Linux-Hardware Digest #360, Volume #12 Mon, 28 Feb 00 04:13:10 EST
Contents:
fips error message (GJS)
Travan drive with linux ("Carl Filpo")
keyboard problem
Re: Linux sucks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ultra66 Woes Continue...Figured It Out! ("Jason Barlow")
Re: Linux sucks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Powerbook 520c? (Tony Mantler)
configuring sound card on Intel 810 mbd (SAJAN.S)
Re: 2.2.x SMP and DK440LX issues (Dmitri A. Sergatskov)
Interrupt-driven parport? (Bill Keeler)
Re: Which SCSI card for Linux compatibility? (Anthony Lawson)
Re: sb 128 pci (Anthony Lawson)
ultra 66 promise controller only sees 8 gig (LouAlbano)
Re: Ultra66 Woes Continue...Figured It Out! (NoProblem001)
Re: is there somo Multi I/O CARDS suported?? (Mike Hall)
Re: Legacy 150x Tape Drive (M. Buchenrieder)
Unreliable Iomega ZIP - RedHat 6.0 team ? (Francisco Alcrudo
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From: GJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: fips error message
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:19:39 GMT
Hello
I've been attempting a nondestructive partition of my hard drive w/
fips. It is running windows 98. First I defragged the drive. Then I
ran fips. The partitioning fails because fips says that there is a
hidden file like "image.imx" or a file ending in *.fil in the last
cylinder of the drive that will be the windows partition. It says to go
into the root directory on DOS and delete these hidden files. I have no
idea how to go to the last cylinder of a hard drive, so I just opened
windows and removed any files *.imx or *.fil. I defragged again as
well. This does not work.
So, is there any solution? If not, what else is out there that will
(hopefully free) accomplish the same thing as fips?
If there is no other way round, should I do a backup of my system and
then destructive reformat of my hard drive, plop the backup into the
new, smaller partition for windows, and then linux in the remainder?
Will that work out?
Feedback is appreciated!!
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Reply-To: "Carl Filpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Carl Filpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Travan drive with linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:31:25 +0800
Can an IDE-based Travan drive be used with linux backup software
such as Taper or substitute ?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: keyboard problem
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:30:15 GMT
Whether I'm in login screen, KDE, or GNOME, the keyboard seems to
occasionally enter a ` character for no apparent reason. I'm running
windows on a separate partition and I don't get this problem in it.
Mandrake 7.02
Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:33:41 GMT
On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 23:58:43 GMT, the Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(JEDIDIAH) screamed:
> We are not jealous of Gates.
>
> Anyone that asserts that is a royal ass.
>
> We just want better. In most market segments, that's
> not a problem. In computers, if you clamour for that,
> you get labeled as 'jealous'.
The real problem -- and it will become more apparent as the years go
by -- is the attempt by capitalist corporations to invade and colonize
the CopyLeft/ GNU Public License/ 'Free Software'[sic] phenomenon, in
an attempt to control it for gain, as they do in every other area of
economic activity. It's about (potential, here) money.
Of course, the *essence* of Linux is to be FREE...
I'm sure that many in the Linux movement understand this -- and are
prepared to thwart these plans, by keeping Linux essentially free of
corporate manipulations. After all, it's corporate monopolies which
are responsible for the twisting of public standards, and for the
secrecy which hobbles our use of so much software/hardware.
And it never ceases to amaze me how so many people do not understand
the true reason for Microsoft (and Bill Gates') success: the need for
a WORLD STANDARD OS.
Windoze is NOT good -- it has simply been the OS the 'world'
standardized on (along with Intel hardware, etc.). Time marches on,
technology -- and standards -- change. And now we thankfully have
LINUX (and 'AMD'; and now 'Transmeta'... hardware is so much harder,
isn't it? :).
The fact that we NOW have an alternative (and FREE at that!), is why
people are today coming out of the woodwork to say publicly that *the
Emperor has no clothes*.
The Emperor is _dead_. Long live Linux!!
> I was using GUI's before Microsoft could manage a decent one.
> This includes the GUI that people like to pretend doesn't
> exist: X & Motif.
And I had a wonderful Atari ST, when grafix for DOS boxes was so
un-businesslike...
grok
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From: "Jason Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra66 Woes Continue...Figured It Out!
