Linux-Hardware Digest #232, Volume #11 Sat, 11 Sep 99 21:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: Please help! UPS (Anthony White)
Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 (Heinz Diehl)
Re: Seti@home wont run. (Kevin)
kds vs-195 and vs-19sn: opinions? (fulton)
Re: 2nd NIC not recognized (Howard Mann)
Re: How To Get Out Of KDE? (Walter Hofmann)
Acard SCSI AEC 6710S (Oystein Sund)
Re: AMD K6-2 (Darwayne Willock)
Re: Please help experts!!! : My HDs are gone after changing the Slave to Master!!!
(BIOS doesnt detect them anymore) ("Pedza")
Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x? (Peter Chant)
Re: Help Choosing a new CPU (Darwayne Willock)
Re: is my hardware compatible? (Walter Hofmann)
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: Hard drive partitions (DanH)
Problem about upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.3.17? (Jack)
[OFFTOPIC] Re: Seti@home wont run. (Tor Arntsen)
Q&A from this newsgroup ("Tsak Fox")
Re: Dual Celeron ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Seti@home wont run. ("Gene Heskett")
Can't get UMAX 1220S scanner to work with SCSI & Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and Zip 250MB or Imation SuperDisks? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Agfa Scanner and AVA1505 Controller ("Gene Heskett")
Re: SupraMax PCI Modem under Red Hat 5.2 (C. C. McPherson)
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From: Anthony White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please help! UPS
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 07:38:19 +1000
Chris Mahmood wrote:
>
> dbp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > May you tell me which UPS is suitable to use with Linux? The UPS How-To
> > just
> > tell ... tons of hacking ... which I do not understand! Thx!
> It's a bit out of date. Several companies offer Linux support now for
> their UPS's including APC.
I have just got a Upsonic UPS 600VA which will have Linux 'drivers'
in about 3-4 weeks.
UPS works fine.
A simple way of using any UPS with linux is to check (Scan) the
status pin of the UPS. It would either be high or low in back-up
mode. It should then be simple to include a timer that will
say shutdown if status is back-up for more than, say 5 minutes.
Havent tried yet just got the UPS...
Anthony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heinz Diehl)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013
Date: 11 Sep 1999 21:12:11 GMT
allen kurt savegnago wrote:
> Subject: Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 SIG 11 problems
> I have the same motherboard and an OEM K6III did not work. I awaiting
> the arrival of a boxed K6III-450 cpu and will try again.
A sig-11 says there is a hardware problem, in most cases it is the
memory which doesn't stand the 100 MHz bus-frequency or
it's caused by overclocked systems/cpu's.
> The mobo is
> supposed to be the one "approved" by FIC as compatible with the K6III.
Yep, "approved by the manufacturer itself", what are you awaiting ? :)
Have you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y ??
~ hd
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From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seti@home wont run.
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:10:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:47:05 GMT, Bryan
<Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>simple: its not in your path.
>
>cd to where it is located and do:
>
>./setiathome
>
>that's all ;-)
>
>
I was in it's directiry when I tried to run it.
Is this a problem with being logged on as root ?
I have found other executables which I cant run and I get the same
command not found response.
and if I make a script, even though it starts with
#! /bin/bash
and has the executable permissions set, I can only get it to run by
typing
/bin/bash myscript
all the stuff like gzip, tar, startx, make etc run fine.
I should maybe now try creating myself a user account, it's about
time.
Help please
Kevin
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From: fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kds vs-195 and vs-19sn: opinions?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:07:31 -0500
Hi,
Does anyone have some opinions about these monitors?
Are they good monitors? What in particular do you like
or dislike? Is one significantly better than the other?
Thanks,
Ed Fulton
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 2nd NIC not recognized
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 22:31:15 GMT
Geert Altena wrote:
>
> "Colin Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I've got to TrendNet NE2000-compatible ISA cards set at the following:
>
> >eth0 io=0x300 irq=3
NIC's are not generally assigned this irq.
Check cat /proc/interrupts
You may need to try another irq
> >eth1 io=ox320 irq=10
>
> >In my conf.modules I added:
> >alias eth0 ne
> >alias eth1 ne
> >options ne io=0x300,0x320 irq=3,10
This format should work
>
> >I have also un-commented the line in rc.modules
> >/sbin/modprobe ne
? I do not know about this.
>
> >When El Slaucho (Slackware 4.0) boots, it detects 1 nic, the one at
io=0x300
> >and irq=3.
> >The other one doesn't show up.
>
> >I've tried passing the following parameters to LILO on boot
> >LILO reserve=0x300,64
>
> >What should I try next, oh wise and gracious ones?
