Linux-Hardware Digest #58, Volume #11 Fri, 20 Aug 99 13:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: fdisk & unallocated sectors (J. Scott Berg)
Re: Will Linux run on a MII? (Bryan)
Will Linux run on a MII? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boot from HPT366 (Vanza)
Re: How to crash Red Hat Linux 5.2? (Dave Huber)
Re: YAMAHA sound card problems - need help (Calin Rotaru)
AHA152x card under RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5) (Andreas Berntsen)
Re: How to connect to Internet using modem in Linux? (Michael Perry)
Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, and video?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Getting console/vga mode to 60Hz for ext. TV out w/LILO? (Ripp)
Re: Memory Upgrade ("Lee Sharp")
Re: CD Writer doesn't read CDs (Joerg Afflerbach)
New mp3 site! (Beer)
Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission (William Burrow)
Re: 2 Ppro's - 1 hot, 1 cold??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Memory Upgrade (Christopher W. Aiken)
SCSI bus reset hangs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux file-size limit? (John Thompson)
Re: how to get a fastest linux box ? ("Lee Sharp")
Re: OPL3-SA3 souncard won't play sound!!! (Joshua Li)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Scott Berg)
Subject: Re: fdisk & unallocated sectors
Date: 20 Aug 1999 13:05:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Feliciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I used Norton Ghost to make an image of my Slackware 4.0 partitions at
>work, and put them on a new drive I have at home. (Ghost works just
>like dd, I think). This worked well, and after adjusting /etc/fstab
>and compiling a custom kernel, evrything works great... almost
>everything, anyway.
>
>There are only 2 partitions set up - / and /boot. On the original
>(source) PC, the / partition is 1.4 GIG, and the /boot partition is 16
>MB. On the new (target) PC, I used Linux's fdisk to make a 20 MB
>partition and a 3 GIG partition. I then used Ghost to import my
>images. Now df reports that / is 1.4 GIG. Linux fdisk shows that the
>partition is really 3 GIG, but a verification tells me that there are
>8311 unallocated sectors.
Here's what happened: you copied the raw image of the filesystem, and
the filesystem is what contains the information about how big it is.
Even though you have a 3G partition, you have a 1.4G filesystem in
there, and so the rest of the partition is just unused.
You need to create a new filesystem using mke2fs (on the new HD), then
use cpio/tar to create a backup of your original files onto whatever
your intermediate medium is and then back onto the new filesystem.
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will Linux run on a MII?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:39:25 GMT
the e-machines use M2 processors. linux runs ok on them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi. Pardon if this is a FAQ. I am just wondering if
: Linux will run on a Compaq Presario 2266 that uses
: a MII-300 CPU. I plan to set it up as a firewall
: and router. It would be nice to have X running on it,
: even at 800x600 or 640x480.
: Thanks,
: Fred
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Will Linux run on a MII?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:51:50 GMT
Hi. Pardon if this is a FAQ. I am just wondering if
Linux will run on a Compaq Presario 2266 that uses
a MII-300 CPU. I plan to set it up as a firewall
and router. It would be nice to have X running on it,
even at 800x600 or 640x480.
Thanks,
Fred
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From: Vanza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot from HPT366
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:22:49 GMT
I've been reading the posts about this controller, and it's nice to see
that it works with a patch, but regarding to booting Linux from it I've
only seen failures...
Has anyone been able to boot Linux from a drive plugged to this
controller?
Marcelo.
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From: Dave Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to crash Red Hat Linux 5.2?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:49:21 -0400
I don't know if you've checked this out, but in the back of the Red Hat
installation guide is a FAQ which describes problems with handing on sendmail.
A direct link to the RH site:
www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?solution&11-990500-0465&100-925000000&14-0&15-0&25-&3-&30-1
"Rawlinsons (Qld) Head Office" wrote:
> I left it for an hour, and it eventually got up to the root login prompt.
>
> I repeat, what's going on here? It's not the first time I've had this
> problem in the last week, but I never could ascribe it to any particular
> action of mine, and I always got out of it by re-installing Linux.
