Linux-Hardware Digest #522, Volume #10 Fri, 18 Jun 99 13:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device?
("Moors, ing. E.W.J.")
Re: Boot ROMs - what hardware? ("Damon J. Rygiewicz")
Re: Teles S0 Box ("Spectral Guardian")
TNT2 or 3dfx Voodoo3?... ("J. Blair")
Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device? (Luke &
Niki Vogel)
Cheap Pentium Linux Boxes (DeepSpace Technologies)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache (Nils Remmers)
Re: $mall, cheap firewall router ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SMP on RH6.0 Installation Help (newbie) (Tim Moore)
Re: URGENT!!! Modem problem (Peter F. Curran)
DTC3270VL-SCSI-Ctrl. supported?? (Holger Jannsen)
Random SCSI tape problems - please help ("Frank Bures")
repost: can 2 linux machines talk to a dual port scsi raid system ?? (dan)
Re: Lucent win modem (Johan Kullstam)
help, drivers ("Ehud")
Help! KDE dumps core after upgrade (volt)
Re: kdat with Ditto streamer (Robb Aley Allan)
SV: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache ("AN")
Re: SCSI CD-Roms - trouble (Randy Olinger)
Compaq "winBIOS" [was "Booting Headless"] ("Drew M. Mooney")
Re: Rockwell V.90 K56Flex Data, Fax, Speakerphone PCI Modem ("Daniel Bauer")
Re: The ultimate backup program for any OS? (Peter F. Curran)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: serial port printer (Peter F. Curran)
Re: ASUS Motherboard problem (Peter Stein)
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From: "Moors, ing. E.W.J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:45:17 GMT
tom bergerson wrote:
>
> when i try to mount (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom) my Acer 685A
> 8x cdrom, i get the following error:
>
> The kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe 'insmod
> driver'?)
>
CUT!!
> tom bergerson
You can check in /proc/devices if the major number of /dev/hdc is in the
list of blockdevices
(listed as ide) I expect this doesn't match the major number of your
/dev/hdc.
--
Ing. Eric Moors
Philips Research Laboratories
Building WY, Prof. Holstlaan 4 (Postbox WY12)
5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Phone : +31-(0)40-27 42521
Fax : +31-(0)40-27 44648
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Damon J. Rygiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Boot ROMs - what hardware?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:18:45 -0500
I've been working on the same problem...but I've found some reasonable
answers. As for a burner, I bought the cheap model, the MCT-MEP-1C from JDR
Microdevices (http://www.jdr.com) for $129.99. For generic cards (like the
CNet I got), I bought 8k 150ns EPROMs (JDR #2764A-150) for $4.99 each. The
images in the Etherboot package labeled *.lzrom are compressed and fit on an
8k EPROM, however, the *.rom require a 16k EPROM, which will fit on most net
cards. If you e-mail JDR tech support with your question and card model,
they should have an answer too (and hopefully it will match mine :-) Hope
this information in useful.
Damon
Chris Harshman wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've been looking for this answer for a while, and still
>no joy. Hopefully someone out there can assist - I need
>to get this equipment purchased! (I've been to the
>Etherboot page.)
>
>We're using a collection of ISA and PCI NE2000-compatible
>generic Ethernet cards (along with a handful of SMC Ultra16
>8216T's) on Linux workstations. We need to start booting
>these diskless from our PII server in the corner. All the
>cards have sockets that look identical, at least in terms
>of pin-outs and physical dimensions.
>
>What hardware specifically will we need to accomplish this?
>Which EPROM chips? Which burner? (If you could supply the
>name of a vendor, and SKU or part numbers, it would be a
>tremendous help.)
>
>Thank you very much in advance for any assistance you might
>be able to render.
>
>Yours,
>Chris
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From: "Spectral Guardian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Teles S0 Box
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:51:35 +0200
Do you know how to operate a teles BRI under Linux 4.5?
leprecon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7k1pk5$a0m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hy,
>
> is there someone out there able to get my stupid teles box to work under
> Linux?
