Linux-Hardware Digest #377, Volume #10 Mon, 31 May 99 20:13:52 EDT
Contents:
Re: Terabite Plus Filesystems ("Al in Seattle")
Silicon Motion SM810 LynxE graphic chip (Frederick)
Re: Network Card (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: 3 partition ? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Zip Disks fail to Mount ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: network problems ("Lee Sharp")
Dell Desktop Dimension XPS Tseries and RH 6.0 (Guoying Chen)
Re: Asking info about Olivetti JP190 printer (Mark Koek)
Re: DDS-3 DAT drive (Eric Veldhuyzen)
LaserJet 1100 with Linux / Ghostscript 5.10 (Ambrose Kofi Laing)
Re: FDD Tape Drive--The Saga Continues (Frank Miles)
Re: LaserJet 1100 with Linux / Ghostscript 5.10 (Frank Miles)
Re: FDD Tape Drive--The Saga Continues (Yaye)
Re: Quickcam VC (Walt Shekrota)
Printer Problem can't find the thing (qtip)
rvplayer (george)
Re: Printer Problem can't find the thing (qtip)
Re: Slow drive ("Gene Heskett")
io error on my harddisk ("birdy")
Linux and Backpack CDRW problem (Kasper)
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From: "Al in Seattle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.hp.misc
Subject: Re: Terabite Plus Filesystems
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:43:32 -0700
Some comments below...
David T. Blake wrote in message ...
>We regularly find 2-3 times the sys admin manpower required
>for NT boxes compared to UNIX boxes in the same setting. And
>I've had more than enough experience with the blue screen of
>death.
Whatever. I haven't seen this issue from the ISPs I've chatted with, except
for the fact that they are Unix trained and are trying to support a non-Unix
OS. I would bet that the reverse would hold true also.
There are a number of core problems with NTs usability.
>Such as,
>1) Want to put in a new video card - reboot about 10 times.
I have not experienced this in 5 years working with NT.
>2) Video server built in to the kernel
>3) Want to extend functionality - send a check for $10k to
> Redmond
What is this supposed to mean?
>4) Want to program - send another check to Redmond - one
> for each language
What is this supposed to mean, compared to Unix?
>5) Having problems with the OS - too bad. Call Redmond and
> pay out the nose while you wait on hold, and then talk to
> someone who knows horribly less than you about the OS.
>6) Remote administration
We routinely support our NT servers in our web farm remotely. there are a
number of tools out there to do that. You are rapidly losing all credibility
on this one.
>7) Lack of a respectable scripting language for administration
> purposes
Other than Perl or it's built in Scripting language?
>
>>Some of the quotes:
>>"I feel that if your data is important and you want a file server
>>that comes up and stays up, you should discount NT immediately. I
>>have heard some horror stories about NT with very large directories "
>>no basis in fact here.
>
>
>>"PCs are just not built to the same standard as most of the "real"
>>Unix boxes from Sun, HP, IBM, SGI, etc. The one exception that comes
>>to mind would be the Sequent range." pure bs. It simply depends on
>>what you are willing to spend.
>
>PCs with *x86 architecture have about 1/3 the computing power
>of an alpha at the same clock speed. That is the penalty for
>keeping legacy chip architecture around.
>
As mentioned in other posts, you are losing all credibility here with
statements like that. There are not benchmarks that I have ever seen
pointing to that big a difference.
>
>>Compaq and others have totally capable boxes if you want to spend the
>>same kind of money that the Unix crowd delivers.
>
>I understand the Compaq XP-2000 is a quite capable box. If you
>don't have the $$ for that you can try the DS-10 from Compaq for
>about $3500 + $1200 or so for Tru64Unix (or linux for free).
>
>--
>Dave Blake
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:11:40 +0800
From: Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Silicon Motion SM810 LynxE graphic chip
I got a Chicony MP980 mini-notebook, I wish to install Linux in it, but
I check the VGA graphic chip is Silicon Motion SM810, can I run X Window
with it
Regards,
Frederick
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Card
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 19:25:45 +0200
"Edward D. Ernest" wrote:
> Occasionally on bootup it freezes at "Starting Sendmail"
If there is a long pause at "Starting Sendmail" it often means that
there is something wrong with your hostname. Maybe the hostname is set
to something that doesn't have an ip-number in /etc/hosts?
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3 partition ?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 18:58:15 +0200
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.
