Linux-Hardware Digest #208, Volume #10 Tue, 11 May 99 09:14:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: DLT Tape drive (David Fhu)
Re: Jaz 2gb external scsi and Linux (Ralph Alvy)
Re: No printing after kernel upgrade - help (Jesse van Oort)
Vgetty: Outgoing message isn't being played. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: making linux go away (THEVENIN)
Re: LINUX and AMD K6-3D NOW, ANY PROBLEM? (Len Huppe)
Re: writing to fat32 partition ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: installing linux (ron cole)
Re: File system for NT and Linux (Len Huppe)
Re: Quantum Fireball (Alpine)
Re: /dev/hda1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced (Emile van bergen)
Tiny Linux Boxes? (Peat Bakke)
Re: yamaha724 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Sierzputowski)
NTFS and Linux (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Sierzputowski)
Re: Yamaha OPL3 SAX Help ("Khalid M. Baheyeldin")
Linux: Printing problem on VAIO PCG808 (Alexej Jerschow)
RAIDZONE (John Burton)
Re: MODEM and IRQ: help a newbie (Denis Kholodar)
IDE-Harddisk problem (Francois Dupradeau)
SCSI - aha-1520a (Arian)
Re: MODEM and IRQ: help a newbie (Denis Kholodar)
New USB mailing list (Kyle Dansie)
SBlive under linux not working! ("Jordi Verdult")
Re: Tiny Linux Boxes? ("Ken Shupenia")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Fhu)
Subject: Re: DLT Tape drive
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:22:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:27:10 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But will it work on the RH5.1 and RH5.2? Does the DLT have the driver
for Linux envoriment? Why about the backup software? What backup
software should work with?
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Does anyone have any DLT tape drive recommendations for Linux?
>>
>> (Based on reliability, cost, performance, and capacity.)
>
>I haven't used DLT with Linux, but if you are going to do a lot of
>backups of big amounts of data you should go for a DLT 7000. The DLT
>7000 is the most expensive tape drive, but stores 35 GB+compression on
>each tape compared to 20 GB+compression for the DLT 4000. As the DLT
>7000 and the DLT 4000 use the same kind of tapes this means storing data
>to almost half the price.
>
>regards Henrik
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From: Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Jaz 2gb external scsi and Linux
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 03:05:47 GMT
> Do you have SCSI support enabled in the Kernel? Afaik the pps module
> that specifically addresses the parport zip and the generic scsi
> support in the kernel are two different beasts (i have a ppZIP
> and scsiJAZ, too, and i had to fry a new kernel to get the JAZ
runnning)
>
> --
> Ernst-Udo Wallenborn
Ernst,
I finally solved this. Eventhough I have
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
in my /etc/conf.modules, lsmod shows it never loads on bootup. If, after
bootup, I run
insmod aic7xxx
all is fine. I'd like to figure out how to get it automatically
installed on bootup, but this is no big deal.
--
Ralph
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse van Oort)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No printing after kernel upgrade - help
Date: 11 May 1999 10:29:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Once upon a sunny day, a furry little animal named Aaron Dershem squeaked:
>I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.6. Everything went well
>(after I figured out how to complete the compile). Now I can't print to my
>printer. In xconfig, I thought I chose everything for printing support, but
>maybe I didn't. I chose the parallel interface support, and printer support
>in two different locations. No printer. Does anyone have any specifics on
>what options need to be set when I do "make xconfig"?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Aaron Dershem
>
>
LP1 now is LP0.
You'll have to change that in your printerconfig.
Jesse
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Vgetty: Outgoing message isn't being played.
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 02:58:42 GMT
I'm using a USR Sportster Voice 33.6, and have successfully set up
V/mgetty. It works to the point that someone can call, Vgetty picks
up, beeps, and then records a message.
However, my outgoing message isn't being played. Niether can I play is
using VM.
I recorded a .wav in windows, and then used KVOICE, dragged it into the
'outgoing message' window. According to the docs, it is automatically
converted. I have KVOICE set to a USR modem.
