Linux-Hardware Digest #368, Volume #10 Sun, 30 May 99 14:13:48 EDT
Contents:
X server for S3 Trio 3D [S3 86C365] -> Does anybody knows where to get? ("Filipe
Morais")
UPS under RedHat6.0 (Nick Birkett)
Re: DDS-3 DAT drive (Chris Mauritz)
Re: DDS-3 DAT drive (Peter T. Breuer)
setting up an linux internal modem ("Mr Kuay")
Problem detecting SCSI DAT drive (Adrian Warman)
Re: Hewlett Packard printer help. (Jon Radon)
Re: Hard Drive Performance (Jon Radon)
Is this a drive or a controller problem? ("Rick Darnell")
Re: Hard Drive Performance ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3 partition ? (Bob Wroblewski)
Re: Hard Drive Performance ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
Re: X server for S3 Trio 3D [S3 86C365] -> Does anybody knows where to get? ("David
Wiggs")
Network Card ("Edward D. Ernest")
eject a cdrom (Peter Bismuti)
tgui9685 chipset in xf86 3.3.3.1 ("John M. Flinchbaugh")
Re: Network Card (Gerald Willmann)
Re: eject a cdrom ("Armando Rojas")
Canon BJC5000 ("Armando Rojas")
Re: APC UPS experience (Enrique =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ram=F3n?=)
Switch or Relay Output Cards under Linux? ("Art Botterell")
Impact IQ, 'persist', line flipflop ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
help! Can't find which video card i have. (jerseyboyz)
Re: 286-to run I/O board? (Johan Kullstam)
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From: "Filipe Morais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X server for S3 Trio 3D [S3 86C365] -> Does anybody knows where to get?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:27:52 +0100
The only place where I see X "drivers" for S3 Trio 3D (and many more) is on
http://www.acceleratedx.com/Pages/ProductsMasterPage.html
Nevertheless they are very expensive.
Anybody knowns about alternatives
Thanks
Filipe Morais
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From: Nick Birkett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPS under RedHat6.0
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 14:07:05 +0100
Anyone have a quick hints for setting up UPS under RedHat 6.0.
Do we need to set up the powerd daemon or has this changed ?
Hardware :
Tripllite internet office 500
with serial line connection.
Thanks,
--
Nick Birkett
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DDS-3 DAT drive
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:01:07 GMT
I wasn't able to get anything useful out of either the Seagate or
the HP DDS-3 drives. I simply got I/O errors when I tried to
read/write tapes. Looks like I'm going to have to keep one
Slowlaris box around just to make backups....sigh.
C
In comp.os.linux.hardware Maryann Esh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've received the same results when I tried to take a DDS-2 tape from an
> HP-C1533A Drive to a Seagate Archive Python (23288?). The Seagate could
> not read the tapes, but could write tapes that the HP could read. Both
> could read and write their own tapes, though. Have you tried that? Is the
> drive active while you think it's writing?
> BTW: I sold the Seagate. I still have the HP.
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
>> What's the secret to getting a DDS-3 DAT drive to work with linux?
>> I've tried reading/writing tapes with Redhat 5.2 and Redhat 6.0
>> using an HP and a Seagate drive without success.
>>
>> When I try to read/write tapes, I get:
>>
>> tape read error: Input/output error
>>
>> I've compiled SCSI tape support into the kernel (tried both 2.0.36 and
>> 2.2.9) and made sure the device files (/dev/nst0 /dev/st0) exist.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Mauritz
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Christopher Mauritz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DDS-3 DAT drive
Date: 30 May 1999 13:27:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Mauritz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I wasn't able to get anything useful out of either the Seagate or
: the HP DDS-3 drives. I simply got I/O errors when I tried to
I have a hp surestore scsi drive. It's real slow, but it works.
bajo:/usr/oboe/ptb% cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W Rev: 0638
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230W Rev: 0298
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: HP35480A Rev: T603
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
bajo:/usr/oboe/ptb%
Driver Queue Depth: 211, Host Adapter Queue Depth: 100
Tagged Queue Depth: Automatic, Untagged Queue Depth: 3
Error Recovery Strategy: Default, SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
SCSI Bus Termination: Both Enabled
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ungh. I wonder how come it can
see the external hp!
