Linux-Hardware Digest #576, Volume #12 Thu, 30 Mar 00 06:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: ASUS P3V4 and Linux anyone? (Wonil Roh)
Lots interrupt problem on IDE ATAPI CD-ROM ("Diego Santa Cruz")
Boot Problems (Chris Webb)
Re: Xircom network adapter (Hugo Thone)
Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted (Florian
Schiel)
Re: Xircom network adapter (Rudi Donne)
Re: Booting linux , little problem ("Steven Mudde")
Re: digitiser tablets - recommendations? ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: ASUS P3V4 and Linux anyone? ("Nathan Appleton")
SCSI and IDE disk problems ("Knut A. Nilsen")
FS Toshiba 430CDT Sat Pro w/48megs and bag $520 (Christian)
Re: FS: Toshiba 340CDT w/48megs and bag $520 (Christian)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wonil Roh)
Subject: Re: ASUS P3V4 and Linux anyone?
Date: 30 Mar 2000 00:25:59 -0800
yes, i'm using the mobo, asus p3v4x, with pIII 600e @800,
kernel 2.3.99-pre3.
I was using Intel CC820 and after a whole month of struggle
I ditched it and replaced it with this asus mobo.
I only had this for two days, so can't say much. But everything
seems to be fine, except udma 66 stuff. I did compile in
the unified ide patch, but udma 33 is the best i could get so far.
Even for this udma mode 2 I had to issue the command,
'hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hda' to manually set it since the kernel
didn't recoginize it properly at boot time and only gave
the inferior pio mode.
X11 is working great with matrox g400, xfree 3.3.6 (haven't tried
4.0 yet), and sound with sb live value is also great with
the driver from opensource.creative.com
All in all i think this mobo has really great price/performance
and superior stability even with overclocking.
wonil
In article <8al656$cbi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Loewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>does anyone have experience with ASUS P3V4 and Linux?
>
>Urgent
>
>
> TIA, Andreas Loewe
>
>
>+-------------------------------------------------------------+
>| Andreas Loewe |
>| |
>| Roemerstr. 164 +49 228 734180 (Tel) |
>| D-53117 Bonn Germany +49 228 734205 (Fax) |
>| Institute for Inorganic Chemistry - University of Bonn |
>+-------------------------------------------------------------+
>
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From: "Diego Santa Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Diego Santa Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lots interrupt problem on IDE ATAPI CD-ROM
Date: 30 Mar 2000 10:34:55 +0100
Hi there,
I've been having problems with recent kernels (from RedHat 6.1 and 6.2)
with the CD-ROM.
After reading some files (apparently a random number and time) I get
messages from the console (1 every 5 or so seconds):
hdc: lost interrupt
Where hdc is my CD-ROM. Then my machine is almost locked up. This
happens with 2.2.12 and 2.2.14 (the RPMS from RedHat). The only way
to get it to be stable again is to reboot (yack Windows way :-).
With 2.2.5 I have no problems.
The CD-ROM (IDE/ATAPI) is placed as master on the secondary IDE
interface, the only other IDE interface attached is the HD (Maxtor 8Gb)
as master on the first IDE interface. I also tried moving the CD-ROM
around, with no success. The CD-ROM is a Goldstar x8 (GCD-560 I believe).
Any ideas what might be wrong and what does the message really mean?
Thanks in advance,
Diego
--
Diego Santa Cruz
PhD Student / Assistant
Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
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From: Chris Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot Problems
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:54:25 +0100
I have never come across this problem b4, maybe someone can help:
Its a problem with a fujitsu machine, its a PIII, brought from a
supermarket. No its not mine! ;)
Fujitsu have been called out several times to fix problems with it, they
have replaced the CPU and the motherboard. (After several months of
screwing around). This has not solved the problem. Every now and again
the computer refuses to boot, infact the machine does not get through
the bios boot sequence. There is power going to the drives (you can hear
them and see lights etc) but the mother board comes across as being
dead. The only way to solve the problem is to unplug the machine and
remove the internal battery, leave it for 5 min and reassemble.
