Linux-Hardware Digest #446, Volume #10 Wed, 9 Jun 99 03:13:44 EDT
Contents:
Medea's VideoRaid IDE (Nicholas Yue)
Re: Does anybody know a ftp program support resume? (Philip Hirschhorn)
eth1 probes but... ("RONIN")
Re: Question installing SCSI drivers for initio (hac)
Re: CPU speed/Bogomips (Kevin Ormbrek)
Re: Which color printer ? (Grant Taylor)
Celeron or PII? (Heather Propes)
Re: my mouse won't work....getting out of xwindows... (Jay Daniels)
strange CD-ROM problem (Karlheinz Nolte)
Serial port connection (Heather Propes)
Re: SB Live! and smp ("William Taylor")
Matrox Millenium G200 (Ibrahim Haddad)
Re: Which color printer ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Creative Vibra Sound Card Configuration ("Captain Blood")
Re: Celeron or PII? ("JS")
SiS6326 video card problems (mrstrong)
Re: redhat and my mouse (Joel Sloan)
Re: 28 SCSI drives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Aramda 7500 (forster)
Re: CPU speed/Bogomips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: multiple cdroms ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Matrox Millenium G200 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Nicholas Yue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Medea's VideoRaid IDE
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:59:48 +0800
Hi,
Is anyone working on a driver for Medea's VideoRaid (RAID 0, striping)
disk systems ?
http://www.medeacorp.com
Cheers
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Rendered Once, Showcased Everywhere
(C)
http://www.cwr.uwa.edu.au/~yue | +61 8 9380-1897 (Office)
The Centre for Water Research | +61 8 9380-1015 (Fax)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hirschhorn)
Subject: Re: Does anybody know a ftp program support resume?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 04:49:07 GMT
Y Chen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I don't like to download a program for about an
: hour. Even frustrating if it stop and I can not
: resume transfering.
: Go zilla is better, I just wondering if I can get
: a program like that in linux platform.
The wget program is wonderful; it will do that and a lot more.
Available at many archive sites (it's GNU), and it's a standard
package in RedHat 5.2.
Phil
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From: "RONIN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eth1 probes but...
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:54:04 -0700
I have two CNet PowerNIC 600E plus cards in my box. Using redhat 5.2 I
edited my etc/conf.modules to the following:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x240,0x340
My cards are in the specified io's, verified with the provided dos setup
program. The error I get is for the one card (eth1 in 0x240) with the
following ID: 08 00 08 00 08 00. The message I get when Linux probes this
card is "invalid signiture 08 00" Anyone have any ideas besides the fact
that its a cheapo card? Thanks.
--
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Question installing SCSI drivers for initio
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:55:18 GMT
Scott Fisher wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am rather new to linux (about a month now). I have 5.2 up and
> running (sidenote: linux rocks!)
> I want to get access to some of the devices on my SCSI card
> (scanner, CD-R). I have an initio -I/O Highway INI-9100A SCSI card.
> The driver for this card is not included in the standard install, hoever
> initio provides drivers for linux.
> First question. Has anyone used these drivers? If so which
> version they have two or three.
I'll call your scanner and CD-R, and raise you two tapes, a CD-ROM, and
a hard disk...
I have an INI-9520UW, which is the dual channel + ethernet version.
Excerpt from dmesg:
i91u: PCI Base=0xD400, IRQ=10, BIOS=0x00000, SCSI ID=7
i91u: Reset SCSI Bus ...
i91u: PCI Base=0xD000, IRQ=10, BIOS=0x00000, SCSI ID=7
i91u: Reset SCSI Bus ...
scsi0 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03b
scsi1 : Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision: 1.03b
> Second question. I already have SCSI support in the kernel.
> Can I just compile the drivers and load them as a module? or do I need
> to actually rebuild the kernel. (I haven't rebuilt a kernel yet so I'm
> kinda leary). I may not have the full scope of how the SCSI drivers
> work.
>
I believe they should work as modules, though I have them compiled into
the kernel.
The 2.2.x kernels include Initio in the source tree. RedHat 6.0 works
out of the box. But the drive I installed RH 6.0 on died two weeks
later, so I'm back to my much bastardized, started as Slackware 5 years
ago, 2.0.36 partition.
> Any help on these two questions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
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From: Kevin Ormbrek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU speed/Bogomips
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:21:55 -0400
I got curious about that rating too. Look it up on the internet for
details.
Linus named that value bogomips with a funny name on purpose. It should
be called bogusmips. It is NOT a measure of performance. I think it
depends on the delay loops or something. Don't worry. The IDT chip
should perform OK, but I bet it has a severely lacking FPU like my old
Cyrix P200 had. I finally got sick of it and bought a 233MMX cuz they
were so cheap. Even overclocked to 262 it isn't that much faster except
for FPU intensive stuff (MP3s, rendering, etc.).
Benchmark it if you want real figures.
