Linux-Hardware Digest #581, Volume #10 Thu, 24 Jun 99 19:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: On board ESS1938 SOLO1 3D Sound Chipset ??? (Jonas =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F6fwander?=)
Re: Sony TSL-SA300C SCSI Tape Autoloader ("Tony Platt")
Re: Need advice on modem (Greg Yantz)
Intel 810 X-Server?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCO Unixware (jeff)
Re: Need advice on modem (Jim Shaffer, Jr.)
HDD standby (hdparm) (cody)
HD Cache Question (Len)
Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list (Eric DE VITO)
Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux (Tom)
Re: Newbee needs help (Eric Sandvik)
Re: SCSI controller: RT10-AT ("Gene Heskett")
Re: SCSI controller: RT10-AT ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Need guidance with Scanner type (Peter Hill)
Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI ??? ("Nafai")
DVD ("Sean Middleditch")
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Re: USR OEM Alana DFV PCI V.90 modem (Frederic Faure)
What's the best 12 Gb IDE tape for Linux (Karim El Founas)
Re: Compaq presario (Anita Lewis)
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From: Jonas =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F6fwander?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: On board ESS1938 SOLO1 3D Sound Chipset ???
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:12:23 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lucinda-Jane Janse van Rensburg wrote:
>
> Jetway (www.jetway.com.tw) motherboard model J-7BXAS with the following
> description of the on-board sound chipset:
>
> "On Board 3D Audio
>
> On Board ESS1938 SOLO1 Sound Chipset
...
> How can I make this work in Linux 2.2.2?
>
> Thanks in advance.
I use an external Solo-1 PCI sound card. Just got it working in S.u.S.E
6.1 with kernel 2.2.7. You have to use ALSA sound for that. Get the
latest ALSA driver, you need the driver, libs and utilities, available
at:
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/
ftp://linux.a2000.nl/alsa/
Also check the Alsa-sound-mini-HOWTO at
http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn/
and my own page to see how I configured my card:
http://195.163.39.4/~dice/
Should be about the same in Redhat...
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sony TSL-SA300C SCSI Tape Autoloader
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:50:44 +1000
Bress wrote in message <7ku46u$1vr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have a Sony TSL-SA300C SCSI Tape Autoloader running off of an AMI
>megaraid controller. It crashes at random whenever it has to do
>anything. Here's the error messages I get.
>
>st0: Error 25040000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x25, host bt 0x4).
>st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00:
>sense key Aborted Command
>Additional sense indicates Overlapped commands attempted
>st0: Error on write filemark.
>st0: Error 25040000 (sugg. bt 0x20, driver bt 0x25, host bt 0x4).
>
>and then in a final explosion of bliss it prints
>
>Blocked mailbox on exit!
>
>over and over again. I'm pretty sure the mailbox error is coming from
>the controller card. Anyone out there have any idea of have you seen
>anything like this before? Thanks in advance.
>
> JB
Don't know if it applies to the AMI megaraid. But it is generally a BAD idea
having a tape drive hanging off a RAID controller.
Best on it's own controller.
I know the Compaq raid cards won't work with a tape drive hanging off them.
What is the config of the megaraid ???
You haven't got the tape mixed up in a raid array have you ???
ie 5 drives
ID0
ID1
ID2 <<<<<might be the tape drive ?????
ID3
ID4
ID5 <<<<<what you think is the tape drive, but is actually a disk !!!
Additional sense indicates Overlapped commands attempted
Just looks that way from this message ( overlap ) as in raid???
Tony
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From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need advice on modem
Date: 24 Jun 1999 18:17:36 -0400
Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ummm... 100mhz 486? Are you sure?
Yup. 33x3, though in marketing-speak they were called DX4's. There were
even some 486 systems with a 40Mz bus, so you could have 80 and 120 Mz
486's.
> > I have a 486 100Mhz box... It's a bit old but it does what I need.
> > I run Linux and Windows.
> > Can you guys recommend me a relatively inexpensive 56K internal modem
> > which will work with Linux as well as with Windows.
