Linux-Hardware Digest #200, Volume #11 Tue, 7 Sep 99 11:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: EAST TIMOR ("Hrodenu")
driver trident ("Alain Blanc")
Mount Compact Flash with PCMCIA Adapter..... ("Brad Kuhl")
Re: Mandrake 6.0, ESS 56K PCI on com4, help ! (Rob Clark)
P6DGU memory? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Primax hand scanner (Juan Antonio Morillas Cerezo)
Disk partitioning problem with AST Ascentia 910N (Klaas Naaijkens)
Re: Can I compile the kernel using a cc other than gcc? (Peter Samuelson)
DELL Latitiude Cpi Sound (Steve Patrick)
Creative TNT2 Ultra need help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Modem difficulties - feedback wanted ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IDE RAID: FastTrak66 on Linux (Sales Information)
Re: hate to ask, but (Chris Wagner)
Seagate NS20 Tape Drive - Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NTFS access problem ("Carmelo A. Zizza")
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From: "Hrodenu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.fan.starwars
Subject: Re: EAST TIMOR
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:31:53 +0100
Alright, report over. We now return control of this NG to you.
alt.fan.starwars, yeah? Not alt.fan.wars.
--
www.hrodenu.freeserve.co.uk
Jo�o Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Genocide is entirely another matter though, which I've seen no
> > evidence as of yet.
>
> � From staff and wires reports.
> DILI, East Timor (CNN) -- Pro-Indonesia militias held a bloody rein on
Dili
> Monday while some journalists, U.N. workers and residents fled East
Timor's
> lawless territorial capital.
>
> Witnesses said that Indonesian troops -- who previously stood idle while
the
> militias ran a campaign of death and destruction through the city -- had
> begun to take an active role in the rampage. Hundreds of residents are
> reported to have been killed in the violence during the week since the
East
> Timorese voted for independence.
>
> "There is very clear evidence of collusion among elements of the security
> forces and the militias," said U.N. spokesman Nick Birnback, holed up in
the
> besieged U.N. compound. "A campaign of forced deportation seems to be
taking
> place, with the Indonesian army and militias loading people onto trucks
and
> sending them to West Timor."
>
> Hundreds of people were seized during an attack on the residence of 1996
> Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Carlos Belo, where they had sought refuge
> when the militias resorted to violence as it became clear the East
Timorese
> voted overwhelmingly for independence.
>
> Belo was home when the attack took place, but was uninjured. He was later
> flown by police helicopter to the eastern town of Baucau while his house
was
> reportedly burning out of control.
>
> Belo was "deeply hurt, especially psychologically," said Baucau Bishop
> Basilio Nascimento. "He's in a state of shock. From the scarce words he
> uttered, the attack was violent."
>
> At least 39 people were reported killed in the attack, although the report
> could not be verified. The pro-Indonesia forces moved next door to round
up
> refugees sheltering in the Red Cross headquarters after torching Belo's
> home. �
>
>
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From: "Alain Blanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: driver trident
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:53:50 +0200
Urgent .
Cherche pour mandrake driver trident cyber 9525DVD pour toshiba
Merci.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Brad Kuhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mount Compact Flash with PCMCIA Adapter.....
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 18:33:04 -0400
I have a Viking Components Compact Flash adapter and a Viking 32 MB Compact
Flash card. I am trying to mount it under Linux so that I can copy and view
pictures that I take with my digital camera. I connect it to my Toshiba
Tecra 730XCDT, which also has a Linksys Ethernet card connected through the
PCMCIA slots. The Ethernet works fine, but I am unable to figure out how to
mount the Compact Flash card. I am using Red Hat 6.0 on this system. I
need to be able to access my pictures on this machine, if I cannot figure
this out I will have to put Windows back on this machine. Can this be done
in Linux?
-Brad Kuhl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Mandrake 6.0, ESS 56K PCI on com4, help !
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:10:12 GMT
In article <7r23p6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..]
> Under Linux, however, kppp keeps telling me "modem is busy", at ttyS3. I
>also tried other ports, did not work. The IO address is 0x400, not a crazy
>number, so I hope I can make it work. With setserial /dev/ttyS3 -a, I got
>uart unknown.
