Linux-Hardware Digest #417, Volume #12 Tue, 7 Mar 00 00:13:06 EST
Contents:
XT as terminal on serial port? (Tom Massey)
Patches for IDE tuning (Dances With Crows)
Re: best graphics card? (Chris Beauchamp)
Re: Ultra160 SCSI cards (Glitch)
Power down Conner 2GB SCSI Hard Drive? (Curtis Magyar)
Possible to put Linux hard drive in new box????? (Cannibul)
Re: Possible to put Linux hard drive in new box????? (Dances With Crows)
Re: XT as terminal on serial port? (Dances With Crows)
Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please (Mike Castle)
Re: IDE tuning (Mike Castle)
Re: XT as terminal on serial port? (Tom Massey)
TurtleBeach Sound Card ("searcher")
Re: System reqs - is P166 too small/slow? (Iceman)
Re: Newbe Question RE: Linux and Intel 286 (Iceman)
Re: XT as terminal on serial port? (Carl Fink)
Re: Newbe Question RE: Linux and Intel 286 (Iceman)
Re: I need help with HSP56 AUDIOMODEM RISER ("Jason Byrne")
Re: CD Writer failed after install!! (Ron Stodden)
linux killed my hdd i think ("glen middleton")
Re: XT as terminal on serial port? (Tom Massey)
Re: I can't see half the screen and Im totally lost!! (Ron Stodden)
Intel Etherexpress Pro 10 ("Alan McEntee")
Yet another question on SB PCI128/ ES AudioPCI ... (R Porter)
Re: problems using Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive (David Lerner)
Re: problems using Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive (Stephen Bodnar)
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From: Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XT as terminal on serial port?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:26:33 +1100
Hi,
Thanks to all those who told me I couldn't hook a monitor up to a serial
port no matter how much I tried. :-) Now I've got a similar sort of
question: I've got an old XT clone (an Epson PCe) lying around, and it
seems to me that it should be possible to get it running some terminal
emulation software and connecting up to a serial port in my Linux box.
I've got some software that looks like it would work on the XT
(Something ancient called 'Crosstalk'), and I've read through the Serial
and Text Terminal HOWTO's to get the Linux side working, but I can't
figure out how to get the two machines physically connected. I know I
need a null modem cable, but the XT has a weird serial port that
actually looks like a parallel port. Can anybody give me some hints on
how to connect to this? Is it even possible? Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Patches for IDE tuning
Date: 06 Mar 2000 21:25:18 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 22:48:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8a1cjb$fsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>In article <8956ql$rhg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Running 2.2.14 with Unified IDE patches.
>where can i get these patches? i wish to improve ide performance also.
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
You'll have to experiment with hdparm to figure out what works best.
Oddly enough, for me, "hdparm -d1" decreases performance when Hedrick's
patch is enabled. "hdparm -m16 -u1 -c1" should improve performance on
just about any machine, though.
--
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: Chris Beauchamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: best graphics card?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:56:53 +0000
Dan Law wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a graphics card supported by Linux (well, XFree86)
> that would have a high quality mpeg decoder that can be used in DVD
> playback on a pc monitor? I would probably use Windows for DVD playing -
> I have until now anyway (although I do have the LiVID development
> stuff). I already have a player with a PCI mpeg decoder card and,
> separately, a voodoo 3 graphics card, but I see that new AGP graphics
> cards exist that have decoders built in that would probably provide
> cleaner playback, such as ATI and Diamond.
>
I've got a Hollywood Plus PCI card, which, yes, is separate, but I get
good picture quality (AFAICT - how does one measure such things? - nice
and smooth on a PII 350) - mine is plugged into a Voodoo 3 card too (in
fact, a Voodoo 3500TV, which I bought in the mistaken assumption that it
included a DVD decoder (which it doesn't), but in fact its just DVD
assist, which is a kind of digital pass thru internal connector, for
which I've found _no_ DVD cards which support it! Its a nice card,
though, so I'm not _too_ unhappy ;-) Sigma Designs appear to be making
noises about supporting linux, so they may be a good bet. Then again,
they are so far just noises... [do _any_ cards have Linux support yet?]