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:36:23 -0700
Ugh! The command is case-sensitive. 0xA800 does not equate to
0xa800. )&*!#)*(()* Simply changing all my uppercase hex-values to lower
case did the trick.
That truly sucks.
J
"Jason Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89d1ge$fkt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Well, I've been trying to install Linux for nearly a month now with no
> success as my system as a Promise Ultra66 controller. I am not worried
> about how fast the drive will run - I simply would like the installer to
see
> my drives. I have tried Debian (slink and potato), Slackware 7, and
Redhat
> 6.0 and 6.1 - none of which will recognize my drive. I have tried the
> following syntax at the boot prompt:
>
> boot: linux ide2=0xA800,0xA400 ide3=0xA000,0x9800
>
> This yields the following message(s) from the kernel (all distributions):
>
> ide_setup: ide2=0xA800,0xA400 -- BAD OPTION
> ide_setup: ide3=0xA000,0x9800 -- BAD OPTION
>
> I'm about ready to toss the towel in on Linux. Any advice would be
greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> J
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:39:21 GMT
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 13:54:13 GMT, the Evil "first last"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> screamed:
>> > >databases such as a videostore or your local dentist. I am lucky enough
>that I've
>> > >been working with computers for more than 10yrs, since I was 6, so some
>things make
>> > >sense to me.
>>
>>
>> OK, if we're going to compare histories, I've been working with
>> computers since
>> I was 16 (or longer, if you count discrete logic circuits). I'm now 44.
>> My
>> experience ranges from hard machine code in binary to C, C++, FORTRAN,
>> PL/1,
>> APL, BASIC, assembler on several machines ranging from C64 to Xerox
>> Sigma 7
>> and IBM System/360 mainframes. I began computer programming by punching
>> cards
>> on a Model 29 keypunch. I've programmed Windows, Linux, DOS, and others.
Well, I've been working on computers since I was *12* in 1970, and we
had to punch holes in the IBM Hollerith cards with metal punches and
hammers and have them read by flashlight -- so THERE!!
;P
(Troll, troll, troll..!)
grok.
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From: Tony Mantler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: Powerbook 520c?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:52:12 GMT
In article <8Vku4.634$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"doublearon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Any chance to get ANY version of linux (or similar OS, like minix)
: running
: on this monster. A friend gave it to me, because he had no use for it.
: I'd
: hate to see it go to waste, sitting there in the corner. Any
: suggestions?
: (Besides the usual anti-Mac garbage) Are there any ports in the works,
: or
: is this beast too old to even deserve recognition?
[...]
The powerbook 5x0 series is partially supported with the latest 2.3
*UNSTABLE* linux kernels. It's unlikely to boot, though, as there's an
irregularity in the powerbook ethernet that crashes the current driver,
but otherwise it should work fine. 8)
See the Linux/Mac68k website <http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/> for more
details.
: P.S. No CD, and only 150 MB of HDD... only peripherals are built-in
[...]
150 megs of HD is not enough. 500 megs is a comfortable size, 1 gig is
more than plenty.
I would encourage you to donate your powerbook to one of the
Linux/Mac68k developers if you have no urgent need for it, as none of us
have a 5x0 powerbook to hack on, thus the somewhat lackluster support.
Cheers - Tony :)
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada http://www.escape.ca/~eek
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From: SAJAN.S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: configuring sound card on Intel 810 mbd
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:30:05 GMT
hi
could you pl tell where can I get a driver to configure my on board sound
card .the mother board is based on intel 8100 chipset.
I tried sndconfig with "noautoconfig" and "noprobe" but both came out
withh error saying this card is not supported
TIA
sajan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dmitri A. Sergatskov)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: 2.2.x SMP and DK440LX issues
Date: 28 Feb 2000 08:03:06 GMT
On 26 Feb 2000 08:10:38 GMT, jwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:42:23 -0800, Robert Redelmeier
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>>> Alan Cox thinks that I have a problem with scheduling and the task get
>>> (excessively) bounced between two CPUs. So, I guess, the system time
>>> does come from scheduler.
>>
>>Why? IIRC, CPU task migration is inhibited by a fairly heavy penalty
>>in the scheduler. If you run two copies of the task, do you still
>>see the same system overhead?
>>
>There has recently been discussion on the kernel mailing list that this
>penalty is in fact not severe enough. This has been corrected in the
>last 2.3.4x kernels, IIRC.
