Linux-Hardware Digest #401, Volume #10 Thu, 3 Jun 99 15:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems (Chris Mauritz)
Is the 3c509 really that much better than ne2000 clone? (Alex Yung)
Re: Creative/Ensoniq PCI 1371 sound card on SuSe 6.1 (Arne W. Flones)
FS:Sun Ultra 10 333Mhz LOADED $3879.00 (GbyTheSea)
CDROM drive under RedHat 6.0 'appears confused' (Walter Francis)
Re: MODELINES!!!!!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: more winhardware?!? ("Derek W.")
Re: Terabite Plus Filesystems (Bob Hoekstra)
Re: boot problems with Yamaha SCSI CD-RW (Gale L McMurray)
Re: new cheap Linux box advice wanted (Alan Jones)
Re: What's ECC? (was: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine) (Andrew
Comech)
Okidata Okipage 6e printer (Raytheon)
S3 Trio3d 2X AGP for Linux Red hat 6.0 ? ("Cl� William")
Re: SoundBlaster 16/PCI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and Backpack CDRW problem ("J Chan")
Re: What's ECC? (was: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine) (David Fox)
Unusual Mouse Question
Re: "Kernel size too large" ("Steve Doney")
Re: new cheap Linux box advice wanted (Alan Jones)
Re: Terabite Plus Filesystems ("Al in Seattle")
Re: X-Server (Marc Mutz)
ATAPI ZIP + RH 6.0 problems (Alan Nash)
Re: Memory Flush ("J�rgen Exner")
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,csu.unix.linux
From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:24:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Totally Lost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> CB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [bulk of extensive interrogation deleted]
>> I am perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that some of your
> assertions
>> may be on the money - but you really didn't offer more than some
> general
>> theoretical arguments and cautions. Well, I don't have a Linux server
> to run
>> through the paces, so I'm not much help either...
>>
>> CB
> It seems pointless to respond. I offered some seasoned caution, the
> concerns should be explored by anyone that is considering using a
> Celeron as a production server, or with other than small footprint
> applications. This guy appears both hostile, and doesn't even have
> a stake in the outcome.
> We are continually offered advise, some must personally experience the
> pain before they are convinced of negative outcomes. The Darwin awards
> exist for a reason :)
The bottom line from my limited experience with dual celerons and
substantial experience with dual PPro's and PII/III's is that:
* The likely outcome is an increase in performance.
* The degree of performance increase is application dependent.
* Given "ideal" conditions, it's possible to get a degradation
in performance if the application needs the additional L2 cache.
* Given those same "ideal" conditions, it may also be a problem
to use bona fide PII/PIII's.
I'm not sure why some folks are getting all worked up over this.
C
--
Christopher Mauritz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Is the 3c509 really that much better than ne2000 clone?
Date: 3 Jun 1999 16:30:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have 2 machines crossed connected with 3c509 and no name ne2000
clone. I used to have them connected by 2 3c509. ftp between each
other can achieve the throughput about 520kbyte/s. I only get
320kbyte/s between them now. There are very few options on the ne2000
clone in terms of setup. I can only choose irq, io addr and duplex
mode. Currently, it is running at full duplex. Would changing irq or
io addr improve performance?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne W. Flones)
Subject: Re: Creative/Ensoniq PCI 1371 sound card on SuSe 6.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 19:58:45 -0700
I just bought one of those (great value, cost $28.00 at CompUSA).
It's very, very easy to get this to work. Just recompile the
kernel with Sound enabled, select the Ensoniq 1371 as the
sound card, install the new kernel and reboot. You should
be alive and running.
If you are still having troubles, load a mixer program
(e.g., aumix -- console, or XqMixer -- X) and play with
the volume controls.
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999, Paul Rowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone had luck getting the Ensoniq PCI 1371 sound card to work under
>SuSe 6.1?
--
Arne W. Flones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: FS:Sun Ultra 10 333Mhz LOADED $3879.00
Date: 3 Jun 1999 04:32:59 GMT
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM drive under RedHat 6.0 'appears confused'
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:20:46 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been using the same AOpen (don't laugh) CDROM drive under Win98
(not much lately!) and RedHat 5.2, had no problems with it at all.
Since I installed RedHat 6.0, I had no trouble using the drive to
install, but rebooting gives me the following messages:
....
hdc: CD-ROM 32X/AKU, ATAPI, CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC31600H....
hdb: WDC ....
