Linux-Hardware Digest #368, Volume #12 Tue, 29 Feb 00 00:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Modem (johnny A)
Re: Backup under Linux, Recommendations (DVD?) (Bill Maniatty)
A NIC failure ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: Accessing SCSI device which was off at boot time ("Richard M. Denney")
Re: Compatible CD-ROM (Anthony Lawson)
KUDZU - Auto Hardware Detection [FAILED] (Neil Streeter)
Re: dual xeon or single athlon? (Vladimir Florinski)
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM (Andrei Aderca)
Re: dual xeon or single athlon? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Sporadic SCSI Bus Hang (I think). (Thom Brooke)
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM (Hal Burgiss)
Hal B. ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: Hal B. (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Linux sucks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: johnny A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 02:31:32 GMT
Noble Pepper wrote:
>
> johnny A wrote:
>
> > How do I configure a Modem Under linux to dial out ?
> > I am a newbie so please explain in details . I am running red hat 6.1
on
> > Compaq Presario 5062 .
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
> you'll get more answers if you post a new message instead of a reply.
>
> anyway here's my $0.02 's worth, if you have KDE installed (if you don't
I
> think you should. hmmmm... you would need a modem setup to download it
> wouldn't you) use linuxconf the modem section is under networking, PPP. I
> can start linuxconf outside of KDE but I don't know it will work totally
> without it. The details are many, put in what you know and come back here
> with details of how far you get.
>
Thanks all for help . In compaq I got winmodem so it wont work. but I was
able to configure it at another computer .
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Subject: Re: Backup under Linux, Recommendations (DVD?)
From: Bill Maniatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 02:37:31 GMT
Bill Maniatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I beheld the power of Deja News and saw that it was good.
A recent search on Linux and DVD-RAM turned up a reply by Richard McRoberts
to Stephan Goerres, which describes a useful backup method using rsync.
Regards:
Bill Maniatty
> Hello All:
>
> I was considering using DVD as a backup device (for non-vidoe data)
> under Linux, in particular I was considering the Creative Labs
> PC DVD-RAM 5.2 GB package for the burner, and perhaps transferring DVD's
> to other machines. I intend to backup 4 workstations over a network,
> each workstation having up to 18 GB of information (but typically much
> less than that, say 2 or 3 GB). Pointers to relevant literature or answers
> to the following questions would be appreciated.
>
> 1) My impression is that DVD volumes are treated as high capacity CD's
> by Linux. Is this correct for both reading/writing of DVD's.
> 2) Can this device be used under Linux as a CD burner?
> 3) Is a DVD drive suitable for network backup (do I really have to get
> a rather more expensive DAT drive).
> 4) How stable is DVD media (is it comparable to CD's for example?)?
> 5) Is DVD media write once read many times?
>
> Thanks:
>
> Bill Maniatty
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A NIC failure
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 02:42:59 GMT
i got the Cnet Pro 120 10/100 pci ethernet card i went to get the linux
drivers and to install them but when i did my card still didnt work i cant
telnet to any other win98 boxes on my net work that have a frp progy set up
well linux is phun but im a newbie please help
NecroBurn
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:11:14 -0600
From: "Richard M. Denney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing SCSI device which was off at boot time
Andreas Hoffmann wrote:
> "Richard M. Denney" wrote:
> >
> > I think I saw somewhere that it is possible to refresh the SCSI bus
> > information, for example, to access a SCSI device which was not on when
> > linux was booted up. Am I correct? Can anyone tell me how to do this. (I
> > would like to be able to power on a scanner for occasional use without
> > shutting down and rebooting linux!).
> >
> > Rick Denney
>
> If e.g. your Scanner has SCSI-ID 4 than you can add it with
>
> echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 4 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
>
> (from the SCSI-Programming HOWTO)
>
> Andreas
Thanks for the tip. I will try it!
Rick Denney
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From: Anthony Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Compatible CD-ROM
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 03:35:22 GMT
Jan Boshoff wrote:
> I want to buy a cheap new CD-ROM drive, say for around $40.
I've used both Affrey 45x and 50x ATAPI CDROM's in Linux (Mandrake 6.0 and
6.1) boxes with zero problems. $39 at www.infotechnow.com.
--
Anthony Lawson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Visit my web site at http://www.pltpub.com
Proud member of HondaPrelude.com "antonio"
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From: Neil Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KUDZU - Auto Hardware Detection [FAILED]
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:15:11 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I have recently installed Redhat 6.1 on an IBM Aptive 2162 S3C -
On the boot, Everything starts fine except for Kudzu, Has anyone else
had this problem? is there anything I can do?
