Linux-Hardware Digest #242, Volume #10 Sat, 15 May 99 16:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Eicon.Diva Pro (root)
Re: Linux on an embedded 486 ("Walter Harms")
Re: linux for DECpc 433 ? Is there any? ("Walter Harms")
Re: USR Modem Prob / Cable Modems (Bryan H Kim)
3D accel for Voodoo3? (Chris)
Re: UDMA33 hard drive runs at 6 megs/second - WTF? ("Gene Heskett")
HELP!!! Aboot as a floppy image? ("Eward Schippers")
Re: Naive Beowulf Question (Bryan H Kim)
RE: CD-RW on RedHat 6.0 .... (Robert Young)
RH 5.1 and Maxtor 17GB IDE w/o BIOS support on MB as 3rd HD ("Darin")
RH5.1 won't install!!!!!! PLEASE HELP ("Derry Goberdhansingh")
Re: CD-RW on RedHat 6.0 .... (Holger Freyther)
Re: 8.4GB LBA blues (Bryan H Kim)
STB 128 and RedHat ("Terry")
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? (Ronald Bruck)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Subject: Eicon.Diva Pro
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:31:48 +0200
Hi all out there,
A friend bought a Eicon Diva 2.0 Pro ISDN-card and now he want to use
Linux.
Is there anyway to use this Card.
Thanx
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From: "Walter Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on an embedded 486
Date: 15 May 1999 18:16:37 GMT
Bill Feero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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><html>
>I need to create a 4-port terminal server on an diskless 486 based embedded
>system. This system will not have a hard or floppy drive, display, keyboard,
>or BIOS. It will have 16 Megs of RAM, 2 Megs of Flash to store the image
>and file system, 4 serial ports, and a network connection. I have the HOWTO
>on creating a boot floppy, can I create a bootable RAMDISK? If I can, then
>I can save the ramdisk and download it into the flash on the target 486.
>I have RedHat v5.2, does anyone know if I can compile the kernel so it
>has no BIOS calls? I would think removing the PC devices (hard drive, display,
>keyboard, etc) these calls would also go.
><p>Any help would be appreciated since I am a newbe to Linux.
><p>Bill</html>
in the beginning you should take a look at the linux on a floppydisk
distributions. They let you have everything you need for less than 2megs.
The other solutions is to create an bbotable image on the disk.
btw: i dont see why you shouldnt use a floppy your system at least at
the beginning.
walter
see: www.linux-embedded.com for embedded linux systems
and www.toms.net for linux on a floppy distributions
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"Oh, it's just the unknown, then!"
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From: "Walter Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux for DECpc 433 ? Is there any?
Date: 15 May 1999 18:22:30 GMT
"P.Lj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>hi
>I'm new to this group and rather new to the object, i've been trying to
>install
>some kind of linux on a DECpc 433,SCSI-based, No-CD, have tried Debian
>(didn't support ftp-installation), Redhat (didn't find the
>SCSI-controller). NetBSD was quite good at the
>beginning since it found SCSI but it didn't found the ethernet-device,
ah a hint .. what chip ???
>it there a solution, but
>don't say I could write the missing driver, I'm VMS-type of guy and
>intend to stay that way.
>>>> ^P.Lj
you can give lilo the name of the scsi driver and it will use it.
read the install procedures of you dist.
walter
--
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"Oh, it's just the unknown, then!"
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From: Bryan H Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR Modem Prob / Cable Modems
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:21:56 -0500
Tyler Beaton wrote:
>
> 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_
I used to use this modem before I gave it away following an upgrade to a
v.90. When you set the jumpers on the modem to COM2 IRQ3, you took it
out of its PNP mode. ISAPNP will not find it because it is definitely
NOT a PNP card at this point. Instead, your bootup should have
recognized the UART 16650 and configured it as a serial port. The things
to do are as follows.
1. Make sure that COM2 on your motherboard is disabled. If your 95/NT is
able to recognize this, you probably did this already.
2. Start using the modem! There is nothing to do! Make sure that your
boot up message (try dmesg|more) has lines mentioning that your second
serial port was recognized as a UART 16650. If you don't get this, you
have to make sure that your kernel supports serial ports properly, or
that you loaded serial port driver modules. If your kernel doesn't have
serial port drivers, you are obviously not going to recognize the card.
