Linux-Hardware Digest #504, Volume #10 Wed, 16 Jun 99 14:13:47 EDT
Contents:
[HELP] Urgent : problem with two SCSI controlers..... (Michel Applaincourt)
more colors on x with sis 530 (jshaper)
Re: Performance Opinions? Xeon PII vs 2 x PIII (Chris Mauritz)
Re: Comtrol RocketPort (Chukwuweta Chukwudebe)
LS120 mega floppy and DVD-rom support (Martin)
Re: Trouble with serial port (Rich)
Re: What's this monitor? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? ("David Murray")
Re: [HELP] Urgent : problem with two SCSI controlers..... (Michael C. Vergallen)
Re: canon bjc-250 ("Charles Burnaford")
Re: Booting headless? ("Drew M. Mooney")
Re: Performance Opinions? Xeon PII vs 2 x PIII (Alexander Russell)
Re: Problem with vremap function (Wez Furlong)
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: swap partition removed data from MO (Paul Sherwin)
Redhat/Altos (Pete)
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From: Michel Applaincourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,linux
Subject: [HELP] Urgent : problem with two SCSI controlers.....
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:36:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First here is my config :
I have a pentium box, with Redhat Linux 5.0 kernel 2.0.32 (base
instillation kernel, not recompiled, no time)
So here is my problem :
Till now, I had one SCSI controler, an external scsi tower with 6 SCSI
CDROM readers. The controler is an Adaptec 2940
All worked perfectly....
As I ran out of readers, I installed one more reader in the tower, and one
more Adaptec 2940 controler with one more tower with 7 readers.
So I have now 2 controlers with each 7 readers....
as the cut of mesg at startup included at the end of this mail show, the
two controlers and the 14 readers are well recognized...
the devices in /dev are normally recognized as scd0 scd1 scd2 ....
The problem is the following :
There was only scd0 to scd7 in /dev/
I create the devices in /dev with mknod as it was told :
mknod scd8 b 11 8
so the /dev/scd8 was well created with major 11 (scsi CD) and minor 8.
then I tried the eject commande on each CD
for the first controler, everything works well : scd0 to scd6
for the second controler, when I eject scd7, the first reader ejects well,
but whet I try to eject scd8 to scd13 it is also the first reader that
eject....
So my question is :
How can I have the 2 controlers, 14 readers working well? have i to
upgrade kernel to 2.2 as some people said to me ?
Have I to give some directive at boot time (for example MAX_LUN?)?
Thanks for help
ps : please answer on my email address too....
> aic7xxx: <Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> at PCI 15
> aic7xxx: Warning - detected auto-termination. Please verify driver
> detected settings and use manual termination if necessary.
> aic7xxx: BIOS enabled, IO Port 0x6400, IO Mem 0xe0411000, IRQ 5
> aic7xxx: Single Channel, SCSI ID 7, 3/3 SCBs, QFull 8, QMask 0xf
> aic7xxx: <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> at PCI 14
> aic7xxx: Warning - detected auto-termination. Please verify driver
> detected settings and use manual termination if necessary.
> aic7xxx: BIOS enabled, IO Port 0x6000, IO Mem 0xe0410000, IRQ 5,
Revision B
> aic7xxx: Single Channel, SCSI ID 7, 16/16 SCBs, QFull 16, QMask 0x1f
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.1/3.2
> scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.1/3.2
> scsi : 2 hosts.
> scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr3 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr4 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr5 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr6 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> scsi1: Scanning channel A for devices.
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr7 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr8 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr9 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr10 at scsi1, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr11 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr12 at scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1009
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr13 at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
>
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Michel APPLAINCOURT | E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Sciences Assistant | Phone : 32 65 373498
Universite de Mons-Hainaut | Fax : 32 65 373318
[The boy that you love is the man that you fear]
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:36:42 -0300
From: jshaper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.misc
Subject: more colors on x with sis 530
i am using a linux sistem (2.2.6), with a xfree86 3.3.3.1 .
since there's normally no support for sis 530 on this version of x,
i am using the XFCom_SiS server.
everything works alright but the colors.
i can't get more than 16 bpp,and the more colorfull things on the
screen, the worse the colors get.
i believe the problem is that XFCom_SiS server.
am i right?
if i am is there any other server out there for my board?
if i am not right...
what can i do to get the whole 16 M colors?
thanks in advance
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From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Performance Opinions? Xeon PII vs 2 x PIII
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:19:57 GMT
Alex Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Friends,
> A little research reveals that cost of a dual pentium III
> system is roughly that of a single pentium III Xeon system. For
> administrative reasons, these are the only possibilities. Which should
> I prefer?