>
> Put a 'append="ether=0,3,eth1"' in your lilo.conf
> This tells lilo that it should look for more than one NIC, then the
> modules will load properly i imagine.
>From the Ethernet-HOWTO:
"3.3 The ether= thing didn't do anything for me. Why?
As described above, the ether= command only works for drivers that are
compiled into the kernel. Now most distributions
use the drivers in a modular form, and so the ether= command is rarely used
anymore. (Some older documentation has yet
to be updated to reflect this change.) If you want to apply options for a
modular ethernet driver you must make changes to the
/etc/conf.modules file. "
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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From: Walter Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To Get Out Of KDE?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:43:32 +0200
Luckydaze1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have to install a script for my TNT2 card but need to be out of x server to
> do it.
> The system boots into kde by default now. How can I get of x server to install
> this file?
If you want to switch to a text console, press Alt-Ctrl-F1 (...-F7 to
get back).
If you want to shutdown the X server (I guess you want this), first
switch to the text console and log in as root, then enter "init 2".
(Depending on your distribution, you might need to use a different
number.)
Walter
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From: Oystein Sund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Acard SCSI AEC 6710S
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 00:03:50 +0200
I wonder: has anyone used this card under Suse (i have 6.2) ? Does it
work? I cant get it up
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From: Darwayne Willock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:14:14 -0500
Robert Sheskin wrote:
> >>>>> "Swami" == Swami Chandrasekaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Swami> I'm planning to buy a new computer with AMD-K6-2 processor
> Swami> (400Mhz). Is it compatible with RH 6.0? How is the
> Swami> performance and possible troubles I could come across.
> I am running a K6-2-450 with Mandrake (optimized Red Hat) and it is
> very fast, stable and no compatibility problems. You might want to
> take a look at Mandrake as it is Pentium optimized.
> --
> You might want to hold off getting a new computer, as the AMD Athalon
> Processor is out in these speed, 500, 550, 600, 650. Along with those
> you can get the motherboard for it also. I recomend the Gigabyte
> GA-71X. Of course, this is if you are in a "money is no object" type
> feeling. For more information see AMD's website.
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From: "Pedza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup
Subject: Re: Please help experts!!! : My HDs are gone after changing the Slave to
Master!!! (BIOS doesnt detect them anymore)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 01:46:05 +0200
You should run Autodetect option from BIOS.
Are you check cable orientation ? Red mark on cable edge?
Rgds
Pedza
Byron Miller wrote in message ...
>On 7 Sep 1999 08:09:02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (blunzerl) wrote:
>
>>guys i really need some help!
>>
>>Had a small HD as master and a (bigger,newer) one as Slave. BIOS
>>detected both without a glitch! After I had removed the master and
>>jumpered the former slave as master - the BIOS couldnt detect it!
>>Neither could i go back to the old setup - the BIOS now doesnt detect
>>any HD!!!!!!!!
>>int 13h returns code 80h ("drive failed to respond") - no matter how i
>>jumper master/slave , only a master etc. NO the cables are connected
>>correctly ;=)
>
>
>Well, make sure you made one master, and the other slave.. they both
>can't be master..
>
>On the other hand, you should go into your bios, make sure its on
>autodetect drive or make sure the settings are correct in there.
>
>If that still doesn't work, make sure your cable is installed right,
>sometimes the cable select will choose which drive is master and
>slave.
>
>
>-byron
>
>Byron Miller Consulting | http://www.reliabilityfactor.com
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Voice: (717) 397-7020
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Chant)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x?
Date: 11 Sep 1999 17:56:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I've got one, but with RH5.2 - I use XCDroast (I think it just wraps
>mkisofs and cdrecord) but it has worked great so far. I haven't tried
>any CD-RW media yet though - but I don't think that would make any
>difference. Burns a full cd in <12 minutes :)
>
Also works under Slackware 4.0. I'm mystified over how I use CD-RW though.
Burns at 6x fine.
--
Peter Chant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Darwayne Willock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Choosing a new CPU
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:26:34 -0500
Thomas wrote:
> I am getting ready to replace a Micron system that is a Pentium 200MHz
> CPU, 96MB of RAM, 6.4GB HD, and Diamond Stealth 2000 3D Pro running
> Windows NT4/SP5 and Linux Mandrake 6.0 in a dual-boot config. I will
> be replacing it with a homebuilt system that a friend of mine is
> making. I can choose any components I want to go inside this thing.