3. If you are not sure about the kernel, try starting something simple
like minicom. When you start minicom, minicom should acknowledge the
modem and issue ATDT commands. Make sure that minicom's configuration
file knows where the port is. COM2 is /dev/ttyS1. On my computer, it's
something like /etc/minicom.conf. (I am not at my work computer now, so
I can't check). You should be able to tell minicom to dial out. If you
can, that your modem is being properly accessed. I run Debian, so
minicom is pointing to /dev/ttyS1, but if you are running Redhat, you
may have to use their modem configurator. (I don't know much about
Redhat, except that they deviated from every Unix standard so that I can
never find where anything is...) If you are not sure, try putting a soft
link between /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/modem.
But rest assured, your modem will absolutely work. I happily used this
modem with COM2/IRQ3 setting for a long time..
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3D accel for Voodoo3?
Date: 15 May 1999 18:30:56 GMT
I know that there is no 3D acceleration for the Voodoo-3 card under Linux
yet, although there is a port in the works... does anyone know how much
time it will be until these drivers are released? I'm planning to build a
new computer and I'd like to get a Voodoo-3 card, but I'm not sure if it's
worth the wait just yet.
Also, I've heard that there is an X server for the Voodoo-3, but it
requires a lot of tweaking. Any comments on this? Thanks.
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Date: 15 May 99 13:00:17 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA33 hard drive runs at 6 megs/second - WTF?
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan,comp.os.linux.setup
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Gene Heskett;
Yeah, I know, talking to onesself is a sign of alzheimers :)
>>>> megs/second. Regardless of what I do in the bios, or with hdparm (many
>>>> of the operations are 'not supported'), the best I can get it to do is
>>>> about
>>>> 6.75 megs/second.
MH>> get 2.2.9, and configure it to support your controller (VIA82C586).
GH> I just did get that last night. At ~700cps :(
GH> What else do I need to get to keep pppd working? I understand the
GH> version I have is killed by later kernels.
GH> I had downloaded that to /root, then moved it to my ls120 which brought
GH> the disk up to 50% full, and bzip2 -d can't unpack it, 60 megs is not
GH> enough space. So it just got moved back to the hard drive. I might see
GH> if a fresh disk has enough room.
And now I've had a chance to play with it, and the compile is failing
because of what seems to be a totally off the wall mistake.
In ./arch/i386/lib/compress.c, line 104-105 is a definition of a
funtion,
csum_partial_copy_fromuser( 2 ptrs, 2 ints ) ; a 27 char name!
and at line 200, this
csum_partial_copy( same vars as above ) ; but name is only 18 chars...
Make, it appears, is treating them as if the names have been clipped,
therefore making them identical according to the error messages output
to the shell window. Make exits with an error 2 from the
apparent redefinition attempt.
While I've written some C code, I'm not a guru, so what now folks?
>>>> The drive is a WDC AC14300R, FwRev 15.01J15
Cheers, Gene
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or |Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
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From: "Eward Schippers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!!! Aboot as a floppy image?
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 20:53:34 +0200
I have a DEC AXPPCI33 with SRM console installed
I want to install linux on this machine but....
SRM won't boot from noname.img because it uses MILO
I can't change back to ARC console because I can't boot
I can't build an aboot floppy on my Intel because I don't have clue how to
do that! Probably has something to do with cross-compiling
Someone please help me....
I'm going bald here!
TIA
A clueless DEC newbie,
Eward
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From: Bryan H Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Naive Beowulf Question
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:59:22 -0500
News wrote:
>
> Is it possible to run Beowulf on several (three or four) somewhat
> dissimilar computers? I have several old computers (486 class)
> that are *close* but not exactly the same.
>
> Obviously, if it works, the bottleneck will be at the slowest
> computer.
>
> Is there anyone out there doing something similar with success?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Swope
Absolutely! I am writing this message from our mini beowulf cluster made
up from 4 450 MHz PII box and 2 333 MHz PII dual CPU boxes. So I have
five CPUs, one of 450 and 4 of 333. There is nothing tricky about
getting the computers to run together if that package you want to run
will support it.
