Linux-Hardware Digest #361, Volume #10 Sat, 29 May 99 14:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Re: VIA MVP3 + UDMA no good? ("bwilling")
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Bob Johnson)
Re: Tape Backup Question (Nitin Mule)
Results: 3D on Matrox Millenium G200 ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: big tape drive for linux (Nitin Mule)
Re: Tape Backup Question (Michael Meissner)
Re: Tape Backup Question (Gary Huckabay)
Re: Tape Backup Question (Michael Meissner)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Daniele Bernardini)
Re: /dev/eth0 (Tiger San)
Wanted: Promise eide 4030plus disk accelerator (RCo2970070)
Creative soundblaster PCI64 v (rmarx)
Power off in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Internal Modem Help (David Alvarez)
Ensoniq Soundscape Card (Chris Holck)
Re: DDS1 device driver?? ("Tony Platt")
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Still need Help getting Dell PowerEdge SP 5166-2 going ("Tony Platt")
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From: "bwilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA MVP3 + UDMA no good?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 11:09:12 -0500
I have RH 6 (kernel 2.2.5) running on an Epoch board with the same processor
(AMD -K6 2 350) and VIA MVP3 chipset with a Fujitsu udma drive, and am
having no problems...what version of the kernel are you running?
bwilling
Jonas Palsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I get LOTS of CRC errors when i download files (ethernet connection). I
> know that the NIC not is broken so my last hope is that anyone here
> knows what the problem could be. I think it could be something with the
> VIA MVP3 chipset and UDMA. My system:
>
> Harddisk: IBM Deskstar 16GP (udma disk)
> CPU : AMD K6-2 350
> MB: DFI P5BV3+ with the VIA MVP3 chipset
> RAM: 64 MB PC100 SDRAM
> NIC: 3com905B
>
> Hope anyone can solve my problem
>
> Jonas P
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Johnson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:17:39 GMT
On Fri, 28 May 1999 14:58:14 +0200, Daniele Bernardini
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Let ma tell you my adventures with a compaq laptop
The problem is probably stated right there. Compaq uses all kinds of
peculiar and nonstandard things in their boxes, and the combination of
Compaq + laptop is probably the biggest challenge you can present an
operating system, hardware-wise.
Bob Johnson
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From: Nitin Mule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Question
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:45:26 GMT
Check the documentation for hardware compatibilty at www.redhat.com. Re links
for backup software, check linuxlinks.com. I use Arkeia.
Nitin.
Hugh Fader wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Which IDE drive to you use? I am thinking of getting an Aiwa Bolt drive, but
> want to be sure it runs under Linux.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gary Huckabay wrote:
>
> > Phil Buckley wrote:
> > >
> > > My boss just ordered our first server for our small office (6 users).
> > > When it arrives we will be adding a tape drive to it. The box itself is
> > > a Dell (10GB HD) with RH 6.0 loaded. Could someone offer up suggestions
> > > on what would be our best bet as far as particular brand (so as to make
> > > installation easier on me - a linux newbie) and also backup software (I
> > > am leaning towards BRU).
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Phil Buckley
> >
> > Phil, I use one of the IDE tape drives. Each tape holds 8g compressed
> > and the software I use is "tob." Tob is free.
> >
> > Gary
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Results: 3D on Matrox Millenium G200
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 10:54:21 -0500
This is just a FYI post for anyone considering 3D acceleration on
Linux. I don't claim that it's the best solution -- I know there are
already hotter cards out there -- but here's how things stand with the
G200.
I stuck a Matrox Millenium G200 8Mb AGP on a fast Linux PC during the
week, and last night I set up the 3D acceleration. (2D is supported
"out of the box" by the SVGA server under XFree86 3.3.3-1.)
I haven't done extensive benchmarking, but the one 3D program I had on
hand that dumped the frame rate showed a 3x speedup for an A/B
comparison of accelerated vs. non-accelerated. This was for rendering
within an X window, not full-screen.
Mindcraft has taught us to be leery of benchmarks, so take the above
with a grain of salt. It might represent "best case", but on the other
hand it was running on a system with a fast CPU/bus plus big
cache/memory, so the unaccelerated run was probably faster than you
would expect on a "typical" PC.
