Linux-Hardware Digest #581, Volume #12 Thu, 30 Mar 00 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Channel binding on a Courier I-modem ("David Flory")
Exabyte tape problem (Stephen Griffiths)
Re: Realtek 8019 network card & RedHat 6.0 (Adrian Lukas)
Re: Linksys Ethernet card problem (Jim Jerzycke)
Q: Setting up a kernel for use with ES1371 sound card? (Alasdair McAndrew)
Digital Voice Recorders and Linux (Neil Zanella)
CDROM problems (Silviu Minut)
Re: Linux sucks (Lion)
Re: Optra 40: How to load cartridges? (Grant Taylor)
Re: Linux sucks (JEDIDIAH)
Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems (Yan Seiner)
Re: cdrecord doesn't fixate (Haral Tsitsivas)
Re: Brainless modems (Rod Smith)
Re: latest 2.3.99-pre3 won't boot on I-OPENER (Bryan)
Re: Upgrade Redhat 6.2 (Bryan)
Only for The Gurus ("Ahmet Bedir")
Compaq w/ Smart Array RAID problem (John Jensen)
Re: Only for The Gurus ("Allan Wingenbach")
Problems with I/O Magic Riva TNT2 AGP ("pithen")
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From: "David Flory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Channel binding on a Courier I-modem
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:21:35 GMT
Whoops! Just got it working. Thanks for reading, anyway.
David
David Flory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:iRQE4.15609$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Thanks to those who answered my last posts. If anyone is using both D
> channels with an I-Modem, please tell me what your init string is. The
> courier documentation is not really helping me. I can only connect to my
> ISP using a single D channel.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Flory
>
>
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:29:48 -0700
From: Stephen Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Exabyte tape problem
Hi,
I have installed an 8500 Exabye on my intel linux box. It seems to
work just fine -- I can make
tar tapes and read them back, compare to original, no problems). I am
having a problem reading
any tar tape (made with the same exabyte tape drive) created on a
solaris sun workstation. I can
read the tapes on the sun box if I re-install the drive there. On
Linux, I have tried to read the
tapes with dd to try and byte swap but always get an error.
dd if=/dev/st0 of=foo bs=10240 conv=swab
dd: /dev/st0: Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
First, do I have a byte swap problem (big vs little endian) and second
is the byte size value
correct for a standard solaris tar file? Should tar even care about
big/little endian? Why can I
not read these tapes on my linux box?
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Steve
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:29:56 +0200
From: Adrian Lukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realtek 8019 network card & RedHat 6.0
LhD Administrator wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Adrian Lukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a network card with a Realtek 8019 cip.
>
> This should help -- follow the workaround suggestions & check out the
> driver/resource links.
> http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?312
>
Thank you again.
Here is "what was wrong ?":
The address on my card was 0x240 and the netcard port list in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ne.c (RedHat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5-15de)
included only the followin addresses:
0x300, 0x280, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360, 0x380
I changed the address to one in the list, and now the netcard
works.
Adrian
--
======================================================================
Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I'll continue
to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your
flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
[F.Brooks "The Mythical Man-Month"]
======================================================================
>>> Yes. The first step is to ENUMERATE the STATES the problem has.
>>> Then list the EVALUATIONS necessary for STATE transition.
>>> These are your functions.
>>> Hook the two together in a two-dimensional array, and you're done
>>
>> I take it you only solve simple problems?
>>
> You don't get it, do yo?
> Mr. Malbrain is specifying a Turing machine.
I think Mr. Malbrain IS a turing machine.
[USENET: comp.lang.c "Programming Rules"]
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys Ethernet card problem
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 07:40:33 +0000
I had the same problem with two *NEW* LNE100TX cards I just bought. They
have changed the chipset to the "PNIC-II", and I had to use the
"tulip-new" driver that was on my SuSE distro(6.2). The key to it was
that cat /proc/pci gave me a "rev 37" and that it was a "LiteOn device
unknown". I found all the info on the Ethernet HOW-TO page. Everything
works fine now...EXCEPT that both cards are on irq5 :(.......I think it
might be a bios setup problem, so I'm going to remove eth1, pull the
card, re-boot the machine, shut it down, and stick the card back in.
I've had this problem before, and that technique worked.
Regards, Jim
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Subject: Q: Setting up a kernel for use with ES1371 sound card?