If you want to run a MPMD parallel program, than having one fast master
node is actually advantageous. I run quantum mechanical calculations
with GAMESS, which is a SPMD package with dynamic load balancing, so the
package takes care of the different processor speeds.
At home I run a cluster of 2*333 MHz PII, 2*180 PPro, and 1*233 Pentium
MMX, again with no problems. I get high CPU utilization on all nodes
(95%+) and a compute job that would take a high end Silicon graphics
workstation a week gets done in five days or so.
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From: Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: CD-RW on RedHat 6.0 ....
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:04:52 GMT
I may not be a guru on the subject; however, if my memory serves me right,
someone had had similar problem and posted such question on how to get
his/her
IDE CD-R work. As I mentioned before, if my memory serves me right, the
solution to the post stated that one has to recompile the kernel and make
sure
that the ATA/IDE as well as the SCSI emulation drives are included since the
cdwrite software only recognize SCSI interface.
Please let me know if this works.
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>Hi,
>
> I am a Linux newbie -- about a month old.
>
> I really would like to get my CD-RW machine set up and running
>
>on my RedHat 6.0 installation. I have read the GOD_AWFUL HOWTO on
>
>CD Writing. I have added the appropriate modules, created the
>
>device files in /dev, and generally screwed around for days
>
>without getting anywhere.
>
> I've also installed mkhybrid and mkisofs ....
>
> Running cdrecord -scanbus still gets me a "no taget found"
>
>message.
>
> Sure could use some help.
>
> Is there a site with CD-RW setup info for people who aren't
>
>Linux gurus? Any documentation for people who aren't Unix experts?
>
>Please don't refer me to the "CD-Writing" HOWTO .... it is too
>
>generic and doesn't seem to specifically cover IDE drives (mine is
>
>a HP-7100 CD-RW). It also references several files that aren't
>
>a part of my Linux distribution.
>
> Some specific info from a RedHat 6.0 person would be better.
>
>
>
>--
>From the Redhat 6.0 KDE Desktop
>Gary L. Robinson
>email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
--
Robert Young,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Darin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 5.1 and Maxtor 17GB IDE w/o BIOS support on MB as 3rd HD
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:06:43 GMT
Basically want to add a Maxtor 17GB IDE HD to a RedHat 5.1 system. The
motherboard's BIOS doesn't support it directly. hda1 is a WD 424MB drive,
hdb2 is Maxtor 540MB drive, and hdc is NEC 6x4 Disc changer all drives are
IDE. I want to make hdc the Maxtor 17Gb or hdd doesn't really matter.
My question is will RedHat 5.1 see all 17GB i don't care if it is multiple
partitions. In fact will probably have at least 3 or 4.
Please respond via e-mail also if possible.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Derry Goberdhansingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH5.1 won't install!!!!!! PLEASE HELP
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 15:04:28 -0400
Ok, this is the first time this has ever happened to me. I have installed
Linux before and I had no problems. Well I had problems with the install but
I knew why, and I knew how to solve it, but I didn't want to. Anyways, I
purchased an IBM Deskstar 14 GXP 10.1 GB IDE HD to install RH onto. I booted
of the CD and that worked fine, I partitioned it and it gave no errors, but
when it tried to install the files well that's where the problem lies. It
doesn't install anything, nothing at all, it states that it's going to take
something like 600 hours to install 650 Mb of data!!! What the hell is up
with that?
The CD was being read and the HD light was going a million miles and
hour, so I know that they were somehow communicating to each other. It came
up with an error after 10 mins of trying to install the file system which
was 79k or so, and said that there was an Input/Ouput error. Well I said to
hell with it, restarted the HD, put in my Partion Magic boot disk and placed
a 50Mb FAT partition towards the end of the drive and then booted to Win95,
which is on my SCSI disk. In win 95 I was able to write to the disk and read
from it and I was able to read from the CD and transfer files from it to
that particular Partition. I even read the RH manual for any related
problems with Ultra DMA drives and said try puting it to PIO mode 2 instead
of 4, so I did that. It didn't help one bit! I'm still stuck and really
getting annoyed at it.
