Linux-Hardware Digest #383, Volume #10 Tue, 1 Jun 99 12:13:29 EDT
Contents:
FS: 3 Digital X-terminals ; $75 each ("Kent Rankin")
Re: Slow drive ("Andr� Malafaya Baptista")
FS: 5 Sun Type-3 keyboards ; $15 each ("Kent Rankin")
parallel port on PS/2? (Georg Schwarz)
FS: 4 Sun 19" Monitors ; $40 each ("Kent Rankin")
FS: 2 NeXT NeXTStations w/ 17" Megapixel Monitors ; $125 each ("Kent Rankin")
FS: 2 SPARCStation SLC's ; $50 each ("Kent Rankin")
FS: Digital Terminal Servers ("Kent Rankin")
Re: Terabite Plus Filesystems (Bob Hoekstra)
Warning against Announce Communications web hosting (agner)
Linux hwclock does not work on an IBM PS/2 PC? (Georg Schwarz)
Help on setting up Genius 2500III PCI Ethernet Adapter (" Thay Sothun")
Teac ATAPI PD drive (David G�mbel)
DLT 7000 with Linux? (Reiner Schischke)
RH6.0 XWindows problem ("JAX")
Re: You can earn $50,000 40686 ("Kent Dahl")
Re: STB Velocity 4400 not supported by redhat 6.0 ? dual monitor , dual cpu (Barry
Keeney)
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS: 3 Digital X-terminals ; $75 each
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:54:50 GMT
The units are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449.
They are as follows:
(2) Digital VXT2000 $75 each
4MB RAM
(1) Digital VT1300 $75 each
4MB RAM
BTW, the VT1300 is essentially a VAXStation 3100(M38, perhaps... I
forget which<grin>) without SCSI.
They make nice little X-terminals(that will run on either UNIX or VMS),
and all software is available for them.
Do send any questions that you might have.
-Kent Rankin
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From: "Andr� Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slow drive
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:56:54 +0100
The drive reporting 0k of cache is normal as this is not standardized and
several disk manufacturers don't implement this.
Have you compiled you own kernel? With the CMD640 buggy chipset support
enabled?
Peter Christy wrote in message <7j03aa$2b8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi, Gene,
> Thanks for your response. This is just a quick
>acknowldgement, I'm going to try and get some de-bugging done later today!
>
>I too am suspiscious of the irqs, as midi files are constantly hiccupping
>under Linux, though they play fine under windoze and os/2. I thought that
>maybe the poor little 120 processor wasn't man enough for the job, but most
>people reckon Linux flies even on a 386. My desktop AMD 350 really flies!
>However, I can't detect any conflicts. The irq list looks clean enough. I'm
>going to double check it VERY carefully. (Is there a better way than cat
>/proc/interrupts ?)
>
>I agree that hdparm indicates the cache is on, but in that case why does
the
>boot message report 0K cache? I'm very puzzled. The only disk that came
with
>the drive was a disk manager for old bioses. I should add that the drive is
>a replacement. The original Maxtor 1G died about a year ago, and I fitted
>the Tosh as a replacement. The drive MAY be UDMA66, though I doubt it (its
a
>2.5" laptop drive, remember) more likely its UDMA33. I'm not sure the CMD
>640 chipset supports even that, though I could be wrong. In any case, even
>if its running PIO, it should manage better than 0.16 MB/sec!
>
>Anyway, thanks for your response. Its given me a few more things to think
>about, and confirmed some suspicions I held already. Keep those suggestions
>coming :-)
>
>Pete
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>Gene Heskett wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Generally, the figures tend to indicate you have a UDMA-66 drive in
>>there.............
>
>
>
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.sys.sun.wanted,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS: 5 Sun Type-3 keyboards ; $15 each
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:02:40 GMT
The units are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449.
-Kent Rankin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: parallel port on PS/2?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 11:16:07 GMT
I'm wondering if anybody has managed to make Linux detect the parallel
port on an IBM PS/2 machine. I'm trying in vain on both a model 55 SX and
a model 70 with Linux 2.0.35 and 2.2.9, respectively.
Does anybody happen to know the correct IO address?
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.wanted,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS: 4 Sun 19" Monitors ; $40 each
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:01:48 GMT
The following units are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449:
(2) 19" ECL Monitors(365-1016) $40 each
<9-pin connector>-based monitor for monochrome
Sun-3's
(2) 19" 5-BNC Monitors(365-1000) $40 each
Hitachi HM-4119 monitor
Seperate-sync monitor for color Sun-3's
Any, just thought that someone might have a Sun-3 sitting around and
need one.
