Linux-Hardware Digest #410, Volume #12 Mon, 6 Mar 00 04:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Alan Burns)
Re: RAID Device Driver in Linux. (Greg Leblanc)
HP printer ("Peyman Malekzadeh")
Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives ("Robert L. Brown")
Compaq 4712 & RH6.1 (The Martell's)
System reqs - is P166 too small/slow? (David Geelan)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Dave Brown)
Re: SoundBlaster Awe64 PCI? ("Richard")
Re: Adding a second Hard Drive in Linux [HELP!!!] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: S3 trio 3d AGP (Lindsay Vincent)
Re: HP printer (Shan Gill)
Re: AMD and LINUX ("Richard")
strange errors using ATAPI cdrom drive... hw failure? (Julio C. Gutierrez)
Linux sucks etc etc... (robert w hall)
Hooking up a monitor to a serial port? (Tom Massey)
Need monitor specs for Magitronic 1428 (Robert Eanes)
Re: setting up multi processors. ("Mr Paul")
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From: Alan Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 22:04:37 -0600
In article <J01w4.508$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
> Version 4.0 added the ability to move, resize, copy, and create ext2fs
> partitions. Version 5.0 hasn't really added anything to that set of
> operations, AFAIK.
It added conversion from primary to logical and vice versa, I think.
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From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID Device Driver in Linux.
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 04:43:09 GMT
In article <89r7q2$ba8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vasudevan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All Linux Gurus,
>
> I have been assigned the task of writing a RAID driver for a PCI IDE
> RAID Controller card.
>
> I initially thought I could go thro the md RAID source code in Linux
> and try to get to know about block device drivers in general and md in
> particular.
>
> But before that, I would like to know a general overview of the
> organisation of the code in the Linux kernel and how the request for
> data flows in the driver.
>
> I would like to know where exactly (the function) in md the request
for
> data is getting into and where exactly (the function) it is dispatched
> to the drives.
>
> OR any information as to the general organisation of the IDE driver
> will also be helpful for me.
Hmm, I'd recomend you contact the linux-raid list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject, and subscribe linux-raid
<your email address> in the body. The author of the new software RAID
driver reads that list, as do a couple of other kernel hackers.
Greg
--
It's pronounced "sexy" not "scuzzy"!
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Before you buy.
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From: "Peyman Malekzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP printer
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 00:27:02 -0500
I have an hp 895cse printer and I am frustrated b/c I cannot seem to be able
to use it with linux. I have heard of some hp printers to be
"win-printers". I am not sure that my model is but whatever I seem to do
Icannot get it to work. I have searched Hps website for drivers but they do
not seem to support linux. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions please
email me at:
Majortom71 at hotmail.com
thank you in advance
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From: "Robert L. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives
Date: 5 Mar 2000 23:36:01 -0600
I had a similar problem. First off, according to the Maxtor web site, many older
(more than 8 months) BIOS's can't handle >32gb disks; a BIOS upgrade is needed.
Without it, systems will hang during POST.
I upgraded my Asus P2b-L bios and that got me further.
Linux (2.2.13) reported different C/H/S parameters for the 40gb drives on ide0
versus ide1. In order to get the C/H/S config that allowed for all 40gb to be
seen on ide1, I added "hdc=4982,255,63" to the kernel args, in lilo.conf, as in
append = "hdc=4982,255,63"
This allowed the whole disk to be seen and sfdisk will now let me partition the
whole thing.
Bob Brown
remove the ".foo" from my address to reply to me
Michael Prinkey wrote:
> Try using cfdisk instead. My 37.5 GB IBMs only showed up with 3.8 GBs
> available in fdisk. Also, make sure that you have the 2.2.14 kernel
> installed. I think 2.2.13 and earlier didn't support 32+ GB EIDE HDs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike Prinkey
>
> Anthony Zampella wrote:
> >
> > I'm having some difficulty partitioning and formating my 40 GB Maxtor drive.