>
> Currently (and projected for the future), the primary applications I
> run on this machine are MS Office 97 Pro, MS IE 5, Outlook Express,
> Homesite, IDL (graphics imaging), SPSS (statistical), and Adobe
> PageMill under WNT while Netscape, Star Office 5.1, Gimp, and
> Wordperfect run under Linux. I regularly have multiple applications
> up and running as I am switching data between programs.
>
> What I want to know is the following: Would I be better off getting a
> PII or PIII 450MHz processor and Abit or Asus motherboard with 128MB
> PC100 RAM or running a Celeron 433MHz/466MHz/500MHz on an ABIT BM6
> motherboard with 128MB PC100 RAM? Is there THAT much of a performance
> difference between the Pentium II/III and the Celerons with the above
> applications? I DO NOT want to overclock the Celeron if I go that
> route.
>
While the PII & PIII are on everyone's tounge, let me make mention of
AMD's big gun the Athalon, you can get it in speeds begining at 500 and
getting as high as 650Mhz. And almost no overclocking is required
because they are on a 200Mhz bus. (I'm also planning to get one and it
runs all the above apps as well)
>
> At the same time, would it be even better to run an ABIT BP6 with dual
> Celeron 433's (not overclocked) and 128MB aof RAM? Both Linux and NT
> handle SMP so I would guess there would be a speed gain with this
> option.
>
The Athalon will do SMP also. You can checkout AMD's website for
confirmation or additional information (I hate sounding like a sales
person for, but I like AMD). Also they have recommendations on putting
together a system based on these processors (Again I recommend Gigabytes
GA-71X motherboard, almost all my systems are based on there boards).
>
> Of most importance here is that the system is fast and STABLE. I want
> to stay away from overclocking because I don't know enough about it
> and I don't want to have to be worried about burning up my hardware.
>
> Also, would someone recoommend an AGP video card that is stable under
> both of these operating systems (WNT and LINUX). Something that is
> say 8-16MB.
>
I recommend getting an Elsa GLoria Synergy, it works flawlessy under both
OSes and comes with excellent NT drivers and utils.
>
> Thanks a ton in advance for everyone's comments, help, and feedback.
>
> Hope this doesn't start a global flame war!
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From: Walter Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is my hardware compatible?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:46:10 +0200
Hoostine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i'm building a new puter with the following specs:
> dual celeron 366
every processos should be ok
> abit bp6 mb
every PCI motherboard should be ok (unless you want to use special
"features")
> quantum fireball 6.4gig udma66 hd
every IDE drive should be ok
> 64megs of ram
ok.
> what i can't decide on is the video card
> i have it narrowed down to:
> voodoo banshee card
> voodoo rush card
> voodoo 2 card
www.xfree86.org has a list of supported cards. You should also check
with the distribution you want to use, as it might not contain the
latest Xfree86 driver. www.redhat.com has a hardware compatibility list.
Walter
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From: Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:00:15 -0500
Easy, Pedro!
Just have Congress take another look at Chinagate and Clinton will be
sending in bombers and troops faster than you can say 'coverup'. This
ploy should work again, because it worked four times before.
Pedro RA wrote:
>
> Sorry to post off topic but this is EXTREMELY important!
>
> FREE EAST TIMOR NOW!
> STOP THE KILLING KNOW!
>
> Please take a look at the nearest
> internacional news broadcast.
>
> Remember KOSOVO, RUANDA,
> BOSNIA, CAMBODJA, KURDISTAN,
> or the HOLOCAUST. Or remember all
> of them. You may as well add
> EAST TIMOR to this list.
>
> DO SOMETHING!
>
> Do what ever you can.
>
> Better even:
> STOP SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!
>
> FREE EAST TIMOR
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Hard drive partitions
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 19:13:15 -0400
Mark Lewis wrote:
>
> > My second question is about partitioning. I've read in at some places that
> > you only need two partitions for Linux (the swap and the main partition), in
> > other places I've read that you need 4 or 5? Why the difference, is it just
> > a performance thing?
>
> One reason is security. If you will have other users on your system besides
> yourself, it's generally a good idea
> to put at least /var on it's own separate partition.
Another is if you allow your logs to get REALLY big, they'll fill up the
/var partition. If that happens and you've only got two (swap and /)
then you'll get all sorts of strange errors and your system may not
even work.
Another is fsck. If you umount a partition, you can fsck (check it for
errors) while your system is up. Then just remount the partition and be
on your way.
Another is backups. You might just want to back up a certain partition
and put a new disk on as (for instance) /usr. After that, you'll have
to put your /usr into your /etc/fstab so it gets mounted every time you
boot.
