Linux-Hardware Digest #330, Volume #10 Wed, 26 May 99 08:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Wireless keyboard works!!! (Claude Chaudet)
Re: CSU/DSU Modem - v.35 interface combo ("Lee Sharp")
Re: Wierd problem with SCSI tape drive. Please help! (Bill Jackson)
Re: advance power management (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: MCA and Linux ?!? (Mole)
/proc/bus/pci/devices not found. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SBLive...please help (David Tansley)
Re: How do u install an LS-120 ("Lee Sharp")
Re: Linux compatible modems ("Joshy George")
Re: Internal Modem Help (John Thompson)
Re: Temperature Probe (Jacek Pliszka)
Re: Configuration for high-spec NFS server (Bill Jackson)
ISA sound card WILL NOT work correctly, regardless of what I do (Chris Wilson)
ISA 3Com EtherLink III 3C509 and Compaq DeskPro 2000 ("Micky")
Re: Boot off SCSI not IDE (Kosh Naranek)
Re: Panasonic CD Recorder CW-7502-B (Andrew Fan)
Re: RH 6 and Ultra66 ATA (Wayne Kovsky)
Re: s3 trio 3d cards (Arvid Walter)
Newbie: setup for HP4, HP5P, HP6L ("=?iso-8859-1?Q?Allan_M=F8ller?=")
drive overlay programs and linux ("R.H.")
Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW? ("Tony Platt")
Driver for Gateway Laptop 5150 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Claude Chaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Wireless keyboard works!!!
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:01:07 +0200
>-->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).
Reading this post, I was wondering : why shouldn't it work ? Is any driver
required to type something ?
I think (thought) that from the OS's point of view, the fact that a
keyboard has a wire or not has no importance since it should send
the same signals.
Am I wrong ?
Claude.
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CSU/DSU Modem - v.35 interface combo
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:21:25 GMT
Peter B. Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<374b41a0$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Does anyone know of a vendor who sells a good csu/dsu modem combined with
> a v.35 interface, internal?
There ain't no such thing. :-) A CSU/DSU takes 4 wire 56k/64k or T1 and
converts it to V.35 or RS232 Sync or Async. There are T1 interface cards
with built in CSU/DSUs and 4 wire ports. I assume there are 56k/64k
interface cards as well, but I have not seen them. I thnik you need to
look again at what you want, and what it will connect through/to.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an
individual, not as a representative of any company, organization or other
entity. I am solely responsible for my words.
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From: Bill Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wierd problem with SCSI tape drive. Please help!
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:30:29 -0400
have you tried a different scsi cable? how long is your scsi chain? how many
devices?
Nitin Mule wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting this extremely annoying problem with my SCSI tape drive. It's a
> brand new device and sometimes works fine. However, ocassionally I get an
> error when I try to backup about 10GB of data using tar. It's a random
> problem and I have little clue where things are going wrong.
>
> The details are:
>
> Tape drive: Exabyte Mammoth
> SCSI controller: Adaptec 2940 U2W
> Linux: Redhat 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36-3
>
> Tape drive is the only scsi device and I've terminated it.
> I've done backup and restore a few times successfully, but occassionally I
> get the following error with tar.
>
> Error Message from /var/log/messages:
>
> scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 246340, scci0, channel0, id 15,
> lun 0 write (6) 01 00 00 1e 00
> scsi host 0 abort (pid 246340) timed out- resetting
> scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> tar cannot write to /dev/st0
> input/ouput error
> tar error is not recoverable
> exiting now
>
> After getting this error, I upgraded the kernel from 2.0.36-0.7 to 2.0.36-3
> hoping that it would solve the problem as the aic7xxx driver in this kernel
> version might be better. After this upgrade, I could backup successfully
> once using tar. This morning I was testing it with a backup program "arkeia"
> and it again locked my drive. It's getting really frustrating not to be able
> to get a very important high-end hardware device to work under linux. Has
> anyone come across something similar? And yes, I've cleaned the head of my
> drive.