> > Either the partitioning doesn't work quite right and/or the making of the
> > file
> > system doesn't occur properly. Has anyone else out there partitioned a 40
> > GB
> > hard disk successfully? I'm actually looking to patition the drive FAT32
> > LBA for a windows 98 box, but I've tried Linux Native type too to no avail.
> > Please mail me about this as I' m posting this from some windows machine
> > using something that vaguely resemples a combination of IE and Outlook and I
> > have no idea how to change who the message is from or how to get back here.
> > Thanks. ;)
> > Curt Hesher
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: The Martell's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq 4712 & RH6.1
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 00:55:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody have any tips to get this combo running? I get an error
when it goes out to get a package list, never writes a partition table
on the hd.
Thanks..Mike
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From: David Geelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System reqs - is P166 too small/slow?
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 21:08:35 +0800
G'day all
My weekend project was to install Corel Linux (based on Debian, with a
KDE-based interface) on my kids' computer (didn't risk doing my machine
in case of crashes!) I chose to install it in a 1GB DOS/Windows
partition, leaving the other 1.5 GB for Windoze so the kids can still
play their games. The machine is a P133 overclocked to 166, with 32 M of
RAM.
The Linux is horrifyingly slow: click on an icon to open a window and
then go away for 5-10 minutes while it opens - forget about actually
doing anything on it.
I guess I'll uninstall this install tonight, 'cos it's completely
useless. I can then decide to do a proper dual-boot installation, which
should improve the performance, or forget the whole project, or try
another distribution, or... But I wanted to check first whether there
are people successfully running Linux at reasonable speeds on machines
of this size. It should be possible, shouldn't it?
All responses, posted or mailed, will be very helpful.
Thanx,
David
--
Dr David R Geelan
Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley WA 6050
Ph. 08 9370 6728, Fax 08 9370 6700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://alpha7.curtin.edu.au/~rgeeland/bravus.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Mar 2000 00:11:27 -0600
In article <J01w4.508$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rod Smith wrote:
>[Posted and mailed]
>
>> Can the current version (5.0) resize an ext2fs partition?
>
>Yes.
>
>> The last time I looked, PM could only move ext2fs partitions, but
>> couldn't resize them. If this feature has been added, I'm quite
>> interested.
>
>Your recollection is faulty. There was never a version of Partition Magic
>that could move but not resize ext2fs partitions. (Except maybe internally
>to PowerQuest.) Version 3.0 could recognize ext2fs partitions, but that's
>it. Version 4.0 added the ability to move, resize, copy, and create ext2fs
>partitions. Version 5.0 hasn't really added anything to that set of
>operations, AFAIK.
>
I have PM 4.0, but haven't really been able to play with it. It claims
my partition table is corrupted. Yet both MS fdisk and Linux fdisk are
able to work with it. Any suggestions as to how to make my partition
table acceptable to PM?
Also, I've been curious about how PM can resize an ext2 partition, i.e.,
shrink it. Since ext2fs does not necessarily stuff files in data blocks
near the beginning of the partition (as I understand it, it looks for a
data-block-group(s) which have enough contiguous data blocks to store
the file without fragmentation). But that could mean that cylinders
toward the end of the partition are being used, even on a lightly
filled partition. Does PM relocate used data blocks toward the
beginning of the partition? I don't know of a Linux utility that does.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: "Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Awe64 PCI?
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:54:56 -0800
That's a Creative Ensoniq PCI sound card. Not an AWE 64. I believe it may
work on linux but I'm not sure.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding a second Hard Drive in Linux [HELP!!!]
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 06:50:08 GMT
You say the system finds both drives OK. Can you give more detail?
The drives may have switched places and there being no MBR on the new
one which is now (for some reason) primary master, the BIOS is trying
to do a network boot. Remove your network card with both drives in
and see if you get the DHCP message now. This probably still won't
fix the drives problem.
Unplug the first drive and leave only the 2nd in, and try that. It
should give a message about there being no OS to boot. Try doing an
install of RH on the 2nd and see if it at least gets to the point
where you can partition the drive.
