Linux-Hardware Digest #574, Volume #10 Thu, 24 Jun 99 08:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: DSL & linux (Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Holmstr=F6m?=)
problem with NFS installation (Guy Roydor)
DSL & linux ("Mark G.")
Parallel port scanner (Rob)
Re: some BIOS settings (Villy Kruse)
Re: Voodoo 3 (DarkProphet)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! ("Bastiaan de Rijber")
Re: making linux go away ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3CC575BE with Dell Latitude CPi (rorybrowne)
Re: making linux go away ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Auto-init DMA on SB16? ("Stephen Jacob")
Re: Auto-init DMA on SB16? ("Stephen Jacob")
Re: Cable modem not working... (Edmund Lian)
Re: some BIOS settings ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP! RedHat 6.0 won't recognize cdrom (steve blakeway)
Re: Sierra or ATI ("Mag. Karl Borsky")
Re: Left handed mouse (Baogao)
Re: RIVA TNT (Jim Henderson)
A+ TV Card support in video4linux? (Lars J. Aas)
Re: Mounting SUN disks on Intel/Redhat 5.2 (Dean Darlison)
Re: Cable modem not working... ("Stephen Jacob")
Problem solved - many thanks (was Help: Kernel can't see 2GB JAZ drive) (Roland
Gerlach)
Surfboard Cable modem and RH6.0 ("Rick Ridzon")
Re: MB for Dual Processors (Chris Mauritz)
howto install card reader ? (Louis DeLongchamp)
USB CDR ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Direct Install on Hardware RAID 5? ("Tony Platt")
Re: 360K 5 1/4" drives on linux (B'ichela)
IBM PS/2 maximum serial port speed? (Georg Schwarz)
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From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Holmstr=F6m?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL & linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:44:16 +0200
Hi,
Depends a little on what kind of NT (Network Terminal) you want.
The normal fullrate NT has an 10BaseT ethernet port which you plugin to your
computers ethernet LAN/port.
If you are going for a xDSL PnP PC-NIC you just might be heading into uncharted
territory.
The there is the protocol deal which varies quite alot depending on the provider
(PPP,DNS,CIP,,,) but that shouldn't be a problem.
I have heard that there is one US provider that do not support installation on
Linux boxes which is quite silly but it's smart to check first!
"Mark G." wrote:
> Am thinking about having a DSL line installed from USWest (megabit service).
> Was wondering if DSL is at all compatible with linux? Am currently running
> Mandrake 6.0.
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From: Guy Roydor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with NFS installation
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:16:01 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I didn't manage to mount the cdrom during the installation of Suse 6.1
via NFS.
My net card is a Olicom ethernet OC-2185. I know there is no driver for
this card so I tried with TLan (I saw it was yhe best solution in a
site).
It didn't match. I tried with a 3Com too, but there is always the same
result.
What can I do ?
Thanks.
Delphine.
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From: "Mark G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DSL & linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 01:22:30 -0700
Am thinking about having a DSL line installed from USWest (megabit service).
Was wondering if DSL is at all compatible with linux? Am currently running
Mandrake 6.0.
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From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parallel port scanner
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:54:11 +1200
How do I go about using a parallel port scanner under linux, it's a
CanoScan FB310.
Thanks,
Rob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: some BIOS settings
Date: 24 Jun 1999 10:51:14 +0200
In article <7ksjau$cc1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I work with Epox boards a lot but I don't think it's really going to
>affect Linux one way or another how you set these settings. If you enable
>them, then there may be less delay whenever you video card's or computer's
>BIOS are called upon to do something but that is just about it for the most
>part. I'd try it with them enable first for better performance and disable
>them if funny things happen. (My computer has both options enabled and I
>have no difficulties)
As linux doesn't use any of the bios code anyway there can hardly be any
avantage to cache or shadow the bios code.
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Villy
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From: DarkProphet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voodoo 3
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:29:12 -0500
Daniel DeMers wrote:
> I'm attempting to install RedHat 6 for the first time ever and cannot seem
> to get the installer to setup my voodoo 3. Does anybody know if this is
> even possible and if so which options do I select?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yep, its possible, but you need a special X-server for Voodoo3
check out glide.xxedgexx.com
Getting everything set up the way you want it might not be easy.
subscribe to 3dfx.glide.linux on the news.3dfx.com server
happy hunting
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From: "Bastiaan de Rijber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:54:28 +0200
>
>> >I had to install my
>> >56K modem as a "Standard Modem" and then turn the compression up to
115400, for
>> >example. And if you've got an MCSE, you're not an average user, anyway.