The GLX and Mesa kits were alpha and beta respectively, so there are
probably still some bugs and/or unsupported features. OTOH, Matrox has
been kind enough to release the necessary info for a bunch of OSS
hackers to have a go at it, so we can expect improvements in the
future. (Their mailing list archive shows that they are busy hacking
away and profiling the results, and aware of the need for further speed
improvements.)
Installation was fairly easy. It did involve downloading and compiling
Mesa, though an existing Mesa 3.* on your system may work as-is. (I
used the 3.1 beta2, which interestingly has make options such as "make
linux-3dnow", implying that it may be exploiting CPU-based multimedia
extensions.) The "driver" is a GLX module that your X server loads when
it starts up, and is available as deb and rpm binaries as well as
compilable source.
Mesa-based 3D programs you already have may not even require
recompiling, since you can use the LD_PRELOAD mechanism to redirect any
MesaGL symbols to the new glx.so at run time. (This is what made the
A/B comparison so easy.)
Get the full poop at http://lists.on.openprojects.net/glx/g200-faq.html.
Information about the status of other Linux/3D projects can be found at
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: Nitin Mule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: big tape drive for linux
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:55:49 GMT
I use Exabyte mammoth 8mm SCSI tape drive with Adaptec 2940U2W controller.
Both work quiet well (after correct termination settings) under Redhat 5.2.
Exabyte mammoth has 20GB native (40GB with compression) capacity and I use
arkeia as my backup software along with tar. For hardware compatibily list,
check redhat's site (docs).
Nitin.
Hongyu Zhang wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Has anyone had experience of installing a big tape drive (over 20GB) for
>
> linux box? I called Dell, but they seemed to have no clue on what kind
> of tape drive is compatible with linux.
>
> Appreicate your time.
>
> -- Hongyu
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Hongyu Zhang, Ph.D. | Tel: (301) 738-6117 (w) ^/..\^
> CARB, University of Maryland | (301) 987-0179 (h) -m( 00 )m-
> 9600 Gudelsky Drive | Fax: (301) 738-6255
> Rockville, Maryland 20850 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> URL: http://indigo5.carb.nist.gov/~hyzhang
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: Re: Tape Backup Question
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 May 1999 12:46:05 -0400
Phil Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My boss just ordered our first server for our small office (6 users).
> When it arrives we will be adding a tape drive to it. The box itself is
> a Dell (10GB HD) with RH 6.0 loaded. Could someone offer up suggestions
> on what would be our best bet as far as particular brand (so as to make
> installation easier on me - a linux newbie) and also backup software (I
> am leaning towards BRU).
I tend to like scsi DAT tape drives myself (you will need a scsi controller).
Right now, I'm using a HP C1537A DDS-3 tape drive (DDS-3 tapes hold 12 gigs
uncompressed and 24 gigs compressed). It costs about $1k, and tapes are about
$30. With my 10,000 and 7,200 rpm scsi disks, I dump about 13 gigabytes in 2
hours 15 minutes (99 megabytes/minutes). In terms of DAT tape drives, both HP
and Sony have the name value, while Seagate and WangDat are 2nd level players.
In the past DLT drives were always listed as best in terms of reliability.
They run ~ $2600 for 20/40 gig capacity and $6000 for 35/70 gig capacity and
media is ~ $90.
There is also Taravan tape drives at the low end, Exabyte 8 mm tape drives, AIC
drives, but I don't know about them.
I myself use star 1.3a4 (ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star), which is a
faster version of tar, but it is not that user friendly. My strategy is do a
full dump every night, rather than bother
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Gary Huckabay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Question
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 08:44:52 -0500
Phil Buckley wrote:
>
> My boss just ordered our first server for our small office (6 users).
> When it arrives we will be adding a tape drive to it. The box itself is
> a Dell (10GB HD) with RH 6.0 loaded. Could someone offer up suggestions
> on what would be our best bet as far as particular brand (so as to make
> installation easier on me - a linux newbie) and also backup software (I
> am leaning towards BRU).
