Linux-Hardware Digest #357, Volume #12 Sun, 27 Feb 00 18:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Software RAID on RH6.1??? (Joe B)
Re: Parallel Scanner under Linux??? (herman dumont)
Jaton (Trident 9880) videocard problem (Burak Serdar)
Re: HP 710 (guy)
Re: what display card & network card I should choose!!! (John Jensen)
Re: Funky Zip drive problem, I need help! (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: what display card & network card I should choose!!! (Bit Twister)
FS: DEC alpha personal workstation 500au ("Rob Leighfield")
Large disk boot beyond 1024 cylinders with LILO (John in SD)
Re: dual xeon or single athlon? (Bryan)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 760 and SuSE 6.3 (Georg Lukas)
Re: Sound Card Genius Sound Maker 3DX2 (Dances With Crows)
Sporadic SCSI Bus Hang (I think). (Thom Brooke)
sound problems... ("plato")
3com network cards and 440BX (Joel Phillips)
Re: Problem booting LILO ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Which ZIP drive? ("Matt O'Toole")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe B)
Subject: Re: Software RAID on RH6.1???
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:08:40 GMT
I don't know why it is so, perhaps it is useful for hardware raid, but
the raid software in the linux kernel does not work for software raid.
You need to apply patches. And you also need the raid tools at:
ftp://ftp.fi.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/
These go up to 2.2.11 and can be modified to go to the newer kernels.
Not too tough to install or use.. -- Joe B.
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:24:40 +0800, "alvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone has ever try to setup software RAID on RH6.1 ?
>I've try to setup this but get into problem...
>As there are no problem at the setup state, but after system reboot. There
>is an error message "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtal
>address 00001000" follow with some code....
>This message come out at the first time that system start to building
>mirror..
>after this come out, system will stop to building mirror..
>
>What happen?
>Please help..
>
>Alvin
>
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From: herman dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel Scanner under Linux???
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:29:15 +0100
Andreas Graef wrote:
>
> I've got the Mustek Scan Express 6000P, and I only have drivers under
> Linux or does anyone have one???
>
> Thanks!
Hi,
take a look at:
http://www.torque.net/parport/ppscsi.html
HTH
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From: Burak Serdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Jaton (Trident 9880) videocard problem
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:24:02 -0500
I have a Jaton Video 107 Blad 3D PCI/AGP (Trident 9880). Redhat
installer attempts to use the SVGA server, but it crashes. I installed
using the text mode installer, and tried a few trident chipsets, with no
luck (again, crash). Should I just buy a new card, or is there anybody
out there who made it work?
Thanks.
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From: guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 710
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:30:05 GMT
Costas wrote:
>
>
> Can anyone help me print with the HP 710 printer?
> I have Suse 6.2 linux with the 2.2.14 kernel
> During boot the printer is recognized correctly and I have an lp device
> under /proc/devices.
> How do I print then?
> Thank you very much!
>
> You have to use the pbm2ppa package, wich is available on your CD of
Suse 6.2. For more information check out the Hardware database of Suse.
Here You can download new drivers (pnm2ppa) and install afterwords.
The first package works, but only in B/W. The second is a experimental
one, wich can print colours as well!
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what display card & network card I should choose!!!
Date: 27 Feb 2000 20:51:21 GMT
Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Please kindly advise me what 2 name of the Display card and Network card I
: should use! ( I hope a name like Leadtek-3D S700)
If you haven't got any hardware yet, why not go for one of the pre-built
systems? You can get a K6-2 or K6-3 system that would fill the low cost
server role very nicely. These guys have one with the astonishing base
price of $359 (a network card will add a little):
http://www.affordablecomputers.com/
More vendors are listed here:
http://www.linux.org/vendors/systems.html
If you have the other pieces, and are just looking for network and video
cards, I'd cross-check the sales and clearance prices in your area with
the history in these groups. Find a card that is cheap, and then use
http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml to search the forum "comp.os.lin*" for
discussion on the card. If you find lots of people saying that they got
it to work, you're home free.
John
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Funky Zip drive problem, I need help!
