Linux-Hardware Digest #497, Volume #12 Fri, 17 Mar 00 11:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: SCSI tape drive, device not ready (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Noisy LINUX? (mircea)
ASUS P3C2000 i820 Camino P3 ATX mb? (Adam Scriven)
Diamond MX400 Sound card? (Adam Scriven)
minicom can't find /dev/modem (Tim Beattie)
HP Colorado Streamer 20GB (Joseph Bauer)
minor numbers/naming conventions for scsi-drives (Hartmut Steffin)
Re: Serious harddisk problem (www)
Re: HP Colorado Streamer 20GB (Frank Elsner)
Installing Linux on a Hard drive with 2096 cylinders ("Alan Woodman")
Re: weird hardware problem (Joergen Pihlflyckt)
Re: cdrecord -scanbus (Douglas E. Mitton)
Re: Is my hard disk broken? (jaelica)
Re: weird hardware problem (Robert Redelmeier)
Re: Need a clean hard disk ("David Rencher")
Re: VPI56SP Rockwell PCI Modem under Linux (Rob Clark)
Re: X-Problems of a below NEWBIE ("Victor R. Cardona")
Re: Cirrus CLM Data Fax Modem... HELP!!!!! (Rob Clark)
Re: minicom can't find /dev/modem (Rob Clark)
Re: reconpile or appende=ide-scsi for CDRW (David Gent)
linux on a laptop (newbie question) (dribbles)
Re: weird hardware problem (T)
Re: Memory question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP LaserJet III (Steve)
Re: Xircom RBEM56G-100 (Laurent Bloch)
Sound Blaster Live? need to pick a sound card? ("Kirk R. Wythers")
Re: Installing Linux on a Hard drive with 2096 cylinders ("Steve Snyder")
Re: Noisy LINUX? (Robert Wiegand)
Re: want to change partitioning (T)
[Q] HP CD Writer Plus 7500 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive, device not ready
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:38:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
>Mar 4 13:33:12 madhanilab kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there
> is a disc in the drive.
>Mar 4 13:33:44 madhanilab last message repeated 31 times
[...]
Do not give the tape drive an ID # of 0 or 1.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
------------------------------
From: mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Noisy LINUX?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:31:10 -0500
Ian wrote:
>
> I just installed LINUX on my home PC and there is a rather loud buzzing
> or humming that I hear every time I boot up LINUX. I do not hear this
> sound when I run Windows 98.
My hard disk is extremely loud in Windows, and inaudible in Linux. Go
figure.
mst
------------------------------
From: Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS P3C2000 i820 Camino P3 ATX mb?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:26:36 GMT
Hey all, I was wondering what the general consensus was on the following
Motherboard, and it's Linux Compatibility:
ASUS P3C2000 i820 Camino P3 ATX mb
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?804
I looked at the Linux Hardware Database (Link above for the direct
link), but there are no entries in there for it. Has anyone
successfully got a distro installed on this? I'm curious about Debian
or Red Hat, probably RH 6.2.
Thanks!
Adam
------------------------------
From: Adam Scriven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond MX400 Sound card?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:36:17 GMT
Hey again.
I'm also wondering about the Diamond MM MX400 or MX300 sound cards.
Should I stick with a SoundBlaster Live, and not go for these Diamond
cards?
Has anyone tried either of these cards in Linux?
Thanks again!
Adam
------------------------------
From: Tim Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: minicom can't find /dev/modem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:15:06 +0000
I've just bought an external modem (a Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro) for
my RedHat 6.0 box, and I'm trying to install it on the first serial port
- COM1 or ttyS0. I'm going through the Modem HowTo, and it says to use
minicom to check the modem. When I run minicom, though, it says:
cannot open /dev/modem; no such file or directory
This makes sense, since /dev/modem doesn't exist. What should I do -
should I modify minicom's config file so it will look for the modem on
/dev/ttyS0, or should I somehow create /dev/modem and make it point to
/dev/ttyS0 ? Or does it not make the slightest difference?
Thanks in advance for the help...
