Linux-Hardware Digest #547, Volume #10 Mon, 21 Jun 99 10:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: AHA1505 driver (John Thompson)
Changing the ZIP's DMA channel (Andreas 'LionKing | StarFire' Tscharner)
Re: Start ppa for zip on linux boot (Nektarios Lathiotakis)
Re: What's the best graphics card for X (Swietanowski Artur)
Re: Format Zip disks ? (Nektarios Lathiotakis)
Re: help with lots of serial ports and linux and some windows (M. Buchenrieder)
Plextor UW SCSI CDROM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER? ("Pugwash")
Re: AHA1505 driver
Re: Onstream Tape Drives (Peter Haywood)
Lexmark 1000C help needed! ("Th. Voss")
Adding SCSI tape to Redhat 6.0 (Vic Ryan)
Re: Best dual cpu board for Linux recommandation needed. Thx. (Swietanowski Artur)
Backpack CD with Install and Thinkpad (The Rev)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA1505 driver
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 21:42:56 -0600
tar wrote:
>
> I picked up a couple Adaptec 1505s cheap this weekend, sure that they'd
> be supported, since they're Adaptec.
>
> Wrongo, Batman.
>
> Anyone know any tricks?
They're supported with the aha152x driver.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:50:33 +0200
From: Andreas 'LionKing | StarFire' Tscharner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing the ZIP's DMA channel
Hello World,
I have a paraport ZIP Drive and the support is compiled into the kernel.
At boot time, it is recognized and initilized. The problem is: It uses DMA
Channel 0. But I need DMA 0 for my soundcard (it works only with DMA 0).
Unfortunately the soundcard is PnP, and therefore I cannot compile sound
support into the kernel, and so the soundcard is initialized after the ZIP
drive.
How can I change ZIP's DMA to 1 for example?
I tried to change
hreg->dma_channel = -1;
to
hreg->dma_channel = 1;
in ppa.c, but it the channel remained 0. When I try this
hreg->max_channels = 1;
hreg->dma_channel = 1;
(and the original row is commented out), then it recognizes 2 ZIP's, one
at DMA 0 and the other at DMA 1.
Fow can I change it?
BTW: I don't want to compile ppa as a module.
Thanx in advance and best regards
Andreas
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From: Nektarios Lathiotakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Start ppa for zip on linux boot
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:51:06 GMT
Kerry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: How do I set ppa to start on bootup? If I "insmode ppa" I can mount my
: zip drive but I can't get it to start up automatically on bootup. I
You should be able to 'insmod ppa' any time. It is not necessary to start
it at boot time. Try it with the zip attached.
: tried the following in /etc/conf.modules "alias scsi_hostadapter ppa"
I dont have that in my '/etc/conf.modules' but I have the following:
alias block-major-8 ppa
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
: but it doesn't seem to do it. I'm running RedHat 5.2
What is the complain? If nothing then its just doing it. Have you tried
'/sbin/lsmod' to see if ppa is in the kernel or not?
Are you sure you mount correctly? (mount -t fstype /dev/sda4 /zip)
where fstype=ext2 or msdos or vfat depending on the zip disk filesystem
and /zip is the mount point you have created.
I am running RH6.0 but was running 5.2 before and everything was also fine.
I also started ppa on RH5.1 and it was also fine (the conf.modules was empty there).
(I never started ppa at boot time, and I cant see the difference)
: Thanks in adavance from a linux newbie.
good luck
Nektarios
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's the best graphics card for X
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:21:14 +0200
Robin Shuff wrote:
> I'm looking at building a basic Linux workstation and would like to know
> what the best 8mb or similar graphics card to use is. One that is fully
> supported and has GPL drivers etc. Is the ATI Xpert98 any good?
I have this card in 3 boxes. No problem (XFree 3.3.3.1, also MetroLink
commercial X server). Another common recommendation (maybe better,
but also more expensive) is Matrox Millenium 8 MB (supported by SVGA
server).
HTH,
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Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: Nektarios Lathiotakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Format Zip disks ?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:58:20 GMT
a) Insmod ppa
b) as root:
/sbin/mkfs -t fstype /dev/sda4
where fstype=ext2,msdos ...
ollivier civiol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello,
: Would anyone knwo how to format a zip diskette under linux ?
