Linux-Hardware Digest #703, Volume #12 Mon, 17 Apr 00 20:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: HELP: With CD-R + CD-RW, can't see either (Robie Basak)
APC Back-UPS PowerChute Plus configuration (Tim Meals)
Re: TV remote for PCTV (Christoph Bartelmus)
Re: Lexmark 3200 printer and Suse Linux 6.3 (Al)
Re: ECRIX 66GB Tape Drive (Roger Harkess)
Re: APC Back-UPS PowerChute Plus configuration ("Justin R. Miller")
Re: Linux, hard disks, UDMA, and such (was: mp3 problems) (Mike Pastore)
Re: 101 key keyboards (Michael Kelly)
Re: cacheing and memory usage problem (Michael Kelly)
Re: SIIG ULTRA 66 PCI uses which chipset? (Chuan-kai Lin)
Modem Drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adaptec 2906 (Roger Harkess)
driver ata66 ("freeman42")
Wacom Intuos USB (Chirok Han)
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? ("Thomas E. Haynes")
Re: Printer problem ?? (John Hong)
Sound failure (root)
Re: Linux sucks ("Justin Weber")
Re: HP DAT tape drive (Weasie)
Re: No DRQ after issuing WRITE - meaning ? ("X. Rebolo")
hdparm -u? (John Hong)
Re: Sound failure (carver)
Help on SCSI controller (Marco Fontana)
Re: Sound failure (Hans Dumbrajs)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: HELP: With CD-R + CD-RW, can't see either
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Apr 2000 21:12:08 GMT
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:56:40 -0400, Mark Bratcher said:
>Hi.
>
>I have a friend trying to install RH 6.2 Linux on a system with a CD-R
>and CD-RW installed as master/slave respectively on the second IDE
>channel.
>
>In this configuration, the system installs but does not see either
>CD-ROM drive.
Do you mean as in dmesg gives no mention of the drives or that you
just can't mount them?
>If he unplugs the CD-RW drive from the IDE channel, then the system
>installs and sees the first one.
>
>The drives are properly configured as the prior Windows installation
>sees both drives OK.
Sometimes they are not correctly configured but continue to work;
check the jumpers carefully if nothing else works.
>Any idea what might cause this?
If you want to get the CD-RW working as a writer, you'll need to
set it up as a SCSI (emulated) device anyway; but having said
that it may not work if Linux can't see the drive as IDE.
The only other thing I can think of is some of the bugfix options
when compiling the IDE in the kernel.
>
>Thanks..
>Mark
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Meals)
Subject: APC Back-UPS PowerChute Plus configuration
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:27:13 GMT
I recently bought an APC Back-UPS 500 for use under Linux. After
downloading and installing the PowerChute Plus software off the APC
website (http://www.apcc.com), it won't recognize the UPS, claiming
error messages such as port not configured correctly. I've tried the
following:
* minicom'ed into the port (/dev/ttyS1) and entered UPS commands,
such as 'Y' or 'A'. The UPS light flashes off, then on, but
never sends a response back to the term.
* Used the "upswrite" command that came with PowerChute Plus, had
it return an error code of 255, which is listed as a
configuration problem on the port.
* Tried apcupsd with similar results about not being able to
communicate with the UPS.
I'm using the cable provided with the UPS.
Any ideas? Is there some kind of configuration under Linux to turn
the serial port into a non-modem port? OS version is RedHat 5.2,
heavily patched with 2.2.12 kernel.
TIA,
Tim
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Tim Meals
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: Re: TV remote for PCTV
Date: 17 Apr 2000 20:13:00 +0200
Hi!
Pascual Mu�oz Mu�oz "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
PMoMo> I've purchased the MiroPCTV (now Pinnacle) and it comes with a
PMoMo> remote that connects to the serial port. Is there any possibility
PMoMo> of using in Linux?
There were already two pointers to LIRC, but unfortunatley this device is
not supported yet. But writing a driver will probably be trivial if you
figure out baudrate and protocol of this remote.