Tim
------------------------------
From: Joseph Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Colorado Streamer 20GB
Date: 17 Mar 2000 13:16:45 GMT
hi,
weiss jemand ob der colorado streamer 20GB von linux unterstuetzt wird!
falls jemand erfahrung mit einem aehlichen laufwerk (ca. 20GB capacity)
bitte ich auch um antwort.
------------------------------
From: Hartmut Steffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: minor numbers/naming conventions for scsi-drives
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:04:57 +0100
Hi there,
more than once I had trouble with the naming conventions of the
/dev/sd*. They are named sd[n][m], where n stands for the n-th found
disk, and m for a particular partition in sdn. sadly, n has nothing to
do with the scsi-id. so adding or removing a drive (or a drive failure)
cause all subsequent names to change, which obsoletes your fstab, and
you cry: "where is the boot disk?" do you see what i mean? this is not
what I call a system of high availibility.
there are other un*x systems, whose naming conventions are in a way they
never change, because they reflect the physical system. say
/dev/dsk/c[a]t[n]d[l]s[m] denotes to controler a, id n, lun l, slice m
(on a unixware slices system).
i wanted a likewise system. my idea was to mknod my own names on my
devices. but shock! even those names would not be static, as a change on
your scsi bus would make a change to the minor number as well!
quoting 'man sd'
... a minor device number of the form (16 * drive_number) +
partition_number, where drive_number is the number of the physical drive
in order of detection ...
this "in order of detection" gives me the headache.
you can find out about your drives after /proc is mounted and make your
nodes at this time. but this is too late in the boot process for your
fstab being right. any idea *not* involving a rewrite of sd.c?
regards
Hardy
------------------------------
From: www <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serious harddisk problem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:03:47 +0200
I have very similar problem:
...
hda:irq timeout:status=0xd0 {Busy}
hda:drive not ready for command
ide0:reset:success
...
This situation (sometime)to happen on all NEW harddisks with internal
cache.On old disks without cache-NEVER!!!
This problem (not always) causes destroy indexes in databases.
On M$-Windows this disks works correctly!
System:Pentium MMX -or- AMD K6-II
RH Linux 5.1 -or- KSI 2.0
Kernel 2.0.36 -or- 2.2.2-ac5
Quantum FB -or- Seagate -or- Fujitsu MPE,MPD with int. cache
Sklyar Valery
------------------------------
From: Frank Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Colorado Streamer 20GB
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:40:41 +0100
Joseph Bauer wrote:
>
> hi,
> weiss jemand ob der colorado streamer 20GB von linux unterstuetzt wird!
Wenn's SCSI ist, keine Probleme.
-Frank
------------------------------
From: "Alan Woodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Installing Linux on a Hard drive with 2096 cylinders
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:11:12 +0800
I have a problem... I want to install Redhat Linux onto a 17Gb hard drive
with 2096 cylinders and it won't let me... What do you suggest i do to try
and over come this problem???
Regards
Alan Woodman.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joergen Pihlflyckt)
Subject: Re: weird hardware problem
Date: 17 Mar 2000 16:11:32 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Hi there,
>I'm fighting here with a weird problem. My computer crashes at
>undefined times usually after one hour independent of red hat linux,
>Has anybody any hints?
>Or some test software?
The best memory test software that I've ever used is the gnu c compiler,
when used on the linux kernel source. Try installing the kernel source, and
do "make clean; make bzImage; make modules" several times.
If you get compiling errors at different places every time, you know for
sure that something is wrong with your compulter. To pinpoint the problem,
you need to exchange RAM chips, enable/disable CPU cache, and posibly try
another CPU and/or mainboard.
I have successfully detected some bad RAM chips this way, that wouldn't even
get detected by dedicated RAM test software. It seems that compiling a large
bunch of source code stresses memory with such complicated patterns that
apparently no memory test software does. Especially not the BIOS POST :-)
---
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: +358-9-87750100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: +358-9-4514777
[EMAIL PROTECTED] GSM: +358-50-3653601
WWW: http://pihlflyckt.hut.fi/ Fax: +358-50-83653601
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Subject: Re: cdrecord -scanbus
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:28:30 GMT
This is a description of how I got Mandrake 6.1 recording without
re-compiling the kernel. It looks like Free Agent may have messed up
my formatting a bit.