>
> TIA,
> Phil Buckley
Phil, I use one of the IDE tape drives. Each tape holds 8g compressed
and the software I use is "tob." Tob is free.
Gary
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Subject: Re: Tape Backup Question
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 May 1999 12:46:43 -0400
Phil Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My boss just ordered our first server for our small office (6 users).
> When it arrives we will be adding a tape drive to it. The box itself is
> a Dell (10GB HD) with RH 6.0 loaded. Could someone offer up suggestions
> on what would be our best bet as far as particular brand (so as to make
> installation easier on me - a linux newbie) and also backup software (I
> am leaning towards BRU).
I tend to like scsi DAT tape drives myself (you will need a scsi controller).
Right now, I'm using a HP C1537A DDS-3 tape drive (DDS-3 tapes hold 12 gigs
uncompressed and 24 gigs compressed). It costs about $1k, and tapes are about
$30. With my 10,000 and 7,200 rpm scsi disks, I dump about 13 gigabytes in 2
hours 15 minutes (99 megabytes/minutes). In terms of DAT tape drives, both HP
and Sony have the name value, while Seagate and WangDat are 2nd level players.
In the past DLT drives were always listed as best in terms of reliability.
They run ~ $2600 for 20/40 gig capacity and $6000 for 35/70 gig capacity and
media is ~ $90.
There is also Taravan tape drives at the low end, Exabyte 8 mm tape drives, AIC
drives, but I don't know about them.
I myself use star 1.3a4 (ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star), which is a
faster version of tar, but it is not that user friendly. My strategy is do a
full dump every night, rather than bother with incremental dumps (helps that
the tape drive can do a full dump of everything I want to write).
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Daniele Bernardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:46:03 +0200
Neil Cerutti wrote:
> It all depends on what you are good at installing.
Well from dos 3.0 on I installed and work with all the MS oss
and I know them enough not to be fooled by a symple problem!
>
> I've gotten pretty far on my third attempt at installing Linux. Sound is
> next on the agenda. Where can I find documentation for the kernel PnP
> support that comes with the 2.2.5-15 kernel? I can't find it anywhere
The main source of information are the HOWTO's probably you have them
installed under /usr/doc/ . Look also in /usr/src/linux/Documentaion
Good luck,
Daniele
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Daniele Bernardini
Sektion Theoretische Physik, LMU Muenchen
Theresienstr. 37, 80805 Muenchen DEUTSCHLAND
Tel: +49 (89) 23944378
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~dani/
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From: Tiger San <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: /dev/eth0
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 14:11:52 GMT
Hi Kelvin,
I imagine that what you are trying to do is to enable networking on your
linux system. If that is the case then you might want to follow these:
- first make sure that your network card is listed in HW compatibility list
- mkae a note of the brand and model of your network card
- install it in your computer
- Start linux and log in as root
- under the COAS menu select Network -> Ethernet Interfaces
- click on "New device" and find the driver for your network card
- fill in the rest of the information in the "Ethernet Interface
Configuration" screen
- click on "OK" and you are set
to test your card:
- go to terminal window and the $ sign type: ifconfig
you should see info about eth0 or eth1
- then ping something line www.yahoo.com
if it is all done well it sjould work and you are set buddy :-)
good luck,
Tiger
> I have a Caldera Open Linux 2.2 installation that does not have /dev/eth0.
>
> What do I have to do to create on so that I can install and configure my
> ethernet card?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RCo2970070)
Subject: Wanted: Promise eide 4030plus disk accelerator
Date: 29 May 1999 17:05:58 GMT
Hello Everyone,
I would like to purchase a "new" or used Promise eide 4030plus vesa local bus
hard disk accelerator to speed up my aged machine. Evidentally it is difficult
to find one of these as they have been discontinued for some time; there are
other variants like this out there (also made by Promise) such as the DC4030
v-1 and DC4030 v-2. I suspect that the eide 4030plus is superior to these.
