Linux-Hardware Digest #235, Volume #10 Fri, 14 May 99 17:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCI Modem - lost cause? ("Roberto Leibman")
What happened to fdformat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI Rage Fury ("Galley_SimRacer")
LG CDROM Problem - CRD-8400B (Syed Khader Vali)
CD writer suggestions? (Nick Zentena)
Hard drive problem/Config question (Niels Voorhoeve)
Printer driver for HP 712c (Gary)
pcmcia-3.0.10, kernel 2.2.9, MO 640 MB on Armada 7730 (Ewald Pfau)
Re: Cloning a Linux box ("Scott M. Grim")
Specialix Board problems ... ("Thy Mastah")
Re: LG CDROM Problem - CRD-8400B ("John B")
Re: Cloning a Linux box ("Brian Kell")
Re: PS/2 or serial? (Michael Meissner)
Re: in search of low profile computer cases ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
CDR and kernel ("Fabien Bezagu")
AOpen AW300 sound card (=?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar=20Mart=EDn?=)
Re: Cloning a Linux box (Rod Roark)
FS:Linux Mini-Box w/kb,mouse $99.00 (GbyTheSea)
Re: Can I use four IDE HD drives under Linux? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: KWINTV Problem: Operation not supported by device?? (Roman Ronge)
Re: SUN Keyboard ("David Murray")
Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? ("Mike")
Re: What happened to fdformat (Bill Unruh)
Re: PS/2 or serial? ("Tony")
Re: Cloning a Linux box ("Scott Simpson")
Re: Sonic Impact s90 under Linux??? (Neil)
Re: Can I use four IDE HD drives under Linux? ("dpc")
Re: PCI Modem - lost cause? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: PS/2 or serial? (Remco van den Berg)
Re: CD writer suggestions? (Brian Walton)
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From: "Roberto Leibman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: PCI Modem - lost cause?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:37:44 -0700
So, all this talk about winmodems, sounds like a challenge to an experienced
linux driver programmer out there! Isn't it just a matter of figuring out
what the modem is expecting the OS to do? Is anyone working on this? I'd do
it myself if I wasn't a total newbie (< 1 month) at linux!
--
Roberto Leibman
Talaria Research, Inc.
http://www.talaria.com
Cxi tioj opinioj ne necese estas la opinioj de la administrantaro
michael sulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey there, just installed Redhat 5.1, no real troubles except for the
> modem...
>
> it's a 56K v.90 PCI modem, and it has no UART - so i'm not sure how to
> get it to work... i've seen discouraging things here and there, but was
> wondering if anyone knows of drivers being worked on or anything else
> that might help me get it going...
>
> it's a PCtel chipset, built by Newcom, ATI3 responds "PCtel 7.61MS" in
> case anyone cares ;)
>
> thanks for any help you might offer...
> michael
> (and yeah i know, external modem. what the hell was i thinking?)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: What happened to fdformat
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:57:03 GMT
I know this sounds stupid, but I used to think that you can low-level
format a floppy in Linux using "fdformat". Well, on my Debian system
this is what I get:
==================================
histria ~ # fdformat
bash: fdformat: command not found
histria ~ # man fdformat
No manual entry for fdformat
===================================
(as root). How can I format a floppy ?
Thank you,
Cristian Barbarosie
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From: "Galley_SimRacer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:01:37 -0400
Squire Earle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I cannot get X windows to work with my ATI Rage Fury 32Meg video card.
> Can somebody email me detailed instructions on how to set this up?
>
> Thanks,
>
me too!
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From: Syed Khader Vali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LG CDROM Problem - CRD-8400B
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:14:47 +0530
Hi there,
I have a client who wants a mail server setup. The configuration of the
system is as follows.
P-II 350 MHZ
primary master- 4.3gb HDD
primary slave - LG-CDROM drive - CRD-8400B
64MB RAM
I have installed every available flavour of linux using the bootable
CDROM.
The installation procedure is smooth and the linux gets installed.
But, after installation when i boot to linux, it hangs after detecting
the CDROM drive
please help me out in this regard.
Thank you in advance
regards
Khader
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Linux - The Choice of the GNU Generation
www.sholay.com
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From: Nick Zentena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CD writer suggestions?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:29:35 GMT
Hi,
Any suggestions on CD writer? I'd like SCSI. Read speed is not an
issue. Should Write speed be one? The Pansonic is quite a bit cheaper
then the Yahama. Is it any good? Or should I just spend the extra money.