*** BusLogic BT-956C Initialized Successfully ***
Target 0: Queue Depth 28, Wide Synchronous at 20.0 MB/sec, offset 14
Target 1: Queue Depth 28, Wide Synchronous at 20.0 MB/sec, offset 14
Target 3: Queue Depth 3, Synchronous at 5.00 MB/sec, offset 8
C
Currently Allocated CCBs: 63
DATA TRANSFER STATISTICS
Peter
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From: "Mr Kuay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setting up an linux internal modem
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 20:56:44 +0800
Could somebody tell me the way to set up an internal modem in Linux?
my internal modem is:
Magic MP32 sound , voice , fax modem .
its specs are:
FCC Class B
Part Number : 15
Chipset : Rockwell RCV336ACF / SP
ISA combo card
Plug and Play only.
com 4 : IRQ 3
Thanx for your help.
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From: Adrian Warman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem detecting SCSI DAT drive
Date: 30 May 1999 13:31:14 GMT
Hello,
I have a Pentium II 350 system, running RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36),
128MB RAM, 4.3 GB hard drive.
I recently obtained an Adaptec 2940AU PCI Ultra SCSI card. This appears
to be correctly identified by the kernel. It is configured to the default
settings.
I have borrowed a WangDAT 3100SE External DAT drive to try out. Although
the drive can (apparently) be detected correctly under Windows NT, I am
unable to get it to work under Linux. The documentation with the drive
suggests that it can use SCSI-1 and SCSI-2. The external unit has no way
of forcing the protocol used - the only thing that can be adjusted is
the SCSI id number.
At hardware initialisation, the WangDAT does appear with SCSI id 4
(which is its current setting). But when the kernel itself starts
booting, an error occurs and the drive cannot be seen.
The key parts from the output of dmesg is appended first, and the contents
of /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 is appended second.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Adrian Warman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Output from dmesg:
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 8/0
(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.7/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
scsi0 : channel 0 target 4 lun 0 request sense failed, performing reset.
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 6, scsi0, channel 0, id 5,
lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
scsi : detected total.
Output from /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0:
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.7/3.2.4
Compile Options:
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15
AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Adapter Support Enabled
Check below to see which
devices use tagged queueing
AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Enabled (This is no longer an option)
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled
Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter
Ultra Narrow Controller
PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xeb000000
Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used.
Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
IRQ: 11
SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 1,
Allocated 15, HW 3, Page 255
Interrupts: 20
BIOS Control Word: 0x10b6
Adapter Control Word: 0x005c
Extended Translation: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0x00ff
Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0000
Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000
Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000
Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
Statistics:
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From: Jon Radon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hewlett Packard printer help.
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 09:35:01 -0400
Highminded wrote:
> I have a Hewlett Packard DeskJest 820Cse and can't get it to print at
> all. I haven't tried real hard to set it up because I couldn't just
> make it print ASCII then I stoped. I was wondering if anyone can help
> me out. Do I have to go someplace and get drivers or is the printer not
> Linux compatible. I got this printer way before I ever planed on using
> Linux and most of my files are gone(well, so misplaced that I can't
> really find them.)
> Thanks,
> Highminded
>
> "Only in America do we keep junk in the garage and an expensive sports
> car in the drive way."
Well, unfortunately you have a WinPrinter.. =) but don't fear.. there is
help .. someone made a driver for these printers.. I myself have a 720Cse,
which is also a Winprinter.. the driver doesn't support color, but atleast
you'll be able to print... the driver's page is at:
http://www.httptech.com/ppa/
--
.sd[ jr ^ p1mp crew ^ She's a, she's a, she's a, she's a..heroin pig ]bs.
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From: Jon Radon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Performance
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 09:37:52 -0400
"Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." wrote:
> Is there any way to measure hard drive performance when using Linux?
Yes, as root run:
/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hda (or whatever your hard drive device is)
--
.sd[ jr ^ p1mp crew ^ She's a, she's a, she's a, she's a..heroin pig ]bs.
