Linux-Hardware Digest #993, Volume #12 Tue, 6 Jun 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
DMA66 Issue ("Michael Henderson")
Re: Voodoo3 2000 problem... (Steve Martin)
modem won't transmit binary data (JEREMY S BEIM)
Re: need advice on future smallbiz network ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Removed cover due to heat. OK? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: MATSHITA LS120 Ver5 ("Gene Heskett")
slow SCSI performance on Dell Poweredge 6300 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Disabling part of combo card in Pavilion (Ben Myers)
Re: Removed cover due to heat. OK?
Re: P3 halts on bootup (Checking 'hlt' instruction...) ("Tom Brinkman")
Re: HP Colorado 8GB Travan Tape Drive (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: Defective memory? ("Tom Brinkman")
Re: Qu. about old scsi-card in new pc (Mystic)
Re: HP Colorado 8GB Travan Tape Drive (Bob Schreibmaier)
Re: Help ! - Red Hat Linux 6.2 onto Ultra ATA/66 ? (Nier Yavin)
Modems and Sound Cards ("Niall Wallace")
Modem Issue (purple dreams)
SB 16 (john calison)
Re: CD-RW HP 9100i (Esa Tikka)
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From: "Michael Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DMA66 Issue
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 07:20:22 -0400
I have two hard disks.
Each off two separate DMA66 Controllers. Primary one has Win2K. Secondary
one has Suse Linux 6.4.
I can install Linux fine. During the Linux install, I requested a boot
floppy.
However, if I attempt to use the boot floppy the system stops at "LI".
Thanks,
Michael
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voodoo3 2000 problem...
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 07:52:01 -0400
Simon Lemieux wrote:
> Video card was very messed up; when I rebooted, before the BIOS came in, there
> is normally a Voodoo message saying something like "Voodoo3 2000, Interactive
> Inc." etc... And it was written "V o o 3 2 0 n e a t v c " instead... the
Just as a snap judgment, it looks like you've lost the card. The bootup
message
comes from the card's BIOS as it is polled by the machine BIOS on
startup.
Thus, this is happening before any operating system code is loaded. It's
not
an OS issue, therefore, so I'd say the card is toast.
Sorry.
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From: jbeim@apollo (JEREMY S BEIM)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: modem won't transmit binary data
Date: 3 Jun 2000 23:11:40 GMT
I'm setting up Slackware Linux 7 with kernel 2.3.99-pre3. My modem is an
external Zoom 56K which I got specifically because I heard it's compatible
with Linux. It works fine in Windows. I can connect with minicom, but when
I try to download a binary file, I get a bunch of CRC errors and it fails.
When I try to connect with pppd, my script connects but then times out
sending LCP requests. I've tried using hardware, software, and bare
flow control. I've tried using three different accounts: Earthlink, my
school, and another. Nothing works. Can someone please help me?!?
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Date: 6 Jun 2000 8:33:14 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need advice on future smallbiz network
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Sarah ;
> If there are Unix networks, there can be Linux networks,
> right?
AFAIK, there is no such thing as a 'Unix' network. Unix, like linux,
macos, amigados, windows, qnx, even the lowly dos, are all operating
systems for computers. _Some_ of them may have a TCP/IP capability
built into them, like Unix and such.
Any of these operating systems can be networked to each other with the
right protocols and hardware. Some operating systems do not have all
the network protocols available, so normally one choses the most widely
used protocol to do the actual networking with, in this case I'd suggest
that TCP/IP be used on all machines. NetBIOS (aka Samba) can also be
used for file and device shareing, something that TCP/IP doesn't do as
easily. Most treat Samba as a plugin for the TCP/IP stack already
running.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > I'm thinking of running a 3-way network, with a win95/98 box
>> > for home use, a MAC G3 for the database/webserver, and Linux
>> > for the network protocol.
>>
>> I'm not following you. Linux is an operating system, not a network
>> protocol.
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 6 Jun 2000 8:36:39 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Removed cover due to heat. OK?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Matthew Gatto;
MG> My computer goes nuts and starts beeping (BIOS?!) at me like a
MG> fire-alarm after more than about an hour of playing quake3. This
MG> didn't start happening until it started heating up outside as the
MG> Spring progressed. The processor is over-clocked 50MHz though.
