Linux-Hardware Digest #329, Volume #10 Wed, 26 May 99 07:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Boot off SCSI not IDE ("Greg Bastian")
Re: Hard Drive Problem (Tim Moore)
Re: building a dual processor system? (Tim Moore)
Re: ATA/66 little OT [Q] (Tim Moore)
Re: UDMA DOESN'T WORK !!! (Tim Moore)
Re: How to enable DMA on HX-chipsets??? (Tim Moore)
Wireless keyboard works!!! (Jason)
Re: Linux and VIA MVP3 or ALI V (Andy)
Redhat 6.0 on an IBM thinkpad 360CSE? ("Jeff Volckaert")
Re: Anyone know if a Nvidia TNT-2 will work with X11? (Andrew Fan)
Re: Boot off SCSI not IDE (Bill Jackson)
Re: How to mount a mo drive? (Bill Jackson)
Re: Temperature Probe (Andrew Fan)
Re: TK50 Tape on Linux?? (Jim Howes)
Re: How to mount a mo drive? (Cheuk Wai TAI)
Re: Linux SMP resources (Tim Moore)
I have this problem too ("Patrick")
Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW? (Eric Wick)
PCMCIA Cards and Kernel 2.3.2 ("Russell Foster")
Re: kernel unable to handle page fault (Tim Moore)
MAG Monitor ("Dan Serban")
Re: USB was: Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem (Tim Moore)
Re: Diamond MX300 in Linux (Vulcan Sze)
Re: Bootable Zip 100 or LS120 + PCI IDE Controller (Tim Moore)
Re: adaptec scsi ava 1515 (Bas van Nunen)
Re: Diamond Viper TNT 3d AGP card (Thomas Kochak)
Re: fasttrak raid controler (Tim Moore)
Re: Temperature Probe ("Amir Man")
Re: MCA bootdisk (Mole)
Re: Viper 770 TNT2 (Thomas Kochak)
Re: Hard drive flipping bits! (David Wilson)
Serial Mouse on Award 4.51 BIOS/M-549 mainboard ("Jon Dowd")
Re: KDE or Gnome (Janos Ero)
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From: "Greg Bastian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot off SCSI not IDE
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:16:06 +1000
Hi,
I have a machine with an existing SCSI hard drive. I want to continue
booting off this drive (not off the IDE drive).
I can't find anything in the BIOS to help.
Cheers,
Greg.
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:03:20 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problem
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/
> ...
> I discovered that the values that Linux used for the
> number of cylinders, heads, and sectors were not the same as in the
> BIOS. I have two hard drives in the computer. The values Linux
> used for the other hard drive matched the values in the BIOS.
> ...
> member. (There is no point in teaching somebody how to use UNIX when
> all they want to use a computer for is to write papers and e-mail.)
Why do you have to teach them UNIX? I work with an office full of
people that don't know Windows and they write papers and use email all
day long.
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:54:47 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: building a dual processor system?
bryan wrote:
>
> 2 celerons if you can get 300a chips and overclock them. get the
> right slotkets - do some net.research to find out about these.
Celerons are SMP-disabled by intel.
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:25:28 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA/66 little OT [Q]
Real ATA/66 performance depends on the motherboard chipset. Sticking a
fast controller in will increase the speed from drive to controller, but
not on the bus. If you plan on upgrading your motherboard in the next 6
months, get a 66 drive.
Note. There's almost zero support for quality digital video editing on
linux or any other unix. OSR2 and in some cases WNT are 99.99% of all
intel-based digital video and audio software.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi!
> This message is perhaps a little off topic, sorry for that. I am about
> to buy an HDD ... it will be on a not high load server... perhaps will
> be used to do some video editing on a dual boot system (Linux, BeOS)...
> I have seen some SCSI drives, but too $$$ ... I was attracted by some
> ATA/66 drives that claim to have 66MB/sec burst transfer rate... I just
> wanted to ask if someone had experiences with these drives? Are they
> good? Why are they so inexpensive?
