Linux-Hardware Digest #406, Volume #12 Sun, 5 Mar 00 14:13:08 EST
Contents:
Modems & Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adaptec 1460 with RedHat 6 (Sean Washburn)
CD Writer failed after install!! ("Jim Tench")
WTB: Graphics Tablet, Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX compatible ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kernel settings for ESS1868? (Ivan Martinez)
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Creative Geforce card and KDE (^Vigil^)
Sound config for onboard als300 (Ethan Brown)
Re: Kernel update??? ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Memory recog prob nofix with append=mem ("John J. Budd III")
Re: OnStream DI30 Tape Drive (Paul Bristow)
Linux not speedy on the Speedway? ("Raven")
USB/sound shared interrupt problem (Rod Smith)
Re: Linux sucks ("John Hanley")
IBM ServeRaid Status problem under Redhat ("Skaag Argonius")
Re: /dev/lp0 not seen ("Goofy")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modems & Linux
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:04:49 GMT
I am a computer student and as part of my course I have to post 5
messages onto a newsgroup and get some replies so I thought I would
kill two birds with one stone.
I need to purchase a new modem for a new computer I am getting, I would
prefer it to be a 'message modem' as I want it to take faxes when the
machine is switched off. The new computer will be a dual boot system
with Windows and Red Hat linux, it has an Athlon 600 and 128Mb of RAM.
Could someone recomend a modem that will work with linux, and be fairly
easy to set up as I am new to this.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:22:48 GMT
For the newsgroup readers who are not that familiar with Linux patches
and pre-patches, how do you apply the pre-patch to the Linux source?
Specifically what is the command sequence to apply the patch?
The Linux Kernel-HOWTO faq refers to patching the kernel with the
commands:
cd /usr/src
gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0
This command does not work with the pre-patch file; the patch program
prompts for a file to patch. Is there a command to automate this
process?
JP
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:43:02 -0500, Andrei Aderca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >Hal
> >
> >You were right- I used the pre-patch 2.2.15-5 and this solved the
> >problem.
> >Thank you very much!
> >
> >Andrei
>
> Like I say, been there, done that!
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Washburn)
Subject: Adaptec 1460 with RedHat 6
Date: 5 Mar 2000 16:12:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
With Redhat version 5.2, the combination of JazDrive, Adaptec 1460 slimscsi and
latitude cp worked out of the box with driver aha154x. now the driver loads
but there are no hosts recognized by the kernel.
is there a trick to defeat this?
reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks
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From: "Jim Tench" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Writer failed after install!!
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 16:54:55 -0000
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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WTB: Graphics Tablet, Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX compatible
Crossposted-To: ba.market.computers,misc.forsale.computers
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:58:32 GMT
I'm looking to buy a Linux compatible graphics tablet of decent size that includes a
cordless stylus.
Any recommendations or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I have stuff for sale or trade at:
http://www.mybrain.org/~ralph/forsale.txt
http://www.mybrain.org/~ralph/auctions/auctions.html
http://www.mybrain.org/~ralph/auctions/Wanted.html
Thanks.
-Ralph
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From: Ivan Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel settings for ESS1868?
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:03:11 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Robert W. Cunningham" wrote:
>
> Ivan Martinez wrote:
>
> > It seems that I have an ESS1868 sound card, but not its manuals. I
> > can't make kernel detect it. Which are the right settings?. Thank you.
>
> 1. Copy settings from Windows.
>
> 2. Use isapnp to use those settings under Linux.
>
> Assuming, of course, this is an ISA Plug-and-Play card.
>
> -BobC
Now the kernel seems to detect the card, but I have a problem with the
synthesizer. When I do "/dev/sndstat", I don't get any info in "Synth
devices:" section, and I don't have sound at all.
--
Ivan Martinez (Rodriguez)
Bch in Computer Science - MSc student
http://www.student.dtu.dk/~u990873
"Got fabes?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 17:12:15 GMT
On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:22:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For the newsgroup readers who are not that familiar with Linux patches
>and pre-patches, how do you apply the pre-patch to the Linux source?
>Specifically what is the command sequence to apply the patch?
>
>The Linux Kernel-HOWTO faq refers to patching the kernel with the
>commands:
>
> cd /usr/src
> gzip -cd patchXX.gz | patch -p0
>
>This command does not work with the pre-patch file; the patch program
>prompts for a file to patch. Is there a command to automate this
>process?
Are you substituting the correct patch file name for patchXX.gz?
