Linux-Hardware Digest #517, Volume #10 Thu, 17 Jun 99 21:13:35 EDT
Contents:
scan disk for file systems (Steve Feil)
Re: CS4232 on Intellistaion config error? (Reid Rivenburgh)
modem prob ("Jase")
Mapped CDrom ("Quinn Gittings")
Re: OPL3-SAx PnP driving me crazy! (long) (Mircea)
Use Samba, Kills IP Connectivity !!!!!! ("Colin Chaplin")
modem problems ("Jase")
Boot ROMs - what hardware? (Chris Harshman)
Re: canon bjc-250 ("Donald E. Stidwell")
3c905B ("ELVIS")
UMAX Vista-S6...RH6...kernel 2.2.9.....success...anyone??? (Danie in Oregon)
Re: Can someone identify this NIC? (Mircea)
Re: Yamaha OPL3-SAx solved! (Mircea)
Re: ASUS Motherboard problem (Phil DeBecker)
Re: RAID for Linux / Unix apps (bryan)
Re: RAID for Linux / Unix apps (Mike Frisch)
Re: Riva Tnt's and x windows... (Jonathan Dugan)
HDD upgrade problem ("Shannon Jacobs")
Re: modem problems (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Reading Mac Zip Disks under Linux (Shawn D'Alimonte)
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From: Steve Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scan disk for file systems
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:23:35 +0000
I lost the hard drive label. In order to read the hard drive I put it
in a different computer. There were only two partitions on the drive
an ext2 and swap space. I assume that if I were to use fdisk and type
in the correct values for the partition table that I could recover the
ext2 file system. I was hoping that there was a program that I could
use that would scan the /dev/dhb device to find the start of a (ext2)
file system. I would then be able to know where the file systems
started and stopped.
Ps. Please excuse me if this is a re/cross post. I thought I posted it
five hours ago. I could not find it anywhere.
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Steven Feil | Gram-pa, back at the turn of the .~.
Programmer/Developer | century, why did people use an /V\
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | operating system, when they were not // \\
| allowed to see the source code? (X_X)
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From: Reid Rivenburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: CS4232 on Intellistaion config error?
Date: 17 Jun 1999 17:18:57 -0600
>> Matthias Braun writes:
> Hi,
> I have an IBM intellistation MPRO with an CS4232 onboard. I can
> play sound for a few minutes, but then I get error messages like
> SOUND: Couldn�t allocate DMS buffer or SOUND: DMA (output) timed
> out - IRQ/DRQ config error
I have the same exact problem with the same soundcard. I posted here
recently, but no responses, unfortunately.... If you ever figure out
the problem, please let me know.
Reid
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From: "Jase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem prob
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:49:57 -0400
Hi I have a digicom systems (makers of the modem blaster series) 3660 56k
internal isa 56k non winmodem it runs in on com 4 when i use it in windows
however its not detected at sturtup on linux rh6.0 when i use isapnptools
ive configured it to ttys3 irq4 using the same resources as windows isapnp
works untill i try these commands
setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 3 autoconfig
setserial /dev/ttyS3 spd_vhi
setserial /dev/ttyS3
the last line gives an output with uart unknown does this mean that even
though its not a winmodem that i cant use it with linux
thanks for any help Jase
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From: "Quinn Gittings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Mapped CDrom
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:25:16 -0400
I'm not sure if this is a hardware question or a networking but here goes.
I have the CD-ROM drive on my Linux server mapped to a drive on my Win98
client. Everytime I try to access stuff on that CD drive . I get an error
hdb media changed....then my network card spits out this '
eth0: 21140 transmit timed out, status f4660000, SIA 000050cc ffff0001
fffffff9 fff00000, resetting
and it doesn't stop printing that until I reboot
Thanks in advance
Quinn
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OPL3-SAx PnP driving me crazy! (long)
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:38:31 -0400
Thanks. I found the problem, something went astray during the original
install, so parts of my system were broken. I reinstalled everything,
and now I don't get any more weird errors. I've even got sound!
MST
"Marco Schl�n�" wrote:
> i tried this also a long time, but i got it work.
