Linux-Hardware Digest #70, Volume #13 Mon, 19 Jun 00 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: trouble installing 3com 3c509B TOP card ("Sir_Bazz")
Re: Zip drives (Dances With Crows)
Re: yamaha cdrw ERROR MESSAGES! help (J. Roe)
Re: yamaha cdrw ERROR MESSAGES! help (Dances With Crows)
Re: Water cooling system (Simon Lemieux)
Re: DDS-3 Backups (=?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda)
Re: Tape backup: tar versus dump (David C.)
Re: DDS-3 Backups (Craig McCluskey)
Re: Installation problem wth nvidia drivers (Anton Deguet)
D-link DE220 can PING his own IP, but can't PING others' (lawrence)
Re: ** HP machines w/ integrated graphics ** (aflinsch)
Canon fs2710 any software ? (Peter Wagstaff)
/dev/tape-reset (Netscape Messenger)
Re: Hardware list ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Soundblaster PCI512 problems (Stephen Torri)
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From: "Sir_Bazz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: trouble installing 3com 3c509B TOP card
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:57:06 +1000
Actually I found the one thing you still need 3c5x9cfg.exe for is to change
the default nterface between AUI and BNC.
Duh!
Other than that it's all OK.
Cheers,
Sir_Bazz.
"A Guy Called Tyketto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:uNQ25.1341$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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> In comp.os.linux.hardware Dances With Crows
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:54:20 -0500, Nathan.L.Craig-1
> > <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >>I am new to Linux and was hoping someone could tell me how to install
> >>correctly the 3c509B 3COM ethernet card drivers. Any help would be
>
> > The 3Com509B is an ISA card without jumpers (yech!). Therefore, you
need
> > to set the IRQ and I/O values for the card somehow. You can download a
> > DOS setup program from 3Com's website--it's called 3c509x2.exe. You'll
> > have to run it under DOS, where it will extract itself into a whole mess
> > of files. The only one you need to care about is 3c5x9cfg.exe. Run
that
> > program, follow the menus, and set the IRQ and I/O of the card to known
> > values. Make sure these values don't clash with IRQs that Linux is
> > already using; ISA cards are very bad at sharing interrupts.
>
> > Copy the 3c5x9cfg.exe to a bootable DOS disk just in case you ever have
to
> > set the card's IRQ again.
>
> > Boot Linux. "modprobe 3c509 irq=X" where X is the IRQ you assigned to
the
> > card earlier. Voil�.
>
> Actually, the 3c509 cards, when loading them with a module, do
> not require options to be passed to them at loading time. It should find
> it by itself. A simple "modprobe 3c509" will find the I/O address, and
> IRQ. If using LILO, just add a line into /etc/lilo.conf, saying:
>
> append = "ether=0,0,3c509"
> And you're good to go.
>
> BL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Zip drives
Date: 19 Jun 2000 09:59:01 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:40:20 +0100, garyrj28
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I am looking to buy the parallel port Zip drive from IOMega to use on
>both a SuSE Linux PC and a Windows PC. Obviously the drive should be
>easy to set-up for the Windows PC but according to my SuSE manual its
>somewhat more complicated with Linux and requires SCSI hard drive
>support and then can be accessed in the same way as a SCSI hard drive.
>However, given that I have an IDE system I am somewhat confused and
>would appreciate any further information on the subject.
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
Compile SCSI support, parallel port support, PC-style parallel
port hardware, parallel printer support, Iomega ppa and imm support
(those are in the SCSI lowlevel driver section) and SCSI disk support as
modules. "make modules modules_install". "depmod -a". Then plug the
parallel port ZIP drive into the computer. "modprobe imm". That should
allow you to access any ZIP disk on /dev/sda4. Mount it wherever you'd
like... /zip or /mnt/zip is good.
If you're using the default SuSE installed kernel, you should be able to
just do a "modprobe imm" and go once the drive's plugged in. The default
kernel ships with almost every module available.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: yamaha cdrw ERROR MESSAGES! help
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:50:12 GMT
ugh! I did it and still no luck. Is there something I am overlooking?
Or another thing I can try?
Thanks for your help
Janine
--
...the more i learn, the less i know about before
the less i know, the more i want to look around...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: yamaha cdrw ERROR MESSAGES! help
Date: 19 Jun 2000 10:16:28 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:50:12 GMT, J. Roe
<<8il8eg$hpu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>ugh! I did it and still no luck. Is there something I am overlooking?
>Or another thing I can try?
I assume you re-ran LILO and rebooted after installing this new kernel
image without automounter support... It could be that there's a user
space program that's trying to automount the CD; go into the GNOME control
panel and see if there's an option to turn off automounting.