Jim Ford wrote:
>
> I recently replaced my old non-MMX MB, fitted with a 6x86 P150+, with a
> later MMX board with a 200 meg IDT Winchip C6, expecting a small but useful
> speed increase.
>
> The 6x86 P150+ gave me 124 Bogomips but the 200meg Winchip only gives 80 -
> 2/3rds the speed of the 6x86 and only about three times what my 486DX2-66
> runs at!
>
> Someone please tell me that I haven't wasted my time!
>
> Regards: Jim Ford
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which color printer ?
Date: 08 Jun 1999 17:47:08 -0400
Bob Wroblewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am on the market for a color printer. Which is good color printer
> that will work in linux ?
The Printing HOWTO's compatibility listing of color inkjets lives at
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?predef=CJ
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Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Heather Propes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Celeron or PII?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:04:34 -0700
Hi,
I am trying to figure out if I should buy a Pentium II or a Celeron. I
have heard that a Celeron 400 is only 10% slower than a PII 400. Does
anybody have an opinion?
Anders Buch
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From: Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: my mouse won't work....getting out of xwindows...
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:07:38 -0400
Larry Clark wrote:
>
> help...my mouse doesn't work...justr a generic mouse...and I start
> xwindows...and I can't seem to get the start button to open up...yes this is
> my first crack at red hat linux..thanks larry ,
> PS how do I close down xwoindows without the mouse...
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karlheinz Nolte)
Subject: strange CD-ROM problem
Date: 8 Jun 1999 21:21:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
two weeks ago, I installed Linux (Debian 2.1) on my new PC from CDROM and
all works fine.
But now I have problems installing additional packages from CDROM. I get
almost the following error messages:
---8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<--
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x34
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51
hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x34
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 334070
---8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<--
I have tried also the CD-ROM device from the old PC and to use it as slave
on the first IDE controller, but always the same problem. Not even a
complete new installation was successfull.
Does anybody know what causes this problem?
Any hints are very welcome.
TIA,
Karlheinz.
--
New systems generate new problems.
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From: Heather Propes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial port connection
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 00:14:21 -0700
Hi,
I have two Linux PC's and would like to make a VSLAN (very small local
area network). I don't need anything fast, the main application would
be that two people could check e-mail at the same time, using the same
modem connection (plus the fun of experimenting!).
In the PPP-HOWTO it says that two PC's can be connected serial port to
serial port by using a null-modem, which should be a rather trivial type
of wire. Does anybody have any experience with this? For example, I
wonder what the restrictions on the length of the cable would be. Any
comments will be greatly appreciated!
Anders Buch
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From: "William Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! and smp
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:47:34 GMT
Creative had some serious problems with the Live! and NT SMP boxes as well.
Aureal also has problems on NT SMP boxes. My guess is that the game card
vendors have very little experience with high-end boxes. You see very few
"retail" SMP workstations selling with anything more than 16bit
SB16-compatible sound or AWE64's.
mike dombrowski wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:20:00 GMT, Chris K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hi, Linux newbie here..
>>
>>when I ./install_sblive I get a "kernel must be compiled without smp"
>>error.... I kinda like using both cpu's. Does anyone know of a
>>workaround?
>
>Get Creative to release the source for the drivers. The drivers are
>binaries and compiled for uniprocessor
>
>
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>______________________
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>>HomePro Computer Consulting
>>www.homeprocc.com
>>
>>
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From: Ibrahim Haddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox Millenium G200
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:24:33 -0400
Hi all,
I got a new system with a Matrox Millenium G200 16 MB video
card. I have problems configuring it with the X Windows
(red hat). It tells me that it can not figure out its
memory size althougt i type in myself as 16 MB.
Anyone got any idea on how to make X works with it?
Please email me.
Thank you.
-- Ibrahim Haddad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which color printer ?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:17:40 GMT
I have an HP 2000C that I really love. I haven't tried to print with it
from linux, but according to the HOWTO, its 100% supported.
Greg
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Wroblewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I am on the market for a color
> printer.
> Which is good color printer that will
> work in linux ?
> thanks
> bob
>
>
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From: "Captain Blood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Creative Vibra Sound Card Configuration
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 05:20:19 GMT
The creative vibra 16 ISA PNP is configured as an SB 16. You'll have to get
the ISAPNP tools, though...
Pian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7jjiri$688$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi all....
>
> anybody here knows how to configure creative vibra sound card to work
under
> mandrake 6.0 ?...when i ran sndconfig it detect my card as ES1371 but the
> following message appear :
>
> The following error occurred playing the sample
> sox : Known effect : avg band chorus copy cut deepmh echo echos flanger
> highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample reverb reverse
split
> stat vibro
> sox : effect '/dev/dsp' is not known
>
> anybody here using the same sound card ?...kindly advise
> any help will be much appreciated...thanks in advance
>
>
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From: "JS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 06:14:50 GMT
Level II Cache on Celeron = 128k
Level II Cache on PII =512K
The chip sets are different too.
Buy a Pentium III if you can.