>
>I had to do the same thing with my modem in Windoze... problem is, the
Standard
>Modem driver in windoze doesn't support all the features of my modem. (and
I admit,
>neither does Linux, out of the box, but at least its possible to work
around that)
You could enable these featurus by entering the appropiate AT commando's in
the properties of the modem.
My point is: every OS has it's own way of dealing with it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:21:04 GMT
In article <7iv13k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"adam howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> talk about a waste of bandwidth....do we really need a few dozen people to
> give the same answer?
yes you are corect a lot of answers and all the same
here a diferent answer
1] bot from a floppy in dos/win
2] use partition magic 4 dos version
and for here on it's easy to configure
> > How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
> > is) once and for all?
>
>
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From: rorybrowne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.rpm.general
Subject: 3CC575BE with Dell Latitude CPi
Date: 24 Jun 1999 09:30:54 GMT
Does anyone know the location of a driver for the above and a rough ide of
how to get it to work. I am a Linux Newbie
thanks
Rory
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 09:35:03 GMT
In article <7k3p9g$3s5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"John Sowden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I read the responses, just flames. The problem is you are asking a valid
> question. I also need to know how to remove Linux from a hard drive, as I
> am installing a new copy (caldera) and it doen't discuss in the newbie part
> about installing over an existing linux os.
>
> Can someone please take our requests seriously.
>
I'm a newbie. I have a computer with windows installed for about a year and i
have installed RedHat for about 3 days (i still have problem with config.
ex:modem & sundcard). But this posting i's too long. fcky
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From: "Stephen Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Auto-init DMA on SB16?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:11:55 +0100
Davin McCall wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Actually, it's not as bad as you seem to think. Firstly, there are
>lots of things you can do to control things like buffer sizes using
>IOCTL calls. You can use map the DMA buffer directly into your
>application's address space, and find out how much of the buffer has
>actually played at any one time.
>
>Sadly, I don't think it's very easy to detect iterrupts in linux.
>About the next best thing is using threads and select() calls.
>
>The best source of info is at:
>http://www.opensound.com/pguide/
Thanks for the information, Davin! Oddly, I had just stumbled across
www.opensound.com moments before reading your article. It does indeed look
to be a very good resource (the API Specs section). My only reservation is
that I'm not certain how much of the API (maybe all?) is also implemented in
OSS/Free (from what I gather, that's what's included with Linux as
standard). I don't really want to implement something that requires
commercial add-on software to run.
Regards,
sj
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From: "Stephen Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Auto-init DMA on SB16?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:13:53 +0100
mlw wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Off the top of my head, I would write a device driver, or modify the sb
>driver, to provide the the support you need.
>It should not be that hard. Hey, after all, you have the source.
I think I'll give that a miss. ;-) It looks from my interpretation of the
OSS API (assuming [hoping] that the same API is implemented fully in
OSS/Free) like I should be able to port the app without doing so.
Regards,
sj
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edmund Lian)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cable modem not working...
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:27:20 GMT
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:55:32 GMT, Ted Sikora
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You have it backwards. eth0 should be the cable nic eth1 internal
>network otherwise the routing will be all messed up especially with ip
>forwarding enabled.
Hmmm... don't know much about Slackware, but I doubt it's that
different from Debian. i.e., it doesn't matter which NIC the cable
modem is plugged into as long as the configs are right. I run eth0 as
my local LAN interface, and eth1 for my cable modem.
..Edmund.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: some BIOS settings
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:22:02 GMT
In article <7ksjau$cc1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I work with Epox boards a lot but I don't think it's really
going to
> affect Linux one way or another how you set these settings. If you
enable
> them, then there may be less delay whenever you video card's or
computer's
> BIOS are called upon to do something but that is just about it for the
most
> part. I'd try it with them enable first for better performance and
disable
> them if funny things happen. (My computer has both options enabled
and I
> have no difficulties)
>
> Ray Schwamberger
Thanks. I also got privately a mail suggesting to just enable them,
which I did.
