Linux-Hardware Digest #449, Volume #12 Fri, 10 Mar 00 09:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Hot Swapping a floppy drive? and more (Rolf Magnus)
Re: 1G memory in Asus P2B-DS (Foldy Lajos)
strange errors using ATAPI cdrom drive... hw failure? - repost (Julio C. Gutierrez)
Re: AMI MegaRAID: only one Logical Disk? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
rw cd rom ("protoscs")
any luck with linksys cable router ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
any luck with linksys cable router ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
any luck with linksys cable router ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: VIA vs Intel chipsets - which is better? ("Sebastian Kaliszewski")
I am trying to configure X-windows on my SMART-TEC laptop, but get some problems.
("Dirk Linden")
netcard sk_g16 (Mathias Lorenz)
Epson Stylus Color 900 (Eric P M Koldeweij)
new topic sound! // Re: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256XL+ ---- IT WORKS (Christian Bohn)
Re: CDROM problem that wont go away.....HELP!!!! ("Gene Heskett")
Re: aha152x not detected (Ed L. Cashin)
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From: Rolf Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hot Swapping a floppy drive? and more
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:36:49 +0100
Reply-To: "Rolf Magnus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Curtis wrote...
>It just fills the screen and scrolls lines of 04 on and on. This happened
with
>another older 420 meg drive (that one displayed "01 " instead of "04 " all
over
>the screen). I use "check for bad blocks during format" every time.
When you see only the L of LILO, that means that it hangs at a special stage
and the 04 is an error code. From the Bootdisk-HOWTO, Section 12. LILO boot
error codes:
L
The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load
the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of
problem. (See also section ``Disk error codes''.) This condition usually
indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters)
The section "Disk error codes" seems not to be in the Bootdisk-HOWTO,
because this text was copied from the lilo documentation. You can get it
from:
ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/lilo/lilo-u-21.ps.gz or
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/lilo-u-21.ps.gz
Most likely, you already have it in your /usr/doc directory or somewhere. I
can not look into it at the moment because I don't have a postscript viewer
here at work. So download it yourself and look up the error codes you get.
HTH
Rolf Magnus
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From: Foldy Lajos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 1G memory in Asus P2B-DS
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:01:21 +0100
Hi!
Recompile the kernel with 2 GByte max. memory (CONFIG_2GB set instead of
CONFIG_1GB).
regards,
Lajos Foldy
On 9 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Lucky me, I just put 1G SDRAM in my Asus P2B-DS system.
> However, on boot, Linux said something about only 960MB used.
> (I am running Redhat 6.0, with a newer 2.2.13 kernel).
>
> I tried putting 1024M and 1023M in /etc/lilo.conf, but this didn't help.
>
> It's not a big deal, but it would be nice to use a bit more memory...
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Richard
>
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From: Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: strange errors using ATAPI cdrom drive... hw failure? - repost
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:36:45 GMT
[ This is a repost of the following article: ]
[ From: Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
[ Subject: strange errors using ATAPI cdrom drive... hw failure? ]
[ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware ]
[ Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
Hi,
Sorry for the repost, but I got no responses and I would really like
to know whether this problem is a hardware failure or a driver
failure. Thanks for any comment. Next is the original message:
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID: only one Logical Disk?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:29:55 GMT
Hi,
be sure to enable probe all LUN on the scsi controller. This is an
kernel option. I think when using redhat this option is not enbaled by
default. Be sure to look as well in the readme file that comes with AMI
Megaraid drivers, that can be download form the www.ami.com.
Have a goodone.
Mark Lane
In article <8934db$598$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, ladies and gentlemen:
>
> Can someone inform me if it is possible to have Linux see more than
> one Logical Drive on a AMI MegaRAID 428 controller? This is what I
see in
> my machine's booting-up messages:
>
> < ... cut ...>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999)
> megaraid: found 0x101e:0x9010:idx 0:bus 0:slot 14:func 0
> scsi0 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xde10, IRQ: 17
> megaraid: [UF80:1.61] detected 2 logical drives
> scsi0 : AMI MegaRAID UF80 254 commands 16 targs 2 chans 8 luns
> scsi : 1 host.
