Linux-Hardware Digest #624, Volume #12 Thu, 6 Apr 00 03:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160 ("D. Stimits")
Re: Abit BP6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Parallel port does not detect printer ("Russell")
Re: help with apcupsd (Michael Meissner)
Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ? ("Mathias Fryksten")
triple BOOT problems. (Den Zoner)
How to change network cards? (Lord Petrosky)
Re: Exabyte problems -- please help (hac)
Adding a second harddrive (Dominik)
Re: Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ? (Steffen Kluge)
MPEG-1 encoding ("Sumeet Parmar")
Re: Frustrated with IPMasqurade and Firewall (mike)
Optra 40..Help to order (Matthias Mulumba LUMALA)
Re: high altitude modern systems performance ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Gigabyte GA-6BXD problems (mtrr and coppermine) ? ("Bobby Hitt")
Re: Conflict with Microsoft intelligent Mouse and Microsoft Natural (Sven Bovin)
Re: LaserJet 3150 (Sven Bovin)
Re: Abit BP6 ("Robert W. Cunningham")
Re: NMC-7VAX Mainboard+Sound on board not working (Wolfgang Mueller)
Re: Gigabyte GA-6BXD problems (mtrr and coppermine) ? (Pierre Willem)
Re: Abit BP6 (Paul Nelson)
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 22:10:32 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Does anyone know whether Red Hat 6.2 has support for this SCSI
> controller: Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160? I read a press release that
> indicates that Linux these type of controllers but was not specific.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kent
>
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> Before you buy.
I have also heard vague mention of this, but was interested in finding
out for certain (I was actually looking at the 29160). This card does
require a 64 bit PCI slot, so there are not a lot of motherboards
around that can handle it (some are listed, but never in stock, using
the i840 chipset). The supermicro PIIIDM series has some that can
handle it, but the PIIIDM3 and 6 already have the chip onboard;
unfortunately, they are not available. The PIIIDM6 probably won't be
out till at least July. Doug Ledford at Redhat probably knows, but so
far I've been unable to reach him.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:18:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:48:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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.
> >>
> >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]
>
> I've read enough. These are just user comments. Box of chocolates.
Never
> know what you are going to get next. Just like usenet, I would take
> everything with a grain of salt. This guy is not so smart. Running a
> 2.2.12 kernel (many fixes since then and I know this is a while back),
> SMP1.1 should be MPS1.1 and OC'd 400->570. Instability when OC'd only
> proves it is not stable when OC'd. Does not prove it is unstable when
> not OC'd.
>
> Now, my advice is if you need something really, rock solid reliable
from
> the git-go, or don't want to spend time sorting stuff out, get another
> board for sure. If you want inexpensive SMP, get this board, but be
> prepared to spend some time getting the (potential) kinks worked out.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
>
I hear you brother. I do want something rock solid, able to be
maxed 24/7, as another processor on my home office network, running
totally CPU-intensive stuff. But I'm not afraid of the software,
or of having to sort things out;
been an assembly-language programmer and motherboard hand-builder
since before there were
"personal computers". But alas, I cannot fix what is inside
the chips....
So now I have a quandry: to believe the people who report no
problems, or to believe the ones who do. And yes, there is far
too little information there to figure out what each guy actually
did with his system.
Yup, Forest Gump's mother strikes again.
And I guess now, the answer is that there is no easy answer.
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From: "Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parallel port does not detect printer
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:34:15 +1000
Parallel port is not been detected in RH6.1, what can i do to resolve this
problem, what I've done so far is created a line in the /ect/conf.modules
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc. this has made no difference to the
printtool util.
what is needed to get the parallel port to be recognized
thanks in advanced
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Subject: Re: help with apcupsd
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Apr 2000 00:57:21 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Willcox) writes:
> This is what I've been using on my Redhat box, and it has done what
> needed to be done upon power failure, but I never have been able to
> get xpowerchute (the GUI) to work right.
One trick is to actually chdir into the directory xpowerchute is in before
executing it.
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From: "Mathias Fryksten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 07:03:25 +0200
I have found an old SparcStation IPX and would like to install linux on it.
Is this possible, and if how do I do it ?. Does any1 got a howto for this ?
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From: Den Zoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: triple BOOT problems.
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:13:46 -0700
I cant seem to figure it out, I have 2 drives. Disk One with 2 fat32
partitions. I'm trying to partition drv 2 with 1 linux part, 1 linux
swap and 1 Be. How should I set it up???
I want One boot loader, i tried Lilo and Bootman, both seem to get
currupt.
Thanks
Den
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From: Lord Petrosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to change network cards?
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 04:57:25 GMT
hi,
ever since using linux i always installed my cards during system
installation (and prayed that the driver was there). but how does one
change cards after system installation? and what if the driver is not
in the system files?
tia,
LP
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Exabyte problems -- please help
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 05:28:51 GMT
Stephen Griffiths wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> A couple of weeks ago I asked a question about reading a sun tar exabyte
> tape on my linux box. Thanks to all who helped -- problem solved. I
> set the block size to 0 using the mt command "mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk
> 0". Now I can read my old tapes.
