Linux-Hardware Digest #355, Volume #12 Sun, 27 Feb 00 11:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Trouble mounting tape drive (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: UDMA 66 - cmd 648 (Ray)
Re: Burned system!? (Stefan Seyfried)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 760 and SuSE 6.3 (Chris Dalby)
ORB Drive? (Chris Dalby)
Can I use a primax scanner with Red Hat 6.0? (Frank)
Re: Adding New Larger Hard Drive To Old Machine (Ray)
AMCC generic driver - mirror of pcape1.pi..... ? ("P.Farre")
Re: Printer Problem (Walz)
reading BIOS fields and settings? (Martin Brown)
Onstream DI30 problem (Anko)
Re: video card problems with XFree86 3.3.6 and ati rage fury 128.. ("plato")
Re: Funky Zip drive problem, I need help! (Steve Martin)
Re: Challenge: Install Linux on a 386sx25, 40 megs HD and 1 Meg ram (Yves
Bellefeuille)
Re: CD-burning on IDE/ATAPI RH 6.0 (Karsten Jensen)
Re: Help installing StarOffice........ (Fairway Fatty)
Re: New computer (Stephen Tawn)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (R Leigh)
Which ZIP drive? (Julio C. Gutierrez)
downloading beer...? (Motor Neurone 113)
Re: Compatible hard disks? (Scott Fraser)
Re: Compatible hard disks? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Which ZIP drive? (Dances With Crows)
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble mounting tape drive
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:18:16 +0000
Hi Jeff,
AFAIK tape drives can't contain a file system, as they are no block
devices, as you were told.
So they can't be mounted.
Datas on tape devices are written and read serially, just like on a tape
recorder.
You should have a look at the documentation of "tar". (On my SuSE 6.0 an
"info"-page)
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: UDMA 66 - cmd 648
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:18:27 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:18:12 GMT, Tomasz Brzezina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I've got off-board UDMA controller with chipset cmd 648. Linux (RedHat 6.1)
>can't see it. Patch doesn't work also. On board controller doesn't support
>HDD over 8GB. what to do?
>
The 8GB limit is more likely your bios then your on-board controller.
Luckly Linux doesn't care about that (except for lilo). Just make sure your
BIOS is set to use LBA mode (so the 1024 cyl limit will fall around 8GB
instead of 512MB) and make sure your boot partition is entirely below the
1024 cyl. limit. You can make a second partition for the rest of the drive
and you'll be fine.
--
Ray
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From: Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burned system!?
Date: 26 Feb 2000 17:48:00 +0100
Hello,
i once had a problem with a power supply, which was absolutely in
order except the �power good�-line, which didn�t go low, causing the
computer not to start. I checked all power lines and they were in
spec, so i simply hard-wired the power good to GND. It�s running fine
since then.
Just my .02 EUR, YMMV, use at your own risk!
Stefan
--
Stefan Seyfried, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, i'm a signature-virus! copy me to your .signature to help me spread!
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From: Chris Dalby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 760 and SuSE 6.3
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:32:06 +1000
Stephan Schaefer wrote:
> 1) is Epson 760 supportet?
> 2) If yes - how to let it print? So far I can just print ascii files.
>
> Stephan
I guess it would require the ghostscript UP driver which I had to set up
for my Epson Stylus color 600. I don't know if Suse comes with
Ghostscript preconfigured or not, but Mandrake 6+ does.
Regards Chris
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From: Chris Dalby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ORB Drive?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:41:09 +1000
Does anyone know if the ORB 2.2g Parrellel drive is supported under
linux mandrake 7.0-2?
Regards Chris
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From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I use a primax scanner with Red Hat 6.0?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:30:08 GMT
I have a Primax Twain scanner and I like use with Red Hat 6.0 in KDE
Thanks
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: Adding New Larger Hard Drive To Old Machine
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:53:50 GMT
On 26 Feb 2000 11:19:27 EST, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>It shouldn't impose any limit on Lose95 since that is supposed to have
>protected-mode drivers for disk access and not use the BIOS... er, not use
>the BIOS much... er, only use the BIOS when it really, really wants to.