> My usage profile: I usually run a number of single-threaded
> applications over X; in general, only one of them expresses heavy load
> at a time, though, of course there is occasional overlap. Of course X
> is always running the background, along with all the other fat in RH6.
I can't see how a single Xeon (at any currently available speed or
cache configuration) would perform better given your usage profile.
C
--
Christopher Mauritz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chukwuweta Chukwudebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Comtrol RocketPort
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:43:16 -0700
Thank you,
I'll try that.
CSC
Clint Byrum wrote:
> > I installed the hardware, downloaded the drivers from
> >ftp.comtrol.com and recompiled them as per the instructions,
> >(make clean; make; make install;) Everything went smoothly.
> >The machine detects the board during the boot process.
> >The problem is that after rebooting the machine, I dont see the 8 new
> >ttyR*
> >in the /dev directory. Consequently, the attempts to load the driver
> >fail.
> >
> You need create device nodes for the ports. I'm not sure if the stock
> MAKEDEV script supports the ttyR's, but the install instructions should tell
> you how to make them(either through MAKEDEV or mknod).
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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LS120 mega floppy and DVD-rom support
Date: 16 Jun 1999 13:30:46 GMT
Hi, does anybody know of any support for these?
I'd hate to have to bin my nice LS120...though I have a parallel port 100
meg Zip drive too, and yes, does anybody know how I can get that running
too? ;-)
Jeez, I hope it's worth it in the end......
M.
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From: Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trouble with serial port
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:55:05 GMT
Andrey Zmievski wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> james daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Try turning off your COM2 under your BIOS and retry to setting up your
> > modem on COM2.
>
> My BIOS doesn't let me do that. I think I'm going to play with isapnp
> and see if I can get it working since the modem is PnP.
>
> -Andrey
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
You could try taking the back off your pc, removing the card and having a
look to see if there's a jumper to configure the card to COM2.
I'm surprised that it works slowly - I'd rather it didn't work at all than
work slowly.
--
Richard Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove both q's to get the real address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: What's this monitor?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:57:00 GMT
In article <7k8bec$l8f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I have a second-hand monitor installed on my PII350 box. The
> monitor doesn't have a manual with it now as I got it from a friend
who
> got it from another friend... The label on the monitor is "Micron".
> Win95 recognizes it as "Mag Computronic Colorview/15". What's its name
> in the XFree86 Monitor List? Thank you!
>
> Di Yu
> 6.16
go to microns website and grab the specs on the monitor, (h-refresh and
v-refresh) most hardware companies post the info. then just plug em in
XF86Config. and don't trust what windows tells you it is. :')~
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:03:41 GMT
> A sure bet is Soundblaster. Make sure you don't get one that's PNP,
they're
> a pain to set up although it can be done. But the non-pnp are a simple
part
> of the configuration of the kernel.
Actually, a PnP SoundBlaster is just fine under RedHat.. in fact is is
easier. You just put the card in and run "sndconfig" and it immediatly
comes up and says "Found Creative Labs Sound Blaster PnP" and it sets it
all up and you just click on test. That is is.. The non-PnP models work
fine too..
--DavidM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael C. Vergallen)
Crossposted-To:
be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,linux
Subject: Re: [HELP] Urgent : problem with two SCSI controlers.....
Date: 16 Jun 1999 17:01:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michel Applaincourt wrote:
>First here is my config :
>
>I have a pentium box, with Redhat Linux 5.0 kernel 2.0.32 (base
>instillation kernel, not recompiled, no time)
>
>
>So here is my problem :
>
>Till now, I had one SCSI controler, an external scsi tower with 6 SCSI
>CDROM readers. The controler is an Adaptec 2940
>All worked perfectly....
>
>As I ran out of readers, I installed one more reader in the tower, and one
>more Adaptec 2940 controler with one more tower with 7 readers.
>
>So I have now 2 controlers with each 7 readers....
>
>as the cut of mesg at startup included at the end of this mail show, the
>two controlers and the 14 readers are well recognized...
>
>the devices in /dev are normally recognized as scd0 scd1 scd2 ....
>
>The problem is the following :
>
>There was only scd0 to scd7 in /dev/
>
>I create the devices in /dev with mknod as it was told :
>
>mknod scd8 b 11 8
I would do a MAKEDEV scd* and so on and see if this fixes the problem.
Michael
--
Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike,
Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/
B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/
Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976
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From: "Charles Burnaford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: canon bjc-250
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:10:50 -0400
I believe that the 250 is designed for use with windows. This makes it hard
if not impossible to control from Linux at this time.
