Linux-Hardware Digest #590, Volume #10 Fri, 25 Jun 99 18:14:21 EDT
Contents:
Re: New to SCSI (Marc Mutz)
Re: Voodoo 3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Replacing UART 16450 with 16550A problems.... ("Bijl")
Re: Does Linux support PC104 based systems with SSD disks? ("Joseph S. Wisniewski")
Re: Need guidance with Scanner type (Nick Kew)
Re: Adding SCSI tape to Redhat 6.0 (Vic Ryan)
Re: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux (Doug DeJulio)
[Fwd: How to configure RH5.1 to recognize both my 2940 and 1542 SCSI adapters?] (Rod
Pike)
Re: Does Linux support PC104 based systems with SSD disks? ("Joseph S. Wisniewski")
HELP formatting a ZIP disk (Wendell Craig)
Re: Building a Dual system: advice wanted (Andrew Comech)
Re: Internal modem blues! (Andrew Comech)
Re: What's the best 12 Gb IDE tape for Linux ("Andrew J. Norman")
Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
linux and UPS (RohrMat)
Future Domain ISA SCSI card in Linux (Kelvin Leung)
How do I find out how much disk space is free (John Quinn)
360K 5 1/4" drives on linux (B'ichela)
Overclocking CPU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bart=B3omiej?= Niechwiej)
Re: Sound Card problem ("Philip Burgess")
Re: Recommendation needed for Tape Backup drive (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: SCSI ZIP working with RH 6.0 on Toshiba 8000 (David Graham)
Re: SiS 530 (Basic Saint)
Re: voodoo3 support (Eric Sandvik)
Onstream + linux official news (Raphael Clifford)
Onstream + linux official news (Raphael Clifford)
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:41:42 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to SCSI
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What would be a good scsi card for a just few devices: a cd burner, a
> zipdrive and maybe a harddrive in the future?
>
Get the Symbios Logic cards. They work fine in Linux.
Adaptec has many flaps, I read now and then here.
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Voodoo 3
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:48:09 GMT
In article <CKsb3.93$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Daniel DeMers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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]
>
>
Dan:
Go to http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html (which you can
navigate your way to from www.3dfx.com, if you want), and download and
install (via rpm) the 3 rpm files there:
XFree86_3DFX-SVGA-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm,
XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm,
XFree86_3DFX-rushlib-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm
Then run XF86Config (or whatever, can't quite remember the spelling of
this command), and choose "card" from the menu at the top. You should
see the new voodoo3 driver there. Select it and go from there.
I did this after installing RedHat 6.0 and everything was honkey-dorey.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Bijl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Replacing UART 16450 with 16550A problems....
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:37:45 +0200
Hello,
i'm currently building an internet server. it's connected to a cable modem
via the serial port.
The io card contains 2 uart16450 chips. These are just a little bit too slow
for the modem so i replaced 1 chip with a 16550A. But Linux doesn't
recognize it properly. It just says there are 2 16450's...
when i issue the command
# ~ setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart 16550A
the port does work very unrelieable..
some one got a solution??
greetings from holland.
joost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Joseph S. Wisniewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux support PC104 based systems with SSD disks?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:44:19 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Dr. S�lyom Andr�s" wrote:
> The subject says it all.
> I am working on a project for a BIG company and I want to persuade them to use
> Linux instead of DOS for their PC104 embedded system if that is possible. The
> hardware now has a 486 processor, 32 Mb RAM and a 32 Mb flash (SSD) disk. It
> presently run DOS (so most of that RAM is wasted...)
>
> Any information would be very helpful!
>
> Andras
What kind of SSD are you using? I've had good luck with SanDisk and Linux.
Which PC104 card? And what IO cards (some are hard to find drivers for).
--
Joseph S. Wisniewski | Views expressed are my own, and don't reflect
Ford Motor Company | those of the Ford Motor Co. or affiliates.
Project Sapphire | LeMans, Daytona, Bonneville, and Sebring are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | just races, won by people driving Ford cars!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Kew)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need guidance with Scanner type
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:41:30 +0000
> Its a pity about the Umax with the other OS software, as my sister was
Might work for her - probably depends on her other hardware (my ISDN
card doesn't work under windoze either). If you get it, try in on her
machine first, so you can give tech support a bollocking if it doesn't work.