>You shouldn't have problems with disks < 8G and might possibly have
>problems with disks > 8G. YMMV; good luck.
I think the Dos version of fdisk (ie the one on a Win. boot floppy) uses the
bios info. to create the partition table and the rest of Win. will just
trust the partition table. Maybe if he boots Win. from an older smaller
drive and uses the 32bit fdisk it may work but I wouldn't count on it.
--
Ray
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From: "P.Farre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMCC generic driver - mirror of pcape1.pi..... ?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:10:42 +0100
Hi,
i would like a look at the generic AMCC 5933 pci chip driver ....
but the site http://pcape1.pi.infn.it/~acister/dev where it is supposed to
be
is not responding !
does anyone have a copy or know of a place this is mirrored ?
or maybe another source for linux drivers for this?
thanks!
--
Paul Erik Thidemann Farre
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e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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It serves those who quest despite the odds -
for they are the champions of enlightenment"
Laurence Gardner,
Bloodline of the Holy Grail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walz)
Subject: Re: Printer Problem
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:36:47 +0200
Hi
Alex, hi Frank, the folks at RedHat have carried out their job of
adapting pretty sloppily. Kernel 2.2 introduced some improved
naming-convention and task-encapsulation for printing. But even in
RedHat 6.1 most tools (and the entries to conf.modules) are set up for
Kernel 2.1 conventions. That, first of all, prevents parallel port
printers from working.
But I would expect the same sloppiness regarding network printers. So:
read carefully all hints in /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.12/
For parallel printers those are /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.12/parport.txt
and /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.12/kmod.txt
For net-printing you might read other txt-files in the same directory.
Maybe RedHat provides some help or scripts via redhat.com? I will have a
look and will report (if my mining will succeed).
> The printer is NOT connected to the
> parallel port...
>
> > .. how the kernel names
> > the parallel ports changed and that may be part of the
> > problem.
> >
> > I would look either at http://www.deja.com or in the kernel
> > source tree for I believe the name is parport or paraport.
> > --
> > Frank Hahn
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Subject: reading BIOS fields and settings?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown)
Date: 27 Feb 2000 11:57:48 GMT
So... is there anyway to read the system BIOS fields and their settings?
/proc has some bits and pieces, but I'm lookig for something more complete
and together.
I sure hate writing all this BIOS stuff down. I'd love to be able to
print it. Hmm... just a thought... does the "PrintScreen" keyboard key
work when you're in BIOS mode.
Thanx for any thoughts you might have on the matter.
--
- Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
- BEAUDESIGN.COM -
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From: Anko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Onstream DI30 problem
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:46:53 +0100
Hi all,
Using tape streamer DI-30 with the special driver from Onstream
Compiles and loads okay
mt -t /dev/ht0 erase works
mt -t /dev/ht0 status works
mt -t /dev/ht0 retension works
but when starting tar with: tar cvf /dev/ht0 <some-file>
I get these errors:
tar: cannot write to device /dev/ht0: Invalid argument
tar: error is not recoverable: exiting now
Tried everything, but nothing works.
Anyone any hints??
--jesse
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From: "plato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video card problems with XFree86 3.3.6 and ati rage fury 128..
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:58:29 +0200
do you know if this will work for red hat 6.0?
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Funky Zip drive problem, I need help!
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:18:26 GMT
Martin wrote:
> read and write to it.. The problem comes when I unmount, switch disk,
> and remount it--The contents of the first zip disk will automagically be
> copied to the next inserted one... This is very ungood and I have no
> idea what is going on.. Can someone please help me?
I don't know that much about Zip disks using the IDE driver. My Zip disk
is an IDE, but I'm running it under SCSI emulation. (I heard somewhere
that doing this is more reliable than running them under IDE.) You might
try compiling SCSI emulation into your kernel and trying your Zip that
way.