Any ideas why my greeting isn't being played?
Help appreciated,
Dan.
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From: THEVENIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 08:38:18 +0200
The question is : why do you want to remove Linux ?
mike mathog wrote:
> I did an install of Red Hat at one point, and now I just want it gone.
>
> Using FDISK to blow away the partitions though doesn't seem to do the
> trick. The LILO boot still comes up. If I disconnect the drive and put
> another one there even, then the machine just keeps asking me to reboot
> over and over.
>
> How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
> is) once and for all?
>
> thanks,
> -mike
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From: Len Huppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX and AMD K6-3D NOW, ANY PROBLEM?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:55:33 -0500
I have had a K6-166MMX running Linux and NT for three years and it works
fine. In fact, I have been building a lot PII-350's at work lately and I
don't think that they're much better. I'm planning to upgrade my system
to a K6-III.
good luck
Francisco de Borja Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi..
> I wolud like to buy a Amd-K6 350 Mhz, but I do not sure if it is
> completly compatible with linux,
> and what is the optimal main board for this combination.
> Somebody knows if there is any problem?, and what are the differences
> with P-II of intel?,
> or any place of internet with this questions.......
> Thank's in advance.....
> Paco
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: writing to fat32 partition
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 23:50:29 -0400
Here's my fstab entry, which lets me read and write as user:
/dev/hda1 /dosc vfat rw,suid,umask=000,noexec,quiet 1 1
Don't ask me to explain it all, but the 'umask=000' sets rwx permissions for
all files and directories, 'noexec' disables execute permissions for
ordinary files, and 'quiet' keeps Linux from complaining about things
it has no business complaining about.
Chris Klement wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Here is a relativly easy problem that i cannot figure out. Any help
>would really be appreciated.
>I want to be able to write to my data drive (a seperate physical drive)
>that is fat 32 as a normal
>user (not root). I can write to it easily as root, but when I am not I
>only have read permissions.
>I tried changing the permissions (chmod) and setuid root... but to no
>avail. Here is my fstab:
>
>/dev/hda5 / ext2
>defaults 1 1
>/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults
>1 2
>/dev/hda6 /usr ext2
>defaults 1 2
>/dev/hdd1 /mnt/data vfat defaults 1 2
>
>/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults 1
>2
>/dev/hda8 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
>
>(excuse the formating). My data drive that I want to write to is hdd1
>(/mnt/data). How do
>I write as a user??? Thanx in advance.
>
>Chris
>
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From: ron cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing linux
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 20:52:57 -0700
there is a good chance that u never partitioned your hard drive right.
use fips to shrink the dos part. restart with the linux diskette and
reinstall. fips is on your linux cd. copy it to a dos boot diskette to use it.
Hill wrote:
> I have tried to install linux 5.2 on two different computers. One comes up
> with an error saying it cannot find .../cdecl and then continues with error
> messages saying there is no space left on the device (I have 1.5 gig. set
> aside for linux). The other computer fails saying it cannot read
> superblock. Any ideas? I really want to run linux.
> 1st computer is and AMDk6-2 300 and the other is an Intel 200MMX. Linux
> appears to recognize my IDE hard drives and cd-rom drives fine.
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From: Len Huppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: File system for NT and Linux
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:59:57 -0500
I'm running kernel 2.2.7 and it has read-only support for NTFS partitions.
I can copy files from my NTFS drives while booted up into Linux. Support
for read and write operations is hopefully being developed.
Wolfgang Ganzert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to use WinNT 4.0 and Linux to share the same data partition on a
> disk. (size 9GB). The problem is that Linux does not support NTFS in the
> "normal" distribution of the Kernel 2.036. On the other side WinNT does
> not recognize ext2fs from Linux.
> For FAT32 a special driver for WinNT is needed. Also the file attributes
> rwx from Linux ar not supported on the FAT32. This is a problem when
> running shell scripts from FAT32 on Linux.