In general avoid any PCI modem (though for you that may not be an
issue)... I know for a fact USR still makes hardware modems, and
other manufacturers should as well.
Just avoid anything that says "optimized for Windows", or "host
driven" or anything like that.
-Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Intel 810 X-Server??
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:21:09 GMT
Anyone know if there is an X-Server for the new Intel 810 chipset which
provides on board Video?
And where to find it if it exists.
Thanks
Ron
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCO Unixware
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:30:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can go to SCO's web page and order a free copy of Unixware and a one
user license to try it out.
Jeff
Mathew Threadgill wrote:
> I am thinking of purchaseing UnixWare7.1 from SCO. But wanted to do my
> homework first. Is Unixware better in any way to linux? Also is the
> installation any different or easier than linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Shaffer, Jr.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need advice on modem
Date: 24 Jun 1999 17:25:16 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:01:50 -0400, Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ummm... 100mhz 486? Are you sure?
AMD made a chip that was pretty much a 486 clone that went to 133. They called
it a "5x86", though.
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From: cody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HDD standby (hdparm)
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:28:38 +0200
Hi!
I've got a small server with 3 IDE disks. All three of them are set to
spindown after 20 min of inactivity (hdparm -S 240 /dev/hd_).
The two first drives, which are DOS formatted, are almost never used and
are in standby mode most of the time. (hdparm -C reports this)
My problem is the third drive, on which Linux resides on. This drive
never spins down! I've tryied forcing it with hdparm -y/hdparm -Y, which
makes the drive spin down but after a short period of time (30 sec) the
drive is resetted and is back in normal/idle mode. I guess that some
process wants to write to the disk. If so - Which? Why? Else what?
The server is acting as a Samba/FTP/HTTP server.
Thanks in advance!
/Cody
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Len)
Subject: HD Cache Question
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:42:04
I have the following setup:
Box A -------- Raid Array ------------ Box B
I mount the disk array from Box A RW and Box B RO. When I write files from
Box A I can't see the changes from Box B until Box B is rebooted. What do I
need to do to make BOX B re-read the inode tables??? Is this possible?
Thanks
len
cu -AT- isdi.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric DE VITO)
Subject: Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list
Date: 24 Jun 1999 08:00:37 GMT
I am currently creting a list of linux users interested in scsi-idle system
to be added to the kernel scsi driver.
Please email me if you want to be added to a mailing-list which will be
used to convince the kernel scsi drivers conceptors to add scsi-idle
functionnality to the scsi kernel drivers.
You can email me at both following email addresses :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you
--
Eric DE VITO
IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:41:14 -0700
Hi,
I have a Dell Inspirion 7000 on which I am running RedHat 5.2. I have a
Windows partition as well. When I am running Windows, I can use the
utility which came with it for monitoring my battery power, etc.
However, when I am running Linux, I have no idea of how much power is in
the battery.
Are there power utilities for Linux?
Thanks
Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric Sandvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbee needs help
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:39:59 -0500
If you are trying to mount /dev/hda1 that's your problem unless you are running
your linux partition on another device. Just checking the most obvious things
first, if you are running linux on hdb or another partition on hda ignore this.
Gerald Ruiter wrote:
> Some problems I have encoutered:
>
> I have tried mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win to mount my windows partition,
> but now I get the following message: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
> superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file system.
>
> I have downloaded XFree86-3_3_3_1-1_src.rpm under Windows 98. I copied the
> file to my ZIP drive. Next, I've tried to install the file using the command
> rpm -if XFree86-3_3_3_1-1_src.rpm . I get the following message unexpected
> query source. Can somebody explain to me what this means.
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Date: 24 Jun 99 18:18:34 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI controller: RT10-AT
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Stefan Piperov;
Please be aware that some versions of the chip have more bugs than a 10
day old carcass. The -04 markings in particular are bus freezers.
Unless the drivers were written by somebody with a complete buglist in
hand, it can and will be a problem. And WD wasn't exactly shouting out
that buglist from the rooftops during the time the drivers were being
written. They considered that 'proprietary information'. Jerks...
Currently available replacements are -08, about 7 years old, and work
pretty well. The ones marked -proto can be iffy with poorly written
drivers, but probably won't bite you quite as often as the -04.
