Linux-Hardware Digest #470, Volume #12 Mon, 13 Mar 00 16:13:12 EST
Contents:
Kodak DC215 & Linux ? (Trevor Nightingale)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) (Michael Coffin)
Linux Help in Kuwait? ("EchoFox")
Drivers for the sound chip ESS 1978??? (Andreas Graef)
Re: Modem ?
Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives (shane)
hard disk partitions (Timothy M Kong)
Sound card problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Excessive hard drive paging (Doug Bible)
Re: hard disk partitions (Brian Johnson)
how do you install new hardware once linux is already loaded ("boober")
Re: How to access system serial port (Christophe DUCOUDER)
Is anyone using TEKRAM DC315U + RICOH MP7060 ? (Christophe DUCOUDER)
Re: Modem ? ("protos")
Re: AMD-K6 475Mhz Processor Cache - Not Shown In System Information Tool (jwk)
Re: Zoom modem configuration (rjuarezp)
ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919 (Bill B.)
Re: Drivers for Canon BJC-2000 (Mike)
Re: AMD-K6 475Mhz Processor Cache - Not Shown In System Information ("Risto A. Paju")
Re: Two Scsi Cards, which is which? (Joseph R. Erlewein)
Re: Ultra66 RH6.1 installs, but LILO hangs ("Warren Postma")
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From: Trevor Nightingale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kodak DC215 & Linux ?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:22:22 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is anyone using the Kodak DC215 with Linux ?
What are you experiences ?
Are you using the USB connection that comes with the millenium version
?
What software do you use on Linux ? gPhoto ?
Thanks,
Trevor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Coffin)
Subject: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:22:28 GMT
Hi All,
I have a IDE attached CDROM on IDE1. Whenever I do a DMESG LOG the log is
full of the message:
VFS: Disk change detected on devide ide1(22,0)
All other messages appear to have 'rolled off' because this is the only
message in there (unless I do a DMESG right after booting the system). This
occurs when there is no CD in the drive (I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure
that this does NOT occur when there is a CD in the drive).
Can anyone tell me why this is happening and what I can do to stop it?
Also, where is the system log stored and how can I increase the size of it so
that important messages do not 'roll off' as quickly? When I use the
Linuxconf tool and select >logs->Boot messages I get a dialogue box which
says "Error No log available".
-Thanks in advance!
-Mike
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From: "EchoFox" <echofox@;;;;;;;bigfoot.com>
Subject: Linux Help in Kuwait?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:33:57 +0300
Is there a Linux support group in Kuwait? if there is, how can I get in
touch with the group?
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:42:25 +0100
From: Andreas Graef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drivers for the sound chip ESS 1978???
Does anyone in here have drivers for it???
I only have drivers for ESS1971 etc, but not for this chip (which is a
built-in one in my notebook).
Thanks,
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Modem ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:40:27 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:58:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:30:01 -0600, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Sorry for the third time. But I spent the money to eliminate the use of
>>windows, and all I was able to do was install a linux os, Caldera 2.3, on my
>>Compaq Presario. Amazingly Caldera 2.3 was the first linux os out four. The
>>first three didn't recognize my video card. Caldera found it great.
>> However now that I am able to use a linux os on my box, I can't get
>>online with it. I have no clue if my modem is even compatable. Compatablity
>>lists don't help, as my modem seems to elude these lists. I have heard that
>>Winmodems don't work with linux. But I don't even know if I have a Winmodem.
>> Now for the modem questions...
>> 1:How do I setup a Rockwell HCF 56k Data Fax PCI Modem that is on COM2,
>>Interrupt 11, Address 2F8, Max Speed 115200, Dail bits 8, with Parity, Stop
>>bits 1 that ,waits for dial tone, cancels after 60 secs, uses FIFO buffer
>>16550 UART, recieve buffer14, transmitt buffer 16, uses error , compress
>>data uses flow control, hardware RTS/CTS
>>
>
>
>It should work fine. It is a real modem, not a braindead winmodem.
>
>Use 'cardctl' to query your pcmcia card(s).
>Use 'setserial' to set the IRQ and address params
>and
>
>use 'minicom' to try and talk to it. Sendint 'AT'<return> should give you
>an 'OK' response.