Generally, for a home system, I suggest four partitions. swap, /,
/home, and /var. When you go to upgrade, your /home can remain how it is
with all your settings untouched. /var cannot fill up the / directory
with log files and you have swap space.
Dan
--
UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Problem about upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.3.17?
Date: 12 Sep 1999 00:11:39 GMT
Hi,
I use RedHat 6 and I upgrade my kernel from the 2.2.5 to 2.3.17.
when I finished upgrade, I can't config my sound card: Sound Blaster PCI
128.
I have setup the module for sound card.
another problem is there is a APM daemon failed when my start linux.
what's the APM? Please help me to resolve these two problem.
Thank you!
Jack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tor Arntsen)
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Seti@home wont run.
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 00:18:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:47:05 GMT, Bryan
><Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>simple: its not in your path.
>>
>>cd to where it is located and do:
>>
>>./setiathome
>>
>>that's all ;-)
>>
>>
>I was in it's directiry when I tried to run it.
>
>Is this a problem with being logged on as root ?
> I have found other executables which I cant run and I get the same
>command not found response.
When he says "it's not in your path'" he means the PATH environment variable.
When Linux (or any Unix) looks for commands to execute it will only look
in directories specified in PATH unless you use an absolute address for
the program. Example of absolute addresses are /usr/bin/dd ../bin/dd ./dd
(the latter two are relative paths and depends on which directory you are
in whey you execute the command). 'dd' (or any program name) alone, without
any slashes in some combination in front of it, is not.
It is possible to have '.' as part of you PATH variable, if so then your
command 'setiathome' would have worked without the ./ if you had cd'ed into
the directory first. However, this is extremely risky. Consider:
Evil bastard does
cd /tmp
echo "rm -rf *" > ls
chmod a+rx ls
exit
Then you decide to look around in an idle moment and you do something like
cd /etc
ls
cd /tmp
ls
Boom.
-Tor
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From: "Tsak Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q&A from this newsgroup
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 03:31:06 +0300
Questions and answers from this newsgroup (archived by subject) can be found
at http://server.hellug.gr/LUGistics/en/pub/QA_articles_main.php3
K.Tsakaloglou
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 11 Sep 99 20:05:36 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Bryan ;
> Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: How do I go about testing the stability ?
> seti@home is a grand test. a real torture test for cpus (heat, ram,
> bios settings, etc).
If thats the case, then I must be running pretty stably. I'm running
both the rc5-64, and seti gismos. slowly reaching for an >80% rank in
setiathome.
>: Kevin
>: On 9 Sep 1999 23:32:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
>: wrote:
>: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>: >Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: >>Bear in mind that if you are told that 80% of all celerons will
>: >>overclock, you are fitting two of them, and so the likelihood of
>: >>success will be 64%.
>: >
>: >That analysis makes two implicit assumptions.
>: >
>: >First, it assumes that each processor's chance of overclockability
>: > is independent. But processors from the same batch tend to be
>: >equally overclockable, and if you buy two together the odds are
>: >that they will be from the same batch. If you can see the serial
>: >numbers before you buy, you can guarantee this.
>: >
>: >Second, it assumes that SMP itself does not have an effect on
>: >overclockability. This is a controversial statement.
>: >
>: >As an aside, I think that most overclockers do a lousy job of
>: >stability testing, and that most of the overclocking success
>: >rates we see posted are exaggerated. Not that people are
>: >intentionally lying; they just don't test hard enough. Most
>: >people run buggy software on an unstable OS, have come to
>: >expect routine crashes, and just don't notice an occasional extra
>: >crash due to slightly unstable hardware.
> --
> Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
> ->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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Date: 11 Sep 99 20:21:45 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seti@home wont run.
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Kevin ;
> I relise this is a hardware group, but there are people here
> suggesting seti is a good way of system stability testing and so
> they must have some experience of using it.
> I downloaded seti@home
> setiathome-1.3.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1
> with the intention of running it on my Slackware 4.0 dual Celeron
> box.
> I untared it ok and two file were extracted, README and setiathome,
> in to a directory.
> the setiathome file did not have the execute attribute set
> so I went
> chmod +x setiathome
Not required
> now the file name is green and has a star next to it when I do ls.
> but when I type
> setiathome
Wrong. Type "./xseti" in an x shell, without the quotes of course. The
'./' anchors the shell's search path to the preset working directory.
It didn't run before because its not in your PATH list.