>
> TIA
>
> /ExeQ
>
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:12:36 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA DOESN'T WORK !!!
> Linux version 2.3.2 (root@cyberstorm) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #6 SMP Fre
Does this fail when your using something other than a development
kernel?
Stick with 2.2.x.
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:57:59 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to enable DMA on HX-chipsets???
/usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Coul'd someone tell me how to activate DMA usage for my Maxtor91000D8?
> I have an HX chipset, and the BIOS is also capable of using (U)DMA as
> well as my drive.
>
> IMPORTANT:
> ----------
> For more information please See my posting from Friday with subject:
> [UDMA DOESN'T WORK !!!]
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> With best regards
> Erkan Aksit
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Wireless keyboard works!!!
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:23:16 +0000
In case anyone was wondering or thought of buying one, but wasn't sure
it works...
The wireless keyboard ("surfboard") that is made by PC CONCEPTS does
work in Linux! I've successfully used it in the Linux OS, running
RedHat 5.2, recompiled with kernel 2.2.7, in both the shell and KDE
environments. The only features that don't work (yet) are the
programmable "hot keys" that work in Windows due to the software drivers
(as yet unavailable in Linux, as far as I know).
When I purchased the keyboard last December, it was around $60. I think
it has dropped to around $40. I love it, and am pleasantly surprised at
its instant compatibility with Linux. Please, don't anyone think that
this is an advertisement... :).... I don't work for PC CONCEPTS, but I
do thoroughly enjoy my wireless! It's great that the infrared works
without any modification or configuration. Looks like SETSERIAL comes
through once again!!!
If anyone with driver programming experience decides to try and make a
driver for these "hot keys", PLEASE LET ME KNOW! This would be a great
addition.
Good Luck
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy)
Subject: Re: Linux and VIA MVP3 or ALI V
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:41:33 GMT
On 18 May 1999 21:31:02 GMT, PD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just got myself a K6-3 450 on a TMC TI5VGF board, very nice! 6 PCI
slots, 2Mb cache. finally got rid of the ISA's I haven't used for the
last 18 months!
VIA 3MVP chipset.
>hey there
>
>i just want whether Linux 2.0.X or 2.2.X have any problems with either VIA
>MVP3 or ALI V chipsets.
>
>if you have a choice between a FIC 2013 (VIA) and a MicroStar 6159 which
>would you choose. why?
>
>pd
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From: "Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Redhat 6.0 on an IBM thinkpad 360CSE?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:53:58 -0400
Hello Everybody,
I just picked up an IBM Thinkpad 360CSE and installed Redhat 6.0 on it. I
got around the floppy problem with using "linux floppy=thinkpad" on boot and
did an FTP install using a 3Com etherlink pcmcia card.
The install went fine except for the Xconfigurator part. I selected WD90C24
and custom 640x480 generic monitor. When X does it's probe the screen gets
screwy and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. I've looked around at the
various linux thinkpad websites without any results. Any help?
Also, any idea on how to get sound? The only positive comment i've seen is
to boot dos, load the drivers, use loadlin and select for soundblaster.
TIA,
Jeff Volckaert
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From: Andrew Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone know if a Nvidia TNT-2 will work with X11?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:22:49 +0800
The 8-bit padding is actually the alpha channel which is not
used (yet) in 2D applications.
I wonder what an exponentially fogged desktop will look like.
I would alos like to see a Z-buffered desktop.
Andrew :)
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From: Bill Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot off SCSI not IDE
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:22:35 -0400
if the bios will not let you specify the scsi drive in boot order (a:, c:,
scsi, or somethine like that) then you will have to disable the ide drives
in bios to boot off scsi.
Greg Bastian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine with an existing SCSI hard drive. I want to continue
> booting off this drive (not off the IDE drive).
>
> I can't find anything in the BIOS to help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg.