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:19:54 +0000
Martin wrote:
>
> I have an internal ATAPI 100Mb Zip drive. It is installed as my second
> primary ide drive hdc. It seems to work just peachy, I can mount it and
> 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'be not had this problem by I use the 'eject' command instead of
umount.
Erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: what display card & network card I should choose!!!
Reply-To: The news group
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:08:37 GMT
You might look here
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/intel/61/rh6.1-hcl-i.ld.html
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:10:32 +0800, Raymond
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I would like to setup a server for myself.
>The problem is my budget is very limited.
>I just need the server to be a printer and file sharing server(window OS
>client), and share internet access through a dial-in broadband.
>The Linux should run Xwindow.( this is the most problem I come
>across)
>Can you advise what brand name (or chip set) of Display card and network
>card I should choose.(low price range)
>Please kindly advise me what 2 name of the Display card and Network card I
>should use! ( I hope a name like Leadtek-3D S700)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Rob Leighfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: FS: DEC alpha personal workstation 500au
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:05:21 -0000
DEC personal workstation
Alpha 500 processor
4.5 Gb USCSI HDD
onboard USCSI cntrl
onboard 100tx
not sure of memory size (2x Digital DIMMS)
View / collect Bristol UK
�1500 or near offer plus VAT or I keep it and use it as a PC.
Rob.
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os,linux.development.system
Subject: Large disk boot beyond 1024 cylinders with LILO
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:17:30 GMT
Beta testing of the code released in Nov-1999 as 'LILO-22' has gone on
for four months now. No bug reports have been received, but minor
cosmetic changes were requested by Werner Almesberger, the author of
LILO.
Now released as LILO version 21 (revision 3), the source code for
RedHat 6.0 (gcc=egcs2.91.66) and later is now posted at:
ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo
This code addresses the concerns regarding a) indicating that it is
derived from Werner Almesberger's version 21; b) preserves 'linear' to
use CHS addressing derived at boot-time; c) adds 'lba32' capability
(32-bit EDD BIOS packet calls), with fallback to CHS if the BIOS does
not support EDD; d) adds a more extensive BIOS check program
'disk.com' to augment the original 'dparam'.
Documentation which is updated includes: README*, CHANGES*, and man
pages for 'lilo' and 'lilo.conf'.
--John Coffman
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual xeon or single athlon?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 21:27:47 GMT
the mainboard for a dual xeon will certainly be much much more than a k7 board.
but with the gx chipset you can address (and install) much more ram
(dimms) than with the k7. current k7 boards support only 3 dimm
slots. with the gx, I would expect a min of 4 and maybe even 6 or 8
dimm slots.
I'd think about the dual xeon for now; but when a dual k7 board and
chipset is out, I'd think strongly toward that. IF its been proven
stable - and that might take several months after its release.
so for now, maybe the dual xeon. in a year, probably a dual k7.
John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've been out browsing web pages considering my next workstation. I
: notice that Xeon 400 MHz with 1MB cache sell for around $300, while Athlon
: 800 MHz sell for about twice that. I wonder, for a moderately priced "big
: dog", if dual 400MHz/1Mb/Xeon's are the way to go over even a 800 MHz
: Athlon. I'd guess that the 1Mb caches would go a long way to make the
: typical workstation mix of applications (Linux/X11/Gnome) go fast.
: Any comments?
: Thx,
: John
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From: Georg Lukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 760 and SuSE 6.3
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:34:14 +0100
Stephan Schaefer schrieb:
>
> 1) is Epson 760 supportet?
> 2) If yes - how to let it print? So far I can just print ascii files.
>
> Stephan
I have SuSE 6.3 and the STC 760 too.
I got the best results with the uniprint driver for the stc500.
In the YaST printer configuration you must use "other printer" and then
<user defined>. In the input line you enter "stc500ph.upp" for normal
paper and high resolution. You can ignore the error message YaST prints
out after typing this in.
Georg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Sound Card Genius Sound Maker 3DX2
Date: 27 Feb 2000 16:36:43 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:01:26 -0800, snomonk
<<Wmfu4.317$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I am about to buy a sound card. Has anyone had success with the Genius
>Sound Maker 3DX2?
>Also, any recommendations for a low cost sound card are also appreciated!
