Linux-Hardware Digest #236, Volume #10 Fri, 14 May 99 20:13:53 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI-U or SCSI-UW for scanners ? (David Fox)
Re: CD writer suggestions? (Eric Sandeen)
Re: Driver for Canon BJ-230 under WP8? (Brad Pepers)
ORB Drive? (John Edstrom)
Re: 3com/USRobotics VSP (Mercy)
Who makes the best cases?? (Jete Software Inc.)
Re: What happened to fdformat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New HDD 18GB will this work? (diahedrial)
Re: Which SCSI Controller??? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Ataptec AVA 1502AP not detected (Peter Polman)
Re: Need a program to exercise/test the computer hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie humble Q: can't run autoboot.bat at D:\ (diahedrial)
Re: Philips cd-rw (David A. Rogers)
help me with LT winmodem ("seanhe")
Re: Cloning a Linux box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
USR Modem Prob / Cable Modems ("Tyler Beaton")
Re: Getting Lilo to modify active partition (Matthew Pound)
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: SCSI-U or SCSI-UW for scanners ?
Date: 12 May 1999 07:18:38 -0700
Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> which SCSI-adapter is needed for actual scanners ? Are SCSI-U -
> Adapter enough, or do I need SCSI-UW ?
>
>
> Is SCSI-UW able to handle SCSI-U harddisks ? (Vice versa there is
> needed an adapter, I know)
My scanner freaked out when I tried connecting it to a Buslogic BT-948.
It seems to prefer crappy old SCSI cards. I would guess that it depends
on the scanner.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD writer suggestions?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:19:41 -0500
I'm eyeing the Panasonic 7502-B. It's a 4x/8x SCSI CDR, and Microshack
(www.microshack.com) has 'em for $179.
I can vouch for neither the drive nor the company, but it looks like a
good drive at a really good price.
-Eric
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-)>
> ---------------------
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From: Brad Pepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for Canon BJ-230 under WP8?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 23:48:20 GMT
Eric wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I want to print a text with EMACS for example, I have no problem
> with my Canon BJ-230 printer.
>
> Lately, I downloaded WordPerfect 8 for Linux and installed the driver
> for the BJ-300 (BJ-230 is *not* on the list; so I presumed it shoud
> work), but it doesn't work, no garbage, nothing. Except a blank sheet.
I'm not sure if this is still true but there was a problem in the
past with WP vrs the lp spooler. The problem is that WP is producing
the data already formatted with the control characters for your printer.
It then prints it via the spooler which does it own round of formatting.
The common thing the print spooler does is convert anything thats not
already Postscript into postscript and then pass the postscript data to
the "ghostscript" program which then generated the codes for your
printer.
So you see the WP output is likely getting converted into postscript
and then it tries to convert it back to printer codes. Since the WP
output is filled with control characters it doesn't really convert to
postscript and you get junk or blank pages.
The way I've solved this in the past is to create a "raw" print spool
that doesn't do any formatting. Something like this should do it:
raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:sf:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:
With the /dev/lp1 possibly changed to what your lp device is on.
Once you have this change WP to print to the "raw" spooler and it
should work fine!
PS: the other way to fix this is to tell WP that you really have
a postscript printer. Then it will generate postscript which the
normal lp spool will pass through to ghostscript which will convert
it for your printer. While this will work fine, in the past I saw
better results in letting WP generate the printer codes directly.
--
Brad Pepers
Linux Canada Inc. Home of Linux products in Canada!
http://www.linuxcanada.com Proud supporter of Cyclades, Red
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hat, and Caldera.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Edstrom)
Subject: ORB Drive?
Date: 14 May 1999 21:28:24 GMT
Does the Castlewood ORB removable diskdrive work under linux?
--
John Edstrom | edstrom @ slugo.hmsc.orst.edu
http://bubo.hmsc.orst.edu/~edstrom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mercy)
Subject: Re: 3com/USRobotics VSP
Date: 14 May 1999 18:52:23 GMT
Well I have the vsp and charter.... As soon as DSL is availble I will switch
to that. I had to keep my ISDN for Linux.... I too have sent many e-mails
to charter and 3Com.... I got a interesting response from a Manager at
Charter during one of my many phone calls. ( I called because no ever
responds to e-mails ) The manager said that they have gotten a lot of
complaints from Mac users but He did not know of any Linux users complaints.