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From: "Rick Darnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is this a drive or a controller problem?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 08:48:03 -0600
I'm running RH5.2 on an Intel 586. HDA is an old 400MB drive that runs as
root, HDB is a not-as-old 1.2GB drive that handles the /home directories.
A few minutes after I boot the machine up, I start getting this series of
errors, repeated ad nauseum until I turn the machine off (three-fingered
salute and shutdown commands will quit working)
hdb: irq timeout: status 0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, Sector 408790
hdb: status timeout: status 0xd0 {Busy}
ide0: reset success
Do I have a bad sector on the drive? Is the drive going bad? Is the
controller on the brink? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
/s/Rick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Performance
Date: 30 May 1999 14:20:30 GMT
Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way to measure hard drive performance when using Linux?
Yes, try hdparm
hdparm -t -T /dev/hda
and the the other parameters to tune, but BE CAREFULL! and READ the MAN PAGE
i use the following to get an increase from 4MB/s to almost 9MB/s !
hdparm -c 3 -m 16 /dev/hda
Cheers,
Nuno Sucena
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From: Bob Wroblewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3 partition ?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 07:57:51 -0700
I have 3 partions on my 2HD's.
I would like to format it for linux ext2.
How I can make linux to see all 3 partitions
as one continous partition.
thanks
bob
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Performance
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 10:04:50 -0500
"Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." wrote:
>
> Is there any way to measure hard drive performance when using Linux?
>
Thanks to "netnews.msn.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Jon Radon for the
tip on hdparm! Exactly what I was looking for.
____________________________________________________________________
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: "David Wiggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X server for S3 Trio 3D [S3 86C365] -> Does anybody knows where to get?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 11:02:27 -0400
do a search on the internet for HOWTO setup a frame buffer device. You will
probably have to install a new kernel unless you have 6.x
Filipe Morais wrote in message <7iraqv$4o6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The only place where I see X "drivers" for S3 Trio 3D (and many more) is
on
>http://www.acceleratedx.com/Pages/ProductsMasterPage.html
>
>Nevertheless they are very expensive.
>
>Anybody knowns about alternatives
>
>Thanks
>Filipe Morais
>
>
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From: "Edward D. Ernest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Card
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 10:32:43 -0400
I'm trying to add my linux machine to my network using a 3com ct509b ISA
card. At one time I successfully(I was able to ping the other
machines)accomplished this, but I just built a more powerful machine for
linux and now it doesn't work. Occasionally on bootup it freezes at
"Starting Sendmail" or "Starting smb". I have to re-install to be able to
boot. I was suspecting it was an IRQ problem so I loaded Windows (which I'm
more familiar with) and did run into a problem with the sound card. I took
the sound card out and was able to network windows fine. Then I
repartitioned and installed linux but still had the same problem. Any help
would be appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: eject a cdrom
Date: 30 May 1999 15:31:08 GMT
My cd is stuck in my cdrom drive, how can I eject it? I do not
have the 'eject' command on my computer, should I have it?
Thanks!!
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From: "John M. Flinchbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tgui9685 chipset in xf86 3.3.3.1
Date: 30 May 1999 15:47:58 GMT
is the tgui9685 video chipset properly supported in xfree86 3.3.3.1?
i had some terribly problems with only being able to use interlaced
modes, when i didn't need to for my monitor.
i also had the interesting problem of rearranging the order of my
video modes would make different modes actually work and ones which
did work would break.
is this chipset a poor choice for x, or does my card represent an
isolated case?
thanks.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Card
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 09:23:12 -0700
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Edward D. Ernest wrote:
> I'm trying to add my linux machine to my network using a 3com ct509b ISA
> card. At one time I successfully(I was able to ping the other
> machines)accomplished this, but I just built a more powerful machine for
> linux and now it doesn't work. Occasionally on bootup it freezes at
> "Starting Sendmail" or "Starting smb". I have to re-install to be able to
> boot. I was suspecting it was an IRQ problem so I loaded Windows (which I'm
> more familiar with) and did run into a problem with the sound card. I took
> the sound card out and was able to network windows fine. Then I
> repartitioned and installed linux but still had the same problem. Any help
> would be appreciated.