The following may be somewhat off-topic, but as you seem to be familiar
with the mainboards from EPoX, I would like to take advantage of this
occasion.
Have you ever experienced any problems running Linux on a EPoX's
mainboard ? Because I have some : I have experieced several times a
random and total hang (Sysrq has no effect). I moved recently from ASUS
TX97-L with Pentium MMX on it to EP-MVP3G-M with K6-2, so the system
itself remains the same. I have some doubt about both the mainboard and
the ram but can't determine what's exactly wrong.
I tried memtest86 but the result varies according to the slots used.
Do you have any suggestions ?
junichi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve blakeway)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! RedHat 6.0 won't recognize cdrom
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:12:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:50:19 -0400, "relay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have this problem... when I watched the system msg.s at boot
>it identify the the cdrom (on /dev/hdd) as an "IDE floppy device"
>and would not let me mount it.
>I found that having a CD in the drive at boot fixed this autodetect error,
>perhaps it checked the file system on the disk, who knows... no REALLY
>who knows?
>the REAL <g> fix is to type this in at the lilo boot prompt:
>
> linux hdX=cdrom
>
>where X is the ide device (hda=primary master, hdb=primary slave,
>hdc=secondary master, hdd=secondary slave)
>I haven't tried to add this to the lilo config as "kernal boot paramiters",
>but
>I'm hoping that will work.
>
>hope this helps!
>
Before you mess with lilo.conf, try this. Go the /dev and see if cdrom
is a link to hdd (or whatever). If it is, delete the link, then link
cdrom to hdX, where X=whatever your cdrom=. Set the permissions on hdX
to rwrwrw. Also, set the sticky bit on /usr/X11R6/bin/xplaycd (if you
want to use xplaycd).
Worked for me.
steve
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From: "Mag. Karl Borsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.dev.svgalib
Subject: Re: Sierra or ATI
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:51:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don�t have Sierra Falcon64, but ATI Mach 64 works pretty well. Hope this will
help you.
Dariusz Goi�ski wrote:
> Wich chipset is better for working in X window under Linux (RedHat 6.0) :
> - Sierra Falcon64
> or
> - ATI Mach64?
>
> Please send answer to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank you :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Baogao)
Subject: Re: Left handed mouse
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:21:26 GMT
On 21 Jun 1999 22:06:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Chant)
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
>>
>> in your .xinitrc
>>
>
>Thanks, works a treat, I had to put in in .xsession for WindowMaker, why,
>I don't know, but it works.
I put just
pointer = 3 2 1
in my .Xmodmap and it works fine too.
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RIVA TNT
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:04:57 -0600
Use the SVGA server from XFree86 3.3.3.1. That works with the RIVA TNT
card chipset.
Jim
Greg Dickson wrote:
>
> Hi All
> I am looking for a XFree86 driver for a
> ASUS Riva TNT AGP-V3400TNT Video Card
> Can anyone let me know where I can get one
> or which standard one will work and work best
>
> Thanks
> Greg Dickson
>
> --
> Greg Dickson
> ('> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> //\ Linux System Admin,
> v_/_ Perl and Java Programing
>
> Margaret River Western Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars J. Aas)
Subject: A+ TV Card support in video4linux?
Date: 24 Jun 1999 11:12:03 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone know if the A+ TV Card uses a bttv chip and is supported
by the video4linux system? I haven't been able to find any tech.
specs for the card, and their site (www.aplus-international.com) isn't
available (DNS can't look it up) at the moment.
Please reply by mail (too)...
Lars J
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From: Dean Darlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: Mounting SUN disks on Intel/Redhat 5.2
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:59:45 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> We believe SCSI disks are SCSI disks, and the LINUX system shouldn't
> care where they came from. Does anyone know why the hardware/software
> should behave in this manner, and/or how to "fix" it?
>
I beleive it too.
SCSI I, SCSI II, SCSI III, WIDE, FAST, ULTRA WIDE, terminated,
differentail ..... ?
Also kernel built with ufs filesystem support ?
Cheers,
Dean.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dasco Ltd. (BT-Mobile x4711)
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From: "Stephen Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cable modem not working...
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:42:24 +0100
Edmund Lian wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:55:32 GMT, Ted Sikora
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>You have it backwards. eth0 should be the cable nic eth1 internal
>>network otherwise the routing will be all messed up especially with ip
>>forwarding enabled.