Thanks
Nick
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From: Niels Voorhoeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.solaris.x86,
Subject: Hard drive problem/Config question
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:54:26 GMT
Hi,
I had Linux and Windows installed on my 3.8G IDE, and then bought a
Seagate 4.3G SCSI drive on which I thought I could install Solaris 7,
but wasn't able to. Well, the IDE drive failed (data reading error) and
I can't format it in FDISK (won't let me delete any logical or other
partitions). Supposedly this may be due to Partition-It.
So I installed Windows on the SCSI, and that's where I'm at now.
Wasting my speedy SCSI drive on Windows. So my questions are:
1 - How do I fix my IDE drive.
2 - If I can fix it, is it possible to install OS's on both the IDE and
SCSI drive. If yes, is it possible to install Windows on the IDE and
have the Linux and Solaris on the SCSI? Would some other permutation
make more sense?
Thanks,
Niels
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From: Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer driver for HP 712c
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:43:48 -0400
Hi folks... I am not sure if this is the right place for this request
but if not please direct me to the correct place. I am looking for a
printer driver for a Hewlett-Packard 712C. If one exists can someone
tell me where it might be. Thanks
Gary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ewald Pfau)
Subject: pcmcia-3.0.10, kernel 2.2.9, MO 640 MB on Armada 7730
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:13:48 +0200
For report only: On an Armada 7730 laptop now, finally, I can access a
640 MB MO-drive pretty fine (except that it is sloooow) with the Adaptec
1460 SCSI-card.
The procedure of starting pcmcia modules has crashed the machine, before
I patched the boot-up script - auto-IRQ assignment is excluded now. This
is only a problem with the i82365 module. The line for loading it has
now the parameters:
do_scan=0 irqlist=7,9,10 poll_interval=100
With kernel 2.2.9, everything looks fine for accessing the 2048
bytes/block of the 640 MB media. Maybe I find a patch in the kernel, for
to drastically increase cache memory. Under DOS cardmanager, it runs
quite fast with smartdrv having 2 MBytes.
Btw., with a Toshiba 6.4 GByte hard-drive, I can set hwparms for
speeding-up a bit with parameters: -m16 (multiple blocks per read), -c3
(32-bit access) -u1 (allow interrupts in irq-handler). Maybe newer
Armadas allow as well DMA access. This one won't.
When using Linux fdisk for preparing this drive on this machine, one
should set the geometry to 839 cylinders and 240 heads despite other
initial information from the BIOS (13424 cylinders, 15 heads) before
setting-up partitions.
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From: "Scott M. Grim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 14:25:47 -0400
You could simply tar the entire contents of the drive and pipe it back
through tar to extract it to the other drive. Then you'll need to run LILO
on the new drive to write the master boot record.
It's best to do this from a floppy booted system so that files aren't being
accessed on the drive as you tar it, but it's not strictly necessary.
We do this often. We create an "image" drive that is our base install with
all common applications then create our servers by "copying" the contents of
that partition to a newly partitioned drive.
Another alternative is a program called Ghost that is DOS based, but it'll
run off a single boot floppy that will copy a hard drive sector-by-sector.
We've used it to successfully copy a drive exactly including the master boot
record, so you don't even have to mess with LILO after you copy it.
--
Scott M. Grim
Director of Systems Engineering
Calltech Communications, Inc.
mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have two PC's with identical hardware. One is running Redhat 5.2. I
> want to be able to make the other box an exact copy of the first without
> having to install everything from scratch.
>
> Q. Whats the best way of doing this? Is there any s/w out there like Drive
> Image for windows that will work under Linux? (I know Drive Image will
copy
> a linux disk but I want to run everything off the linux box).
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Mark Doutre
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: "Thy Mastah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Specialix Board problems ...
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:04:34 +0100
Hi,
I've a RH 5.9 Linux with Kernel 2.2.8. I tried to install a Specialix PCI
Multiport Board but i couldn't !
Here are some logs that may help :
fom /proc/pci
----
I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedfff80 [0xfedfff80].
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Communication controller: Specialix IO8+/PCI (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedfff00 [0xfedfff00].