Replacements are still available from some of the Amiga oriented
suppliers, at about a US 25 dollar bill.
I'm rather intimately familiar with that chip, its the std chip for a
scsi interface on the older Amiga's, which this is one of.
The AMD clone of that chip may have a different buglist yet.
SP> Hello,
SP> I have an old ISA bus SCSI Controller produced by Rancho Technology (USA)
SP> Model RT10-AT. No docs or drivers. Want to use it in a small PC running
SP> Linux. Any help appreciated. Documentation - most valuable!
SP> (The card has a WD33C93 chip, so I guess some of the WesternDigital
SP> SCSI drivers might work :-)
SP> Cheers,
SP> Stefan.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
--
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Date: 24 Jun 99 18:20:41 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI controller: RT10-AT
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Marc Mutz;
MM> Stefan Piperov wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have an old ISA bus SCSI Controller produced by Rancho Technology (USA)
>> Model RT10-AT. No docs or drivers. Want to use it in a small PC running
>> Linux. Any help appreciated. Documentation - most valuable!
>>
>> (The card has a WD33C93 chip, so I guess some of the WesternDigital
>> SCSI drivers might work :-)
>>
MM> Set the jumpers that configure IRQ/DMA to something that fit in your
MM> system. It should be documented on the PCB. If not, try to figure out if
MM> the vendor has a web site, and try there.
MM> Then compile the drivers that look promising as modules and try to
MM> insert them in the kernel. You can't do anything wrong with that: If the
MM> driver does not find it's hardware, it will exit.
Or, if its an -04 marked chip, it might just freeze the bus, and the
machine. See my other reply, Marc.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
--
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From: Peter Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need guidance with Scanner type
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:04:13 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robin Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Nick Kew wrote:
>>
>> > > I am considering either a UMAX 1220S or a Mustek Scanexpresss 12000SP.
>> >
>> > I have the umax. Works with SANE and an Adaptec card. Big software
>> > limitation: no options to scan something smaller than the full A4.
>> > Otherwise it's fine.
>>
>> we got an old HP IIc and it works off a mylex bt958 with xvscan
>> softwarewise. No problem scanning smaller than A4.
>> Gerald
>
>I have an Epson GT-7000 running perfectly with xscanimage and SANE
>
Thanks for the comments. I have found some documentation that says that
the Mustek scanners are not supported anyway so .....
Its a pity about the Umax with the other OS software, as my sister was
hoping to borrow it occasionally, and no, before anyone says it, she
runs the other sw and can't change for a number of reasons, however
there's always hope ....
I'll have a look at prices at a couple of places and see what's
available.
Thanks again - Peter.
--
Peter Hill
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From: "Nafai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI ???
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:51:21 -0500
But it seems to work under Gnome??? What gives? sndconfig still doesn't get
it.
Nafai
Nafai wrote in message ...
>I loaded the ES1371 module and nothing happened, so i ran sndconfig and it
>picked up the card as that model (which I know it is) and when trying to
>play the sample file, it gives a bunch of strange errors (it says "sox:
>known effects: avg band chorus etc. etc.") followed by "sox: effect
>'/dev/dsp/ is not known!"
>
>Still no sound.
>
>Nafai
>
>Marcus Lauer wrote in message <
>> You may be able to find modules for both the ES1370 and ES1371
>chipsets
>>in your modules directory (in RedHat: /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc).
>Basiclally,
>>you need to load these modules using the command "insmod <modulename>"
>>(include the full path to the module in the modulename). Stick this
>command in
>>your rc.local file (in /etc/rc.d) and you're set. You might also
recompile
>your
>>kernel with support for these cards, if you're into that soft of thing.
>That's
>>what I did (using kernel 2.2.10 on RedHat 6) and it works just fine.
>>
>> Marcus Lauer
>
>
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From: "Sean Middleditch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:09:14 -0400
I have a Compaq Presario that came with a DVD drive, which I currently like
to sue to watch some of my Anime movies. I was wondering... is there any
software under Linux to make use of this DVD drive, or am I stuck booting
into Windows every time I want to watch one?