He also said that Charter is not too happy with the 3com deal. They may
move to something like TCI/AtHome is using. I would say that you need to call
and complain... Do it now... do it loud.
As for 3com(USrobotics) I'm pretty fed up with them. There anwsers to my
problem included cr%p like:
Use win95 and winproxy on a computer then you can surf the web from linux.
I had to ask if he was trying to be funny. ( I was unimpressed ).
Damon C. Richardson
( What's a man got left to fight for when he's bought his freedom ).
In article <7h0pai$6u7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randolph wrote:
>Unfortunately there have not been any new developments with the VSP cable
>modem. I've e-mailed 3Com several times to no avail. I haven't even
>recieved an answer. I figured at the least they would send me a
>disappointing e-mail saying that they have no plans for support at this
>time. I haven't even gotten that. I know that there were several Charter
>Cable users that were in the same boat. I am currently using Blazenet as
>an ISP and considering 3Com's reputation I'm sure that it won't be long
>before there are more ISPs using this particular modem. All I can say is
>keep up the e-mail campaign. Someone's gotta at least deny you. :\
>
>Randolph
>
>
>Just Me wrote:
>> Just wondering if anyone has had any luck yet with a Linux driver for
>> the 3Com VSP...... I recall earlier that Linux was left out in the cold
>> as far as getting driver info, but I thought maybe there might have been
>> new developments that I missed.
>>
>>
>
>
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> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jete Software Inc.)
Subject: Who makes the best cases??
Date: 14 May 1999 14:37:31 -0400
It seems that I am forever opening my Linux boxes to upgrade one thing or
another. I would just love to have a computer case like the Mac G3,
where it just splits open in half allowing easy access to all of the
components.
I doubt that there is anything like that available in the PC market, and so
far all of the PC cases that I have ever seen (including Enlights) seemed
like cheap crap.
Does anyone make a good PC case?? Or at least who makes the best of the
current field of cases (I hope that it isn't Enlight).
-- Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: What happened to fdformat
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:30:28 GMT
In article <7hho5b$hn7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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 ?
Well, I just used it yesterday on a newly installed S.u.S.E. Linux
6.1 system. Isn't it part of the 'mtools' package. Maybe you have
to be 'root' to use it.
Hope these hint are useful.
--
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New HDD 18GB will this work?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:11:40 -0700
It should work fine, but I would recommend that you make room for a
"/boot" partition for Linux that is below the 8 Gig level of the drive,
or specifically, below the 1024th cylinder of the drive, or else you
will have problems booting Linux. (Windows won't miss 20MB or so for
a "/boot" partition). Hope this helps,
-diahedrial.
Marin wrote:
>
> I will buy new WD 18gb HDD (7200 rpm), so I was thinking to do this:
> put 18gb HDD primari, old 2,5gb slave, then instal windows on 1st 8gb, linux
> another 10gb, on thet 2,5 slave put linux 128mb swap and windows 500mb swap,
> another space to windows. May system is 333a, s3 4mb, win 98, suse 6,1, 96mb
> ram.
> Thanks for your time.
>
> --
>
> Marin :o)
> dump "_removeit" for replay
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Subject: Re: Which SCSI Controller???
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 1999 15:59:00 -0400
Mogley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've heard from dealers and read in 3 or 4 articles IBM scsi disks are the
> way to go. Basically, dealers NEVER have IBM scsi disks returned; an
> exageration of course, just trying to make a point. I've also seen a few
> reviews on hardware web pages that IBM's high RPM drives( 7200rpm and
> 10,000 rpm), run cooler than seagates.
>
> I'm about to get a tekram390 scsi card for and old seagate st15150n, i
> think thats the part number, its a barracuda iv. It utilizes the
> amd53c974a chip.
A ST15150N is a Baracudda (7200rpm, 50 pin connector), but I think its about
1-2 generations old (my st15150n came in a dell that we got 2 years ago, and I
vaguelly recall the Baracudda LP had already come out). So you will see a lot
of these in the aftermarket right now.