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From: Bill Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to mount a mo drive?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:21:15 -0400
mo drives are mounted just like any other scsi drive...
if the mo drive is sdb, you would need to use fdisk /dev/sdb to see what
partitions it has, don't make any changes, just see what partitions it
has...then, use mount /dev/sdb1 or mount /dev/sdb2 etc...if the device is sdc,
then fdisk /dev/sdc to see what partitions it has, and mount them...feel free
to e-mail me if you have further questions
Cheuk Wai TAI wrote:
> Jim Harvey wrote:
>
> > I have a Fujitsu 2513A. It uses 512 byte sectors. it mounts fine with
> > mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb /mnt/MO for Linux formatted 230 meg disk
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/MO for dos formatted disk
> >
> > I have
> > /dev/sdb /mnt/MO auto noauto,mask=022,exec,user 0 0
> > in my /etc/fstab and it usually comes up OK with just mount /mnt/MO.
> > The
> > Auto doesn't always find the right file system though.
>
> I have tried your suggestion but the system report:
> mount: /dev/sdc is not a valod block device
>
> And I also tried sdc1 to 4, it gave the same result.
>
> Thanks.
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From: Andrew Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Temperature Probe
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:57:03 +0800
Carey Barnett wrote:
> Does anyone know of any software, or commentary on how to write
> software, that will probe the BIOS/Mainboard sensors? I want my
> server to monitor its own mainboard temperature so I can check it
> remotely, or have the server page me.
Recommended steps (don't blame me if your server blows up) :
1) Find out what sensor chipset you have, e.g. Winbond W83781D, and
get a copy of the specification.
2) Find out which I/O address that chip is attached to.
3) Write some low level I/O read/write routines. You may need to
implement the I2C protocol for most sensor chips.
4) Write a TCP/IP server routine (daemon) to read and interpret the
data periodically or upon request.
5) Write a TCP/IP client program to request the server to provide
the required data and do the paging.
6) Do lots and lots of testing and calibration!
7) Have fun.
Andrew. :)
P.S. Don't bother to implement multiple connections to the TCP/IP
server.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Howes)
Subject: Re: TK50 Tape on Linux??
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:00:14 GMT
Jim Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Brian R. Hunt wrote:
: > I have an old Digital TK50Z tape drive which I need to get working with
: > Linux. Am using Slackware + kernel 2.0.27 with SCSI tape compiled in.
: > Linux recognizes the drive as /dev/nst0 on boot up but will not detect
: > a loaded tape or respond to other mt commands. Question is:
: >
: > 1. Does anyone have this combination (TK50+Linux) working?
: > 2. Where can I get a TK50 SCSI command/message definitions?
: >
: > Any suggestions appreciated.
For what it's worth, I don't have anything specific on the TK50Z, which
is a regular TK50 drive with a bridge controller stuck atop it in a box.
Perhaps it's a specific LUN on the SCSI id?
If the TK50Z was supported on VMS 4.4, I have source listings and if you
can find a microfische reader, I might be able to glean information from
those; I've got no specific technical documentation on the bridge controller
but I have not finished cataloguing all the fisches yet
Those I have catalogued are listed at
http://www.notout.demon.co.uk/fische.txt
If anyone can use any of that stuff, let me know and I'll consider it,
although some of it is not redistributable (VMS Source listings for
example)
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From: Cheuk Wai TAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to mount a mo drive?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:21:43 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Harvey wrote:
> I have a Fujitsu 2513A. It uses 512 byte sectors. it mounts fine with
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb /mnt/MO for Linux formatted 230 meg disk
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/MO for dos formatted disk
>
> I have
> /dev/sdb /mnt/MO auto noauto,mask=022,exec,user 0 0
> in my /etc/fstab and it usually comes up OK with just mount /mnt/MO.
> The
> Auto doesn't always find the right file system though.
I have tried your suggestion but the system report:
mount: /dev/sdc is not a valod block device
And I also tried sdc1 to 4, it gave the same result.
Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:35:16 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux SMP resources
What is your question?
- 2.2.5-9 are stable.
- SMP is faster than UP
- Limitations are the same limitations as before, only faster.
- There is no such thing as 'over-scheduling'.
- Benchmarks are faster.