>
> Mike Robinson
> __________________________________________________
> Rawlinsons (Qld) Phone +61 7 3221 8522
> 46 Edward Street Fax +61 7 3229 5873
> Brisbane Qld 4000 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> AUSTRALIA web www.rawlinsons.com.au
> __________________________________________________
>
> Rawlinsons (Qld) Head Office <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7pisin$2ki$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I'm new to Linux, and as I've discovered over 35 years of program
> > development, if you want to crash your latest development item (be it an
> OS
> > or a program) in the least possible time, give it to a new user for 10
> > minutes. It works every time!
> >
> > I've had Linux up and working on an AMD 400MHz cpu for about a week,
> > experimenting with networking, etc. Today I typed in startx (as I've done
> > many times before in the last week) and idly clicked the left mouse button
> > while the X windows system was loading. X Windows right there, and the
> only
> > way out was Ctrl-Alt_Backspace. But my system wouldn't do anything else
> from
> > there. So I typed in shutdown -h now and it shutdown OK. When I rebooted
> it
> > hung on Starting sendmail: sendmail. So I rebooted again and left it alone
> > for a half hour. This time it again hangs on Starting sendmail: sendmail,
> > but because I left it alone it gradually works its way through the boot
> > process. It's up to Starting SMB and seems to be hung there.
> >
> > What's going on here, and how can I fix it? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Mike Robinson
> > System gofer
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Rawlinsons (Qld) Phone +61 7 3221 8522
> > 46 Edward Street Fax +61 7 3229 5873
> > Brisbane Qld 4000 email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > AUSTRALIA web www.rawlinsons.com.au
> > __________________________________________________
> >
> >
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From: Calin Rotaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YAMAHA sound card problems - need help
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:03:01 GMT
Thanks for the help guys. I'll try again this weekend, I pray for it to
work. Sonny, seems you have a Yamaha card too. Can you please post your
/etc/conf.modules and /dev/sndstat ?
Calin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Berntsen)
Subject: AHA152x card under RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:35:34 GMT
I've recompiled the kernel with the driver loading at startup.
When I examined my bootlog I found this errormessage:
aha152x: processing commandline: ok
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7,
reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled,
delay=100, extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
aha152x: IRQ 9 possibly wrong. Please verify.
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
So it seems that it finds my card...but then not....
IRQ 9 is correct by the way. It's the only one free
on my machine, and I've eventold my BIOS that
IRQ 9 is "Legacy ISA"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to connect to Internet using modem in Linux?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:48:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 19 Aug 1999 22:34:06 GMT, Jack Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I use Redhat 6.0,I have setup the ppp0 in the networking configure. Can you
>help me to tell me how to use modem to connect Internet using ppp.
>Thank you very much!
>
>Jack
>
Using the same tool, tap the activate button. Be sure you have added the
username and password and phone number. The tool is netcfg.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] .o O than yourself" -Cicero
' )
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\ _) where happiness is a state of foot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, and video?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:50:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sure it is. Look at http://www.toms.net/rb/ for a single floppy
> distribution that you remove the floppy after the boot. I use it as a
> rescue disk, but there's no reason you couldn't set up something
> similar that boots from a cdrom and then mounts the cdrom ro. CD rom
> booting uses a floppy image after all.
There is already a bootable-cd version of tomsrtbt, get it at:
http://www.toms.net/rb/add-ons/ElTorito.288.bz2
-Tom
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From: Ripp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting console/vga mode to 60Hz for ext. TV out w/LILO?
Date: 20 Aug 1999 07:29:01 -0700
Is it possible to get LILO to set the vga mode to something that runs at a 60Hz
vertical mode? I have an older VGA->TV box that needs 60Hz/640x480 (or lower
res.) to convert (otherwise it just flickers, you know the drill.) I want to be
able to see all the boot messages, or I'd just have it run SVGATextmode
somewhere in the inits. I don't suppose anyone would have the magic vga=xxx code
for it?
While we're on the subject, I'm assuming that setting up X to do this is
relatively simple, probably just setting the monitor settings up in
xconfigurator or XF86Setup, right?