The device name will probably end up being /dev/sda4 rather than
/dev/hdc4,
for some reason (that's what happens on my machine, and I don't worry
about
it... works like a charm).
Oh, by the way... you don't have existing SCSI devices, do you? I
haven't a
clue what would happen in a kernel with both SCSI devices and SCSI
emulation
included.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Bellefeuille)
Subject: Re: Challenge: Install Linux on a 386sx25, 40 megs HD and 1 Meg ram
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:20:41 -0500
Reply-To: Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, "Patrick Brochu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to install linux on an old klunker i have, a 386 sx 25, only a
> meg of ram, and 40gigs hd... With such a small amount of ram, is this
> possible, and how would I go about doing that? Thanks!
Modern kernels take a Mb and a half of RAM, so you'll have to look for
special stripped down versions of Linux, or add more memory.
--
Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ottawa, Canada
Francais / English / Esperanto
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From: Karsten Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-burning on IDE/ATAPI RH 6.0
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:50:57 +0100
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 21:08:03 GMT, Olav Drageset <<1103_951080797@besten>>
> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I have used CD-Writing HOWTO for making Generic SCSI interface for
> >IDE/ATAPI CD-burner.
> >All scsi modules (scsi_mod.o, sr_mod.o, sg.o, ide-cd.o, loop.o and
> >ide-scsi.o) are loaded OK
> >dev/sg0 /dev/sg1 etc are genereated OK
> >append="hdd=ide-scsi" is put into /etc/lilo.conf (CD-burner is device hdd)
> >cdrecord and mkisofs are compiled and installed OK and mkisofs works OK.
>
> >after cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=hdd -data /back/burn/cd_image Iget:
> ^^^^^^^
Try dev=0,0,0 instead
Karsten Jensen
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From: Fairway Fatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help installing StarOffice........
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:21:49 GMT
Stu wrote:
> Look in your README file in Staroffice dir. Or type in mc at the
> staroffice folder and then hit F3 on the README file. It should tell you
> what you want to know. i think it is tar -xf or something like that it
> says in there. Look on your Linux cd for the ncpfs under the rpms section
> of it or go download it at www.google.com/linux
> Fairway Fatty wrote:
> >
> > Hello........! I d'loaded StarrOffice but cant figure out what to do
> > with the tar file.... i unzipped it i think (at least it looks that way
> > in to directory i creatd called staroffice on root) I just dont seem
> > to be able to run or install it....... or make it do anything...help?
> > Also can anyone tell me how to get my network printer going? I keep
> > getting a error message telling me to install " ncpfs" ...... i dont
> > have a clue as to what or where it is let alone install it...... ive
> > searched for ti in every directory and i cant find it.... any help would
> > be great thanks, Fairway
> >
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Thanks....... i'll try. I think i had gotten the file un-tarred? I'll
check on the ncpfs on my cd...... it would be nice to print postings for
reference! Fairway
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From: Stephen Tawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New computer
Date: 27 Feb 2000 14:32:53 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>Certain Athlon motherboards have had problems, both in Linux and WinXX.
>What's the exact make+model of that mobo?
It is the epox 7KXA with the VIA KX133 chipset
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R Leigh)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: 27 Feb 2000 14:57:07 GMT
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:34:34 GMT, DJC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 25 Feb 2000 19:29:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin) wrote:
>
>
>>A certain UK seat of learning (which shall remain nameless) once
>>had the bright idea of glueing the pads to the tables to stop them
>>being misplaced. Made them no end of friends among the left-handed
>
>Why not name them, Westminster did that when I was there c1995, lets
>here some other names.
>
Durham, at least for the SPARC IPCs with those horrible optical mice.
--
Roger Leigh
** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org **
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From: Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which ZIP drive?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:01:46 GMT
Hi,
I am considering getting a ZIP drive mainly to have backups and such.
Which ZIP drive would you reccomend as "best to buy" for linux? I am
looking for a reasonable price/performance/reliability factor.
