Linux-Hardware Digest #621, Volume #12 Wed, 5 Apr 00 21:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (Vincent Fox)
Re: about /dev/hdc (Robert Wiegand)
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (Kenneth Mankoff)
Re: Free IBM Power Server 320 (Carl Benson)
Re: Recommend a modem? (Dakshi Agrawal)
Re: Removable-media IDE drives question (Bryan)
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (Daniel Boyle)
NewGuy (Paul Manley)
Gigabyte GA-6BXD problems (mtrr and coppermine) ? (Pierre Willem)
Re: Abit BP6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WINMODEM - Yes OR No ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
REAL hardware issues for the GURU's out there !!! ("silkythreads")
Re: which modem? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: 5 Apr 2000 22:06:21 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kenneth Mankoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hello everyone,
> I live at 10,000 feet and have had all systems newer than a 486DX33Mhz
>computer fail me. Since november, this is:
>* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 latptop motherboards (450Mhz). 2 months to failure
Was it really the motherboard itself?
Or might it have been a CPU failure or something?
>* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 hard drives (12 to 18 gig). 2 months to failure.
This I believe would be directly altitude related. As someone else
points out in another post, get sealed drives (no breather holes).
>* one gateway latop internal modem. 3 days to failure
>* one 200 Mhz (overclocked) Gateway tower (2 days, then writing to zip and
>floppy drive in linux failed)
Possibly just random failures.
Again, what parts failed here exactly? Are you set up
to do parts swaps and find out yourself? Could it be
you have power supplies failing also?
>Running for days (and years):
>486 DX 33Mhz desktop
>286 5Mhz desktop
>
>I know airplane computers have radiation sheilds. I also know i have a 3%
>higher chance of cancer than the average altitude of the global population
>(or maybe it was sea level)
>I'm grasping at straws, but hoping some of you may have experience with
>high altitude computing, or can point me to a resource.
One thing I know for sure. At those increased levels of cosmic radiation
use ECC memory. This should at least cut down on memory errors, if not
help out with the massive systems failures. Radiation is a legitimate
problem in terms of causing errors but I wouldn't think it would
manifest itself as total system death like you imply.
Maybe you are just having bad luck.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: about /dev/hdc
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:58:22 -0500
NT Server wrote:
>
> Help!
> When I was setting the new installed CDRW, I did a stupid thing:
> I removed /dev/hdc.
>
> After installed the CRDW, I got /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/hdc.
> I was told to remove /dev/cdrom1 and do
> ln -sf scd0 /dev/hdc
> That didn't work and /dev/hdc became a link:
> /dev/hdc -> /dev/cdrom1
> I then removed /dev/hdc
>
> Can any one help me to get the /dev/hdc back?
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> Boggy
>
read: "man MAKEDEV"
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kenneth Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:36:52 -0600
>>* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 latptop motherboards (450Mhz). 2 months to failure
>Was it really the motherboard itself?
>Or might it have been a CPU failure or something?
Could have been anything. Didn't post to the OS. Dell said "bad
motherboard" and replaced it. I'm sure they replaced the CPU when they
did the rest, so we'll never know for sure.
>>* 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 hard drives (12 to 18 gig). 2 months to failure.
>This I believe would be directly altitude related. As someone else
>points out in another post, get sealed drives (no breather holes).
Actually, i'm doing a fairly simple test: brought the laptop to lower
levels, and testing it here (5,500 feet lower). I'll know what happens in
a few more minutes.
>>* one gateway latop internal modem. 3 days to failure
>>* one 200 Mhz (overclocked) Gateway tower (2 days, then writing to zip and
>>floppy drive in linux failed)
>Possibly just random failures.
>Again, what parts failed here exactly? Are you set up
>to do parts swaps and find out yourself? Could it be
>you have power supplies failing also?
The internal modem failed on the gateway. It was my sisters, so i didn't
deal with it, we just diagnosed it as that (pcmcia slots worked,
everything else worked), and she went home, and shipped it back to
gateway.
The zip drive and floppy i took out and tried in the 486. They worked.
I put other zips and floppys in the "bad" gateway, they did not work. They
worked in the 486. I swapped the cables connecting the zips/floppys to the
motherboards thinking it was a bad wire on the connecting cables. Still
failed, but only when on the "bad" gw, nothing failing on the 486.
Therefore, safe to say "motherboard".
>Maybe you are just having bad luck.
As i've written to other posts, this is not questionable. This is a fact.
My luck in the past few months have included, in addition to all the
computer failures, multiple broken ribs on multiple occasions, two car
accidents (one due to me, one where someone hit my parked rental car), a
plane sliding off the runway (yes, i was on it), a near bear attack,
turning on a light in a house full of propane, birds flying into my glass
deck windows for no apparent reason and dying (YES, i do have those
stickers), etc... Its really like a hex... So maybe, yes, the computers
are just a part of this.
thanks for the further ideas. Everything everyone has written has been
helpful.
