Linux-Hardware Digest #516, Volume #12 Mon, 20 Mar 00 17:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Digital DLT TZ86 ??? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Can't get PCMCIA Ethernet compiled with kernel 2.2.14 (Chris)
Re: BT-930: tape backup hangs system (Yan Seiner)
Re: Microsoft + NVidia (Ian Mac Lure)
HELP - LOST LINUX TO PARTITION TABLE WIPEOUT!! (p_tux_news)
Re: New laptops with WinModem :-( (Bernhard Reiter)
Linux (Caldera or otherwise) on e-machines e-one (Ian Mac Lure)
LinuxWaves.com relaunched! (Kelechi Odu)
Re: NVIDIA Linux drivers soon... (Alain le Sage)
Problem install 2nd IDE drive in a SCSI system (Pranab Nag)
Re: Geforce 256, DRI, XFree86 4.0 and 3D Accel. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
cdrecord problem (Michael Spalinski)
What determines rebootability? (Angus March)
File System error ?? ("Carsten Holck")
File System error ?? ("Carsten Holck")
Re: ATI Rage 128 solution (was: X-Problems of a below NEWBIE) ("TJ Snider")
Re: ATI Rage 128 solution (was: X-Problems of a below NEWBIE) ("TJ Snider")
Re: What is an ATHLON? (Doug Nadel)
Re: HELP - LOST LINUX TO PARTITION TABLE WIPEOUT!! ("Andreas Meile")
Re: New MB using Intel i820 Chipset (Tony R. Bennett)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Digital DLT TZ86 ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:10:04 GMT
Kurt Ramsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello all,
:
: I'm trying to use a Digital DLT TZ86 tape drive with RedHat 6.1.
: Whenever I write out small (any) file systems it writes out
: multiple volumes on the tape. Why? This puzzles me... Is there
: any special setup for a DLT?
I don't understand what you're asking. "multiple volumes on the tape"?? You
should be able to write multiple filesystems to the tape (with appropriate
dump switches and options), if that's what you're asking.
Post the exact commands you type to perform the dump(s). The command that I
use to write to a DAT drive is:
dump 0Bfu 2000000 /dev/tape $i
Read the man page for details.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris)
Subject: Re: Can't get PCMCIA Ethernet compiled with kernel 2.2.14
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:18:15 GMT
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 06:30:04 GMT, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
comp.os.linux.hardware:
>I get similar reports at boot time from my Xircom CE2. I have found that
>cardmgr does not seem to be detecting the card properly at boot. I don't
>think this is a problem with kernel 2.2.14, so much as one in card
>services. I did change the startup order in /etc/rc.d/rc.5 so that
>networking is set up AFTER PCMCIA, but it does not seem to have made any
>difference.
Part of the problem is that some portions of the startup runs in parallel.
In my Debian laptop it's quite normal for the networking code to fail
because the card manager hasn't finished initializing when eth0 is first
referenced by a following script. To work around this problem, I
configured my default runlevel to include the PCMCIA drivers and switch to
a networking runlevel after login.
Aside from that, I ended up staying with 2.2.13 because the 2.2.14 PCMCIA
patchfiles I was using didn't match the 2.2.14 sources so the kernel
wouldn't compile.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BT-930: tape backup hangs system
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:22:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You win the prize! The same one I won when I had this problem. Mylex
and Dandelion Digital were nice enough to provide me with a patch for
this problem, which I promptly lost since I did not use it directly, but
I have the patched source.
