Linux-Hardware Digest #372, Volume #10 Mon, 31 May 99 05:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: Compact Flash with PCMCIA Adapter... (Jon Winters)
printing problem in Redhat (ookia)
Re: X server for S3 Trio 3D [S3 86C365] -> Does anybody knows where to get? ("gm")
Re: Diamond Monster driver? (Tim Moore)
Re: BIOS settings (Tim Moore)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ASUS P2BD vs. SuperMicro P6DBE (scott)
Re: IDE RAID - Promise Fasttrak ? (Tim Moore)
Re: Power off in Linux (Tim Moore)
Linux CAD Enterprise offer !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Programmers are gods (Michel Catudal)
Re: Using more than 4 IDE devices (Tim Moore)
Re: What are drawbacks to using an ISA NIC? (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Slackware 3.6, PS2 M77 and 2.88 Floppy (William Park)
Re: What are drawbacks to using an ISA NIC? (Tim Moore)
Re: 3 partition ? (Tim Moore)
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From: Jon Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.photo.digital,alt.periphs.pcmcia
Subject: Re: Compact Flash with PCMCIA Adapter...
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 00:05:54 -0500
Jon Winters wrote:
>
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> > I don't know how well Card Services handles the case when you put the
> > card in while the system is running instead of before you boot. I'm
> > afraid this is one area where Linux isn't so strong.
>
> Hmm... still looking into that. Things got funky after ejecting the card
> and re-inserting it.
I'm able to eject the card and re-insert it without problem as long as I
unmount it before ejecting.
Now I've got to figure out how to make it auto mount when inserted, or
change it so any user can mount and eject. Gnome comes with a nice
little 'mount/unmount' applet for the panel. It even shows the status.
--
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From: ookia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing problem in Redhat
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 03:35:37 +0000
Theoretically(according to the printing howto database) my laser
printer, okipage 6e laser printer, is supported under ghostscript 4.08
or whatever. However, After much problem this printer will not print
caput.
"##Printool 3 ## ljet4 300x300 letter {} laserjet4 default {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filters
I would appreciate any pointers
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From: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] REMOVE NOSPAM to reply>
Subject: Re: X server for S3 Trio 3D [S3 86C365] -> Does anybody knows where to get?
Reply-To: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] remove NO_SPAM to reply>
Date: 30 May 1999 20:32:27 -0600
FWIW: XFree86 3.3.3.1 cardlist shows S3 Trio3D supported by
the XF86_VGA16 server.
regards,
gm
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:35:50 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Monster driver?
Most XF86 drivers are by chipset. For example, my card uses the RIVA
TNT chipset which is supported by the SVGA driver. Here's the
authorata': http://www.xfree86.org/
Brian Gilman wrote:
>
> Sorry if this is a redundant but I haven't been able to find a driver
> for my diamond monster III card....Can someone put my on track? TIA!
> Brian Gilman
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:27:29 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIOS settings
> When I configure the BIOS, do I enable or disable Plug 'n Play?
I've kept this off on a dual boot linux/OSR2 machine with no issues.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 01:54:59 GMT
After reading all these adventures and misadventures with installing
and configuraing various OSes, I can't help but wonder if HAL's
explanation is correct. I quote loosely "These things are always
attributable to human error."
Jonathan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (scott)
Subject: Re: ASUS P2BD vs. SuperMicro P6DBE
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:14:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Swietanowski Artur
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am deciding now
>> between two motherboards: ASUS P2BD and SuperMicro P6DBE.
>
>Whatever you compare to, ASUS is more expensive, but I've had mixed
>experience with many other boards (not the one you listed) while
>all my ASUS boards, incl. P2B and P2B-DS are a pleasure to work with.
>
>The plain P2B works with everything, incl. Solaris/86 and, of course,
>Linux. P2B-DS is the core of a cluster I'm setting up now.
>
I've used MBs from Tyan, FIC, QDI, Gigabyte and ASUS. All I can say is that
ASUS is the cream of the crop. Worth every extra penny you spend IMHO.
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 22:10:03 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE RAID - Promise Fasttrak ?
Fasttrak does not work under linux.
Both NT and linux support software raid, or look at Megatrends or Vortex
for harware controllers.
Paul Gregg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm posting this to both Linux and FreeBSD groups (cos I use both for
> different purposes).
>
> Essentially I have about 16 servers used for different things and I plan to
> build a central "pooling" backup server. This server will backup, daily,
> data from each of the servers.
>
> However, As I've already spent a small fortune and have limited budget
> at the moment ($2,200) I thought I'd have a box built that uses IDE RAID.
>
> Essentially I was thinking about a BX board with 2 x Promise Fasttrak IDE
> RAID controllers. Each controller would have 4 x 16Gb (maybe 18Gb) UDMA33
> drives giving me a total backup storage space of around 128Gb of space.
>
> I would also have IDE capacity CDROM in the box, and I plan on possibly
> adding a DLT 40Gb tape drive sometime in the future.
>
> I've done some searching and found nothing. So, my question is:
>
> Will this kind of configuration work using either Linux or FreeBSD ?
>
> Responses via this newsgroup appreciated (if you wish to email, watch for the
> spam guards).
>
> Tia,
>
> Paul.
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 22:12:30 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Power off in Linux
in your kernel config file:
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y
> How to "powerDown" the system on "halt" or shutdown command ?(Like
> Win98).
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: 30 May 1999 23:37:06 -0500
Scott Brickner wrote:
>
>
> The rule is wrong. It should be "good comments never hurt", which just moves
> the discussion back to the definition of a "good comment".