Charles Burnaford
J.Wien wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've Linux SuSe 6.1 and a Canon BJC-250 printer.
>My problem is, how do I get the printer to work.
>I've tried using YAST, but that don't work either.
>Please help
>
>Jan Wien
>
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From: "Drew M. Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting headless?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:07:06 -0400
Ahhhh the irony.
The UltraPenguin distribution seems to be unique to the Sparc.
While I would really like to take one of the many Ultra-II's that I admin at
work home with me to play with, I have a bad feeling my employer would be
less than pleased....
Thanks anyways...
-Drew
dpc wrote in message <2QE93.6246$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Found this on deja while looking for something else. <g>
>UltraPenguin 1.1.9 boots and installs headless just fine. It uses kernel
>2.2.2 by default.
>
>
>> I remember an early packaged version of Linux - don't recall if it was RH
>or
>> Slakware that provided an option to configure the install for a headless
>> server. Ring anyone's bell?
>
>
>
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From: Alexander Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Performance Opinions? Xeon PII vs 2 x PIII
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:00:31 -0700
Thanks to you both for your (unanimous) input.
Alex
Chris Mauritz wrote:
>
> Alex Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Friends,
>
> > A little research reveals that cost of a dual pentium III
> > system is roughly that of a single pentium III Xeon system. For
> > administrative reasons, these are the only possibilities. Which should
> > I prefer?
>
> > My usage profile: I usually run a number of single-threaded
> > applications over X; in general, only one of them expresses heavy load
> > at a time, though, of course there is occasional overlap. Of course X
> > is always running the background, along with all the other fat in RH6.
>
> I can't see how a single Xeon (at any currently available speed or
> cache configuration) would perform better given your usage profile.
>
> C
> --
> Christopher Mauritz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wez Furlong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Problem with vremap function
Date: 16 Jun 1999 14:01:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] Quoted from: Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
] Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:03:55 +0200
>Hi. (I'm under Linux SuSE 6.0 (kernel 2.0.36))
>
>I'm developping a driver for industrial PCI card. Each card have 2Ko of
>memory.
>
>The first card has an adress: 0xFF000000
>The second has an adress: 0xFF000800
>
>My problem is that vremap can't maps the second memory.
>How can I resolve this error ?
>Can I reduce the page size ?
>Or, must I use other function than vremap ???
IIRC, you should be using ioremap, rather than vremap (read
/usr/src/linux/Documentatio/IO-Mapping.txt).
I'm not sure, but I think they are the same function, however.
--
Wez Furlong Undergrad - Electronic Systems Engineering
http://www.twinklestar.demon.co.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
Date: 16 Jun 1999 17:10:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gravot allegedly wrote:
>I loaded Linux on a spare system last friday night and I am smitten!
>I'm looking ahead to my next system and was wondering what kind of
>hardware considerations I need to make - aside from avoiding anything
>prefaced with a "win"? I am especially curious about sound cards. Is
>there any one card that is more suitable than the rest? If so, what is
>the reasoning? Any favorites?
>TIA
Personally, I recommend the Turtle Beach Malibu. It is well supported,
and has a decent(1) MIDI wavetable on it.
1) a 4Mb WaveTable, sounds good...but, not as good as the RAP10 I recently
installed next to it :)
--
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself
the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sherwin)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,de.alt.comm.isdn4linux,fj.
Subject: Re: swap partition removed data from MO
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:46:11 GMT
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 04:10:20 +0800, "Andrew Ng"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a problem: When I was installing Linux, I mistakenly create a 16M
>swap partition in an MO disk. Then Windows 98 cound not read the content in
>the MO disk. I removed the swap partition but Windows 98 cound not read it.
>I am affraid all data in the MO is lost. Who can tell me how to recovered
>the data?
>
Sounds like the MO disk is trashed. Sorry...
Best regards, Paul
Paul Sherwin Consulting 22 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete)
Subject: Redhat/Altos
Date: 16 Jun 1999 17:38:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two horrorshows on my hands, a pair of SCO Altos boxen,
hardware as follows:
Model: Altos 5000
CPU: 486
Clock: unknown
RAM: 24MB
HDD: 1GB IDE
NIC: Altos/SCO God-Knows-What proprietary thing
BIOS: Phoenix v1.00.03 (copyright 1990)
OS: SCO v4.2
I don't have any other details. These are huge steel boxes,
motherboards about 18" square, with little tiny brains on 'em; but
maybe, maybe I can make some use of 'em if I can put a decent OS on.
Has anyone tried putting Linux on a 50-year old Altos? Are they too
proprietary and SCO-ish to be worth the work? I'll appreciate hearing
from anyone who's done this before.
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