>
> TIA,
> Nitin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Subject: Re: advance power management
Date: 26 May 1999 07:27:12 GMT
On Wed, 26 May 1999 01:53:17 +0800, Paul D. Pandian wrote:
>I am using RedHat 5.2 with kernel version 2.0.36. I configure it and ensure
>that advance power management is selected, together with the option for
>power off at shutdown selected as well. All is fine now. The system
>dutifully shuts down and automatically power offs when asked to. (Saves time
>hanging around waiting for all services to terminate, and then having
>manually to turn the power off.)
>
>Okay: Question. I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.0 (and tried all the rest
>upwards too inlcuding the latest 2.3.3). System cannot shutdown. Even when I
>selected the APM options under kernel configuration and compilation.
Edit your /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt and change the line which has the following
command="halt"
to
command="halt -p"
--
|Mohd Hamid Misnan|[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |i|
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|Linux 2.2.9 i586 |to do it tomorrow. It's OK by next week - Linus T.|c|
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From: Mole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MCA and Linux ?!?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:58:47 GMT
>
When I run the IBMMCA.S bootdisk from Slackware 4.0 it finds my hardware
but it halts at some row that says:
IBM MCA: Removing current logical scsi-device mapping.
It never gets any further on my PS/2 77.
>
> CdP>The base 2.2.X kernel supports MCA. There are also patches for the 2.0
> CdP>kernels, but I don't know where you'd get them. You don't say what kind
> CdP>of PS/2 you have or if you're on a network. If you have one of the SCSI
> CdP>MCA boxes such as Model 90, 77 or 95, you could plug an old SCSI CDROM
> CdP>in just for the install; if on a network you should be able to do an
> CdP>ftp or nfs install. The support is pretty good for the standard IBM
> CdP>hardware. I have two mod 77s and a mod 95 running on RH 5.0 & 5.2. Two
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: /proc/bus/pci/devices not found.
Date: 26 May 1999 19:32:31 +0900
Hi, all.
My sound card(opl3-sax) generally use MSS io=0x530 irq=5 dma=0,1
I have want this driver are inserted in kernel. with no module.
compiling and rebooting, and type # pnpdump > isapnp.conf
I could see this messages output.
/proc/bus/pci/devices not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked
Board 1 has Identity 0f ff ff ff ff 00 08 a8 65: YMH0800 Serial No -1 [checksum 0f]
Board 2 has Identity fa 00 4b 17 0a 60 16 63 04: ACC1660 Serial No 4921098 [checksum
fa]
/etc/isapnp.conf:50 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating 8 bytes of IO at 530 (see
/proc/ioports)
/etc/isapnp.conf:50 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request '<IORESCHECK> ' ---
further action aborted
for the simplify.
I am disabling next features.. network support, serial support, mouse, scsi, and so
on..
Here is my sound config. (kernel 2.2.9)
#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=y
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y
# CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SB is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2=y
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_CHIPSET=3
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_BASE=530
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_IRQ=5
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_DMA=0
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_DMA2=1
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_CTRL_BASE=370
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_MPU_BASE=330
CONFIG_OPL3SA2_MPU_IRQ=5
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Tansley)
Subject: SBLive...please help
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:15:37 GMT
I'm running SuSE6.0 and have a seemingly redundant SBLive Value card. Has
anyone actually managed to get this working yet? Would someone be kind
enough to give me a walkthrough, from the very begining, or at least
critique what I've done so far:
- Downloaded the beta drivers from Creative. Read the README, natch.
Thoroughly scanned deja news, diligently noting problems everyone else has had.
- Recompiled the kernel. I set "sound support" to "M", and "/dev/dsp and
/dev/audio support" to "y". I included no other drivers support. Is this
right? Do I need to include Soundblaster support?
- After recompiling, compiling and installing the modules, I run the SBLive
install and it works fine and asks me to reboot.
- Reboot
- Do an "insmod soundcore". This reports "no module soundcore can be found"
or something. Doing "modporbe sblive" reports the same thing. Doing "insmod
sblive" give a list of .o files that are not found (I forget the details).
Where does the soundcore device come from?
- No sound!
I would really appreciate any help I can get on this. As far as I can tell,
I'vwe done everything right so far...I'm desperate to get my sound
working...so could a guru please take pity on me?