Ignore my post. For no apparent reason, I thought I read PCMCIA somewhere.
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From: shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:47:27 -0500
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:55:31 +0000, Antoine Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>my system would not even boot with my new 35Gb drive,
>I have had to limit its size to 32Gb with a jumper to get the bios to see it.
>You may have to od something similar...
>Hope this helps.
>
>Antoine
>
>
>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]
Do you have the maxtor 54098u8 on
http://www.maxtor.com/technology/ide%5Fcmos%5F9k.html
That's the one I've got - and I'm running into the same problems
trying to partition and format it. I've tried fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk
(as fdisk's man page says to do).
No luck with it at all. It's on a redhat 2.2.5-15 box. Have you
received any other feedback on this?
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From: Timothy M Kong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: hard disk partitions
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:46:08 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a stupid question, if anybody is up for it. Not really specific
to
Linux or Windows, but rather a general hardware question.
I understand that a hard disk spins at a uniform rate (am I wrong?).
Because of this, part of the drive will read/write faster than the rest.
But what I am confused about is this - is it the inside tracks or the
outside? I really don't understand the physics of it, but if someone
could
give me a short-and-sweet answer (or a long-and-drawn-out one) I'd
appreciate it.
I would guess that the inside would be fastest because it would be
easier
for the drive head to seek tracks (less distance to travel across the
surface). But, could it also be the outside, giving a faster throughput
because more data would travel across the head? What is more important
for
a swap partition - fast seek or fast transfer?
I want to know these things because I want to repartition and put my
swap
partitions on the fastest part of the drive. Even if I won't really
notice
a speed difference, I'm just messing around with it to see what I can do
:-)
I'm probably way off with some of the things I've written above, so I'd
like
someone to correct whatever is wrong and answer the original
question....
thanks :)
tim k.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound card problem
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:52:15 +0100
Hello,
i just install slakware with KDE on my PC but there is no sound, could
some one give me a solution to configure my sound card (Soundblaster
PCI), i can't find a config program like linuxconf from redhat to solve
the problem.
Thank you.
Jo.
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From: Doug Bible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Excessive hard drive paging
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:51:24 -0500
I have set up numerous linux systems and have not run across a system
with such excessive hard drive paging. I have installed linux on a Dell
Precision 610. This system is has an Adaptec 7890 controller with a
Seagate drive (model ST39102LW). About every 5-10 seconds I heard the
drive accessing. To see if I have some process running that is trying
to access the drive I went through and shutdown/killed every process
viewable using 'ps'. Having nothing left but those processes necessary
for the system to even run, the drive access persisted. I get the
feeling that it is something on the kernel level that is causing this to
occur. I even recompiled to a newer kernel with no avail.
My main question is this: Is there an application that would allow me
to monitor the processes (even at the kernel level) that are accessing
the hard drive? Any assistance would be appreciated, for this is
driving me nuts having to sit and listen to this machine. If there is
no help for me, my last course of action would be to get extra long
keyboard/mouse/video cables and put the thing in the closet :)
Doug Bible
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From: Brian Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: hard disk partitions
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:04:53 GMT
Timothy M Kong wrote:
> I would guess that the inside would be fastest because it would be
> easier
> for the drive head to seek tracks (less distance to travel across the
> surface). But, could it also be the outside, giving a faster throughput
> because more data would travel across the head? What is more important
> for
> a swap partition - fast seek or fast transfer?
actually, the inner and outer tracks both have slower average seek times,
but the middle is the best.. the reason being if the head has to travel
from an outside track to an inside track (depending on where the last track
it read was) then it would take longer than traveling from the
inside/outside track to the middle...
on a swap file I believe you want to favor towards fast seeks because I
don't think your usually swapping large amounts of continuous data?
that's the best I can do for you from memory.. I remember reading
something about this before, I think in one of the howtos..
-Brian
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From: "boober" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how do you install new hardware once linux is already loaded
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:05:38 GMT
i did not have a network card when i installed linux.. but now i do, i ahve
the drivers for it.. but how do i install it.. and if you can reply make it
really easy to understand.. for i am a new commer to linux
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From: Christophe DUCOUDER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to access system serial port
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:07:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a Redhat 6.1 system and I need this system to access through
> Serial port.Please let me know what is the procedure.