>
> here's a good sound-link-page for linux:
(..)
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From: "Colin Chaplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Use Samba, Kills IP Connectivity !!!!!!
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:58:05 +0100
I have a sucessful setup of a NT box networked to a linux box over a BNC
ethernet network
I have just upgraded the NICs to 100Mbs and put a twisted pair RJ45 lead
between them. Everything worked hunky dory (Telnet, ping etc) Set the 100mbs
card to be eth0 on the linux box (kept the isa 10mbps as eth1)
HOWEVER
Once I start browsing the shares on the linux box, all connectivity between
the two machines disappeers and both need reboot to cure.
Doing a ping reports host unreachable, or 'hardware error' if cable
unplugged
I am beat, don't have a clue, looked at all the docs. Any ideas people ? All
other config is pretty much common-or-garden from the redhat 5.2 Cd
Thanks
Colin
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From: "Jase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem problems
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:47:08 -0400
Hi I have a digicom systems (makers of the modem blaster series) 3660 56k
internal isa 56k non winmodem it runs in on com 4 when i use it in windows
however its not detected at sturtup on linux rh6.0 when i use isapnptools
ive configured it to ttys3 irq4 using the same resources as windows isapnp
works untill i try these commands
setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 3 autoconfig
setserial /dev/ttyS3 spd_vhi
setserial /dev/ttyS3
the last line gives an output with uart unknown does this mean that even
though its not a winmodem that i cant use it with linux
thanks for any help Jase
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Boot ROMs - what hardware?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 03:20:20 -0500
I've been looking for this answer for a while, and still
no joy. Hopefully someone out there can assist - I need
to get this equipment purchased! (I've been to the
Etherboot page.)
We're using a collection of ISA and PCI NE2000-compatible
generic Ethernet cards (along with a handful of SMC Ultra16
8216T's) on Linux workstations. We need to start booting
these diskless from our PII server in the corner. All the
cards have sockets that look identical, at least in terms
of pin-outs and physical dimensions.
What hardware specifically will we need to accomplish this?
Which EPROM chips? Which burner? (If you could supply the
name of a vendor, and SKU or part numbers, it would be a
tremendous help.)
Thank you very much in advance for any assistance you might
be able to render.
Yours,
Chris
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: canon bjc-250
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:54:07 GMT
"Douglas J.Martins" wrote:
>
> Donald E. Stidwell wrote:
>
> > Charles Burnaford wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> does the BJC-5000 work in Linux? you say it's a winprinter, but you bought
> one.....I'm
> thinking of getting one too
Aye, I bought one to use with my Windows boxes. The BJC-5000
*definitely* does not work with Linux unless you have a network with
Windows boxes on it (I do) and use Ghostscript for Windows and Redmon
(which I do).
The Ghostscript/RedMon trick will work with any WinPrinter but requires
a network with Windows boxes.
Don
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From: "ELVIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c905B
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:54:24 -0400
System (2.0.35) stability seems to have gone to hell after adding this
adapter. I will probably recompile to 2.0.36 and ditch the module approach
(never worked well with the old NE200).
Here's the curious part: after running 'shutdown -h now' I can ping the box
and get a reply.
So... what part of 'HALT' don't I understand?
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From: Danie in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UMAX Vista-S6...RH6...kernel 2.2.9.....success...anyone???
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:15:18 -0700
If anyone has gotten their Envisions scanner......actually an Umax
Vista-S6 scanner goin
with sane 1.01.......please let me know how....??
Thanks in advance..
Daniel
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can someone identify this NIC?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:27:42 -0400
Check this out:
ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/setup/atlantic.html
MST
Ward wrote:
(..)
> The chip on the card has the markings:
> S9430FP
> AT/Lantic 1992
> DP8390AVQB
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha OPL3-SAx solved!
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:33:09 -0400
Andreas,
You're a life savior! Thanks, I've got it working now!
