Linux-Hardware Digest #604, Volume #12 Mon, 3 Apr 00 21:13:10 EDT
Contents:
cdrecord: labeling a disk???? (Scott)
Re: Adaptec SCSI card no longer works. Cheap PCI instead? ("Anthony W. Youngman")
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? ("nick hanno")
Question from a Linux wannabe (Bill)
Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Printer Driver: Panasonic KXP 6100 (Bob Moore)
Re: don'ts ("PJC")
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? ("Bobby Hitt")
Re: cdrecord: labeling a disk???? ("nick hanno")
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? (Mickey Stein)
Re: help with devices ("Tom Hoffmann")
Re: Question from a Linux wannabe (Michael Kelly)
Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to boot Linux
Kernel 2.2.14 ? (Hal Burgiss)
BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access (Jehsom)
Multi-port Tulip config q's (Trevor Coghlan)
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrecord: labeling a disk????
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 15:32:55 -0700
Hopefully someone can help me. I just installed cdrecord 1.8 on a
Solaris 2.6 machine last Friday. Burnt my first CD with it this morning
- worked like a champ!!
Went to pass the CD off to the powers that be and the first question I
was asked was "Did you label the CD?"
ummmmm....
I thought that I had read the man pages fairly well, but apparently I'm
not looking at the right option.
How do you put a label on a CD??
Thanks for the assist!!
Scott Tuss
Computer Sciences Corporation
Edwards AFB, CA
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From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI card no longer works. Cheap PCI instead?
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:55:31 +0100
Reply-To: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <qQpF4.878$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phillip Deackes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I have an Agfa SnapScan 310 scanner which came with a cheap Adaptec ISA
>SCSI card. Since I changed my motherboard the card no longer works with
>Linux - it complains about IRQ 9 and I cannot change it because all
>usable IRQs the card can work with are already taken.
>
>Basically I am thinking of buing a cheap PCI SCSI card which will work
>with the scanner and with Linux. Do you think this would be a sensible
>way forward? Would a PCI card be more likely to work?
>
My Iwill card works fine on my Jaz drive - just use the Initio module.
--
Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk
Trousers with a single hole in their waistband are topologically equivalent
to a doughnut. These sugarcoated trousers have yet to catch on at fast-food
outlets! (SuperStrings by F. David Peat)
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From: "nick hanno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:57:06 +1000
just add the line
append="mem=128M"
to the global section in /etc/lilo.conf and run 'lilo' to re-install it and
reboot...
show work now...
Nick.
Kris Luyten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8c9dvc$fg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anybody help me with this one: I have a PC with 128 MD RAM and I am
> using the latest Mandrake release. When I boot Microsoft it detects 128 mb
> ram, but when I boot Linux it only detects and _uses_ 64 mb ram. I NEED
the
> 128 mb because I am using JBuilder foundation for Java development while
> working with PostGres (on Linux of course) and JBuilder (with the JRE)
eats
> lots of RAM.
>
> My configuration: AMD Athlon 600 Mhz.
> 128 MB RAM (like mentioned :-)).
> ASUS K7M motherboard.
> Matrox G400 Millenium Max.
>
>
> Thanx, Kris
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill)
Subject: Question from a Linux wannabe
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:06:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been considering trying to install Linux but the more I read in the NG's for
linux the more
apprehensive I become.I ain't no genius and it seems as though there are a lot of
problems with
installation and hardware support and all.Is it really worth it?What is so special
about Linux that
makes people change over?Is it faster,stronger,got more bells and whistles?What is it
that people
see about Linux that makes them decide to switch over?
I really am serious with these questions.If I can get some idea about what's special
about Linux,
maybe I'll give it a try.Any help with this would sure be appreciated.
If you can't dazzle em with brilliance,
baffle em with bullshit
Shakespeer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: SCSI and IDE disk problems
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:10:06 GMT
Knut A. Nilsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: The power supply theory is interesting - never thought of that. The computer
: is allready stuffed with tape drive, CDRom, Zip drive etc - I'll look into
: that.
:
: However, as a test, I took the new IDE disk (/dev/hdc) home this weekend and
: tried to run fdisk and mke2fs on it on my own PC (running Slackware 7) which
: has much less hardware on it. Got the same errors when running mke2fs on it
: there - so I have to assume that the brand new unused drive is toast...? And
: that it's just a coincidence that this new drive was broken at the same time
: as I found out about the problems with the other, older drives (/dev/sda and
: /dev/hda)....?
