Linux-Hardware Digest #713, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:14:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!) (hac)
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F8yer?= Kristiansen)
sg device, cdrecorder and scanner (Jimmy D Smith)
Parport backpack CDRW install (Kevin Krause)
Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!) (Steffen Kluge)
Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape (Adam Finkelstein)
Re: sg device, cdrecorder and scanner (Slawomir Siwek)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Rod Smith)
Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Mark H. Wood")
Re: Suggestions for Video Card on Linux??? (julien mills)
Gnome device mount UGH! (Mark Bratcher)
Re: new monitor (julien mills)
Trouble with XF86Config offtime and ViewSonic monitor (Mark Bratcher)
Re: MOD magneto optical disc drives... (Eric)
44M Syquest on pentium system. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux sucks ("D.W.")
fibre drives for linux?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? ("fREDDieV")
Problems with ATAPI CD-R/RW (LG CED-8080B) (Knobi himself)
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (Michael Kelly)
Amount of Memory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sound cfg. in Kde ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Amount of Memory (Kjartan Reynir Hauksson)
Re: Best printer for linux box? ("The Wogster")
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? ("The Wogster")
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
Date: 19 Apr 2000 08:34:56 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge) writes:
> In article <n78L4.48507$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> fREDDieV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >When I first enabled udma66 in kernel 2.2.13, I ran hdparm 4 times and got
> >an avg. transfer speed of 20.8mb/sec. Subsequent testing showed the speed as
> >high as 24.0mb/sec.
>
> Hmm, this is what I'm getting with an Ultra-33 drive (Seagate
> 8GB, kernel 2.2.14). Are you sure you're running Ultra-66? Maybe
> it's all but hype and no disk can actually deliver (yet) what
> Ultra-66 promises?
no hard disk can deliver data faster than about 30MB/sec. ata-66 is
all about room for expansion. iirc ata-66 has a mode to fire multiple
commands and wait for reply so that putting two disks on one channel
may not be so bad in the future (once hard disks, and ata controllers
and their drivers catch up).
scsi has had 40MB/sec for a long time now and recently gotten 80 and
160MB/sec extensions. this isn't because any single drive can exceed
40MB/sec (let alone 160MB/sec), but if you've got a bank of 6 drives
you can be bus constrained.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:51:41 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> anyway, I just tried cfdisk instead of fdisk and low and behold the drive
> shows up will all the cylinders!
>
> after a (not so) quick 'mkfs /dev/hdc1' the drive now shows up with 'df'
> as:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> /dev/hdc1 34846359 13 33014812 0% /hdc1
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> so, for the record (perhaps this should be in the HOWTO) use cfdisk
> instead of fdisk for more than 65535 cylinders!
>
The BUGS section of the fdisk man page already says that you should use
cfdisk in preference to fdisk.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F8yer?= Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:02:24 +0200
Jerry Natowitz wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >MGatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> What is everyone here getting for $hdparm -t
> >> speeds? I'm especially interested in those w/ ultra DMA or SCSI
> >> controllers cards. I have a promise U66 w/ maxtor's latest and
> >> greatest, and am still only getting on avg. 15 MB/sec. (half of what
> >> winbench reports for windoze!)
> >
> >Let's see, for my Quantum Atlas 10K 9WLS (this is a 10,000rpm ultra2 drive), I
> >get 23.88 MB/sec. For my 2 IBM 10K drives I get 18.93 MB/sec and 19.28 MB/sec,
> >with lesser amounts for the older disks.
>
> I get 22.22 MB/sec for my 20GB IBM drive (7200 RPM), and 13.01 MB/sec for
> my 13GB Western Digital (5400 RPM). Both support UDMA66, but the transfer
> rate doesn't change.
hdparm -t measures how fast data can be read of the disk, and not how
fast cached data can be transferred.
The benefit of UDMA 66 in current systems is very modest, because
current controllers are limitid to one UDMA 66 device per controller.
The point of higher bandwidth is that the controller would be able to
saturate more devices, but because of the one device restriction on UDMA
66, performance are dominated by the slower device-interfaces.
SCSI beats the crap out of IDE if disks > 2 (maybe even 1)
cheers
Martin
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From: Jimmy D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sg device, cdrecorder and scanner
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:30:02 GMT
I have a adaptec 2940 card, although I had the same problem with the
previous card, and am trying to get my HP6020i cdburner and a Microtek X6
scanner to work.
I feel the problem is in the sg driver maybe.
When I list scsi devices all the devices show up. 2 cdroms (1 is the
burner), 2 hard drives, syquest EZ135, and the scanner.