The appropriate section of FlashPoint.c is attached:
/*
#define OS_InPortByte(port) inb(port)
#define OS_InPortWord(port) inw(port)
#define OS_InPortLong(port) inl(port)
#define OS_OutPortByte(port, value) outb(value, port)
#define OS_OutPortWord(port, value) outw(value, port)
#define OS_OutPortLong(port, value) outl(value, port)
*/
#define YS_DelayIn 1
#define YS_DelayOut 1
#define OS_InPortByte(port) (udelay(YS_DelayIn),inb(port))
#define OS_InPortWord(port) (udelay(YS_DelayIn),inw(port))
#define OS_InPortLong(port) (udelay(YS_DelayIn),inl(port))
#define OS_OutPortByte(port, value) (udelay(YS_DelayOut),outb(value,
port))
#define OS_OutPortWord(port, value) (udelay(YS_DelayOut),outw(value,
port))
#define OS_OutPortLong(port, value) (udelay(YS_DelayOut),outl(value,
port))
#define OS_Lock(x)
#define OS_UnLock(x)
The original code is commented out and the new code with the YS_Delay
stuff is in. A delay of 1 should do the trick.
I've run tests and the delay does not appear to affect performance at
all. I now have 2 tape drives and a CDROM on the chain, and no problems
at all.
--Yan
Bernard Karmilowicz wrote:
>
> I have used a Micron Millennia LXA system for the last year without a
> problem. Last week I
> installed the tape drive, and since then the system hangs whenever large
> (several tens of megs of data) transfers are performed between the tape
> drive and hard disk drive. The system must be hard-reset to recover. It
> is configures as:
>
> Intel Pentium 166
> 64MB RAM
> BusLogic BT-930 SCSI controller
> Seagate STD224000N SCSI-2 tape drive (internal)
> Western Digital Enterprise 2.17GB SCSI-3 hard drive (internal)
> Linux 2.2.13
>
> When I boot the system from a DOS 6.22 (yuk) diskette and run Seagate's
> tape diagnostic utility, the tape drive passes all tests. The hard disk
> works fine too. The system hanging almost always occurs when the tape
> drive and hard disk drive have to share the SCSI bus. The system never
> hung before the tape drive was added to the SCSI bus.
>
> I have tried many combinations of BT-930 options - including slowing the
> transfer rates for both the tape drive and hard disk drive to 5M/sec,
> and toggling disconnect settings - as well as changing the location of
> the drives on the SCSI chain, and termination methods (active only). No
> combination of options has corrected the problem. However, when the tape
> drive and hard disk drive are not on the two connectors nearest one end
> of the SCSI chain, the system sometimes hangs immediately following the
> loading of the Linux BusLogic Flashpoint device driver, so it is clear
> that at least part if the problem is an marginally-stable SCSI bus.
>
> There are no external devices on the SCSI chain, and the BT-930 is the
> only SCSI controller. The SCSI cable connecting the BT-930 and the tape
> drive and hard disk drive is 4 ft. long and has five 50-pin connectors
> (4 connectors near one end of the cable, and 1 connector near the other
> end of the cable). The drive at the one end of the cable is actively
> terminated, and the BT-930 termination is set to AUTO. I tried BT-930
> ROM versions 1.31 and 1.41i, but the system hanging problem persists
> regardless of the ROM version. Again, this points to an unstable SCSI
> bus. However, since setting the transfer rates to only 5M/sec did not
> mask the problem, I suspect that another factor is involved (if slowing
> transfer rates down would have made a difference, then I would simply
> trim two connectors off one end of the SCSI cable for a quick fix).
>
> Comments and/or suggestions are most welcome.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Bernard
--
Think different
ride a recumbent
use Linux.
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From: Ian Mac Lure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft + NVidia
Date: 20 Mar 2000 19:22:39 GMT
C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> isn't it strange how nvidia won't be releasing accelerated
: drivers for linux
:> when they're in cahoots with microsoft about their x-box...
:>
: I guess nvidia doesn't want any linux sales, which IMHO is
: growing daily. Oh well, "they made their bed and they have
: to lay in it"
This is particularly odd since Nvidia are the folks making the
boards for SGI Linux boxes. Mind you the SGI boards are mostly
professional level ( but not all of them and some are/will be in
boxes you might find on the home desktop ).