-ken.
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From: Carl Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free IBM Power Server 320
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 14:55:01 -0700
Does the serial number start with 7012?
If so, it's IBM's "POWER" architecture, not Pentium. That was
the predecessor to PowerPC.
If it really is a 7012-320 PowerServer, you may be out of luck.
I just surplused a bunch of those after being told by a used
equipment dealer that they were essentially "boat anchors".
The only OS that I know will run on it is AIX, which is not
free.
If it's not a 7012-320, maybe it's a PowerPC, in which case
you may be able to install Linux on it.
Good luck!
--
Carl Benson
Mike Mikus wrote:
>
> Recently a company donated to our Non-Profit Drug and Rehab center a IBM
> Power Server 320. I am a client here in recovery and also a Linux user off
> and on for the last couple of years. I'd like to try and throw Linux RHAT
> 6.1 on the 320. It was a Novell file server in its last life.
>
> They wiped the disk. It has a IBM 3151 Mono terminal attached to it. No
> video board. And it's Microchannel (yuck!). It has SCSI II support and at
> least 256 meg Memory. It is Pentium based.
>
> I get nothing when I turn it on. No floppy seek or PC beep. Nothing.
>
> Any thoughts or hits would be appreciated.
>
> Thx;
> Mike Mikus
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From: Dakshi Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommend a modem?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:52:25 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Hourigan) writes:
>
>>I would appreciate someone recommending a very good modem
>>that will work with both windows and linux. My current
>>modem is one of those darn win-modems that won't work w/ linux.
>
> Buy an external serial V.90 modem. This one is guaranteed to
> work in any OS that does have support for serial ports...
>
> There is no reason for using internal ones, anyways, since
> they are a royal pain.
>
> Michael
I just bought an internal ActionTec 56K modem ($49). It has 6 pages of description
about how to get it going on Windows and about 6 pages about how to get it going on
Linux. It is a hardware (real) modem.
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Removable-media IDE drives question
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:06:42 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware bolion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu" wrote:
: UDMA 66 won't work and UDMA33 may loose data when using HD drawer.
confirmed for dma66 - it won't work in the disk carriers ('sleds').
dma33 may have to step down to non-dma mode; depends on the cabling and drive.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Boyle)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:07:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:52:53 -0600, "David Rencher"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But that doesn't explain the mother board or modem
>failures. I mean those are just electrical devices with no moving parts to
>air pressure shouldn't affect them (within normal pressure limits.)
Sorry for being pedantic but modems have moving parts. The relay.
If this were sealed then pressure changes outside could cause problems
Posted By Daniel Boyle
Homepage http://usit.shef.ac.uk/~coa99dbb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Manley)
Subject: NewGuy
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:30:15 GMT
I want to set up a server to distribute web bandwidth to other
computers in the lan.
Services? Applications? Packages? Info? Any suggestions on how to
do it?
Also, what is a really cheap modem that works well with slackware,
right out of the box type of deal?
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From: Pierre Willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gigabyte GA-6BXD problems (mtrr and coppermine) ?
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:51:05 +0200
Hi,
I just get a new system :
Motherboard gigabyte ga-6bxd
2*PIII 550E (coppermine)
128 Mb
Diamond A55
3 ethernet d-link dfe-530tx
RH 6.1 / 2.2.12-20smp
Problems ?
1�
During the boot I get the messages :
mtrr : your cpu had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
mtrr : probably your bios does not setup all cpu
2�
/proc/cpuinfo : two cpus are reported but cache=0K
I checked gigabyte web site, the bios, v F2 installed on the
motherboard, is the latest one available supposed to
support coppermine cpus.
Thanks for any help
Pierre.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:48:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> And where is this from? I have built many things with make -j3 and
both
> processors close to 100% and never had a bad build of anything. I have
> had lockups, which is another story altogether. BP6 has problems, but
> this is not one of them in my experience.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
>
You would make me go and look it up. :-)
Well, I found it again:
http://www.nlug.org/smp/
The guys submitting reports there have some
scarey comments, like:
The bios has some serious flaws in it, but the whole package is enough
of
a bargain to make up for it. Running the drives in DMA mode while
driving
both processors above 50% causes the machine to become unstable.
[even at
66MHz FSB]
and
In general, you get a lot of 'bang' for your bucks
with this motherboard from ABIT, it is fast and stable- provided
that peak
loads on both processors simultaneously above about 85% is avoided.
Somehow
it seems that the hardware layout of the board then has not enough
'spare
bandwidth' and data corruption does occur.
That's enough to scare me off.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WINMODEM - Yes OR No ???