It's not unheard of for something to not work right out of the box. It's also
a bit of a coincidence that the other drive doesn't work, either. Maybe the
new IDE disk is broken, and that it's pulling down the power supply?
: Or am I doing something wrong setting up the disk?
Doesn't look like it.
Stu
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From: Bob Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Driver: Panasonic KXP 6100
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:20:02 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Bob Moore wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I'm new to Linux and I am having difficulty finding a driver to use
> > with the above Laser Printer. Has anyone any ideas where I might find
> > one?
> >
> > Bob Moore
>
> Bob,
>
> I _think_ the Panasonic lasers do something like PCL4.5 (strange).
> That's _less_ than a LaserJet 5 (which does PCL5). So, I'd hazard a
> guess that you could install it as a LaserJet II or LaserJet 4. If you
> have the manual for the Panasonic, check what it says about emulation.
>
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Mark, I tried all permutations of HP Laserjet.....no joy, thanks
anyway.
Bob
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From: "PJC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: don'ts
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:40:46 -0400
I suggest you look at the RedHat compatibility list also even though you are
using SUSE (not sure why though...). The RH list is easier to print than
the searching at SUSE's site.
alexander rauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> hi!
>
> i am a linux newbie. i want to use suse 6.4. my question is which hardware
> i must not use. i hope this question is not too general. but i think its
> bett er than asking something like ' i bought the soundcard XYZ. will it
> work under linux ?'
>
> regards
>
> alex
>
>
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From: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:37:57 -0400
I'm running Slackware 7.0 with 128 MB of RAM, and didn't have to add the
"mem=128M" line to lilo. A while back I installed RedHat 6.0 on a system
with 128 MB, and it only showed 64MB. This appears to be associated with the
distribution, not with the kernel.
Bobby
"nick hanno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> just add the line
>
> append="mem=128M"
>
> to the global section in /etc/lilo.conf and run 'lilo' to re-install it
and
> reboot...
>
> show work now...
>
> Nick.
>
>
> Kris Luyten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8c9dvc$fg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Can anybody help me with this one: I have a PC with 128 MD RAM and I am
> > using the latest Mandrake release. When I boot Microsoft it detects 128
mb
> > ram, but when I boot Linux it only detects and _uses_ 64 mb ram. I NEED
> the
> > 128 mb because I am using JBuilder foundation for Java development while
> > working with PostGres (on Linux of course) and JBuilder (with the JRE)
> eats
> > lots of RAM.
> >
> > My configuration: AMD Athlon 600 Mhz.
> > 128 MB RAM (like mentioned :-)).
> > ASUS K7M motherboard.
> > Matrox G400 Millenium Max.
> >
> >
> > Thanx, Kris
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "nick hanno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord: labeling a disk????
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:45:46 +1000
use the -V "label name" option... (capital -V, small -v is verbose status)
Nick.
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hopefully someone can help me. I just installed cdrecord 1.8 on a
> Solaris 2.6 machine last Friday. Burnt my first CD with it this morning
> - worked like a champ!!
>
> Went to pass the CD off to the powers that be and the first question I
> was asked was "Did you label the CD?"
>
> ummmmm....
>
> I thought that I had read the man pages fairly well, but apparently I'm
> not looking at the right option.
>
> How do you put a label on a CD??
>
>
> Thanks for the assist!!
>
> Scott Tuss
> Computer Sciences Corporation
> Edwards AFB, CA
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:48:01 GMT
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:37:57 -0400, Bobby Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running Slackware 7.0 with 128 MB of RAM, and didn't have to add
>the "mem=128M" line to lilo. A while back I installed RedHat 6.0 on a
>system with 128 MB, and it only showed 64MB. This appears to be
>associated with the distribution, not with the kernel.
Not quite. It is a combo of kernel reading BIOS data.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: Mickey Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:51:00 -0700
Which kernel are you using? I thought I read some kernel erratta somewhere that
mentioned ramsize autodetect in one of the newer kernels.
Mick
Bobby Hitt wrote:
> I'm running Slackware 7.0 with 128 MB of RAM, and didn't have to add the
> "mem=128M" line to lilo. A while back I installed RedHat 6.0 on a system
> with 128 MB, and it only showed 64MB. This appears to be associated with the
> distribution, not with the kernel.
>
> Bobby
>
> "nick hanno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > just add the line
> >
> > append="mem=128M"
> >
> > to the global section in /etc/lilo.conf and run 'lilo' to re-install it
> and
> > reboot...
> >
> > show work now...
> >
> > Nick.