--
Nick Kew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vic Ryan)
Subject: Re: Adding SCSI tape to Redhat 6.0
Date: 24 Jun 1999 17:53:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Vic Ryan wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> If you already are using SCSI HD device the tape device
> should be located and identified when the system boots and
> probes the SCSI bus. If the SCSI support is new, you will
> have to compile the proper driver for your HBA (either in
> the kernel or as a module) before you can use the tape
> device.
>
Perhaps I need to clarify here... The adaptec SCSI card was "added" after
the system was loaded with 6.0. How do I now get the system to see it.
Linuxconf says there are no SCSI devices in the system. This card and tape
drive works fine on a idenical system with Redhat 5.2. Note: I am not
already using a SCSI HD, I have a 13.5G IBM IDE drive in the system.
--
--
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Code 450.J, Bldg. 25, N105C! AlliedSignal Technical Services Corporation
Goddard Space Flight [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phone: 301-286-4841
Greenbelt, MD 20771 !Fax - Prime: 301-286-4672, Backup: 301-286-1770
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux
Date: 25 Jun 1999 12:07:10 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?
Yeup.
Make sure you have a kernel with advanced power management support
compiled in to it. You should probably also run "apmd". Then you can
use plenty of tools to access the battery information, or just access
"/proc/apm" yourself to make your own tools.
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: Rod Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: How to configure RH5.1 to recognize both my 2940 and 1542 SCSI
adapters?]
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:29:15 +0200
Rod Pike wrote:
>
> As the subject says
>
> How do I configure RH5.1 to recognize both my Adaptec 2940 and 1542 SCSI
> adapters?
>
> I know it has something to do with initrd, but I'm not sure of the
> syntax or what else is involved. Do I need to recompile the kernel?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Rod
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From: "Joseph S. Wisniewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux support PC104 based systems with SSD disks?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:55:30 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Dr. S�lyom Andr�s" wrote:
> Any information would be very helpful!
Your system is huge, much more than you need for a nice, embedded Linux.
Definitely check out the "matchbox" link.
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
http://www.pctvmag.com/tiny.html
http://matchbox.stanford.edu/
p.s. your email is bouncing.
--
Joseph S. Wisniewski | Views expressed are my own, and don't reflect
Ford Motor Company | those of the Ford Motor Co. or affiliates.
Project Sapphire | LeMans, Daytona, Bonneville, and Sebring are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | just races, won by people driving Ford cars!
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From: Wendell Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP formatting a ZIP disk
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:56:29 GMT
Hello,
I munged up a ZIP disk so badly that I figured I'd bulk erase it and
re-format. Now I can't get the cussed thing to even be recognized
enough for a low-level format!
Any tips?
Thanks.
--
Wendell Craig - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
HEAR MY VOICEOVER DEMO AT http://www.anncrman.com
OR BY TELEPHONE AT (212)595-0314
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Building a Dual system: advice wanted
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Jun 1999 12:30:55 -0500
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:38:53 -0400, brian wrote:
> I need advice on the last of the component:
>
> SoundCard (want the most full featured card possible that is stable
> under Linux)
> VidCard (pretty much narrowed down to a Voodoo3 3000)
> non-Winmodem (int/ext)
> tape backup
> CD drive...
Just a _drive_? any ide (let's say udma/33) cd-rom.
>
> Right now I have the core of the componets already :
>
> 19" Shamrock Monitor
> 256Megs non-ecc cas-2 8ns DIMMs
You are much better off with ecc memory. It is currently
below $1/MB. Btw., memory drops in price so fast that it
is reasonable to get 128MB now and another 128 in a few months,
when it is below $40... You would not want an overpriced
256MB DIMM anyways.
Ooops, you have already bought non-ecc... Rest in peace.
> 13.6 Quantum CX series hard drive IDE
You mean -- Quantum CR? I am not sure whether under Linux
you'd get any advantage of UDMA/66 vs. UDMA/33. My EX drive
gives around 12MB/s and this is probably it... If at some
point you see you need to downgrade UDMA/66 to UDMA/33, there is
an EXE thing at Quantum's web site.
As to the modems, see the link below.
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Internal modem blues!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Jun 1999 12:17:36 -0500
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:24:06 +0800, Johnny Chu wrote:
> I need some help on this matter. I have an internal U.S.Robotics 56K modem
> pluged into an ISA slot. I managed to use isapnp to have linux recongise and
> enable it on boot time. A peek using 'cat /proc/ioports' confirm I have
> access to COM3. However, I can't seem to make wvdial to use it.
