Linux-Hardware Digest #668, Volume #12 Wed, 12 Apr 00 09:13:11 EDT
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Re: Adaptec ADP1505A and Linux RH6.1 SCSI (IgoR)
Tekram DC-395 ("Max S. Ivanov")
acard scsi for acerscan aec671x driver does kernel panic (2.2.14) (Michael Will)
hardware drivers for lexmark 3200 !! (STEVENS CHRISTOPH)
Re: SCSI Reset with Adaptec AIC-7880 and SMP (Taurus)
Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors? (Marcel Nihon)
Re: Idea !!! (Josef Moellers)
Re: trio 3D et suse 6.4 ("Thomas E. Haynes")
Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors? ("Bobby Hitt")
Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work? (Jim Bisnett)
Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work? (Jim Bisnett)
Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 "PnP" ("Ferry van Steen")
Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors? (Keith)
Re: eepro100 ISA ethernet card - help (Sander Grendelman)
Re: Dual proc with 2 dimm's is unstable ("hugo hallqvist")
Setup Linux on Rage Fury ( Pro ):Use "ChipId ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Ultrastar LVD drives with AMI Megaraid 428 card ? (Rohan Oberoi)
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From: IgoR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec ADP1505A and Linux RH6.1 SCSI
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 02:03:44 -0700
My SCSI card works now. How did I do it ?
A) with pnpdump I have created a file /etc/isapnp.conf
B) in that file I have enabled/changed the following lines
from
# (IO 0 (SIZE 32) (BASE 0x0340) (CHECK))
# IRQ 9, 10, 11 or 12.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
# (INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
# End dependent functions
(NAME "ADP1505/849934698[0]{SCSI Controller }")
#(ACT Y)
to
(IO 0 (SIZE 32) (BASE 0x0340) (CHECK))
# IRQ 9, 10, 11 or 12.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
# End dependent functions
(NAME "ADP1505/849934698[0]{SCSI Controller }")
(ACT Y)
C) I did run /sbin/isapnp manually for the first time
( it is done automagicaly after you reboot the computer)
D) I did run /sbin/modprobe manually for the first time
/sbin/modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,1
E) I have added to /etc/rc.d/rc.local the following lines
( please pay attention to the 'dot' at the beginning if the line )
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
action "" modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,1
I am running RH6.2 right now. It works as a champ.
I am able to burn my CDs without any problem.
Igor
John Hill wrote:
> IgoR wrote:
> >
> > I would like to use my SCSI CDWR on my Linux box
> > ( stock RH6.1 kernel 2.2.12-20 ).
> > More than a week I am trying to make my SCSI card running.
> > I have Adaptec AHA1505A card. It is an ISA card.
> > It does not matter what I do , I am not able to load module
> > for this card. I am always getting the following
> > message:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource
> > busy
>
> I get the same error trying to install an AHA-2930CU in a RH5.1 box I
> have upgraded to the 2.0.38 kernel. I already have an IDE CDRW working
> in this box, but I cannot get the
> actual SCSI adapter past the Device or resource busy message. I know
> the card is OK, because I have it working under DOS, but I've tried a
> lot of kernel and module settings and nothing works. I think we should
> try posting to a kernel newsgroup, maybe those folks can tell us who
> init_module is...
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From: "Max S. Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tekram DC-395
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:30:08 +0400
Hello All!
After installation of RH6.0 on my computer with TekRam 395 SCSI
controller I began to receive kernel messages such as "<6>Arbitrarion
Lost but Reselection win ............." (while copying large files) and
"EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeng blocks not in
datazone - block XXXXXXXXX, count - 1" (while deletition)
Whats matter? Help me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Will)
Subject: acard scsi for acerscan aec671x driver does kernel panic (2.2.14)
Date: 12 Apr 2000 09:11:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got a second scsi card that came with my AcerScan 620S scanner. It is
recognized by linux kernel 2.2.14 as an acard aec671x. It reports the
scanner all right, but when I try to access it via
"scanimage -d snapscan:/dev/sg3", the driver runs into a
kernel panic with message "Fooooood fight!".
I have located the message in the driver source in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/atp870u.c and it has to do with
determining the transfer size length of something:
(sgpnt[i].length == 0) condition.
Why would it be zero? And what can I change for it to work?