Thanks in advance
--
Dave
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do u install an LS-120
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:28:40 GMT
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Lee Sharp;
> LS> I also still have trouble with them as single drives under NT,
> LS> Solaris,
> LS> and Linux. I have made NT work, but the rest...
> I'm not (knock on my skull as a sub for wood) haveing any problems other
> than when I mount the disks, I sometimes get a recommendation that I
> should run fsck on the 'unknown' file system. Since the data is still
> there, I've ignored that for the most part, and the one time I ran all 3
> of the disks in service currently thru e2fsck, they were just fine.
Mounting was never the issue. It was booting, or formatting, or making
boot floppies that was the problem. It is almost impossable to get them to
make a bootable 1.44 floppy in anything but Win9x, and damned hard under
NT. If you have solutions, I would love them!
> I should re-emphasize that these disks were subjected to a mkfs run as
> they weren't readable in any filesystem known to mankind after the
> Buddha got thru with them.
Fixed like a dog or cat at the SPCA, right? :-)
> LS> SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons*
> LS> why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain
> LS> now and then.
> I prefer virgins, but they seem to have gone out of style. :-)
It isn't style, but the fact that they are so hard to find. And
sacrificing a crack whore just dosen't have the desired effect. :-)
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an
individual, not as a representative of any company, organization or other
entity. I am solely responsible for my words.
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From: "Joshy George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux compatible modems
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:05:13 +0800
I have got it working on ttyS1. But on ttyS0 it simply refuses to work
Amazing..
Any explanations?
Joshy George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ig5dr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> I am trying to install a modem on my PC running RedHat 6.
> Internal PCI modems are not supported it seems!
> So now I have connected an external v.90 modem and trying to dial out with
> minicom.
> The modem is a FILAND 56K external, which has Rockwell chipset (RP56...)
>
> Can this one be configured for ppp?
> Upto now, I have no success.
> Please help.
>
> Joshy George.
>
>
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal Modem Help
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:47:00 -0600
Xanatos wrote:
>
> Hi everyone.
>
> I recentlly switched from an external modem to an internal (PCI) modem.
> It's a SupraExpress 56K modem (definately not a Winmodem). Unfortunately I
> do not know how to get Linux to recognize the device. It doesn't seem to be
> present on /dev/modem or /dev/cua?.
Why are you sure it's not a Winmodem? It has at least two
"red flags" that seem to shout "winmodem!" to me: first,
it's PCI, second it's not being recognized by the linux
serial devices.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jacek Pliszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Temperature Probe
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:27:02 -0700
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.
Use the Source, Carey, use the Source!
Go to freshmeat.net, get one of two or three hardware monitoring
packages there, read the source and learn.
Jacek
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From: Bill Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Configuration for high-spec NFS server
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:41:26 -0400
the sun enterprise 450 will provide you with better performance, but it is a
question of how much performance you will actually need...the pc/linux solution
may be 'good enough' for you, and should be much cheaper...
Ron wrote:
> Don't know about how many clients you're talking, but maybe you should take
> a look at AFS, which is supposed to give a better performance...
> Nick Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7i76b7$7ej$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm involved in specifying a new server for a research group,
> > which requires a high performance NFS server. Under
> > consideration are a Sun Enterprise 450 with a StorEdge A1000
> > external RAID box running Solaris, or a PC-based Linux solution,
> > as detailed below.
> >
> > I'm interested in the likely NFS throughputs that could be
> > expected from this configuration, as well as any helpful
> > comments as to the general suitability of the design.
> >
> > Server configuration:
> >
> > * Dual/Quad Intel Pentium III Xeon (512K LII) at 500MHz
> > * 1GB ECC EDO RAM
> > * Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 64bit PCI RAID Controller (64MB cache)
> > * 6 x 36.4GB Seagate Barracuda LVD Ultra-2 SCSI disks (3 per
> > channel on the RAID controller - in RAID 5 array)
> > * 3Com 3C985 Gigabit Ethernet NIC
> >
> > Network configuration:
> >
> > * 3Com Switch 3300 10/100 (48 ports total) with Gigabit modules
> >
> > Client configuration:
> >
> > * Mixed Sun hardware, from SparcStation 4 to Ultra 60
> > * Miscellaneous PC Linux boxes (Pentium II)
> >
> > System load:
> >
> > * 15-20 simultaneous users
> > * Typically multi-gigabyte datasets stored as UNIX files
> > * 50/50 read/write load
> >
> > --
> >
> > [ Nick Williams Office - 01865-(2)79252 ]
> > [ Computing Officer Mobile - 07775-637124 ]
> > [ New College, Oxford http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~nick/ ]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wilson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ISA sound card WILL NOT work correctly, regardless of what I do
Date: 26 May 1999 08:33:50 GMT
I'm really running out of options here -- I've tried just about everything to
make this sound card work.