> I know the modem is not ufficially supported but by the hisax driver but
it
> is still there!!!
>
> Thank�s
> Peter
>
>
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From: "J. Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TNT2 or 3dfx Voodoo3?...
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:47:29 -0500
what's the better bet for linux? a 16MB TNT2 or a 16MB Voodoo3? i'm about
to buy a computer, and i don't know what video card to put into it. i dual
boot with winblows98, too.
thanks,
jimmy
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From: Luke & Niki Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:13:48 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your cd is a "removeable media" device, try:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
works for me ....
tom bergerson wrote:
> when i try to mount (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom) my Acer 685A
> 8x cdrom, i get the following error:
>
> The kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe 'insmod
> driver'?)
>
> my setup is Asus P5a with ali 15x3 chipset on rh 6.0 in order to load
> from the cdrom when installing i passed the following to boot: linux
> hdc=cdrom. so install worked. OK so i recompiled the kernel, version
> 2.2.9, and applied the ide patch at www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu to get the
> kernel to "see" my chipset correctly. so now it sees the chipset and
> performance is better. i had to remove the linux hdc=cdrom bit from
> lilo otherwise it wouldnt boot at all, and in any event, with the new
> ali chipset support, the system should find the cdrom on its own.
>
> of course in the block devices section of xconfig i compiled in
>
> Normal PC Floppy disk support
> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk ... support
> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
> Include ide/atapi cdrom support
> ...
> Generic PCI IDE chipset support
> Use DMA by default when available
> ALI M15x3 chipset support
>
> i do not really want to use SCSI emulation, and i do not believe it
> should be necessary since the ACER 685A is a standard IDE/ATAPI drive.
> Obviously, the error is inviting me to try a driver module. should this
> be necessary? wWhat am i missing here?
>
> tom bergerson
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Subject: Cheap Pentium Linux Boxes
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeepSpace Technologies)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:51:02 GMT
We still have a few Pentium machines and monitors left. They make great Linux
boxes. Specs are below:
Quantity 16
Digital P60 Mid tower
Model 780WW
60mhz Pentium
32mb of Parity Ram
1.0gb Hard Drive
SCSI on board with SCSI 2 port
Extra SCSI 1 card
Intel ethernet card
Microsoft 16bit sound card
2mb video card
floppy drive
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard
Price $150.00 each **Quantity Pricing Available**
Quantity 8
Dell Optiplex XM 5120 Desktop
Pentium 120
32mb Memory
S3 1mb Vision 865 Video
ATX Power supply
PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard
Price $125.00 **Quantity Pricing Available**
Digital PCXBV-KA 17" - $149.00 - 2
1280 X 1024, 50-130hz .28
BNC leads *cable included*
M2494 Apple 17" Color monitor with PC adapter. - Price $159.00 - 14
This makes a great monitor for PCs. They have the Sony picture tube and are in
great condition
We accept VISA, MC and AMEX
DeepSpace Technologies, LLC
7311 Grove Rd.
Suite A-1
Frederick, MD 21701
301-663-3033
301-620-9634(fax)
"http://www.deepspacetech.com/"
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From: Nils Remmers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:43:50 +0200
> So I did and now comes the promblems. I can't do anything with the drive
> except talk to its firmware. I've tried Adaptec SCSI benchmark program
> in Win95 but it reports sense error 0xBh and in Linux I receive data-in
> sync problems and when it tries to reset the SCSI bus the system
> freezes. The strange thing is that I can low format the drive and verify
> the surface in the adapter bios but I can't create a partition on the
> drive in either DOS, WIN95 or Linux. Has anyone any clue what might be
> wrong? Can it be the cable? It's a SE cable with 5 connectors.
>
The cable must not be longer than 1.5 meters. Might it be that yours is
longer ???
Min space between 2 devices is 10cm. Try connecting the se-devices
directly to the internal connector with a flat cable (just for testing)
does it work ?