A simple scanning for scanners works all right:
find-scanner: found scanner "Color FlatbedScanner_9 0117" at device /dev/sg3
only when I try to do a scanimage, it screws up.
I have included 5 sections of logfile output and kernel source snipplet at the
end of the email.
Any hint on what I could do to fix it would be welcome,
I already tried commenting out the panic, but then scanimage does die with
a floatpoint error. The scanner never moves. (But of course it works fine under
win98)
Michael Will
I) Here messages syslog recorded when the kernel module was loaded:
kernel 2.2.14 scsi driver acard aec-671x version 2.0+ac
aec671x_detect:
ACARD AEC-671X PCI Ultra/W SCSI-3 Host Adapter: 0 IO:b800, IRQ:9.
ID: 1 Color FlatbedScanner_90117
ID: 7 Host Adapter
scsi1 : ACARD AEC-6710/6712 PCI Ultra/W SCSI-3 Adapter Driver V2.0+ac
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: Color Model: FlatbedScanner_9 Rev: 0117
Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi generic sgd at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
II) here output from the proc filesystem
ACARD AEC-671X Driver Version: 2.0+ac
Adapter Configuration:
Base IO: 0xb800
IRQ: 9
III) here output of the find-scanner (from sane package)
find-scanner: found scanner "Color FlatbedScanner_9 0117" at device /dev/sg3
find-scanner: found scanner "Color FlatbedScanner_9 0117" at device /dev/sgd
IV) here output of the crashing command scanimage
scanimage -d snapscan:/dev/sgd now makes linux freeze with a funny message:
Kernel panic: Fooooooood fight!
V) here code + little description
I looked into /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/atp870u.c and it does seem to
get into panic when trying to figure out the transfer size. What can I change
for it to work? What exactly goes wrong here?
/*
* Figure out the transfer size
*/
if (workrequ->use_sg)
{
l = 0;
sgpnt = (struct scatterlist *) workrequ->request_buffer;
for (i = 0; i < workrequ->use_sg; i++)
{
if (sgpnt[i].length == 0 || workrequ->use_sg > ATP870U_SCATTER)
{
panic("Foooooooood fight!");
}
l += sgpnt[i].length;
}
} else {
l = workrequ->request_bufflen;
}
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From: STEVENS CHRISTOPH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hardware drivers for lexmark 3200 !!
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:19:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there someone running this printer unther linux ..
if you do so , where can i find the drivers ?? please
and they ain't sure as hell on the manufacturar's page & neither on
www.LinDrivers.com!!
thanks beforehand ..
vinyl
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From: Taurus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Reset with Adaptec AIC-7880 and SMP
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:22:24 GMT
Hans Utz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We use a Tyan Dual S1662D board and an Adaptec 2940 AU. AIC-78xx.
Also,
> the board boots without SMP support but not with SMP support enabled.
> The curious thing is, that the same Kernel (exchanged the hole hard
> disk) works fine with a dual Pentium II board, and the same Adaptec
> controller.
I managed to get hold of Doug Ledford, he pointed me at the "noapic"
option, which fixed the problem outright.
> But what DID do better, was pluging the SCSI-card into another
PCI-slot.
> (???) Since you use an on board adapter this doesn't seem to be a
> option. But it might encourage you to search for a bios update or try
> fidling with the placement of the other PCI cards. If you have access
to
> another SCSI-Adapter you might give it a try, too.
Bit hard that one - it's an on-board SCSI adapter... anyway problem's
solved now - hopefully yours is too ;-)
Cheers,
T.
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From: Marcel Nihon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:15:13 +0200
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Hi,
Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
Is there recommendations on the choice of the motherboard?
Tkanks in advance,
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From: Josef Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea !!!
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:55:10 +0200
Mark Graybill wrote:
> The ideal is to develop a standard API for devices access. Port the
> underlying assembly that's specific to a platform, then the device comp=
anies
> has to only write one driver to the standard API for all platforms
> (including loading, chaining, and I/O control.) If I could freeze tim=
e I
> would do this myself.
This is called UDI (Universal Driver Interface).
I guess, it won't be in the interest of everyone involved to support
this concept.
-- =
Josef M=F6llers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
SHV Server DS 1
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From: "Thomas E. Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trio 3D et suse 6.4
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:31:14 GMT
"lem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8d02f6$2oth$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed suse 6.4 on my PC and I didn't find any working
> configuration for my video card
> I 'm using XF86config.