I'm running RH6.0, and am attempting to configure my Crystal CS4232 PnP card
to work with this OS.
I have used isapnptools to inform the machine of my sound card's existence,
which was only partially successful. Whenever I play a file or URL on a sound
application, a one second clip will play and repeat itself over and over again
on an infinite loop. I checked the sound documentation regarding this
problem, and it says that it's typically caused by conflicting IRQ or DMA
settings. Howevever, pnpdump *only* offers me IRQ five for the WSS/SB device,
which is reported as being used by the Crystal sound card by /proc/interrupts.
But isn't WSS/SB itself the sound card? How can one device's IRQ setting
conflict with its own setting?
But anyway, even if I comment out the IRQ setting for WSS/SB, and type "isapnp
isapnp.conf" again, which yields no conflicts (although an IRQ is probably
needed), my audio applications still behave the same.
I've tried typing "rmmod sound" to remove the sound modules, and start over
again. No -- that doesn't work either. My system reports that "sound is in
use".
I've tried installing the OSS demo from www.4front-tech.com, but it requires
me to remove the sound modules, which of course I can't do.
I've been trying for over a month to get this sound card to work on my
computer, and unless I can get some sound advice on how to solve this problem,
I'm going to have to give up.
I listen to all of my music on my computer, and ever since I replaced Windows95
with Linux, it's been awfully quiet in here. Will somebody please save me, and
CC their reply to my address?
Thank you.
--Chris
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From: "Micky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA 3Com EtherLink III 3C509 and Compaq DeskPro 2000
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:27:46 +0200
I cannot see the NetWork Card on my Compaq DeskPro 2000, I try to install in
other computer linux with this card and it is working.
I have Red Hat Linux 5.0
Please help me.
Thanks
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:39:30 +0200
From: Kosh Naranek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot off SCSI not IDE
Hi,
I'm not quite sure if it's going to work, but you could try and use the
IDE-Disks without primary partitions.
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: Andrew Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.scsi
Subject: Re: Panasonic CD Recorder CW-7502-B
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 16:14:56 +0800
Mark wrote:
>Hi,
>Anyone use the Panasonic SCSI 4x8 CD Recorder with Linux? I don't
>have any experience with CD Recorders as yet and could use some
>advise.
>
>Thanks.
I couldn't get my Panasonic CW-7502 CD-R drive to work with my
IWill 2935UW SCSI card under linux so please be aware of this
combination. It may be the card or it may be the drive or it may be
the driver, I don't yet know.
I have no problems with this combination in Win!@#s.
The drive only has 1MB on board (Sony's has 2MB) and supports
digital audio extraction (DAE), multisession and other things that
a good CD drive should have (apart from the speed).
Andrew :)
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 02:58:37 -0600
From: Wayne Kovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: RH 6 and Ultra66 ATA
David Bates wrote:
> Does anybody know if Red Hat v6.0 supports the Ultra66 ATA-66 card from
> Promise Technology? I remember reading about the fact that RH v5.2 did not
> support this because the kernel it was using did not, but now that RH 6 uses
> 2.2, is it supported? I can't get the RH 6 install to recognize it, same
> problem I had with RH 5.2.
Go to http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/index.html and click
on "Intel Hardware" to see the complete list of supported hardware for
RH 6.0.
--
Wayne Kovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Colorado Software Summit (A Java Programming Conference)
http://www.SoftwareSummit.com
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From: Arvid Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: s3 trio 3d cards
Date: 26 May 1999 10:55:53 GMT
ersin gen�t�rk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: hi ! anyone knows any servers for s3 trio 3d cards ? It sucx running in vga
: mode.
hi,
actually you have to get a commertial solution as like as accelerated X.
sorry.
live long and prosper,
asa.