Nils
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Subject: Re: $mall, cheap firewall router
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:45:57 GMT
According to John Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> OK, I have looked at some used 486 and 586 boxes. The 486's I saw had
> flat desktop cases that looked almost as large as my 18"x17"x8" ATX
> case. 586 was in a similarly-sized case.
>
> In fact, I can't remember seeing a "slim-line" case for one of these
> ever. I must have found the "fat-line" models. :-)
>
> What would be the approximate dimensions of such a beast?
Mine is piled so deeply I can't even get a ruler to it. ;-) I'd guess
it is about 16" square and about 5" tall.
> And, since you mention the Ethernet card, would it not be better to get
> 10/100 Ethernet. If you're going to pay for 256 MB/s service (or better)
> to your premises, why choke the bandwidth more than you have to from the
> router to the network?
Uh, DSL is 256 Kbps, not 256 Mbps! It is my understanding that the
maximum speeds obtainable from DSL are about those of a T1 line, or
about 1.5 Mbps, for which a 10 Mbps ethernet is still completely
sufficient.
Also, I am not completely sure the hardware setup for DSL (I have a
cable modem) but chances are that the interface at the DSL box is only
10 Mbps ethernet anyways.
-p.
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 00:40:00 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SMP on RH6.0 Installation Help (newbie)
Post /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg output.
> 2 x Celeron 333A with MSI Slot to PPGA convertor (Dual CPU enable)
> 256 MB memory
>
> I Booted up from the CD to carried out the installation, have try both
> Workstation and Server installation but both failed to see my second
> CPU, Is there any procedure that I need to do to enable the second CPU
--
direct replies substitute timothymoore for user name
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran)
Subject: Re: URGENT!!! Modem problem
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:57:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MOM) writes:
>I have a USR 56K internal modem and i can�t get him to work fine.
>I have a P2B Asus mb and i set it like this:
>
>Com 1: Irq 4 3f8h
>Com 2: Irq 3 2f8h
>
>PNP OS : no
>
>IRQ 4 used by ISA : YES
>
>My modem is at COM 3 and uses irq 4. But when i run "setserial -g
>/dev/ttyS2" the uart in unknown and my modem does�t work.
>
Do you by any chance have a serial mouse on Com 1? Currently I
don't think the mouse and modem would be happy sharing an IRQ.
I always set my modems to Com 4 to avoid this problem.
Is the ISA modem PNP? If so, does it have a Dos disk to turn
off the PNP features and set stuff manually? Use it if so.
As long as it is not a "winmodem" you should be able to get
it to work.
--
Peter F Curran
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
dough knot male: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use address in Organization line, finger
for PGP key. Antispaam test in progress.
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From: Holger Jannsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DTC3270VL-SCSI-Ctrl. supported??
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:26:00 GMT
Hello there,
I'd like to know, if this hardware is supported by linux:
SCSI-Ctrl.: DTC3270VL Vesa SCSI Host Adapter
HDD: Conner CP 30540
Thanx,
Holger
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From: "Frank Bures" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Random SCSI tape problems - please help
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Frank Bures" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have two Exabyte drives installed in DELL PowerEdge 4300 Server in the
front rack - they call it the external bay. The bay is connected to the
onboard Ultra/Narrow adapter. The cable is terminated by a DELL active
terminator.
I use Eliant 820 as /dev/nst1 and
Mammoth LT as /dev/nst0
RedHat 6.0, kernel 2.2.5
I use backup scripts that we've used for years for backing up 15 other
HP-UX, IRIX, SUN and AIX machines. The script basically searches the
machine that is being backed up, then runs rsh tar cvf.... | dd .... I
have ibd and obd set to 20b.
Now, I did not try Mammoth yet, but on Eliant 820:
1. If I set 'setblk 10240' (20b is 20 * 512 = 10240) I am getting random
kernel errors, saying "Write not multiple of tape block size".