My spec sheet indicates that the card is Vesa 2.0 compatible, has LBA support
through an onboard bios (writes to drives up to 8.4 gb), uses a 286 processor,
.1 ms access, up to 20mb per second data transfer, supports up to 6 EIDE
devices, and bus speeds up to 50 mhz, etc., etc. Oh yes, the card holds up to
16mg of simms (30 pin) for cache.
I would appreciate any advice concerning comparible cards (vlb remember!) made
by such companies as: Adaptec, DTC, NCR, or Tekram, etc.
Thanks for taking the time to read this!
Sincerely,
Rob Coffin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ....easier than that lonnnnnnng AOL address!
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From: rmarx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative soundblaster PCI64 v
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 19:09:33 +0200
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I managed to install it.
BUT only the *.wav works if I push on it.
Under KDE there is no sound.I can't use desktop sounds etc...
Please help me.
I have SUSE 6.1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Power off in Linux
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 11:32:29 -0400
HI,
How to "powerDown" the system on "halt" or shutdown command ?(Like
Win98).
thanx
krishna
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From: David Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal Modem Help
Date: 29 May 1999 14:31:09 GMT
Hello Everyone,
I'm in a very similar boat with Jeff, but with a few other things to throw
into the mix, aimed particularly to the sizeable "It's a winmodem p.o.s.,
dump it!" faction. I recently bought a SupraExpress 56i internal modem to
replace an unrepentant winmodem that came with my 300 MHz E-machine, so
that I could get Red Hat 5.2 to speak to the world, with similar results,
i.e. linux can't seem to find the thing (although I'm not done fooling
with it). Like Jeff I am also sure this thing isn't a winmodem because I
bought it from a buddy of mine who'd had it in his linux box and had been
using it for the last 6 months! Yes, it definitely works under linux,
somehow. He had a somewhat older, slower machine than mine, and an older
version of Red Hat (although I don't recall the numbers off hand). While
the modem doesn't feature itself as a PCI modem, and in fact fit into an
ISA slot, it is a $*^&#! Plug and Play card, which is where I expect my
troubles are coming from. While I've been using Unix at work for about a
year, I am brand new to trying to configure this stuff. I have to
investigate the pnptools more, but any tips would surely be appreciated.
It sounds like Jeff might be having similar troubles as I am, perhaps his
question shouldn't be dismissed so quickly.
Thanks for the help
Dave A.
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?. I'm guessing that I have to inform
> linux of its presence somehow, but don't know how to go about doing it
> (recompile the kernel maybe)? If it is of any use I'm running a modifed
> installation of Redhat 5.1 (I've installed KDE and some additional Apps.
as
> well as upgraded the kernel which is currently 2.0.35).
>
> Any help anyone can offer me on this problem would be greatly
> appreciated as there really is no such thing as productivity under
Windows.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeffrey Nuremburg / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Holck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Ensoniq Soundscape Card
Date: 29 May 1999 17:26:38 GMT
I am currently upgrading from RedHat 5.1 to 6.0 manually.
I have upgraded the kernel to 2.2.5. I have, of course,
broken many things. One of the things I have broken is
sound support. I have an Ensoniq Soundscape PnP card.
Previously, I used OSS to enable sound support. I am
trying to load sound support as a kernel but can't.
Here is my understanding of what I have to do:
1. Enable kernel module support and configure the sound
support as a module. I have done both of these things.