As usual with Linux, there are many ways to skin the same cat. This is
what I do:
unpack the kernel source, after moving it to /usr/src from wherever it
got downloaded to:
# cd /usr/src
# tar zxvf linux-2.2.14.tar.gz
This will install a source tree as /usr/src/linux and assumes you got
the source as a tgz. If you already have something like that, and want
to save it, then you will need to rename it before doing the above.
If the patch is in gz format, then unzip it, and apply pre-patch:
# gunzip pre-patch-2.2.15-9.gz
# cd /usr/src/linux
# patch -p1 -E < ../pre-patch-2.2.15-9
Now good to go. This is a few more steps, but not a big deal, and easy
to see what each step does.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: @. (^Vigil^)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Creative Geforce card and KDE
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 17:17:41 GMT
you need the experimental nvidia mesa drivers and x server from www.nvidia.com
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From: Ethan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: Sound config for onboard als300
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 09:59:10 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi--
I have a motherboard with an onboard als300 soundcard. I've tried the
sound configuration tool
(sndconfig, I think) but no luck. Any advice?
Thanks,
--Ethan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel update???
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 17:48:16 GMT
On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 05:29:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
wrote:
>On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 03:56:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hello
>>Not sure if this is a hardware issue or not. I am running RH6.0
>>2.2.5-15 and am trying to update the kernel to 2.2.5-22 using the rpm.
>>Goes thru the unpacking but then I get an error message that says:
>>Cannot allocate space for database. Is this a harddrive problem?
>>Since I'm a newbie I have no idea. My system is a Pentium 166 with
>>Linux running as a stand alone OS. I have a 4.3G harddrive. I have
>>looked on the partitions and there seems to be enough room to install.
>>I have 3G open on /usr so I d/l to that directory. Is this wrong?
>>TIA for any response.
>
>What are your other partitions? RPM is probably creating some tmp files
>elsewhere. What does 'df' show?
>
>PS -- Make sure to use the '-i' option when upgrading kernels.
>
>--
>Hal B
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello
Thanks for your response. My other partitions are listed below. When
I setup the partitions I was a total newbie and wasn't sure what I was
doing. I checked with fdisk p, and noticed I have an extended
partition on /dev/hda2. This is a dos partition instead of Linux
isn't it? Since I only have Linux installed on this drive should I
make ext2fs this partition? This is a 4.3G harddrive.
/dev/hda1 / 424 Free
/dev/hda2 extended
/dev/hda5 /home 435 Free
/dev/hda6 /var 0 Free
/dev/hda7 swap
/dev/hda8 /usr 3707 Free
Also, with /var 0 Free, is there any way to free up some space?
Noticed I have a ton of stuff in /tmp, can I safely remove everything?
This is really a stupid question, but since I'm a newbie, what is
'df'? : ) Also I did use the -i with the RPM when I was upgrading
the Kernel. TIA
fudgstu
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From: "John J. Budd III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Memory recog prob nofix with append=mem
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 11:55:31 -0600
I am running Suse 6.2 on a Packard Bell Legend 823CDT with 2 16meg simms
and 2 4meg simms for a total of 40M. Winblows sees the memory but Linux
only sees 13 or so megs. I have scoured the dejanews for a similar
problem but the only thought was possibly a bios issue. The bios is an
American Megatrends AMIBIOS 1.oo.07 and it appears to recognize all 40
megs. The use of the append="mem=36M" or append="mem=36864" does not
work and in fact crashes the machine. I really could use some help on
this and it seems that it should be a fixable problem. JJB
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From: Paul Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OnStream DI30 Tape Drive
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 17:56:53 GMT
Is this with the certified Linux driver available from
http://www.onstream.com/support/linux/index.html
???
Have you tried emailing them. I've been using a SCSI drive for over a
year now
and their support has been excellent.
Disclaimer: I do not work for Onstream...
Sami Shaaban wrote:
>
> I recently purchased an OnStream DI30 tape drive and tried using it with
> Amanda on a Linux system (with the 2.2.14 kernel compiled with the patch
> needed to make this drive work). The drive works fine if tar is writing
> to it, but to does not seem to work with dd. After getting restore
> errors with Amanda's amrestore and amrecover commands, I tried reading
> with dd, which didn't work, then I tried writing to a new tape with the
> following simple dd command:
>
> dd -of=/dev/nht0 -if=./somefile -bs=32k
>
> with the following output:
>
> dd: /dev/nht0: invalid argument
> 0+1 records in
> 0+0 records out
>
> My guess is that the DI30 driver just isn't ready for prime time and
> that I should just return this drive for one that is supported. If
> anyone has any experience with this, I would love to know before mailing
> this drive back. Otherwise, hopefully my message will serve as a
> warning for those considering purchase of this drive for use with Linux.