>
> Bad comments *do* hurt. A comment that ostensibly describes what a fragment
> of code does often causes people to skip reading the code, assuming it does
> what the comment says. When they find that the comment gives a correct
> description for what the code *should* have said, but did not, they find
> they've wasted a lot of time looking for a bug that was right under their
> nose.
>
When you are writing in assembler the comments must describe
what the code does, there is no way around it. There is
a project I am working on right now that I wrote a few
years ago and I put a lot of comments so did the engineer
who took it over from me later on. We put as comment sort of
what the code would look like in C so it would be easier
to follow. Good luck trying to figure out 16 bit maths in
a 16C73A. The previous moron who took over the code 2 years
ago took all those comments out and put some comments
which don't mean much more than what the current line does
and man it's hard to follow. Quite a mess! It is lucky that
I remember most of this code.
It brings back old memories, there was one night before our
demonstration to some manufacturer in Detroit. I brought
a sunroof in my motel room. A man had such a weird stare.
I spent the whole night debugging. Still wondering what
the man thought I was doing!
> >I'm often accused of writing good books instead of good code. But hey, at
> least
> >the plot is easy to follow.... :')
>
> Of course, now when someone comes behind you to make changes to the code,
> you've doubled their workload. Not only do they have to fix the code, they
> have to fix the comments!
>
The key is fix the comments, I see that most of the time people
change code but never touch the comments and the comments
confuse the heck out of whoever is looking at the code.
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 22:03:38 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using more than 4 IDE devices
Promise sells a PCI EIDE controller called the Ultra/33. Provides
hd[e-h] and is automatically detected by kernels 2.0.35 and above and
uses a single IRQ for both channels. Performance is equal to PIIX4.
...
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 33
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f
ide: Promise Technology IDE Ultra-DMA 33 on PCI bus 0 function 80
ide: Enabling DMA for Promise Technology IDE Ultra-DMA 33 on PCI bus 0
function 80, port 0xa800
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa800-0xa807
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xa808-0xa80f
...
Jordi wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> What can I do if I already have 4 IDE devices attached to the computer
> (2 HD, CDRom, Atapi ZIp) and I desperately need to attach more hard
> drives?
> Can you use a PCI controller along with the motherboard's controller to
> create extra channels? If so, which chipsets/brands are recommended for
> use with the 2.2 kernels?
> Is it as simple as inserting the controller and building the kernel to
> have support for it? After, will the kernel just find the /dev/hde,
> /dev/hdf... and so? Anyone know if this create any problem to Windows?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jordi
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What are drawbacks to using an ISA NIC?
Date: 31 May 1999 01:16:50 -0400
Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ISA is clocked at 8.3MHz, PCI at 33MHz. ISA has more CPU overhead too.
yep, i'd forgotten about the vast difference in speed.
> This card is 10bT if I recall correctly, so it won't move more than
> about 850KB/s. If you want 3MB/s you'll have to go 100bT which means
> PCI.
knowing the cable modem speeds i've seen, he probably meant 3Mbits, not
3Mbytes.
> Are you sure the slot is defective? My PCI slots 4&5 share an IRQ which
> could cause weird behavior under some circumstances. Other boards that
> have built-in SCSI, sound, etc are known to share IRQ's with particular
> PCI slots.
other random thought - perhaps you're trying to put a bus mastering card
into a non-busmastering slot? try swapping cards around, it may
mysteriously start working again.
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From: William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware 3.6, PS2 M77 and 2.88 Floppy
Date: 30 May 1999 04:32:34 GMT
Chuck Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a system up on Slackware 3.6 on a PS2 M77 and it has its 2.88
> Floppy.
> I can boot the machine from floppy into LINUX or DOS. I can access the
> floppy from DOS, but not from LINUX. When I try to mount it, LINUX
> complains of a segment error. MTOOLs won't talk to it either.
> I also notices the file size of /dev/fd0 is 0 bytes.
> Where do I start to fix this?
> Chuck
Did you use /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd0u2880? Try
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u2880 /mnt
William Park
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:47:58 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What are drawbacks to using an ISA NIC?
ISA is clocked at 8.3MHz, PCI at 33MHz. ISA has more CPU overhead too.
This card is 10bT if I recall correctly, so it won't move more than
about 850KB/s. If you want 3MB/s you'll have to go 100bT which means
PCI.
Are you sure the slot is defective? My PCI slots 4&5 share an IRQ which
could cause weird behavior under some circumstances. Other boards that
have built-in SCSI, sound, etc are known to share IRQ's with particular
PCI slots.
Steve Snyder wrote:
>
> I discovered (by trying to use it) that the last unused PCI slot in my
> system is defective. This forced me to add an ISA NIC (a 3Com 3C509B)
> instead of the PCI device I had planned on.
>
> The ISA NIC is working well. I wonder, though, what the drawbacks are
> compared to a PCI NIC. This device is just attached to a cable modem,
> which suggests that it will never be called upon to move more than
> 3MB/second anyway.
>
> Is interrupt latency higher with an ISA NIC? Increased CPU use? The
> initial install involves more work because you have to specify the IRQ and
> I/O port address range. Now that the installation is done, though, I'm
> interested in runtime gotchas.
>
> Thank you.
>
> ***** Steve Snyder *****
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:49:41 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3 partition ?
You need the software raid tools, linear mode.
Bob Wroblewski wrote:
>
> 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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