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x 1)
The last two hdc messages cycle about every 10 seconds, and never gets
past this part of the boot process. I either unplug the CDROM or
disable the secondary IDE controller in the BIOS, and Linux will boot.
The same drive works fine under Win98, although recently I noticed it
give me a read error on reboot once. I've tried new cables,
with/without CD inserted, door open/closed, probed around in the BIOS
(even though I hadn't changed anything recently) and pulled the ISA
soundcard I've been using forever, just in case, nothing helped.
I'm going to borrow a drive fron a friend to see if that fixes things..
Anyone else heard of this problem?
Thanks.
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by RedHat 6.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MODELINES!!!!!!!
Date: 3 Jun 1999 16:43:58 GMT
In his obvious haste, DaBoyZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: My Present Modeline Setting (I Made Myself) is:
: Modeline "1024x768" 78.75 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 173 801 +Hsync +Vsync
: But It Doens't Seem Right. The Vertical Length Is Too Long And It's Looking
: Compressed. Can Anyone Help?
Go into xvidtune.
That allows you to manually and interactively fiddle with the settings.
When it looks right, you can get it to print the modeline settings to a
terminal.
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From: "Derek W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: more winhardware?!?
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:36:48 -0000
Tim Moore wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> So I immediatly throw it back in the box (keeping the 20.00 rebate
>> information thank you) and bring it back to Wal-Mart.
>
>I never would have considered looking for hardware in Wal-Mart
>specifically because anything remotely computronic must look like magic
>or voodoo to the average Wal-Mart "customer service representative".
I wasn't exactly thrilled about going to Wally World to get a modem (I
ususally avoid the place) but that's about all I got around here (they
closed computer city. Horrible help there but excellent prices, so long as
you had no questions it was great). Circuit City is across the street but
they didn't have much of anything that made me feel beyond a doubt that it
was linux compatible.
And yeah the computer stuff did seem to come across as foreign to the ones I
dealt with. "wow a modem I gotta get one of these" "I got one but I don't
even have aol to use it with" Gee we all know AOL is the internet. No
doubt in my mind. Bow down to the AOL gods ooooommmmmm
>With all due respect of course.
Of course
>--
>direct replies substitute timothymoore for user name
>
>"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
> WS Burroughs.
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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: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 20:09:49 +0200
gus wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > ... IBM, SCO, and another that slips my mind, have made a
> > first port of Unix to the ia64(Merced)? Somewhat based on the AIX core
> > according to the half pager....
> AFAIK, Linux is ported to 64 bit architectures ...
>
> My understanding is that Linux will be on the Merced before NT ... ;-)
>
> gus
I suspect that Solaris will be there before NT as well. In any event, I douibt
that it will damage Linux much if it is on this platform later than NT. Let's
face it, there are very few applications where you *must* have a 64 bit OS.
Of far more interest is IBM's support of the Linux community and the
proclamation that they will be selling RS/6000 machines as well as high-end
PCs loaded with Linux :-)
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: Gale L McMurray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot problems with Yamaha SCSI CD-RW
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 21:25:54 +0100
DEAR MIKE:
I TOO, HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. NEITHER RH 6.0 OR SUSE 6.1 WILL BOOT WITH THE
YAMAHA 4416S. I HAVE ASKED RED HAT FOR AN EXPLANATION, AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO
BE "HARDWARE COMPLIANT". I HAVE INSTALLED BOTH WITH A PLEXWRITER WITH
SUCCESS, BUT ONCE THE YAMAHA IS PUT INTO THE SCSI CHAIN, IT FREEZES. PERHAPS
IT IS THE NEW KERNEL AS YOUR YAMAHA WORKED WITH RH 5.2.
LET ME KNOW PLEASE IF YOU FIND AN ANSWER. I WILL FORWARD ANYTHING I
DISCOVER.
GALE MCMURRAY
Mike Cico wrote:
> As the subject implies, I have a Yamaha CD-RW SCSI drive on a Dell
> Optiplex GX1.
>
> I upgraded from RH 5.2 to RH 6.0 (actually using the "upgrade" button),
> and during the first attempt it froze up. I re-booted, and this time it
>
> went fine...or so I thought.
>
> Whenever I boot now, I get a "kernel panic" during SCSI detection and my
>
> CD-RW locks up -- I can't even open the tray, and I have to power off to
>
> get it to work again.