From: Alasdair McAndrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 Mar 2000 10:06:10 +1000
Hi there,
The subject line pretty much says it all: how do I configure my kernel
(RedHat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20) for using the Ensoniq ES1371 card?
According to the configuration help files, all I need to do is to say
Y or M to Sound Card Support, and Y or M to ES1371. This I've done,
but to no avail.
Do I have to load modules in any particular order?
Thanks for any help or advice.
cheers,
Alasdair McAndrew
School of Communications and Informatics Phone: +61 3 9688 4344
Victoria University of Technology Fax: +61 3 9688 4050
P.O. 14428, Melbourne City Mail Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Melbourne, Vic 8001, Australia http://cams.vu.edu.au/~amca
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:30:16 -0330
Hello,
I would like to know if any of the digital voice
recorders such as the Olympus DS-150 are supported
under Linux. Are there any applications that handle
files in the DSS voice file format?
Thanks,
Neil
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: CDROM problems
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:04:34 -0500
I've had this CDROM drive since last summer, and it works ok, except
that occasionaly I get the error messages below. The system is RedHat
6.0 with kernel 2.2.14 and the drive is Kenwood True 40x (one with 7
laser beams, so it's somewhat nonstandard, but it is supposed to be
ATAPI). The drive is not responding, and the system gets busy polling
it, ignoring mostly anything else. The system does not freeze totally,
and it eventually recovers, but it's terribly annoying. From what I can
tell, it only happens with audio cds. Does anybody have an explanation
for this or a fix?
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xff { Busy }
hdd: DMA disabled
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: packet command error: error=0xb4
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: drive not ready for command
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: drive not ready for command
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: drive not ready for command
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
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From: Lion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:24:56 +0100
In article <38e212ef.3041845@news>, Jan Knutar <[email protected]>
writes
>My Win95 runs so much more stable after explorer crashes. Without the
>taskbar and desktop icons, the system is not only faster, but more stable!
I recently purchased a CD with a quicktime3 movie on it. To view this in
windows I had to reinstall the whole system. Pretty bad. But on the
other hand, it's tit for tat. There is *no* way of viewing a qt3 movie
on Linux atm.
--
Lion
BreadHead - Back By Popular Demand
Sex, Metal & Revolution
http://www.bigfoot.com/~breadhead
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Optra 40: How to load cartridges?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:37:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox) writes:
> Silly question, but like many I have bought an Optra 40
> from the buy.com clearance sale.
> The manual directs you to use the "load printer cartridge"
> utility from the driver to make the cartridge holders move
> to where you can load them.
> I'm on a Linux box, any way to make them move over manually?
Use one of the various utilities for Linux. Lexmark provided the
source for a simple command-line program, or you can use the snazzy
GUI thrown together by Matt Simpson (IIRC). Links to both are
available from this printer's entry in the Printing HOWTO's database.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:04:46 GMT
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:24:56 +0100, Lion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <38e212ef.3041845@news>, Jan Knutar <[email protected]>
>writes
>>My Win95 runs so much more stable after explorer crashes. Without the
>>taskbar and desktop icons, the system is not only faster, but more stable!
>
>I recently purchased a CD with a quicktime3 movie on it. To view this in
>windows I had to reinstall the whole system. Pretty bad. But on the
>other hand, it's tit for tat. There is *no* way of viewing a qt3 movie
>on Linux atm.
Convert it to cinepak with Quicktime Pro 4.x and vmware.
--
It is not the advocates of free love and software
that are the communists here , but rather those that |||
advocate or perpetuate the necessity of only using / | \
one option among many, like in some regime where
product choice is a thing only seen in museums.
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:34:40 -0500
The drive is toast. Replace it immediately.
--yan
"Knut A. Nilsen" wrote:
>
> 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: Haral Tsitsivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord doesn't fixate
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:18:19 GMT
I have a similar problem with a cd recorder (Philips Omniwriter 26)
that I have been successfully using for the last three years on my
HP-UX workstation.
Just yesterday I wrote 4 CDs with one failure. Today I wasted 6 CDs
before one worked! The CD's are Sony CD-R's 650MB (never had problems
with them before).
Is my burner just too old and needs to be replaced or do I have
a different problem?