Christoph
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From: Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark 3200 printer and Suse Linux 6.3
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:30:15 GMT
Konrad Urlichs wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I want to use a Lexmark 3200 printer, and I just can't find a driver for
> it. Is somebody able to help me.
> I'm using Suse Linux 6.3
>
> Thanks
> Konrad
Here's my work around for using the lexmark 3200 printer.(for this I'm
using Mandrake 7.0 & StarOffice 5.1)
1. on your windows partition make an empty folder( I call mine Linux2here )
2. after writing a document/spreadsheet or whatever(in StarOffice on my
linux partition)... save as a RTF (rich text format)
3.(in root) open your window partition that has the empty folder
(Linux2here)
4.drag the document to that folder
5.reboot to windows,open it with a wordprossing app. (I use Wordperfect)
and print
You can save staroffice in different formats...textwin ,textmac,RTF.Just
play around with the formats until you find the one you like.I like RTF.
Al
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From: Roger Harkess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ECRIX 66GB Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:43:40 GMT
Rico Tudor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have been evaluating two VXA drives, and give Ecrix a big thumbs up.
: Their website is unusually detailed, including all aspects of the VXA
: technology. Linux operates them as a fully-featured SCSI tape device.
: The 66GB capacity is easily reached with ordinary ASCII text. Seeking
: by file mark, or to EOD, moves with lightning speed -- a minute at most.
: The drives are good value for this class of storage. Check out DAT,
: 8mm Exabyte or AIT for comparison. VXA media is relatively expensive,
: being evaporated metal rather than metal particle. Still cheaper than
: AIT.
: Summary: A quality product for serious Linux backups.
: -------- my e-mail domain: math.nwu.edu
These drives come with either a SCSI-2 (50pin) or Ultra2 SCSI LVD
(68pin) interface. Is there a good reason to go with the more expensive
interface option? This would be the only device on the controler. And I
would choose the SCSI controler to match.
Roger
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From: "Justin R. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: APC Back-UPS PowerChute Plus configuration
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:48:04 GMT
Tim Meals wrote:
> I recently bought an APC Back-UPS 500 for use under Linux.
Hi Tim. I have a Back-UPS 500 that I've been using for well over a year
with Red Hat (currently 6.2). I first used apcupsd, but since
PowerChute came out I've been using that. I remember mine didn't come
with a cable or software, so I sent for it (for free) and then used that
cable. When I started using PowerChute, they had to send me a different
cable which although it looked the same apparently had a different pin
out.
Short answer: call tech support (before 5pm I believe for Linux
support) and ask them about swapping your cables. They sent me the new
one and had me send the old back afterwards on my honor. I don't
remember the cable numbers and don't really feel like powering down and
climbing under the desk right now ;-)
Hope I've helped,
Justin
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From: Mike Pastore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux, hard disks, UDMA, and such (was: mp3 problems)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:20:59 -0500
Hi Mike,
I am using slack, kernel version 2.2.14. I have an IBM DeskStar UDMA33
drive running on an old i430HX board, the Tyan Tomcat IV. Upon bootup I
get this error:
Partition check:
hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
hda1 hda2 hda3
I can enable UDMA transfers using 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' but when I do a
'hdparm -Tt /dev/hda' I only get a transfer rate of about 5mb/sec. I've
been through the Ultra-DMA mini-HOWTO and tried the things mentioned in
the email below, but haven't really come up with any answers.
Would you, or anyone on these newsgruops, have any recommendations?
Should I update the kernel version? Wait for 2.4? Keep looking for
updated drivers? Am I just being transfer-rate-greedy? :)
Thanks in advance for any help.
--
Mike Pastore
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael J Porter wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> =>On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:16:37 +0100, Ian Molton
> =><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> =>>Jeff Workman wrote:
> =>>whats this? could my linux not be using UDMA33 ? how do I find out if it
> =>>is or not?
> =>
> =>To accomodate old hardware, by default Linux uses the bare minimum of a
> =>hard drive's capabilities. The emergence of UDMA33/66 has complicated
> =>things, because there are about 8 different chipsets for UDMA/XX and the
> =>lowlevel black magic that kicks one chipset into UDMA/33 mode can cause
> =>another chipset to barf messily.
