main part of it. It finishes off with an ATX tower
>case, floppy, mouse, keyboard, and Win 98 (GAG!)
>
>Total cost with taxes is $1044.50
This should be fine if the sound cards is a Creative Labs brand, not
a clone. I have found the Samsung drives (hard and CD) to be quite
reliable. I like the AOpen modems also. The price is not the best,
but you are smart to get a system with known components.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: mgm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: postscript on nec 870 bogus...
Date: 7 May 1999 20:32:34 GMT
Hi. I got screwed the same way. All the propaganda at the local
CompUSA (rarely buy anything from that place but had no choice)
made it look like the postscipt option was a SIMM or something.
I even asked the jerk at the store if this was the case and he
said yes. I knew better than to trust him, but thought I'd
give it a try anyway. Ordered the PS option and when it FINALLY
showed up at the store and it was just a CD I knew I was in trouble.
I bitched and bitched at the store, but enivitably kept the printer
for the same reason you did -- the output looks reeally nice, and
the equivilant from HP would have been twice the price, even w/o
postscipt.
Anyway, I came across your mail here while searching for support
for this thing under Linux. I run Linux 99.9% of the time, and
am getting sick of having to kick over to windows to print. Plus,
I'm about to try to set up my box as a print server. So, I thought
I'd let you know I empathize with you on the misleading NEC specs
for the printer, and ask you if you've since had any luck getting
it to work well under Linux.
Thanks,
Michael
carl stanley wrote:
> I ordered a nec 870 laserwriter for my small home office of mac, win95,
> & unix (bsd & linux) OS's - i ordered the network card + the postscript
> option.
>
> I haven't got the network card but did get the postscript option today,
> & it is the most bogus thing i've ever seen. I was under the impression
> it was a ROM chip (or similiar) that gave the 870 printer itself
> postscript capability, but all it does it allows you to use PC
> applications to print to a postscript driver & then the "Superscript
> PowerRIP" software (which is what comes when you buy the postscript
> option) converts it into a raster image which sends it to the printer.
>
> Mac postscript support is limited to printing from a mac to a NT server
> running mac services.
>
> You have a non-windows [nt 95 98] box & want to print postscript
> directly to the printer? You're out of luck... hope it has a PrintGear
> driver! (don't even know if linux or bsd has such a thing)
>
> IMHO this is a severe limitation, & if i had known i probably would've
> spent extra $$ & gotten the HP6MP which is a REAL multi-os postscript
> printer. In my research of the printer nowhere did i see this
> limitation documented - it all read like it would turn the 870 into a
> real postscript printer.
>
> So, lesson learned - i will be returning the postscript option, & only
> be able to print from my pc & after i get the network card my mac (it
> does have printgear drivers for the mac but only over the network). I
> fear my bsd & linux boxes are SOL (there *may* be a driver for 'em but i
> haven't found 'em - a quick dejanews search shows that printgear is a
> proprietary language & they haven't released specs or linux/bsd drivers)
>
> to be fair the output of the 870 is real nice & i have had no problems
> with it - it would be a great printer if only they actually implemented
> what they implied...
>
> still pissed (next time i'll go with HP)
>
> -carl
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From: "David Bildstr�m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-AUDIO
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 22:50:33 +0200
killbill skrev i meddelandet <7gv18c$d21$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <7gut20$1ct$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "David Bildstr�m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a SB PCI64 (es1370) and I'm using RedHat 6.0. My problem is that I
>> can't play audio-cd:s. It's working fine in Windoze. Does anyone else
have
>> this problem?
>
>I am using an ensoniq card that is virtually identical. The mixer settings
>under Linux work a little funny, play with them some and see if you can get
>sound. That card has a _bunch_ of different analog channels (for voice
>modem, multiple cd-roms, mic, line in, etc), and both the windows and the
>linux drivers seem a little confused about what mutes what and which
sliders
>control the volume of which. I usually (as any self respecting engineer
>would) just keep slapping sliders and pressing buttons until I hear a
noise.
>
>I forget which mixer I am using... I can dig it up if you keep having
>problems. Both the Linux and the Windows (Creative driver w/ directx) mixer
>behave oddly, but with enough guessing both seem to work fine.
>
>In other words, try giving it a few "virtual whacks", and play with every
>virtual knob.
>
>Hope this advice is not too technical :)
>
>
Ok, I'll give it a try... :)
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: okipage 6e printing problem in Redhat
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:03:03 -0500
opolot okia wrote in message ...
|I have an okipage 6e laser printer. In Redahat(5.2) I am not able to
generate
|a test page but I can print from word perfect, perfectly. When I try to
|genereat a test page in printool it recognizes the printer, there is a lot
of
|sound and fury but no page. any suggestions before I end it all?
This is a psudo WinPrinter. There is a driver for it, but it is hard to
find. WP has built in print drivers, so it can print to stuff while the
printcap is still not quite right.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual,
not as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
solely responsible for my words.
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From: Nissim Hadar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet on Linux
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 23:24:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
Does anyone know of a 4 channel 10/100 Mbs Ethernet card that will
run on a PC under Linux ?
I would appreciate any pointers -- thanx
Nissim Hadar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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