--
Paul
Web: http://paulbristow.net
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: #11965223
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From: "Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.corel,corelsupport.linux.hardware_compatibility,corelsupport.linux.install,corelsupport.linux.set_up_config,uk.comp.os.linux,uklinux.general,uklinux.help.misc,u
Subject: Linux not speedy on the Speedway?
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:00:52 GMT
This is probably better related to people living in the UK so they might be
able to help me better then BT (Who
flat-out ignore my tech-supp. requests, whats new?, BTW The TA is
distributed by British Telecoms).
Anyhow here goes:
I purchased the BT HomeHighway package a few months ago along with a BT
Speedway ISDN Terminal Adapter.
Since I'm still very new to Linux I did loads of reading on connecting Linux
to the net. All this reading led me to a package called ISDN4Linux. The
problem is a lot of the documentation for this package is still in German
and the rest is to technical for me to understand furthermore the FAQ says
TA's should be set up like normal modems and that ISDN4Linux is not needed
for this process. ISDN4Linux claims to only be for internal PCI ISDN cards.
Well since I struck a dead end there I tried to set it up as a normal modem
but it doesn't seem to be able to communicate with the TA (maybe 'cause of
the CAPI 2.0 Interface?) Well after looking at my "Speedway's" Doc's I found
that the original manuf. is a company called AVM which is based in Germany
(http://www.avm.de) They seem to boast about a long history of support for
linux on their products which leads me to believe my TA should be able to
work on linux.
Pheew, after all that what my actuall question is, is this:
Has anyone else out there bought a BT Speedway TA and managed to get it
working on Linux?
Does anyone have any advice to give to me on this matter? (remember I'm
quite a newbie to Linux, boy it differant to my old friend DOS!)
Hope all that garble made somewhat sense ;o)
P.S I've tried setting it up on more then one distribution without
success.....
Your help is much appreciated.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: USB/sound shared interrupt problem
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:13:19 GMT
Hi,
A couple of weeks ago, I bought a Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 notebook
computer. (I've written up information on it at
http://www.rodsbooks.com/presario/.) It's working fairly well, except for
a problem with a shared interrupt between the built-in sound (provided by
the computer's VIA MVP-4 chipset) and USB ports. Both use IRQ 11, and
AFAIK there's no way to change this. The BIOS has an option to completely
disable sound, but not to change the interrupt used by either sound or USB
functions.
The problem is that the USB support in the 2.3.x kernels (I've been using
2.3.47) hangs when I try to load the usb-uhci.o module, apparently
because of the shared interrupt. (I inserted a bunch of debugging
statements and traced the problem to the point where the driver requests
the interrupt from the kernel.) If I disable the sound support, the USB
support works. On the sound side, the standard kernel drivers work, but
they use SoundBlaster compatibility mode (on IRQ 5, not 11). The shareware
OSS drivers, which use the sound support in native mode with IRQ 11, hang
about 1/3 of the time, but install correctly about 2/3 of the time. These
problems occur whether I use the kernel option to have the kernel assign
resources for PCI devices or have the BIOS do it.
I've been corresponding with the USB UHCI driver's maintainer and have
sent a bug report to 4Front, but with no resolution so far. Does anybody
have any other ideas about how to get around this problem?
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: "John Hanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:19:17 GMT
Excellent comments Derek and I agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I
resist jumping on the "Microsoft Sucks" bandwagon because despite their
tactics the world would be MUCH different without them. Tens of thousands
of jobs have been created as a result of their efforts and a portion of the
Internet boom of the 90's has to be at least credited to them. Like it or
not, it's a Microsoft world. That having said, long live Linux!
"Derek Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I just thought I would put my 2 cents in as well.
> > >
> > > Your right as far as a friendly OS Linux isn't it. Myself I enjoy the
> > > thrill of trying to figure it out and the more I learn the more I
enjoy it.
> > > Two weeks isnt anything. Just think of all of the things that you
have
> > > learned over this time. Granted you havent fixed your problem.
> > > But.....(there is always one)....you have gained alot of other
knowledge.
>
> Right. One of the benefit's of using a powerful operating system like
> Linux is that it forces you to learn a lot about the machine that you
> are using. Although with KDE and Gnome this is beginning to become less
> true; more recent Linux distributions are becoming much easier to
> install than windows (if you have well-supported hardware, the amount of
> which there is increases daily). It is also becoming nearly as easy to
> use.