> =>
> =>The easiest, quickest, and least painful way to improve hard drive
> =>performance under Linux on a modern system is to put this line in
> =>/sbin/init.d/boot.local (/etc/rc.d/rc.local for RH folks):
> => hdparm -c1 -u1 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda
> =>Read the man page for hdparm to figure out what that actually does.
>
> This would typically take my hard drive from about 3.1 mb/s to
> somewhat over 7 mb/s. Without using DMA (-d 0). Depending on what
> chipset you have, adding -d1 can cause problems. The reason is
> that hdparm only changes the IDE device, it does not change the IDE
> controller except possibly in the generic sense. So, if your
> chipset needs special setups, then you really should enable
> whatever 'autotuning' is available and use the patch I mention
> below.
>
> When I was experimenting with this, I would do:
>
> lilo> linux S (boot into single user mode)
> thedog # umount -a # unmount all file systems, except root
> thedog # mount -o remount,ro / # remount / as readonly
>
> thedog # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null & # run more than one of these
>
> And see if you get any problems. Particularly DMA timeouts, etc.
>
> If that works, mount a temp file system r/w and try some untars or
> something to make sure writes work too.
>
> =>UDMA/XX support is not enabled by default for reasons mentioned above. If
> =>you want this support, you should get a recent kernel, know what chipset
> =>your IDE controller has, and compile support for that chipset in.
> =>Afterwards, everything should work automagically, and the boot messages
> =>will say something like
> =>VT 82C597 Apollo VP3
> => Chipset Core ATA-33
> =>Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
> => 8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
> => ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> =>ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
> => ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> =>ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
>
> Depending on what kernel you get, you may want to apply the ide
> patch which can be found at http://www.linux-ide.org/. The current
> patch is for 2.2.15 pre 17.
>
> Mike
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 101 key keyboards
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:17:21 -0400
Reply-To: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:46:50 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Clueless Bozo wrote:
>> I'm having a hard time finding keyboards without the extra keys
>> specific to a certain software vendor.
If you like the old AT type 101 key keyboard from IBM you can get
them from the IBM website for around $75 plus shipping(and that
includes the little adapter cable thingy for those with real old
machines that have the old style keyboard connector instead of
the PS/2 port.)
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cacheing and memory usage problem
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:22:24 -0400
Reply-To: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:50:04 +0100, "Dean Browett"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At this point all the memory seems to be allcoted between buffers and cache.
Check out the 'freepages' system variable. It lets you adjust the
caching to some extent.
I think it's
/var/sys/freepages
but I'm not in Linux at the moment to check it out.
executing
find / -name freepages
should find it.
You can probably find how to adjust it to advantage at
www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO
Basically it keeps the system from using all available ram
for caching.. leaving some free pages, hence the name.
Mike
--
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-- Groucho Marx
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From: Chuan-kai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIIG ULTRA 66 PCI uses which chipset?
Date: 17 Apr 2000 22:41:25 GMT
arun tharuvai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone here know what chipset the SIIG ultra ata 66 pci
> uses? I'm trying to figure out whether linux (2.2.14, including patches)
> supports and would rather return it unopened if it isn't usable
> at ultra 66 speeds.
Might be HPT366; I am not quite sure.
The only way to be sure is to find the chip on the adapter and
see what is printed on it.
-- Chuan-kai Lin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem Drivers
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 22:41:42 GMT
Has anyone any linux drivers for a V.90 K56Flex HSP PCI Modem.
If so please contact me
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cheers mike
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Before you buy.
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From: Roger Harkess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 2906
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:03:15 GMT
Is this supported?
I don't see it listed specificly by model # in the Hardware HOWTO or
Red Hat's Hardware list. There is an entry for AHA-29xx but then they
go on to list specific part numbers.
Thanks.
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From: "freeman42" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: driver ata66
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:09:42 GMT
where can i find a driver for my abit bp6 with ata 66 diskcontroller
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From: Chirok Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wacom Intuos USB
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:11:12 GMT
I'm a newbie in linux-usb.