Wvdial is "too advanced"; try minicom first and see what happens.
To mention, if that thing lives at COM3=/dev/ttyS2,
some software might appreciate if you added a symbolic link to "modem":
ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem
or, even better, ln -sf /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem
> Any idea? To add to the mystery, 'cat /proc/interrupts' reported no hardware
> is using IRQ3, however, the modem is suppose to be using it...
That's no mystery: this IRQ is not there until computer is using
the modem.
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What's the best 12 Gb IDE tape for Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:03:33 GMT
To answer your question:
A relatively new entry into the field of high capacity tape drives are the
TR5 models. These have a native capacity of 10gigs will hold upwards of
20gigs with compresion. Seagate makes one of these models, which we
recently bought, and it works well (reference http://www.seagate.com for
information on their current models)
As for software, normally a backup is just made using "tar" (standing for
Tape ARchive). Gnutar supports a number of compression options including
the standard "gzip" or "compress". There are also cute ways to make it use
bzip2 or just about any other filter you can think of.
As for interface and drivers......umm....it's a standard IDE atapi device.
When the systems boots it will detect the device and you should be able to
access it on /dev/ht0 without further modificaitons. Alternatively you
can make the standard links to make it show up as /dev/rmt0 if you want to
conform to earlier Un*x conventions.
Other options are much more expensive (I'm thinking DLT or DDS type
driver) My favorites are still the SCSI minicarts just because of their
speed and reliablity (and portability)
Karim El Founas wrote:
> 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/
--
Andrew J. Norman
Dept. of Physics
College of William & Mary
_____________________________________________________________
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle;
for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
when blood is their argument?" -- Williams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:25:00 -0700
On 25 Jun 99 03:02:08 -0500, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Donovan Rebbechi;
>
> DR> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:41:05 -0700, Alex Lam wrote:
>>>Dump Redhat.. Redhat killed one of my monitor before during installation
>>>probing. I mean totally killed it.
>
> DR> killed it ? The monitor shouldn't die unless you sync it out of spec
> DR> ( and even then, it should be able to shut itself down when it's
> DR> overdriven )
>
> DR> I'd suggest you return your monitor for a prompt refund.
>
>From a tech:
>
>A plumb well thought out response, NOT. What if the monitor is already 5
>years old? Or more?
I've got such a monitor. Fortunately, it doesn't explode
when mildly overdriven or Win95 would have killed it by
now.
>
>While its possible the newer ones, particularly those that can display
>their sweep speed parameters might well shut themselves down in self
>defense, or simply refuse to go that low and drop out of sync to protect
>themselves, older ones quite often do not.
I have an ~ 5 year old bargain basement model and even it
isn't that fragile.
[deletia]
--
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that a car is not expected to suddenly become wood chipper at some |||
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RohrMat)
Subject: linux and UPS
Date: 25 Jun 1999 20:15:19 GMT
Hello,
I'm loocking for a method to install an UPS (I don't know which one I could
take) under linux. It should shut-down my linux-system automatically if the
power is down.
I'm running SuSE 6.1 with 2.2.10
thanks!
Matthias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Leung)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Future Domain ISA SCSI card in Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:02:35 -0700
Hello,
I got a Future domain ISA 18X00 SCSI in my RH 6.0 system. I have tried to
locate the drier for it but no success. My system is a RH 6.0 with kernel
2.2.5. Since 2.0.36 to 2.2.6, I don't see any support for this SCSI card.
Can some one give me a hint if you know it. Thanks.
Kelvin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Quinn)
Subject: How do I find out how much disk space is free
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:00:58 GMT
Reply-To: n/a
I am running Suse 6.1. Could any one tell me what is
the command to find out how much disk space I have
free. I am unable to install any packages and I think I
have used all the space available, but I do not know
the command to find out how much free space on
the hard disk I have free.
thanks.
john
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: 360K 5 1/4" drives on linux
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 06:31:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Being I have many legacy systems here at my home. Many only use
360K 48tpi 5 1/4" disks. I had a 360K in my system as B: in addition to a
1.44MB as A:.