2. If I set 'setblk 0' my tape drive would randomly freeze, usually after
heavy stream of incoming data. All relevant processes go to sleep.
3. If I set 'setblk 512' I get intermittently (under a heavy data stream)
kernel error: "Write not multiple of tape block size".
My questions:
What would be the correct setting of 'setblk' for both Eliant820 and
Mammoth LT? Is there anything else I should check to make the tape work?
Thanks
Frank Bures, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use this address for replies)
http://frank.chem.utoronto.ca/electronics
Warning: Received flame-mail will be reposted on the UseNet in full
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From: dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: repost: can 2 linux machines talk to a dual port scsi raid system ??
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:00:29 -0500
i have a dual port scsi raid system with 2 linux systems connected to it
both run redhat 5.2
there is an ext2 filesystem on the raid box (~26Gbytes)
the problem i have is that if linux box A writes a file to the raid
filesystem,
linux box B doesn't see the file
if i reboot linux box B, it sees the file,
if i write the file with linux box A BEFORE the mounting the raid system
on linux box B for the FIRST time it sees the file
i tried unmounting and then mounting the raid system on linux box B,
but it still doesn't see the file
the first mount of the raid system takes much longer than later mounts,
i assume that linux is only "looking" at the raid system the first time
it
mounts it (and buffers the directory and file info into memory ?)
is there a way to get linux to "relook" at the disk ?
rebooting the system takes too long, i am looking for
a faster way of seeing the files
i hope this makes sense
thanks for any help in advance,
dan
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lucent win modem
Date: 18 Jun 1999 08:45:48 -0400
"Malcolm Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anybody get a Lucent Winmodem to work with linux?
no.
> Do I have to disable the
> pnp function somehow
> and if I do that, will it screw up Windows 98?
there's no point.
> I am
> running both -dual booting with Linux and Win 98 and soon to be NT server
> and need the modem for all os's. Any ideas?
ask lucent for a linux driver. it is their lack of publishing specs
which prevents a linux driver from being written.
realistically, get a real modem. any external rs-232c type will do.
--
johan kullstam
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From: "Ehud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help, drivers
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:19:16 +0300
I have Creative Banshee 16M AGP, Diamond mx 300, Creative Encore x5 , ISDN
AVM PCI. Where can I find the drivers?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (volt)
Subject: Help! KDE dumps core after upgrade
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:40:40 GMT
After upgrading my motherboard, RAM and video card, I can no longer
successfully load my Windows Manager--fvwm, fvwm2 and kde all dump
core.
Before upgrade:
Asus TX-97X (P-233), 64 MB, ATI All-In-Wonder (8 MB), Slackware,
2.0.36 kernel, XF86 3.3.3.1 with accelerated Mach64 server, gcc 2.7.x,
libc5 w/ glibc support. I had no problems with this setup.
After upgrade:
Asus P2BF (PII 400), 128 MB, Diamond v770 (TNT2, 32 MB), Slackware,
2.0.36 kernel, XF86 3.3.3.1 with accelerated Nvidia GLX server, gcc
2.7.x, libc5 with glibc support.
I re-compiled the kernel after the upgrade with no problems. I then
installed the Nvidia TNT2 server and modified /etc/XF86Config
appropriately. X starts up fine, but as soon as I try to load a WM,
it dumps core. No other warnings or problems, just a core dump.
I've tried: multiple resolutions and color depths,
re-compiling/re-installing the X server and kde, vanilla VGA server,
countless modifications to every init file associated with my
environment and X, reading the FAQs, etc...
This one has me stumped. Thanks in advance for any insight.
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From: Robb Aley Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kdat with Ditto streamer
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:30:37 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make sure that the device that Kdat is looking at is the correct floppy tape
device (/dev/tape-> /dev/qft0, for example) and that you have read and write
permissions for the device. Test using mt.
