Linux-Hardware Digest #650, Volume #10 Fri, 2 Jul 99 18:14:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Adaptec 2920 SCSI controller ("LHD Administrator")
Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adaptec 2920 SCSI controller (Phil Richardson)
Re: mounting mitsumi 2801 CDR (Aaron Ginn)
Re: SoundCard (Eddy Young)
Re: k6-3 400 mhz + asus mb + 64 mb pc-100 (john)
help - printing problems ("darrin")
Re: backup HOWTO? ("Steven J. Hathaway")
Re: monitor shuts off, why? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: kppp (Peter Christy)
Re: Intel could nip dual-Celeron move in bud (Chris Mauritz)
Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info (Alan Boritz)
Re: ATAPI Zip Drive Linux 2.0.10 fails ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB Speakers (Mircea)
rmt for WinNT (Ken)
Re: Help with RedHat 5.2 initrd.img file (Timothy Murphy)
Re: Scsi (Scott Marlowe)
Dropping bytes on serial port ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2 (Bones)
Re: Permedia-based RealVision Power 3DGL Graphis adapter and RH Linux 6 (Richard
Bumby)
Re: SMP on RH6.0 Installation Help (newbie) ("John R. Bennett")
S3 ViRGE DX/GX PCI (375/385) Modeline (Andrew Hon)
Re: Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI Problem (Warwick Ward-Cox)
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From: "LHD Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2920 SCSI controller
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:57:02 -0400
Phil Richardson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Just installed Red Hat 5.2. During the installation process the list of
>SCSI controllers supported did not include the Adaptec 2920 (other
>Adaptec cards were on the list, but not the 2920).
It is supported by the same driver as many other Adaptec 29xx cards. For
more info, check the Linux Hardware Database entry for this product at
<http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?257>
LHD Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LhD: Linux Hardware Database <http://lhd.datapower.com>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 08:07:19 -0700
In <377cd028$2$zpunffba$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/02/99
at 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>An Aiwa SCSI was the best choice for me. The drive was less than
>$100 new in OEM box.
Can you provide a source for this drive? It sounds interesting.
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Happily using OS/2 Warp on the Central California Coast.
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From: Phil Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 2920 SCSI controller
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 19:42:40 +0100
Hi folks,
Just installed Red Hat 5.2. During the installation process the list of
SCSI controllers supported did not include the Adaptec 2920 (other
Adaptec cards were on the list, but not the 2920).
Has anybody got RH5.2 to recognise this kind of SCSI card ? I've got a
pair of seagate 4GB drives I'd DEARLY like to use.
Persumably I have to get the kernel module to support this adaptor from
somewhere ?
Best Regards
Phil Richardson
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From: Aaron Ginn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting mitsumi 2801 CDR
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:02:10 -0700
Jeremiah David Lee wrote:
> I just bought a Mitsumi 2801 CD-R, and after recompiling the
> kernel to take out the ATAPI CD-ROM support so that I could load the
> ide-scsi module, I still can't get it to work. It's configured as the
> Master drive on the secondary IDE channel, having a slave of another
> cdrom drive.
>
> cdrecord finds the drive fine when I do a "cdrecord -scanbus",
> and even when I start to try to burn something, it looks like it's
> going to work. Output is below. One thing that concerns me is the
> fact that I can't seem to mount the drive through the sg or sr devs;
> I've only tried the first few, but they give me these messages (and
> I'm doing all of these commands with enough privileges, too):
> ~$ mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sr0 as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> ~$ mount /dev/sg0 /mnt
> mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device
>
<cdrecord output deleted>
Have you tried the following:
mount /dev/scd0 /mnt
I think you need to address the problems mounting the drive before you can even begin
trying write to the drive.
Aaron
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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:31:15 +0400
From: Eddy Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SoundCard
Anthony Lacey wrote:
[snip]
> listening to CDs and maybe some web audio under both and I may record
> some of my vinyl onto cd in the furture. From my local dealer the
> choices seem to be:
>
> soundblaster 64 PCI - �17
> soundblaster AWE64 ISA - �27
> soundblaster 128 PCI - �30
> soundblaster live value - �43
I have installed RH 6.0 with which SoundBlaster PCI 64 is working just
fine, although I hear other people are experiencing a lot of problems.
Eddy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john)
Subject: Re: k6-3 400 mhz + asus mb + 64 mb pc-100
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 17:59:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>SNIP<<
>I'm running an ASUS P5A w/o audio mainboard, 128 mb pc-100 memory and an
>AMD K6-2 400 MHz processor and it's rock-solid.