>
> Anyone have any ideas what might be going on? I have a SCSI HD at id 0,
>
> and my CD-RW factory default is id 3 (don't know if that helps, but
> there it is anyway).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Cico
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: Re: new cheap Linux box advice wanted
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 06:50:18 GMT
On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:51:07 GMT, bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>for an extra $100 you can get a tyan tiger 100 ($199) and be capable
>of dual processing. since you said 'multiprocessing' you might want
>to spend that extra $100 for the mobo and $100 for the cpu (also a
>celeron 300a) and run 2*450.
I may have missled you when I mentioned multiprocessing. I have been
following the dual Celeron messages. I agree that if I wanted to
invest another $200 in CPU power, a dual Celeron might be better than
an equivalent cost PII/III for many applications.
>: Do you have any other MB recommendations?
>
>asus and tyan. supermicro as a 3rd, but try asus or tyan first.
I need specific model recommendations and rationale. In particular, I
was wondering about more obscure or possibly discontinued (used)
models that may not be splashed across the pages of Computer Shopper.
Bear in mind that I am looking for a good stable Linux platform with
the BX chipset, Celeron 300A overclock capability, UDMA, a good BIOS,
and hopefully cheap SCSI built in.
>: Finally, I need a new Linux distribution set. I'm partial to Slackware.
>
>I like mandrake. they do nice work. small stuff is nice, like when I
>built a kernel (as a test) I found the error messages from gcc
>(warnings with line #'s) were IN COLOR. nice touch guys! ;-)
>
>if you send me a blank cdr or two and return envelope all postage
>paid, I'll burn the latest mandrake 6.0 for you and drop it back in
>the mail. email me if you want to do this.
>
>Bryan
Thank you for informative reply. I'll let you know if I want to take
advantage of your Mandrake 6.0 offer.
Alan Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: What's ECC? (was: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 Jun 1999 13:40:11 -0500
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 19:01:08 -0700, Vladimir Florinski wrote:
>Andrew Comech wrote:
>> >Parity and ECC are different things.
>>
>> My understanding was that at least now these are synonims: either
>> there _is_ a 9th bit, or there is not. If it is there, then the
>> memory is called parity/"true parity"/ECC... (although there is nothing
>> behind this "...and correction" part). Is this wrong?
Jesus.. I should not have written this.
So there _is_ a correction...
>>
...
>The systems I was talking about run mostly complex numerical simulations and
>occasionally NFS servers (under Solaris). Not a single problem. Also, the price
>difference on 256 and 512 MB DIMMS is significant for plain/ECC memory. Of
>course, to prove whether or not ECC is useful one would have to perform tests
>with both types of memory with enough statistics. But comparing non-ECC memory
>to using Windows is not fair at all!
I did not try to play fair!
>Remember that ECC is "Error correction" while simple parity only reports an
>error by throwing a Non-maskable interrupt. As far as I know Linux doesn't have
>an interrupt handler that can do things you described. ECC memory does
>correction all in hardware and there is no need for an OS intervention. See
>http://www.whatis.com
OK, you are absolutely right; I finally read through this stuff.
Now, from http://www.goldenram.com/Support/ecc.html
Errors are corrected "on-the-fly," and corrected data is rarely placed
back in memory. If the same corrupt data is read again, the correction
process is repeated. Replacing the data in memory would require processing
overhead that could accumulate and significantly diminish system
performance.
This apparently claims that ECC memory is not much slower...
Vsego,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: Raytheon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Okidata Okipage 6e printer
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:18:03 -0700
I'm having trouble getting my Okidata Okipage 6e printer to work under
Redhat Linux 5.1. I've tried to configure it with the
Redhat printtool. It appears that the computer sends data to the printer
because the printer light will blink, and sometimes the printer drum
turns, but it never advances a page and actually prints it. In the
Redhat printtool, I have selected the 'send EOF' option, but that didn't
help.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Todd Hurt
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From: "Cl� William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3 Trio3d 2X AGP for Linux Red hat 6.0 ?
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:01:08 +0200
How can i install S3 Trio3d AGP on linux red hat 6.0 ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16/PCI
Date: 3 Jun 1999 17:26:10 GMT
David Boosalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:46:40 -0700 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
DB> I just installed Redhat 6.0,. It apears that it does not support the
DB> SoundBlaster 16/PCI
DB> Does anybody know otherwise.