Thats your cpu overtemp alarm. I'd suggest taking corrective measures
to enhance its cooling.
[...]
>>Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
All of the reasonably correct previous post was left out...
Cheers, Gene
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |This Space for rent
RC5-Moo! 350kkeys/sec, Seti@home 16 hrs a block
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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Date: 6 Jun 2000 8:48:59 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MATSHITA LS120 Ver5
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Csaba Raduly;
CR> 27 May 2000: A formal bug report was sent to Seti@Home, because
CR> the following message originated from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael
CR> V. Ferranti) was reported as containing signs of intelligence:
>>Here I was, minding my own business, and wouldn't you know it?
>>"Lowel P. M. O'Mard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just had to go and say:
>>
>>>I have tried the command, "mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/ls120" but
>>>the only response I get is "mount : /dev/hdc is not a valid block
>>>device".
>>
>> I'm not sure if Linux doesn't recognize the drive (an EIDE
>> maybe?) or
>>you're entering the mount command wrong (/dev/hdc# which partition?)
>>or both...wish I could help more than just that...
CR> Nope. LS120 is a floppy, it doesn't have partitions.
CR> /dev/hdc is the way to do it.
Well, it *could* have partitions, but it does seem sorta silly to
partition a 120 meg disk.
It works very well here with disks that I've made a ext2 system on, and
worked equally well on one I just unsealed that was still vfat formatted
from the factory.
You should not make a '/ls120' dir, but a '/mnt/ls120' directory.
Once you've done that you should be able to mount a pc formatted 1.44
meg floppy by:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/ls120
You should now see the contents of the disk at /mnt/ls120.
umount /mnt/ls120, and put a 120 meg disk in it in place of the floppy
and repeat the above mount command. Again you should be able to see the
contents of the disk, and in both cases you should be able to write a
file, and then delete that file from the mounted disk.
It works equally well for those which I've put the ext2 system on by
leaving out the '-t vfat' option.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:34:25 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi,linux.dev.scsi,ch.comp.os.linux
Subject: slow SCSI performance on Dell Poweredge 6300
Has anybody out there some experience with the Dell PowerEdge 6300
running Linux (I run RedHat 6.2)?
Even though it has AIC 7890 U2W SCSI interfaces and IBM Ultrastar
Ultra160 hard disk drives, I don't seem to be able to get better
than 3-10 MB per second read/write rates.
Here is what I get using bonnie -s 512:
File './Bonnie.739', size: 536870912, volumes: 1
Writing with putc()... done: 2684 kB/s 30.2 %CPU
Rewriting... done: 4041 kB/s 11.1 %CPU
Writing intelligently...done: 899 kB/s 0.8 %CPU
Reading with getc()... done: 8619 kB/s 96.5 %CPU
Reading intelligently...done: 12452 kB/s 15.1 %CPU
Seeker 1...Seeker 2...Seeker 3...start 'em...done...done...done...
---Sequential Output (nosync)--- ---Sequential Input--
--Rnd Seek-
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block---
--04k (03)-
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU
/sec %CPU
1* 512 2684 30.2 899 0.8 4041 11.1 8619 96.5 17452 15.1
186.1 2.7
The test was run with no load on the system and only one user.
I find these results surprisingly poor; so if anyone has an idea
or experience on how to improve SCSI performance, please
let me know!!
Regards,
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Dr Loris Renggli, BSP, Universite de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne
IT manager e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +41-21-692 3603 fax: +41-21-692 3605
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Myers)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Re: Disabling part of combo card in Pavilion
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:12:25 GMT
Being a dealer, I get a lot of electronic junk like the combo card in
the HP. It's unexciting, but when I've collected a couple of hundred
pounds of board scrap, I haul it off to the local electronic scrap
dealer and I get some money for it. Usually not a lot, but worth my
while. Keeps the landfills down, too... Ben Myers
"Unclaimed Mysteries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Both chips need decoders, A/D, D/A and
>> etc.
>
>You are of course correct and I will soon be evicting this combo card from
>the sleek HP case. With extreme prejudice.