I dont know what causes this to happen, I doubt it is a power spike, the
machine is plugged into a UPS box. Has anyone heard of this b4?
TiA
Chris
--
Chris Webb
coffee at dircon dot co dot uk
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From: Hugo Thone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xircom network adapter
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:46:03 +0200
Rudi Donne wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > anyone has xircom adapter on a laptop running
> > Red Hat linux ?
> > I can�t configure mine.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Luis.
>
> Read the HOW-TO's.
> Xircom is not supported.
>
> Rudi.
And you believe that ! (en gaa geloeft da :-) )
I have XIRCOM 32bit Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56
that works fine in laptop Compacq Armada 1750 under
RedHat 6.1 (at least the ethernet part, didn't check
the modempart yet).
mvg,
Hugo
--
Hugo Thone do bee do bee do ...
IBM GLOBAL SERVICES (\ email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
F.Wellesplein 1 {|||8- phone : (32) 3 240 94 52
B-2018 Antwerp (/ fax : (32) 3 240 99 49
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From: Florian Schiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:16:00 +0200
I guess, you mean hot-plugging a SCSI device?
with hot-plugging, linux _cannot_ poosibly see this device until it does
a SCSIbus scan and a device-inquiry.
But you can tell the kernel to look for a device on a certain ID on the
bus:
To add a scsi device to the machine, type:
$ echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 x 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
Where x is the ID of your device to add.
The other zero's are numbers for the SCSI-Host, -Bus, and -LUN.
Usually people have only one controller, so this is all '0'.
Check if the device has been found with 'dmesg' or 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'
To remove a scsi device:
$ echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 x 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
With the same procedure as above.
You can use this technique to rearrange your /dev/sd* order, in case
you're not happy with the way the kernel sorts them.
(In fact the way the kernel does this is rather 'DOS-ish' :-P ).
Cu,
Florian
FWFR wrote:
>
> Option #1: try 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'
> Will show you the basic ID, Channel, and brand of drive.
>
> Option #2: Look at the last 'bootlog' and see if the OS sees the
> drives. Same info as option #1
>
> Option #3: Personally I like to deal with the SCSI card's BIOS for early
> detection.
>
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > > I wonder if there is an utility that can help me to "see" a new disk
> > > drive that has been connected to the system (on a SCSI level), before it
> > > has been actually formatted, partitioned, mounted, etc.
> >
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From: Rudi Donne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xircom network adapter
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:02:09 +0200
Hugo Thone wrote:
>
> Rudi Donne wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > anyone has xircom adapter on a laptop running
> > > Red Hat linux ?
> > > I can�t configure mine.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Luis.
> >
> > Read the HOW-TO's.
> > Xircom is not supported.
> >
> > Rudi.
>
> And you believe that ! (en gaa geloeft da :-) )
>
> I have XIRCOM 32bit Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56
> that works fine in laptop Compacq Armada 1750 under
> RedHat 6.1 (at least the ethernet part, didn't check
> the modempart yet).
>
> mvg,
>
> Hugo
>
> --
> Hugo Thone do bee do bee do ...
> IBM GLOBAL SERVICES (\ email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> F.Wellesplein 1 {|||8- phone : (32) 3 240 94 52
> B-2018 Antwerp (/ fax : (32) 3 240 99 49
Hello Hugo,
I ment that some Xircom's are not supported (yet) because Xircom does
not (will not) provide the spec's.
Rudi.
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From: "Steven Mudde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting linux , little problem
Date: 30 Mar 2000 09:46:11 GMT
disarm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> this is my config:
> Slackware 7.0
> p150
> 32 megs
> Video Card 1megs
> Smc EZ 8416 isa
> Ethernet 8129 pci
> 2.5 gig harddrive
>
> I installed linux, its worked perfectly, the only probleme i had is
> that i cannot boot it normaly, with a lilo or a bootdsk it block at :
> Uncompressing Linux.... Ok, Booting Kernel.