Since originally writing this I have stopped using XCDRoast and just
use cdrecord directly.
Good Luck!
=================================================
1) As root tell Linux not to grab the CDWriter.
- Since I only have one CD this may change for you.
- Edit /etc/lilo.conf ... make the Linux section look something
like (depending on where your CDR is ... mine is on /dev/hdb) ...
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda4
label = linux
append="hdb=ide-scsi"
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for
checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
1a) Issue the "lilo" command to make the change active.
2) On boot tell linux to load the scsi-ide module.
Edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, and near the end add:
echo "Activating IDE-SCSI emulation for CD-RW!"
rmmod ide-cd
insmod ide-scsi
3) Make the XCDRoast application executable by all ...
this is NOT very secure BUT there are other ways ... this is the
fastest.
chmod a+x /usr/bin/xcdroast
4) Since you have 2 CD's I won't describe how to make it available to
play audio CD's. You only want it to be a CDR.
<Here, you have to change the /mnt/cdrom link to point to the
/dev/sg?, I'm at work and I can't remeber the exact link, BUT it
depends on where your CD is installed.>
Now reboot linux and see if it works.
5) Check it ...
From the shell type "cdrecord -scanbus" ... something like this
should result ...
Mitton<p3>root:~# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jrg Schilling
scsibus0:
0) 'CREATIVE' 'CD-RW RW6424E ' '1.41' Removable
CD-ROM
1) *
2) *
3) *
4) *
5) *
6) *
7) *
Mitton<p3>root:~#
6) Start XCDRoast ... from a terminal window type "xcdroast" and/or
create an icon!
Have fun!
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:22:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton) wrote:
>>
>> What distribution are you using? You may not have to recompile the
>> kernel at all! On Mandrake 6.1 and 7 the modules are already in place
>> for the ide-scsi emulation, you just have to implement them.
>>
>> I'm doing this from memory but if you look in:
>> /var/lib/<kernel-version>/misc and see scsi-ide.o then you are all
>> set.
>>
>> Be warned, compiling a new kernel is NOT for the faint of heart,
>> especially if you don't have an emergency boot disk, /etc/lilo.conf
>> configured to to allow old/new kernel selection on boot and an
>> understanding of how LILO works. If you understand this stuff then
>> just keep compiling kernels, implement them and see if they do what
>> you want. Its the only way to learn BUT you have to be able to undo
>> what you've done so that you can get your system back to booting.
>>
>> Good luck!
>Can I just edit that LiLo stanza to read:
>append=ide-scsi
>on RH6.1 with a yamaha cdrw 4416E?
>I don't have enough space to recompile :(
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
================================================
The FACTS are my Employers, OPINIONS are my own!
Sorry: SPAM reduction project in progress:
Remove the "x." from my domain to reply!
================================================
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Is my hard disk broken?
From: jaelica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:30:28 -0800
Time to ask: did you make a backup copy of your kernel before you
compiled a new one? If so, I'd drop back to the original.
There's another way of making sound work: the sndconfig command.
If you can restore your kernel from backup, try sndconfig
instead.
* Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network *
The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!
------------------------------
From: Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird hardware problem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:37:27 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm fighting here with a weird problem. My computer crashes at
> undefined times usually after one hour independent of red hat linux,
> linux router project or even windows (bah). It basically screws up my
> kernel swap daemon, sometimes applications crash or even my hard disk
> fs structure will be screwed up. It's a Pentium MMX 200Mhz PCIGenuine
> Intel with 40MB with IDE, PCI. I don't think it's the hard drive it
> also happens with linux router project (RAM-Disk). It doesn't look like
> RAM problem (took Ram out, exchanged Ram, ...). It's not the CPU Fan
> works fine. To me it looks like the MMU (virtual to physical mapping)
> of the processer is somehow screwed up.
> Has anybody any hints?
> Or some test software?