> My current drive/decoder is a Jammin DVD II and the picture quality is
> VERY poor, in part because of the series VGA connection, and in part
> because the decoder is just weak... My computer is a PIII 450 running RH
> 6.1. Also, all of my DVDs are region 1 & I live in the UK, just to make
I believe there are instruction on the H. Plus to disable region coding,
out there somewhere! I did a search on yahoo and found some stuff, but
didn't bother, since all my DVDs (all 3 of them) are European.
HTH
Chris
--
Chris Beauchamp
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.macs.co.uk
"These are my opinions, my company has their own"
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 21:47:15 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra160 SCSI cards
Rafal Wysocki wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Are the Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI cards (e.g., 29160 or 29160N) supported by
> the kernel?
>
> Rafael
take a look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
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Virii.
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From: Curtis Magyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Power down Conner 2GB SCSI Hard Drive?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 02:51:23 GMT
I have a SCSI hard drive that I keep a small Win98 installation on,
which I rarely use. It's very loud, and I would like to be able to turn
it off while in Linux. After searching around for a while, I found
hdparm, but it only seems to work with IDE drives. Is there a SCSI
equivilent? It's easy to use hdparm with -S on my IDE drives to have
them turn off after a specified period of inactivity, and if possible
I'd like to do something similar with the SCSI drive.
-- Curtis Magyar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. The drive was loud when it was new a long time ago, it's loud in
DOS, Windows, and Linux. I'm not worried about the consequences of
turning the drive off and on. If it goes, it will have served it's
purpose well. I just need some sleep at night. :)
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From: Cannibul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Possible to put Linux hard drive in new box?????
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 02:58:38 GMT
I currently have Redhat 6.1 running on a old p-166. I would like to
build a new K-6 450 machine and just move the hard drive over to the new
box. Is this possible with Linux?? Or am I going to have to spend a
couple of days getting things set back up?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Possible to put Linux hard drive in new box?????
Date: 06 Mar 2000 22:10:38 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 02:58:38 GMT, Cannibul
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I currently have Redhat 6.1 running on a old p-166. I would like to
>build a new K-6 450 machine and just move the hard drive over to the new
>box. Is this possible with Linux?? Or am I going to have to spend a
>couple of days getting things set back up?
It should be not just possible, but easy. Just plug the old HD into the
new system and boot it. You may want to recompile the kernel with support
for the new motherboard's IDE chipset for better performance, but the old
kernel will most definitely work with the new hardware. (Ignore bootup
error messages about "unknown IDE controller", they just mean things will
go a bit more slowly than they potentially could.)
I swapped out the motherboard, sound card, and graphics card from a Linux
system, which booted right up. Win98, when booted, made lots of noises and
required 15 minutes and 3 reboots to be happy in the new environment.
C'est la vie, eh?
--
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: XT as terminal on serial port?
Date: 06 Mar 2000 22:15:34 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:26:33 +1100, Tom Massey
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>figure out how to get the two machines physically connected. I know I
>need a null modem cable, but the XT has a weird serial port that
>actually looks like a parallel port. Can anybody give me some hints on
>how to connect to this? Is it even possible? Thanks.
The RS-232 serial port specification said that ports should have 25 pins.
Your XT follows that spec; most PCs don't since 9 pins take up less space
and only 9 pins are actually used in most cases anyway. You can get a
nullmodem cable that has 9 pins on both ends and a 9-pin to 25-pin
adapter, and plug those together. Should run about $15 or less at an
electronics store, I'd guess.
Once that's done, fire up the XT's Crosstalk software and see what crops
up. Good luck!