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From: [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 15:16:47 -0700
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:17:27 -0400, Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>
>> Brian Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>>
>> : > Brian Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[deletia]
>> Yes, yes! I know the theory. In theory I can even do that myself.
>> Only a practice is a bit different and I have seen a similar stuff on
>> a number of occasions. :-) This is called "Reboot, reboot, reboot and
>> pray". The card in question, which was getting in, was one of Diamond
>> S3 cards - BTW. When I have seen that "procedure" for the first time
>> I was surprised myself. I did not realize that things are __that__ bad.
>>
>
>The procedure I outlined above involves two reboots. One to acknowledge the new
>card,
>another to complete the installation of the drivers. And if the drivers are any good
>(I've
>got a Trident 9440 card in my PC) there won't be a problem. Amd amyway. Windows
>supports
>more hardware than Linux, so you're more likely to have a problem on the Linux side.
NO, you're more likely that it just plain won't work. However,
if you're adding hardware that's a non-issue. The same effor
you expend avoiding the ATIs can be put into ensuring that the
new device will work well under Linux.
[deletia]
>> : Win98 is not an OS for serious computer people doing intensive tasks. It's an OS
>for
>> : novices and those who don't really understand the sofware side.
>>
>> It came preloaded on the laptop and it was not an option. It also has
>> a number of nice toys to play with TV pcmcia cards which do not exist
>> under Linux (can you spell "proprietary undocumented interfaces"?).
>> There is also quite a few people convinced that you need it for
>> "office productivity" software. Ahem...
>>
>
>Office productivity software is quite a different thing from "intensive tasks". It's
>no
That is the grand fallacy of the IBM PC Clone mentality. It's all
the same sort of work. None of if is really any less valuable or
any less 'real' for the person doing it. The expectation that
your document won't disappear while you're editing it is no
different than the expectation that your Alpha will stay up long
enough to render this next frame.
[deletia]
--
It helps the car, in terms of end user complexity and engineering,
that a car is not expected to suddenly become wood chipper at some |||
arbitrary point as it's rolling down the road. / | \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: USR OEM Alana DFV PCI V.90 modem
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:34:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Jun 1999 04:30:53 GMT, cookies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Attention: I returned that 'Win modem' the second day. So I don't have any
>driver at hand. Now I am using M56VI-ST1 V90/X2 from Powercom. It works
>fine at Linux, however, I always get trouble from Win98 and WinNT4.0.
>what a mazing!
>cookies wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>> I got a USR OEM Alana DFV PCI V.90 modem, I didn't find it in the list
>of
>> Winmodem. But I am not sure it will work under Linux 5.2. is there
>anyone
>> who can help me?
USR does have a PCI softmodem. Not sure if it's sold only through OEM,
or also available through Retail. Return it if you can, and pay a bit
more to buy a real, controller-based modem. The assle of using win- or
soft-modems is just not worth it.
FF.
--
The system required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux!
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From: Karim El Founas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What's the best 12 Gb IDE tape for Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:26:14 +0200
Hello, I'm searching an IDE tape with a capacity of about 12 Gb that run
with Linux. And wich software I've to use to make backups with
compression (tar is enough ?). Have I to recompile the kernel to use
this tape (RedHat 5.1) ?
Thank you
-- Karim EL FOUNAS --
Avenue Prince J�r�me Bonaparte, 34 - 1420 Braine-l'Alleud, Belgique
Tel+Fax: 02/387.32.34 - Mobile: 0495/57.32.34
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://members.xoom.com/elfounas/
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From: Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq presario
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:49:30 GMT
I have Presario 2200. I had to get an external modem, because a real
modem won't fit into the space where the winmodem still is. I got
RedHat 5.2 which has XFree86 version 3.3.2 and I had to get 3.3.3.1
which supporst the mediagx chip.
So far so good. I have a decent X Windows and can use the Internet. I
have a bus error with Netscape that seems to be a mystery (I'm using
4.61 or trying to) I have not got my printer or sound going yet; so I
don't know how that will go.
Good luck
Anita
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