Many thanks to Christian, too, since it's his page :)
MST
Andreas 'LionKing | StarFire' Tscharner wrote:
>
> Hello World,
>
> I've found a page:
> http://www.xss.co.at/laptops/asusP6300/stepbystep.html
>
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:03:40 -0400
From: Phil DeBecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS Motherboard problem
Peter Stein wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Phil DeBecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It's not that the kernel refuses to see the device, but that it sees the
> >device and doesn't understand it. There is a Unified UDMA Driver patch
> >at http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ which you can apply to
> >kernel 2.2.9 to make it take advantage of the UDMA capabilities of the
> >ALI 1543 chipset on your P5A-B. Just patch the kernel source and
> >configure your kernel with Default Multimode On and Ali 15x3 Support
> >On. It worked for me; I get about 13mb/sec in hdparm -t on a P5A-B with
> >AMD K6-2/350 and a Western Digital 6.4GB UDMA drive.
>
> No it didn't work for you. 'hdparm -t' is not a valid test as it only
> tests read operations. See what happens when you try a write operation.
> What you'll see is errors in /var/log/messages. What you'll discover is
> that the driver gets kicked into PIO mode on any write operation. I have
> verified that DMA (not UDMA) does indeed work reliably. I've contacted
> the authors about this UDMA problem, but have not received a response.
> Until the UDMA problem gets fixed you're better off running DMA.
>
I'm afraid that it did indeed work for me. I'm sorry that you're having
trouble, but please don't presume to tell me what I have and haven't
seen. I don't get any errors in my /var/log/messages file -- I checked
both that and dmesg regularly when I first installed the new kernel,
since I'm always suspicious of unofficial patches. The box has been up
for weeks at a time with no sign of trouble and no hard disk errors.
The same goes for several other users of identical machines at my
office. Perhaps there's something strange about your hardware that is
causing a problem -- I have a single hard disk alone on the primary IDE
channel, and as mentioned before it's a Western Digital UDMA drive. I
don't issue it any hdparm configuration commands, I just tell the kernel
to use multimode and UDMA by default when available. If your
configuration differs markedly from this (i.e. having a non-UDMA device
on the same channel with the UDMA drive) this could explain the
problems.
Cheers,
Phil DeBecker
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID for Linux / Unix apps
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:40:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:06:36 GMT, bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >: I have been getting alot of calls, specifically
: >: from Linux users, but also other Unix users, that
: >: say it has been difficult to find RAID for their
: >: systems.
: >
: >not difficult at all. DPT, mylex, icp-vortex - maybe others - all
: >make raid that linux can use.
: Nevermind that some would rather just have their RAID
: subsystems such that one only needs a SCSI3 channel.
: It's certainly not difficult getting a RAID subsystem
: for a Sun. Sun sells/makes such subsystems themselves.
: Also, various Sun servers also support internal RAID
: configurations.
well, actually ... I once tried to buy a BOOTABLE (ie, the system
disk) in a hardware raid setup. we were paying like $10k for an
ultra2 and wanted complete redundancy for the system - and our vendor
said there really wasn't a good raid solution that provided SYSTEM
disk mirroring. you could have multiple 'data' disks all you wanted,
but not the system itself.
on linux, I use a mylex dac960 and I have raid1 on my system and raid1
on a user pair. plus a disk for hot standby (5 disks total). so even
if my system disk crashes, chances are the 2nd will still run for a
bit, and the data will auto-mirror itself to the hot-standy drive.
AFAIK, software raid can't do that.
: Any Macintosh catalog should also have external RAID
: subsystems that could easily be attached to any
: suitable SCSI channel.
scsi-scsi raid is expensive and slower. but certainly very
host-transparent and has NO compatibility issues, if done right.
--
Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: RAID for Linux / Unix apps
Date: 17 Jun 1999 23:33:34 GMT
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:06:36 GMT, bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>not difficult at all. DPT, mylex, icp-vortex - maybe others - all
>make raid that linux can use.
Not to mention the software RAID support built into the kernel... With
the appropriate number of SCSI channels, and a decent host CPU, it should
rival the performance of some of these more pricey hardware solutions.
Mike.
--
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: Jonathan Dugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Riva Tnt's and x windows...
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:46:04 +0000
Michael Meissner wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > "George Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hi... I'm having problems configuring my nvida riva-tnt (16mb) to work with
> > > my distribution of Red Hat 5.1 and X windows...