---
from dmesg
---
sx: Specialix IO8+ driver v1.8, (c) R.E.Wolff 1997/1998.
sx: derived from work (c) D.Gorodchanin 1994-1996.
sx: DTR/RTS pin is RTS when CRTSCTS is on.
sx0: specialix IO8+ Board at 0x100 not found.
sx1: specialix IO8+ Board at 0x180 not found.
sx2: specialix IO8+ Board at 0x250 not found.
sx3: specialix IO8+ Board at 0x260 not found.
sx: No specialix IO8+ boards detected.
....
sx: Specialix IO8+ driver v1.8, (c) R.E.Wolff 1997/1998.
sx: derived from work (c) D.Gorodchanin 1994-1996.
sx: DTR/RTS pin is always RTS.
sx: No specialix IO8+ boards detected.
sx: Specialix IO8+ driver v1.8, (c) R.E.Wolff 1997/1998.
sx: derived from work (c) D.Gorodchanin 1994-1996.
sx: DTR/RTS pin is always RTS.
sx: No specialix IO8+ boards detected.
sx: Specialix IO8+ driver v1.8, (c) R.E.Wolff 1997/1998.
sx: derived from work (c) D.Gorodchanin 1994-1996.
sx: DTR/RTS pin is always RTS.
sx: No specialix IO8+ boards detected.
----
if i try to do : insmod /lib/modules/2.2.8/misc/specialix.o iobase=0xdc00
irq=9
it says :
/lib/modules/2.2.8/misc/specialix.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Any help will be wellcome !
-Paulo Azevedo
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From: "John B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LG CDROM Problem - CRD-8400B
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:16:24 +0100
I had a similar problem, just disabled the cd-rom in bios and it still
picked it up when linux and 98/NT booted works fine for me like this - don't
think this cd-rom likesbeing a slave under linux
Syed Khader Vali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there,
> I have a client who wants a mail server setup. The configuration of the
> system is as follows.
> P-II 350 MHZ
> primary master- 4.3gb HDD
> primary slave - LG-CDROM drive - CRD-8400B
> 64MB RAM
> I have installed every available flavour of linux using the bootable
> CDROM.
> The installation procedure is smooth and the linux gets installed.
> But, after installation when i boot to linux, it hangs after detecting
> the CDROM drive
> please help me out in this regard.
> Thank you in advance
> regards
> Khader
>
>
> --
> Syed Khader Vali
>
> Linux - The Choice of the GNU Generation
>
> www.sholay.com
>
>
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From: "Brian Kell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:18:23 -0700
Scott M. Grim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You could simply tar the entire contents of the drive and pipe it back
> through tar to extract it to the other drive. Then you'll need to run
LILO
> on the new drive to write the master boot record.
What about the /dev directory? Won't tar try to copy all of those special
files? And if you leave that out, then how do you get the new disk to have
enough of a /dev directory in order to boot?
I've tried to clone disks using tar before, but never found a satisfactory
way to avoid this problem. Any suggestions?
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Subject: Re: PS/2 or serial?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 1999 15:21:34 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mj) writes:
> Hi,
>
> What mice uses less resources? Serial or PS/2? Which has more incompatibility
> trouble (under linux)? Any idea?
It's kind of a wash.
Some (most/all?) PS/2 mice can get confused if you disconnect the mouse while
it is being used. Serial mice don't tend to. On the other hand, mfgrs are
building in fewer serial ports these days (and Linux USB support is still
fairly new), while in general any desktop computer built in the last 2-3 years
will have a PS/2 mouse port. Laptops often times have one serial port, and one
PS/2 port, so you might be out of luck if you want to plug in an external
keyboard and a PS/2 mouse. Many KVM (keybaord, video, mouse) switches like the
Cybex AutoView that I'm using right now only supports PS/2 mice plugged into
the box. If you do without a PS/2 mouse, you free up IRQ 12.
--
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PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: in search of low profile computer cases
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:49:55 -0500
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Today a PowerPC system (Motorola MPC8xx, 64 MB RAM, 8 MB FLASH,
> serial, parallel, ethernet, ...) is available on a "motherboard" less
> than half a credit card (54 x 45 mm� to be exact). This fits nearly
> anywhere...
Wow. How big a truck do you need to carry the money to pay for it?