If you don't want to have separate partitions for different directories
you could use raid0 (striping) to make them one continous partition.
However, there is no benefit of running raid0 on partitions living on
the same HD. There is a pointer for more information in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/README.md.
Why don't you want to place the different partitions at different
directories?
regards Henrik
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip Disks fail to Mount
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:52:27 -0500
Marc B. Sitkin wrote:
> I've got a problem mounting Zip disks. Some will mount perfectly well,
> others not at all. All are formated for Windows file systems, and work
> on windows machines (or Mac's)
> They simply refuse to mount or reformat on Linux. Any help in pointing
> me to a solution would be greatly appreciated.
I just acquired a second system, and I discovered that one of c. 10 disks
that I've tried will mount on one system but not the other, though both
run the same distribution/version of Linux.
I suspect it's variations in the quality of the media and/or drives. I'm
not at all happy with the quality of IOmega products -- in 7 years of PC
ownership I've only had 3 hardware failures, and that includes two of my
3 IOmega devices -- but I still put up with the follies of using Zip
disks because they're so darn useful.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: network problems
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:36:45 GMT
Doug Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I have an old VESA based 486/100 I would like to use
> as a firewall. The local cable guy is adamit that this will not
> work. He is positive that the 486 machine will not service
> the cable modem fast enough. Does anyone out there have any
> experience with this? I have installed RedHat 5.2 & it works fine.
He is a Cable Guy. Didn't you see the movie? Don't listen to him. :-)
Now, if the cable modem is serial, you ports just won't keep up. If it is
ethernet, you are in good shape.
> Also. that same machine presently has a 3c509B NIC as does
> my new spiffy box. I have tried to connect these through a dlink
> hubby. I am having problems.
> I set the software up and the hub lights up the line lights
> on the correct lines. Does this mean they (both ends of the ether
> net cable) are both talking 10 base T?
> I can ping localhost fine.
> I can ping the same ip number (say 192.168.0.1) fine.
> I cannot ping to the other machine - either way. %100 failure.
Lots. Did you use the 3com util to turn off Plug&Pray? Did you set
proper IRQs? Is the interface up? Red Hat has lots of nice GUI tools to
look at the interfaces, so recheck everything on it. Make sure the
Interface is up, and that Linux actually sees it.
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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Subject: Dell Desktop Dimension XPS Tseries and RH 6.0
From: Guoying Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 May 1999 17:30:49 -0400
does RH6.0 support Dell Dimension XPS system?
has anyone successfully installed RH6.0 on XPS T series system?
any info will be appreciated...
thanks,
--
Guoying Chen
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From: Mark Koek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asking info about Olivetti JP190 printer
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 17:14:50 +0200
Joseph wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I would like to know if the Olivetti JP 190 printer can be used with Linux
[...]
I can use my Olivetti JP170S with the `deskjet' driver in Ghostscript.
Also, I think WordPerfect has a driver for it.
The results look a bit shaky however. It prints much faster than in
Windoze, but it doesn't look as good.
Hope this helps at all,
Mark Koek
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From: Eric Veldhuyzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DDS-3 DAT drive
Date: 31 May 1999 22:07:55 +0200
Chris Mauritz writes:
> 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.
[...]
Please quote UNDER the message next time.
Aren't you getting anything to work or is it just that your can't read
tapes with one drive that were written with the other drive? If that's
the case, you have been bitten bij the nice 'everyone use your own
hardware compression standard' problem. It might work if you turn
hardware compression off.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ambrose Kofi Laing)
Subject: LaserJet 1100 with Linux / Ghostscript 5.10
Date: 31 May 1999 17:37:01 -0000
Hi,
Is anyone using the HP LaserJet 1100 with Linux and Ghostscript 5.10?
The closest printer on the printer list for ghostscript is the HP
LaserJet 6L, which the 1100 replaces. Does the 1100 work just as
well?
Anyone using this successfully please let me know? I'm deciding
whether to buy a 1100.
Thanks,
Ambrose.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FDD Tape Drive--The Saga Continues
Date: 31 May 1999 22:34:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adam J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Again, thanks for the help. For all who haven't followed, I have just
>installed a colorado 250MB floppy controller tape drive on a P166 running
>redhat 5.0. I have tried to back up to it using tar, and, having gotten
>the right switches in the command line, I get this error:
>
>>tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive /dev/ftape: Input/output error
>>tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>Broken pipe
>
>I thought that it might be bvecause the tape needs formatting, but using
>mkfs yields the same error. Advice?