--
* Ian B MacLure ********* Sunnyvale, CA ***** Engineer/Archer *****
* No Times Like The Maritimes *************************************
* Opinions Expressed Here Are Mine. That's Mine , Mine, MINE ******
* VR Level=3/Holding **********************************************
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From: p_tux_news (p_tux_news)
Subject: HELP - LOST LINUX TO PARTITION TABLE WIPEOUT!!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:25:25 GMT
I have lost my linux entry in a partition table wipeout caused by a
crash.
This is what happened:
- crash corrupted my partition table
- partition table was rebuilt using Norton Utilities' command "ndd
/rebuild" which was very good at restoring the windows fat partition,
but not the linux ones (on top of that it overwrote the partition
table)
- I don't have a backup of the partition table (stupid, stupid, would
have been so easy with Norton Utilities which is installed!!)
My disk structure was as follows (approximate sizes):
14Gb hard disk:
2.0Gb FAT16 partition (NT4 Server)
3.8Gb FAT32 partition (Windows 98 SE)
1.4Gb FAT32 partition (Windows 98 SE)
5.7Gb externded partition:
3.8Gb linux ext2 partition
128Mb linux swap partition
1.4Gb logical d: FAT16 partition
The above my not add up exactly, but they are fairly correct. I use
Boot Magic.
I have actually read documentation on how to rebuild my partition
table, and feel like I could have a shot at it, but my problem is that
I CANNOT FIND THE LINUX PARTITION. I have searched for the 55 AA hex
codes usind Norton Utilities diskedit, but it returns quite a few of
them (yes, there are quite a few even if I look that they have some
boot messages on the ascii part of diskedit).
What I need is the following:
1. a system or a utility to help me find the linux partition
2. a system or a utility to help me recreate the partition table
I have put a huge amount of work in my linux partition and I would
really appreciate any help on this subject so I can avoid rebuilding
this sytem.
The tools I have at my disposal are:
- Norton Utilities (includes ndd, diskedit)
- Partition Magic 4.0
Thank you all in advance
write to p_tux_news living at yahoo.com
Linux: the revenge of the nerds!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernhard Reiter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: New laptops with WinModem :-(
Date: 20 Mar 2000 19:31:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Goofy Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've looking to buy new laptop, apparently most or all has WinModem
> within, e.g., Toshiba 1625CDT, 1605CDS, Compaq 1200 XL, etc... I called
> the tech support of the manufacturers they said there's not much market
> for Linux yet.
Just a note:
The Apple powerbook's modem works fine here.
Bernhard
--
Professional Service around Free Software (intevation.net)
The FreeGIS Project (freegis.org)
Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org)
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From: Ian Mac Lure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux (Caldera or otherwise) on e-machines e-one
Date: 20 Mar 2000 19:36:11 GMT
Anybody have any experience installing Linux of any sort
on an e-machines e-one ( iMac lookalike ). There seems to
be a problem with video resolution in that none of the
available resolutions at that stage of the install seemed
to match the hardware and failed test.
The owner was at a recent installfest and had ( prior to
arriving ) tried all of the choices he was offered.
Linux install was a reasonably recent Caldera dist'n.
--
* Ian B MacLure ********* Sunnyvale, CA ***** Engineer/Archer *****
* No Times Like The Maritimes *************************************
* Opinions Expressed Here Are Mine. That's Mine , Mine, MINE ******
* VR Level=3/Holding **********************************************
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From: Kelechi Odu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuxWaves.com relaunched!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:44:52 +0100
Hi all,
I wish to announce that LinuxWaves.com (http://www.linuxwaves.com) has
been relaunched. Bugs have been fixed and browser problems solved.
LinuxWaves.com is a new Linux Portal that features among other things;
� A Linux Bookstore
� Banner Exchange for Linux Sites
� FREE email
� Download links
� Linux links Directory
� Community Forum etc etc.
Visit LinuxWaves.com at http://www.linuxwaves.com and have a lot of
fun...