> i can boot with the bootdsk that come with Slackware 7.0 by entering
> mount root=/dev/hda1
>
> i dont know why, even before i touched the kernel id get this message
> each time i bootup, can i only have a way to fix that? or is there a
> fix somewhere? thanks in advance
>
I had the same problem once...
But the problem is most likely something with your LILO configuration. I
think your boot partition is not set up correctly... Since i have no
experience with Slackware i would not know how to configure it there...
So try playing around with your LILO configuration...
Regards,
Steven
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: digitiser tablets - recommendations?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:11:45 -0800
"Steve Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Steve Feil wrote:
> >
> > This would probably be an X window issue.
> > You can look into http://xfree86.org/ to see if xfree86 has
> > suport for digitiziter tables. There may be comercial
> > X - replacements that run digitiziter tables on Linux.
> >
>
> See <http://lepied.com/xfree86/> and
> <http://www.gtk.org/~otaylor/xinput/howto/basic-information.html>.
>
> I have succesfully used the a Wacom Pen Partner tablet with the Wacom
> driver on XFree86 3.3.6. I can't get it to work with XFree86 4.0,
> however.
Let us know how you would rate the Wacom for use with Linux:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=wacom
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS P3V4 and Linux anyone?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:16:53 -0800
How would your rate the P3V4?
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?909
"Wonil Roh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8bv32n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> yes, i'm using the mobo, asus p3v4x, with pIII 600e @800,
> kernel 2.3.99-pre3.
> I was using Intel CC820 and after a whole month of struggle
> I ditched it and replaced it with this asus mobo.
> I only had this for two days, so can't say much. But everything
> seems to be fine, except udma 66 stuff. I did compile in
> the unified ide patch, but udma 33 is the best i could get so far.
> Even for this udma mode 2 I had to issue the command,
> 'hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hda' to manually set it since the kernel
> didn't recoginize it properly at boot time and only gave
> the inferior pio mode.
>
> X11 is working great with matrox g400, xfree 3.3.6 (haven't tried
> 4.0 yet), and sound with sb live value is also great with
> the driver from opensource.creative.com
>
> All in all i think this mobo has really great price/performance
> and superior stability even with overclocking.
>
> wonil
>
>
> In article <8al656$cbi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Andreas Loewe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >does anyone have experience with ASUS P3V4 and Linux?
> >
> >Urgent
> >
> >
> > TIA, Andreas Loewe
> >
> >
> >+-------------------------------------------------------------+
> >| Andreas Loewe |
> >| |
> >| Roemerstr. 164 +49 228 734180 (Tel) |
> >| D-53117 Bonn Germany +49 228 734205 (Fax) |
> >| Institute for Inorganic Chemistry - University of Bonn |
> >+-------------------------------------------------------------+
> >
>
>
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From: "Knut A. Nilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SCSI and IDE disk problems
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:43:49 +0200
About 6 months ago I installed a new Seagate Barracuda ST39175LW 9,1 Gb SCSI
disk on a small fileserver. The disk has one partition taking up the entire
disk, most of which is 'shared' to Windows clients using Samba (2.0.5a). The
system has been running happily until yesterday, when I discovered that
files and directories were missing over the samba share. Trying to list the
files in linux gave me IO errors. Unmounting the drive and running e2fsck
gave the following output:
Error reading block XXX (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>?
Ignoring the error would give me more messages like this. Running e2fsck -c
caused the scsi bus to attempt to reset several times. Finally, after
several hours of errors, SCSI bus reset attempts etc etc, rebooted the
machine, unmounted the drive and ran e2fsck -c, which now seamed to work.
The disk is up and running again with no new error messages...