I have an ASUS P2B motherboard in my system with 128 megs o' PC100
memory. Slackware 3.6 only seems to see 64 megs of RAM. Can you tell
me how to make Linux see all of my RAM?
thanks,
John
>If you are considering buying ECC memory, be aware that the P5A, at the
>time I purchased it, did not support ECC at 100 MHz bus speeds. If this
>has not changed and you intend to use a P5A at 100 MHz FSB clock, buying
>ECC memory for this setup would be a waste of money.
>
>Dunno about the video card, check XFree86...
>
>Cheers,
>
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From: "darrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: help - printing problems
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:15:06 -0600
lpr: connect: Connection refused
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
i get the above error when i try to print to our remote printer using redhat
linux 5.2 kernel 2.2.3
would changing the lp account such as password cause this problem? if so,
how do i change it back?
it was working fine yesterday.
the whole reason i was messing around with this is i was trying to find a
way that regular users can run lpc and disable/enable printers. it says
'privledged command' error. i then try to su to lp (like in sco unix) but
still got the same error. i then gave lp root privledges in and same
error. any other way?
another problem i'm having is in elm. when i try to print email in there it
stairsteps even though our printtool set it up to prevent this for that
printer. also, if i print using the command line it's fine (lpr -Phplaser
textfile.txt). i setup elm to use this command - lpr -Phplaser %s and tried
cat %s | lpr -Phplaser
the manual says something about piping it to a todos filter but 'todos' is
not found on my system.
please reply by post and email,
thanks,
darrin
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From: "Steven J. Hathaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: backup HOWTO?
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 12:35:23 -0700
NOTE:
Some "tar" programs, ie. Solaris, do not strip the leading "/"
slash. To make your "tar" archive portable, you should either not
specify a leading slash, or use the "./" construct defining the
current relative directory when creating the "tar" backup.
- Steven J. Hathaway
Alan Mead wrote:
> Sorry to crosspost again. THANKS! to everyone who helped me with my
> dumb tar problem. I've looked in the SAG, Frisch's book, and a book
> by Parker and they are all good for the basic and a few details but
> they all leave out vitally important details like, "remember, tar
> stips the leading slash so cd to your target's root (/ or wherever)
> before untarring."
>
> Am I just RT'ing wrong FM? It seems to me that backups are an
> important topic with a fair degree of complexity and judging from the
> other posts I read, many people have questions about this sort of
> thing.
>
> TIA! Also thanks again to previous responders.
>
> -Alan
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor shuts off, why?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:01:24 +0200
John Miller wrote:
> But when I use the 800x600 mode, the monitor shuts down into standby
> mode.
> When I do get it to work, the display is not very stable
Many monitors shut of if they get a mode which they are unable to
handle. Try to lower the refresh rate and see if it helps.
regards Henrik
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:54:13 +0100
On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, Laine Walker-Avina wrote:
>My /ect/ppp/options file is completely empty!
That's almost certainly your problem! It shouldn't be! At least, it isn't in my
SuSe Linux setup. It sounds like something has gone screwy in your install. I
seem to remember you saying you were running RedHat? I'm afraid I only know
SuSE. Did Redhat come with KDE, or did you get it elswhere and add it later?
If it will help, I can send you a copy of my options file, but if that file is
empty, others maybe too! I think you need to double check your installation!
Pete
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel could nip dual-Celeron move in bud
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 20:27:40 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:51:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>That will just shift the mind share away from them and onto AMD. If Intel
>>doesn't want to sell two celerons then I'm sure AMD would be happy to sell
>>two K7s. I just hope the K7s drop below $200 in the next few months.
>>
> huh? Is AMD finally making multiprocessor capable cpus? Last I checked,
> AMD chips didn't do that.
The K7 (Altheon) supports SMP.
C
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Christopher Mauritz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Boritz)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:57:03 -0400
In article <377a58a4$1$ofgrcuna$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/30/99
> at 09:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Boritz) said:
>
>>Stay away from the Travan format and floppy controller tape drives,
>>since there are no OS/2 programs on the market that can reliably
>>operate them.
>
>I respectfully disagree. While floppy tapes may not be the best
>choice, I don't think they are a bad choice based on my own
>experience. I'm using a QIC-3020 (Conner 3200) device with a
>high-speed 2MBits/sec controller and have found it to be reliable and
>quite speedy. I have had no problems, but I would consider going to
>SCSI just to get a better user interface backup program such as
>BackAgain/2.