When I try to run sane, it can find the sg device for the scanner, but when
trying to scan I get and io error.
When running XCdroast, I can setup and choose the burner and everything,
but when I tell it to burn image the program just disappears.
Any help or pointing me to a resourse to get these working wouls be great.
Also the scanner is external and the burner is internal so it would be
possible to cut the scanner out of the picture to work on the burner.
Thanks a million, JD
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Kevin Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parport backpack CDRW install
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:38:49 GMT
I'm trying to install the latest drivers for the microsolutions backpack
CD rewriter (external - model #190130) and would appreciate any
assistance.
I'm running Caldera OpenLinux (eDesktop 2.4) which has the 2.2.14
kernel. I have the CDRW connected to the parallel port (EPP) and a
Zip100 daisy chained to the CDRW. The CDRW works fine under windows 98
and I've got the Zip drive working under Linux. I've determined that my
CDRW model has an updated chipset (1.6?) that will not work with the
existing bpck.o module and I need to load the backpack.o module I
downloaded from Micro-solution's website. This module was compiled with
kernel 2.2.12-20
I have the parport and paride drivers successfully loaded and have rmmod
the bpck.o module (epat and kbic are still loaded). When I attempt to
insmod -f backpack.o I receive errors for undefined symbols: kfree,
kmalloc, printk and __const_udelay and the module doesn't load
(obviously).
Am I missing other required modules, or am I SOL unless and until
Micro-solutions releases a driver for 2.2.14? I've seen a few other
postings around the Linux world regarding this device, but no solution
to my particular problem yet. I'd be more than happy to act as a guinea
pig to solve this problem if someone can give me some suggestions on
things to try.
Thanks,
- Kevin
--
Kevin Krause
ACS Technology Solutions
630.990.2272
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!)
Date: 19 Apr 2000 13:48:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>so, for the record (perhaps this should be in the HOWTO) use cfdisk
>instead of fdisk for more than 65535 cylinders!
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for the future... :-)
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Finkelstein)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape
Date: 19 Apr 2000 10:05:39 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
I have an ide Colorado TR5 tape that I can happily back up one partition
and restore it using:
/sbin/dump 0af /dev/ht0 /dev/hda1
On sun boxes I use a dump script to dump multiple partitions to 4mm tape
using a shell script. I have to define block size density and length for
the dump to be restorable.
I wrote the following (commented lines) and cannot restore a specific
partition using:
/sbin/restore -s 2 -if /dev/ht0
#!/bin/bash
#
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
mt -f /dev/ht0 offline
I thought maybe I'd need to provide (like the 4mm tape on sun boxes here)
block size (64) but I cannot figure out the density and length of TR5
Travan tape. Does anyone know what they are, and if provided as arguments
to the above /sbin/dump in the above script, will they allow multiple dumps
per tape and then restore specific partitions using the -s argument in
restore.
Thanks in advance, and upcoming too.
Adam
--
Adam Finkelstein
SOTAS, Inc.
301-258-8873 ext. 265 301-258-0059 (fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Slawomir Siwek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sg device, cdrecorder and scanner
Date: 19 Apr 2000 14:04:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jimmy D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a adaptec 2940 card, although I had the same problem with the
> previous card, and am trying to get my HP6020i cdburner and a Microtek X6
> scanner to work.
Let's check. I have aha2490, HP ScanJet4c, SEAGATE ST32151N, YAMAHA
CRW6416S.
Everything work good. Suppose you have 'scsi-generic' in kernel ?
Which kernel version ?
--
Slawomir Siwek.
Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne SA
To co przed @ to pu�apka na spamer�w.
Linuser #126048
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:10:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Fiddle-dee-dee. Lexmark has a number of OS/2 drivers.
>
> Which considering that what is now Lexmark used to be IBM, is no
> surprise.
"Used to be" is critically important. In fact, for some time Lexmark had
no OS/2 drivers for their inkjets; it's only in the last two years or so
-- well AFTER the split from IBM -- that these drivers have emerged.
Besides which, anybody who's used OS/2 and watched as IBM has shot itself
in the foot with squabbles between divisions knows that IBM is completely
incapable of helping itself when it comes to cross-division cooperation.
For instance, it's almost impossible to find an IBM computer with OS/2
pre-installed.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Mark H. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Riva TNT2 display card
Date: 19 Apr 2000 14:03:52 GMT
If all else fails, the TNT2 is supported by the SVGA driver in 3.3.5
-- I'm using one right now. Performance is okay, but I don't push it
hard.