>
>Jurriaan
>
I tried to increase PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY in include/asm-i386/smp.h
from 15 to 45 (2.2.15 rh6.2b kernel) w/o noticeable difference.
I was not able to compile 2.0.38 on RH6.1 system - it fails on 'make dep'.
I tried 2.3.18 and it _DID_ reduce the system time for my little
benchmark to almost 0. BUT it _DID_ increase the user time by approx. 30%!
Matlab benchmark:
Computer Loops LU Sparse
LX m/b (333 MHz) 0.92 0.72 0.81
BX m/b (333 MHz) 0.62 0.70 0.62
Here is an excerpts from bench.m:
% Loops For loops and "zeros". Strings and "malloc".
% LU MATLAB's "LINPACK". Primarily floating point.
% Sparse Solve sparse system. Mixed integer and floating point.
Which suggests that memory allocation with 2.3.18 is slow.
Sincerely,
Dmitri.
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From: Bill Keeler <"bkeeler"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ""bkeeler\"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Subject: Interrupt-driven parport?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:16:40 -0700
I'm running RH6, and keep getting the message "parport0: detected irq 7;
use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation." I've tried several
things, and have even succeeded in making the problem temporarily
disappear, but when I reboot, the problem returns.
How do I get rid of this once and for all? I have looked for a way to
do this in the Control Panel, but can't find anything. Any help would
be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill
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From: Anthony Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which SCSI card for Linux compatibility?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:22:29 GMT
lf11, at, @linuxstart.com wrote:
> I suppose you get these questions all the time, but....
>
> I'm looking for a SCSI card for driving a Umax S-6E scanner. It is a wide port,
> a narrow port, and a female DB25 connector on the back.
>
> All I want is something that'll drive one device, 10 MB/s is fine. Something
> less than $60 preferably. Windows support would be nice (Because I don't
> have CorelDraw for Linux yet :-), but Linux support is vital.
>
> Features;
> * Linux support
> * PCI (Can be ISA if necessary, but my computer has two ISA slots)
> * 10 MB/s
>
> Thank you!
>
> -lf
Bus Logic (Mylex) has excellent Linux support. I suggest you buy a new SCSI cable
for the scanner with a HD50 pin connector so you don't have to buy a cheesy card
with the DB25 connector on the back.
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From: Anthony Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sb 128 pci
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:25:00 GMT
asd wrote:
> first thanks to evryone here for helping me to get my ati rage 128 to work
> now its my sound card thats teh problem, and by the number of posts in this
> message board im not the only one with this problem.... so can any one help
> me getting it to work without extra drivers( alsa ,oss) on redhat 6.1? why o
> why do i have such a problematic setup?? thank to anyone that can help....
FAQ, do a search on deja.com for more info then you will need!
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From: LouAlbano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ultra 66 promise controller only sees 8 gig
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:30:05 GMT
All right. This is really upsetting me now.
I have a Maxtor 40 gig 904096u8 hard drive. I am running an Asus p55t2p4
mobo (socket 7, HX chipset). This motherboard has a 32gig limit.
I bought a promise ultra66 controller card, thinking this will solve my
problem. Needless to say it did not. The kernel sees the drive, but
thinks it's 8 gig. The kernel knows what type of drive it is, but not the
correct size.
I have tried these things:
I passed the kernel the settings it wanted to see the drive
(ide2=0xe000,0xd802) as it shows in the how to.
I installed the hedrick patches for kernel 2.2.13. Again I had drive
visiblity (without passing the kernel anything) and again only 8 gigs.
I upgraded the Promise controller bios.
I upgraded LILO to the latest version.
I tried the 2.2.14 patches with the 2.2.14 kernel. I couldn't get the
machine to boot. No dice here.
I attached my 20 gig drive to it, and it seen 20 gig.
I tried passing the kernel this: "hde = 4978,255,63". Still 8 gigs.
Anyone know anything about this?
Thanks
ft
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NoProblem001)
Subject: Re: Ultra66 Woes Continue...Figured It Out!
Date: 28 Feb 2000 08:36:54 GMT
Warning: this posting has no practical value except outside the computer!
>case did the trick.
>
>That truly sucks.
>
LOL. (And I'm not laughing at you.)
Isn't that the way it goes! I'm running Red Hat 3.03 on about a 10% duty
cycle. I have a big disk set from SuSE with newer stuff, and all I do is read
the manual and think it's cool in theory. (I am such a pathetic Wordpad.exe
junkie that I do a whole Rube Goldberg trick while programmng in C for Linux.)