==========================================================
Ripp
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Upgrade
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:59:42 -0500
R.Sharmila wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|We have upgraded Memory from 64MB to 128MB . But the system with free
|and dmesg command is diplating only 64MB. Please let me know how to go
|about the same.
|Note: CMOS boot up shows 128MB.
This is a common problem. "man lilo" for details, but you want to add
"append mem=128m" to Lilo to fix this. Do it in an alternate boot to test,
of course, and if it hangs try "127." Some times a memory hole takes a
meg...
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. * Black
holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual, not
as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
solely responsible for my words.
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From: Joerg Afflerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Writer doesn't read CDs
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 16:11:48 +0200
Hello!
First of all, thanks for your support. I'm afraid, even with your help I
couldn't solve the problem so far.
Again, the "Toshiba" CD-ROM drive works fine, as well as writing CD-Rs
and
CD-RWs with the "Yamaha" CD writer. When I mount a CD in the "Yamaha"
writer
with "mount -v -r -t iso9660 /dev/sr1 /mnt", I can traverse the file
system
structure of the CD and access the files. But often I can only read
corrupted
files even if the CD is okay. For example, I get a plain ASCII file
containing binary data!
My "/proc/scsi" contains:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision:
02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3801TA Rev: 0207
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision:
02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision:
02
"/proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0" contains:
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 4.1/3.2
Compile Options:
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15
AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Disabled
AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Disabled
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Enabled
Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host
adapter
(AIC-788x chipset)
Host Bus: Wide
Base IO: 0xd000
Base IO Memory: 0xe3000000
IRQ: 10
SCBs: Used 4, HW 16, Page 16
Interrupts: 35613
Serial EEPROM: True
Extended Translation: Enabled
SCSI Bus Reset: Enabled
Ultra SCSI: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff
My "/proc/devices" contains:
Block devices:
2 fd
8 sd
11 sr
And after "modprobe sg":
Character devices:
1 mem
...
21 sg
Mounting the CD via "mount /dev/sg2 /mnt" failed:
mount: /dev/sg2 is not a block device
Then I mounted the CD with "mount -v -r -t iso9660 /dev/sr1 /mnt" and
tried to
read the whole CD with "find /mnt -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null".
While the thing was running, no new messages were appended to
"/var/log/warn".
It says in the "CD Writing HOWTO" by Winfried Tr�mper:
Please check first if the writer works under other operating
systems.
Concretely:
Does the controller recognize the writer as a SCSI device?
Does the driver software recognize the writer?
Is it possible to make a CD using the accompanied
software?
If "it doesn't work" even under other operating systems you have
a hardware conflict or defective hardware.
Everything works fine with Windows 98. He continues:
If it works under the other operating system and you use loadlin
to boot Linux, then that is your problem. Loadlin makes a
warm-boot
with most of the hardware already initialized and that confuses
the
Linux-kernel.
So maybe that's my problem! But even when I boot Linux with a boot disk
and
LILO, the CD writer won't work correctly. *sigh*
Who can help me? Aren't there any other people out there, who use the
"Yamaha 4416S"?
J�rg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beer)
Subject: New mp3 site!
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:15:56 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission
Date: 20 Aug 1999 15:02:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 14:24:39 +0900,
YANAGIHARA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Why not trying to read and write from /dev/lp0? Is your parallel port
>>not supported?
>The device which is connected to parallel port is not
>printer. It is a original electronic circuit board of my
>own making, so transaction protocol is different to printer.
>So I thought that inb/outb oparation is easier than opening
>/dev/lp0.
I think the newer 2.3 kernel has added something that lets you control
the parallel port better than /dev/lp0. See on Kernel Threads if it is
useful to you:
http://www.kt.opensource.org/
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: 2 Ppro's - 1 hot, 1 cold???
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:17:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
: I found that when touching the heat sinks, one is warm
: (not hot, just warm) and the other is cold.
[snip]
Paul,
before you go and replace the mobo.
These looks very much like bad thermal contact between the
cpu and the heat sink!
Have you touched the CPU itself?
I bet it is pretty hot.