What are your intentions as to which IDE address you want the drives
to be at?
primary master?
primary slave?
secondary master?
secondary slave?
Do you have any other IDE devices like CDROM?
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 04:08:01 GMT CADMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I'm very new to Linux, but I decieded to build a computer and put it
| on it anyway. I have installed Red Hat 6.1 on a PII with a 13 gig
| Hard drive and everything went fine. It's up and running with a
| connection to the internet.
|
| I made hda have three partitions when I installed from scratch.
| One was "swap", another was "/" and the last was "/usr"
|
|
| I now want to add a second Hard Drive to the system, should be no
| problem..... wrong!!! I have the CMOS fine, the system finds both
| drives OK but I don't get the standard LILO: prompt during boot.
|
| It seem to say something like
| DHCP MAC ADDR: 00 D0 B7 1D F6 B9
| DHCP..../ <--- Twerley Bar goes for ~30 sec.
|
| Next message says
|
| DHCP MAC ADDR: 00 D0 B7 1D F6 B9
| PXE-E51: No DHCP or BOOTP offers received
| Invalid Partition table_
|
| I don't know why the "DHCP" message comes up I am not using DHCP.
| If I unplug the second drive and re-boot, everything is fine again.
|
| I think it has somthing to do with LILO not able to find the booting
| drive "hda"
|
| Can anyone help me??
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From: Lindsay Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: S3 trio 3d AGP
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:04:03 +1100
root wrote:
>
> ENTERforNone wrote:
>
> > Rob Youl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there an X server for this card apart from XF86_VGA16???
> >
> > Try the S3 server. I think the SVGA server also has S3 drivers.
>
> I have also had trouble with the 86c365 S3 AGP card, would not work at
> all. I tried S3 S3mm S3Virge the chipset matching in the s3 server lib
> did not work.
> have changed to a simmilar (86c775) PCI card , no problem,please help .
>From the FAQ at http://xfree86.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/FAQ/#Trio3D
Q.F18- Is a server for the S3 Trio3D, Trio3D/2X or the S3 Savage3D or
the Savage4 available?
XFree86-3.3.5 supports all these chipsets as part of the SVGA server.
Please note that S3 Savage3D support was not tested and Savage4 support
is currently restricted to Linux and the Intel Platform.
I have a 4 meg AGP S3 Trio3D with the 365 chipset, and works ok...
Regards...
Lindsay
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From: Shan Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP printer
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:04:43 GMT
A good place to start is:
www.sourceforge.com
check out the pnm2ppa project.
Look at other posts regarding HP printers in this forum, too. You=20
might find something on the 895Cse.
Good luck.
Shan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/5/00, 9:27:02 PM, "Peyman Malekzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>=20
wrote regarding HP printer:
> I have an hp 895cse printer and I am frustrated b/c I cannot seem to=20
be able
> to use it with linux. I have heard of some hp printers to be
> "win-printers". I am not sure that my model is but whatever I seem to =
do
> Icannot get it to work. I have searched Hps website for drivers but=20
they do
> not seem to support linux. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions=20
please
> email me at:
> Majortom71 at hotmail.com
> thank you in advance
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From: "Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD and LINUX
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:39:41 -0800
I'm running an AMD K6-2 333 with an FIC VA-503+ motherboard and it runs
great with all distributions I've tried (Mandrake 7.0, Caldera Openlinux 2.2
& 2.3, Red Hat 6.1, Corel Linux). The funny thing (well maybe not) is that
I can't get Windows (95, 98, 98 SE, NT 4.0) running more than a few minutes
without crashing. I run this same system with the same components with
Linux and it runs days straight with no problems. That's right, no
problems, zero, zilch nothing.
Sure Linux is not as easy as windows. Not only did I not pay for it (I
downloaded the ISO) but it saved me some money because it allowed me to use
a computer which I wouldn't have been able to use with Windows. If it
wasn't for Linux, that computer would have been in the trash.