I bet that tiny little 1/2" monitor is hard on the eyes. :-)
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From: "Fabien Bezagu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDR and kernel
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:30:43 +0200
Hi All,
I just installed a scsi Panasonic/Matshita CD-R (CW-7502) and I have a pb
under linux. Cdrecord says it can't inquiry my Cd-Recorder. It can't do
a -scanbus or anything else also. My device string is dev=/dev/scd1:0,6,0
but it seems the good device would be the sgx where x is a number. On my
system (an old slack one) I only have sgy where y are letters from a to h.
It seems there is a pb with the kernel to redirect the scsi recorder to the
good devices.
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance...
Fabien
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar=20Mart=EDn?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AOpen AW300 sound card
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:51:56 +0200
Does anyone how can I make this sound card work in RedHat 5.2?
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: 14 May 1999 19:36:46 GMT
Brian Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Scott M. Grim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> You could simply tar the entire contents of the drive and pipe it back
>> through tar to extract it to the other drive. Then you'll need to run
>LILO
>> on the new drive to write the master boot record.
>What about the /dev directory? Won't tar try to copy all of those special
>files? And if you leave that out, then how do you get the new disk to have
>enough of a /dev directory in order to boot?
>
>I've tried to clone disks using tar before, but never found a satisfactory
>way to avoid this problem. Any suggestions?
It works best if you back up with a rescue disk, so you're not reading
a live /dev. Also use the -p option of tar.
-- Rod
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Can I use four IDE HD drives under Linux?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:20:42 GMT
"Dave Ewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am considering my options regarding the specification of a Linux box to
>function as a mass storage server ...
Good idea.
>My thoughts are:
>* I need *lots* of hard disk space, preferably up to 100GB. Access times do
>not need to be that fast.
RAID with an IDE-RAID controller might be a good idea.
>* It must be cheap, therefore SCSI hard drives are not a consideration -
>let's stick with IDE.
Hmpf. If you're in need of a 100GB file server, don't try to save
money at the wrong places. But yes, it can be done with IDE drives.
>* Possibility 1: Use three IDE hard drives and an IDE CDROM.
>* Possibility 2: Use four IDE hard drives and a SCSI CDROM.
Possibility 3: Use 2 IDE controllers (a Promise Ultra66 should do it)
and connect 5 IDE HDs and one ATAPI CDROM drive.
If even that's not enough, use RAID or edit the ide.c source for
to have support for more than 4 IDE channels.
>My question is: is there any reason why I could not use four large IDE hard
>drives under Linux?
Well, you'll need the latest fdisk version for to have support for such
large HDs, but that's all.
Michael
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From: Roman Ronge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: KWINTV Problem: Operation not supported by device??
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:46:18 -0400
Hi Dan,
It looks like your bttv is not loaded when kwintv starts. Try to load
it using insmod.
BTW. I have the same card and running RH5.2.0.36. Dou have any problems
with your sound chip not being properly recognized and strange colors (
bright spots like if you are looking at negative picture ) when using
overlay mode ?
Roman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having trouble running KWINTV with my Avermedia Tv Tuner.
>
> Here are the particulars:
>
> -The tuner works fine under windows.
> -Kwintv Compiles and installs fine.
> -MAKEDEV in kwintv Source tree is executed.
> -Video4Linux is compiled into Kernel, bttv.o compiled as module.
> -bttv.o module is loaded into Kernel.
>
> When I execute kwintv, I am told: /dev/video: Operation not supported
> by device. /dev/video is symlinked to /dev/video0, which has a
> major/minor number of 81, 0.
>
> As far as I've read, I'd done everything correct... why isn't this
> working?!?!? If I can't watch TV under linux, I may have to quit
> Linux altogether, and just return to watching TV.
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Dan.
>
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SUN Keyboard
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:31:38 GMT
I have a sun keyboard too... if you find out something, let me know also!
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:13:43 -0700
USRobotics 56000 internal PnP
Works fine
Jon Pennington wrote in message <01be975c$587ff9c0$403db693@bv5023>...
>I really like my Best Data 56SF. v.90/KFlex, ISA, Jumpers
>
>--
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>
>Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:51:55 +0200, David Guyon Martin
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Do you have an internal modem working with linux ?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: What happened to fdformat
Date: 14 May 1999 19:44:59 GMT
In <7hho5b$hn7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I know this sounds stupid, but I used to think that you can low-level
>format a floppy in Linux using "fdformat". Well, on my Debian system
...
>(as root). How can I format a floppy ?
See if you have mformat. The mtools package is a great package. (Mind
you I think that is an MSDos format, not an ext2)
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PS/2 or serial?