--
mail me to get the complete of my signature
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Allan_M=F8ller?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: setup for HP4, HP5P, HP6L
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:08:34 +0200
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From: "R.H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: drive overlay programs and linux
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 04:37:52 -0700
Does anybody know whether there is a drive overlay program that works with
linux and my WD hard drive. I have a 10G hard drive and I am using EZdrive
because my motherboard bios will not recognize anything over 8.4G. Linux
has a problem with this drive and if I try to install linux it always gives
me a mounting error. I was using Redhat 5.2. Also, if I try to partion the
drive with Partion Magic it does not even see the partitions. Unless I can
find such a program my options will be to go with a newer motherboard which
I can't afford right now or a isa card that will allow the use of such
drives from Data Tecnology.
Thanks,
Roger
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 21:44:20 +1000
<snip>
>:
>: Because don't forget the old rule,
>:
>: ALL SCSI DEVICES WILL RUN AT THE SLOWEST DEVICE SPEED.
>:
>: If that scanner only runs at 5Mb/s , ........wellll..........
>
>The SCSI driver will query each SCSI device to get various information
about
>them. One piece of information is some negotiation of how fast the device
can
>run. The driver will then configure each device to run at the fastest
common
>speed of the controller and the device. Therefore, scanners will run at
>5MB/sec, disks at 10, 20 or 40MB/sec, etc.
>
>Maybe you're thinking of cases where a device like a scanner will tend to
>"hog" the bus while it's scanning, since it doesn't know how to
>2disconnect/reconnect?
> Stu
Fast-Wide SCSI-2 is backward compatible with Fast-SCSI-2. This means a user
can mix Fast-Wide SCSI-2 controllers with Fast-SCSI-2 drives and vice versa
as long as the cable connectors are all mated properly. This backward
compatibility is made possible by individual drive negotiation that takes
place between controller and drive during the selection phase as described
above. An 8-bit SCSI controller can communicate with 16-bit drives but does
so only via an 8-bit data path. A 16-bit SCSI controller can talk with
8-bit drives but only uses �half the width� of the SCSI bus.
WIDE-ULTRA SCSI-3 COMPATIBI LITY
Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 is backward compatible with previous generations of SCSI,
which means that
Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 devices can use the same cables, connectors, and
terminators as Fast-Wide
SCSI-2 devices. Also, a mixture of Wide-Ultra, Fast-Wide, and Fast SCSI
drives can coexist on
the same SCSI bus. The decision to operate using a particular SCSI protocol
is made on a drive-by-
drive basis during the �negotiation phase� between each drive and the SCSI
controller. This
negotiation phase occurs as part of the boot-up process. A SCSI controller
is a SCSI device that
acts as the gateway between the SCSI bus and the server�s internal I/O bus.
The SCSI controller
transfers commands and data between devices on the SCSI bus and the server.
The maximum transfer rate between the SCSI controller and each disk drive on
the bus is
determined by the native protocol of the slowest device. It is possible for
a Fast-Wide SCSI-2
controller to communicate with both Fast-Wide SCSI-2 disk drives and
Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 disk
drives. If a Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 disk drive is attached to a Fast-Wide SCSI-2
controller, the
maximum data transfer rate is that of the Fast-Wide SCSI-2 controller. The
inverse is also true�
a Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 controller can be used with Fast or Fast-Wide SCSI-2
drives. For the two
devices to operate in Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 mode, both the SCSI controller and
the disk drive must
be Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 enabled.
Ensure clean SCSI signals � Check SCSI cables, bus termination and
termination power.
When using Fast SCSI devices, the maximum cable length for the SCSI bus
should be limited to about 10 feet (including internal cabling).
Poor quality cables can cause signal problems. High quality external cables
tend to be fairly stiff. Cables as flexible as a printer cable are usually
of poor quality.
Different types of cables on a single bus can cause problems. Avoid mixing
SCSI cable types and transitions from one cabinet to another.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Driver for Gateway Laptop 5150
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:41:08 GMT
Does anyone know where I can find the video driver for the Gateway
laptop 5150. Thanks for any help.
Prashant
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