I tried to find appropriate documentation but couldn't.
I have a Wacom Intuos 6x8.
Please help me make it work.
Here are what I did.
1. I loaded modules: usbcore, uhci, input, evdev, wacom.
2. I mounted it to /proc/bus/usb. The interrupt number is 11,
and as I play with the Tablet, the number in /proc/interrupts
changes, which I think means the Tablet works.
3. I tried:
mknod /dev/usb/input0 c 10 32
where I just guessed 10 and 32. After that, as I try
cat < /dev/usb/input0
I get
bash: /dev/usb/input0: No such device
At this point I don't know what to do.
Please somebody help me to have it work using gpm and
under X. Thank you. Chirok
The file /proc/bus/usb/devices looks like:
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=ff80
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=056a ProdID=0021 Rev= 1.01
S: Manufacturer=Tablet
S: Product=GD-0608-U
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=wacom
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl= 5ms
The result of lsmod is:
wacom 2536 0 (unused)
evdev 3156 0 (unused)
input 2524 0 [wacom evdev]
uhci 17628 0 (unused)
usbcore 43072 1 [wacom uhci]
The corresponding kernel messages are as follows:
Apr 17 18:28:09 han kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Apr 17 18:28:09 han kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Apr 17 18:28:09 han kernel: uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff80, IRQ 11
Apr 17 18:28:09 han kernel: uhci.c: detected 2 ports
Apr 17 18:28:09 han kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1Apr 17
18:28:09 han kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1
Apr 17 18:28:09 han kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Apr 17 18:28:09 han kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Apr 17 18:28:10 han kernel: usb.c: registered new driver wacom
Apr 17 18:28:11 han kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2
Apr 17 18:28:11 han kernel: input0: Wacom Intuos 6x8 on usb2
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From: "Thomas E. Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:16:12 GMT
"David C." wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > David C. wrote:
> >>
> >> (Oh, one more thing - don't forget the "M". If you accidentally say
> >> "mem=128", then the kernel tries to run with only 128 _bytes_ of RAM,
> >> and panics as soon as it tries to boot. Recovering can be a royal
> >> pain in the neck.
> >
> > Sounds like someone is speaking from experience?!? :-)
>
> Yep. I made that mistake once. I won't ever be making that mistak
> again. Took me severl hours of searching newsgroups to figure out how
> to get my system back without a reinstall. (The trick is to provide the
> "mem=128M" line at the LILO prompt when launching the kernel.)
>
> -- David
Another amusing issue is when the on-board video card uses shared system
memory, and you think you have 96M.
I changed LILO to mem=92M and all was well.
Regards... Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: Printer problem ??
Date: 17 Apr 2000 23:29:06 GMT
Daemon J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have a printer LEXMARK 3200 But I never can use in linux system
: do there have any approach to slove this problem ??
People are working on the support for the Lexmark 3200. Not
there yet, though. People already do have the Lexmark 1100, 2xxx, 5xxx,
and 7xxx series working, however. So I guess it is just a matter of time
for the 3200.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound failure
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:17:08 -0500
when i do a cat someaudio.wav > /dev/audio i get really scratchy
sounds, and when I try to play mp3's in xmms they don't play. my sound
card is on irq 10, how can I fix my problem? also, how can i change what
irq my sound card is set up for?
im running openlinux 2.4 on an amd k6-2 and its a creative compatable
sound card.
oh, and during the install program the sound card worked fine while
playing the
midi and digital sounds. what's wrong now?
thanks.
ps - im a fresh linux user so please be um, verbose, in any reply :)
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From: "Justin Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:28:41 -0700
Damn Straight, you don't need to be jewish in every thing that you do.
Jonnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8dbesa$p8v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You have a serious emotional problem dude.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message ...
> >On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 13:46:47 GMT, Matt Giwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >But Giwer is a jewish name too isn't it? So that would make YOU a
> >problem who should be exterminated along with your loved ones?
> >Right?
> >
> >> And I am really sick and tired of dancing around this issue. And
> >>it sucks as we all know the truth.
