Linux-Hardware Digest #395, Volume #12 Fri, 3 Mar 00 13:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: SiS 620 (Jason Grenier)
Re: Intel CC820 Motherboard ("Mark")
/dev/lp0 not seen (Richard Tilmann)
Re: 4 Celeron motherboard? (Atle)
Partitie problemen (Bernhard Dobbels)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: SCSI bus rescan problem with CDR (Buller)
Linux - MCA Bus Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to install 3com905C-TX on RH Linux6.0? (Klamer Schutte)
Re: mice for lefties? (Robert Wiegand)
Webgear Aviator 2.4 and RH6.1 Linux (Special K)
Re: Partitie problemen (Bernhard Dobbels)
New Linux Site (Jude Odu)
Help identify this card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Duh! ("Jim Persson")
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:08:49 -0500
From: Jason Grenier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 620
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works fine with 3.3.6 Xfree. I use it on corel linux.
Ex-Patriot wrote:
> I just got a second hand computer. It has a Sis620 on-board video card.
> Does this work with Linux. I remember reading that it didn't, but I thought
> I would double check.
>
> Thanks
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,alt.intel,intel.motherboards,intel.motherboards.pentium
Subject: Re: Intel CC820 Motherboard
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:00:07 -0500
yes, that is the truth, I have a cc820 and the documentation supports your
statement.
"M. Maioriello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8944rs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> CC820: PC-100 SDRAM, DIMMs must 3.3v, unbuffered, 4-clock, 64-bit
> (non-EEC).
> dont know about Abit BE-6II .
>
> Hope this helps
> "Sara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:88s2gc$ghr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Is it true that Intel's CC820 motherboard will not work with PC100 ECC
> Ram?
> > How about the Abit BE-6II ?
> >
> >
>
>
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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:18:32 -0500
From: Richard Tilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/lp0 not seen
I have a rh6.1 system that I recently reconfigured (resized partions).
All of a sudden, it is not seeing the /dev/lp0 device.
It is present in the /dev directory. When displayed with the mc
program, the lp entries (lp0, lp1,lp2)
are preceded with a - sign.
Any idea what is happening here?
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:03:35 +0100
"Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}" wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Atle" == Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Atle> Personally, I would prefer to have 16x150Mhz Pentiums
> Atle> instead of one 700Mhz Athlon, because a multiprocessor
> Atle> system should be a lot more stable if done right. One
> Atle> processor hangs and corrupts its kernel, 15 are still alive,
> Atle> and one of them restarts the dead one ...
>
> This is too ideal. The actual senario could be as bad as: One
> processor hangs and corrupts its kernel. This makes it become crazy,
> so crazy that it starts intervening the other processors, corrupting
> the in-memory code being executed by other processors. The other
> processors become crazy, too, and drives the remaining processor
> crazy.
This is too bad, assuming that the OS is healthy - that the offending
program only runs on the downed processor. It would be very difficult to
confuse a processor running a sound kernel (this was the case on the
systems I refer to).
>
> Remember how Win 3.1 did multitasking? Ideally, *if done right*, one
> task hangs and corrupts its own data, but all other tasks are still
> alive and one of them can repair the problematic one. But in reality,
> whenever you see a GPF, you're 90% sure that you need to reboot the
> system, so that the remaining tasks won't become crazy as a result of
> having data/code corrupted by the offending task.
Windows was (is?) a broken OS. Ideally, the processors would have a good
isolated kernel each. But in any case, unless the rest of the machine
corresponds in efficiency (running disks in parallele, copying X to the
graphics card) it doesn't make much sense to have a system that is all
MIPS, no I/O ...
>
> Not necessarily. Most of the TCP/IP daemons are not
> computation-extensive. They are all I/O bound. So, have 100 such
> daemons *sleeping* in the background won't impact a foreground GIMP
> instance much (given that you have enough spare RAM to be eaten up by
> the daemons).
That is right, I just looked at ps output and write down what I had
running right then - but imagine a compiler: lexing into a parser into
an opcode generator into an optimizer - this _should_ be done on 4
processors, without anything else on them. .... The time it took to
compile the kernel and all modules would be split in 4, probably even
more because cleanup and initialization code takes more time than a
small compilation if the processor is overpowerful compared to the rest
of the syste - a typical PC of today. And TCP/IP will not stay like this
forever, in a short time, we will have high-bandwidth, some places it is
already operating ... _THEN_ some daemons will get a lot more work to
do!