--
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
-- Marvin Martian, 01/01/2000 00:00:00
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From: julien mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Video Card on Linux???
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:25:00 -0400
Someone suggested to me: 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, which I'm
told runs around $80 or so. I havn't bought one yet, but I
may, it's supposed to be nice card.
Julien
>
> Linux supports many many video cards, especially the latest versions.
> Matrox G400, for example.
> ...
> > I need an affordable video card that will run under Linux. Anyone
> > have a suggestions??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Joe
> >
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Gnome device mount UGH!
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:26:05 -0400
Hi.
I'm using Gnome with Enlightment running atop of it (or aside it,
however the metaphore works) and I'm a little frustrated with the device
mounting.
I current have a CDROM device at /dev/scd0. My fstab has two entries for
it as follows:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0
0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdext2 ext2 user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0
0
The reason for this is that I want to sometimes mount ISO9660 and
sometimes I want ext2. (It there is a better way to do this, please let
me know.) Depending upon which one I want to mount, I just enter "mount
/mnt/cdrom" or "mount /mnt/cdext2".
Gnome only sees one device /dev/scd0, so I only get one CD-ROM device
icon. So far that makes sense. However, it's real fussy about what kind
of CD I put in. It seems to be stuck on /mnt/cdext2. When I put an ext2
CD-ROM in, it mounts it, but when I open it I get two file managers: one
at /mnt/cdrom (which is empty) and the other at /mnt/cdext2 (the one I
want).
To get an ISO9660 to mount is trickier. Sometimes it yells at me about a
file system being unrecognized. Sometimes it will temporarily put a
second CD-ROM link icon on my desktop and pop up the file manager at
/mnt/cdrom.
Anyone have any experiences with this?
Thanks.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: julien mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new monitor
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:26:04 -0400
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:07:46 -0400, Chris Williams wrote:
> >hi, can someone give me the name of a nice monior
> >that wiil go well with my new shinny aluminum case?
>
> Depends on what kind of monitor you want. I've got the Sony GDM F400
> and IMO it's the best 19" that money can buy.
What would be a nice 17" monitor?
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Trouble with XF86Config offtime and ViewSonic monitor
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 10:27:04 -0400
Hi,
I have a ViewSonic PF775 monitor and XFree86 3.3.6.
I configured my XF86Config so that the monitor would go off after 30
minutes of inactivity. This seemed to work OK for awhile. That is, after
30 minutes, my green light on the monitor would turn yellow and the
monitor would electronically be off.
However, at some point it became difficult to wake up the monitor. I
wiggle the mouse and I hear the monitor click and the light turns green.
No video. I hear another click a couple of seconds later, still a green
light, still no video. I fiddle with the mouse a bit and finally, after
20 seconds or so, the video finally appears.
I can't tell if this is an XFree86 problem or a ViewSonic problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MOD magneto optical disc drives...
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 13:55:00 GMT
Stefan Zachow wrote:
>
> Good morning experts,
>
> are SCSI MO drives supported, so one can mount these things?
> For example a Pioneer DE-xH9101. I don't know what kind
> of file system one usually find on such a disc.
>
> Any hint is appreciated
>
> Stefan
>
> BTW: Please CC to my email address, too.
Yes, SCSI-MO drives are supported, at least I know for sure that the
sony SMO-551 is. You could put any filesystem on an MO disc you want,
though you'll normally will have a fat filesystem (if someone else
supplies you with a disc). I normally format them with an ext2
filesystem, since I don't use them outside linux anyway. Don't know if
the pioneer drive is supported.
Eric
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Subject: 44M Syquest on pentium system.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 Apr 2000 16:37:56 +0200
Hi,
I'm thinking of trying to get my old 44M Syquest drive (SQ555) from my old
mac to work on my Pentium 120. The drive is a SCSI drive so I will have to
get a scsi controller card. Does anyone have any experience with what SCSI
cards are well supported under linux?
Does anyone know anything about what to expect from the syquest drive
under linux?
I've read old postings on the subject on Deja which were fairly inconclusive.
I'm going to use the drive for backups. (yes, I know I could get a zip
drive cheaply instead of getting the card, but I have some other SCSI
things that I might want to connect in the future, besides from the
fun factor.)
Thanx in advance
Lars
P.S. Oh, and please reply to my email adress as well as posting,
since I might miss it otherwise (my feed is rather unreliable).
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove the nospam....