> I tryed all possibilities ( with XF86_SVGA & XF86VGA16 ) each time i start
X
> I got a Black screen
> I tryed also XF_86_S3 but it is not recognised .
Go to YAST/Choose install packages/Change create configuration/xsrv
Make sure the appropriate server is installed (might be s3virge, but I don't
have either SuSE 6.4 or this video card, so I am guessing).
If you have the correct server installed then I suspect sax will configure X
for you.
Regards... Tom
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this card ?
> Are their many models of such card ?
> Should I buy another video card to use linux ?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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From: "Bobby Hitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:19:40 -0400
Absolutely! I've been doing this for a couple years with different servers.
ASUS and Gigabyte both make excellent products, as does Tyan. I've used all
three with excellent results.
Bobby
"Marcel Nihon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi,
Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
Is there recommendations on the choice of the motherboard?
Tkanks in advance,
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Marcel Nihon
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From: Jim Bisnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:45:03 GMT
I have owned a plextor scsi cdrom for a long time. It has worked well. So I
thought I would give the brand another try. They are well known in the scsi
area.
Jim
"John Q. Lalas" wrote:
> Jim Bisnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I am looking to build a system with a plextor 8/4/32 cdrw. Will this
> : work under linux? Will it see the ide cdrom at least? Will I be able to
> : burn a cd under linux??
>
> According to linux.com, it is usable under 2.2.14 and will burn
> cd pretty fast.
>
> Let me ask you this, I was looking at the plextor, Sony Spressa 8/4/32, and
> the Yamaha 8/4/24, why did you choose the plextor? The three seem to be
> pretty good.
>
> --
> c ya,
>
> John Q. Lalas, Jr.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jim Bisnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Will a plextor ide cdrw 8/4/32 work?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:47:40 GMT
What I meant to say was will I be able to install software from a cd if this is my
only cdrom.
Why would I think it will not work.... Alot of stuff does not work in linux. It
depends on how cooperative the company is with the open source thing. Plus linux
was not listed on the spec sheet I was looking at. (even thought three other
unix's were)
Jim
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:50:45 GMT, Jim Bisnett
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I am looking to build a system with a plextor 8/4/32 cdrw. Will this
> >work under linux? Will it see the ide cdrom at least? Will I be able to
> >burn a cd under linux??
>
> Yes, it will work. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
> for more info. What made you think it *wouldn't* work?
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: "Ferry van Steen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 "PnP"
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:21:18 +0200
Hey there,
I've got an Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 ISA "PnP" soundcard in my system and
compiled all the sound modules. In the help files it said most Galaxy 16
cards weren't actually pnp but they would work with a rom that remembered
the addresses so it would be just like jumpers... Now when I try to modprobe
sgalaxy.o I get an error device or resource busy and this is the only error
it gives me...
Anyone got any experience with this type of card or does anyone know of a
possible solution for this prob?
Kind regards,
Ferry van Steen
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From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:26:48 GMT
SMP support is greatly improved in the recent kernels, so go for a
recent distribution. IIRC Redhat includes the SMP kernel as an option
in their installation. Some other distributions require you to build a
new kernel with SMP enabled before they will use two processors.
Where motherboards are concerned, I'm running a Gigabyte BXDS in my
home machine, but if I were building one professionally I would
probably go for one of the Asus boards.
Just my preferences,
Keith.
P.S. Your mailer is including an HTLM duplicate at the end of your
message. I suggest you turn that feature off for newsgroup postings.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marcel Nihon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hi,
> Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
> Is there recommendations on the choice of the motherboard?
> Tkanks in advance,
>
> --
> Marcel Nihon
>
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From: Sander Grendelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eepro100 ISA ethernet card - help
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:33:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> After many years of faultless service I decided to update my linux
> box from RH4.x to SuSE 6.3 - hmmm
>
> I don't appear to be able to get the configuration software (yast) to
> find my network card - a eepro100 ISA...
>
> I've selected the appropriate card from the config program, but to no
> avail (device busy etc etc). Can anybody help ?
>
> Under Window$, the card run's fine with settings 0x300 IRQ 5... Do
> I have to place the in the config? Do I have to put the ethernet
> address somewhere? Any help would be appreciated!