>Next issue for the group: What should the fate of this thing be? Creativity
>and cruelty count.
>
>--
>It came from C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries.
>http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net/
>I'll probably, hang on to it, just in case...but I can dream.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Removed cover due to heat. OK?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:17:58 GMT
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 05:08:27 GMT, Matthew Gatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My computer goes nuts and starts beeping (BIOS?!) at me like a
>fire-alarm after more than about an hour of playing quake3. This
>didn't start happening until it started heating up outside as the
>Spring progressed. The processor is over-clocked 50MHz though.
Is that 50mhz really worth it? So it can twiddle the idle process a
little more often?
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From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: P3 halts on bootup (Checking 'hlt' instruction...)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 09:20:39 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Powell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Typing "linux no-hlt" at the "LILO Boot:" prompt allows for proper
> bootup, but placing append = "no-hlt" in /etc/lilo.conf does not
> produce the same results.
>
try append="no-hlt" (ie, leave out the <spaces>)
> Convincing HP technical support that there is a problem with the
> system/processor appears to be a challenge, and I wanted to see of
> other linux folk knew more about the problem.
>
> aap
ready mades have all kinds of 'extra' problems (IMNSHO)
Yours sounds like a 'corner-cutting, limited, substandard' motherboard
as found in most all ready mades.
I use a p3-450 at 608mhz (oc'd). With hlts enabled the cpu's
internal core stays at about 22 to 27C, and goes to 43 to 44C under
extreme load (cpuburn). Without halts your cpu's gonna run hotter
and most all ready mades have minimal cpu cooling. So get lm_sensors
and keep and eye on it. Problem is you might not be able to, as most
ready made motherboards leave the SMB/i2c chip off to save a buck
or two.
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. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: HP Colorado 8GB Travan Tape Drive
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:23:35 +0100
I haven't been able to get mine to work yet, either. One thing I DO
know, is that you DON'T want the "ftape" driver......it's for a tape
drive that connects to the floppy controller. I think the "mtape" driver
is the one to use.
Sorry I can't help more!
Jim
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From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Defective memory?
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 09:31:30 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude) wrote:
> I have the following problem: Occasionally, I experience weird
> crashes of XWindows or other large applications on my computer
> (486DX4/100) with 72M of EDO RAM. When I boot DOS, himem.sys
> claims to find defective memory. I had to disable the bootup mem
> check because it found problems, too. All this smells a lot like
> bad RAM.
First try moving the ram sticks to different slots, changing
their order. Prob'ly be a good idea to get 'memtest86' (do a
Freshmeat search) and run it from the floppy boot disk it makes.
Toggle L2 off, if you get no errors, try again with L2 on. If you
get errors with L2 on, but not with L2 off, then you've got cache
problems
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. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mystic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.win98.performance
Subject: Re: Qu. about old scsi-card in new pc
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:45:46 GMT
In article <8hifal$nop$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Thirsty McGuinness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I�m thinking about installing my old Adaptec AHA2940 with an old 2GB
> SCSI2-drive (10MBbte/s) for temporary data-backups for win98 next to
two
> further ATA66-drives.
> Does this set down performance in general or just at the time it�s
> active(while writing to/reading from the drive)
>
> Thanks
>
> For the Linux group:
> Can I locate the /boot-partition(�cause of the 1024-zylinder-border)
to
> this drive without loosing performance? That is, without loosing
performance
> once Linux is running, not while booting, of course. Or does Linux
need the
> /boot while already running or sth?
>
>
Since it's a SCSI device, you should not notice a performance issue. It
may pause on boot to initialize the SCSI card, but Windows should run
fine.
--
� Mystic �
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Schreibmaier)
Subject: Re: HP Colorado 8GB Travan Tape Drive
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:09:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I haven't been able to get mine to work yet, either. One thing I DO
>know, is that you DON'T want the "ftape" driver......it's for a tape
>drive that connects to the floppy controller. I think the "mtape" driver
>is the one to use.