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 19:57:11 -0400
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
04/05/2000
at 02:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () said:
>On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:41:28 +0100, S�rgio Alves
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a winmodem - Diamond
>SupraExpress 56i Voice V.90 (Model 2710). >I check on Hardware section of
>Suse and it said:
>>
>>Diamond SupraExpress 56i Voice V.90 (Model 2710) supported
>>
>>But in Linux Mandrake 7.0 i can't configure my modem. Should i get the Suse?
>>there is any possibilities to configure the modem on the Mandrake?
>>
>Nope. You need a real modem.
>All you have a sound card and windoze software to whistle like a modem.
There's no (good) excuse for a WinModem -- even on a Windows-only PC. For
even there the WinModem requires CPU cycles to do what a real modem can do
on it's own.
--
===========================================================
Duane A. Bielling
http://www.datasync.com/~bielling
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt. 6:33; John 3:16; Rom. 8:1
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From: "silkythreads" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: REAL hardware issues for the GURU's out there !!!
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:19:10 GMT
HELP HELP HELP... I've read all the HOWTOS and POSTINGS
I could find, I cannot solve this problem and will not
willingly resign myself to booting from a floppy disk forever!!!
This is long; so please bear with me, the answers I get may help
alot of us who are not so well versed in the hardware and software
aspects of Mandrake Linux.
I want LINUX on sda and to have the kernel and such all on sda.
"And such" to reside in the MBR of sda. "Not on hda or anywhere else"
I currently have Air (7.02) installed on sda using the whole drive.
I told lilo to install into /boot (sda1) and root is (sda5)
My REAL FIRST concern is running "lilo" at bootup and it finding
sda1 (/boot) and sda5 (/) and of course, hda (W98). This drive
(sda) is not mapped in such a way that lilo can find it. I even
tried to run loadlin from windows and all seemed okay UNTIL....
this error popped up :
request_module [block-major-8] rootFS not mounted
cannot open root device 08:05
KERNEL PANIC: VFS Unable to mount rootFS on 08:05
Now, I'm not in the know on these things but...
I think 05 is the partition where root resides
and the only place I can find that "8" is the "offset"
for my SCSI harddrive - sda. (Whatever "offset" is ??
like a device name ??)
(( And why is Mandrake's vmlinuz /kernel not the 1mb size that most
other linux versions are ??? ))
Before anybody yells too loud, my BIOS says it can boot SCSI
but lilo keeps refusing to cooperate.
AND...I have 2 drives on ide1 getting mapped twice; first as hdc & hdd
and then as sdb & sr1 but fstab/mtab and the /dev links are never updated.
So the drives never work. BUT ... that later..........
********************************************************************
I have the following hardware configuration :
Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk
Detected 601377016 Hz Pentium-III processor.
Memory: 256MB RAM ****(LINUX only see's 64MB when booting from floppy)
Pentium-III serial number disabled.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
hda: Maxtor 91360D8, ATA DISK drive 12970MB
hdb: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F, 32X DVD-ROM drive
hdc: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
(scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS Rev: 1.02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A [4134 MB] [4.1 GB]
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
Creative SBLive! detected
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xd400, 00:A0:CC:57:0D:AD, IRQ 10.
eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:3E:24:6F, IRQ 11.
So, I have 3 cdroms (scsi-cdrom,DVD,CDRW), 1 floppy, 1 LS-120, 1 scsi hd,
1 ide hd, 1 SBLive, 2 128MB 168pin DIMM chips, and 1 600MHZ PIII cpu.
and (just to get it all listed) 1 Canon MultiPASS C3500
printer/scanner/fax/copier,
1 4port USB HUB and 1 AcerPRISA USB scanner, and running a cable modem.
********************************************************************
This is my "WISH" lilo.conf but it's never been used because I haven't
been able to boot from the harddrive and don't know if any errors exist
in this ..... BUT my boot floppy; needless to say, WORKS.
boot = /dev/sda1
delay = 50
timeout = 20
prompt
message = /boot/message
default = linux
vga = normal
root = /dev/sda5
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
keytable=/boot/us.klt
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = linux
append = "mem=256M hdd=ide-scsi"
initrd = /boot/initrd.img
other = /dev/hda1
label = W98
table=/dev/hda
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
other = /dev/fd0
label = floppy
unsafe
********************************************************************
This is my fstab (and it has some problems with my cdroms and LS120
but I'll work on those later ! hda, sda and floppy drives work)
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 2
/dev/sda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda9 /usr/src ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda10 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda11 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda12 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda13 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/DOS_hda7 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/DOS_hda8 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/dev/hda9 /mnt/DOS_hda9 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
/mnt/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom3 0 0
********************************************************************
This is my conf.modules (Do I need pcmcia stuff installed ??)