Would you reccomend another kind of drive to have backups? It will be
for home use.
Note: I don't have a SCSI controller. ;-)
--
Julio C. Gutierrez -- Please remove both X to send email
Penguins live only in cool environments... ;)
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From: Motor Neurone 113 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.modems
Subject: downloading beer...?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:24:18 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Diamond 56i V PRO modem which I have been trying to use under
Linux.
I have heard from a couple of sources that it is NOT a Winmodem but I am
not sure...can anybody help me out?
If it is incompatible could anbody suggest the best 56k 'Linmodem' out
there?
Oh, and about the beer - no can do, I've been trying all weekend.
TIA,
Motor Neurone
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From: Scott Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compatible hard disks?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:34:53 GMT
Rootman wrote:
>
> I had a 2 gig IBM drive lying around and could NOT get it to install
> Linux on it, the installation went ok and then the kernel paniced as
> soon as it started to load. Maybe just my experience.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> antispam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > All:
> > > I am going to buy a second hard drive and install Linux on
> it while I have Bootmagic and Windows 98 SE on the
> > > first hard drive. What would a compatible hard drive be for Linux?
> I have heard complaints about hard drives with UDMA
> > > 66 vs. UDMA 33. What about 7200 RPM vs. 5400 RPM?
> > > Specifically, what about Maxtor hard drives?
> > >
Ran into a problem yesterday with a couple of brand new Quantum UDMA 7200 eide
hard drives. They are 13 Gig drives. I have tried STormix 2000, Red Hat 6.1 and
SuSe 6.2.
Install goes great until reboot and then it fails. It comes up with LI at the
boot prompt. Using a floppy I can boot the machine into any flaover that is
installed, but would like to not have to use the damn floppy. Anyone got any
tipes?
Mainboard is an Asus p5a-b with an AMD K6-2 400.
Cheers, and cc to my email address if responding.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Compatible hard disks?
Date: 27 Feb 2000 10:57:37 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and mailed]
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:34:53 GMT, Scott Fraser <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>Ran into a problem yesterday with a couple of brand new Quantum UDMA 7200 eide
>hard drives. They are 13 Gig drives. I have tried STormix 2000, Red Hat 6.1 and
>SuSe 6.2.
> Install goes great until reboot and then it fails. It comes up with LI at the
>boot prompt. Using a floppy I can boot the machine into any flaover that is
>installed, but would like to not have to use the damn floppy. Anyone got any
>tipes?
Is /boot completely below the 1024-cylinder limit? Are the drives hooked
to a UDMA/66 port? Make sure /boot is a small, primary partition located
within the first 1024 cylinders, and if the drives are hooked to a UDMA/66
port, you might have to specify "ide0=0xNNN,ide1=0xMMM" (forget the exact
numbers) in the lilo.conf. If you've already partitioned the drive and
/boot is above 1024 cylinders, try adding the "linear" option to lilo.conf
and rerunning lilo. HTH,
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Which ZIP drive?
Date: 27 Feb 2000 11:06:23 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:01:46 GMT, Julio C. Gutierrez
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>
>I am considering getting a ZIP drive mainly to have backups and such.
>Which ZIP drive would you reccomend as "best to buy" for linux? I am
>looking for a reasonable price/performance/reliability factor.
>Would you reccomend another kind of drive to have backups? It will be
>for home use.
The best deal wrt price and performance is probably an internal IDE ZIP
drive. I saw some on http://www.pricewatch.com for about $80. Data
transfer speed is pretty good, about 1 to 1.5M/second.
I wouldn't reccommend a ZIP for backups, though. ZIP disks are expensive
and low-capacity ($10, 96M) compared to CD-Rs ($1, 650M). A CD-RW is more
expensive than a ZIP at about $150, but CD-RWs have so many other uses...
The tough part with IDE CD-RWs is setting them up in Linux. Every modern
IDE CD-RW should work with Linux, but getting the kernel to work with them
is more complicated than it should be. See the HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html for info.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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