> >>
> >> This is dancing around customers and jewish hollywood.
> >>
> >> OK!
> >>
> >> I have said it.
> >>
> >> And it is true.
> >>
> >> Damned near every damned problem we have on this internet has a
> >>jewish name attached to it.
> >>
> >> I am sick and tired of it.
> >>
> >> I have stated a fact. Let the chips fall where they may.
> >
> >Regards - Dale
> >
> >Greetings From Melbourne, Australia
>
>
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From: Weasie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: HP DAT tape drive
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:54:24 -0400
Larry Ebbitt wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:39:54 -0400, Weasie wrote:
>
> >Cannot get RH 6.1 to recognize my HP DAT tape drive. SCSI driver
> >installed and working (runs CD). This newbie needs help.
>
> Let us have a little more info. How are you attempting to access
> the drive? What response do you get?
>
> Larry - Atlanta - IBM Global Services
I am running KDAT. It keeps telling me that there is no tape in the
drive. There is. I'm sure it's the wrong format, but formatting is not
an option. "Mount" is the only option. And since it believes there is
no tape ....
Is there a utility I should be running to do this?
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From: "X. Rebolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No DRQ after issuing WRITE - meaning ?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:53:25 +0200
I�m getting the same message, I own a PII-333Mhz. an Legend V QDI
mainboard,
and a UDMA Seagate ST313021A disk (13Gb).
I have redHat 6.0.
If I activate dma (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) I have DMA timeouts,
�BIOS problem, kernel problem (2.2.5-15 of RH 6.0),...?
Tanks in advance,
X . Rebolo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andy McKibbin escribi�:
> I'm getting the following message on an HP Brio BA400 running RedHat
> 6.1, kernel 2.2.12. Can anyone shed any light on it ? It happens every
> ten minutes or so, up to now it doesn't seem to have any symptoms (but
> it doesn't sound very reassuring, does it ?)
>
> TIA
> Andy
>
> hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> ide0: reset: success
>
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> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: hdparm -u?
Date: 18 Apr 2000 00:01:31 GMT
Anyone have any problems when enabling the hdparm -u option? Any
problems on an LX chipset mobo?
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From: carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound failure
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:28:52 -0500
> when i do a cat someaudio.wav > /dev/audio i get really scratchy
> sounds, and when I try to play mp3's in xmms they don't play. my sound
> card is on irq 10, how can I fix my problem? also, how can i change what
> irq my sound card is set up for?
>
> im running openlinux 2.4 on an amd k6-2 and its a creative compatable
> sound card.
>
> oh, and during the install program the sound card worked fine while
> playing the
> midi and digital sounds. what's wrong now?
>
> thanks.
>
> ps - im a fresh linux user so please be um, verbose, in any reply :)
ok, now i figured out what the deal was with the first part - i was
playing
wavs instead of au's - but i still don't know why i can't play mp3's in
XMMS
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From: Marco Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on SCSI controller
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:06:19 GMT
Hi everybody,
Can my Adaptec 78xx U2W work fine with linux?
Could you help me understand how, please??
Thank you
Marco
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound failure
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 03:07:32 +0300
root wrote:
>
> when i do a cat someaudio.wav > /dev/audio i get really scratchy
> sounds,
thats ok I guess. as far as I know you're only able to cat "au" files
directly to /dev/audio. Not wav.
>and when I try to play mp3's in xmms they don't play.
>
Do you get any error messages? Does the status indicator in xmms move?
Have you tried turining up the volume ;) ?
> my sound
> card is on irq 10, how can I fix my problem? also, how can i change what
> irq my sound card is set up for?
Depends on what kind of card you have. Most older cards have jumpers..
modern cards are usually pnp, or pci.
>
> im running openlinux 2.4 on an amd k6-2 and its a creative compatable
> sound card.
>
> oh, and during the install program the sound card worked fine while
> playing the
> midi and digital sounds. what's wrong now?
>
Well.. then everything seems to be ok, but you're doing something wrong
;)
> thanks.
>
> ps - im a fresh linux user so please be um, verbose, in any reply :)
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