>
> What would be the best solution to share the large data?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank You!
>
> Sincerely
>
> Wolfgang
>
> P.S.:Since sometimes I have problems accessing the news-server I would
> be thankfull for a direct e-mail to me.
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From: Alpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 00:08:18 -0400
im using two western digital
the 20 gig
and the 13 gig
and they both work perfect for me
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From: Emile van bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: /dev/hda1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:08:49 +0200
On 5 May 1999, bill davidsen wrote:
[SNIP]
>Sure would like to disable the mount count with a lilo option or some
>such, there are times when I need a system up *now* not after the time
>it takes to frolic through 40GB of RAID storage.
Uhm... Did you remember that all kernel parameters (passed to it by
Lilo) which the kernel doesn't understand itself, are passed as
environment to 'init' and then onwards to the scripts (e.g.
/etc/rc2.d/s20mountlocal on my system)...? Guess you could figure out
the rest yourself... ;-)
Also, the kernel commandline is in /proc/cmdline, if for some reason
there's an env - somewhere.
Hope this is of some help.
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From: Peat Bakke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tiny Linux Boxes?
Date: 10 May 1999 21:13:36 -0700
Heya,
I'm trying to build a tiny Linux box to act as a router and gateway. In
theory, I could go the traditional route, spend $400 on hardware, and have
a functional machine .. but where's the style? ;)
So, with price issues aside, how would I go about building the smallest
Linux box I can with the following specs:
3 100Base-T ethernet cards
32MB RAM
1GB hard drive
basic VGA output *
a serial port
a keyboard port *
.. items with a * are only for the initial installation and configuration
purposes, and can be removed later. I'll have it configured to dump
logging information over the serial port to my workstation.
Can anyone help me?
-Peat
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Sierzputowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: yamaha724
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:39:49 +0100
the address taht you gave me is corect?
www.4ftront-tech.com
I've problem with conecting to this page.
Thanks for answer.
pawels
Luke Ordelmans wrote:
> Probably your only optoin is www.4ftront-tech.com, there they have an
> driver for this card, but it's commercial, so you have 2 chioces: pay
> for it, or use your card only 20mins at the time and then reload the
> driver......
> There is no free linux driver for it...
>
> Luke Ordelmans
>
> Piotr wrote:
>
> > I've red-hat 5.2 and I have a problem with Yamaha Soundsystem 724.
> > I can't install this card. Please help me.
> > pawels
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Sierzputowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NTFS and Linux
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:37:22 +0100
I've RedHat 5.2 and WinNT on the other partition. There is a way to see
NTFS partition on Linux and vice-versa.
Please help me.
pawels.
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:33:56 +0300
From: "Khalid M. Baheyeldin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha OPL3 SAX Help
I have a Toshiba Laptop 460CDT Satellite Pro with a Yamaha
OPL3 SAX built-in card.
It works very will with Windows, but under Linux (Redhat
5.1 with upgraded kernel 2.0.36) some sounds work, and others
don't.
I have configured it as a SounBlaster Pro with IRQ 5,
IO 220 and DMA 0 (just like Windows).
When I run the sndconfig, Linus voice is very low. In KDE,
the ICQ 'Message for you sir" .wav file works, but those
in Smiletris don't?
The same kernel and Red Hat work very well with my Home
Desktop PC with a clone card...
What's the problem? and What can I do?
When you reply to this newsgroup, please e-mail me as well.
Thanks
JaZZman wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Brown-Bayliss) wrote:
> >Hi, has anyone got a working solution that a newbie could follow?
> >
> Yes use a kernel before 2.1.32.. or less than 16Mb in your system..
> The problem is the 1 DMA channel limit of the newer kernels if you have more
> than 16Mb in your computer. the older kernels do not have that problem.