I'd suggest you try my `cpuburn` package. `burnP6` will test out the CPU,
and `burnBX` will test out the memory controller [aka Northbridge] and
a part of the RAM. It will run on chipsets other than the 440BX like
your 430 TX/HX/VX. I know it maximally stresses P6 prococessor-based
systems, I believe it is max on P5mmx too, but it is not max for K6.
The types of errors I see when excessively clocking look more like
bus/driver errors [a few different bits, many addresses] than RAM
errors [same cells].
-- Robert author `cpuburn` http://users.ev1.net/~redelm
------------------------------
From: "David Rencher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:39:43 -0700
Zero fill and low level format are the same thing. Most SCSI controllers
have utilities that do that. IDE drive manufacturers almost always have a
utility on their website that will work for their drives only. Usually you
have to get the proper utility for the model of drive because they seem to
work with particular firmware. That means if you have a Seagate Medallist
drive you shouldn't use Seagate format utilities for a Barracuda drive,
different firmware means different controls.
Dave
Next Dimension Hardware wrote in message
<8XdA4.4725$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>If all else fails you could also low-level format, but that should be your
>LAST resort. What is the exact error message you are getting? Did you try
>fdisk /mbr to re-create the master boot record?
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Joe
>
>=================================================
>## Next Dimension Hardware
>## Webmaster
>## http://www.nextdimensionhw.com
>## Your Window to the Future of Technology
>## [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>=================================================
>
>
>"Lew Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Long story:
>> I thought I'd turn a W98 machine into nt, aborted that & decided on
>> Linux, & now, with all the wrong decisions vis-a-vis bootable partitions,
>> mbr's and what not, I can't use this disk at all.
>> Short story:
>> Need to make hd squeaky, clean so as to start over.
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> - Lew S
>>
>>
>
>
------------------------------
Subject: Re: VPI56SP Rockwell PCI Modem under Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:11:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joseph Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got a Speedcom VPI56SP fax/modem, internal PCI, however I've failed
>to set it up under Linux Mandrake. I've heard that these kind of modems
>are usually very troublesome to set up under Linux, since they're PCI and
>winmodems (although I'm not sure whether mine is in fact a winmodem). Can
>anyone shed some light on what I should do to set up this modem and
>whether there are any drivers available to it? the link to the
>manufucturer's site its this: http://www.speedcom.com.tw/vpi56sp.htm
Your modem _is_ probably a Rockwell winmodem-- I can't read the chip
numbers from the graphic. There is no Linux driver of Rockwell winmodems
(yet?), so if so, you're out of luck for now :(
If you can send me the FCC registration number ("???TAI-?????-M5-E") and
chip description ("RLVDL56DPF/SP R????-??"), I will update the list on my
web page.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
From: "Victor R. Cardona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-Problems of a below NEWBIE
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:18:25 GMT
You could ftp to rawhide.redhat.com and download XFree86-3.3.6 rpms. That
might solve your problem if support for your video card has been added.
Victor
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Gene Rodgers wrote:
> You could go to Mandrake 7.0-2 and eleminate the problem as it supports
> your ATI Rage card and a host of other fast game player video cards. Red
> Hat is comming around with their 6.2 (or is it 6.3) beta version.
>
> Gene
>
> r miller wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I have RedHat Linux 6.1 installed but i have yet to see Gnome. My ATI
> > Rage128 RageFury 32mb RAM and my Viewsonic A70 are not recognized by X.
> > I ran xf86config as the Professor said and i still cannot startx. Can
> > someone with past similar problems post detailed instructions showing
> > me how to do it step by step.
> >
> > I know i need to upgrade X but i am still at the command prompt.
> >
> > BTW: Which clockchip do i select if any during Xsetup and what is it?
> > How do i copy files from a floppy drive to a directory on the hard
> > drive?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Cirrus CLM Data Fax Modem... HELP!!!!!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:12:31 GMT
In article <8as0bo$qv4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Geri Cauilan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 on my PC and all peripherals work well except
>for my modem which is Cirrus CLM Data Fax Modem...
>
>is this modem a WinModem? if yes, is the anyway i can get a driver for it to
>make it LinModem?