Well, my experience hasn't been so good. I'm still running a Conner 420 drive
here, with a collection of otherwise useless (but expensive) Sony QW-5122F
tapes and discovered that all of the backup sets I've got will not do a
complete restore of the OS/2 system files with Backmaster. Dualstor can't
deal with these tapes, and can't do a system restore on Warp 4, either. I've
got the original Seagate Backup for OS/2 (written by MSR, BTW), and although
it works with the Sony tapes, it's an absolutely horrible program to run and
takes about a half-hour just to assemble the file names to back up when doing
a full system backup. There is no compatibility between these programs and
any contemporary backup program (MSR claims to be writing and reading real QIC
format, while Seagate and others have modified the QIC format to suit their
purposes). There's no way to do an unattended backup here with any of these
programs or tapes so I've given up trying.
>I have used Seagate (now Veritas) Backup Exec, BackMaster and
>Backmaster Ultra, andNova Back for OS/2. There's something about each
>of them I hate, but Backup Exec works the best in spite of its
>perfectly horrible and hated user interface. I have found all the
>programs I tried to be reliable in that they can safely backup and
>restore properly. But, again, this is not to say it is the best
>solution, only that I have found it to be a satisfactory solution.
I stopped buying Seagate products when they held back support for their OS/2
product, and then released an "upgrade" in less than a year for full price
with no substantial program improvements. At the same time they were selling
the OS/2 "upgrade" product, the Seagate people at PC Expo were telling the
public that they had dropped their OS/2 product line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip Drive Linux 2.0.10 fails
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 17:23:36 GMT
Looks like my first message did not make it...
I now know that my new ATAPI Zip drive works just fine using guest.exe
under DOS...it is just that linux 2.2.10 (ataflop.c) cannot use it.
linux detects it, but it cannot see any partition on zip disks, and thus
one cannot mount it or read information off of zip disks. I think these
newer atapi zip are different from older ones...
/ivo welch
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Speakers
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 16:51:39 -0400
AFAIK, the USB speakers, it's the winmodem story revisited.
MST
Alex wrote:
>
> ANyone ever connected philips usb speakers on redhat linux and got
> them to work?
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 11:19:04 -0700
From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rmt for WinNT
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.admin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking
I have identical HP SureStore 12/24 DAT drives on my NT 3.51 server and
Red Hat 5.2 Linux server. I'd like to be able to cross-verify tapes made
on one drive with the other drive. Is there an rmt (remote tape) program
available for NT? I'd like to put my Linux dump tape in the NT drive and
verify it across the LAN, thereby giving me early warning if one of the
drives is drifting out of alignment.
--
Ken
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Help with RedHat 5.2 initrd.img file
Date: 24 Jun 1999 03:54:28 +0100
Steve Pacenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Regarding what's in it, decompress it with gunzip and mount the
>uncompressed file using the ``loopback'' device with a command like:
> mount -o loop -t ext2 /home/me/initrd /mnt/tmp
>assuming that you have a free mount point "/mnt/tmp" and that the
>uncompressed file is named "/home/me/initrd". Then you can ls or less
>or whatever the files inside.
That's really useful, thanks.
But what exactly is the point of initrd?
I notice that RedHat-6.0 comes with it,
but it doesn't seem to make the slightest difference
if one removes it from /etc/lilo.conf .
In fact, how can one tell it is being used?
There doesn't seem anything in dmesg about it.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scsi
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 00:32:25 -0600
Gerald Willmann wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Johannes B. wrote:
>
> > I try to get my Symbios Logic 53c400a Scsi- Adapter, delivered with a HP
> > Scsn Jet 4P to work under Linux. I have Suse 6.1. Please help me.
> >
> Johannes: AFAIK there is no driver for this SCSI card. I bought another
> SCSI card (an UW Buslogic/Mylex bt958 since I wanted to switch the whole
> system to SCSI) and have been using first a HP IIp and now a IIc without
> problems. Not sure SANE supports it, though - I went for xvscan
> (commercial) on a libc5 system.
> GErald
This is not true. The 53C400 is supported directly by Kernel 2.0.36. Do a
make menuconfig in the kernel directory, go to scsi->low level drivers and
there it is. I have gotten both the 53C400 and 53C406 running at various
times and they are much more stable and much faster than a 1542.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Dropping bytes on serial port
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 20:36:26 GMT
I am running SuSE Linux 6.1 and I have a hardware box
that uses com port 1. By examining the data received
from the box, it looks like I am not getting all the
bytes back from the box. Some bytes appear to be
dropping in the middle of a received packet, but always
in the same places.
I'm suspecting that the hardware box might be the problem,
but I want to eliminate linux as a possible source of the
problem. So, has anyone encountered problems where Linux
will drop bytes from a packet received from a com port?