Bios was properly configured as such, linux works the 1.44 with out
a hassle but it Would NOT work the 360K despite the fact that it recognized
it from the system bootup. trying to use the second drive gave me I/O error
or drive not present errors. I am using Linux kernal 2.0.35 on a clone
486DX2/66 mhz Vesa local bus machine.
What must I do to use a 360K floppy drive on this system? I really
need it for transfering files to my IBM-xt(s). Do I need a 1.2MB drive? if
so where can I find one of those HD controllers for the Xts (if I am going
to go to that problem. might as well put 1.44mb drives on the Xts cheaper!)
By the way I have the mtools ver 3.9.1 in additon to the fdformat
package. Slackware 3.1 also came with something called superformat which
for the life of me I cannot get to work!
A hint from the Western Digital MFM HD wd1006V-MM1 states that one
cannot use High Density and low density drives on the same controller. Ok
so I set up the WD1006V-mm1 floppy controller to the second floppy
controller setting. and my Adaptec AHA 2825VL scsi host adaptor's floppy
for the primary channel. How do I get Linux to use the second controller
for the 360K drive as the first drive? what settings do I send to lilo?
Funny enough Msdos lets me mix the two densities on one controller. why not
linux? am I missing something here? or did that problem just get fixed on
the newest 2.2.x kernels
While we are on Drives. I use the MFM HD for dos usage. but if I
set lilo up like this
hda=1166,7,17 (priam V199 Full hight 70MB)
and if I ever use Lilo it complains that Linux is not on the first HD. I
have no desire to put Linux or Lilo on the MFM HD! Should I make the AT IDE
/mfm driver into a module and load/unload it when I need it so Lilo don't c
omplain about linux not being on the first drive?
--
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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bart=B3omiej?= Niechwiej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Overclocking CPU
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:06:36 GMT
Hi,
I've got Intel Celeron 366Mhz processor and I was trying to overclock
it. Unfortunately all Celerons have fixed its multiplier so there is
only one way to overclock it - to change FSB speed. I have an ABIT BH6
motherboard which supports 66,75,83,100,112, 124 and 133 MHz selection
for FSB speed but unfortunately PCI speed is determined from FSB speed
(66-83 its 1/2 FSB, 100-133 its 1/2 FSB). I managed to set FSB 83Mhz and
everything under Win95 was OK - I run Quake2 for about 2 hours and
nothing wrong happened. So I decided to test if linux will suffer some
overclocking...
For about six reboots it was OK and the I saw: "Unable to mount root
device...". When I tried to boot from floppy and repair it I failed.
After repairing ext2 nothing was readable!!! It was completly damaged
and I lost about 2GB!!!
What could be wrong with linux?
Why does Windows (or rather winshit) work?...
Bartlomiej Niechwiej.
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From: "Philip Burgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,hepnet.freehep,linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: Sound Card problem
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:09:03 +0100
You cold try compiling a kernel with sound support.
or in your bios look for something along the lines of pnp os and disable it.
This wont affect windows but allow linux to set things up.
Ari P. Korhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
>
> I have a Sound Blaster 16-bit PnP sound card and sndconfig detects it
> properly, but after that my computer gets stuck. It is unbeliveable. I
> have tried to re-install RH6 but it didn't help. Is it a program
> malfunction or should I try some other ways to install my sound ware?
>
> Ari P. Korhonen
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.inux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Recommendation needed for Tape Backup drive
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:44:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Clarence Riddle wrote:
>I use old SCSI archive 150 and 525 meg internal drives with tar. Works
>great and is cheap at flea markets.
[...]
>> I'm using a Tecmar (Wangdat) 3400 and tar. Works for me.
[...]
Guess I'd not go for a frive from the flea market, a DAT drive here. In
general ... DAT :: drives are more expensive, tapes are cheaper. QIC ::
drives are cheaper, tapes are more expensive. QIC is considered to be
more robust, at least if it is not some noname thingy, but at work I'd
two DAT's (one Linux, one a HP) and until I left they never caused me
trouble (5 - 7 backups a week).
[...]
Cheers,
Juergen
--
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From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI ZIP working with RH 6.0 on Toshiba 8000
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:04:10 -0400
My machine has 1 SCSI card and dmesg reports: scsi : 1 host. I think
your SCSI _card_ is not being detected. "0 hosts" should be taken
literally.
What card? What SCSI parameters are compiled into the kernel? More
details?