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 03:17:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle) writes:
>>
>> Another good option is putting SWAP on SCSI. If you can find some old
>> 40Meg SCSI drives for cheap, stripe SWAP across them.
>
>Not really. These old drives are slow compared to new drives.
Raw speed isn't the issue.
The better design of SCSI, even compared to modern IDE's, would make them
great for swap. You'd actually let the processor go off and do other
things while the pages are being fetched/written.
mrc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: IDE tuning
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 03:25:48 GMT
In article <8a1cjb$fsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <8956ql$rhg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle) wrote:
>
>> Running 2.2.14 with Unified IDE patches.
>
>where can i get these patches? i wish to improve ide performance also.
ftp://ftp.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] and be right all the time, or not work at all
www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ and be right at least twice a day. -- mrc
We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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From: Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XT as terminal on serial port?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:40:40 +1100
Dances With Crows wrote:
> The RS-232 serial port specification said that ports should have 25 pins.
> Your XT follows that spec; most PCs don't since 9 pins take up less space
> and only 9 pins are actually used in most cases anyway. You can get a
> nullmodem cable that has 9 pins on both ends and a 9-pin to 25-pin
> adapter, and plug those together. Should run about $15 or less at an
> electronics store, I'd guess.
>
> Once that's done, fire up the XT's Crosstalk software and see what crops
> up. Good luck!
Thanks - I'll give it a go! :-)
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From: "searcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TurtleBeach Sound Card
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 03:39:43 GMT
I have a TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 Voice PCI Sound Card I'd like to
configure under RedHat 6.0. I've checked the compatibility list and don't
see the Montego type specifically. It's not PnP so I've tried the sndconfig
utility but there are a couple of stumbling blocks: 1) it asks for the IRQ
and Port# but not the DMA channel. Instead it asks for an address and I
haven't the foggiest what that address should be. 2) I have the right IRQ
and Port# but no matter what adress I try, when it comes to testing the card
I get a "device busy" error. I've read up on this error and Brian Gough
warns of a conflict on DMA channel 1 between the card and FTAPE (Sound HOWTO
in section 6.9). I'm not using FTAPE.
I'm bummin'. Any help would be appreciated.
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From: Iceman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System reqs - is P166 too small/slow?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:36:25 +1600
If you're running X, Netscape (and perhaps KDE,) keep one
thing in mind: they are memory & resource intensive. You'll
need 64 MB at minimum, but 128 would be best. Now you're
going to say "But I heard Linux was faster than Windows on
an older machine." And it's true..until you run X, etc. Any
GUI--regardless of the OS--will put greater demands on the
system. I should also add that your hard drive is also part
of the picture. If you've a P166, I'd guess the HDD is 2 Gig
at best and fairly slow (as regards access time etc.)
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From: Iceman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbe Question RE: Linux and Intel 286
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:45:43 +1600
You're in luck:
It's not Linux that you need, but Minix, which is what got
Linus started with all of this. Go to http://www.minix.org.
You should be able to dload it all there. Haven't had a look
at in a while, so can't advise on the printer, but you
should be able to use it in ASCII or plain text if it
supports printing under MS-DOS. BTW, Minix does have CD-ROM
support.
Good luck, and have fun!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: XT as terminal on serial port?
Date: 7 Mar 2000 03:12:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 13:26:33 +1100 Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know I need a null modem cable, but the XT has a weird serial port
>that actually looks like a parallel port. Can anybody give me some
>hints on how to connect to this? Is it even possible? Thanks.
It's easy. My own null modem cable (which I use to connect my laptop
to my desktop) has both 25-pin ("DB25") and 9-pin ("DB9") connectors
at each end. The cable cost me about $15. (The XT probably isn't
worth that much on the market, of course, but you can probably reuse
the cable.)
--
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A. Landis. See <http://www.iconsf.org> for I-Con information.