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From: "D.W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: 19 Apr 2000 14:46:14 GMT
Jewish Hollywood? Let's not start that type of bullshit here.....
Douglas
Matt Giwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Barry Dean wrote:
>
> > I only feel stressed in work when I have to use Windows NT only.
> >
> > Whenever possible I use Solaris and Linux applications to prevent
> > "Computer Rage", headaches and palputations.
> >
> > I recently upgraded (if this is the right term!) to Windoze 2000.
Within
> > 4 hours, explorer crashed leaving me with no start bar, Internet
> > Explorer crashed before completely drawing it's window, despite Task
> > Manager saying it was running fine, eXceed crashed for the first time
> > ever in my experience and Visual Studio thinks the date is 1900 - way
to
> > go! A reboot required after 4 hours uptime!
>
> There is a big crowd. It it formign down the street. Join us.
>
> And I will do better than what you have said. Do a search on
> optout and run their software. Fact is that is the result of
> their contractual araingments.
>
> No on in their right mind woudl permit that. But MS does.
>
> If I were selling an OS, my only loyalty would be to my buyers.
> I would not have a split loyalty between my customers and DVD
> folks.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> <A href="http://www.giwersworld.org">A free internet for a free
> people.</a>
> The Droll Troll
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fibre drives for linux??
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:51:45 GMT
I'm looking for a box that supports 8 fibre drives, raid 5, fully
redundant hardware, and linux. We looked at Dell's but they aren't linux
friendly. Does anyone have any experience and/or recommendations with any?
Aaron Price
"We are the music makers. We are dreamers of dreams."
- Arthur Shaungnessy
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From: "fREDDieV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:54:41 GMT
Of course I'm sure it's an ultra-66 drive. Enabling it involves a kernel
hack in 2.2.13. And keep in mind that consistently reaching the max burst
speed of 66 is by most accounts not realistic, no matter what Promise
"promises". But it works fast enough for me, I'm satisfied.
"Steffen Kluge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8dj92g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <n78L4.48507$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> fREDDieV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >When I first enabled udma66 in kernel 2.2.13, I ran hdparm 4 times and
got
> >an avg. transfer speed of 20.8mb/sec. Subsequent testing showed the speed
as
> >high as 24.0mb/sec.
>
> Hmm, this is what I'm getting with an Ultra-33 drive (Seagate
> 8GB, kernel 2.2.14). Are you sure you're running Ultra-66? Maybe
> it's all but hype and no disk can actually deliver (yet) what
> Ultra-66 promises? Did you try testing in single-user mode?
>
> Cheers
> Steffen.
>
> --
> Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Fujitsu Australia Ltd
> Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
> --
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From: Knobi himself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with ATAPI CD-R/RW (LG CED-8080B)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:30:49 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
after some playing I am stumped. My setup is as follows:
COMPAQ AP500 Workstation (2x550MHz P-III)
- SCSI disks
- IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM (/dev/hdd)
- IDE/ATAPI CD-RW "LG CED 880B" (/dev/hdc)
SuSE 6.2 with 2.2.14 (or 2.2.15-pre19) kernel
cdrecord 1.6.1, 1.8A22 or latest 1.8.1a07 (self compiled)
The kernel is configured with ide-scsi and no ATAPI CDROM support.
Everything is fixed, no modules (memory is not an issue :-)
"cdrecord" (all above versions) find the CD-RW just fine:
|scsibus2:
| 2,0,0 200) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' '1.08' Removable
CD-ROM
| 2,1,0 201) 'COMPAQ ' 'CRD-8400B ' '1.02' Removable
CD-ROM
=
I can burn iso9660 CDs onto CD-R media just fine. I fail to burn
iso9660 to CD-RW media and audio to any media. The relevant output looks
like:
| ./cdrecord -v -dummy speed=3D1 dev=3D2,0,0 -audio *1.cdr
|Cdrecord 1.8.1a07 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J=F6rg
Schilling
|TOC Type: 0 =3D CD-DA
|scsidev: '2,0,0'
|scsibus: 2 target: 0 lun: 0
|Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
|atapi: 1
|Device type : Removable CD-ROM
|Version : 0
|Response Format: 1
|Vendor_info : 'LG '
|Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B '
|Revision : '1.08'
|Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
|Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
|Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
|Drive buf size : 1024000 =3D 1000 KB
|FIFO size : 4194304 =3D 4096 KB
|Track 01: audio 30 MB (03:00.90) no preemp swab
|Total size: 30 MB (03:00.90) =3D 13568 sectors
|Lout start: 30 MB (03:02/68) =3D 13568 sectors
|Current Secsize: 2048
|ATIP info from disk:
| Indicated writing power: 6
| Is not unrestricted
| Is not erasable
| ATIP start of lead in: -11231 (97:32/19)
| ATIP start of lead out: 335100 (74:30/00)
|Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
|Manuf. index: 27
|Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
|Blocks total: 335100 Blocks current: 335100 Blocks remaining: 321532
|RBlocks total: 343921 RBlocks current: 343921 RBlocks remaining: 330353
|Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
|Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 1 seconds.
|Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
|Starting new track at sector: 0
|Track 01: 0 of 30 MB written../cdrecord: Input/output error.
write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryabl
e error
|CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0D 00
|status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
|Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00
|Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
|Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0x00 (illegal mode for this track) Fru 0x0
|Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
|write track data: error after 0 bytes
|Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
|Writing time: 5.021s
|Fixating...
|WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
|Fixating time: 0.002s
|./cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets.
|./cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was
100%. =
Any ideas? Is this a problem with the writer (and a fix in the works).
Anything that one needs to observe on top of the HOWTO? Did anyone
actually has experience with the CED-8080B?
Thanks
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: FAT32 and LINUX?
Date: 19 Apr 2000 15:00:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> When I started using LINUX in 1977, I was told that if I wanted to use
> linux and windows partitions on the same drive, I should use FAT16 for
> the windows partitions, rather than FAT32. Is this still true?
>
Nope, newer kernels handle fat32 fine. You might have to install
kernel source(and of course gcc/egcs compiler and libs) and configure
vfat and msdos file system support, then build and install a kernel.
Some dist. may ask you if you want vfat support during install. If
they give you a choice to have it supported as a module I'd select that
to keep the kernel small. At some point it won't boot if it gets too
big.
--
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Amount of Memory
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:17:16 GMT
I recently installed Mandrake 7.0 In the install
I specified 128 meg. of RAM. The system is still
only recognizing 64 meg. How do I make Mandrake
Linux recognize all of it?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound cfg. in Kde
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:38:05 GMT
I just installed Suse 6.4 on a laptop with an ESS sound device.
I ran Alsaconfig and it works. I get system sounds and everything in
Gnome
perfectly, but KDE won't do anything more than a system beep???
Any Ideas?
TIA,
Ken
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Subject: Re: Amount of Memory
From: Kjartan Reynir Hauksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:55:15 -0700
Here are some instructions to make linux see your memory:
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/ramdetect.html
-Kjartan
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From: "The Wogster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:56:36 -0400
Scott Alfter wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <FIYK4.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>The Wogster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>John Hong wrote in message <8dgh50$9ap$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>> Easy...just get the cheapest postscript printer available.
>>>Lately, it appears to be the Lexmark Optra 40.
>>
>>Are there Linux drivers for the Optra-40? Lexmark is notorious for it's
>>worship of the great god Micro$oft and Bill Gates, the prophet.
>
>None are necessary. As the original poster implied, the Lexmark Optra
Color
>40 groks PostScript (and PCL, too). Stick a 16- or 32-meg SIMM in it and
>it's a pretty sweet printer. (For that matter, most (all?) of the rest of
>the Optra line speaks PostScript too. I have an Optra Color 40 at home and
>have access to an Optra S 2420 and an Optra R+ at work, and they all speak
>PostScript.)
>
>It is true that most of Lexmark's other printers are somewhat brain-damaged
>out of the box, but there's a growing level of support for many of them in
>Ghostscript. Use that to drive the printer and you'll be able to send
>PostScript jobs to it. The only downside is that you'll have your computer
>doing the rendering instead of being able to offload page rendering to the
>printer. (Setting up an old 486 as a print server/Ghostscript renderer can
>solve that problem.)
I finally found a driver for the CJ1000 sitting on my desk, but it's not an
official driver, IMNSHO the CJ1000 is not officially a printer either. I
haven't had much luck with modern Linuxes on the 486s anyway, I would have
to dig out an old Slackware disk.
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From: "The Wogster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAT32 and LINUX?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:57:59 -0400
Mark Bratcher wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>"David C." wrote:
>>
>> Laura Conrad writes:
>> >
>> > When I started using LINUX in 1977, I was told that if I wanted to use
>> > linux and windows partitions on the same drive, I should use FAT16 for
>> > the windows partitions, rather than FAT32. Is this still true?
>>
>> 1977? Wow! I didn't think Linux was out then :-)
>
>I didn't think _Windows_ was out then either! :-)
In 1977 DOS wasn't out yet..
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