Kelechi Odu
http://www.linuxwaves.com
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From: Alain le Sage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NVIDIA Linux drivers soon...
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:27:38 -0100
Michael Kelly wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:46:40 -0100, Alain le Sage
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >I just read on Linuxgames.com that nVidia is releasing their OpenGL
> >drivers soon.
> >That's about time :-)
> >
> >Mazzels
> >
> >Alain le Sage
>
> Hi. I haven't installed Linux on my new machine yet 'cause I've been
> messing around working around the Promise66 udma issue, but I now
> have a boot disk that can recognize the drive. I have a Gateway with
> NVidia TNT2 32 MB ram. Do you have any experience which Linux
> distribution will get XWindows up and running easily with it?
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
> --
>
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
> -- Groucho Marx
I Use RedHat (6.0), but I recommend RH6.1 or Madrake 6.1. But, you can
also download the latest 3.x version of XFree86 for easy installation
(http://www.xfree86.org)
Mazzels
Alain le Sage
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From: Pranab Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem install 2nd IDE drive in a SCSI system
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:44:29 -0500
I have RH 5.2 system in a AMD 300Mhz system. The system is installed on
a SCSI drive and has 6Gb IDE drive on primary master. The system was
working fine till I added a 2nd IDE (IBM 14Gb) drive as secondary
master. Now get LI at the lilo prompt. Looks like no matter what I do I
get LI prompt. Without the second IDE drive the system works.
Is there a solution to this?
Thanks
Pranab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Geforce 256, DRI, XFree86 4.0 and 3D Accel.
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 19:51:46 GMT
> finding any information on it and how it fits in to DRI. Has anybody
> try using this set up for 3D acceleration (I am thinking Q3 and UT)? I
> hate to think that I will have to boot back into windows to take
> advantage of my new (expensive?) graphics card. Any info would help.
Sorry, but I'm afraid that would be the case.
Nvidia is supposed to be releasing a binary only OpenGL driver soon
(what does that mean?)
There is an interview with Derek Perez that has a throw-away mention of
the XFree86 4.0 drivers. The article is mostly about the X-Box
(Microsoft's Console Game box).
On http://www.linuxgames.com today (03/20/99) John Carmack makes
comments some comments about the possibility of an open source driver
(not much change any time soon)
So, for the time being, I will just have to be satisfied with Civ:CTP.
and no cool 3d stuff.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Michael Spalinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: cdrecord problem
Date: 20 Mar 2000 15:56:29 -0500
I have a Buslogic SCSI card (BT-958 PCI Wide Ultra SCSI) an HP CD Writer
Plus 9200. The kernel is 2.2.12 on a RH 6.0 system. I can mount and read a
CD sitting in this drive, so at some basic level it works.
However I get the following error when I try to use cdrecord:
[euler:~]# cdrecord -v -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
Could someone tell me what specifically is missing?
--M.
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From: Angus March <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What determines rebootability?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:01:42 -0500
I have a 486-66, and so far I haven't been able to do a warm reboot on
it. It's a fairly old motherboard. I'm not sure that it can handle
large
hdds (but I have a 1Gb in there now. Would Linux be able to work like
that? It does have LBA support. I can never remember what the
significance of all this is)
When I execute the reboot script, it just hangs when it gets to
the end. I can't even get it to reboot using ctrl-alt-del when it gets
to the end of a 'halt' or 'reboot' script. This wouldn't be that big a
deal, but sometimes it'll be necessary to restart remotely, when I'm
not
even in the room.
My guess is that it is the bios or motherboard or something that
is
getting in my way, however, I can perform a reboot w/ctrl-alt-del
before
LILO loads the kernel. This leads me to believe that there is a
software
solution to my problem.
--
Angus March
VE2 UFP
Concordia University Amateur Radio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ece.concordia.ca/~ac_march/addr.html (very frivolous)
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From: "Carsten Holck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: File System error ??