-Kent Rankin
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.next.marketplace,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS: 2 NeXT NeXTStations w/ 17" Megapixel Monitors ; $125 each
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:29:25 GMT
Subject says it all. The units are located in Knoxville, TN,
37922-3449.
-Kent Rankin
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: FS: 2 SPARCStation SLC's ; $50 each
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:34:04 GMT
The units are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449, and contain 8MB RAM,
each.
To prevent the confusion that often occurs with these, they are not the
SPARCStation "SPC"s, but the "SLC"s. The main difference is that these
include a built-in 17" monitor.
-Kent Rankin
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.dec,comp.terminals,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS: Digital Terminal Servers
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:56:35 GMT
The following are available in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449:
(4) DECServer 200/DL $40 each
8 Data Lines, each
(2) DECServer 500 $200 each
64 Data Lines, each
Do send any questions that you might have.
-Kent Rankin
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From: Bob Hoekstra <[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: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:53:13 +0200
OK, "Al in Seattle" (isn't that near Redmond?), as you quote mainly from my
posting, I think I'd better answer at least some of the comments:
Al in Seattle wrote:
> I don't see where money is an issue in his original mail.
Read it again.
> Other than the fact that you folks all use Unix based systems that are
> recommending Unix based system, what technical reason are you siting for not
> using an NT based system?
I use many systems, from mainframes to PCs, as do several other regular
readers/contributors. As a professional contractor (I alternate between APL
programming on any platform and Unix system administration) I will work on the
platform of my client's choice and keep quiet about it unless I'm asked. While I
admit that I have a preference for Unix systems, that preference is borne out of
experience, not ignorance.
> 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.
I have a dual boot PC, Linux and NT 4 server. I will admit that I do things to
this machine that I would never do to a production machine, but I have never had
problems from Linux. NT has provided regular cause for concern, including 2
total reinstallations, many, many blue screens of death, lost and corrupted
files from NTFS and FAT file systems, and the total inability to keep running
for more than a week without a reboot.
OSses which force users to reboot when they make small changes (e.g. changing
screen resolution) have no place as servers of any sort. Servers are meant to
serve, ideally 24 hours/day, 365.25 days/year.There is no place for instability.
NT is improving, but it is not there yet. At the very least it must protect its
kernel at all times against all eventualities. Any software crash or hiccup must
never, ever bring the entire machine down.
As for the "large directories": all OSses dislike very large (i.e. many files)
directories (excluding those mainframe OSses where the concept of a directory
doesn't exist in the same sense) but NT reacts worse to this than most. Try the
suggestion I made. This is made worse by the fact that MS OSses encourage the
use of GUI tools, in this case Windows Explorer. WE will re-evaluate the
contents of the directory at the drop of a hat, and with many files in a
directory this can take a long time. Why should a server run a GUI front-end
anyway?
> "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.
> Compaq and others have totally capable boxes if you want to spend the same
> kind of money that the Unix crowd delivers.
The companies you mention have some very nice boxes. They also come at very nice
prices. I would rather have a small box from Sun on my desk than a more
expensive one from "Compaq and others", as the cost is less and the depreciation
much less. As an example, I have a Sun SPARCstation 2 at home, which hasn't been
powered down in the last 5 years except when I moved house recently. This
machine does important work in my network reliably. It dates from around the
same time as the 80386 chip. How many '386 (or early '486) PCs are still going?
The SS2 was expensive compared to PCs of its day, but the extra expense was a
sound investment. I am still amazed when opening a modern, high priced PC at
just how badly they are put together. Loose cables dangle everywhere across a
badly fitting motherboard without a thought given to air circulation around
sometimes quite expensive components. On the SS2 the few cables are routed
neatly around the edge of the board and components (even later add-ins) are of a
consistently high quality. Modern Unix machines are even better. They are built
to last.
Getting back to the original question: by anybody's standards, 2TB is a lot of
data. The poster did not say what it was or what it cost, but that amount of
data presumably has a price attached to it. Using cheap hardware and unreliable
software to maintain it does not make sense.
The contents of this message express only the sender's opinion.
This message does not necessarily reflect the policy or views of
my employer, Merck & Co., Inc. All responsibility for the statements
made in this Usenet posting resides solely and completely with the
sender.
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From: agner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems,alt.sex.spanking
Subject: Warning against Announce Communications web hosting
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:24:52 +0200
Since Allen Hoffman of Announce Communications has announced his web
hosting business here I feel it is appropriate to warn you about my bad
experiences with this business.
The business is cheap, but service is extremely poor. Severe errors are
only fixed after many complaints, and less severe errors are never fixed
at all. Most E-mails are never answered. But worst of all: if you are
dissatisfied and want to move to another service provider, you may not
be able to transfer your domain name.