Note, the TekRam 390 (without a suffix) uses an amd chip as you mentioned, as
opposed to the other TekRam 390{W,F,U,U2} cards which use LSI logic chips
(previously known as Symbios Logic, and before that NCR). Linux has two
different drivers for the AMD chipset. I've never used the AMD based card, but
according to TekRam's web page, it is non-ultra (ie, 'FAST' or 10 meg/second
for narrow transfers, 20 meg/second for wide).
I just ran a quick and diry hdparm -t on my 10k 9gig IBM disks and my 2gig
Seagate ST15150N disk, and got 18.93 MB/second for the IBM, and 6.54 MB/second
for the Seagate. Bonnie will probably give you more accurate numbers, but the
point is a non-ultra controller might not be able to keep the disks going at
maxmimum speed. I would also bet that you will need 50->68 pin converters,
since the IBM is probably a 68 pin wide device.
I would recomend getting at least a TekRam 390F controller, which is
ultra-wide. The last time I checked, a 390 was about $50 and a 390F was about
$80. Under Linux you use the NCR53C8XX driver for this controller. If the IBM
disk is wide, you will need a conversion socket for one of the disks, or two
sets of cables (and not use the external connector).
You could also go for the more expensive Ultra2 controller, but according to
the specs, that only wins when you 3+ disks on the bus. Note, that Ultra2 lvd
must only have Ultra2 devices on the bus, otherwise it drops back to SE mode
(and ultra speeds IIRC). This means either having two scsi controllers, one
for the ultra2 devices, one for the ultra, fast, etc. devices or having a
controller that has two buses internally, such as the builtin Adaptec 7896 that
is on my motherboard (the IBM ultra2 disks are on one bus, and the older
Seagates and Quantums are the other bus, I also have a TekRam 390U controller
to control the slow devices like the DAT tape drive, Umax scanner, and TEAC
CD-R).
Finally, most ultra2 disks (except Quantum IIRC) do not have a terminator when
used in ultra mode. This means you will need a cable that has one more slot,
and use an active internal terminator.
While the IBM disks do run cooler than the Seagates, you should make sure any
7200 or 10000 rpm disk is properly cooled.
For more information about SCSI, consult:
http://www.ultranet.com/~gfield/gary/scsi.html
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Peter Polman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ataptec AVA 1502AP not detected
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:38:56 -0700
This card will not autoprobe. It doesn't have any "smarts" (Read that as a
BIOS chip). The way I've got this to work is to compile support for the SCSI
"aha152x" into the kernel and then before I actually make the new kernel I
edit the /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/Makefile to not scan for the card. I
put the proper addressing in place of the "-DAUTO" line. The new line
contains this instead "-DSKIP_BIOSTEST -DSETUP0={0x140,10,7,1}".
This has worked fine for my kernels back since 2.0.32 (I've not tried on a
previous kernel).
killbill wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > KW> I got a Ataptec AVA 1502AP SCSI card.
> > KW> the normal Installation (Red Hat) was not able to detect any SCSI
> > KW> device How can I run my card and is it possibel to run an Scanner
> > KW> with Linux or a CD-Toaster
> >
> > KW> Thanks! Klaus
> >
> > Linux doesn't seem to see that card unless you jumper it for the
> > alternative 0x340 address. at aha152x=0x340,11,7 it works just fine
> > with any disk drive I've thrown at it so far.
>
> Just to add a touch of clarification to Gene's correct and complete
> response... The card will probably not autoprobe (I am guessing based on
> related experience). You will probably manually have to tell it the
> address and IRQ with the "aha152x=0x340,11,7" line Gene correctly
> identified above.
>
> Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> --"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
> it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
> of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need a program to exercise/test the computer hardware
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:23:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking for a test program that can be used to exercise, test &
> diagnose PC hardware, under Linux. This is for Intel based systems.
>
> Does anyone know of such a package?
You can use "memtest86" to test memory see:
http://www.supercomputer.org/Downloads/index.html
it is a self-booting program, i.e. you don't need an OS; it
can be installed as a lilo boot option.
Compiling the kernel should give your hardware and installation a
shake-out.