> scsi0: scanning channel 1 for devices.
> scsi0: scanning channel 2 for devices.
> scsi0: scanning virtual channel for logical drives.
> Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID0 12282R Rev: UF80
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 2, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 25153536 [12282 MB]
[12.3 GB]
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 >
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
>
> In other words, I only see ONE of the two logical disk drives,
> even though I have two of them defined. Is this a kernel problem?
>
>
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From: "protoscs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rw cd rom
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:18:53 +0200
does ne one know of a s/w for RW cdroms for linux i can lay my hands on
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: any luck with linksys cable router
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:54:42 GMT
Hi,
Currently, I'm runnin RH 6.0 connected to
TimeWarner RR service through a 3C509 and their
Motorola cablemodem. I've decided to hook up
another one (or two) computers around the house to
the same DHCP ip address. I initially considered
using IP Masquerading by getting a switch and a
second NIC for my main computer, but I've recently
become interested in Linksys' Cable / DSL router.
It goes for around $150, includes firewall
protection (supposedly), and a 4-port 10/100
switch for the LAN, and a 10BaseT port for the WAN
connection to cable/dsl modem.
Anyway, I'm interested in anyone's experiences
with this product under Linux. I know Linksys
seems to be better than most with the rest of
their products (LNE100TX) for Linux support, even
listing it on the retail boxes. However, I'm less
certain about this product since they explicitly
refuse to guarantee compatability with anyone
other than windows.
Any help/experience/advice for more info, would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: any luck with linksys cable router
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:54:45 GMT
Hi,
Currently, I'm runnin RH 6.0 connected to
TimeWarner RR service through a 3C509 and their
Motorola cablemodem. I've decided to hook up
another one (or two) computers around the house to
the same DHCP ip address. I initially considered
using IP Masquerading by getting a switch and a
second NIC for my main computer, but I've recently
become interested in Linksys' Cable / DSL router.
It goes for around $150, includes firewall
protection (supposedly), and a 4-port 10/100
switch for the LAN, and a 10BaseT port for the WAN
connection to cable/dsl modem.
Anyway, I'm interested in anyone's experiences
with this product under Linux. I know Linksys
seems to be better than most with the rest of
their products (LNE100TX) for Linux support, even
listing it on the retail boxes. However, I'm less
certain about this product since they explicitly
refuse to guarantee compatability with anyone
other than windows.
Any help/experience/advice for more info, would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: any luck with linksys cable router
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:54:41 GMT
Hi,
Currently, I'm runnin RH 6.0 connected to
TimeWarner RR service through a 3C509 and their
Motorola cablemodem. I've decided to hook up
another one (or two) computers around the house to
the same DHCP ip address. I initially considered
using IP Masquerading by getting a switch and a
second NIC for my main computer, but I've recently
become interested in Linksys' Cable / DSL router.
It goes for around $150, includes firewall
protection (supposedly), and a 4-port 10/100
switch for the LAN, and a 10BaseT port for the WAN
connection to cable/dsl modem.
Anyway, I'm interested in anyone's experiences
with this product under Linux. I know Linksys
seems to be better than most with the rest of
their products (LNE100TX) for Linux support, even
listing it on the retail boxes. However, I'm less
certain about this product since they explicitly
refuse to guarantee compatability with anyone
other than windows.
Any help/experience/advice for more info, would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
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Before you buy.
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From: "Sebastian Kaliszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: VIA vs Intel chipsets - which is better?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:24:35 GMT
Dean_Kent wrote in message ...
>This was the basis of my comment that the L2 cache is full-speed. On the
>other hand, it transfers data every other clock cycle, which was the basis
>for my 'higher latency' comment. However, since it is much wider a
'word'
>of data gets into the CPU much faster overall - therefore it is as much as
4
>times faster. In other words, it has a higher latency, but also a much
>higher bandwidth... and in this case, bandwidth matters.
Hmm, but initial latency is about 4 times lower. And consider this: It's L2
cache not L1 so it serves data only in 256bit packs at once.