--
Robb Aley Allan
Gulfstream Group, Inc. / Myron A. Minskoff, Inc. / Helical Design
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "AN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SV: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:43:53 +0200
Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Nils Remmers wrote:
> >
> > > So I did and now comes the promblems. I can't do anything with the
drive
> > > except talk to its firmware. I've tried Adaptec SCSI benchmark program
> > > in Win95 but it reports sense error 0xBh and in Linux I receive
data-in
> > > sync problems and when it tries to reset the SCSI bus the system
> > > freezes. The strange thing is that I can low format the drive and
verify
> > > the surface in the adapter bios but I can't create a partition on the
> > > drive in either DOS, WIN95 or Linux. Has anyone any clue what might be
> > > wrong? Can it be the cable? It's a SE cable with 5 connectors.
> > >
> > The cable must not be longer than 1.5 meters. Might it be that yours is
> > longer ???
> > Min space between 2 devices is 10cm. Try connecting the se-devices
> > directly to the internal connector with a flat cable (just for testing)
> > does it work ?
>
> Everything else works without the LVD-drive. I've tried to remove one SE
> and kept the LVD and the terminated SE but no success. The space between
> devices is about 20 cm. The only thing I've done is to add a LVD drive
> to a working system and now it refuses to work with the LVD.
>
Have yuo tried to force the drive to SE by jumpering it?
Asbj�rn
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From: Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI CD-Roms - trouble
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:42:03 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try using /dev/scd1 and /dev/scd2
I think that is what i use with RH 5.1, kernel upgraded to 2.2.9
Randy
Tim Smith wrote:
> PhilD wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > I am having a bear of a time with my SCSI CD-Roms (along will all my
> > other win tweaked hardware) I have a Teac 32x and a Yamaha 400t cd-r
> > on an Adaptec 2940UW controler. It has no problems seeing them. At
> > least on the startup I see it find them and configure them to sr0 and
> > sr1. However, when my RH6 system is loaded and logged into, I can not
> > find a /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 to mount. Why is this? Also, do you have
> > to have media in the drive to mount? Isn't this a pain in X when you
> > have to mount every time you want to get something from a disk or CD?
> > (If you can't tell, I am new at this) I can mount my IDE 4x cdrom
> > which is helpful! Any help would be great!!
> >
> 1. The 2940 series cards work fine with Linux
> 2. AFAIK, you MUST have a disk in the drive to mount it, and you
> must unmount a disk before removing it from a removable media
> drive. Thisis not an arbitrary thing designed to make life tough...
> Linux is a "real" operating system. It can use many types of disks
> and many different file systems and there are good reasons for this
> behavior.
>
> -Tim
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From: "Drew M. Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq "winBIOS" [was "Booting Headless"]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:13:26 -0400
I setup an infrequently used Compaq Deskpro [P200/mmx] as a dual-boot
machine. [Win95/RH 5.1]
We use the Linux side of it to support remote access and as a print server
of sorts - we pipe ascii reports to it from other UNIX boxes on the network
and use Linux's 'nenscript' to do the conversion to postscript conversion.
This saves us a ton of trouble with line wrap, and saves me from having to
repartition a drive on one of our sparcs to make room for 'enscript' and all
of its fontsets. [why-oh-why does SUN allot so little space to /usr and /opt
in their partitioning agent? And why-oh-why didn't the admin that set these
boxes up foresee the problem with adding any software enhancements?....]
So I'm trying to make this box headless/keyboardless/mouseless - and a few
respondents to the original thread recommended setting "Halt on No Errors"
[or similar] in the machines BIOS setting.
This machine, and come to think of it, every recent compaq desktop and
notebook that I've played with, drops boot-time setup requests into a GUI'd
utility that lives in its own partition on the native hard drive.
I seem to remember hosing a machine when I intentionally removed this
partition - and had to restore the thing from a CD, which was a bit of a
chore.
Is this thing a frontend to a machine-resident "real" BIOS, or a cheesy
software replacement for a BIOS chip in the cost saving spirit that brought
us such un-grooviness as "winmodems"...