Heat sinks shouldn't bee cold, after all. :-)
Use some Thermal-Compound between the CPU and the heatsink!
Makes a hell of a difference!
Regards,
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken)
Subject: Re: Memory Upgrade
Date: 20 Aug 1999 15:08:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you tried adding:
append="mem=128M"
to your lilo.conf file ??
...cwa
R.Sharmila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
->Hello,
->We have upgraded Memory from 64MB to 128MB . But the system with free
->and dmesg command is diplating only 64MB. Please let me know how to go
->about the same.
->
->Note: CMOS boot up shows 128MB.
->
->Regards,
->Sharmila
->
--
===================================================================
Christopher W. Aiken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.7
Mandrake 6.0, Kernel 2.2.9
The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: SCSI bus reset hangs
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:52:42 GMT
I'm using the aha152x driver for my Adaptec 1520 SCSI adapter (AIC 6160)
and Smart&Friendly CDRW-226. I know the hardware is fine and the IRQ and
address are fine since it works under Windows.
Everything looks fine during booting until it says
"SCSI bus is being reset for the second half of retries"
and then it hangs.
I have the same problem whether I use modules or built-in to the kernel.
Anyone know why it hangs, or at least what it is doing when it gives the
above message?
Thanks,
Dave
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux file-size limit?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:56:58 -0600
Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:54:55 -0600, John Thompson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 1. Is there a limit to the file size hardcoded in the
> >>kernel?
> >
> >AFAIK, this is an intrinsic limitation of the filesystem.
>
> Apparently what you *think* you know isn't correct. The ext2
> filesystem supports files of up to 1TB in size.
> The standard file access API on 32 bit architectures is what can't
> handle more than 2GB.
OK. I stand corrected. This is a hardware limitation of
the Intel-type hardware then, yes?
> >Rather than backing up to another partition, you can backup
> >to a device that does not use a filesystem; eg, a tape
> >drive. Tar can handle multi-gigabyte archives on a tape
> >drive without size limitation problems beyond the physical
> >limitations of the media used.
> Have you tried this so as to verify the veracity of this claim?
Yes. I create 5+GB tar archives on tape whenever I back up
my system.
> The *true* problem is that the data structure used to hold the pointer
> that indicates how far into an input stream you are is only 32 bits.
>
> TAR doesn't get you around this problem...
???
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to get a fastest linux box ?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:09:43 -0500
Jeremy Fincher wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|>Also, the K6-2
|>has OK integer, but a big boost in floating point.
|If I understand correctly, the intel FPU is far superior to anything AMD
has
|come up with until Athlon, and the AMD integer performance is better than
that
|of an equally clocked celeron/p2/p3.
This is true, but a K6-2 replacing a p200 will show a big boost in
floating point operations, assuming the chips is clocked to a reasonable
speed. I replaced a p233 clocked at 266 with a K6-2 350 clocked at 375 on a
75 mhz bus. Got a %50 boost in integer, and a %80 in floating point
relative to a PII 400 clocked to 420.
In regards to my comment of a cluster, getting a lot of old Pentiums and
clocking them up on K6-2 350 at $50 a pop is an economical solution.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. * Black
holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual, not
as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
solely responsible for my words.
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From: Joshua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: OPL3-SA3 souncard won't play sound!!!
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:52:54 GMT
Sonny wrote:
>
> I have one of these 'cute' little opl3 cards and I had a similar
> problem. I installed all the modules with no errors or anything, but it
> just wouldn't play. It turned out I need to turn the volume up in the
> mixer device. Try X11amp (or whatever it's called). If it just goes
> with no errors and no sound, then this might be your problem. If it is,
> try using xmixer to turn the volume up. Good luck.
> Sonny
If Sonny said it's true to you, then I suspect you may have not gotten
the IO ports right. I made my OPL3-SAx work by myself once, but it had
unbearble LOW volume, a couple days later, got the reply from caldera
support, says i gotten the IO ports wrong. So I correct it the volume
came back normal( the same level in Windows, at least).
Hope this helps
--
Joshua Li
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North York Ontario, Canada
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