> >
> >
> > Kris Luyten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:8c9dvc$fg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Can anybody help me with this one: I have a PC with 128 MD RAM and I am
> > > using the latest Mandrake release. When I boot Microsoft it detects 128
> mb
> > > ram, but when I boot Linux it only detects and _uses_ 64 mb ram. I NEED
> > the
> > > 128 mb because I am using JBuilder foundation for Java development while
> > > working with PostGres (on Linux of course) and JBuilder (with the JRE)
> > eats
> > > lots of RAM.
> > >
> > > My configuration: AMD Athlon 600 Mhz.
> > > 128 MB RAM (like mentioned :-)).
> > > ASUS K7M motherboard.
> > > Matrox G400 Millenium Max.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanx, Kris
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with devices
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:02:11 GMT
A simple user ... a user other than root. You will not be running your
mixer as root, so to test it as root would not be a valid test. Hope this helps.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, billy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tommy
> what should I do after "* Type the command : chmod 666 /dev/mixer"
> what did you mean by " * Test it as simple user" ?......would you
> explain more?
>
> thank you
>
>
>
>
>
> hfrelabo wrote:
>>
>>
>> --------------1E7BD4CD3EA85EAFE2CDEBD7
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding:
>> 7bit
>>
>> billy wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> > I am new to linux and I don`t know much about it. Recently I
> installed
>> > Linux on a AMD K6 II 500,but I can`t play music on my computer. I
>> > have
> my
>> > speakers pluged on the computer already. When I click on the Mixer,
>> > it says"Kmix: could not open mixer." does any body know why? please
>> > more specific...please
>> > thank you so much
>> >
>> > --
>> > Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> * Open a terminal or go to text-mode (Ctrl-Alt-F2 ...)
>> * Login as root
>> * Type the command : chmod 666 /dev/mixer
>> * Test it as simple user
>>
>> Normally, it's OK.
>>
>> Bye.
>>
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>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding:
>> 7bit
>>
>> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
>> <html>
>> billy wrote:
>> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi
>> <br>� I am new to linux and I don`t know much about it. Recently I
>> installed
>> <br>Linux on a AMD K6 II 500,but I can`t play music on my computer. I
> have
>> my
>> <br>speakers pluged on the computer already. When I click on the Mixer,
>> it
>> <br>says"Kmix: could not open mixer." does any body know why? please
>> more
>> <br>specific...please
>> <br>� thank you so much
>> <p>--
>> <br>Posted via CNET Help.com
>> <br><a
>> href="http://www.help.com/">http://www.help.com/</a></blockquote>
>> Hello,
>> <ul>
>> <li>
>> Open a terminal or go to text-mode (Ctrl-Alt-F2 ...)</li>
>>
>> <li>
>> Login as <b>root</b></li>
>>
>> <li>
>> Type the command : <b>chmod 666 /dev/mixer</b></li>
>>
>> <li>
>> Test it as simple user</li>
>> </ul>
>>
>> <p><br>Normally, it's OK.
>> <p>Bye.</html>
>>
>> --------------1E7BD4CD3EA85EAFE2CDEBD7--
>
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question from a Linux wannabe
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:18:11 -0400
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:06:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill)
wrote:
>I have been considering trying to install Linux but the more I read in the NG's for
>linux the more
>apprehensive I become.I ain't no genius and it seems as though there are a lot of
>problems with
>installation and hardware support and all.Is it really worth it?What is so special
>about Linux that
>makes people change over?
[snip]
How much hassle it is does largely depend on your hardware. If you
have a pretty standard PC, eide drive and cdrom, or most anything
scsi, it may install with default settings. It's not something easy
to fix by a general user who isn't used to configuring systems
or isn't willing to read a lot of technical notes to keep things
going. The new installs are much easier though, believe me!
As for the attraction, it's a free multi-user multi-tasking operating
system, as opposed to Windows9x which is single user. For that
reason, and the fact it's modeled on Unix which has been around
a long time, it's pretty rock solid! So, it's kind of like somebody
saying "how would you like a $300 copy of Windows NT Server
free if you just put up with the hassle of getting it working
yourself?"
Also with the internet boom it's a cheap way to have a web server
and/or isp. Many isps out there run on Linux, 'cause as I say, it's
very solid and dependable if you know how to configure and maintain
it. Also as a server it's very fast.
So, you might think of it as ham radio. If you just want to listen
to the radio, go to an electronics store and get a stereo tuner.
If you want to get into short wave, then you might build the
thing yourself or learn something about how radio works.
Same idea.