You don't make a file system on a streaming tape device!
Before you go further, I'd recommend that you do some serious doc-reading.
Try checking out (if you don't already have the documentation):
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/%7Eheine/ftape/
-frank
[my recollection is that others have recommended tob, afio, taper...
you might want to look into these]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: LaserJet 1100 with Linux / Ghostscript 5.10
Date: 31 May 1999 22:40:16 GMT
In article <7iuvdt$mql$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ambrose Kofi Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Is anyone using the HP LaserJet 1100 with Linux and Ghostscript 5.10?
>The closest printer on the printer list for ghostscript is the HP
>LaserJet 6L, which the 1100 replaces. Does the 1100 work just as
>well?
>
>Anyone using this successfully please let me know? I'm deciding
>whether to buy a 1100.
I can't say much about setting it up as a 6L, but the 1100 works well
set up as a 4.
-frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yaye)
Subject: Re: FDD Tape Drive--The Saga Continues
Date: 31 May 1999 23:25:44 GMT
Hello,
I don't know about using tar, or if this has already been suggested, but if you
bought the Official Redhat 5.0 or Macmillan Redhat 5.0, you should have a copy
of the BRU2000 backup program on the CD. I installed the command line and
X-windows versions and configured it to backup Redhat RPM updates to a Colorado
Jumbo 250. It works well but the drive is noisy and slow. I'm now trying to
configure BRU to use a SCSI Syjet. Good Luck.
Ian
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From: Walt Shekrota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quickcam VC
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:22:10 -0400
KevCo wrote:
>
> > > Has anyone been able to get the Quickcam VC to work?
> >
> > There is a package supposedly in the alpha stage not yet avail by the
> > same author of package for OS2.
> >
>
> Do you happen to have the URL for this person's website?
Not for a web site but heres the content of the response. Sorry I didn't
mean to be rude but had to remember to boot the OS2 side to find it the
next time I shutdown.
Sorry.
btw: remove 'nul' from either of our ids to email. Spam sucks.
-Walt
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email response to my query follows.......
Subject:
Re: Linux connectix VC?
Date:
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:55:24 +0000
From:
"Dale Whitfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Do you have a URL for the alpha software yet. You spoke about it in an
>earlier email.
Its not publicly available yet, I'm afraid. There will be announcements
on the
video4linux list and the quickcam-drivers list.
Cheers,
Dale.
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From: qtip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer Problem can't find the thing
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:34:19 GMT
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I am running RH-6.0 and have compiled kernel 2.2.7 both with and
without
modules (Printer) and know matter what I do printer tool will not find
any
printers. I have tried insmod and modprobe and I can never find anything
to do with printers under /proc/devices .
So how do I get my printer recognized ?
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From: george <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rvplayer
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:48:12 GMT
Hello
Has anyone had success with rvplayer 5 on the 2.2.5 kernel.
I am using suse6.1 and 2.2.5 kernel and while it worked on suse 5.3 and
2.0.35 kern I can't get it work on the newer kernel/dist.
I have tried open.so and the patch that is supposed to help but no good.
Any help is appreciated
George
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From: qtip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Problem can't find the thing
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:48:28 GMT
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qtip wrote:
> I am running RH-6.0 and have compiled kernel 2.2.7 both with and
> without
> modules (Printer) and know matter what I do printer tool will not find
> any
> printers. I have tried insmod and modprobe and I can never find anything
>
> to do with printers under /proc/devices .
> So how do I get my printer recognized ?
Sorry about that meandering post no backspace key!
But even better could someone please list the steps in setting up a printer
from scratch?
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Date: 31 May 99 14:56:11 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slow drive
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Peter Christy;
Generally, the figures tend to indicate you have a UDMA-66 drive in
there.
So far, AFAIK, kernel 2.2.9 is the first with UDMA-33 support. You
might have to find the instaLL disk that came with that hard drive,and
run the program that resets the drive so it can do the UDMA-33 std.
Then upgrade the kernel to 2.2.9 and see if things improve.