>
> Other problems: (It never seems to end......)
> I can not get linux to set my tape drive as an EXB-8505. I have tried
> setting the density using "mt -f /dev/nst0 setdens 0x8c", but then an mt
> status command tells me that the density is set to default 0x0. I have
> also tried "mt -f /dev/nst0 setdens 140" -- no luck. When I boot, linux
> sniffs the scsi chain and finds the tape drive and reports it as an
> 8505. Without doing anything mt status reports a density of 0x90 and I
> can write about 5gigs to a 112m tape (8200 specs). Any ideas?
>
Since I only get about 2.5GB on my 8200, 5GB sounds right for an 8505
without compression. Are you sure about those specs?
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From: Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding a second harddrive
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 05:30:05 GMT
Hi All.
I'm running RH6.0 with 9.1 UW SCSI Harddrive. I am adding another
harddrive that's IDE.
How is this done with fdisk?
Thanks in advance!
Dominik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ?
Date: 6 Apr 2000 04:16:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8ch5op$17ku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mathias Fryksten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have found an old SparcStation IPX and would like to install linux on it.
>Is this possible, and if how do I do it ?. Does any1 got a howto for this ?
You could just get RH6.2 for SPARC and install it. That's what
I'm doing to an IPC right now. Either get a CDROM or download
the stuff. There will be a number of floppy images in the images
directory. Get boot32.img, put it on a floppy and boot the IPX
from it. The usual RedHat installer will come up.
Good luck
Steffen.
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Reply-To: "Sumeet Parmar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Sumeet Parmar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: MPEG-1 encoding
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 00:38:31 -0500
Linux Gurus,
I'm trying to build an MPEG-1 encoding system using a PowerPC (7300/180) and
some off the shelf
MPEG-1 (cheap for the moment) encoding card. Unfortunately the only one I
have been able to find
is the ATI All-in-wonder 128, which is an overkill and expensive too. Any
pointers in that direction
is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Sumeet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Frustrated with IPMasqurade and Firewall
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:07:29 GMT
You could also try linux-firewall-tools.com. It will build you a
firewall step by step.
mike
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 03:08:06 GMT, Ahmed Abukmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
> I have been working on this for a few weeks, I read the NET-3-HOWTO,
>the IP-Masquerade HOWTO, and the IPCHAINS-HOWTO, and they did nothing
>but confuse me beyond belief. I am trying to network a laptop running RH
>5.1 and a PC running 6.0 both to the internet.
>
>The PC has two ethernet cards one is getting an IP address via dhcp
>using my cable modem, and the other is going to a HUB. The laptop has a
>Linksys ethernet card connected to the HUB as well, I can get the two
>PC's to talk to each other. But I have no success getting either
>ipchains, ipmasqurade to work.
>
>I even tried to download a proxy server (squid) and that didn't work
>either, it keeps saying that access is denied from the web.... Help Help
>Help.... I am a bit frustrated right now, so any pointers would greatly
>be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Ahmed
>
>
>
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From: Matthias Mulumba LUMALA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Optra 40..Help to order
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:02:23 +0200
Hi,
I'm looking for a US resident who will order an Optra 40 Color
printer on my behalf at Buy.com's Clearance Sale. I stay in France. I
tried to place the order myself but only to find out that the goods they
sell online are only deliverable at a US address! Nor do they accept
payments from abroad for delivery in the US.
I really need this printer as it seems to be the only Inkjet postscript
printer at such a low price.(currently selling at some $85). Here in
France Lexmark offers an Optra 45n at $700, which I cannot afford!
If anyone is willing to help then email me at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You order the printer, get it delivered to your home (shipment is free),
then reship it to me thru UPS or other carrier. You give me the total
cost and I'll send you the money before reshipment, trust me. I can as
much as $200. Low cost shipment that may take even 2 months is no
problem. I can wait, the important thing being to have it some place
before the stock is over. There are still > 300 Optra's in stock but it
won't take long before they are sold out!
Thanks to those who reply. Here's my email address
again:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthias
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Date: 5 Apr 2000 22:40:40 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Daniel Boyle;
DB> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:52:53 -0600, "David Rencher"
DB> <[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.)
DB> Sorry for being pedantic but modems have moving parts. The relay.
DB> If this were sealed then pressure changes outside could cause
DB> problems
I can guarantee you that the relays used in any modem are not sealed.
Dust covered, with the cover glued on even, but not sealed.
As I wrote in a previous post, this posters problems are heat related,
brought on by the relatively poor cooling available from air at that
altitude.
DB> Posted By Daniel Boyle
DB> Homepage http://usit.shef.ac.uk/~coa99dbb
DB> Remove GOAWAYEVILSPAMMER to reply
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gigabyte GA-6BXD problems (mtrr and coppermine) ?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 02:24:05 -0400
Pierre,
I have the same board, only I'm using Celeron 500 CPU's. I get the same MTRR
messages, but /proc/cpuinfo reports the correct cache.
FYI.