And is there a safe way of taking it off the drive [or better - bypassing
it. Remember, this IS a dual-boot machine...] in order to regain some
semblance of control over the system?
puzzled,
-Drew-
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From: "Daniel Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rockwell V.90 K56Flex Data, Fax, Speakerphone PCI Modem
Date: 18 Jun 1999 16:48:07 GMT
prowler wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>Richard Natal wrote:
>>
>> Just tow questions.....
>> -How can I do my Rockwell V.90 K56Flex Data, Fax, Speakerphone PCI Modem
run
>> under Linux ???
>> -Where can I find drivers about my modem ???(for linux of course)
>>
>> Thanks !
>
>Rockwell HCF modems are winmodems from what I can remember. (On the
>previous repliers note)
i got shafted by them too.. oh it work in dos it'll work in linux<wrong>
HFS =winmodem
taking it back next week
when in doubt go external
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran)
Subject: Re: The ultimate backup program for any OS?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:23:09 GMT
In article <7k6cjb$afl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Brad Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Do you know what would be cool? A program where you can boot from a floppy
>and select a "Backup" option that will make an image file of your ENTIRE
>hard drive. It doesn't matter what OS's you are running or how many. Let's
>say WIn98/Linux/NT all on the same box. The program would just make a huge
>single file image of your hard drive to whichever backup device you select
>(CDR, tape, dat).
[snip]
Heh, such a beastie already exists and comes with every
linux distribution. The 'dd' command can copy an entire
hard drive (say /dev/hda) for you into a single file raw
sector by sector. You just need a bootable disk with this
proggie and support for your target devices. (Or you could
just use it without rebooting to a floppy, but you might
want to remount partitions read only for safety.) I suggest
that you pipe to gzip to make the image smaller, (since the
image file for an 8Gig drive would be 8Gigs regardless of how
much space was used on the drive!)
--
Peter F Curran
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
dough knot male: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use address in Organization line, finger
for PGP key. Antispaam test in progress.
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:18:19 -0700
Nils Remmers wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> So I did and now comes the promblems. I can't do anything with the drive
>> except talk to its firmware. I've tried Adaptec SCSI benchmark program
>> in Win95 but it reports sense error 0xBh and in Linux I receive data-in
>> sync problems and when it tries to reset the SCSI bus the system
>> freezes. The strange thing is that I can low format the drive and verify
>> the surface in the adapter bios but I can't create a partition on the
>> drive in either DOS, WIN95 or Linux. Has anyone any clue what might be
>> wrong? Can it be the cable? It's a SE cable with 5 connectors.
>>
>The cable must not be longer than 1.5 meters. Might it be that yours is
>longer ???
>Min space between 2 devices is 10cm.
No. More like 20 cm.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran)
Subject: Re: serial port printer
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:30:29 GMT
In article <7k3ntl$i4h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Steven Gaskell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
My only question would be is are you are trying to print
to the printer directly, or do you have a filter set up
to convert what is spooled into the correct printer
control language?
For instance, I have a postscript-only printer, which
means I can't send it regular text files directly. I
have to pipe (filter) using a text-to-ps program. On
some other machines, they use their own non-postscript
language, so I first convert incoming text to postscript,
then pipe into 'gs' (ghostscript) to convert it into the
right printer control language.
--
Peter F Curran
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: ASUS Motherboard problem
Date: 18 Jun 1999 15:25:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Phil DeBecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
One of the authors just contacted me and he is having trouble as well, with
a Western Digital UDMA drive no less. My config isn't anything exotic:
/dev/hda = 5 Gig Maxtor UDMA
/dev/hdb = 17.2 Gig Maxtor UDMA
So 2 UDMA devices are on the primary controller. This does not pose problems
for WIN98 or OS2 Warp so I have to conclude that the problem is Linux specific.
Perhaps we're using different patches or the problem is influenced by the BIOS
rev. What is the date of your patch and which P5A-B BIOS rev are you using?
Thanks.
Peter Stein
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