>
> >--
> >Rob
> >
> >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~bayliss
--
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From: Alexej Jerschow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux,linux.dev.laptop,com.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Linux: Printing problem on VAIO PCG808
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:00:02 -0700
Hi,
The printer port /dev/lp0 is not recognized on my RH 5.2 Linux system on
a SONY VAIO PCG 808 notebook. Do you have any suggestions on why this
might be so and where I could read more about this sort of problem ? I
jsut don't know what to do. I checked out the FAQ, dejanews and the
Printing-HOWTO, but it did not help me further.
Thank you
Alexej Jerschow
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAIDZONE
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:14:48 GMT
Hi!
I just ran across and advertisement & website for a product called
RAIDZONE, which claims to provide RAID capability (hot swap and all)
using Ultra ATA hard disks. Has anybody used this and if so, what were
your impresssions. How well is it supported under linux?
John
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From: Denis Kholodar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MODEM and IRQ: help a newbie
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 00:59:48 -0400
i got it working now.
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From: Francois Dupradeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE-Harddisk problem
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:12:05 -0700
Dear All,
We have an important problem with IDE-HD:
We use RedHat 5.2 with Western Digital (8.4Go) or Maxtor HD (6.4 Go).
Since 3 months, we have already broken 4 HD under linux (or we get bad
sectors after a while...)
I am use to do several partitions with fdisk (between 4 and 8) during
the linux install.
Any idea?
Thanks
Francois
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From: Arian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI - aha-1520a
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 05:13:41 GMT
I'd appreciate any advice and/or assistance on this:
Problem:
The latest RedHat installer won't recognise my Adaptec SCSI card
(aha-1520a s39 bios 0100).
I've tried:
Autoprobe, and specifing the parameters but I get the same result:
"I can't find the device anywhere on your system"
I tried "aha152x=0x340,11,7 tmc8xx=0x340,11" - that should be it???
I also have an Adaptec 1542, however I get the same response.
Setup/Configuration:
An old Dell Omniplex XM 590 with a first generation P90. Under Win95
the device manager reports it as an Adaptec AIC-6X60 ISA Single-Chip
SCSI Controller.
Thanks for any assistance,
Arian
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From: Denis Kholodar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MODEM and IRQ: help a newbie
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:16:23 -0400
i got it working now.
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Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 20:00:59 -0700
From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New USB mailing list
There is a new mailing list for the USB development for Linux
Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe linux-usb in the
body.
There is also a new web page at
http://www.linux-usb.org/
Later,
Kyle Dansie
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From: "Jordi Verdult" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBlive under linux not working!
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 00:40:58 +0200
Hello,
I just downloaded the linux drivers for the SBlive. I followed the
instructions and everything looks fine when I start the module. However, I
can't use a mixer and music software doesn't work. The only thing that
"works" is playing a WAV file. The only problem is that it skips every 0.5
sec. It sounds horrible!
I'm using Suse 6.0. I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.5. I hope anyone can help.
Jordi
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Reply-To: "Ken Shupenia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Ken Shupenia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tiny Linux Boxes?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 05:34:04 GMT
I would suggest looking at www.fireplug.org for the answer to your
questions. They are part of the linux router project and have a system
designed to do exactly what you appear to be wanting to do.
Ken
Peat Bakke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Heya,
>
> I'm trying to build a tiny Linux box to act as a router and gateway. In
> theory, I could go the traditional route, spend $400 on hardware, and have
> a functional machine .. but where's the style? ;)
>
> So, with price issues aside, how would I go about building the smallest
> Linux box I can with the following specs:
>
> 3 100Base-T ethernet cards
> 32MB RAM
> 1GB hard drive
> basic VGA output *
> a serial port
> a keyboard port *
>
> .. items with a * are only for the initial installation and configuration
> purposes, and can be removed later. I'll have it configured to dump
> logging information over the serial port to my workstation.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> -Peat
>
> --
> "What a strange machine man is. You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and
> radishes, and out come sighs, laughter, and dreams." - Nikos Kazantzakis
>
> Peat Bakke : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.peat.org/peat : Powered by Linux
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