So look at this example:
Program requests 3 data words from 3 consequtive cache lines:
on Cumine timing is something like this:
8-0-0-0-2-0-0-0-2-0-0-0
so 12 cycles total, 8 to the 1st critical word, 10 to the 2nd and 12 to the
3rd;
on Katmai timing is like the following:
24-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
so 35 cycles total, 24 to the 1st critical word, 28 to the 2nd and 32 to
the 3rd.
There is no point when Katmai latency is better: 1st word is 4 times worse,
the last is 2.5 times worse and even differences between consequtive words
are 2 times (4 cycles instead of 2 cycles) worse.
Regards
Sebastian Kaliszewski
--
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - from Notebooks of L.L.
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From: "Dirk Linden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I am trying to configure X-windows on my SMART-TEC laptop, but get some
problems.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:45:50 GMT
I am trying to configure X-windows on my SMART-TEC laptop, but get some
problems.
The problem is that the X-env. shows VERY LARGE ICONS when I startX.
Conclusion: the resolution is to small.
Here are some hard-and software specifications:
Redhad Linux version 6.1 installed on a Smart-tec notebook (ver. SOCKET 7 -
NX-6000).
- Integrated 32-bit PCI local bus video with 4Mb video SGRAM,
- the display of this computer is based on PCI local bus (ver. SOCKET 7) and
AGP architecture for high video performance.
Under NT the display type is NeoMagic MagicMedia256ZX in 1024x768 and 60Hz
refresh rate.
Thanks in advance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mathias Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netcard sk_g16
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:53:12 +0100
Hi,
who knows where I can find the documentation for
sk_g16 (sk_g16.install).
I have some problems with the installation
(segmentation faults).
Thanks and regards
Mathias
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From: Eric P M Koldeweij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Stylus Color 900
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:19:02 +0100
Simple Questions:
Is the Epson Stylus Color 900 supported by Linux/Ghostscript?
If so, which printcap entry do i have to use?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Greetings,
Eric
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From: Christian Bohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new topic sound! // Re: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256XL+ ---- IT WORKS
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:36:48 +0100
Hi to all exploring the NeoMagic256XL.
I dont get any sound out of it. So, could
somebody post a method which succeeded.
Thanks for any comment/tip/link!
Christian
Steve Molitor wrote:
> Mine works too now!
>
> I have a Sony PCG-XG18 with a NeoMagic256XL+.
>
> I will post my XF86config tomorrow. (I left my notebook at home).
>
> Basically, I removed Mandrake 7.0 and installed RedHat 6.1, ran
> XF86Setup like Jason said, selected 'NM2200' as my graphics card, set
> ...
--
Christian Bohn, Dept. of Rendering Techniques and Application
Institute for Media Communication http://imk.gmd.de/reta/
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Date: 10 Mar 2000 8:15:54 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM problem that wont go away.....HELP!!!!
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Kellyboy ;
> Or is it because of dust??
> forgot to ask that one.....grin
> Kellyboy
Nah, those super xxx drives tend to do that. Take it back. I lost 2 of
those 48x memorex drives in mid-installs. The first one decided it was
an 8x drive only, but kept on working for a few days, the 2nd just fell
over. The third ones working fine, and both were over the counter
warranty replaced at Staples plus I got a refund as they'd gone down 10
bucks by the time the second one failed. Neat!
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed L. Cashin)
Subject: Re: aha152x not detected
Date: 10 Mar 2000 08:46:45 -0500
Rebeccah H. Prastein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Joe Ringer wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:57:27 -0600, Rebeccah H. Prastein wrote:
> > > >One major hurdle surmounted. I can find the card with modprobe. Now I
> > > >just need some help getting it detected at bootup. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Pardon my butting in....
> > > Are you booting via lilo, if so add the following to lilo.conf:
> > >
> > > append = "aha152x=0x140,10,7,1"
>
> Joe, that was the *first* thing I tried (using my settings, though,
> 0x340,11,7,1), and it doesn't work. Well, actually the first thing was
> manually appending the stuff in quotes at the boot: prompt, but for
> completeness I did try adding it to lilo.conf. Thanks, anyway, though.
AFAIK, lilo append lines work for drivers that are compiled into the
kernel itself. If you want to use options with modules you have to do
it with /etc/conf.modules.
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