Also, if so, could this be some conflict in the modules that
I had compiled into the kernel?
Thanks in advance.
-Godfrey Degamo,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bones)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 18:55:11 GMT
>On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:16:47 +0100, Barry Smith ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Bones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>(Oop! Sorry, it's a VLB card. I believe Dell used their own
>>implementation of local-bus video on some of their 386 machines, and
>>if not that, then ISA.)
>
>Hmm ... If you have problems getting PCI then how can I find VLB or ISA?
>I will have to get in touch with Dell Support to find out what bus I
>have.
I should have specified 'a used card that is known good'. There's lots
of old hardware floating around. I troubleshoot very little VLB or ISA
machines now, so any of that hardware I have left over is free to
whoever may need it.
>>What this sounds like is that the video card (or monitor) can't
>>produce output for a certain video mode. This could indicate that:
>>[snip]...
>What could this be? I can run at 1027x768 pixels in 256 bit colour, or
>1280x1024 in 16 bit colour?
It's not so much the resolution or colors as it is the signal. For
example, I used to have an old 486 with a Cirrus Logic card and an
Acer 34T monitor. I could view a 1280x1024 desktop on it, but it had
to be interlaced/56Hz, so the image was dim and fuzzy. I had to run
the CLMODE utility for that video card whenever the machine started to
tell the card never to produce anything above 60Hz, in all
resolutions, or the monitor couldn't handle it. Unfortunately, I don't
know of any such utilities for video cards under Linux.
>And isn't this a stupid thing to do? ie try
>and run something exotic before checking the capabilities of the
>hardware? Why not start in VGA?
Well, not all hardware is the same, so I assume there's a compromise
there somewhere. Plus, certain components in Linux don't have a
perfect track record for checking video hardware. Also, it seems like
all the good video hardware doesn't follow standards for video modes
and such. My Matrox card doesn't work with 75% of the modes that the
SVGAlib can provide.
>Is there no switch I can apply to tell it not to be so silly?
Like I said before, I'm just guessing what's going on, I don't have
Red Hat 5.x. I suppose that the installation is just a script or
something of the sort (it's probably an app, I'm showing my Slackware
heritage), so perhaps you can poke around in it and see what's going
on.
>So far as I am aware nothing is broken. All the modes that I allowed to
>run in Windows function normally. Perhaps I should contact RedHat
>support and tell them what is happening.
Contacting RedHat is probably a good idea, since that's what you paid
for. How many modes does Windows do for that card? I can't see any
more that 3, tops, and probably all at 60Hz. SVGAlib can push out
about twenty-something different resolutions/color depths/scan rates,
and X does some more.
****
Is there anyone reading this thread who's familiar with RedHat's
installer? I can only go so far with this without knowing all the
specifics! Thanks!
****
Maybe I can download the installer myself and take a look...
----
Bones
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Bumby)
Subject: Re: Permedia-based RealVision Power 3DGL Graphis adapter and RH Linux 6
Date: 2 Jul 1999 17:17:23 -0400
"Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Unrot13 this;
>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to richardmette ;
>> Hi,
>> does anyone have any clue as to why this particular board will not
>> work with the xfree86_3dlabs server?? ....
>Because the permedia is not a 3dlabs chip?
This is *not* the explanation. The 3DLabs Xserver does a good job
with the Elsa Gloria Synergy, which *is* Permedia2 based. I wasn't
going to say anything because I didn't have much to say, but the
quoted response shouldn't be the last word.
You should double check that X is a symbolic link to this server, and
that it wasn't reset when you weren't looking. Also, take a look at
your configuration file to make sure that everything looks reasonable.
Try different color depths -- 16bpp should be safe at almost any
resolution, but you can scale back to 8bpp while testing. With my
card, 24bpp is unreliable unless you call it 32bpp.
You can also try running the setup again.
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From: "John R. Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SMP on RH6.0 Installation Help (newbie)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 06:45:25 -0500
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Tim Moore wrote:
> Check your dual cpu jumpers on the slot1 converter. RH6.0 installation
> will detect dual processors and install a kernel named '2.2.5-15smp' if
> the hardware/bios is reporting correctly.
>
> > model name : Celeron (Mendocino)
>
> > Linux version 2.2.5-15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> > egcs-2.91.66 1
> > 9990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Apr 19 23:00:46 EDT 1999
> > Detected 333064033 Hz processor.
>
> --
> direct replies substitute timothymoore for user name
>
> "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
> WS Burroughs.
I had to pull teeth to get RH6 to see my second processor on my IBM
Intellistation M Pro. The fix turned out to be a BIOS patch. Check with
your system board manufacturer and see if they have an updated BIOS.