DB> Any help most appreciated.
How about to kick into the silly asses of the hardware manufacturers,
like Creative "Lame" Labs ?
There sould be a black list of Anti-Linux-Supporting-Manufacturers.
The hardware *has* to be dirctly and with guarantee by the the
manufacturer supported.
It's only a few things to to, like submittigng a good binary module for the
kernel not more. A few bytes ...
mfG
Jojo
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From: "J Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and Backpack CDRW problem
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:47:48 -0700
I got similar messages for my COMPAQ CD-ROM desktop setup.
I e-mailed Caldera on their 90 day support for purchasers, and have yet to
hear from them. I wrote to them on Sunday, and today is Wednesday
already....
I'm thinking about buying Red Hat 6.0.
J Chan
Kasper wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: What's ECC? (was: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine)
Date: 03 Jun 1999 11:19:54 -0700
Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrew Comech wrote:
> >
> > >Parity and ECC are different things.
> >
> > My understanding was that at least now these are synonims: either
> > there _is_ a 9th bit, or there is not. If it is there, then the
> > memory is called parity/"true parity"/ECC... (although there is nothing
> > behind this "...and correction" part). Is this wrong?
>
> Remember that ECC is "Error correction" while simple parity only
> reports an error by throwing a Non-maskable interrupt. As far as I
> know Linux doesn't have an interrupt handler that can do things you
> described. ECC memory does correction all in hardware and there is
> no need for an OS intervention. http://www.whatis.com
Parity and ECC are different things from the standpoint of
functionality, but from a hardware standpoint they are both
implemented using one extra bit per eight bits of memory. Thus, ECC
memory is the same as parity memory. With parity a checksum bit on
the eight bits is formed, while with ECC four bytes of memory are
treated together, and the checksum is a more complex four bit quantity
that can tell you the location of any single bit error and whether
there is a two bit error. Consider also that the error might be in
one of the ECC bits itself and the intricacies of the algorithm become
apparant.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Unusual Mouse Question
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:42:04 +0100
Hi,
A slightly different mouse question for a change. I have a Microsoft Wheel
mouse that is both ps/2 and serial mode compatible (by using a ps/2 to
serial adapter that came with it). When I use it on a pc at work (pII 450,
running Redhat 5.2) through the ps/2 port the mouse updates are very fast
and smooth (mac-like rather than windows-like). But then if I use exactly
the same setup, except with the mouse in the serial port the update rate
drops drastically, back to windows sort of speed (you know the feeling
where you move the pointer and it takes a moment to catch up with your
action). The problem is that the mouse is really for my pc at home that
doesnt have a ps/2 port :(.
So my question: is there a way to increase the rate at which the mouse
cursor position is updated with a serial mouse?
None of the usual documents even mention mouse refresh rates... sniff.
Thanks,
Tim
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From: "Steve Doney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Kernel size too large"
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:57:26 +0100
I too found the same problem with size and did the bZimage etc and it works
fine. My kernel was smaller than the standard one in SUSE 6.1 (I wonder if
the standard is a compressed image anyway). Haven't bothered twaeking
anymore as it works!
Steve
Bernd Huebenett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello Craig,
>
> had the same problem. Use "make bzImage" and "make bzlilo" (if you use
> lilo) instead of the normal commands. In my case the AIC-78xx SCSI driver
> took a lot of kernel memory.
>
> Bye,
> Bernd
>
> Craig Sharpe wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm in the process of configuring my own kernel. I'm using RedHat 6 and
> > need to reconfigure the kernel to suport scsi, parallel ports, and zip
> > drivers so that I can install my zip 250 parallel drive.
> >
> > I've selected the options I want in xconfig .. and have typed "make
> > dep", then "make clean" and then "make zImage" but then after it has
> > looked at the sectors of my HD it comes up with two error messages
> > saying " Use bzImage or modules". I took the advice and ran "make
> > xconfigure" with very few y options and after the rest of the procedure
> > the error message came up again. It takes about a whole morning to do
> > the process and so I was wondering if it was possible to see the amount
> > of bytes used in the kernel by the different drivers.. and hence know
> > how much I can add without going over the kernel size limit??
> >
> > Or does anyone know were to find xconfig lists that display the drivers
> > installed and produce a working kernel?