Also, I can't for the life of me get my printer to work... If I use the
printer setup in the gnome control panel, It attempts to probe lp0 - 3,
to no avail - It can't find my printer... Do I need to manually
configure my ports? If so, how do I do that... I have been pouring over
documentation in an attempt to avoid asking a stupid question - but to
no avail...
Linux and with the exception of some really basic commands, UNIX - is
really new to me... I want to be able to use something other than
micro$oft, and I believe Linux can do everything I wan't it to... But if
I can't use any of my periphials - i'm at a loss...
One other thing, My system came with an LT winmodem - now I understand
that I may - or may not - be able to get that working under linux...
Though Lucent did release a driver... Could this be stoping the auto
hardware detection and just messing thing up in general?
Any help appreciated,
Tx...
Neil
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual xeon or single athlon?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:18:10 -0700
Bryan wrote:
>
> but I would expect that the gx chipset won't overhead and have the
> lockup problems that the bx does. and its a FACT that the bx isn't
> enterprise-stable for smp. no sane person would do this if they've
> ever tried running high-intensity compute jobs on a dual p2-series
> system.
>
> and for multitasking (servers), dual WILL win over single. its just
> that mhz isn't linearly additive; but it DOES help quite a bit.
>
Oh, but the original poster wasn't talking about enterprise-class servers (or
servers at all). He wants a high-performance workstation to run Linux with
X/Gnome. I suggested that a dual Xeon is not a cost-effective choice for a
workstation.
However, your claim about computer-intensive jobs/instability on BX contradicts
my own experience. Our lab has 4 dual CPU machines: 1 with 450 MHz Xeons on GX
and 3 with 500 MHz PIIIs on BX, all running Solaris 7. All four have been
performing very reliably running fairly large (many days CPU time) numerical
simulation tasks. Now, this is just one person't experience and has little
statistical weight, but it is real life experience. If a lot of people post here
saying they had SMP stability problems on BX boards (in a workstation, not in a
server environment), I might reconsider my position.
--
Vladimir
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From: Andrei Aderca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:06:20 -0500
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Linux Version: 6.1
<br>Kernel: 2.2.12-20
<br>Processor: P133Mhz
<br>CD-ROM: 50X IDE/ATAPI, Acer reader
<p>I just bought the CD recently and I can't get it to work with audio
CD's-
<br>The unit is set up as slave on the primary IDE controller so I'm using
/dev/hdb.
<br>I've created a soft link to /dev/cdrom which is the option I'm using
with all software
<br>for playing CD's. I checked file permissions on /dev/hdb and they are
OK.
<br>I'm also using a parallel port Zip drive which is accessed via the
SCSI emulation.
<br>The CD can play audio disks in Windows so it must be something tied
to my Linux
<br>setup; while booting I'm getting this message:
<br>
<p>hdb: ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX, ATAPI CDROM drive
<br>hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
<br>hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
<br>ATAPI device hdb:
<br> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
<br> Parameter list length error -- (asc=0x1a, ascq=0x00)
<br> The failed "Mode Sense" packet command was:
<br> "5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
<br>hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
<br>hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
<br>ATAPI device hdb:
<br> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
<br> Parameter list length error -- (asc=0x1a, ascq=0x00)
<br> The failed "Mode Sense" packet command was:
<br> "5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
<br>hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
}
<br>hdb: packet command error: error=0x54
<br>ATAPI device hdb:
<br> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
<br> Parameter list length error -- (asc=0x1a, ascq=0x00)
<br> The failed "Mode Sense" packet command was:
<br> "5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
<br>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
<br>
<p>Also, Cdparanoia executed with the -Q option generates this message:
<br>/dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default,
<br>cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.
<br>Consider using -s to force a more complete autosense
<br>of the machine.
<p>More information about /dev/cdrom:
<br>Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
<br> Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked
ioctl() interface
<br>
Device /dev/hdb is not a CDROM
<br> Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI
interface
<br>
/dev/cdrom is not a SCSI device
<p>Can anybody offer any clues or am I dealing with some hardware compatibility
issue?
<br>According to Acer's web site, this unit is fully compliant with the
ATAPI standard but
<br>they don't offer any hints regarding Linux setup.
<p>Andrei Aderca</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: dual xeon or single athlon?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:13:59 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:18:10 -0700, Vladimir Florinski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>If a lot of people post here saying they had SMP stability problems on
>BX boards (in a workstation, not in a server environment), I might
>reconsider my position. --
Here's one vote. Hard lockups on BP6 (BX), despite trying all the voodoo
magic, etc. With kernels up thru 2.2.15pre7, XFree 3.3.6. 7-10 day
average between locks, 24 day max uptime. No ping, no telnet, no SysRq,
no nothing. Mostly during unattended, idle time. A very intractable
situation so far (since early Oct).