Yes, it is a winmodem, but you may be able to use this open source driver:
http://linmodems.org/CLModem-0.1.0.tar.gz
Good luck,
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
------------------------------
Subject: Re: minicom can't find /dev/modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:14:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This makes sense, since /dev/modem doesn't exist. What should I do -
>should I modify minicom's config file so it will look for the modem on
>/dev/ttyS0, or should I somehow create /dev/modem and make it point to
>/dev/ttyS0 ? Or does it not make the slightest difference?
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem
...and you're off the to races.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Gent)
Subject: Re: reconpile or appende=ide-scsi for CDRW
Date: 17 Mar 2000 10:21:22 -0500
In article <8asi7h$t1g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}RH 6.1 & Yamaha CDRW 4416E
} don't have enough room in the /usr/src to recompile kernel to add the
}needed drivers for cdw. Can I just include it in the
} Linux stanza as: append=ide-scsi or do I really need to recompile
}kernel? I don't have enough room for it, can anyone
} help?
You don't need to recompile the RH6.1 kernel. You do need to get your
"append" statement right, since the above won't do a thing.
See the IDE/ATAPI disscussion in
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html
--dg
--
David Gent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
Subject: linux on a laptop (newbie question)
From: dribbles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:26:03 -0800
greetings gurus all,
i'm relatively new to linux, but so far, i like what i see.
i finally got sound running under red-hat on my desktop, and now
i want to try to port linux to my old crappy compaq contura
laptop. here's the rub, tho.... there is no cd-rom drive, no
lan card, no pcmcia slots to speak of. what i'm trying to do,
and the question i have is, can i use a parallel port cd-rom
drive for the install? if so, what do i need to do? all i
really know about this box (a free hand-out) is that it is a
486DX25 w/ 8Mb of Ram, @115Mb HD, SVGA, and internal sound, oh
yeah it has a modem too. any help would be greatly appreciated!!
scott
* Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network *
The fastest and easiest way to search and participate in Usenet - Free!
------------------------------
From: T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: weird hardware problem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:28:43 -0800
The last time I had a problem like that it was the power supply.
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:02:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi there,
>I'm fighting here with a weird problem. My computer crashes at
>undefined times usually after one hour independent of red hat linux,
>linux router project or even windows (bah). It basically screws up my
>kernel swap daemon, sometimes applications crash or even my hard disk
>fs structure will be screwed up. It's a Pentium MMX 200Mhz PCIGenuine
>Intel with 40MB with IDE, PCI. I don't think it's the hard drive it
>also happens with linux router project (RAM-Disk). It doesn't look like
>RAM problem (took Ram out, exchanged Ram, ...). It's not the CPU Fan
>works fine. To me it looks like the MMU (virtual to physical mapping)
>of the processer is somehow screwed up.
>Has anybody any hints?
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: Memory question
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:20:35 GMT
>From all the thread read, are you all joking ... sorry no offense.
I mean with a PC100(To save this part), I almost got everything
overclocked!
If my system works from what you all say, I will be the most over-
clocked "guru" around.
Frankly speaking ...
the worst situation I can think off is PC100 running PC133 specs thats
all. Whats the heck does it got to do with PCI, IDE etc.
Confuse ...
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet III
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:17:36 +0000
I set mine up using a Laserjet II emulation
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Murphy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I'm having trouble getting my HP LaserJet III (w/Resolution Enhancement
>P C L 5) working. RH 6.1. What setting do I need to use to get it to
>work properly?
>Thanks....Mike
>
--
Steve
------------------------------
From: Laurent Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xircom RBEM56G-100
Date: 17 Mar 2000 15:40:47 GMT
Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me were I can find the driver for the Xircom
> RBEM56G-100 for linux .
http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,1_20-476,00.html
------------------------------
From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster Live? need to pick a sound card?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:43:26 -0600
I'm putting together a new system. How does the soundblaster live value
digital sound card differ from soundblaster 64V PCI sound card? Also
what about Turtle Beach Montego A3D?
Thanks,
Kirk
--
Kirk R. Wythers University of Minnesota
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Forest Resources
Tel: 612.625.22611530 Cleveland Ave. N.