Atle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernhard Dobbels)
Subject: Partitie problemen
Date: 3 Mar 2000 15:33:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just bought my new Maxtor yesterday. I had to flash my bios, and upgrade to
kernel 2.2.14. Everything fine. The disk worked also perfect, all of it.
To day i had to reset after a memory-halt (bad apacer memory).
Now my disk gives errors. I did some test to give more information. First i
thought my partitiontable was broken, but now i suspect a diskcrash:
_e2fsck_:
root@Viking:/root$ e2fsck /dev/hdb17
e2fsck 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
ide0: reset: success
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
ide0: reset: success
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72694127, sector=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:51 (hdb), sector 2
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
trying to open /dev/hdb17
Could this be a zero-length partition?
_fdisk_:
root@Viking:/root$ fdisk /dev/hdb
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4982.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Unable to read /dev/hdb
_gpart_:
Part of gpart output of the partitiontable like it is now:
Logical partition (/dev/hdb15)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 4102mb #s(8401932) s(55890198-64292129)
chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (3479/1/1)-(4001/254/63)r
hex: 00 FE FF FF 83 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 0C 34 80 00
Logical partition (/dev/hdb16)
type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
size: 4102mb #s(8401932) s(64292193-72694124)
chs: (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (4002/1/1)-(4524/254/63)r
hex: 00 FE FF FF 83 FE FF FF 3F 00 00 00 0C 34 80 00
Logical partition (/dev/hdb17)
no info?
Then i wanted to read the first sector of /dev/hdb17 to see if i could repair
it, but i couldn't read it. Then i teste from where on i couldn't read it
anymore:
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055240 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055241 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055242 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055243 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055244 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055245 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055246 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055247 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055248 bs=512 count=1
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055249 bs=512 count=1
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055250 bs=512 count=1
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055251 bs=512 count=1
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/null skip=66055252 bs=512 count=1
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
$ uname -a
Linux Viking 2.2.14 #1 SMP Thu Mar 2 08:14:39 CET 2000 i686 unknown
Any information if this could be a hardware problem would be nice.
--
Bernhard
---- On the requirements it said: Windows 98 or better - so I installed Linux
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:42:14 -0800
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Steve Snyder wrote:
> I will soon be setting up a couple of Linux systems with faily complex
> partitioning schemes. Naturally, I thought of PowerQuest's
> PartitionMagic (PM), which I've never used but which is highly
> regarded.
> I know that PM supports the ext2 filesystem, but PowerQuest's Web site
> also says that the software is shipped on a "Win32 CD". How does one
> use PM on an all-Linux, no Win32 system? Do/can you run it from a
> DOS-formatted boot diskette?
> Any advice on using PM on an all-Linux system would be appreciated.
what's wrong with linux fdisk ??? Honestly don't see why you would need
anything else especially on all-linux systems.
Gerald
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From: Buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI bus rescan problem with CDR
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 08:50:56 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.1 and a Yamaha CDR400t to
> write CDs. Everything is detected fine, but at a
> random (?) interval, it seems the OS (or SCSI
> card?) is doing a rescan of the SCSI bus. Of
> course, this is disastrous when writing a CDRom.
> The problem is I don't have a clue of where this
> rescan is forced. Is this a Linux issue, or is
> this something my BusLogic card does?
> I had no problems writing CDs in Windows NT, 95
> or 98..
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> Tom.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Bus resets are typically performed by the device driver as part of error
recovery.
Good device drivers do it as a last resort. Not so good drivers will
use the biggest hammer in the toolbox, regardless of the size of the
nail.
You would need a SCSI protocol analyzer to see who is getting upset with
what. Ideally with the CD writer on a seperate bus from the source
device, otherwise there is just that much more clutter on the bus to
sort out. Murphy's Law of Enormous Bus Traces states that the problem
will only occur in the most complex configuration (source and
destination on same bus).
-steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux - MCA Bus Question
Date: 3 Mar 2000 15:58:33 GMT
To the community at large: What are the technical and utililty ramifications of the
following statement
with regard to running Linux on a 486 PS/2 ?
Any comments welcomed.
Specific Kernel: 2.2.14
Source : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.1
Statement:
"The MCA bus architecture (found on IBM PS/2 machines) has been minimally supported
since
the 2.1.x kernels, but may not be ready for prime time yet. ."
Thanks,
M.R.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klamer Schutte)
Subject: Re: How to install 3com905C-TX on RH Linux6.0?
Date: 3 Mar 2000 16:10:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dances With Crows wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:30:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>How to find the drivers?
>>There is no driver for 3com905C-TX on 3com.com.