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From: Andrew Hon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: S3 ViRGE DX/GX PCI (375/385) Modeline
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:32:33 -0500
Hi,
Does anyone know what is the correct modeline for S3 Virge DX/GX
(375/385) video card? My X windows is not working property and I need
to solve this problem right away.
I have seen there is a tool for generating modeline for X from Freshmeat
site, but I couldn't find it now. Does anybody know the name of that
program??? I think I saw that program within 3 months.
Please reply this msg via email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" !!!
Thanks in advance.
andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warwick Ward-Cox)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI Problem
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 21:11:31 GMT
Problem solved!
Upgraded to kernel 2.2.10 using the Red Hat procedure to upgrade to
2.2.x kernels...
And wolla no more aborts/reties or anything drive works like a charm
Warwick Ward-Cox
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:31:24 GMT, "Andrew J. Norman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>The problem is your termination of the SCSI chain.
>
>Just so you know the Adaptec 2940UW will actually work with improper
>termination (well kinda that is) However you will start to notice
>messages like you are getting. The solution is to terminate both the high
>and low ends of your SCSI chain. To do this:
>
>1) If you have both external and internal devices you must terminate the
>external chain with a 68pin wide ACTIVE terminator on the last
>device. (I've tried a passive and a passthrough termination and they just
>are not the same) If you have no external devices you need to set your
>termination on the AH2940UW via it's bios (go into the SCSI bios...eg. hit
>cntrl-a like the screen for ez-scsi says) and turn on the termination.
>You will have three options "ON/ON" "OFF/ON" "ON/OFF" corresponding
>HIGH/LOW termination (meaning external/internal if you read the docs
>carefully) In the case that you have both external and internal devices
>the setting should be "OFF/OFF" indicating that you will provide all
>termination properly other wise you need the "ON/OFF" or "OFF/ON"
>depending on which side of the bus you are using.
>
>In the case of internal devices....again the last device on the chain MUST
>be terminated. This is normally done on a seagate drive by means of a
>jumper on the back jumper block (if you read the docs on your drive you
>will see a jump number which turns on active termination. Alternatively
>your drive may have a resistor block for passive termination, in which
>case make sure that it is filled with the correct load and that any
>jumpers that short this block out are set properly.
>
>The last thing to mention is that this error can also be caused by a
>T-configuration of the card (i.e. using the external, wide-internal,
>narrow-internal simulatenously) While this will work sometimes (I ran a
>narrow CD-R off the T for a while until I could hunt down a good 50-68 pin
>adapter) It will give errors and should prove unreliable.
>
>Interestingly Win/95/98/NT were not able to detect that my termination was
>incorrect or that I had T'd the bus (this in contrast to Linux screaming
>bloody murder about it) The most remarkable part of the whole thing was
>that the system when shipped by a Large well known dealer (who will remain
>nameless, but shame on them anyways) was configured with EVERY device on
>the SCSI bus terminated (note: ONLY the last device can be terminated if
>things are going to work right) and when I say EVERY I mean the disk,
>tape, CD, etc....shame shame on them....but it does tell me that the
>AH2940 is very good at picking up heavily attenuated signals...kudos to
>Adaptec....
>
>Well good luck with your new toy, remember that it really is all about
>termination. When all else fails check the manual that came with the
>AH2490 as it has a section on termination and cable lengths.
>
>
> Andrew J. Norman
>______________________________________________________________
>Dept. of Physics Phone: 757-221-3571
>College of William & Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
> what is essential is invisible to the eye" -The Little Prince
>______________________________________________________________
>
>On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Warwick Ward-Cox wrote:
>
>> I'm running Redhat 5.2 on a Compaq Deskpro 350
>> Kernel 2.0.36 stock standard
>> 128 Meg ram
>>
>> I have a 4.3 Gig IDE drive working fine, and have just added a
>> AHA-2940UW SCSI adapter and a 9 Gig Seagate Barracuda drive to the
>> system
>>
>> I did an insmod aix7xxx.o to install the scsi module it found the
>> controller and drive all normally.
>>
>> I've managed to partition the drive and create the file systems.
>>
>> My problem now comes in that after I copied about 2 gig's of data into
>> the partitions without any hassles I'm now getting the following
>> messages repeated every 30 seconds or so :
>>
>> SCSI host 0 aborted (PID xxxxx) timed out - restarting
>> SCSI bus being reset for host 0 .....................................
>>
>> Has anyone got any ideas on what is causing this?
>>
>Many thanks in advance
>> Warwick.
>>
>>
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