My system setup is as follows
128Mb of RAM
Tyan S1836 DLUAN Thunder 100 mobo,
Intel Celeron 266
Quantum SCSI 3 9.1Gb HD SCSI Id of 0 plugged into channel A
(this drive has several partitions, with FAT16 and 1 NTFS only)
Adaptec SCSI 3 controller onboard, dual channel
Elsa Gloria Synergy 8Mb graphic card
Creative PCI 56K modem
Diamond Monster sound MX300
Floppy, IDE zip, 32x CD-ROM
Diamond Monster II V2 12Mb card
I am currently running Win95 OSR2, and Win NT SP4.
I also have the most current BIOS
I installed RH 5.1 on my SCSI drive once before but I never had these
problems. Any help would be appreciated.
Please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post a respone. Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Freyther)
Subject: Re: CD-RW on RedHat 6.0 ....
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:06:16 +0200
"Gary L. Robinson" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a Linux newbie -- about a month old.
>
> I really would like to get my CD-RW machine set up and running
>
> on my RedHat 6.0 installation. I have read the GOD_AWFUL HOWTO on
>
> CD Writing. I have added the appropriate modules, created the
>
> device files in /dev, and generally screwed around for days
>
> without getting anywhere.
>
> I've also installed mkhybrid and mkisofs ....
>
> Running cdrecord -scanbus still gets me a "no taget found"
>
> message.
>
> Sure could use some help.
>
> Is there a site with CD-RW setup info for people who aren't
>
> Linux gurus? Any documentation for people who aren't Unix experts?
>
> Please don't refer me to the "CD-Writing" HOWTO .... it is too
>
> generic and doesn't seem to specifically cover IDE drives (mine is
>
> a HP-7100 CD-RW). It also references several files that aren't
>
> a part of my Linux distribution.
>
> Some specific info from a RedHat 6.0 person would be better.
>
> --
> From the Redhat 6.0 KDE Desktop
> Gary L. Robinson
> email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Gary L. Robinson" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a Linux newbie -- about a month old.
>
> I really would like to get my CD-RW machine set up and running
>
> on my RedHat 6.0 installation. I have read the GOD_AWFUL HOWTO on
>
> CD Writing. I have added the appropriate modules, created the
>
> device files in /dev, and generally screwed around for days
>
> without getting anywhere.
>
> I've also installed mkhybrid and mkisofs ....
>
> Running cdrecord -scanbus still gets me a "no taget found"
>
> message.
>
> Sure could use some help.
>
> Is there a site with CD-RW setup info for people who aren't
>
> Linux gurus? Any documentation for people who aren't Unix experts?
>
> Please don't refer me to the "CD-Writing" HOWTO .... it is too
>
> generic and doesn't seem to specifically cover IDE drives (mine is
>
> a HP-7100 CD-RW). It also references several files that aren't
>
> a part of my Linux distribution.
>
> Some specific info from a RedHat 6.0 person would be better.
>
> --
> From the Redhat 6.0 KDE Desktop
> Gary L. Robinson
> email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Gary,
At first you have to compile the SCSI-Emulation into the kernel. You
have to say yes at CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI. Then you have to enable the
scsi-cdrom. Then you have to compile the kernel. Meanwhile you have to
edit the file called /etc/lilo.conf. There you have to add at the
beginning of the file append="hd?=ide-scsi" The ? you have to replace
with the Controller. When the cd-writer is the secondary master its hdc.
After this you have to run lilo. Now resetart your computer.
And then run cdrecord -scanbus.
Good Luck!
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From: Bryan H Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 8.4GB LBA blues
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:51:51 -0500
Rob Hall wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm running an AMD K6-2 400Mhz cpu on a Tyan Trinity
> Motherboard with 128MB PC100 SDRAM... I was using dual 4.3GB drives,
> without any problem. I recently decided to go to 8.4GB drives to solve
> my space issues, and install the DOS-based drive with no problems...
> However, when it came time to install the one that I would be using an
> ext2 filesystem on, linux's fdisk fussed about the drive being larger
> than 1024 cylinders, and refused to see the drive's LBA geometry, only
> it's actual geometry. Does anyone have any idea why this happened?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Rob
I use 8.4 gig drives with ancient BIOS and eventually got them to work.