To cram Linux in the first time, I tried to put fips to work. fips was fine.
My partition was not. Defrag.exe told me about the stubborn cluster, and it
told me (relatively) where it was. Did it do anything about it? Hell no. So
there I was, anxious to put the stuff in, allowed only about 90 MB above some
dumb chunk that wouldn't fall in line for a defrag.
Then I lost my cool. I booted from DOS 6.22, fired up the old DEFRAG.EXE, and
"solved" the problem in a coupla minutes.
I rebooted to Windoze, and beheld a worldoutthere that looked like WORLDO~1.
Everything, dudes and dudettes! It was all trashed. Automating as much as I
could, I had to repair about 17000 filenames, inside and outside the System
Registry.
The moral of the story? There is none. It's too darned specific. 20/20
hindsight tells me that I should have built a simple database with
DIR /S >> READY4TROUBLE.TXT
with a little manipulation after that, given the handily aligned columns in the
text file.
Did I? Nope. Of course not!
It took you 1.5 seconds to solve what troubled you for weeks. The trick
(always the same) is to spend that 1.5 seconds before the weeks.
Years go by. I buy a 8.4 gig hard drive. I shuffle everything but everything
around, scared of my own shadow. I install Red Hat Linux 3.03 again with all
the bells and whistles (by those ancient standards). What do I get?
Flawless installation.
No problem.
Fear is a good thing.
But, then again, while yous guys are out there, fiddling around in the real IP
space, I worriedly go back to a stupid "Are you sure you want to stay online?
By the way, for only $39.95 you can have the latest greeting card software with
free online technical support if you just click here." every time I actually
want to read something that I load with Netscape, which isn't entirely friendly
with my "ISP" at the UI, even after the merger.
If it ain't (entirely) broke, ...
Naw. I won't go that far.
But whenever anyone just WANTS TO SCREAM!!!
So do I but with different details and a little knowing grin. Next time it
will happen to me. There but by the grace of GNU go I.
Sorry for wasting the bandwidth, but a little group therapy is good for the
bleeding edge sometimes.
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From: Mike Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is there somo Multi I/O CARDS suported??
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:56:51 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually we use PCL 720, PCL722, and ACL-7130 in
> a Lynx-RT systems, and we are porting this system to linux.....
I found the URL I was thinking of ...
http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi/
Doesn't look like your boards are supported right now.
Good luck!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Legacy 150x Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:21:48 GMT
"Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have an old Legacy 150x tape drive system, with a controler that I believe
>> to be SCSI, but that aside I was attempting to find out if at all there
>> would be a way to get this to operate under the linux OS
>If your SCSI card is working correctly, your tape drive should be
>autodetected at boot. Then all you need is the right device special
>files.
Read again. IF it is a SCSI card at all, he'll most probably have
to specify I/O address and IRQ settings, not to mention loading
the correct driver module for it. The SCSI cards that shipped with
tape drives usually were BIOSless cards.
Note: This 150MB drive is possibly not a SCSI drive at all.
If it's older than just 4 - 5 years, then it's perhaps a QIC-02
tape drive with a proprietary adapter card that looks just like
an 8-bit SCSI controller (using a 50-pin cable), but needs specific
driver support. Without further information about the kind of controller
card used, it's probably not possible to give detailed instructions
at this time.
Michael
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From: Francisco Alcrudo =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E1nchez?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unreliable Iomega ZIP - RedHat 6.0 team ?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:01:22 GMT
I have two internal Iomega Zips installed, one in my home computer
running
Red Hat Linux 6.0 (Hedwig) and the other in my office computer running
Red Hat Linux 6.1.
Everything goes fine at work (System 6.1) but everytime I write a file
to the ZIP
at home (System 6.0) the written file seems corrupted (well the first
few lines
of the file are modified with strange characters). There is no way I can
transport
data from my home computer to my office one, the original pur`pose of
the ZIP
installation.
I have replaced the Zip unit at home with no improvement, I have checked
with
either plain ASCII or binary files, no difference. I have formatted the
zip disk
aither as a vfat or as an ext2 or msdos file system with ni improvement.
Has anyone had a similar problem, and if so any word of hope ? I am
feeling absolutely blue about this now. Thanks,
Francisco
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