>
>The 3c59x driver doesn't work for you? RTM, the 3c59x driver is supposed
>to work with the series 590 and 900 cards. Try "modprobe 3c59x" to load
>driver--the stock RH install should include it as a module. If you don't
>see any horrible error messages, it probably worked, and you can ifconfig
>and route and try to ping something. HTH,
recently the above didn't work. It turned out we had to disable the
PNP OS setting in the BIOS.
Klamer
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Electro-Optical Systems, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Tel: +31-70-3740469 -- Fax: +31-70-3740654 -- Mobile: +31-6-51316671
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mice for lefties?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:04:20 -0600
Paul Lew wrote:
> Or a kensington trackball and remap the buttons..unless one prefers mice.
The problem is that (as far as I know) these trackballs only support
two buttons under Linux.
Do you know some way to get three buttons working?
I really like using
a trackball, but only having two buttons is a problem.
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Special K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Webgear Aviator 2.4 and RH6.1 Linux
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:34:07 GMT
So, here's the deal. I installed the webgear aviator 2.4 wireless
network card (and pcmcia / isa adapter) in my Red Hat 6.1 linux system.
After a few hours of configuration changes, I finally go the system to
accept the isa adapter and aviator 2.4 pcmcia card so that the lights on
the card come on. In addition, cardmgr apparently can configure it
properly (at least it gives me two high pitched beeps when it runs).
However, I cannot get it to talk to my notebook computer no matter what
I do. Here is the pertinent info that I obtained from the machine:
1. ifconfig shows my wired NE2000 network card as eth0 (it works fine)
ifconfig shows the aviator 2.4 as eth1
- However, it only shows an IRQ setting (5 which is unused).
It shows no I/O setting...is this normal?
2. According to all the FAQs and howto's I read, the listing given by
insmod is correct. I'd list them, but I don't have access to the linux
machine at the moment.
3. I bound the address 192.10.10.2 to the ne2000 card and 10.10.10.2 to
the webgear card. Does the rest (Network, Broadcast, Subnet mask, etc.
really matter in a private network?) I am willing to change all the IPs
if someone has a configuration that works well!
4. Anything else you need to know, let me know!
Eventually, I want to set up a router to route packets among several
different sources including the wireless network, the wired network, a
dialin PPP server (will this just connect to one of the current
networks?), and a cable modem/ADSL. I also need help in this area since
I really don't have any experience setting up linux routers.
But, first, I just want to get the webgear equipment working.
===============================================
Any ideas you have are appreciated!
Thanks!
Kevin J Dressel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernhard Dobbels)
Subject: Re: Partitie problemen
Date: 3 Mar 2000 17:14:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bernhard Dobbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just bought my new Maxtor yesterday. I had to flash my bios, and upgrade to
>kernel 2.2.14. Everything fine. The disk worked also perfect, all of it.
The problem is found: my bios doesn't recognise the disk anymore (33GB problem)
--
Bernhard
---- On the requirements it said: Windows 98 or better - so I installed Linux
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From: Jude Odu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.misc
Subject: New Linux Site
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:15:30 +0100
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help identify this card
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 17:05:26 GMT
Hello,
I recently bought a card at a garage sale because I didn't know what
it was and because it was cheap. Unfortunately, I still don't know
what it is! It's a "half-length" ISA card that has two ports, one
9-pin female and one 25-pin female. I stuck it inside one of my Linux
PC's but it wasn't recognized (or I don't have the right module/driver
loaded into the kernel). The only things printed on it that I can see
on it are "M3127 MGP CARD 89092" and a big Acer chip in the middle
stamped "M3127 1028AW 16190SS 40". There's also a couple of smaller
Motorolla chips on the side.
I guess I could plug it in a Windows PC and see if it's automagically
recognized, but that would be admitting defeat! Any help would be
appreciated.
Simos
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Before you buy.
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From: "Jim Persson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: Duh!
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 19:04:20 +0100
As you could see from the topic, i AM using RedHat
Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You can download the modules and standard kernel at
> http://204.216.187.141/setpnp.html. This works with most distribution's
> kernel except Redhat.
>
> Jim Persson wrote:
>
> > I cant get this to work... sndconfig can't find it, and the ES???? stuff
> > doesn't work...
> > How can i get this to work?
> > I found this esssolo1.c on the net... but i can't compile it.. and how
do i
> > use it.. will it work?
> >
> > Please help me!
> >
> > /Jim
> >
> > Name: esssolo1.c
> > esssolo1.c Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> > Encoding: x-uuencode
>
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