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From: Iceman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbe Question RE: Linux and Intel 286
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:49:23 +1600
Sorry, forgot one thing.AFAIR, you'll need 2MB ram--even for
MINIX. Still, that would be almost free for the box you're
talking about.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need help with HSP56 AUDIOMODEM RISER
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 20:02:25 -0800
Jason Grenier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You can get the pctel driver from ther site. It should work under 2.2.5.
Where
> did you get the sound driver? can you send me a page or the tar?
>
> Thanks, and good luck!
>
> Vladimir Bjelic wrote:
>
> > I have mainboard (PCCHIPS M748LMRT) with onboard modem and sound card. I
> > found driver for sound card and install it, but a don't know what to do
with
> > modem. Does any body know is this modem win-modem and if not does
anybody
> > now where I can get the driver for him.
> > Thank.
> >
> > PS: I am a new user of Linux and any help I need. I have Linux
distribution:
> > RED HAT 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5
the readme with the modem driver is pretty good...
the magic is... when you load the driver... your modem gets noticed as being
on a serial port. (lsmod if you want to check that it's loaded)
then... you should make /dev/modem point to ttyS15 (as the readme mentions)
ln -s /dev/ttyS15 /dev/modem
on my machine... the tip about 'mknod' was important - otherwise my (serial)
mouse was useless. (you probably already have a /dev/ttyS15... with
char-major/minor values that might or might not be problematic)
I use 'wvdial'... but your should be able to make things work with your
dialer of choice at this point.
to start 'automatically'... I added in /etc/conf.modules
alias char-major-62 pctel
(assuming char-major 62, minor 79... per readme)
---
If you're still having problems... try to mention what you tried or did so
far... and what isn't working.
---
on the sound (cmpci.o)... instead of wrestling with module dependencies and
/etc/conf.modules... I just wrote a small script to 'modprobe cmpci' at
startup.
cp cmpci.o /lib/modules/<kernel #>/misc
depmod -a
/etc/rc.d/init.d/cmpci ->
!#/bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
echo "starting cmpci sound"
/sbin/modprobe cmpci
exit 0
;;
esac
---
set it up in rc2.d or rc3.d (SuSE starts in 2.. most others in 3)
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/cmpci /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S90cmpci
(picked a high number not conflicting with any other service starting)
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From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Writer failed after install!!
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 04:23:48 GMT
Jim,
All CD writers use the scsi command set, even when the electrical
interface they use is IDE. This is what ATAPI means. They are
therefore scsi devices and must be accessed as such.
In Linux, this is supported by provision of generic scsi emulation in
the kernel. If your CD-R device is hdb, then you must add to your
/etc/lilo.conf in the appropriate section:
append="hdb=ide-scsi"
and then su to run /sbin/lilo and reboot.
To test that this is working on the writer side try:
cdrecord -scanbus
The reader portion then must also be accessed as an emulated scsi
device. It will appear at either /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0, depending on
your distribution. With a data CD in the drive, you can test by
mounting /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0 and seeing which one shows the
contents of the CD. Your /dev/cdrom must then be symbolically
linked (ln -s ... ...) to the correct one of those devices.
Jim Tench wrote:
>
> Yo
> I have an IDE CD Writer and Hard-Drive. I installed Linux fine using
> the Writer to read my installation ROM. Now when I try to mount a CD, I get
>
> [root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/cdrom
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
> [root@localhost /root]#
>
> Any ideas why this is not a valid block device?. I thought it would just be
> treated like any other IDE CDROM for reading .
>
> Jim
--
Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
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From: "glen middleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux killed my hdd i think
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:26:37 +1000
Ok i tried running fdisk with redhat, anyway it let me allocate 6 gig worth
of partitions on a 4 gig hard drive. Now nothing can actually access the
hard drive. Fdisk (linux or win98), partition magic wont even load up and
gives me an error. I tried a low level format but that doesnt seem to get
rid of the problem. does anyone know how to fix this?
glen middleton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XT as terminal on serial port?