>
> I find with these newer distributions, with a few notable exceptions
> (such as configuring PPP to work), the main difference in usability
> between Windows and Linux is that people are already familiar with
> Windows, and don't want to spend the time to learn a new operating
> system. Many of the things a typical user does can now be done the same
> way as they are done on Windows (such as searching for files or starting
> an application), or are done differently BUT can be done as easily or
> nearly as easily once one knows how (such as installing a new
> application under GnoRPM or a similar RPM manager). In the case of
> installing new applications, the Autorun package is making this simple
> too, because now, just like on Windows, you can put a CD containing your
> Linux application into your CD drive, and the installation will commence
> AUTOMAGICALLY. All that needs to happen is for more vendors to support
> Linux applications, and for them to make use of this feature. Quake3
> runs on Linux, and makes use of this feature.
>
> So, from my perspective, the main barrier for people to using Linux is
> one of mindset, which can generally be broken down into one of:
>
> 1) They believe (often mistakenly) that an app they want isn't
> available on Linux
> 2) They are simply not aware of many of Linux's features
> 3) They are satisfied with the performance of Windows
> 4) They are too lazy to learn something different
>
> With regard to number 3, I have often heard people complain about their
> Windows session crashing after doing a large amount of work (and of
> course, not saving frequently enough). But they are resigned to
> accepting it because they've been duped by Microsoft and other companies
> that release buggy software into thinking that this is normal and
> acceptable. People need to realize that IT ISN'T. If they can be made
> to realize this, many of the people who fall into category #3 will
> likely be more inclined to taking a look at Linux. This is one of the
> main reasons I now use Linux for virtually everything I do. My sessions
> virtually NEVER crash, by which I mean that on those rare occasions that
> they do, I've generally been playing with software that is known to be
> buggy, and which has direct access to the hardware, such as experimental
> device drivers for hardware that has incomplete support, or some other
> experimental software that runs with root priveleges. Applications that
> do not run as root, and do not directly access hardware (root access is
> required for this) NEVER crash your system. They can only crash
> themselves.
>
> > > On another note alot of Linux people hate Microsoft and since I am on
my
> > > "soapbox" and some of the same old usual comments have come up I think
I
> > > will respond to that as well. I am an active Computer Technician, in
other
> > > words I make my living fixing other people's computers. No I dont
work in
> > > some "Mom and Pop" store but for a world wide corporation and I deal
with
> > > all kinds of computers on daily basis. Everything from SUNs to NT
Servers
> > > and back to VAX machines, and I have to say as far as daily work and
> > > use-ability goes, in my opinion, you cant beat Microsoft products.
They are
> > > very user friendly. That is why they make so much $, they have given
the
> > > general populace something they can use not get frustrated like this
> > > individual has.
>
> Many people make that argument, but I believe that is also fallacious.
> There are many applications that are very user-friendly, as much or more
> so than Microsoft applications, that don't get the credit they deserve
> partly because businesses standardize on Microsoft, and also partly
> because of the "I already know Microsoft" factor that I've already
> mentioned. StarOffice, and KOffice, are examples of this. They are both
> FREE. Both offer similar feature sets and ease of use to Microsoft
> Office. But the problem here is that their compatibility with Microsoft
> applications is incomplete (in the case of StarOffice) or non-existent
> (KOffice, last time I checked). Businesses believe they need their
> office packages to be compatible with Microsoft, because "Everyone uses
> Microsoft." I've heard managers say it. It's bogus.
>
> First of all, to communicate with your customers and suppliers, the only
> thing that makes sense is to use ASCII text. The reasons for this are
> that a) No, not everyone DOES use Microsoft office, and b) the overhead
> for MSOffice documents is ridiculously huge. I've seen a 4k text
> document ballon to over 150k when turned into a MS Office document
> without any additional CONTENT. That's simply absurd. At my last
> company, we had to up the limit on message sizes that our mail server
> would accept because we were regularly receiving mail with 12MB+
> attachments. That's simply preposterous. An ASCII version of the
> document would have been maybe around 100k.
>
> For documents that simply MUST include charts and diagrams, PDF and
> PostScript are the only formats that make sense, since all major
> platforms have PDF and PostScript viewers readily available. These
> documents also tend to be smaller than MS OFfice documents.
>
> Bottom line, if you ask your business associates to provide you with
> documents in Internet standard formats, they probably will do so, and
> then the only requirement for MS products is a perception. It isn't
> difficult to export a Word document to text, and it's also fairly easy
> to make a .pdf document. I do it all the time.
>
> > > Most of the people that I have run into that bashes Microsoft are
people
> > > that are quite frankly jealous of what Bill Gates has accomplished. I
will
> > > concede that he stole someone else's idea and made it better (for lack
of a
> > > better phrase). But correct me if I am wrong but isnt that the
American
> > > Way. If you are familiar with history take a look at Henry Ford's
biography
> > > sometime. He did the same thing but he is considered to be one of the
> > > greatest innovators of our country.