>
> Thanks in advance.....
>
> Dale khehra
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Hi,
I'm not a Linux Gurus, but I like it ! You may find some good
information about serial port by reading the serial-HOWTO available on
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/serial-programming or
something like that.
Regards, Tof :)
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From: Christophe DUCOUDER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is anyone using TEKRAM DC315U + RICOH MP7060 ?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:11:05 GMT
Hi,
I'm searching for the correct low-level scsi driver to drive the RICOH
CDRW unit. I tried sym53c416.o with no result (the module can not be
loaded, init_module error)
Thanks in advance,
TOF :)
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From: "protos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem ?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:20:36 +0200
i seem to have a similar problem except my modem is recognized its a
rockwell something yet in windows i need to tell it not wait for dial tone
does ne one know how to do that in linux
Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:SR6z4.131$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry for the third time. But I spent the money to eliminate the use of
> windows, and all I was able to do was install a linux os, Caldera 2.3, on
my
> Compaq Presario. Amazingly Caldera 2.3 was the first linux os out four.
The
> first three didn't recognize my video card. Caldera found it great.
> However now that I am able to use a linux os on my box, I can't get
> online with it. I have no clue if my modem is even compatable.
Compatablity
> lists don't help, as my modem seems to elude these lists. I have heard
that
> Winmodems don't work with linux. But I don't even know if I have a
Winmodem.
> Now for the modem questions...
> 1:How do I setup a Rockwell HCF 56k Data Fax PCI Modem that is on
COM2,
> Interrupt 11, Address 2F8, Max Speed 115200, Dail bits 8, with Parity,
Stop
> bits 1 that ,waits for dial tone, cancels after 60 secs, uses FIFO buffer
> 16550 UART, recieve buffer14, transmitt buffer 16, uses error , compress
> data uses flow control, hardware RTS/CTS
>
> 2:What is the Caldera equivilent of the above settings in windows?
> 3:Why do I get no modem, modem is busy messages when trying to find my
> modem?
> 4:When I think I have found my modem, why does it start by saying
> Initializing and then nothing happens?
> 5:Is there a better type of modem to have if this modem continues to
not
> work with linux? I hate to have spent money not to be able to use linux
> online.
> 6:If this problem is solved by someone, would they be interested in
> telling me if my Compaq IJ700 printer will work with linux? I have no clue
> how to setup a printer at all.
> :o)
>
> All help is great help even if the goal is not
met.
> Help is good by the nature of it.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Subject: Re: AMD-K6 475Mhz Processor Cache - Not Shown In System Information Tool
Date: 13 Mar 2000 20:36:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:07:03 GMT, Michael Coffin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I just purchased an Avatar VBOX A475K1 computer (nice deal by the way if you
>want a high speed performer with lots of goodies for under $400!) which has an
>AMD-K6 475Mhz processor with a 512K pipeline burst cache. When I use the
>System Information tool and display CPU Information everything looks good,
>except it says nothing about the cache.
>
>How can I tell whether or not Linux is using the cache, and optionally force
>it to use the cache if it is not already?
>
>This is a RedHat Linux 6.1 install, by the way.
>
>-Thanks in advance.
>
>-Mike
and what does
cat /proc/cpuinfo
say?
mine says something like:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 560.801064
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 1117.39
if you don't have the cachesize line, or it's wrong, chances are you a
CPU with a new stepping (model number) that the kernel doesn't know
about.
Remeber however that the 512 Kb pipeline burst cache you're talking
about is *not* in the CPU, but on the motherboard, and linux cannot know
about that. It should mention 32 Kb for a K6-II, IIRC.
Good luck,
Jurriaan
--
"Bother!" said Pooh and hit his reset switch.
Linux 2.2.15pre14 SMP up 3:05 6 users load av: 0.48 0.45 0.44
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From: rjuarezp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zoom modem configuration
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:30:39 GMT
Jim Jerzycke wrote:
>
> What model number is it, and do you have the PnP jumper disabled? I've
> had extremely good luck using Zoom internal modems, but I always pull
> the jumper to disable PnP, and set the other jumpers to force it to a
> known com port / irq setting.