- Raid is fairly stable. Striping is 2x, mirroring is safest but 2x as
expensive, most people use RAID5.
- There are HOWTOs and collectives for everything.
If you are curious, build a UP kernel and run with one processor. Then
add or borrow a second. That will answer all your questions.
Sorry if I seem a bit blunt but a few deja/altavista searches and
majordomo do not qualify as research. One of the more elegant features
of linux is that you will get to actually understand what you're doing.
Build your machine, play with it for a few months, then you can publish
the answers. Try http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/
Patrick Mau wrote:
>
> Hallo all,
>
> I'm going to build a nice linux smp server and need some information
> regarding performance, hardware compatibility and such things.
>
> I used various search engines but all I found was pretty much out of
> date and not of much use.
>
> Three days ago I subscribed to the linux-smp mailing list but did not
> receive any mails, is the list dead ???
>
> I'm looking for the following:
>
> - Stability with recent kernels (2.2.x)
> - Performance comparison UP vs. SMP
> - Known limitations (i.e 'over-scheduling')
> - Benchmark results for apache, nfs, samba, ...
>
> I'm very interested in performance reports.
>
> I would also appreciate comments about software RAID, because
> in my expirience it's better to have seperate disks for i.e. logging,
> web caching, etc than to use RAID.
>
> I _don't_ need hardware info, because my system configuration will be:
>
> - ASUS P2B-DS
> - 256 MB RAM
> - Dual Pentium III / 450 MHz
> - 2xIBM DDRS 4.5 GB
> - 1xIBM DDRS 9.1 GB
> - 3Com 3c905 100MBit network
>
> The machine will (might) run:
> - Mail (sendmail)
> - DNS
> - Web caching (squid)
> - Apache
> - Samba
> - CVS server
> - Fast software builds ;)
>
> If someone could send me useful links, references to news-postings or
> things like that I would really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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From: "Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I have this problem too
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:43:45 +0800
I am using IBM 10.1GB Hard Disk. There are also some error when booting,
status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hda: DMA Disabled
Anyone can help me?
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>Hi recently I installed RH5.2, and then upgraded the kernel to 2.2.9
>The reason for the upgrade is for the better vfat support. ( used to get
>some error about FSINFO signature not found or something like that
>-- i didn't jogged down the error)
>After I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.9,
>when I copy files between an ext2 and vfat drive.
>the following error occurs:
>
>hdb:dma_intr:error = 0x84 { DriveStatus Error BadCRC }
>status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
>hdb:dma_intr:error = 0x84 { DriveStatus Error BadCRC }
>status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
>hdb:dma_intr:error = 0x84 { DriveStatus Error BadCRC }
>status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
>hdb:dma_intr:error = 0x84 { DriveStatus Error BadCRC }
>status = 0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
>hda: DMA Disabled
>hdb: DMA Disabled
>
>ide 0:reset : success.
>
>The linux partition resides on hda a quantum fireball (6.4G)
>The hdb is an IBM Deskstar (10G)
>
>Can someone tell me if this problem can be fixed? if so how?
>
>Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Wick)
Subject: Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW?
Date: 26 May 1999 09:21:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <374b3de4$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>You sure about that? Is that only with certain scsi drivers/interfaces?
>I've always understood scsi to run at the speed of the slowest device on the
>bus (which is why you don't hook up your zip drive to the same card as your
This is probably an ide-feature, the slowest unit will domain the cable. On
scsi the controller use the inquiry-command and get the transfer modes from all
units at startup. All units can use their favourite transfermode on the same
bus and dis-/reconnect will give enough free bus cycles to run all units at one
time.
Bye
Eric
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From: "Russell Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA Cards and Kernel 2.3.2
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:33:28 +0100
HI All,
I've just upgraded to RH6.0 and my PCMICIA card worked perfectly. Ithen
decided to upgrade to Kernel 2.3.2. I did all the necessarys and installed
pcmica-cd-3.0.9 from source. I've done this before on previous kernel
without problems. ~This time however it will not come up. Anyway one have
any suggestions on this?