Fax: 612 625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
From: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on a Hard drive with 2096 cylinders
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:43:52 GMT
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:11:12 +0800, Alan Woodman wrote:
>I have a problem... I want to install Redhat Linux onto a 17Gb hard drive
>with 2096 cylinders and it won't let me... What do you suggest i do to try
>and over come this problem???
Create a boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders, then allocate
the rest of the disk as needed.
***** Steve Snyder *****
------------------------------
From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Noisy LINUX?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:27:56 -0600
Ian wrote:
>
> I just installed LINUX on my home PC and there is a rather loud buzzing
> or humming that I hear every time I boot up LINUX. I do not hear this
> sound when I run Windows 98. Have any of you had similar experiences
> after a new installation of LINUX and, if so, do you know of any easy
> fixes?
> I thought that it may be due to my display adapter or monitor or hard
> disk? Any suggestions?
> Thank you.
Is this a continous sound or just during boot-up?
If it is just for a short time during boot-up it might be when Linux
is mounting the hard drive partitions. This causes a fair amount of
disk activity which can be quite noisy on some drives.
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: want to change partitioning
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:44:03 -0800
Thanks for the good suggestions.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:42:37 -0600, Codifex Maximus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>T wrote:
>>
>> How can I best handle this situation?
>> I made too many partitions on the harddrive and want to kill 2 of
>> them, but don't want to re-install and/or lose data. (I'm RedHat 6.1
>> upgraded from 5.2 on Pentium I, 166, 64 mb, 6 gig, ethernet).
>>
>> I created partitions for:
>> /
>> /usr
>> /home
>> /var
>> /swap
>>
>> The problem came up when I tried to install some development tools for
>> gnome and got lots of error messages from the os saying essentially
>> that it couldn't read or write to certain sectors and the rpm
>> installation bombed out.
>>
>> It was trying to install into /usr and that partition is 75% full.
>> There's 2.something gigs free on /home and about the same on /var.
>>
>> I thought I was being so cautious and smart creating those partitions
>> and it's been nothing but stupid. Live and learn. I now want all the
>> space under root and just want to create the directories for /usr and
>> /home under root and not as partitions.
>>
>> /var can stay, but it's hogging space too. /swap can and probably
>> should stay, so I've read.
>>
>> So ideally, I'd buy a DAT tape drive and backup the partitions and
>> restore. But that's a lot of $$$ I don't have at the moment. I have a
>> win98 machine on the home network with the Linux box. I'd consider
>> using the win98, but don't know how and afraid of screwing up.
>>
>> BTW, I found an HP DAT drive 5000i for $99 on the net, but it comes
>> with NO drivers. Plus I don't have a scsi ii card around here. I've
>> got a scsi i somewhere. I've also got an old Colorado tape backup for
>> DOS 250 mb per tape. Did anyone ever create a Linux driver for that?
>> Also got Partition Magic 4 around here somewhere but afraid to use it.
>> The server is my email and web server so it's no place to experiment
>> and learn.
>>
>>
>
>
>You can cut off a limb of your filesystem tree and graft it on somewhere
>else quite easily. The kicker is, you must have the room to do it.
>I'd get a second hard drive and make it /usr but...
>
>You could:
>mkdir /copy
>cd /copy
>mkdir home
>cp -a /home home
>mkdir usr
>cp -a /usr usr
>
>Then, you could:
>joe /etc/fstab
>
>And, comment out the mounting commands for /home and /usr. Don't jack
>with /swap.
>
>Then:
>umount the proper partitions.
>mv the /copy/home to /home
>mv the /copy/usr to /usr
>
>You will need to do this at the command line as you will temporarily
>deprive yourself of X and alot of userspace tools. As I said, it will
>take lots of space on your / root partition. It would probably be
>better to get a second harddrive and use it as space for your other
>directories.
>
>The df command will let you know how much free space you have on the
>root partition.
>
>Codifex Maximus
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Q] HP CD Writer Plus 7500
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:49:27 -0600
Howdy,
Is there any software to operate an HP 7500 CDRW
in r/w mode (aka Adaptec Direct Disk) ?
thanx in advance,
/j/w/g/r
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