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to boot
Linux Kernel 2.2.14 ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:28:44 GMT
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:48:02 GMT, Michael Aye
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > My current configuration is:
>> > -Abit BE6 motherboard with a built in HPT366 controll
>> > -18.2 GB Quantum Fireball KA
>> > -The disk is partioned like so:
>> > 1: 2 gb fat 32.
>> > 2: 4 gb fat 32
>> > 3: 16mb ext2 (/boot, this is within the first 1024 cylenders)
>> > 4: 3.8 gb ext2 (/)
>> > 5: 256 swap
>> ^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Please correct me if i am wrong, but i thought, Linux could only handle
>SWAP partitions with size not bigger as 128MB, or is this only valid
>for DEBIAN Linux?
2.2.x kernels with a recent mkswap can handle up to 2G swap partition.
See you mkswap man page and see if it supports this:
In the old style, the rest of this first page was a bit map,
with a 1 bit for each usable page of the swap area. Since the first
page holds this bit map, the first bit is 0. Also, the last 10
bytes hold the signature. So, if the page size is S, an old style swap
area can describe at most 8*(S-10)-1 pages used for swapping. With
S=4096 (as on i386), the useful area is at most 133890048 bytes
(almost 128 MB if you believe in 1 MB=2^20 bytes), and the rest is
wasted. On an alpha and sparc64, with S=8192, the useful area is at
most 535560992 bytes (almost 512 MB with the same proviso).
The old setup wastes most of this bitmap page, because zero bits
denote bad blocks or blocks past the end of the swap space, and a
simple integer suffices to indicate the size of the swap space, while
the bad blocks, if any, can sim� ply be listed. Nobody wants to use a
swap space with hundreds of bad blocks. (I would not even use a swap
space with 1 bad block.) In the new style swap area this is
precisely what is done. The maximum useful size of a swap area now
depends on the architecture. It is roughly 2GB on i386, PPC, m68k,
ARM, 1GB on sparc, 512MB on mips, 128GB on alpha and 3TB on sparc64.
3 TB?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jehsom)
Subject: BP6: Linux hangs on udma66 HD access
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:47:04 GMT
Hi,
Please see if you can help me with this problem. I have contacted many
people about this, but no one seems to know what to do.
I have a 40gb udma66 Maxtor hard drive that I am using as a secondary hard
drive with my BP6 motherboard. It works fine when I connect it to the PIIX
(udma33) controller, but when I connect it to the HPT366 (udma66)
controller, it completely hangs my entire linux system.
I am running linux 2.2.14, with Hedrick's ide.2.2.14.20000124.patch, and
HPT366 support enabled in the kernel. To duplicate the problem, the hard
drive must be mounted in linux. With the hard drive unmounted, I can do:
hdparm -t /dev/hde1
many times, and it is still fine. However, when I mount the hard drive, it
seems to work, but then if I do hdparm -t /dev/hde1 *two* times,
it ALWAYS hangs the system on the 2nd time. I cannot recover even with
Linux's Magic SysRq key. The system will also stall if I do NOT use
hdparm, but it will take longer, because the disk is not being accessed
as intensely as with hdparm.
Then, when I reboot, fsck tries to check /dev/hde1, and the entire system
hangs again. I must move the hard drive to the PIIX controller to boot
successfully. I have even tried disabling all powersave/ACPI features in
BIOS, resetting to setup defaults, and I have flashed to the QQ BIOS
revision.
My system configuration is as follows:
- BP6 with dual 400mhz celerons, NOT overclocked
- 128mb CAS2 Micron SDRAM
- NVidia Riva 128 4mb AGP video card
- 3com 3c905b/TX PCI ethernet card
- Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI ethernet card
- Sound Blaster PCI128 soundcard
- (2) Maxtor 17gb udma33 hard drives (primary master and primary slave)
- Maxtor 27gb udma33 hard drive (secondary master)
- Maxtor 40gb udma66 hard drive (PIIX secondary slave works, HPT366
primary master does not work)
Any suggestions are immensely appreciated. If possible, please reply
to my email address too (remove the spamtrap first though).
Thanks,
Moshe
--
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From: Trevor Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multi-port Tulip config q's
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 01:09:35 GMT
I have a 4 port DEC tulip based PCI ethernet card that I am trying to
configure.
eth0 starts and works correctly. However eth1 to eth3 receive get this
message on startup:
Setting up network device eth1
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
I assume that I need to add some statement in the modules.conf file, but
haven't been able to determine what it is.
Any suggestions ??
Thx
Trevor
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