PC> I have SuSE Linux 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.3) installed on a Compal P-120
PC> laptop, with 24MB of ram. This laptop uses the CMD 640 chipset
PC> (yes, I know!) and a Toshiba MK4310 MAT 4.3G drive. This is a
PC> triple boot system with Win 98, OS/2 and Linux, all controlled
PC> from OS/2 boot manager.
PC> I know its not a state of the art system, but it trundles along
PC> quite happily under Windoze and OS/2. Linux however, is
PC> unbelievably slow - would you believe over 7 minutes to open Star
PC> Office? OS/2 manages it in about 30 secs!
PC> The problem seems to be drive related. Although the Toshiba claim
PC> the drive has 128K of cache, Linux reports 0K cache on boot up!
PC> Both OS/2 and Windows seem to think the cache is there, but Linux
PC> doesn't!
You may want to use hdparm to see if the cache is turned on, and turn it
on if it isn't.
PC> I have performed some benchmark tests under each system and come
PC> up with some interesting results. Although the tests aren't
PC> measuring precisely the same things, they do indicate a problem:
PC> Windows reports a transfer speed of 12.1 MB/sec cached and 1.6
PC> MB/sec uncached. OS/2 reports a bus/cache transfer speed of 3.2
PC> MB/sec, and an average transfer speed of 1.6 MB/sec.
PC> Under Linux, hdparm -tT reports cache transfers of 12 MB/sec, and
PC> a buffered disk transfer rate of 0.16 MB/sec. That is NOT a
PC> misprint - it really is
PC> 0.16 MB/sec!
Humm, that says the cache *is* on, and that speed is about right for a
120mhz chipset. I do 50 on a 400 mhz. Hummmm.... ah, dbl-check your irq
usage listings in linux, somethings sure not right.
PC> This is probably why the system seems so slow! The question is,
PC> how do I cure it? I'm a relative newcomer to Linux, but so far
PC> I've managed to get everything I need from the documentation.
PC> This one has me stumped!
PC> Anyone got any suggestions?
That was my best shot, I'm a newbie (to linux) too.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or |Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
--
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From: "birdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian
Subject: io error on my harddisk
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:28:09 +0200
hi
I got some errors. e2fsck and badblocks won't report bad sectors but there
are some seek errors.
this is a part of my syslog:
..kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2065250,
sector=1867662
..kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02, sector 1867662
..kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
..kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2065250,
sector=1867664
..kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02, sector 1867664
..kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
..kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2065250,
sector=1867666
..kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02, sector 1867666
If I format with fat32 I'll find 65k bad sectors but e2fsck won't report the
bad sectors. only a lot of these messages and it won't mark it as bad
sectors cause I got a lot of write errors if I use this drive. I tested 3
different drives on 2 PCs and on every drive there are some "bad sectors".
Is this a problem with the ide driver ???
or do you have any ideas to help me ???
thanx
pls reply also to my email
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From: Kasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux and Backpack CDRW problem
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:06:02 -0400
Hi,
I'm trying to get my external parallel port Backpack 8/4/2 CD ReWritable
to work. I have a glibc2 system with kernel 2.2.9 running. The following
commands give the following output:
insmod parport
insmod lp
rmmod lp
insmod paride
insmod bckp
insmod cdrom
insmod pg
insmod pcd
insmod pd
May 31 18:58:49 tweety kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7
[SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
May 31 18:58:49 tweety kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
May 31 18:58:49 tweety kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
May 31 19:00:03 tweety kernel: paride: version 1.04 installed
May 31 19:00:05 tweety kernel: paride: bpck registered as protocol 0
May 31 19:00:50 tweety kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97
May 31 19:00:50 tweety kernel: pg0: Autoprobe failed
May 31 19:00:50 tweety kernel: pg: No ATAPI device detected
May 31 19:01:01 tweety kernel: pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0
May 31 19:01:01 tweety kernel: pcd0: Autoprobe failed
May 31 19:01:01 tweety kernel: pcd: No CD-ROM drive found
May 31 19:01:09 tweety kernel: pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster
64, nice 0
May 31 19:01:09 tweety kernel: pda: Autoprobe failed
May 31 19:01:09 tweety kernel: pd: no valid drive found
My /etc/modules.conf:
alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off
alias net-pf-10 off
alias net-pf-17 off
alias char-major-14 off
keep
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
path[ntfs]=/lib/modules
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/default
path[pcmcia]=/lib/modules/preferred
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
I hope anyone can help!
A happy linux user since 1993.
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