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 15:44:08 +1100
Carl Fink wrote:
> It's easy. My own null modem cable (which I use to connect my laptop
> to my desktop) has both 25-pin ("DB25") and 9-pin ("DB9") connectors
> at each end. The cable cost me about $15. (The XT probably isn't
> worth that much on the market, of course, but you can probably reuse
> the cable.)
Oh (hunts through box of miscellaneous computer stuff) I may already
have one of these! I've got a 2m cable with a 25-pin connector at both
ends, and coming out the back of each 25-pin connector is a short cable
with a 9-pin connector on it. Would this be what you mean? I've got no
idea where it came from. Thanks.
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From: Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I can't see half the screen and Im totally lost!!
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 04:44:26 GMT
Mandrake 7.0-2 (the current release) supports GeForce cards, I
believe.
s barnes wrote:
>
> Im a complete Linux newbie and I've just installed Mandake 6.5 delux, but my
> video card (Creative Geforce) isnt supported. I try using the Xconfig
> program as part of the install to set it up, but it only gives me a stupid
> resolution which looks lower than 640x480!
--
Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
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From: "Alan McEntee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel Etherexpress Pro 10
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:51:19 -0600
Reply-To: "Alan McEntee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
When I try to install my Intel Etherexpress Pro 10 ISA card , the machine
hangs on loading eth0. If I try to select it during the install, the
machine freezes on autoprobe. I have disabled plug and play on the card
and in the bios. The card settings are irq=11 and io=340. It passes the
Softset tests run in dos. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Alan McEntee
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From: R Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yet another question on SB PCI128/ ES AudioPCI ...
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 04:34:44 GMT
Whenever I play an MP3 with this card, any other application which has
sound freezes upon trying to make the sound, until the MP3 is done playing.
Anyone know what's up??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lerner)
Subject: Re: problems using Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 04:42:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Craig Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried to use an exabyte tape drive this weekend on my Linux system.
>
>I believe that not being able to invoke the drive as a compressed drive
>might have something to do with it, but I'm not sure. (See the end of
>the message for speculation)
>
>The symptoms are:
>-With no tape in the drive, any mt command invokes I/O error (probably
>normal)
>-With a tape in the drive, mt -f /dev/st0 status gives a status screen
>that looks reasonable; it displays WT_PROTECT or whatever when the write
>protect is set, and not when it isn't
>-Any other mt command gets an IO error
>-any tar command acts like its at the end of the tape, even if it's at
>the beginning
>
Does this happen when you try to write to a new tape? That would be a
problem. If it just happens when you read it may a density setting problem.
Use mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity n (see the man page on mt.
The device /dev/nst0 avoids rewinding after the command. I normally use a
link form /dev/tape to /dev/nst0 to avoid having to use the -f parameter
entirely.
Another common problem in reading tapes created on a Solaris machine is
the block size. Try mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 0 to read such tapes.
Dave
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From: Stephen Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems using Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:49:03 -0900
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Steffen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>SPECULATION:
>I think that it might have something to do with being able to invoke the
>tape as a hardware compressing drive. I files off of an 8mm drive here
>at work this morning, using a basically identical tape drive (this was
>on an SGI system, though). When I tried to pull the files out of a tar,
>it died almost immediately (command: tar xvf /dev/mx0). However, when I
>invoked it as a /dev/mx0vc (verifying and compressing, I think), it
>worked fine and pulled the files off of the tape.
in linux, tar = gtar
on an SGI, tar = unix tar
so you have to use gtar on the SGI to read a tape written
on a linux box.
I used to do this routinely between Sun Solaris and RedHat
using a 4mm DAT as well as an 8mm Exabyte and a DLT drive.
We used the linux box for network backup, and sometimes
would move the tape drive over to connect directly to do a
restore to cut down on network traffic.
Don't have access to my notes though, I don't work there
anymore :-) :-) :-)
Stephen
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