TIA
Rus
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:51:49 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel unable to handle page fault
Errors in /var/log/messages Bob?
If >= 64MB phys mem:
# echo "256 512 1024" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
If >= 256MB phys mem:
# echo "512 1024 2048" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
You might want to # cat /proc/sys/vm/freepages first. You might check
to see if freepages is in the same place first. This will ensure the
kernel has enough breathing space to manage memory.
Otherwise something may have a memory leak. Check your system's memory
allocation immediately after you boot. With the usual daemons and X11,
between 24 and 36MB. Everything thereafter is generally buffer, cache,
and applications. Try 'ps auxww | sort -n +5 | tail' every minute in
the heavy use period. The biggest memory users will be at the bottom.
Bob Tennent wrote:
>
> My system has become unstable. The problem is that after
> some 10 to 15 minutes of heavy memory use the kernel is unable
> to handle page faults. I've tried other kernels, upgraded
> the entire system to Redhat 6.0, replaced the processor chip and
> the video card, changed the swap, tested the memory with memtest,
> and run every diagnostic program I can find. I believe it's a
> hardware problem, but what? I would be grateful for any suggestions.
>
> Bob T.
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From: "Dan Serban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MAG Monitor
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 01:53:03 GMT
I am trying to setup the X configuration file for the modes that work with a
MAG DX1595 monitor, alas, I cannot get the modes to work correctly. I'm
using Red Hat 5.2 and it detects both my video card (Trident 9680) and the
monitor correctly, but the config file isn't properly set-up for me. I'm a
newbie and need some hand-holding (I catch on quick tho) :).. can anyone
help me?
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:05:06 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB was: Zoom 56K PCI Faxmodem
> Ahh, but thats being worked on. I was just over to the 2.3.x sites, and
> saw that USB is one of the things being worked on as we speak. 6 months
> for a stable kernel with USB maybe.
Just in time to be flushed for firewire. Thanks again, Intel.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vulcan Sze)
Subject: Re: Diamond MX300 in Linux
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 07:20:30 GMT
Quoted from www.opensound.com
"Vortex 2 (AU8830): Driver development in progress. Estimated beta
June 99. (Sorry for all the delays!). "
On Sat, 22 May 1999 21:56:16 -0400, Herod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone been able to use the Diamond MX300 sound card in Linux? I'm
>using Red Hat 6.0. Thanks.
>
>
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:09:37 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bootable Zip 100 or LS120 + PCI IDE Controller
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/search.html
'Guides and HOWTOs' -> search engine -> 'zip and boot'
Bruce Bigby wrote:
>
> I need a larger bootable floppy drive. Basically, I'm leaning towards
> getting an IDE-based LS120, since it can also accept the older 3-1/2"
> floppies. I have a Tyan Tomcat 3 Dual P5-200 motherboard. Will I need
> a BIOS upgrade to use the large floppies for Linux or Windows?
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From: Bas van Nunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adaptec scsi ava 1515
Date: 26 May 1999 07:13:18 GMT
Antony Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone got one of these working under linux?
Yep... since last sunday ;-)
> It's not dectected during the install.
> RH6.0
I use Slackware 4.0 - beta 2.... and I've had some troubles with the card....
I've also tried to install it under RH 5.2 a while ago... and indeed it didn't
detect it....
Here is what you should do....:
Look at the jumper settings of the card... (my card settings are:
IO: 0x340, Interrup: 11, IRQ: 11....
Install the aha152x drivers into the kernel, not as a module...
Put the following line in lilo.conf:
append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1"
Things should work just fine then...
grtz.
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From: Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper TNT 3d AGP card
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 03:02:31 -0500
don't know about the ATI Xpert, but there is drivers for the Diamond
Viper V550 in the 3.3.3.1 version of XFree86
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> are there drivers free xservers for
> 16MB Diamond Viper TNT 3D AGP Graphics Card
> OR
> 8MB ATI XPERT 98D 3D AGP Graphics Card
>
> thanks
> prasad
>
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:16:16 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fasttrak raid controler
> Does anybody know if Linux supports this EIDE raid controler?