My error text is:
# cdrecord -v dev=6,0 cdrom.image
Cdrecord release 1.6a2 Copyright (C) 1995-1997 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
cdrecord: Error 0. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
scsidev: '6,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 6 lun: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'PHILIPS '
Identifikation : 'OMNIWRITER26 '
Revision : '1.07'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Track 01: data 8 MB
Total size: 10 MB (01:00.46) = 4535 sectors
cdrecord: Error 0. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
Starting to write CD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
cdrecord: I/O error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
resid: 45056
write track data: error after 761856 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cdrecord: I/O error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
Writing time: 40.114s
Fixating...
Fixating time: 137.405s
cdrecord: fifo had 77 puts and 13 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1 times full.
Dominik Riebeling wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have the following problem:
> When I'm trying to write a CD, everything works fine, but cdrecord
> doesn't fixate the CD and stops with an error message.
> I can fixate these CDs using some Windows-Program, they work after this.
>
> My System: Linux Kernel 2.2.13 (RedHat 6.1)
> Teac CDR55S Writer (SCSI: NCR 815)
> all other devices are ATAPI, for which I use SCSI-Emulation (CDRom,
> Zip). I tried turning this off, without effort.
> The Writer works perfectly under Windows. Termination OK (jumper on
> recorder), cable length about 40cm, so the hardware shouldn't cause a
> problem.
>
> Output of cdrecord: ~/# cdrecord speed=4 dev=1,3,0 -isosize -v -eject
> /dev/scd0
> Cdrecord 1.8a40 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
> Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: '1,3,0'
> scsibus: 1 target: 3 lun: 0
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> atapi: 0
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 2
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities : RELADR SYNC LINKED
> Vendor_info : 'TEAC '
> Identifikation : 'CD-R55S '
> Revision : '1.0K'
> Device seems to be: Teac CD-R50S.
> Using driver for Teac CD-R50S, Teac CD-R55S, JVC XR-W2010, Pinnacle
> RCD-5020 (teac_cdr50).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> WRa Data 40 0A 00 00
> Buffer cap: 655360
> Drive buf size : 655360 = 640 KB
> FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
> Track 01: data 628 MB
> Total size: 722 MB (71:33.13) = 321985 sectors
> Lout start: 722 MB (71:35/10) = 321985 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2048
> Blocks total: 335550 Blocks current: 335550 Blocks remaining: 13565
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
> Judging disk...done.
> Calibrating laser...done.
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> Track 01: 628 of 628 MB written (fifo 100%).
> Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 659421184/659421184 (321983
> sectors).
> Writing time: 1080.442s
> Fixating...
> cdrecord: Input/output error. teac_freeze: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
>
> CDB: E3 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 04 01 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x01 (logical unit is in process of becoming
> ready) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 12.615s timeout 480s
> Fixating time: 15.800s
> cdrecord: fifo had 20124 puts and 20124 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 18596 times full, min fill was 62%.
>
> I tried with other versions of cdrecord (1.8.1a01, 1.8.1a02, 1.8a40),
> other images (cd-copy, iso-image, audio-files) and other media (no
> no-name discs) -- Nothing. The message is always the same (the part
> after 'fixating...')
> Has someone an idea what's wrong?
>
> Dominik
> --
> "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is
> all."
> (Oscar Wilde)
--
--Haral Tsitsivas, UniSolutions Associates (http://www.unisol.com/)
System Accounting & Chargeback, Backup and Restore, System Administration
Voice: (949) 488-3960, Fax: (949) 443-5354, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Brainless modems
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:25:28 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8c0d1n$as2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Powerkiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Will I see the day when LINUX supports softmodems or braindead modems as I
> often read.
That day has already arrived, at least for some models. See:
http://www.linmodems.org
Support is far from universal -- every software modem is different, and so
requires unique drivers. Drivers exist for just a few chipsets, but
they're used in a lot of products.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: latest 2.3.99-pre3 won't boot on I-OPENER
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:26:27 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > but here's the weird part: when I use the stock slackware 7.0 kernel
: > (2.2.13, as build by slackware and untouched by me) the system boots
: > AND you see textmode come up after the screen freaks out a bit ;-) the
: > bootup msgs can be read after the first few lines have come out.
: Why don't you examine the slackware 7.0 distribution and locate the
: .config file that Patrick used to build the kernel?
you know, that DID occur to me ;-) I guess I'll go do that since at
least two folks think that's a good idea.
still, the better approach is to find out what magic is needed to put
that funky screen into normal vga text mode, then send that sequence
to the driver before the kernel gets too far in booting. I bet
someone will figure it out soon, given the popularity of the
linux-hack (and *bsd hacks) to the i-opener.