>
>Hmmm... don't know much about Slackware, but I doubt it's that
>different from Debian. i.e., it doesn't matter which NIC the cable
>modem is plugged into as long as the configs are right. I run eth0 as
>my local LAN interface, and eth1 for my cable modem.
I agree, that doesn't make sense to me either. I don't think it should make
any difference whatsoever which NIC is used for the cable modem. It's just a
matter of configuring your routes correctly (it's not like eth0 has to be
the default route or anything -- my eth0 certainly isn't). IP forwarding
doesn't make any difference to this. It's perfectly possible to set it up to
forward (presumably with NAT [IP masquerading] in the case mentioned)
through the interface of your choice.
Regards,
sj
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From: Roland Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: revue.linux-scsi
Subject: Problem solved - many thanks (was Help: Kernel can't see 2GB JAZ drive)
Date: 24 Jun 1999 13:38:15 +0200
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.os.linux.hardware as well.
I wrote:
> I've recently installed a 2GB JAZ drive into a PC with an ADAPTEC 2940
> SCSI controller. The JAZ drive is the only thing on the SCSI bus.
>
> When the PC boots, the ADAPTEC controller identifies the JAZ drive.
>
> The 2.0.35 kernel identifies the ADAPTEC controller but doesn't see
> the JAZ drive.
These were the messages displayed during the boot of 2.0.35:
| aic7xxx: Warning - detected auto-termination on controller:
| aic7xxx: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> at PCI 11/0
| aic7xxx: Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
| aic7xxx: If not, then please properly set the device termination
| aic7xxx: in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
| aic7xxx: during machine bootup.
| aic7xxx: Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 NO, Ext-68 NO)
| aic7xxx: Termination (Low ON, High ON)
| (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 11/0
| (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
| (scsi0) BIOS enabled, IO Port 0x6400, IRQ 9
| (scsi0) IO Memory at 0xe4000000, MMAP Memory at 0x2805000
| (scsi0) Resetting channel
| (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
| scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.0.19/3.2.4
| <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
| scsi : 1 host.
| (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
| scsi : detected total.
<snip>
| (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 255 during SELTO.
| (scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 255 not valid during SELTO.
| SCSISEQ = 0x12 SEQADDR = 0xa SSTAT0 = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x88
Hmmm, not so good :-(
Last night I upgraded this machine to 2.0.36 and mysteriously the
problem disappeared:
| (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 11/0
| (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
| (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
| (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
| (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
| (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
| (scsi0) during machine bootup.
| (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 NO, Ext-68 NO)
| (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
| scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.11/3.2.4
| <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
| scsi : 1 host.
| Vendor: iomega Model: jaz 2GB Rev: E.15
| Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
| Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
| scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
| (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
| SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 3915600 [1911 MB] [1.9 GB]
| sda: Write Protect is on
OK, so I should turn off the auto-termination but at least I can now
access the drive :-)
Many thanks to those that helped.
And a special thanks to the great Linus himself and the cast of
thousands that made/make Linux so good.
Cheers,
Roland.
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From: "Rick Ridzon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Surfboard Cable modem and RH6.0
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 07:45:04 -0400
I have a Surfboard 1200 external cable modem. It is wired to my NIC which
is working just fine. This device has a modem integrated which handles the
dial up and upload transactions. There are html pages hardcoded into the
cable modem itself that control dial up via the browser.
I can get to the hardcoded pages with lynx but when I hit the connect
button, lynx just sits there like it's looking for a page which doesn't
exist.
Has anyone got a Surfboard external to work with linux?
Any help is greatly appreciated
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From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MB for Dual Processors
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:10:39 GMT
"JANA" <nest(nospam)> wrote:
> I have an ASUS P2B-D on which I've set-up 2 PII 450s. It has run Win NT and
> will until I get the whole machine set-up and ready for Linux. The speed and
> stability under NT have been impressive. The board is a quality piece of
> equipment which I expect to function well under Linux.
For those on a budget, Abit has just released the BP6. It's a dual socket370
board. You can run a pair of PPGA celeron chips for a budget dual processor
system. I think they're selling for about $150. Figure about $300-325 for
a pair of Celeron 466's and you've got the basics for under $500.
If you're lucky, you may even be able to clock the processors at 75mhz and
wind up with a dual celeron 525mhz (1050mhz???) system.