> Regards, Jim
>
>
Windows says that the model is "Zoom V.90 Data+FaxModem version 5.20
-HZ207". When you say "disable", do you mean to disable the BIOS PnP
feature or the modem junmpers? Can I force the modem to be at one known com
port / irq setting without changing the jumpers? Linux seems to detect my
modem, but when I make "Modem Query" (Kppp), it returns nothing, only blank
spaces in ATI1, ATI2... I've got that information from Windows. Can it be
used for Linux? How could I do that?
Thanks a lot for your help.
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From: Bill B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ZOOM DualMode 56k ISA Faxmodem Model 2919
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:30:33 GMT
basiaclly....how can i get the darned thing working? its currently on
COM2, or ttys1 under linux, i have Redhat Linux 6.1 Standard with a full
installation. and and all help would be GREATLY appreciated. thanks in
advance.
Bill
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for Canon BJC-2000
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:30:35 GMT
the bjc-600 drivers work wonderfully.
www.users.uswest.net/~thaz
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From: "Risto A. Paju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD-K6 475Mhz Processor Cache - Not Shown In System Information
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:48:05 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't find any notice about cache either. My K6-2 has 64K of internal
cache and 256K level 2 cache. Here's the /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 366.602512
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips : 732.36
Any ideas?
--
Risto A. Paju
http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph R. Erlewein)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Two Scsi Cards, which is which?
Date: 13 Mar 2000 20:54:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have 2 scsi cards in my machine.
One is differential, with the root filesystem on it, and the other is
standard scsi-II. My problem is that when I connect my zip drive, my root
drive changes from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sdb2. Then I can't boot at all.
The diff card with my root partition keeps showing up as scsi adaptor 1
and the adaptec card (normal card with zip drive) shows up as adaptor
0. If I could get the adaptors to switch positions, I'd be all set, I
think,. since the drive would then always be /dev/sda and not get bumped,
instead the other drives would be bumped.
To do this, I first tried changing PCI slots. This changed the sequence in
which they initialized at boot time, but they still show up with the same
scsi0 and 1 adaptors under linux. Next, I tried recompiling the kernel so
the adapted card is modular and the other one is static, in hopes the
static card would get priority. Neither worked.
Any other ideas how I could get linux to flip-flop the scsi adaptor IDs of
the cards?
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From: "Warren Postma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra66 RH6.1 installs, but LILO hangs
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:00:04 -0500
>
> After the installation was finished, I put the UDMA back in, connected the
> drive to it, and disabled the onboard chipset in the BIOS. (This will mess
> you up if you leave it on because the drive on the UDMA will be reported
> as hde instead of hda and you'll get a kernel panic.) On the first boot,
pass
> your ide paramaters to LILO, and everything should work, albeit without
> Ultra66 support.
>
Just in case anyone reading this thread things you always HAVE TO do this,
you don't.
I installed Red Hat 6.1 onto my Abit BE6 with onboard UDMA66 (HPT366
controller chip)
with 4 onboard IDEs, all enabled.
I passed in the parameter ide2=0xAAAA,0xBBBB,11 (get values for AAAA and
BBBB from your Windows system configuration printout, or some other tool
which can detect the HPT366 chip and it's base adresses). I then added the
append="ide2=..." setting to lilo.conf, so that the "ide2=..." stuff is
automatically sent to the kernel at boot up time.
I wrote it also on my RH 6.1 boot disk. Perhaps a boot disk that can
remember arbitrary additional boot parameters would be a nice addition to
the RH 6.1 tool set.
Next up, play with 2.3.x kernels. Everything works fine, but without the
2.3.x kernels, your UDMA66 hard disk will run very slow (PIO mode, no DMA
whatsoever). It works, but it's not exactly zippy! ;-)
Warren
> You can then compile one of the 2.3.x series kernels with Ultra66 support
> enabled. I'm using 2.3.46 right now with no problems, and hdparm -t
reports
> about 13 MB/s on the drive. Once I got everything working, I went to the
> LILO HOWTO and learned how to boot 2.3.46 from a floppy to avoid having
> to pass the ide paramaters next time I have to do an install.
>
> It's a kludge, I know, but at least it works. Hope this helps.
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