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:10:02 +0100
Help please,
Suddenly I get an error message from sendmail and other processes "No space
left on device"
df reports 747395 1k blocks total, 719755 used, BUT 0 available, where have
all my space gone?,
I can move files to the partition (/) and the used number of blocks
increases
any ideas ??
--
Best regards
Carsten Holck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Carsten Holck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: File System error ??
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:11:06 +0100
Help please,
Suddenly I get an error message from sendmail and other processes "No space
left on device"
df reports 747395 1k blocks total, 719755 used, BUT 0 available, where have
all my space gone?,
I can move files to the partition (/) and the used number of blocks
increases
any ideas ??
--
Best regards
Carsten Holck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 solution (was: X-Problems of a below NEWBIE)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:17:25 GMT
Hi Andrew,
==========
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>TJ Snider wrote:
>> I can get gnome running through the following trick;
>>
>> xinit
>> typing exec gnome-session into the command window
>>
>> If anyone knows a better way... I'd be happy to hear it.
>
>Oh gawd. X is obviously set up perfectly; you just need to hook your
>startx/xinit scripts set up properly, which I'm certainly not going to
>explain here.
>
<SNIP>
>That should save you some keystrokes. "man xinit" for more info.
>RedHat comes with very nice startx scripts, though, so I'm confused as
>to why you just don't use theirs.
I upgraded to XFree 4.0... ;*} And ended up a little over my head, so I'm
learning more about the X configuration system along the way. <G>
Thanks for the pointers,
TJ
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From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 solution (was: X-Problems of a below NEWBIE)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:32:32 GMT
Hey Andrew,
Replacing the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc with the one before the upgrade did the
trick.
(Yes, I read the notes and backed up everything.)
StartX previously dumped me into twm, but now works fine! I'd been wandering
down the startx documentation path and hadn't found the right solution,
thanks for the pointer to what became the fix!
Nothing like a little trial by fire! <G>
TTUL,
TJ
==========
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>That should save you some keystrokes. "man xinit" for more info.
>>RedHat comes with very nice startx scripts, though, so I'm confused as
>>to why you just don't use theirs.
In article <FzwB4.56157$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "TJ Snider"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I upgraded to XFree 4.0... ;*} And ended up a little over my head, so I'm
>learning more about the X configuration system along the way. <G>
>
>Thanks for the pointers,
>
>TJ
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From: Doug Nadel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is an ATHLON?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:33:29 -0500
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:13:31 -0500, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> What is the difference between an Athlon and a pentium III or
>pentium II?
> Mike
Mike,
Depends on what you want to know. As far as the operating system and
most software is concerned, there isn't much difference. A few
instructions that are or are not available on each flavor of
processor. But, if you are interested in the hardware
implementations, there are some very big differences such as Athlon's
superior floating point speed and capability for 200MHz bus (not
implemented anywhere yet as far as I know) and how the processors
handle pipelining, branch prediction, internal and external caching,
registers (real and assigned(?)) and lots of other things. Once you
read up, on it, you'll gag every time you see some dopey reporter say
"BrandX has a 20bazzillahertz processor so it must be the fastest!"
'cause it just aint that simple.
I'd suggest that you search the web for processor reviews. Many
hardware oriented sites have good overviews as well as the nitty
gritty details. If you like details, go to some of the overclocking
sites. They have details of memory timing differences, cache
differences, heat tolerances, power requirements, etc.
As a guy who used to help design mainframes back in the 70's and 80's
its all pretty fascinating to me.
Doug Nadel
========================================
ISPF and OS/390 Tools & Toys page:
http://somebody.home.mindspring.com/
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From: "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP - LOST LINUX TO PARTITION TABLE WIPEOUT!!