>
In the old YaST ( config program for Suse ) which should still be there
You should select:
System Administration --> Integrate Hardware into System --> Configure
Networking Device
There you should be able to select the card from the menu, you should
also be able to
input some options for the module there if the card's fixed at 0x300 and
irq 0x5 then you should
place:
io=0x300 irq=5
there
Select OK, and exit yast,
type
rcnetwork start
at the prompt
Your Card should be recognised
further options can be selected in Yast:
System Administration --> Network Configuration
If the card is isa-pnp then you should send another mail so I can
explain that ;-)
I hope this will help,
Sander Grendelman
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From: "hugo hallqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual proc with 2 dimm's is unstable
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:40:49 +0200
> Hello, I have an dual CPU computer with 2 128Mb dimm's.
> At first the computer looked verry stable, but now it hangs after a certan
> periode of time.
>
> I thing it has to do with using the 2nd dimm.
>
> sugesitons?
I'll tell you my story with the ABit BP6 and a newly bought 128 MB PC133
module. At first, when Installed in the computer together with 1 32 Mb and 1
64 Mb module everything went fine. Ok, some random crashes in win98, but hey
what did I expect from it..? ;-)
Next day, booting up computer. Trying to install win2k. Install hangs after
a few minutes... Over and over again, but every time at different places.. I
think it has to do with the bad dimm.. I took out the other two old modules,
and placed the newly bought module in dimmslot 1.. No boot, long lasting
beeps from speaker.. Takes out the memory.. Put in the other modules, which
I thought was good.. No boot, same error message. I took the computer to a
friend of mine who is quite handy with hardware.. He thought it was a bios
problem.. I leave it up to him to do whatever was necessary to get it up
running.. Probably just have to reflash bios in an external programmer he
said... Coming back after about an hour he had found the fault.. The
agp-slot had hung in some strange state.. So booting with an old ISA worked
like a charm..
Reassembling the computer at home I put in the good 96 Mb of ram. Booting up
computer and installing win2k just fine.. Now I just got my 128 Mb module
returned and I'm running win98/win2k/slackware 7 happily at 224 Mb of
memory. Maybe I should say that at first I thought it was the old modules
that didn't cope with me overclocking to 92 MHz fsb... The 32 dimm was pc66,
the 64 a pc100, and now the 128 a pc133.. Works just fine. 2x400 MHz at
2x552 MHz.
Don't really know what you could learn from this, but my friends told me
that maybe the dimm wasn't bad after all, just that the agp-slot had hung. I
don't know and I don't really care much about it know either, cause it runs
just fine now!
Hope you will find a solution to the problem. If you take out the first
dimm, only booting with the memory you suspect is faulty, it probably won't
go through post, unless you enable quick post at startup in bios. My guess
only though..
Regards, Hugo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.digest,alt.os.linux.slackware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Setup Linux on Rage Fury ( Pro ):Use "ChipId
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:37:53 GMT
The Rage 128 cards have become quite
popular vehicles for running Linux judging by
the number of posts accross newsgroups.
The Rage 128 and Rage 128 Pro
based cards can run on the
the unified (cards support VESA SVGA or VESA BIOS Extention
compatability mode) XF86_SVGA server with
accleration supported.
a)You need to use the Options "no_accel" to get rid of
a font corruption bug with glib-2.0 libraries
b) Rage 128 Pro chipsets and Rage Fury Pro cards
need to add the "ChipId 0x5246" line
to get "X" started.
For information follow the link below:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/rchau/xconfig.html#Rage128
PeAK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rohan Oberoi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: IBM Ultrastar LVD drives with AMI Megaraid 428 card ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:56:43 GMT
I'm considering getting one of the AMI Megaraid 428 cards that are
going cheap, and putting my two IBM Ultrastar 4.5gig LVD (U2W) drives
on it.
Does anyone have any experience with a similar setup? Concerns are:
1. According to the AMI page, the Megaraid card is Ultra SCSI, not
U2W. "LVD disks will only work if they are backward compatible
and can be set to single-ended mode, and the disk firmware allows
for running in that mode or slower modes." I'm not sure how to be
absolutely sure the IBM disks conform to that description!
2. Has anyone used "Generic" or "House Brand" true parity SIMMS (for
cache) with this RAID card, instead of the approved brands ("PNY,
SEC, Tanisys, Micron Technologies, Advantage, Unigen, and
Centon")?
Any reports welcome.
Regards,
Rohan.
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