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From: Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: strange errors using ATAPI cdrom drive... hw failure?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 07:59:59 GMT
Hi,
I've been experiencing some strange behavior from my creative DVD-ROM
drive. I wasn't able to read some CDs _sometimes_, and I also noticed
some malfunction when trying to extract audio from audio CDs. All these
was caused by using the ATAPI cdrom driver in kernel 2.2.7.
Then I switched to using the SCSI emulation, generic SCSI driver and
SCSI cdrom driver instead, and suddenly all this odd behavior seemed to
disappear. It started working ok, both with data and audio, but then
again I noticed strange stuff.
Some times during boot-up I see these messages:
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - discarding data
ide-scsi: transferred 256 of 314 bytes
Vendor: CREATIVE Model: DVD-ROM DVD6240E Rev: 0101
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total.
ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - discarding data
ide-scsi: transferred 132 of 166 bytes
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 10x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
Everytime I see these "The scsi wants to send us more data than expected.."
messages, it won't work ok. It will read CDs sometimes and do some other
funny stuff. But if I don't see that messages during bootup, my feeling is
that it works 100% ok.
I copy&paste here some of the error messages logged in /var/log/messages in
case they can help determine whether it's a hardware error or a driver error.
BTW, I tried to use a 2.0.36 kernel in case the error was in the 2.2.7
drivers, but it behaved the same.
Messages:
Mar 4 12:52:26 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than
expected - discarding
data
Mar 4 12:52:26 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: transferred 7168 of 64512 bytes
Mar 5 02:22:35 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than
expected - discarding
data
Mar 5 02:22:35 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: transferred 512 of 520 bytes
Mar 5 02:22:38 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than
expected - discarding
data
Mar 5 02:22:38 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: transferred 4096 of 6144 bytes
Mar 5 02:22:47 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than
expected - discarding
data
Mar 5 02:22:47 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: transferred 16384 of 18432 bytes
Mar 5 02:22:48 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than
expected - discarding
data
Mar 5 02:22:48 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: transferred 13312 of 64512 bytes
Mar 5 02:22:48 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than
expected - discarding
data
Mar 5 02:22:48 finnglas kernel: ide-scsi: transferred 13312 of 64512 bytes
=================
All messages look like these.
Does this give any hint to anyone? Should I claim the dvd drive is not
working ok? Any comment is greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
--
Julio C. Gutierrez -- Please remove both X to send email
Penguins live only in cool environments... ;)
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From: robert w hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Linux sucks etc etc...
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:03:31 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Orest M. A. Zarowsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>4) I have yet to find a reasonable set of documentation about Linux that makes
>it relatively easy to migrate from the world of Microsoft to the world of
>Linux.
'Linux for Windows Users' (or some similar title), published in UK by
Bernard Babani for about �5 sounds just your book! (I've seen but not
read it - but you can't really go too wrong at that price!)
>O. Zarowsky
>
>
>David Chandler wrote:
>
--
robert w hall
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From: Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hooking up a monitor to a serial port?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:37:31 +1100
Hi, an old 486 of mine recently went dead, and so I've got a spare VGA
monitor hanging around and nothing much to do with it. I've noticed that
the kernel config has an option something like 'Console on serial port',
which mentions that it's possible to plug a monitor into a serial port
and see console messages there. Which sounds kind of fun. :-) I've
looked for more detailed docs on how to do this, but can't seem to find
anything - just selecting the option while compiling the kernel doesn't
seem to work. Could anybody give me some hints on how to do this? Do I
need any special cables beyond an adapter to change the VGA pin into the
standard serial? Thanks.
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From: Robert Eanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need monitor specs for Magitronic 1428
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:26:07 GMT
Does anyone know the specs for a Magitronic monitor, model C-SV1428S ?
This particular model isn't in the Griffin Technology monitor data base.
I have one I'd like to use for X windows but I'm having trouble
configuring it.
Thanks.
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From: "Mr Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting up multi processors.
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 02:53:48 -0600
thanks for the info!
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