>
> Now that's just silly. Either that or the people you've run into that
> bash Microsoft are just silly. I bash Microsoft heartily, but it's out
> of no such jealousy. It's because they sell crufty software that is
> inherently broken, and crashes all the time; that they have management
> types duped into thinking that this is acceptable, and *I* have to
> support it. They write software that breaks current Internet standards,
> and expect the rest of the world to interoperate with THEM, and get away
> with it because they have a near-monopoly. In short, they are callous,
> arrogant, and produce shoddy products that LOOK nice, but fall apart
> under normal usage.
>
> That's why I bash Microsoft. We have a few users that use Linux, and we
> never hear a peep out of them (unless something facility-wide is
> broken). Microsoft users easily produce 10 times as many complaints
> (per user, on average) as our Linux users. We also have a very large
> Unix user base, and their complaint ratio is similarly low.
>
> > > One last thing, "Lay off of Bill Gates" If you were in his position
you
> > > would be doing the same thing. Grabbing as much power and money as
you
> > > possibly could. I'll be honest, I know I would if I was in his
shoes..
>
> You're wrong there. Some of us aren't consumed by greed, and actually
> care about our customers, and people in general, and have pride in the
> work that we do. Shame on you, and on Bill Gates, for not being among
> them. That's the problem with the world today, and why our society is
> embroiled in so much turmoil: lack of ethics, morality, integrity, and
> concern for anyone besides one's self. That is exactly the cause of all
> the gang warfare and shootings in schools, and other crimes too numerous
> to count. I'll be surprised if our civilization lasts another hundred
> years. It's exactly the sort of thing that contributed to the fall of
> the Roman Empire.
>
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Derek D. Martin | Unix/Linux Geek
> e-mail address deleted -- spam sucks!
> ------------------------------------------------------
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From: "Skaag Argonius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM ServeRaid Status problem under Redhat
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 15:39:32 +0200
Hi Guys!
I have written a simple script that checks the status of Mylex RAID
adapters. The script basically parses the "/proc/rd/c0/current_status"
virtual file and if it finds a drive is not ready, or being rebuilt, it
sends an SMS notification.
Recently, I have aquired an IBM ServeRaid adapter with an IBM Netfinity 5000
machine, and I can't seem to be able to get status on the drives. the only
thing I see is generic and general information about the adapter itself, but
not on the status of the drives.
This is what the Mylex output looks like: (You can see it's fairly friendly)
***** DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 *****
Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Configuring Mylex DAC960PTL1 PCI RAID Controller
Firmware Version: 4.07-0-29, Channels: 1, Memory Size: 8MB
PCI Bus: 0, Device: 10, Function: 1, I/O Address: Unassigned
PCI Address: 0xE3000000 mapped at 0x90009000, IRQ Channel: 5
Controller Queue Depth: 124, Maximum Blocks per Command: 128
Driver Queue Depth: 123, Maximum Scatter/Gather Segments: 33
Stripe Size: 64KB, Segment Size: 8KB, BIOS Geometry: 255/63
Physical Devices:
0:0 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39175LW Revision: 0001
Serial Number: 3AL11KWC00001007207R
Disk Status: Online, 17782784 blocks
0:1 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39175LW Revision: 0001
Serial Number: 3AL11RTB000070211JEL
Disk Status: Online, 17782784 blocks
Logical Drives:
/dev/rd/c0d0: RAID-1, Online, 17782784 blocks, Write Thru
No Rebuild or Consistency Check in Progress
On the other hand, the output of the IBM ServeRaid looks like this:
IBM ServeRAID General Information: (Much less informative, unfortunately)
Controller Type : ServeRAID 3L
IO port address : 0x2000
IRQ number : 7
BIOS Version : 3.60.05
Firmware Version : 3.60.21
Boot Block Version : 3.00.21
Driver Version : 3.60.02
Max Physical Devices : 15
Max Active Commands : 32
Current Queued Commands : 0
Current Active Commands : 0
Current Queued PT Commands : 0
Current Active PT Commands : 0
I even tried pulling out a drive, and all I saw was number number "1" in the
"Current Active Commands" line, and there were no other new files created
that can provide additional status. In short, i'm stuck with this.
I need a way to find the status of individual drives in the Raid.
My raid configuration is as follows: I have 3 drives, Drive 1 and Drive 2
are mirrored, and Drive 3 is a HotSpare.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Aric.
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From: "Goofy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/lp0 not seen
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:26:13 GMT
I had the same problemand did what it said here....
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html
working fine now.
Goofy
Richard Tilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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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