Skip out on Celeron for now unless you do not raw cpu speed.
You can research what cpu cache is on the web somewhere. Too technical to
get into other to state that is is where common cpu instructions can be
saved and fetched much faster than when placed in SRAM.
So go for the cache :)
Heather Propes wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to figure out if I should buy a Pentium II or a Celeron. I
>have heard that a Celeron 400 is only 10% slower than a PII 400. Does
>anybody have an opinion?
>
>Anders Buch
>
>
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From: mrstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS6326 video card problems
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:22:25 +1000
gday
I have a SiS6326 video card, and have recently installed RH6.0. I have
everything working so far, except that (i think) there is a problem with
my video card. In x-windows, when you type text, some of the characters
do not appear until you refresh the screen. Also, when you move windows
they leave streaks across the screen.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem??
thanks
Peter Strong
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From: Joel Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: redhat and my mouse
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 05:45:19 GMT
Larry Clark wrote:
> can't get my mouse to work....dud.,......usiing redhat 5.1 and a generic 3
> button. then tried a MS 2 button and then a logitech 2
> buttons...nothing.....help
After installing the mouse, did you run "mouseconfig" as root?
I would also suggest upgrading to Red Hat 6 - 5.1 will be hard to get support
for...
jjs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: 28 SCSI drives
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:38:30 GMT
My server is up and running! It has 28 CD-ROM drives recognized and
available. It only created seven entried of SCD in /dev/ but it was
easy to create the rest. I think that whoever was saying that the
kernel only supported 16 devices was a wee bit confused. I've got a
website with some info on the server set-up and it's progress at
http://www.cu-portland.edu/is2/tower/
Check it out!
Greg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > <SNIP>
> > > Ummm, the point of the original posting was that Linux kernel will
not
> > support
> > > more than 16 separate scsi devices. If the kernel doesn't support
a
> > higher
> > > number, creating the extra device entries with mknow just won't
work.
> > The
> > > original poster might want to look into the devfs patch, which
might
> > provide
> > > relief.
> >
> > Can somebody confirm or deny this? Does the kernel really only
support
> > 16 SCSI devices? I can see where this could be that somebody didn't
> > understand, since you can have a MAX of 16 devices per Wide SCSI
> > channel, but why wouldn't it support more devices if there were
multiple
> > SCSI channels?
>
> I'm interested in this too. I have four SCSI devices on two channels.
> My motherboard (Adeptec 78xx) supports 30 devices on the motherboard.
>
> Not that I'm planning on adding (22) 18Gig drives tomorrow, mind
you...
> <g>
>
> Dan
> --
> UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
> Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
>
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From: forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aramda 7500
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 08:24:29 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello
RedHat 6.0 works fine.
The ATI 3d RAGE PRO 3D AGP does not synchronize
verry well. The picture begins in the middle of the screen.
Has anyone got this up and working? Perhaps a xf86config sample?.
Thanks a lot
urs . forster a t lw . admin . ch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CPU speed/Bogomips
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:15:08 GMT
First things first, RTFM. :) There is a bogo-mips howto. The bogo in
that name means bogus, as in not real. It's not a real performance
indicator. If you read the howto, you'll find a lot more informatio on
bogo-mips; it's not really that long. As for whether or not you've
wasted your money, look at how the system seems to perform, not what
some numbers say.
Greg
In article <7jk739$ipr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jim Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently replaced my old non-MMX MB, fitted with a 6x86 P150+, with
a
> later MMX board with a 200 meg IDT Winchip C6, expecting a small but
useful
> speed increase.
>
> The 6x86 P150+ gave me 124 Bogomips but the 200meg Winchip only gives
80 -
> 2/3rds the speed of the 6x86 and only about three times what my
486DX2-66
> runs at!
>
> Someone please tell me that I haven't wasted my time!
>
> Regards: Jim Ford
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: multiple cdroms
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:29:24 GMT
In article <7jk9eh$3t4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> can some one please tell me how to get all my
> cdroms working under linux? i have two atapi
> cdroms (one is a cdrw) and one scsi. when
> installing redhat 6.0 the cdrw (i guess because
> it's the master on the ide) was set up but i
> havent been able to figure out how to get the
> other two up. they all have worked seperatly under
> linux redhat 5.1 and 5.2 but this is the first
> time i tried to put all three on the same machine.
What do you mean that they're not set up? You should be able to access
the atapi drives by /dev/hd(a,b,c,d) which ever they are. The scsi CD
is probably /dev/scd0 or /dev/scd1 or /dev/sr0 or 1. I hope that helps.
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium G200
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:26:01 GMT
What configuration program are you using to set up Xwindows?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ibrahim Haddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I got a new system with a Matrox Millenium G200 16 MB video
> card. I have problems configuring it with the X Windows
> (red hat). It tells me that it can not figure out its
> memory size althougt i type in myself as 16 MB.
> Anyone got any idea on how to make X works with it?
> Please email me.
> Thank you.
>
> -- Ibrahim Haddad
>
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