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 04:07:38 +1000
>Depends on which resources....
>If you means IRQ's then PS/2 uses less :-)
Huh ??
com 1 = irq4
com 2 = irq3
ps2 = irq12
where is the difference ???
Tony
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From: "Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:37:30 -0700
Brian Kell wrote in message <1I__2.6871$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What about the /dev directory? Won't tar try to copy all of those special
>files? And if you leave that out, then how do you get the new disk to have
>enough of a /dev directory in order to boot?
You can always use dump and restore in a pipe. I don't know if tar copies
special files but dump and restore surely do.
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sonic Impact s90 under Linux???
Date: 14 May 1999 15:28:15 -0500
Yes I have a Sonic Impact 90 and it works under Linux with a sound driver
from www.opensound.com. This is a "beta" driver and it costs $30, but
works on a trial basis with some restrictions, like you have to keep
turning it off and on periodically (though playing from cd's works without
restriction). It seems to play mp3's fine, haven't tried much complicated
stuff except cd's and mp3's. You need to make sure you have no sound
compiled in your kernel or loaded as modules (search for sound.o files and
rename them) or it won't install. But the install is painless and it
autoconfigured perfectly.
Ian B wrote:
> Does anyone know if a Diamond Sonic Impact s90 sound card can be made to
> work under Linux?
>
> There isn't a driver in existence specifically for this card but I
> thought their may be a way around using some other driver.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Ian Bishop
>
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From: "dpc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use four IDE HD drives under Linux?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:30:13 -0400
Before one of my hard drives died, I had 4 hard drives hooked up (using the
Promise Ultra66 IDE add-on card) and it worked fine even with that
unsupported add-on card. I also had two cd-roms connected. No problems
there either. I had about half as much storage space as you. I don't see
any reason why it should be a problem.
dpc
Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7hgppc$jsl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am considering my options regarding the specification of a Linux box to
> function as a mass storage server ...
>
> My thoughts are:
>
> * I need *lots* of hard disk space, preferably up to 100GB. Access times
do
> not need to be that fast.
> * It must be cheap, therefore SCSI hard drives are not a consideration -
> let's stick with IDE.
> * Possibility 1: Use three IDE hard drives and an IDE CDROM.
> * Possibility 2: Use four IDE hard drives and a SCSI CDROM.
>
> My question is: is there any reason why I could not use four large IDE
hard
> drives under Linux? [I'm not sure how they would be partitioned, that's
> really a different issue.] Does anyone have experience of doing this?
>
> Thanks for any info,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Ewart, Computing Manager
> Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Cancer Epidemiology Unit), Oxford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: PCI Modem - lost cause?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:07:30 GMT
michael sulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hey there, just installed Redhat 5.1, no real troubles except for the
>modem...
>it's a 56K v.90 PCI modem, and it has no UART
[...]
WinModem junk. Throw it away and buy a nice external modem.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van den Berg)
Subject: Re: PS/2 or serial?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 19:01:08 GMT
On 13 May 1999 16:03:41 GMT, mj wrote:
>Hi,
>
>What mice uses less resources? Serial or PS/2?
Depends on which resources....
If you means IRQ's then PS/2 uses less :-)
>Which has more incompatibility
>trouble (under linux)? Any idea?
I think that you should really go for a normail 3-button mouse.
Yes, 3 buttons. I have got a 3 button PS/2 mouse and that works very well.
Also Logitech has some nice 3 button serial mice. I use such a logitech
mouse at work. Also no problem.
Avoid very cheap mice. Sometimes very difficult to find which protocol
the're speaking.
Good luck,
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Certified Systems Engineer :-)
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From: Brian Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD writer suggestions?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:16:15 -0400
Nick Zentena wrote:
> Hi,
> Any suggestions on CD writer? I'd like SCSI. Read speed is not an
> issue. Should Write speed be one? The Pansonic is quite a bit cheaper
> then the Yahama. Is it any good? Or should I just spend the extra money.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
> --
> ---------------------
> Nick Zentena
> SuSE 6.0 Linux 2.2.7
> www.hophead.dyndns.org <Don't expect much-)>
> ---------------------
I have the Yamaha and it has had problems, was bad out of box, took a month to get
replaced then went bad in a month and took another month to get repaired, they do
fix it but are just way too slow. I recomend a plextor, cost more but heard they are
reliable.
brian
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