: In both ext2fs and msdos ?
: Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: help with lots of serial ports and linux and some windows
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:57:53 GMT
Andrew de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm looking to buy a new computer and put linux on it. The only problem is
>that it has just 1 serial port and 1 parallel port.
What kind of system is that ? All PC systems should at least have 2 serial
ports, unless it is some sort of "all in one" motherboards.
Ah, OK. I just read the Dell comment, which states that COM2 (the second
serial port) is already occupied by a modem (probably a Winmodem).
>I found this ISA card=
>with 4
>serial ports and 2 parallel ports on it that I would install shortly after
>buying the new computer. Dell tells me there's a limit of 2 active serial=
>ports
>in windows.
No, they didn't. They meant that the _current_ system you're using
does not supply more than 2 ports. You'd need an add-on card.
The problem with such cards (as with all add-on cards) is that they need
a certain number of resources to be working. The IBM PC default settings
for the serial ports (COM 1 - 4) had COM1/3 sharing IRQ 4 , COM2/4
sharing IRQ 3 . This should never have been a problem, if the motherboard
manufacturers had been following the AT&T suggestions which allowed
proper IRQ sharing between 2 (or more) devices. This , however, has
never made it into the mainboard layout divisions. Only a small number
of boards has been designed that way. Modern (very recent) PII boards
do now start to implemet this, though.
As a result, you do need 4 IRQs for 4 serial devices (unless you do
buy an intelligent multiport add-on board, which is capable of sharing
IRQs [AST 4port, Cyclades products etc.]), and one IRQ for each
parallel port (if interrupt-driven).
>They won't say if that applies to all OSes (e.g. linux).
Partially. The standard Linux parallel port driver doesn't need an IRQ,
but the Win one does.
[...]
>-------------------------------------------------------
>If I purchase an ISA based expansion card with 4 serial ports and 2
>parallel
>ports (the serial ports CAN share an IRQ with this card), you're
>saying that
>I can still only use 2 serial ports (out of 6 total) at once? Is this
>restrication imposed by windows or by the hardware?
This is wrong. If all ports have their own IRQ , or if the card
allows sharing of IRQs, then you may use up to 16 serial ports
(or more) , depending on the card layout.
>You mentioned there might be problems with the operating system. Is
>this
>windows only? As long as I can still access LPT1 and either COM1 or
>COM2
>(com1 =3D my own external modem, com2 =3D mandatory winmodem by dell) in
>windows, I'll be happy. I DO want to access all the ports in other
>OS/OSes;
>that's why I want to know if there's a hardware hangup.
>Thank you very much,
>Andrew de los Reyes
>-------------------------------------------------------
>Dear Sir,
>This is correct for serial devices;
Wrong. You can't have the same IRQ for both the onboard ports and
the add-on card , though. But if you can use , say, IRQ 10 for the
add-on card , then you may use all 6 (or more) ports concurrently
on all operating systems without any problem whatsoever.
>however, you should have no
>problem connecting two serial devices and up to two parallel devices.
Partially correct.
>Provided that the second parallel port isn't using IRQ5.
[...]
?
Is IRQ5 reserved for a soundcard or something like that ?
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Plextor UW SCSI CDROM
Date: 21 Jun 1999 20:16:05 +0900
Greetings,
I've been trying to get Plextor UW SCSI CDROM to work,
but so far no luck. Anybody with success?
Below describes what happens at boot sequence...
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 9, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c875 detected with Tekram NVRAM
ncr53c875-0: rev=0x03, base=0xe4000000, io_port=0x6c00, irq=10
ncr53c875-0: Tekram format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
ncr53c875-0: on-chip RAM at 0xe4001000
ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 32
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 7@000994b0 resid=5.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 8@000994b0 resid=6.
ncr53c875-0-<0,*>: asynchronous.
sda: Spinning up disk...<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
.<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
ready
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1265564 [617 MB] [0.6 GB]
Partition check:
sda:<6>ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: phase change 6-7 3@000994b0 resid=1.
ncr53c875-0-<0,0>: M_REJECT received (80:8).
ncr53c875-0: SCSI phase error fixup: CCB already dequeued (0xc0099020)
ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
ncr53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
ncr53c875-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
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From: "Pugwash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic
Subject: Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:17:14 +0100
I have no problems on my 503+. I had the motherboard up to 83MHz with 16M of
Fast-Page (old stuff) + 32M EDO + 64M PC100 when I had a 266MHz CPU. I
plopped the AMD K62-400 in, upped the motherboard to 100 and limited the
memory speed to Non-PC100 settings. No problems now.