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: Thom Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sporadic SCSI Bus Hang (I think).
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:24:36 GMT
Thanks.
I was reluctant to go there first reporting a "bug" that may or may not
be in the buslogic driver. But I'm fast running out of options. I'll
head over there and see what I can find.
-- Thom.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thom Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > 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.
> > -- cut out "cut_out_" to de-spamify my address.
>
> I would recommend that you head over to www.dandelion.com, which is the
> site of the author of the buslogic SCSI driver. I had a similar
> problem a few years ago between my buslogic 948 and my conner hard
> drive. I applied a flash update to the buslogic's bios, which seemed
> to solve the problem. The imformation, and the bios upgrade should
> still be available at that site.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:25:08 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:06:20 -0500, Andrei Aderca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
><html>
>Linux Version: 6.1
><br>Kernel: 2.2.12-20
><br>Processor: P133Mhz
><br>CD-ROM: 50X IDE/ATAPI, Acer reader
><p>I just bought the CD recently and I can't get it to work with audio
>CD's-
><br>The unit is set up as slave on the primary IDE controller so I'm using
>/dev/hdb.
><br>I've created a soft link to /dev/cdrom which is the option I'm using
>with all software
><br>for playing CD's. I checked file permissions on /dev/hdb and they are
>OK.
><br>I'm also using a parallel port Zip drive which is accessed via the
>SCSI emulation.
><br>The CD can play audio disks in Windows so it must be something tied
>to my Linux
><br>setup; while booting I'm getting this message:
><br>
><p>hdb: ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX, ATAPI CDROM drive
><br>hdb: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
>}
This would be much easier to read if not HTML. I *think* I see what the
problem is.
I think what you need is kernel >= 2.2.15pre5. Support added there for
Acer 50x ATAPI CDROMs. If you need a RPM, you might try the current
kernel in RH's rawhide. I would suspect this has support in it, but
dunno for sure. I have the same drive, BTW, is how I found out.
[...]
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hal B.
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:27:31 GMT
Well I have a win98 box and my son has a linux box. Well the Cnet pro120
card in his machine wont work he says he got the newest drivers from there
home page www.cnet.com.tw he says he tried compiling them (it was a tulip.c
file) but that didn't help him any. On my win98 box I have a win modem and
when he had win98 we were sharing the connection. We want to do that again
me sharing with him, is it possible?
Melissa Nelson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Hal B.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:53:04 GMT
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:27:31 GMT, Melissa Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Well I have a win98 box and my son has a linux box. Well the Cnet
>pro120 card in his machine wont work he says he got the newest drivers
>from there home page www.cnet.com.tw he says he tried compiling them
>(it was a tulip.c file) but that didn't help him any. On my win98 box I
>have a win modem and when he had win98 we were sharing the connection.
>We want to do that again me sharing with him, is it possible?
Anything is possible ;)
What you want is called ipmasquerading in Linux. But you need the NIC
working, no? I don't know that one, but maybe somebody else does.
So you have the modem, and presumably a working NIC. He needs to set his
networking up with the same netmask as the NIC in your box, and his
default gateway as the IP of your NIC. I don't know the windows part,
but I guess you already got that. His routing table will look something
like this:
[hal@junior hal]$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.10.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.10.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.10.1 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
Where he is 192.168.10.2 and your box is 192.168.10.1.
If you are wanting to go the other way (you thru him), then post back.
Like I say, I don't know the windows part, but this is how works in
Linux.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:58:42 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:04:44 GMT, the Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(JEDIDIAH) screamed:
>>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.
>
> I don't really care about the source. I view it primarily
> as a means to an end, a tool with which market balance can
> be restored. As long as products are perfectly replacable
> source isn't that valuable.
The attitude of a 'consumer'.
You WILL care if Linux gets swallowed-up; but since that's not
likely(?), some other economic imperative impinging on your
'lifestyle' will have to be what stirs you out of your complacency...
> However, in an atmosphere of vendorlock, source can be
> VERY useful. It need not even be copyleft source either.
And pray tell, where would this mythical source be from, if not
CopyLeft..?
> It just needs to be out there.
Sure. Another typical a-historical take on an historical reality...
> Copyleft is as much a
> method of encouraging the sharing of code as it is the
> insurance that it's deriviatives will always be accessable.
Uh, ya...
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