I don't have the 8 GB, but I do have the 5 GB drive working. You need
to make sure that support for the IDE/ATAPI tape drive is compiled
into your kernel. Once your kernel supports IDE/ATAPI tape drives,
you should be able to access your drive via /dev/ht0 or /dev/nht0
(no rewind).
One thing I noticed on the 5 GB drive is that "mt" doesn't seem to
support commands like "getsize" or "volinfo," which worked with my
old floppy tape. Minor inconvenience.
Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited by law. Subject to
change without notice.
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From: Nier Yavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help ! - Red Hat Linux 6.2 onto Ultra ATA/66 ?
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 17:55:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These days I actually try to find out why a Redhat6.2 installation failed, (I
also posted it in this news group)
At first I did not thik there is a problem but then, maybe there is.
Though I tried to install it on a MBoard with an IDE ATA66 on board and not as a
PCI card.
And more to the point, while installling, it raised no exception or any kind of
problem.
What do you think?
Nino Aimo wrote:
> Where can I find a patch to allow me to install Red Hat Linux 6.2 using my
> Ultra ATA 66 controller ?�� what are the actual file names� ?� ...and how do
> I do it ?�� If it is not apparent yet, I do not know much about the
> subject...
>
> I've looked into /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick but there are numerous
> files !!
>
> Thanks !!!
>
> -NJA
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From: "Niall Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modems and Sound Cards
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:28:51 +0100
Hi,
2 questions
1) Is it possible that PCI Modems could be supported in the future.
a) Hardware (Getting Hard to find)
b) Software (Win Modems?)
2) Is the Sound Blaster 512Pci really just a cut down SB Live and uses the
Emu10k1(?) Chip
Thanks
Niall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (purple dreams)
Subject: Modem Issue
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:46:06 GMT
I'm having an intermittent problem that I hope someone
can help me with ('cause I am fresh out of ideas)
The specs :
- Diamond SupraExpress 56i Voice Modem in PnP mode
- Linux kernel 2.2.14
- uugetty configured to answer only
The situation :
The modem was working fine (I use it to remote admin the machine)
and I was able to dialin earlier this morning. Now, however, it just
plain won't answer. As the machine is remotely located and I've had
a similair problem before, I'm posting to see if anyone has any ideas.
Previously, in a separate box, the same symptoms occured. I was able to
access the machine, however, and I rebuilt it, chaning parts to find the
culprit. I thought I had found it, and when I tested it by re-installing
the original parts, it all worked fine (i.e. I can no longer get the modem
to fail, and it has all of the 'defective' parts in it.)
The only clue I've had is that when I accessed the box remotely (not
via dialin) I wasn't able to talk to the modem clearly with a dip -t -v
(It would talk to the modem, but VERY VERY VERY slowly)
I've been thinking that maybe it was a PnP issue, however nothing
in the configuration of the system changed between when it started
and when it stopped working! Is there any known issue with the Diamond
modems?
More specs :
Motherboard : Peak 630a SBC
Backplane : Generic, ISA/PnP backplane
RAM : Dane Electric PC100/ECC (1GB total)
Other hardware present : Kingston 21143-based NIC, Cyclades 8 port ISA
Thanks for your time!
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I often dream about being carried away by a giant squirrel.
Does that make me a nut?
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From: john calison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB 16
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:56:42 -0400
Hope someone can help me to enable system sounds.
I'm running RH6.1 with a Sound Blaster 16. I ran sndconfig and
heard all the sample sounds. All sound sevices come up on boot and
"/etc/conf.modules" seems to have the proper entries (alias and
options). I can play cds, but KDE complains about not finding
"/etc/sysconfig/sound". In both GNOME and KDE I can not play system
sounds.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
thanks in advance,
john
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Esa Tikka)
Subject: Re: CD-RW HP 9100i
Date: 6 Jun 2000 15:48:04 GMT
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 18:46:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But still a total failure to use this CD-RW HP 9100i with Linux Mandrak.
>
>fs type is told to be wrong, or too much file sytem mounted...
>I installed Linux from the cd drive. Then it is fully functional.
>(Wrong?)
Do you mean you get this error when you have an unused cdr(w) disc in your
HP9100? That would be totally correct as you don't have to mount
cdr(w) discs when you are going to burn on them.
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