My story is:
I have bought a domain web site at Announce Communications. In april my
site went down because mr Hoffman failed to pay the Internic bill. All
my complaints remained unanswered. After a month I decided that I had to
move my domain to another ISP. Only after he learned that I was moving
the domain did I hear from mr Hoffman. Do you think it was an apology?
Or an offer to refund what I had paid for a faulty service? No - you
can't guess it. It was a demand that I pay him 70$ for releasing my
domain! My question is now: is it possible to move the domain without
his permission? The internic record has my name as registrant, and his
name as administrative contact.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Linux hwclock does not work on an IBM PS/2 PC?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 11:23:55 GMT
I'm running Linux on an IBM PS/2 model 55 SX and model 70. On both
machines time is set by xntpd. Additionally, I use hwclock to adjust the
hardware clock periodically (the idea is that it has the correct time when
I boot and the network is not yet accessible). The clock is
interpreted as running in UT.
Now when I boot either machine I get an error code that the date and time
setting is incorrect. I have to use the IBM config disk to set date and
time to make the PC boot again.
It looks like hwclock is not compatible with PS/2 hardware clocks. Anybody
with experience on that topic who would like to comment? Could I fix the
problem somehow?
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: " Thay Sothun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on setting up Genius 2500III PCI Ethernet Adapter
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:58:32 +0700
Hi,
Does anybody knows how do I installed network card called Genius LAN
GE2500III PCI Ethernet Adapter. I could not installed it during the
installation process since Linux listed me not the one I have.
Any idea would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Sothun
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David G�mbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Teac ATAPI PD drive
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 16:23:34 +0200
Hello!
-how do I make a Teac PD-Drive work under Linux? the Kernel Configuration Help
says I shold compile SCSI emulation support, which I did, but when trying to
mount it, the "kernel does not recognize /dev/sda as a block device"...
the related HOWTO only deals with a similar Panasonic drive, which is SCSI.
does anybody have any experience in that?
Thank you.
David G�mbel
(eMail-Adress above is valid, so if you choose to reply by mail, please use
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Reiner Schischke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DLT 7000 with Linux?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 15:22:06 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Quantum DLT 7000 tape drive. Is it possible to run this drive
as a Linux device and do I need a Linux driver for this drive?
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From: "JAX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.0 XWindows problem
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:53:04 -0400
I have recently upgraded to RH6.0 from RH5.2. I have a Trident 3Dimage 975
AGP video card and an Acer acerview 54e monitor. With RH5.2 my video and
monitor was not listed in Xconfigurator but was able to get Xwindows to run
properly. Now with RH6 my video and monitor is listed in the Xconfigurator
but i am not able to get xwindows to run. It starts out normaly but right
when the Gnome foot comes up soon after vertical lines appear and my
machines locks up. I have tried every possible configuration that I know of
to get it running right but to no avail....... the same thing. Vertical
lines and lock up! I would rather not go back to RH5.2 just to have
Xwindows. But if I have to I will.
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated in advance.
JAX
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From: "Kent Dahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: You can earn $50,000 40686
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:09:40 +0200
Jochem Huhmann skrev i meldingen <7j0s5m$hi8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>(I don't recommend mail bombing, it does more harm to others than to
>it's target)
I wasn't suggesting bombing as such (repeated large e-mails), but a single
one from me, a single one from you... makes one big whale on their account,
and doesn't block the line I'm on too much.
Students in Norway protested against... uh, what was it again? Can't
remember... Anyway, we didn't "bomb" the government representatives, but
someone make a script that would send a generic letter, with the name you
wrote, to a dousin representatives. Small thing, but a lot of students did
it...
I do not call this bombing, but the communications company just dropped the
whole bunch of e-mails. Sort of the postal service burning postcards if the
sack gets too heavy. *grrr*
Democracy my butt-cheeks!
--
// =========================================================
/** @author Kent Dahl - stud.techn.; ind.�k. data, 1. �r
* @url http://www.bigfoot.com/~MenThal/
* { Suicide in the cyberpunk era;
* run a Microsoft product
* on your cyberspace deck. } */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Keeney)
Subject: Re: STB Velocity 4400 not supported by redhat 6.0 ? dual monitor , dual cpu
Date: 1 Jun 1999 14:24:44 GMT
Gunther Huygens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Can somebody confirm this: STB Velocity 4400 not supported by redhat 6.0
works on my linux system, I just built a K6-2 400 system (may 31) and
installed 6.0 just as test. ( this is may game system :^) and to my
suprise it works, I didn't expect to get the video card working under
X but it does.
--
Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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