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
alias eth0 tulip
alias eth1 tulip
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ide-scsi
alias sound emu10k1
post-install supermount modprobe scsi_hostadapter ; modprobe
scsi_hostadapter1
********************************************************************
This is my HWCONF (My printer and USB devices are missing !!)
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: ignore
desc: "Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 7190
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: ignore
desc: "Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 7191
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ISA"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 7110
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 IDE"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 7111
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: usb-uhci
desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 USB"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 7112
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ACPI"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 7113
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick)"
vendorId: 1102
deviceId: 7002
-
class: OTHER
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "Sigma Designs, Inc.|REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD Decoder"
vendorId: 1105
deviceId: 8300
-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: tulip
desc: "Lite-On|LNE100TX"
vendorId: 11ad
deviceId: 0002
-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: tulip
desc: "Lite-On|LNE100TX"
vendorId: 11ad
deviceId: 0002
-
class: SCSI
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: aic7xxx
desc: "Adaptec|AIC-7881U"
vendorId: 9004
deviceId: 8178
-
class: VIDEO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: Card:RIVA TNT2
desc: "Nvidia Corporation|Riva TNT2"
vendorId: 10de
deviceId: 0028
-
class: AUDIO
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: emu10k1
desc: "Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio)"
vendorId: 1102
deviceId: 0002
-
class: MOUSE
bus: PSAUX
detached: 0
device: psaux
driver: ignore
desc: "Generic PS/2 Mouse"
-
class: CDROM
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdb
driver: ignore
desc: "SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F"
-
class: CDROM
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdd
driver: ignore
desc: "HP CD-Writer+ 7200"
-
class: CDROM
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: scd0
driver: ignore
desc: "Plextor CD-ROM PX-32TS"
host: 0
id: 5
channel: 0
lun: 0
-
class: CDROM
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: scd1
driver: ignore
desc: "Hp CD-Writer+ 7200"
host: 1
id: 1
channel: 0
lun: 0
-
class: FLOPPY
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdc
driver: ignore
desc: "LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy"
-
class: HD
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hda
driver: ignore
desc: "Maxtor 91360D8"
physical: 26353/16/63
logical: 1653/255/63
-
class: HD
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: sda
driver: ignore
desc: "Ibm DCAS-34330W"
host: 0
id: 6
channel: 0
lun: 0
-
class: HD
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: sdb
driver: ignore
desc: "Mitbishi LS-120 COSM 05"
host: 1
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
********************************************************************
This is the output from dmesg when I boot from my floppy.
There are some errors and error messages in this.
Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000
relocating initrd image:
initrd_start:0xc0faa000 initrd_end:0xc0fff939
mem_start:0xc026d000 mem_end:0xc40f0000
initrd_size:0x00055939 dest:0xc409a000
Detected 601377016 Hz processor.
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 599.65 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63632k/66496k available (1092k kernel code, 416k reserved, 948k
data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Pentium-III serial number disabled.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 91360D8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 91360D8, 12970MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1653/255/63
hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 1325.499 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1386.840 MB/sec
8regs : 1078.230 MB/sec
32regs : 566.547 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (1386.840 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 15/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
(scsi0) during machine bootup.
(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO)
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.21/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS Rev: 1.02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1 GB]
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 sda13 >
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1)
Creative SBLive! detected
hdc:<3>ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
unable to read partition table
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: MITBISHI Model: LS-120 COSM 05 Rev: 0512
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 246528 [120 MB] [0.1 GB]
sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
sdb:SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000000
[valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:10: sense key Illegal Request
Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
unable to read partition table
tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xd400, 00:A0:CC:57:0D:AD, IRQ 10.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:3E:24:6F, IRQ 11.
eth1: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
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Thanks a million for any assistance I can get to resolve these issues
and the few more to come in the future !!!!
--
Donna Williams
Software Test Engineer
General Dynamics
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:22:05 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: which modem?
I recently purchase a "Zoom/Fax Modem, internal ISA, 56K dualmode,
Model:2919, Lucent chip" and works great for Linux and win98.
Aydin
Mark Lenigan wrote:
>
> I'm running Slack 7 also. If you're looking for a 56k modem, I had good
> luck with the Jaton Modulator 56k (V.90) modem. Check out www.jaton.com
> for more info. I bought mine at a local store for around US$60.
>
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, it was written:
>
> > You could use what some Linux hard die fans call real modems opposed to the
> > winmodem.
> >
> > "Rev. Reverse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > i got an IBM 486 desktop machine at an auction for two
> > > dollars. it doesn't have a modem, so i am wondering which one i
> > > should get.
> > >
> > > i am planning on running slack 7 (if that makes any difference).
> > >
> > > Rev. Reverse
> > >
> >
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