>Is the modem "bad" or anything else I can do?
It's probably a Windows-only software modem. Please check the list at:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
to be sure. Sorry :(
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: P6DGU memory?
Date: 7 Sep 1999 11:57:46 GMT
Does anyone have the P6DGU motherboard? If so, would you please tell
me what brand system memory you use? I know there are a couple brands
out there that give people trouble. I know the Supermicro Web site
list several but would rather get the info from someone using this
board. Also, is the 7890 Adaptec SCSI that comes with it capable of
running 7 devices ie, hard drives,scanners, CDRoms, and zip drives?
Thanks,
Al Teunis
Muskegon, Mi
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Juan Antonio Morillas Cerezo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Primax hand scanner
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:28:55 +0300
I've got an old hand scanner from Primax that would
like to see working under Linux. Sane does not support it, nor
the Primax Colorado project, at least until where I know.
The main thing is the little interface ISA card that it uses.
I don't know what exactly it is, and could not find what
each chip is for. I've got no problem in trying to write a
driver for it, if only I could manage myself to the card
internals, or behavior. Perhaps I could try to peek at the windoze
driver, but would need a good tutorial in softice or so and live
disassembling, since I only have debugged simple programs this
far.
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From: Klaas Naaijkens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disk partitioning problem with AST Ascentia 910N
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 13:53:59 +0200
I'm having a serious disk I/O problem on my AST Ascentia 910N
I'm trying to install linux on an old laptop. I'm using SUSE 6.1 (kernel =
2.2.7),
but that should not be the key point since I also tried Redhat 5.0, OpenL=
inux
1.3 and an old debian (kernel 2.0.31). I tried various kernel parameters,=
but
without really knowing what to do. I'm installing with an external CDROM
(driver onspec 90c26 parallel port (on26) is competible. Seems to work fi=
ne).=20
I have only 8MB Ram, but i'm not buying more until it works.
You can find the boot messages at the end of mail and some info from /pro=
c.
On internet I found nowbody had any problems with this laptop (all very h=
appy)
, so i think i maybe have a different disk or they installed some obscure
or corrupted disk manager. I accept to loose everything on the disk (back=
ed=20
up vitals) but i just want it to work with linux (no dos).
I inserted the following sections=20
A. Problem with fdisk
B. hdparm and cfdisk output after partitioning with dos
C. ext2 fs corruption
D. proc files and boot message
This is an old laptop and bios offers no help (there are absolutely no op=
tions)
I really hope someone could help, this is not my PC and I was hoping
to create a new linux fan (my girlfriend!). I've had various complex inst=
allations, but this time I'm really desperate. If you need more info plea=
se let me know.
Hope you can help
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Klaas Naaijkens
(if you respond can you cc me, i'm not following this newsgroup frequentl=
y)
A. Problem with fdisk
The problem arises when I try to repartition my disk with fdisk or variou=
s
other disk utilities (diskdruide, cfdisk, sfdisk). I have no manuals or=20
anything. I get the following error messages:
============================
hda: write_intr: status=3D0x01 {error}=20
hda: write_intr: error=3D0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=3D268435455,=
sector=3D0
(several times above two lines)
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=3D0xd0, count=3D1
ide0: reset: success
hda: write_intr: status=3D0x01 {error}=20
hda: write_intr: error=3D0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=3D268435455,=
sector=3D0
(several times above two lines)
hda: write_intr: status=3D0x01 {error}=20
hda: write_intr: error=3D0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=3D268435455,=
sector=3D0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0
============================
The LBA count seems a bit high to me :(.