--
Bryan, http://Grateful.Net (ANTISPAM: email is my name at my web's domain)
(c) 2000. Publishing and/or relaying of this material on all forums other than
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and Microsoft Networks expressly prohibited.
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade Redhat 6.2
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:33:05 GMT
one thing that annoys me (did a very clean fresh install of 6.2) is
that 'shutdown -h now' doesn't always halt the system. in fact, many
times, it never even GETS to that phase of shutdown. similarly,
reboot doesn't work reliably.
very strange.
Mickey Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Just curious if anyone has tried to upgrade Redhat
: 6.1 -> Redhat 6.2 yet and if there's any tips or
: tricks or obvious problems with the upgrade. I
: just dl'd it and will try it after I do a backup -
: Also: I heard someone mention 6.2 beta.. Is that
: what 6.2 is as distributed from say --
: metalab.unc.edu or is it just that every version
: of everything is a *beta*<g> ?
: tia
: Mick
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From: "Ahmet Bedir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Only for The Gurus
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 04:39:21 +0300
As some of you might know Win98SE has an feature to share the same (modem)
TCP/IP connection for many networked PCs.
I'm networking 2 PCs, and hope to run LINUX on one of them. The Primary PC
will have the modem and W98SE, and the 2nd will run LINUX. Although I
imagine I will be able to network the two together but can I also share the
same TCP/IP connection to the net.
I have a feeling anything Win can do, LINUX should/could do better (so I
keep hearing & reading). As I'm a to be LINUX user (I haven't installed it,
yet) I'd appreciate some feed back on the matter, with perhaps a simple
explanation.
Thanks in advance to all the gurus.
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Compaq w/ Smart Array RAID problem
Date: 31 Mar 2000 01:58:05 GMT
I set up one new Compaq Proliant ML350 today, with the Smart Array 221
RAID controller, and it just flew through. I used the SmartStart CD to
switch RAID modes, and then used the Red Hat 6.1 standard installer.
Things didn't go so well with the second system. After several tries Red
Hat still says "no valid devices were found on which to create new
filesystems. Please check your hardware..." This even with several
passes through SmartStart.
Is it known that Compaqs can get in "states" like this and is there some
resolution, or does this sound like a hardware problem?
I think I'll try the phone support in the morning, but I'm tempted just to
return this one as broken.
John
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From: "Allan Wingenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Only for The Gurus
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:59:32 -0700
This is easily accomplished in Linux using a feature called IP Masquerading.
There are several well written sites and HOW-TOs on this subject, so I can't
possibly do you any good by going into detail here. The HOW-TOs are at
www.linuxdoc.org . I use IP masquerading on 6 networks I've setup with
anywhere from 2 to 25 client machines and it works flawlessly.
Allan Wingenbach
Ahmet Bedir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> As some of you might know Win98SE has an feature to share the same (modem)
> TCP/IP connection for many networked PCs.
>
> I'm networking 2 PCs, and hope to run LINUX on one of them. The Primary PC
> will have the modem and W98SE, and the 2nd will run LINUX. Although I
> imagine I will be able to network the two together but can I also share
the
> same TCP/IP connection to the net.
>
> I have a feeling anything Win can do, LINUX should/could do better (so I
> keep hearing & reading). As I'm a to be LINUX user (I haven't installed
it,
> yet) I'd appreciate some feed back on the matter, with perhaps a simple
> explanation.
>
> Thanks in advance to all the gurus.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "pithen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with I/O Magic Riva TNT2 AGP
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:59:29 -0500
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I've been getting signal 11 errors from Linux pretty often, making it
hell for me to compile anything and causing X to freeze up completely.
I've tried running several different diag. programs, and all say
everything is fine, except for memtest.c which gives me tons of
errors, but when I stick the ram in a different computer it comes out
fine..
I'm using an I/O Magic Riva TNT2 AGP video card, and I've noticed that
if I take this out and replace it with an older PCI card it seems to
work fine. Does anybody know of problems between Linux and this card?
Somebody told me that maybe it has something to do with the fact that
some of the memory is used for buffering for the vid card and maybe
for some reason Linux is having a problem with this, but being new to
Linux I'm not really sure.. Any comments/suggestions would be
appreciated.
Ken
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