No linux support yet. Fastrak v102 is seen and functions as an
Ultra/33, v103 and above are unrecognized. The old 2.0.35 U/33 patch
method might work.
In any case, no hardware raid.
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From: "Amir Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Temperature Probe
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:43:28 +0300
Just enter the keyword sensor at www.freshmeat.net and you'll find the links
you need.
Carey Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know of any software, or commentary on how to write software,
> that will probe the BIOS/Mainboard sensors? I want my server to monitor
its
> own mainboard temperature so I can check it remotely, or have the server
> page me.
>
> --
> Carey Barnett
> Systems.*
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Toronto, Ontario,
> Canada
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From: Mole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MCA bootdisk
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:53:28 GMT
Look here:
http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/default.htm
Steve Wilson wrote:
> i am looking for a boot disk that will boot IBM MCA so that i can put it on
> my server.
> steve
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From: Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Viper 770 TNT2
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 03:00:47 -0500
You might be able to use the TNT drivers since the TNT2 is basicly an
overclocked version of TNT. As for the problems with AMD processors, they're
mostly only in the lower clock speeds (K6 266 & down)
Gong Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to buy a Viper 770 TNT2 graphics card. But I'm not sure if
> Linux will run on it. Also I heard rumors that TNT2 has problems with AMD
> CPUs. Since I'm using a K6-2 350, I need some details on that. Your
> suggestions are apreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wilson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Hard drive flipping bits!
Date: 26 May 99 10:08:49 GMT
Andy Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have the following setup:
>- PCChips TXProII (with built in VGA/Sound, I use neither of
> these at the moment) motherboard
>- Pentium P90
>- 32Mb memory, 2.1Gb Quantum Hard drive
>- RedHat5.2
>* The Gigabyte definitely uses Aladdin V chipset (M1543). The
> TXPro reports it's using an SiS 85C5513 although, if my
> memory serves me correctly I've seen posts saying that
> "... can't use UDMA on TXPro ... it uses Aladdin chipset ..."
The TxPro is an Ali chipset while the TxProII is a SiS 5597/8 chipset.
Cat /proc/pci to see.
While the PcChips motherboards have not got a great reputation, I have an M571
TxProII motherboard with an IBM 6x86MX PR200 (75MHz bus) and 48MB 60ns EDO
SIMMs and a Seagate Medalist HDD and it runs Linux (RH5.2) fine.
--
David Wilson School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jon Dowd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial Mouse on Award 4.51 BIOS/M-549 mainboard
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:47:33 -0700
Hello, I'm trying to install a serial mouse on my computer. The current
configuration uses a PS/2 mouse and is working just fine, except under
Linux, I want to try a serial mouse but I'm missing something.
K6-266
M-Technology M-549 mainboard
Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
in the BIOS Features Setup there is a "PS/2 Mouse Function Control"
setting which must
be : Enabled in order to use the PS/2 mouse. I've changed the setting to :
Disabled, disconnected the PS/2 mouse, plugged in the serial mouse (which
works on my P-90...) and neither Windows 95 or Linux will detect it. There
is a switch on the bottom of the serial mouse (MS or PC) I don't know its'
function. I've played with some BIOS settings to try to get the serial mouse
to work, but I need your help.
--
Please cc my e-mail. Thanks very much for your help.
mailed by...
Jon Dowd - Ashland, Oregon - USA
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From: Janos Ero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE or Gnome
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:45:59 +0200
Robert Brown-Bayliss wrote:
>
> In article <7i3ba1$nhh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> johns.nf.ca says...
>
> > Gnome is an extension of a (any) window manager for Linux, think
> > Object Desktop for Windows & OS/2. KDE on the otherhand is basically
> > like its own enviornment. That's really the only difference. Both are
> > really good, eitherway.
>
> I have a question for the masses re KDE
>
> Since the authors of KDE liked Windows so much why did they not simply
> buy Windows for their PC?
I have the impression, that you did not understand the basics
behind the whole story.
Janos Ero
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