/var/log/messages:
Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
return code = 28000002
Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
sense key Not Ready
Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
process of becoming ready
Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 8536140
Mar 29 12:29:01 arthur kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=1067
010, block=4268070
Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
return code = 28000002
Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
sense key Not Ready
Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
process of becoming ready
Mar 29 12:29:06 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2
Mar 29 12:30:03 arthur kernel: (scsi0:0:0:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE
= 0x40, SEQADDR = 0x5f
Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
return code = 28000002
Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
sense key Not Ready
Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
process of becoming ready
Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 983962
Mar 29 12:30:07 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
return code = 28000002
(same message repeated a _lot: of times)
Mar 29 12:36:11 arthur kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half
of retries.
Mar 29 12:36:11 arthur kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
return code = 28000002
Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:01:
sense key Not Ready
Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in
process of becoming ready
Mar 29 12:36:14 arthur kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2883722
Can anyone explain this behaviour?
Now, for chapter two:
In 'panic', while I was fsck'ing the SCSI drive, I went an bought a second
10GB IDE drive, to backup my disk in case I needed to try some extensive
data recovery. I makde this dosk inot one big partition also (/dev/hdc1).
Running mke2fs, /var/log/messages is filled with this kind of errors:
Mar 30 11:27:44 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Mar 30 11:27:44 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
{ SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=770/0/137, sector=197074
Mar 30 11:28:02 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Mar 30 11:28:02 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
{ SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=1666/0/79, sector=426450
Mar 30 11:28:21 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Mar 30 11:28:21 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
{ SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=3650/0/23, sector=934354
Mar 30 11:28:22 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Mar 30 11:28:22 arthur kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x10
{ SectorIdNotFound }, CHS=3650/0/22, sector=934354
..and runing e2fsck on this disk gives:
Error reading block 3358818 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
in short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>?
...which is the same message I got on the SCSI disk in the first place!
Which means that I can't get my brand new 10 GB drive to work at all. The
drive is an IBM DTTA-371010 CHS=19590/16/63
On top of this, as I am writing this post, I see that I get the same error
messages on /dev/hda and IO errors as I am parsing through /var/log/messages
to copy the error messages. This disk is an IBM DTTA-350640 CHS=790/255/63
This is beginning to become frustrating! Any ideas, anyone?
Knut Nilsen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian)
Subject: FS Toshiba 430CDT Sat Pro w/48megs and bag $520
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 06:01:15 +0100
I have my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT with an active matrix LCD for
sale. The CPU is a Pentium running at 120mhz, it has the CD-ROM
attachment and the Floppy Disk attachment. The condition is fair because
of a small crack near one of the hinges (I think this a common problem)
and there are a couple of stickers on the case (a CRYSTAL METHOD and a
SWITCH BLADE SYMPHONY). I still have the original manuals as I'm the
original owner. Also included is a PC-Card FaxModem rated at 56k Flex. I
will not erase the HD which has MS OFFICE 97 PRO, MS MONEY 99 and more!
You will be responsible to delete those Apps. I will include a very nice
laptop bag which the Satellite Pro fits very well in and an external mouse
(when you don't want to use the trackpoint) PRICE $520
E-mail me for more info or if you wish to buy the laptop at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian)
Subject: Re: FS: Toshiba 340CDT w/48megs and bag $520
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 06:06:43 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian) wrote:
> I have my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT with an active matrix LCD for
> sale. The CPU is a Pentium running at 120mhz, it has the CD-ROM
> attachment and the Floppy Disk attachment. The condition is fair because
> of a small crack near one of the hinges (I think this a common problem)
> and there are a couple of stickers on the case (a CRYSTAL METHOD and a
> SWITCH BLADE SYMPHONY). I still have the original manuals as I'm the
> original owner. Also included is a PC-Card FaxModem rated at 56k Flex. I
> will not erase the HD which has MS OFFICE 97 PRO, MS MONEY 99 and more!
> You will be responsible to delete those Apps. I will include a very nice
> laptop bag which the Satellite Pro fits very well in and an external mouse
> (when you don't want to use the trackpoint) PRICE $520
> E-mail me for more info or if you wish to buy the laptop at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Correction this model is a 430 CDT Sat-Pro.
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