David Graham
--
>
> I am attempting to get my scsi card attached to my ZIP drive (It is a
> scsi interface for the ZIP).
> After booting the machine, I do a dmesg and get the following line:
>
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
>
> Meaning that the OS sees the scsi adapter card, but not the ZIP
> attached to it.
>
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From: Basic Saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: SiS 530
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 23:40:02 +0200
?eh? wrote:
>
> I think I may, but I dont remember the exact syntax:
>
> in this section: (or whichever one you are using)
>
> # The Colour SVGA server
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "svga"
> Device "Generic VGA"
> #Device "My Video Card"
> Monitor "Dell Ultrascan 21FS"
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "800x600" ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> I think you add a virtual key in the Display Subsection:
>
> Virtual 800 600
>
> try it, i think there are NO quotes in that one.
Thanks for your input.
The screen does havee a workable size now.
It's all still a bit crappy: fonts are sometimes broken and the windows
leave lines and all, but I can live with that for now. (I haven't had so
much fun with a computer since my C64!)
I'm getting a lot of errormessages from X still, like:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
-xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp
"> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server"
keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm'
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource id in failed request: 0x3800002
Serial number of failed request: 214
Current serial number in output stream: 214
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow)
Resource id in failed request: 0x340000f
Serial number of failed request: 2048
Current serial number in output stream: 2051
waiting for X server to shut down xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken
pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I think I should be able to correct the error concerning the keyboard
(how? I still have to read a lot I guess)
I suspect the rest off the errormessages has to do with the alpha-status
of the SiS-X-server?
I'll be back!
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Basic Saint
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: as soon as I've got Licq working
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From: Eric Sandvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: voodoo3 support
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:35:01 -0500
Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> Lee Sharp wrote:
>
> > The Banshee driver has V3 support. It is still somewhat raw, but it
> > works. It is on the edge 3d website who's url escapes me at the moment.
>
> That would be http://glide.xxedgexx.com/.
>
> Bobby Bryant
> Austin, Texas
I havent put linux on my new computer but I did check out 3dfx's site, they
provide a linux driver for the v3. Doesn't it work? Because I'd think that
it would be better than using a banshee driver for the v3.
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From: Raphael Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Onstream + linux official news
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:04:41 +0100
I asked Onstream about their linux support and this is what they said
"
Raphael,
Thank you for your inquiry.
OnStream will introduce support on Novell and Unix servers for the ADR70
drive that will ship in the Fall 1999. This new drive includes features such
as hardware data compression and Wide Ultra2 LVD SCSI interface specifically
for these types of servers. There are no plans to support OnStream DI30,
DP30, SC30, or SC50 drives on Novell or Unix servers. For more information
on the ADR70 product announcement check out our latest press release.
http://www.onstream.com/news/index.html#press9
Click here if you would like to receive information on this product as it
becomes available.
http://onstream.com/register/faq_info.html
OnStream Technical Support
Rey D.
"
Pretty poor I'd say :(.
Jurgen Botz posted a message saying he had set up a mailing list about
onstream and linux but I subscribed and their have been no postings ...
"
I have created a mailing list for people interested in developing drivers for
OnStream tape drives
for linux and other free OSes. To subscribe send
"subscribe" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
- J�rgen"
Raphael
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From: Raphael Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Onstream + linux official news
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:05:04 +0100
I asked Onstream about their linux support and this is what they said
"
Raphael,
Thank you for your inquiry.
OnStream will introduce support on Novell and Unix servers for the ADR70
drive that will ship in the Fall 1999. This new drive includes features such
as hardware data compression and Wide Ultra2 LVD SCSI interface specifically
for these types of servers. There are no plans to support OnStream DI30,
DP30, SC30, or SC50 drives on Novell or Unix servers. For more information
on the ADR70 product announcement check out our latest press release.
http://www.onstream.com/news/index.html#press9
Click here if you would like to receive information on this product as it
becomes available.
http://onstream.com/register/faq_info.html
OnStream Technical Support
Rey D.
"
Pretty poor I'd say :(.
Jurgen Botz posted a message saying he had set up a mailing list about
onstream and linux but I subscribed and their have been no postings ...
"
I have created a mailing list for people interested in developing drivers for
OnStream tape drives
for linux and other free OSes. To subscribe send
"subscribe" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
- J�rgen"
Raphael
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