I had a conflict between this NIC and my ensoniq soundcard. Use the DOS
utility for the 3com to switch of PnP and also to check that there is no
IRQ and address conflict. The module should then detect the card just
fine. No need to reinstall linux, btw, if it doesn't get past sendmail or
smb (samba?) - simply boot into single user mode and temporarily disable
the automatic startup of those services.
Gerald
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From: "Armando Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eject a cdrom
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:04:45 -0400
umount /mnt/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom is replaced by the directory where the CDROM drive is mounted.
Armando Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Bismuti wrote in message <7irljs$n9k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>My cd is stuck in my cdrom drive, how can I eject it? I do not
>have the 'eject' command on my computer, should I have it?
>
>
>Thanks!!
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From: "Armando Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon BJC5000
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:06:55 -0400
Has anybody had any success with this printer?
Armando Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Enrique =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ram=F3n?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: APC UPS experience
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 13:12:14 -0400
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Where can I get software to use my APC UPS with LINUX, none found aPC
web site.
Thanks,
E.Ramon
Ray Eads wrote:
> I've had some good success with the APC BackUPS PRO 420 (new one
> with 6 outlets). I'm using the apcupsd 3.5.6. I use the 95A
> cable.
>
> The UPS runs for around 40 minutes. The apcupsd software reports
> that I'm using about 15% of its capacity (Pentium 350, 250W, 2
> disks, no monitor).
>
> I've set the software to shutdown when the battery is drained to
> 60% of its charge. It performs a shutdown and powers off the case
> nicely. When I restore the power, the computer boots up again.
>
> For my purposes, the 280VA version of the UPS may have been fine.
> I erred a bit on the cautious side there.
>
> This setup has worked nicely for me. Thanks to the authors of the
> apcupsd software!
>
> --
> Ray Eads ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Art Botterell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Switch or Relay Output Cards under Linux?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 09:40:23 -0700
Anyone have any leads or experience on switch/relay output boards under
Linux? (I know they're used a lot in process-control aps, but that's about
it...)
I've got to make a recommendation to a client on whether we can do his
project in Linux... I'd prefer to, but must solve the switch output problem
first (the switch-closure outputs are needed to trip external alarms when
certain things happen.)
- Art Botterell
Datacast Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Impact IQ, 'persist', line flipflop
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 12:29:49 -0500
[Note followups.]
A friend has been using his 3com Impact IQ (3C882) successfully for some
time now. However, he gets the odd disconnect and his system doesn't auto-
reconnect. I told him about the 'persist' option and made him happy...
... until he found that if he uses 'persist', the 3C882 will switch from
one line to the other for the data call. Since he wants to keep one of
the two B channels clear for voice at all times, this is unacceptable.
I can't find anything in any documentation anywhere that suggests this
behavior, much less tells it to stop. I can't even find anything in the
3C882 docs that suggest you can select which B channel is used. Clues?
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From: jerseyboyz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help! Can't find which video card i have.
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 11:37:32 -0700
I installed linux on my computer along with windows 98 and i'm having
problems with the getting the linux gui up and running. When I try type
startx nothing happens but a grey screen. Also, i chose No Clockchip
Setting but it couldn't automaticallly detect the proper clockchip.I
think i need to enter my video card into linux, but i can't find the
make and serial number. If it's any help, i have a HP Pavilion.. Any
help would surely be appreciated.
Thanks alot,
Mike
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Subject: Re: 286-to run I/O board?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 May 1999 13:36:45 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Can I get a linux kernel small enough to use a ComputerBoards
> I/O board in a 286 AST Premium.I have added a 100M hard drive.I
> would like to use Basic to program it.??
linux requires[1] a 32 bit[2] cpu. the 286 is 16 bit and not capable of
running linux. why don't you use ms/pc/dr-dos instead?
[1] there is a project to port linux to the 8088. i am not sure as to
its status.
[2] or 64 bit.
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