2. I need to load the microcode to the sound card after
the kernel boots. I compile ssinit.c from snd-util-3.5.tar.gz
with the following macros set:
#define DSPDEV "/dev/dsp"
#define CODEFILE "/usr/local/lib/sndkit/sndscape.co3"
3. When I run ssinit.exe from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, it
should load the correct modules automatically if the
module dependencies are correctly set. This is done in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit by "depmod -a". I also have to set the
module options correctly in /etc/conf.modules. The
settings are:
#SOUND modules
alias char-major-14 sscape
options sscape io=0x534 irq=11 dma=1 mpu_irq=9 mpu_io=0x330
4. This doesn't work and I get the following message in
/var/log/messages:
May 29 08:50:06 holckster kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Ha
nnu Savolainen 1993-1996
May 29 08:50:06 holckster kernel: Soundscape driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savol
ainen 1993-1996
May 29 08:50:06 holckster insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sscape.o: init_modu
le: Device or resource busy
May 29 08:50:06 holckster modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0
May 29 08:50:06 holckster modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-3
What am I doing wrong? What are the correct settings for
the sscape module? How do I determine them? If it helps,
here are the settings from the previous OSS setup (devices.cfg):
/SECUREAUDIO OFF
/IRQEXCLUDE 3 4
/DMAEXCLUDE 2
-ENS3081 #Ensoniq Soundscape PnP model 2 (see README.soundscape)
SSCAPE $LOADBIN /doswin/windows/system/sndscape.co3
/PNPDEV ENS0000 P330 P# P# I9 I7 I# D1 D3 D#
SSCAPE OPNP P330 I9 D1 d3
AD1848 OPNP I7
PNP
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Christopher Holck
University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Physics
209 South 33rd
Philadelphia, Pa. 19104
Phone: (Work) 215-898-4588
(Home) 610-640-4073
Fax: 215-898-8512
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and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
"Chicks dig the long ball!" - Greg Maddux
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DDS1 device driver??
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:44:41 +1000
Or just maybe use 90Mtr tapes <they are only DDS1>
Tony
Frager, David (EXCHANGE:RICH2:2I33) wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a DDS1/DDS2 drive, but I need to be able to force it to write
>DDS1 format.
>
>In HP-UX, I am able to create a DDS1 device driver under SAM. The
>device driver
>that is currently available to me linux (/dev/st0) is writing in DDS2
>format.
>
>Does anyone know how to create a DDS1 device driver in linux??
>
>Thanks
>
>
>--
>David Frager
>Nortel GSM Design
>External: (972) 685-2383 ESN: 445-2383
>FAX: (972) 684-3779
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 16:47:16 GMT
Har har! My bad! Of course these cables are measured in feet, not
inches. How embarrassing. Especially if even a European can spot the
mistake. :-)
In article <01bea303$c0ec65e0$LocalHost@default>,
"Caroline Hawker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have a 6" cable on your monitor no wonder you need a 12"
extension.
> The cable that I got with my monitor was at least 4' ! ;->
> --
> Graham Cornelius or Caroline Hawker (depending on whos using this rust
> bucket)
> > > I like the idea of putting the computer far away, but doesn't the
image
> > > quality on the monitor suffer badly? I've heard that if there's
more
> > > than about 18'' cable between video card and monitor then the
screen
> > > gets blurry. (That is the 6'' cable that is attached to the
monitor,
> > > plus 12'' extension that I could buy.) How does this LongView
avoid
> this
> > > problem?
> >
> > It does suffer somewhat for a 100' run, to the point where I'm not
using
> it
> > anymore (monitor in bedroom, computers in basement). For the 100'
run, I
> had
> > to lower the resolution from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024, and it was
still
> somewhat
> > noticeable (but usable). For shorter runs using a 10' or 25' cable,
I
> could
> > run at 1600x1200, but there was still degradation.
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Still need Help getting Dell PowerEdge SP 5166-2 going
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:53:40 +1000
Is there a setting in the bios for you SMP type???
Some machines like Compaqs have several settings (Compaq calls them APIC I
think)
eg settings for NT, SCO, UNIX,etc
Maybe you could have a look and see.
Hope it helps
Tony Platt
Leslie Smith wrote in message <7iolnd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can help me out here, I have got a Dell PowerEdge server
>SP 5166-2 Dual CPU.
>
>I'm using Red Hat 5.2, when I am using the boot disk to boot
>the machine. It seems to load the boot.img OK, but when it
>tries to load initrd.img the system seems to hang at ... .
>This also happens with Red Hat 5.1 too. I am able to load Red
>Hat 5.0 OK.
>
>Machine Spec:
>
>CPU = 2 x 166
>SCSI Controller = NCR 53c810
>SCSI HD = 4 x 2GB
>SCSI CD = x32
>MEM = 128MB
>Display = 1 x Vodoo 4MB
>
>REgards
>
>Leslie...UK:-)
>
>
>
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