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:44:10 +0200
p_tux_news (p_tux_news) schrieb in Nachricht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>My disk structure was as follows (approximate sizes):
> 14Gb hard disk:
> 2.0Gb FAT16 partition (NT4 Server)
> 3.8Gb FAT32 partition (Windows 98 SE)
> 1.4Gb FAT32 partition (Windows 98 SE)
> 5.7Gb externded partition:
> 3.8Gb linux ext2 partition
> 128Mb linux swap partition
> 1.4Gb logical d: FAT16 partition
Linux has a *powerful* fdisk command where you can do nearly everything.
Another benefit of Linux's "fdisk" is the fact that it modifies only the
partition table sector, *not* the content itself. Microsft's FDISK.EXE for
example always overwrites the first sector so remaining data are lost. In
Linux for example, I also often have "hiddened"/"disabled" partition (for
example installing a Windows 98 which should not fiddle on an existing
MS-DOS 6.22 environment or installing IBM OS/2 on a removable medium to
influence to drive letter assignment during installation). It's also
possible to delete any (primary only!) entries and recreating them later. If
you use exactly the same number of cylinders and starting cylinder itself
with the same fstype itself (for example 0x6 for DOS FAT 16bit), you will
find your filesystem's content without damages. :-)
Prerequisites for a successful recovery are to know the *exact* layout: What
was primary partition? What was on a logical drive? How many cylinders
(exact numbers!) had every partition. A good tip for preventation: Make a
"p" (Print partition table) inside "fdisk", you will get a valueful
documentation for printing out and storing on a safe place.
Because you only known the approximate sizes: You only can try working by
"trial and error": fsck will savely report "bad superblock" when you choosed
the wrong start cylinder. Note that you may run fsck in "read only" mode!
When you found the superblock, then you will get an appropriate message that
the file system size differs so try different sizes until fsck does not
longer shows any messages.
I know that in such a process, it's easy to even destroy more than recover.
So if you have a secound harddisk drive where there's at least so much free
space as the size of your destroyed disk drive, then you can make a backup
with
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/fullsave/fullsave_disk_c.bin
Do this *before* every kind of recovery attempt! This saves *every* sector,
so you can restore to the state like at the beginning to get a further
chance for restoring when something went wrong by using "dd
if=/mnt/fullsave/fullsave_disk_c.dat of=/dev/hda".
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony R. Bennett)
Subject: Re: New MB using Intel i820 Chipset
Date: 20 Mar 2000 13:21:40 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gary Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well I took a chance on a new motherboard for a PC I want to complete
>by this summer. I bought an ASUS P3C2000. This is a coppermine
>ready board with some nice features at a nice price, but used the
>Intel i820 chipset. Naturally, there is no mention that I can find
>about this chipset at any Linux sites I track, but I know there have
>been chipset problems in the past. Nor is there discussion at the
>asus website. I particularly wanted a board that might still be
>upgradable two years from now, thus the gamble on coppermine.
>
>Would a hardware guy like to comment? I expect a few arrows if I go
>for bleedn' edge stuff, but my hope is that any problems will be dealt
>with by the time the new kernel release hits the net this summer.
>
>By the way, there's a neat PC maintenance and update manual that I
>bought last night at B&N rewritten for Linux. That book only goes as
>high as the i810 set of course and this stuff is too new to make it
>into a recent book. I've forgotten the authors names but will post
>the ISBN tomorrow.
>
>--Gary Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out what the 'Driver Status' link at
http://www.xfree.org/4.0/Status16.html#16 says:
16. Intel
3.3.6:
Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the
XF86_SVGA server with the i740 driver, and for the Intel i810 with
the i810 driver. The i810 is currently only supported on Linux, and
requires the agpgart.o kernel module in order to use modes that
require more than 1MB of video memory.
4.0:
Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the "i740"
driver, and support for the Intel i810 is provided by the "i810"
driver. The "i810" driver is currently Linux-only, and requires
the agpgart.o kernel module.
Summary:
The i740 and i810 are supported in both
versions, but the i810 is only supported on
Linux/x86 platforms at present.
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