--
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie humble Q: can't run autoboot.bat at D:\
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:25:49 -0700
Two choices: find dos drivers for the CD-ROM, or make a boot floppy
from the CD-ROM. From a machine/OS that can access the CD-ROM, go
to the \dosutils directory. It will have rawrite.exe. Put a fresh
floppy in drive a: and try the following command:
rawrite -f ..\images\boot.img -d a:
If memory serves me that should work to make a boot floppy for the
install. Try "rawrite -h" for options. Check the path to boot.img,
I don't have a 5.2 CD here to check it. Hope this get's you going...
-diahedrial.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi Group,
> I hope somebody can point me to a better place if this is not the
> appropriated ng to discauss this question.
>
> I got the redhat linux 5.2 installation guide with the free CD from
> linuxmall.com. Soon I realized that I need the boot discatte, or run autoboot
> at cd-rom. However, at dos prompt the machine can't recognize d drive. I
> suppose I need some driver. However this is school's box I'm messing around
> with. I have absolutely no idea where to start.
>
> I suppose I can get a bootdisk from a new linux distro (openLinux2.2 is
> cheap) or get a linux 5.2 box from ebay. Any other recommendation? Any
> program that can format a floppy disk in linux format and make a linux
> bootdisk from the dos prompt?
>
> Any input is greatly apprecated.
>
> CY
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Rogers)
Subject: Re: Philips cd-rw
Date: 14 May 1999 21:04:27 GMT
On Wed, 12 May 1999 21:26:27 +0200, R.D.Coehoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
speaketh saying:
>HI
>
>I'm installing Redhat 5.1 But i can't find a driver which is compatible
>with the Philips cdd3610. It's an extern cd-rw on the parallel port with
>IDE. Who can help me?????
Have you compiled the kernel for parallel port ide devices? Go to
www.linux.org and find the cd how-to and the cd writing how-to. These may
help you.
Cheers,
dar
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From: "seanhe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help me with LT winmodem
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:38:11 -0400
hi :
i am sean , and i have "lt winmodem" in my machine . i want to how to get
it work for linux
i have redhat 5.2 . it is ture the winmodem is not support??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:55:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware 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 have used various systems, one of which was using tar.
it went something like this.
umask 0; rsh othersystem tar cf - / | tar xfv .
You have to work things out so that you are root on both systems, but
it works fairly well. Sometime you divide things up and do it directory
by directory.
Another system which has worked (but I would warn you against), works like
this:
rsh otherssystem cat /dev/hda > /dev/hda
Assuming your disks are exactly the same and nothing is really running on
the first system, it works.
But it is not for the faint of heart.
Best regards,
Stephen Jenuth
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: "Tyler Beaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR Modem Prob / Cable Modems
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:30:45 -0400
Hello hello. I'm running Red Hat 5.2 ( kernel 2.0.36 ) and find myself
having trouble getting Linux to cooperate with my USR 33.6 voice/fax/data
Sportster. It's a plug & play modem, but I set the jumpers to COM2, IRQ3,
incase Linux couldn't auto-configure it for some reason. In Windows 98\NT
this works fine, with no conflicts. Under Linux however, somethin's not
right. Upon booting Linux, it lists the card as an ISA device along with my
sound card, but no programs can find the modem or get it to respond.
Setserial is setup correctly too. I'm stuck as to what to do here.
Modem-HOWTO and PNP-HOWTO got me nowhere. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have a feeling my problem involves the isapnp program, but I don't really
know how to use it. Also, pnpdump doesn't list the modem.
Finally, does anyone know of any problems using a cable modem (not ASDL)
with Linux?
Many, many thanks,
_Tyler_
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Pound)
Subject: Re: Getting Lilo to modify active partition
Date: 14 May 1999 22:40:50 GMT
Swietanowski Artur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Where do you place Lilo? If in the master boot record, it should be
: read and executed every time you reset/power on the system.
: If, on the other hand, Lilo is in the boot sector of some partition,
: then it will be read only when the partition is active at boottime.
: Which seems to be tha case here.
The probelem edned up being that when i recompiled lilo, i didn't
copy the boot.b, chain.b and the rest to the /boot directory. Everything
kick ass now.
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