> > > the card will work fine in text mode and in Windows 98....
> >
> > Get Xfree86 version 3.3.3.1. That will support it. Also, if you wish,
> > after getting that, go to nvidia's site and download their X server. I
> > hear it's faster.
>
> Though I found the nvidia server to be buggy when using emacs (it didn't
> display the text cursor properly in some places). YMMV. I tried to report the
> bug to nvidia and got an email bounce.
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
> PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
HEY!! I am running the new nvidia server and I have the same problem. anyone
found a solution??
What did you do?
Jon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Shannon Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.laptops,fj.comp.dev.disk,japan.comp.toshiba
Subject: HDD upgrade problem
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:51:55 +0900
First, an apology for English in the two Japanese newsgroups: Sumimasen ga,
nihongo de yoku kakemasen kara, eigo de kakimasu. Nihongo no henji mo ii
desu. Soshite, kikai to sofuto ha zenbu nihon no mono desu yo.
Sorry for the shotgun approach, but I've gotten more than a bit desperate
after long and futile searching.
Problem is with a new 2 gig HDD for an older laptop. My selection was quite
limited--in fact, in the stores I searched, I was only able to find one that
was physically the right size, but it didn't come with any software. It's a
Toshiba MK-2101 MAN model. It seems to work, but most of the capacity is not
recognized. I think a disk partition program like EZ Drive would fix it, but
things get complicated there.
Some HDD makers have versions of EZ Drive that are downloadable for their
drives, but if Toshiba has such a arrangement, I've failed to find it
anywhere in the English and Japanese Toshiba sites. At this point in my
frustration I would gladly buy it from EZ Drive's home web site--the price
is very reasonable--but I can't. No credit card. (I'll search the local
stores next.) Also, though most people say good things about it--including
regarding its compatibility with Linux--I wasn't able to find confirmation
regarding this particular Toshiba drive.
The machine is actually an AST, but they've farmed out the support for their
older machines to another company, and so far no help there. Toshiba
actually tries to avoid doing any direct support for their HDDs, since they
sell all of them to OEMs and not to the public.
I'm about out of ideas, and I surely ran out of patience a long time ago.
Does someone out there have a useful idea? Of course, the best thing would
be a URL for the secret Toshiba page that provides that support... But maybe
they don't have that kind of license, and just dump the problem back on
their OEM customers? This Linux project has been purrrty frustrating.
I'd appreciate a copy of your reply via email--it's easy to miss replies
when you're using a shotgun, and again I apologize for that desperation...
--
.sig
Everyone's crazy save thee and I, and sometimes I wonder about thee. But I
don't wonder about the spamnuts--they are crazy beyond all question.
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem problems
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 18:05:14 -0700
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Jase wrote:
>Hi I have a digicom systems (makers of the modem blaster series) 3660 56k
>internal isa 56k non winmodem it runs in on com 4 when i use it in windows
>however its not detected at sturtup on linux rh6.0 when i use isapnptools
>ive configured it to ttys3 irq4 using the same resources as windows isapnp
>works untill i try these commands
>setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 3 autoconfig
>setserial /dev/ttyS3 spd_vhi
>setserial /dev/ttyS3
>the last line gives an output with uart unknown does this mean that even
>though its not a winmodem that i cant use it with linux
>thanks for any help Jase
I recently installed an internal modem which registers as COM3 under
Windows (3.11 in this case, on an old hard drive), but ttyS1 under Linux. Try
the other ttyS ports.
Marcus Lauer
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From: Shawn D'Alimonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: Reading Mac Zip Disks under Linux
Date: 18 Jun 1999 00:07:34 GMT
In comp.os.linux.m68k Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Configure your kernel for foreign partition format support (Mac
: partitions,
: of course) and either use hfsutils or the kernel HFS filesystem support.
Actually you don't need forgien partition support for hfsutils. I use
it under 2.0.36 to read Mac Syquest disks on the Amiga.
--
Shawn D'Alimonte - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Faster processors are nice, but they are not truly revolutionary. And
neither are colors." - Jim Collas, Amiga Inc.
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