> >
> > thanks for your time.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: Re: new cheap Linux box advice wanted
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 06:50:22 GMT
On 2 Jun 1999 11:09:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
wrote:
>>>Make sure UDMA/66 is supported. In my case, Quantum CR UDMA/66 drive was
>>>not UDMA/33 compatible, and I needed to run some EXE thing to change
>>>/66 to /33.
>> I was considering the Quantum CR. Do you have
>>to manualy run that EXE thing everytime to start or is done once to
>>change firmware, or done automaticaly during boot?
>
>You only need to run this EXE thing once (follow the link from
>http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#hdd ); I do
>not think you are actually changing a firmware, it looks more
>like a software-adjustable jumper..
>
>Best, a.
It sounds to me like the Quantum CR is UDMA/33 compatable. Although I
am surprised that the EXE thing does not ship with the drive. I
thought all UDMA/66 drives were UDMA/33 compatable. I'm also a little
surprised that UDMA support involves installing drivers or patches in
the OS. I would have thought it all would have been done with a BIOS
configuration? Which OS's can't use UDMA (DOS?)?
IF you are against the Quantum CR, is there another UDMA drive around
$150 or less that you woulld recommend?
Thanks, Alan Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:37:52 -0700
Well after all the sh** that I have taken because I dared to stand up and
just *question* using NT versus Unix on this thread, I open up June 1999
WinNT mag and on page 78, is a story about NCSA using a 192 processor
cluster of off the shelf NT dual processor boxes, using off the shelf NT
SP3.
While I understand that this is not a terabite file system being used in it,
you Unix Bigots that have said that NT doesn't scale ought to at least read
the article. The person managing the system apparently has been very happy
with it. Considers it an unqualified success.
al in seattle (yes, it's close to Redmond, so what?)
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 20:25:13 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-Server
Dr. Markus Pflaum wrote:
>
> Subject: X-Server Konfiguration
> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 23:50:18 +0200
> From: Moritz Schottenloher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> ich habe ein Highscreen Advanced III (von Vobis) der mit der
> GrafikarteATI 3D Rage LT Pro (auch ATI 3D LT Charger genannt) laeuft.
> Ich kann nicht, egal mit welchem server, das X-Window installieren. Wer
> hat aehnliche Probleme geahbt und kann mir helfen,
>
> i have a notebook, Highscreen Advanced III (company: VObis) which runs
> with the grafikcard ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, which is also named ATI 3D Rage
> LT Charger.
> I cannot install the X-server with this grafikcard. Who can help me,
>
> Moritz Schottenloher
> please send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try http://www.fachschaften.uni-bielefeld.de/physik/leute/marc/X/
please post your success (or failure) story...
Marc Mutz
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From: Alan Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATAPI ZIP + RH 6.0 problems
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:53:14 -0700
I am trying to get my ATAPI zip 100 drive to work under RH 6.0.
When I boot, I see the message:
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI Floppy ATAPI FLOPPY DRIVE
I tried:
mount /dev/hdc /zip
and it works (I am using a mke2fs-formatted disk), but it gives me the
message:
The drive reports 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as its capacity
I was able to read portions of an existing zip disk, but I got
several I/O errors.
I tried to fdisk and mke2fs, but I get:
ide_floppy: hdc I/O error dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 10
and so forth.
The sectors for which errors are reported seem to all fit the pattern:
n*16K + k*128 + 10 (where 0<=n and 0<=k<4)
I seem to be stuck. The same or similar failure happens with other disks
(which I can read/write perfectly on another zip drive) and even with
zip disks formatted for DOS.
On any of these disks, fdisk does not see ANY partition but I do see the
content of the disk and can read portions of it.
I will greatly appreciate any ideas/suggestions/etc.
========================================================================
Alan Nash--Chief Scientist, Systran Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Flush
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:53:06 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I got tired of listening to my HDD thrash, so I added 128MB to my 64. Now,
on
> "free", the swap partition is always clean, and everythings much faster
(KDE,
> Netscape, Quake3, etc). The thing is that I can watch my used memory
slowly
> creep up from 86MB to 136 and on and on, and even if I close all my apps,
the
> memory is still occupied. I guess I'm looking for a mem-flushing app. Or
am I
> doing something wrong?
Well, sort of.
You didn't read the Linux FAQ, question
6.4 Free memory as reported by free keeps shrinking.
And you didn't consult dejanews, either.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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