Bobby
"Pierre Willem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Conflict with Microsoft intelligent Mouse and Microsoft Natural
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:24:45 +0100
Johnny Chan wrote:
>
> I have Microsoft Intelligent Mouse(PS/2) and Microsoft Natural
> Keyboard(PS/2). There are two PS/2 port on my ASUS P3B Motherboard. However,
> I found that the two hardwares would be conflicted with each other and this
> could lock up my linux system.
> Does anyone know if I cannot use the two hardwares with same
> interface(PS/2). There is no problem when I use mouse with com port.
Are you sure you have put the mouse in the `mouse-PS/2 port'
and the keyboard in the `keyboard port' ? I'm asking
because only a few weeks ago, I made the mistake of putting
the mouse and keyboard in the wrong connectors, and it gives
all sorts of weird effects (keyboard lights flashing when
one touches the mouse, Windows not seeing the mouse, ...).
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From: Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LaserJet 3150
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:32:03 +0100
Ed Falis wrote:
>
> I have one of these connected directly to the parallel port of my PC.
> Printtool detects that it's there. But attempts to print the test
> ascii files to both the print queue and directly to the port give no
> result. Anyone have any experience with this model?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Ed
On the HP website, the technical specifications tell this
printer is a `Windows GDI, PCL 4, MS-DOS emulation',
whatever this means. If they mean GDI with PCL4 emulation
through software, I'm afraid it's a Winprinter (comments
from the experts ?).
Sven
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labo kwantumchemie |IJzerenmolenstr 26|
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B-3001 HEVERLEE |B-3001 HEVERLEE |B-2370 ARENDONK
Belgium | Belgium |Belgium
tel +32(0)16 327380| |tel +32(0)14 678310
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From: "Robert W. Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:35:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So now I have a quandry: to believe the people who report no
> problems, or to believe the ones who do. And yes, there is far
> too little information there to figure out what each guy actually
> did with his system.
> Yup, Forest Gump's mother strikes again.
>
> And I guess now, the answer is that there is no easy answer.
Well, there are such things as contingency plans. I'm chomping at the bit
to get a BP6 this month, and I'm planning on selling to a friend for $100
less than I paid if I'm not happy with it. He's using NT4, so he's used to
the occasional BSOD, and he'd *really* like to get the hardware cheap if he
can... For $100 off, he can afford to use it as a uniprocessor mobo.
He's almost ready to sign off on the deal (I hope). And for me, I feel the
risk of failure is worth $100 against the risk of success. To put it
differently, I'd rather blow $100 for the chance to try now, rather than
wait until more dual-370 mobos hit the market and receive *ANY* low-level
Linux support (what, 3 to 6 months?).
Plus, selling for as little as US$130, the BP6 doesn't cost much more than
many uni-processor mobos.
-BobC
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From: Wolfgang Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NMC-7VAX Mainboard+Sound on board not working
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:53:04 +0200
Hi Martin,
I had the same problems until I used ALSA.
I got the sources from www.alsa-project.org, compiled and installed them
and than the on-board sound worked fine.
HTH,
Wolfgang
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From: Pierre Willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gigabyte GA-6BXD problems (mtrr and coppermine) ?
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:06:16 +0200
Bobby,
Thanks for this input.
I tried to find out the meaning of the MTRR stuff yesterday evening. Seems that
it is related to write caching but I don't know if it concern "standard memory"
or "io memory" or both. I would like to know if the message is related to cpu,
bios,pci or memory.
Regarding the cache size reported in proc, I found several entries in this
newsgroup but no one gives a definitive answer.
Summary of what I red :
- Normal behaviour as the cache size reported in /proc/cpuinfo is related to
external L2 cache ?? (Sounds strange to me)
- Fixed with 2.2.14 or 2.3.x
Pierre.
Bobby Hitt wrote:
> Pierre,
>
> I have the same board, only I'm using Celeron 500 CPU's. I get the same MTRR
> messages, but /proc/cpuinfo reports the correct cache.
>
> FYI.
>
> Bobby
>
> "Pierre Willem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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: Paul Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:08:36 -0700
"Robert W. Cunningham" wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > So now I have a quandry: to believe the people who report no
> > problems, or to believe the ones who do. And yes, there is far
> > too little information there to figure out what each guy actually
> > did with his system.
> > Yup, Forest Gump's mother strikes again.
> >
> > And I guess now, the answer is that there is no easy answer.
>
We're using the BP6 with two Celeron 400s as our main school server. During
the first month of use it experienced the same kind of lockups the first post
in this thread mentioned. After searching posts for "SMP and lockups" we
finally found folks reporting this kind of problem when APM settings were
enabled. We turned these off in the CMOS and have been trouble free for about
6 months now. Our only down time was once when the power went off.
Note that the same lockups were happening to a dual ppro server we had.
Turning off APM on that machine cured it too.
The BP6 has been quietly doing it's job, I don't even think about it any more
except when I read posts like this.
;-) Paul
BTW, we're running a stock RH6.1 with just the normal updates. 150 PC's and
Macs, web & mail services.
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