Cheers,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis DeLongchamp)
Subject: howto install card reader ?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:47:36 GMT
I have a parallel-connected HD, the datafab card reader.
How do I get Linux to recognize this device?
How do I mount it ?
loudelon...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USB CDR
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:35:10 GMT
Hello !
I have bought recently a Mitsumi USB
CDR-RW.
Does anyone know if :
1./USB port is supported under 2.2.9 Kernel
2./The CDR can be recognized if the USB works
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Direct Install on Hardware RAID 5?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:58:14 +1000
James Culbertson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I plan on setting up a Linux server on an Intel PC using five 9GB disks
>in a RAID 5 array. I have three questions:
>
>1) Can you install Linux directly on a HARDWARE (as opposed to software)
>raid array?
Yes it can
>2) Are there any rules about how much RAM is required for a given disk
>capacity? The old Novel system I'm replacing had such rules.
>3) What are good ultra 2 SCSI hardware RAID controller cards for which
>Linux drivers exist?
>
>Here is what I think I know:
>
>[1] One of the Red Hat people (on their recent tour around the country)
>told me that while you can't install Linux directly on a software RAID
>system, you can install it directly on a hardware RAID system. (He
>recommended the ICP-Vortex RAID controllers.)
>
>However when I look at Red Hat's hardware support section
>[http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/intel/60/rh6.0-hcl-i.ld.html]
>under section "6.6 Raid Controllers" they include the statement:
>
>Currently you cannot install Red Hat Linux's root partition onto a raid
>device.
Redhat 6.0 Installs directly onto a Compaq Raid controller (altho the driver
is BETA that redhat use)
>Did I misunderstand the Red Hat guy, or should the above statement be
>restricted to software RAID?
>
>[2] I suspect lots of memory isn't absolutely necessary, but I've
>tentatively (read arbitrarily) planned for 256MB. The server will be a
>file and print server (Samba), a mail server, an FTP site, and at some
>point perhaps a small web site.
Should purrr along nicely
>[3] While the Red Had guy thought highly of the way the ICP-Vortex RAID
>controllers work I'm not familiar with them and how they stack up to the
>competition. I wonder why I haven't found them listed on
>www.pricewatch.com. Testimonials are welcome. If I get a warm and
>fuzzy feeling about them I might buy one . . . otherwise . . .
Never tried Vortex controllers, sorry can't help
>I'm thinking of buying a DPT SmartRaid V Century Ultra 2 SCSI Raid
>Controller, because DPT claims to have drivers for Red Hat Linux 5.2
>that I can download [http://www.dpt.com/].
DPT has a good reputation with Linux, I believe. But I don't know if you can
install directly to it
Hope it helps
Tony Platt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 360K 5 1/4" drives on linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:47:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henry Davies wrote:
>I have an old 5 1/4" drive (720K) which Linux claims has a broken DCL.
>I added the following to my rc.local (RH5.2) and it appears to work fine
>now. Unfortunately I forgot where I got the floppycontrol program :(
floppycontrol comes with the fdutils package. I have it on my system.
>
>#
># The 5 1/4 floppy drive which is mounted here seems to have a broken
># disk-change-line. If we tell the floppy driver about the problem
># then it seems to work fine.
>#
>/usr/bin/floppycontrol -d /dev/fd1 --broken_dcl
>
>
>--
>Hope that this helps.
>
>henry
I will let you know if it does. cutted and pasted your lines into my
rc.local file.
--
A pearl of wisdom from the y2K newsgroups:
=========================================================================
Y2K appears to be the Baby Boomers mid-life crisis, and it has the
potential to be a dandy.
-- Anonymnous --
==========================================================================
B'ichela
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: IBM PS/2 maximum serial port speed?
Date: 19 Jun 1999 06:23:21 GMT
I'm thinking of using an IBM PS/2 with Linux 2.0.35 as a dial in server
for a modem. Basically all it should is accept the call and run pppd for a
single modem, using IP forwarding and ethernet proxy arp. I have the
following machines available:
PS/2 model 55 SX (I think 386SX16), 4 MB RAM
PS/2 model 70 and model 80 (I believe 386DX20), 6 MB RAM
what is the maximum serial port speed for each model, and what could they
handle from their overall performace?
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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