B. hdparm and cfdisk output after partitioning with dos
I made the partition table with a dos floppy (dos on harddisk is not boot=
ing
anymore).=20
But the I get various disk corruptions when I make the file system=20
and start copying some files on the new partition.=20
After booting the disk is in the following state:
===============================
sfdisk -V -l -uS /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units =3D sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 988847 988785 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 988848 1030175 41328 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda: OK
===============================
hdparm -v /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount =3D 0 (off)
I/O support =3D 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq =3D 0 (off)
using_dma =3D 0 (off)
keepsettings =3D 0 (off)
nowerr =3D 0 (off)
readonly =3D 0 (off)
readahead =3D 8 (on)
geometry =3D 1023/16/63, sectors =3D 1031970, start =3D 0
===============================
C. ext2 fs corruption
If now I create a ext2 filesystem on hda1, it fails to mount
mke2fs /dev/hda1 # ok
e2fsck /dev/hda1 # ok
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt #=20
if a wait (30 secs) to perform the mount:
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1)
if a mount straightaway: mount ok
umount:
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1): free_inode: reserved inode or nonexisten=
t inode
What to do next??
D. proc files and boot message
I copied mannually the messages i get at boot time
Some info from the PC
486DX4-75 10.3''=20
510MB
s/n 065DNX003188
p/n 501590-308
/proc/geometry
physical 1023/16/63
logical 1023/16/63
/proc/settings
name=09=09=09value=09=09min=09=09max=09=09mode
----=09=09=09-----=09=09---=09=09---=09=09----
bios_cyl 1023 0 65535 r=
w
bios_head 16 0 255 r=
w
bios_sect 63 0 63 r=
w
breada_readahead 4 0 127 r=
w
bswap 0 0 1 r
file_readahead 72 0 2097151 r=
w
io_32bit 0 0 3 r=
w
keepsettings 0 0 1 r=
w
max_kb_per_request 122 1 127 r=
w
multcount 0 0 8 r=
w
nice1 1 0 1 r=
w
nowerr 0 0 1 r=
w
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 r=
w
unmaskirq 0 0 1 r=
w
using_dma 0 0 1 r=
w
boot message
============================
Linux version 2.2.7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #20 F=
ri Apr 30 20:17:46 MEST 1999
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 37.48 BogoMIPS
Memory: 5424k/8192k available (1240k kernel code, 408k reserved, 344k dat=
a, 40k init)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... =
Ok.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel 486 DX/4 stepping 00
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: No PCI bus detected
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5=20
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 20480K size
hda: TOSHIBA MK2526FC, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: TOSHIBA MK2526FC, 503MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=3D1023/16/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is an 8272A
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=3D4, MAX_REAL=3D8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
raid1 personality registered
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Uncompressing....................................done.
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem).
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 02:00.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0).
paride: version 1.04 installed
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation=
=2E
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
paride: on26 registered as protocol 0
pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0
pcd0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
pcd0: on26 1.04, OnSpec 90c26 at 0x378, mode 0 (4-bit), delay 1
pcd0: Slave: CD-ROM DRIVE-32X
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Can I compile the kernel using a cc other than gcc?
Date: 7 Sep 1999 06:42:09 -0500
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> > Newsflash: you *can't* write a kernel without non-portable
> > extensions.
[Villy Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> All of the unix versions comming out of AT&T and Berkely used the
> standard (pre-ANSI) C compiler wihout any of these extensions.
No. There was *no* standard C compiler in those days, in the sense
we're talking about, which is "standards-conforming", since there was
no standard to conform to. At least nothing as generic yet minute as
ANSI. And anyway, do you believe for a moment that those earlier
kernels didn't depend on *any* compiler behavior that wasn't explicitly
set down in K&R? I don't.
What they used was the *de facto* standard compiler for their
platforms. And, sure enough, the Linux kernel uses the de facto
standard C compiler for the Linux platform. GCC.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: Steve Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,redhat.general
Subject: DELL Latitiude Cpi Sound
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:31:12 GMT
I am battling to get sound working under RedHat 6.0 on a DELL Latitude Cpi
A366XT laptop. It has a NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV sound chip. I have had
no joy from DELL or NeoMagic. Can anyone point me to the correct driver
and setup?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Creative TNT2 Ultra need help
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:46:22 GMT
I am jumping back in to the Linux world again but I seems
I have run into a snag. Previously I had a Diamond Viper 550
it worked perfect with RH5.2 I just tried installing RH 6.0
with my new vid card the Creative TNT2 Ultra. No dice. I got the
test screen to work twice but the screen is so large you can not
do anything. I tried multi monitor selections. No dice. I do no
that Nvidia has linux drivers for the TNT and the TNT2 but
how am I to download and install them when X is not working. Any help
or thoughts on this one would be appreciated.