>From google, it appears that the Sound Maker 3DX2 uses the CS4235 chip.
The sound chip on my Ensoniq AudioPCI has the same designation, and it is
recognized as an ES1371 by the kernel... works well with the ES1371 driver
compiled in or as a module. I think you'll be OK. If not, the
aforementioned Ensoniq AudioPCI is $25-30 US... relatively cheap.
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From: Thom Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat,linux.help
Subject: Sporadic SCSI Bus Hang (I think).
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:00:54 GMT
SUMMARY:
I'm getting an intermitent system hang/freeze under RH 6.1. It
occurs after from 10 minutes to 2 hours of up-time. It appears to
be SCSI related (in that any commands which involve the SCSI bus
"stall"; everything else continues to run). Everything runs normally
up to this point.
I DID NOT observe any such hangs under RH 5.2.
SYSTEM:
Micron P90 Powerstation (circa 1994; no power management).
96M RAM
BusLogic BT-946C, PCI SCSI host adapter
ID 0: Connor CFP-1060s (sda)
ID 1: Micropolis 4221-09 (sdb)
ID 6: Plextor PX-20TS
Diamond Alpine Speedstar 64 PCI w/2M
MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum Basic
Motorola ModemSurfr 28.8
3Com 3c509B
This is a Linux-only machine.
Custom RedHat 6.1 Install (to select some server packages).
Neither the sound card nor the modem are "configured". (Although 6.1
install thinks it sees a second SCSI adapter on the sound card,
listed as "alias host_adapter1 unknown" in /etc/conf.modules. But
the Pro Audio Spectrum BASIC isn't supposed to have a scsi adatper).
X11R6 is configured. Boots to run level 5.
SYMPTOMS:
Initially, everything seems to run fine. All SCSI targets are
identified
at boot time, and they all "work". I can mount/unmount the cdrom;
all disk partitions are available.
At some point, usually between 10 min and 2 hours, some command or
application will "hang". No more disk activity. Linux continues to
run, and I can do other things, as long as they don't involve direct
disk access. For example, under GNOME I can open a new terminal
window and do simple things. TCP stack still up (ping from remote
machine
answered, but ftp or telnet hangs -- needs disk access for logon).
I have kept a terminal window open in which I look at
/proc/scsi/BusLogic/0
and /var/log/messages. These files are still available (through cache,
presumably).
The last lines in /var/log/messages are (all listed at same <time>):
<time> foo kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of
retries.
<time> foo kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
<time> foo kernel: scsi0: Sending Bus Device Reset CCB #39677 to
Target 6
The "CCB #" varies from crash to crash. It usually resets Target 6
(cdrom) at time of crash. I have observed one reset of Target 1
which did NOT end in a crash.
Contents of /proc/scsi/BusLogic/0 indicate a great deal of Data
Transfer activity for Target 6 (cdrom), but no actual data read (cd
not mounted). Data transfer attempted/completed by target:
0 5503 / 5503
1 2567 / 2567
6 14339 / 14339
Target 6 also shows one Bus Device Reset (Requested, Attempted, and
Completed). No Bus Device Resets for targets 0 or 1. No host
adapter resets. No external resets.
ACTIONS TRIED SO FAR:
Reinstalled RH 6.1 twice. Tried KDE instead of GNOME.
Ran "memtest86", lots. Six different tests, 18 passes each (over two
sessions). Total of about 24 hours of memory testing. No errors
detected.
Checked SCSI termination (looked fine). Replaced SCSI cable, just in
case. Host adapter termination enabled. Terminators installed on sda
(Connor; ID 0). SCSI bus configuration looks like this:
SCSI ID: 7 6 - 1 0
Device: BT946C----CDROM----<stub>----sdb----sda
Installed almost all RedHat 6.1 errata (i.e., all updates except
"bind" and "pygnome" -- not running a DNS server, so bind shouldn't
be applicable, should it?).
Installed "mkinitrd" from 6.2beta (per RedHat suggestion).
Reinstalled RH 5.2. PROBLEM WAS NOT OBSERVED UNDER 5.2.
Reinstalled RH 6.1. Problem is back.
======================
Anyone have any pointers on how to debug this? Does it sound like
I'm even in the right ballpark? I can provide log files, version
info, etc., if that would help.