1. Try upgrading to the lastest Linux release. I use Debian, so this is
trivial; I just run dselect and push the OK buttons. It should have all
the 8.4 gig issues worked out in all the packages. Make sure you are
using a 2.2.x kernel, which recognizes very large drives without
complaints.
2. A brute force method to get the fdisk to recognize the drive it to
tell it what the LBA geometry is. Partition the drive with DOS based
software that vendor provided. If fdisk recognizes the drive correctly,
it should not fuss. If it says something like physical and logical
boundaries not matching, you have to tell fdisk what the LBA geometry
is. You can do this in fdisk expert menu. Finally, if that makes fdisk
happy, you should append the LBA geometry to the kernel at boottime
through LILO arguments. This is what I used to do with a Maxtor 8.4 gig
drive and a BIOs that didn't recognize it.
3. Ignore it! (My current solution) I am using IBM 8.4 with EZ drive
(BIOS can't boot anything without it). I noticed that the translated
geometry was incorrectly translated, but that fdisk didn't complain
about the logical and physical boundaries not lining up. That means that
the partitions are properly recognized. So I ignore that fdisk
complaints and everything works very well.
4. Ignore it again! If you are only using linux on that drive, AND if
this is not the boot drive, then you can safely ignore LBA altogether.
Linux doesn't use BIOS, so it's totally unnecessary and actually pretty
stupid to use LBA unless you have to boot off the drive.
Anyway, if your computer recognizes the 4.3 drive without problems, then
you should almost definitely be able to recognize your current drive. In
fact, Linux can handle up to 2 terabytes or some very large number. The
only problem is to get the BIOS to boot off of it. If you are keeping
your 4.3 drives, boot off from one of those and hang your linux drive as
a "linux only" drive from second channel, and ignore all the
complaints... This is absolutely safe, and what I will do when I add the
next drive.
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From: "Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: STB 128 and RedHat
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:27:53 GMT
Hi there, I started installing RedHat Linux 5.2 yesturday, and it went
flawlessly, except (suprise suprise) XWindows. I got it working, but only
with the VGA16 Server. I have an STB Velocity 128 with the Riva chipset,
and it is apparently supported via the SVGA. However, when I use that, it
says Device found, but it had problems. If the entire message would be of
help I can recreate it I'm sure. I'm currently d/l 6.0 (almost done) in
hopes of better support, but if anyone could offer some advice I'd
appreciate it
And yes, I AM a newbie at this!
Thanks again,
Terence
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald Bruck)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous?
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 12:39:16 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Stafford
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have this Zeos Pantera Pentium 133 Mhz computer that someone gave to
me. It did
> not have a fan on the cpu just a big heat sink. What I mean by big is,
the part of
> the heat sink that comes into contact with the cpu is thin, the fins are
about 2
> inches long. I ran this computer for about 1 year like this with no
problems at
> all, of course the case has a fan in the front of it that blows in towards the
> cpu. I took the old mother board out of this computer and put another
one in so I
> could upgrade to 233 Mhz. The 233 Mhz has a fan already so I guess I got
a little
> extra circulation in my box. I like the sound of my computer too. Does
anyone know
> where I can get any info about this motherboard that came with this Zeos
computer?
> I remember seeing somewhere where there is a web site that has info on
all types
> of motherboards.
This whole thread is a little bizarre for Macintosh users.
The CPU fan on my 400MHz Pentium II is almost as big as the SYSTEM fan on
my 400MHz Blue-and-White G3 (a slight exaggeration, but not much ;-)
I've never seen a PowerPC chip with a cooling fan, although sometimes the
cooling fins are kind of big. I wonder what the new 550MHz Pentium III's
will look like...
I also have two 9GB Seagate ST19171W drives on the Pentium box, big HOT
MF's. I had to mount miniature fans in front of them (removing the
plastic cover plates) to keep them running. I got the fans from APS: two
miniature fans on each assembly, very quiet, and the drives stay cool to
the touch. As a bonus, the Jaz drive which is sandwiched between them is
also kept cool. Impresses your friends with the hi-tech look (when it's
really the lowest of all low-tech).
The Pentium box sits to my left. But that's OK, I'm deaf in the left ear
anyway.
--Ron Bruck
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