Randy G
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem difficulties - feedback wanted
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:05:41 GMT
Perhaps somebody there has had a similar problem. Here it is...
I recently purchased a Jaton Communicator (internal modem, goes on the
ISA bus, can be set up for either PnP or manual config)
The modem was recommended by that "Cheap Linux Box" page, and it works
fine under Windows 98 (I know, I know, that doesn't mean squat...but at
least the hardware functions)
When I run Linux, the isapnp stuff finds it fine, and assigns it to irq
4, on ttyS0. setserial -g /dev/ttyS* shows it there with UART 16550 (I
think...I'd need to check again to be sure)
The problem is this...it won't respond under Linux. Kppp says "Sorry,
modem is not responding) and when I open minicom, it doesn't respond to
anything I type at the terminal.
Is there something here that I've missed? I've been going through the
Modem, PnP and Serial HOWTOS, but I seem to be coming up blank. If
anybody's got some experience with this, or just some suggestions, I'd
love to hear them.
Thanks,
Kurt
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From: Sales Information <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE RAID: FastTrak66 on Linux
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 14:20:52 GMT
Hi,
Anybody used the FastTrak66 from Promise Technology with Linux Kernel
2.2.x?
I'm looking at an IDE Raid solution for a Linux server with RAID 1+0
setup.
Thank you,
St�phan Monette
H.M.Net Technologies Inc.
T�l.: 613-443-6696 or 613-794-3262
Fax.: 613-443-7773
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wagner)
Subject: Re: hate to ask, but
Date: 7 Sep 1999 13:50:35 GMT
In article <7r0j55$nmr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I won't buy one for them, I'll just use a keyboard/monitor from a nearby
> system.
[snip]
> I can see a situation where something goes
> wrong, it can't respond to the network, but a local console could save
> it, let me close anything still active or at least make it easier to
> determine what went wrong and fix it.
>
Be careful about "hot" plugging in a keyboard. It may not work. So
you will need to test this out before things get hosed. Some of the
modern keyboard/video/mouse switch boxes work fine. I have good luck
with a "protec bytelan" switchbox, others should also work. This
solution may be too expensive for you.
--
Recreational Calculus - Just For Fun!
P.S. "From" header is bogus, use below email address.
--
Chris Wagner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Seagate NS20 Tape Drive - Problems
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 14:28:07 GMT
Good morning all,
I have been trying to get a Seagate NS20 tape
drive to work w/ my Linux system for over a month
now. I have run all diagnostics provided by
Seagate, and they show the drive to be in perfect
working order.
The drive is detected by the SCSI bios, and by
linux. I have no problems mounting nst0 or st0.
However, when I try to write to the tape I
experience a lockup. If I switch over to another
virtual terminal I see scsi read/write error
messages.
I have tried 3 different scsi controllers to no
avail. I am at a loss at to what to do as the
ns20 is not officially supported by seagate.
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Brad
x0citeam@raytheon dot com
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From: "Carmelo A. Zizza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NTFS access problem
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:02:09 -0400
To ALL:
I have a notebook computer configured with 2.2.12 kernel and have been
experiencing an unusual problem since I installed kernel 2.2.6.
My notebook is configured with a triple boot, 1 - NT 4.0 (SP4), 2 - WIN98,
3 - Linux ... When I boot my computer via Linux, I mount my win98 and winNT
partitions with no problem. I can access both with no problem. However, when
I backup my notebook via tar -- it either hangs hard or reboots.
If I exclude the NT partition from the backup the notebook works with no
problem. I backup just the NT volume via tar it hangs or reboots. Lately
since kernel 2.2.12 it has been rebooting more often then hanging...
Has anyone had any similar problems or can point me in the right direction
.... It also doesn't matter how long the computer is up for, what file is
being backed up or where in the directory tree it is ....
Thanks,
Carmelo
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