-- Thom Brooke.
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From: "plato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound problems...
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:24:21 +0200
ok..now that i have my video card running ok with linux (which, i can assure
you, was by no means an easy thing to accomplish), it's finally time to
start looking for a solution for my sound problem.. :))
i have a creative Sound Blaster 512 PCI and i'm unable to find it using the
sndconfig utility..so anyone has an answer to this one?
karim from egypt..
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From: Joel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com network cards and 440BX
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:25:02 +0000
I've been trying for a few days to get a P2 440BX chipset to work with 2
different 3com network cards, one 3c509 and one 3c90x (both used as
10BaseT). I've tried with RedHat 6.0 and Mandrake 6.1, both of which
detect the card, but neither of which are able to use it - I can't ping
other computers on the network etc. I know that my network settings are
correct - so no problems with IPs etc. - and that the network cable works,
but I'm not sure whether my BIOS is in some way conflicting with Linux.
I've disabled the 'PnP capable OS' option, but nothing else.
I'd be extremely grateful if someone could help,
Thanks,
Joel Phillips
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem booting LILO
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:00:54 -0500
Marcus Wilms wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi Folks, my Debian-Linux installation drives me crazy!- The system does
>not start LILO after restart, it just hangs saying "Insert boot disk and
>press any key".
>I put booting stuff including kernel under /boot on /dev/hda1.
>/etc/lilo.conf is like
>boot=/dev/hda
>root=/dev/hda2
>(...)
>
>I tried it with and without the linear option.
>I did NOT forget to start lilo before rebooting.
>
>I observed apparent inconsistencies in the geometry of my Toshiba
>MK-6412MAT HDD. In the technical documentation is says that the HDD
>should have 13424 cylinders, 15 heads and 63 sectors. (c-)fdisk and
>Linux boot-log insist on 839 cylinders, 240 heads and 63 sectors even if
>I partitioned the HDD with
>cfdisk -c 13424 -h 15 -s 63
>just before.
>Booting with boot-disk works okay but time-consuming.
>Win98 was installed before and worked "fine".
>
>Could anyone help me.
>
>Marcus.
The reason for the apparent discrepancies in the drive geometry
is that your bios has LBA enabled and maps the manufacturer's
geometry into one with more heads and fewer cylinders - which is
good! I don't know if this is your entire problem, but you
should go with the flow and assume the drive has the geometry
fdisk/cfdisk tells you it has.
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Reply-To: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which ZIP drive?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:03:45 -0800
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[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.
For all practical purposes, a Zip's a Zip, assuming you're comparing IDE to
IDE, etc. So, it doesn't make any difference whether it's an Iomega, a
Hitachi, etc. The best price I've seen for an internal IDE unit is around
$60. I paid about this over a year ago. The place was Advance(d) Computer
in Irvine, CA. They're a regular advertiser in the local Microtimes, along
with several other big "white box" companies that have similar deals.
> 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 $150, but CD-RWs have so many other uses...
All this is true, but a Zip is more convenient for quick backups of less
than 100 MB. If, for example, you like to do a quick backup every so often,
or before running out the door, a Zip is a lot faster and easier than a
CD-RW or CD-R. It's basically just a big, fast floppy. It's fast enough
for multimedia, etc. Also, keep in mind that a Zip is perpetually
rewriteable, so it's not like you have to keep buying disks. If that's the
case, then it's a no-brainer, go for the CD-R/CD-RW. A perfectly adequate
data backup procedure for many folks is two Zip disks, used alternately.
Zip disks do fail (very) occasionally, like floppies. Don't make the
mistake of working from them, like many people do, even though they know
better!
Also, I think the older 100 MB drives are the way to go. They're usually a
lot cheaper, and their installed base is a lot larger. A lot of people who
have the larger drives still use the 100 MB disks, because they're afraid
whoever they're sharing with might have an older drive.
In summary, I think the appropriate cost/benefit analysis of Zips is not in
ultimate MB/$; but that they're big enough, fast, and easy; and the drives
cheap to buy, with good speed for the dollar.
I wonder, is anyone selling used Zip disks?
Matt O.
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