Pugwash
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The MVP3 Apollo chipset on this MB claims to support asynchronous
operation
> where the CPU and L2 cache run at 100 MHz FSB while the main RAM runs at
> 66Mhz. I want to use this feature to upgrade to a new CPU while keeping my
> existing 96MB of old EDO RAM.
>
> But, the one poster (Matt Goheen) reported:
>
> > The Apollo chipset in the VA503+ and PA2013 supports asynchronous
memory/bus speeds
> > (so I've heard/read). I assumed that meant you could use whatever
memory you wanted.
> >
> > I suppose the point is that whatever memory you HAVE is the cheapest,
assuming it
> > works. I happened to have a bunch of old EDO memory and thought it
would work (slowly)
> > with the K6-2/350 on the FIC MB. I was wrong.
>
>
> Does anyone have a FIC VA-503+, an AMD K62-400 (running 100 MHz FSB), and
> older 66MHz EDO RAM working together? If so, were there any problems that
> had to be resolved? If not, what problems did you encounter.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben McCann
>
> --
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA1505 driver
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:20:29 +0200
You've to add that line non in LILO!!!
Add this line in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
with a text editor like vi.
This is the easiest way to do it ... and it works!
tar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Thanks!
>
> I just love open software.
>
> I've tried to figure out the lilo line, but it doesn't like my attempts so
far.
>
> tom
>
> Eric Wyles wrote:
>
> > I have an Adaptec AVA 1505 and to set it up I added the
> > following line to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:
> >
> > modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9,7,1
> >
> > replace 140 with your i/o and 9 with your irq
> >
> > PEACE
> >
> > **** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here
(tm) ****
>
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From: Peter Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Onstream Tape Drives
Date: 21 Jun 1999 11:30:50 GMT
Frank Hahn wrote:
> I went to their web site just to see what I could find. It looks
> as if they have both an IDE and a SCSI version. I can see the
> IDE version requiring a driver but would'nt the SCSI version
> work after being connected?
Unfortunately not. I just bought one (30GB SCSI), and while it works fine
under Win95 (although it appears as a removable disk, not a tape), it
doesn't work at all under Linux.
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From: "Th. Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark 1000C help needed!
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:45:58 +0100
Greetings to the world!
Has anyone magaed to get a Lexmark 1000C up and running under SuSE
Linux? I use release 6.0 and I'm at the end of my nerves...
TIA
Th. Voss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vic Ryan)
Subject: Adding SCSI tape to Redhat 6.0
Date: 21 Jun 1999 12:41:03 GMT
Morning All,
Linux newbie here, I have added a SCSI tape drive to a box already loaded
with Redhat 6.0 and need to install the driver to access it. I have
linconf 1.16 but can not figure out how to get the SCSI driver to load
and talk to the drive. Any suggestion would be welcome.
Thank you,
Vic
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Best dual cpu board for Linux recommandation needed. Thx.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:18:49 +0200
Alex Lam wrote:
>
> I am building a server, want some recommendations on dual cpu
> board, scsi adapter
ASUS P2B-DS (with Adaptec 2940 U2W on board). I've a couple of those,
another P2B board at home. I run Win95, Win98, Win NT, Solaris 7,
and now Linux (RedHat 5.2 and 6.0 / Mandrake 5.3 and 6.0).
Never a hint of a problem. Also, many, many favourable reports all
over the hardware NG with *no* problem reports that I recall.
HTH,
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Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: The Rev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backpack CD with Install and Thinkpad
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:03:22 GMT
Dear All,
when I installed RH 5.2 on my Thinkpad 360CSE I simply told it that I
wanted it to use my Backpack CDROM and it did so.
With RH6.0 (choosing local CDROM, Backpack, autoprobe) the installer
says: "I can't find the device anywhere on your system!".
Now I've got it connected with a docking bay (the exact same set-up as
worked with RH5.2) model 3545-001 and it's got power and I'm sure its
working.
Any ideas?
TIA
Craig
London
UK
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