> at the prompt, I get
> bash: setiathome: command not found
> I'm a relative newbie, so it could be somethng realy dumb
Yup, but now you know, so the day isn't a total waste after all :)
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scanners,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Can't get UMAX 1220S scanner to work with SCSI & Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:48:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a UMAX Astra 1220S scsi scanner and after trying
every possible practical configuration I cannot get it to
work on my Linux 2.2.12 system with an Adaptec AHA-1542CP
scsi controller.
When the card is set in non-plug-&-play mode it will always
time out on trying to do anything at all with the scsi bus.
When the card is in plug-and-play mode it doesn't experience
hangs or timeouts but just doesn't see the scanner, which is
the only device connected to the controller. "No attached
devices".
As a separate issue - since I can't get the scanner working
on the Adaptec controller - I've tried to get the UMAX-supplied
DTC-3181 scsi controller to work in plug-&-play mode, which I'd
read in a usenet post would allow the driver to use an interrupt
with the card. Using isapnp I've been able to configure the
DTC-3181 in plug-&-play mode, and on loading the g_NCR5380
scsi module it states that the interrupt is being used. However
scanning is no faster (about half the speed of Windows 98)
and the count for the interrupt in a 'cat /proc/interrupts'
is zero, so it looks like the g_NCR5380 driver isn't using
the interrupt after all (even though it said it was!).
If anyone has ANY information or advice on using a UMAX 1220S
scanner with an Adaptec AHA-1542CP I'd be extremely grateful to
hear about it, since I'm otherwise going to have to give up on
getting the scanner to work with it. If you're using this
combination I'd love to hear about the card's configuration.
Or if anyone has succeeded in getting satisfactory performance from
the UMAX scsi card under Linux, I'd love to hear about that as well!
Thanks,
Brad Rosser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 11 Sep 99 20:09:22 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Zip 250MB or Imation SuperDisks?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Glasgow ;
> Hello,
> Will Linux successfully recognise and use either of the following?
> 1) IOMega ZIP 250MB
> 2) Imation SuperDisk LS-120
Yes, and Yes
> I ask because I am going to buy a backup drive at the weekend and
> need to be able to buy the right one. I realize that Linux is able
> to use the Zip100 version of the drive, but I wondered about the 250
> version. If not that, then I hoped it would be able to use the
> Imation SuperDisk which gives me
> 20MB more than the Zip100.
> My distribution of Linux is SuSE 6.2, latest one.
I'm using an old Superdisk as a 120 meg removeable hard drive. Noisey,
slow, and (knock on wood, my head will do in a pinch..) so far, rock
solid dependable. You might have to turn on the atapi floppy stuffs and
recompile to use the floppy as a floppy though.
Cheers, Gene
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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Date: 11 Sep 99 20:16:18 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Agfa Scanner and AVA1505 Controller
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to f1ayr ;
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:33:19 +0200, "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> My Suse 6.1 Linux doesn't recognize the AVA1505 SCSI-Card. Please
>> help me
>>if
>> you can!!
>> Thanx
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
> i've a ava 1502 i use a tips from rogers from linux gazette issue 31
> it's run i modified and recompiled if you want more help it's
> possible thanks
The aha1520 driver works just fine with it.
Cheers, Gene
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Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. C. McPherson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SupraMax PCI Modem under Red Hat 5.2
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:51:55 -0400
> Hi.
>
> I bought a SupraMax 56k PCI and it works fine under Windows 9x/NT.
> I tried to use it under Red Hat Linux 5.2 and I could not get the modem
> to work.
>
> Before I bought it, I checked
>
>http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/intel/52/rh52-hardware-intel-14.html#ss14.3
>
> and it says that the following (among others) are incompatible modems:
>
> - Plug-and-Play (PNP) modems (these may be set up via isapnptools and
> setserial).
> - Modems that require software drivers for compression, error
> correction, high-speed operation, etc.
> - PCI Memory Mapped Modems (these do not act like serial ports)
> - Internal SupraExpress 56k
> - Internal SupraSonic 56k
> - ...
>
> But is says nothing about SupraMax. So I assumed it would work.
>
> I have read now "Modems: Traditional, Controller-less and Soft" white
> paper
> http://www.supra.com/products/white-papers/communications/c-less_paper.html
>
> and now I am afraid that is too late.
>
> Is it possible to get the modem working in a different OS other that
> Windows 9x/NT ?
> And is it possible to get the modem working under Linux ?
>
> Thank you
> Goncalo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
Sorry but 99% of PCI modems are win modems. Best bet, since the manufactures
hide the winmodem fact (which should be illegal), is get an external modem.
Before buying any modem, you need to check out
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
this is a very extensive list of modems and type.
Clyde
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