This is really silly; when a CD is inserted/removed, it sends a Disk
Change Event down the IDE or SCSI bus. The automounter, if one's even
necessary at all, should only try to do its thing when one of those is
detected.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:20:13 GMT
Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:07:06 GMT, Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >Has anybody work on the subjet, can anybody direct my to a few documentation
> > >webpage or a FAQ, primer.... anything! Or if you have any other suggestion that
> > >wouldn't cost much (I'm quite out of cash!)
> >
> > I ran into a homemade howto on this, but can't recall where. Maybe
> > overclockers.com. The guy used an aquarium pump, and a 2 litre empty
> > coke bottle, etc. Sounded _interesting_ ...
>
> One suggestion, look for a 'Peltier junction' cooler rather than just
> using a drilled/channeled heatsink.
Yeah I was thinking so... I was actually wondering if you could put more than
one Peltier Thermoelectric unit to conduct the heat?
Thanks,
Simon
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Cottalorda
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DDS-3 Backups
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:35:31 +0200
Hi,
I also have that problem.
Someone tells me that I need to enter that command :
dump Ocsdf 60000 47000 /dev/nst0 ......
And it will dump more than 2 Gb/tape (I never try more than 4 Go but it works
....)
Hope this helps.
Sebastien
Paul Black wrote:
> I'm trying to use an HP C1537A DDS3 tape drive for backups but
> I'm having problems persuading the system that it has a 12GB
> capacity. When I dump a disk (1.2GB approx.), I get the following:
> DUMP: estimated 1190181 tape blocks on 30.59 tape(s).
>
> Not good!
>
> I've tried using "mt setdensity" and stinit but it appears to make
> no difference.
>
> root# cat /etc/stinit.def
> # HP DDS3
> manufacturer=HP model = "C1537A" {
> scsi2logical=1 can-bsr can-partitions auto-lock
> mode1 blocksize=0 density=0x25 }
>
> root# mt status
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
> Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (41010000):
> BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
>
> This is the output from syslog:
> kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 4, s/g segs 16.
> kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/0
> kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
> kernel: enable_irq() unbalanced from c484baea
> kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.28/3.2.4
> kernel: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
> kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 32.
> kernel: Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L706
> kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
> kernel: st0: Mode 0 options: buffer writes: 1, async writes: 1, read ahead: 1
> kernel: st0: can bsr: 1, two FMs: 0, fast mteom: 0, auto lock: 1,
> kernel: st0: defs for wr: 0, no block limits: 0, partitions: 1, s2 log: 1
> kernel: st0: sysv: 0
> kernel: st0: Default block size set to 0 bytes.
> kernel: st0: Density default set to 25
>
> Any ideas on how I can persuade the kernel/dump that my tape drive can manage
> what it does?
>
> Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Tape backup: tar versus dump
Date: 19 Jun 2000 11:14:23 -0400
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> How can one decide between tar and dump? Both have terse man pages
> (what do you expect? :-) ) but dump's seems more inscruitable than
> tar's. I know what tar does (and how to write a short shell script to
> make it a proper backup utility), but I don't really have a handle on
> dump.
>
> In reading dump's man page, I find it backs up either filesystems or
> directories. In backing up directories, it seems to work like tar. In
> backing up filesystems, I understand that it works on a partition-by-
> partition basis. I have been told that in doing so, it makes an image
> of what is on the partition, but have seen no documentation that
> describes what's exactly going on.
Normally, I would recommend dump (aka "ufsdump" on SunOS/Solaris). It
works more closely with file systems, so it won't accidentally go
chasing down network mount points and stuff. It also has the
multi-level incremental facilities, which are nice. Its interface is
also more convenient when you must selectively restore specific files
from a large backup set.
The main reason I don't recommend it for Linux is that I remember
reading that it has a problem when the volume you're backing up is
larger than a tape. I don't know if this has been fixed since I last
looked (well over a year ago.)
> In any event, it seems that neither tar nor dump backup the MBR and
> the partition size table. Thus in recovering from a total disk loss,
> one would have to partition the (new) hard disk, roll the backup tapes
> onto the new disk partitions one-by-one, and then run /sbin/lilo to
> write the MBR. Is dump better for this than tar? How does one decide?
You are right about this. They both operate on file systems. The boot
blocks and partitioning information exist below that level. AFAIK, the
only "backup" programs that preserve this data are programs intended for
mirroring drives, not for making backups
> In addition, the different backup levels of dump are confusing. Why
> ten different levels? Why not just two (full and incremental)? And how
> does the, "Tower of Hanoi algorithm," help maintain the integrity of
> one's data backup?
It allows for different kinds of incremental backup schemes.
If you make a level-0 backup, everything goes to tape. If you make a
backup at some other level (0-9), you get everything that was changed
since the last backup at that level or greater.
As for why not just full/incremental, you're thinking about backups from
the standpoint of a single user. Imagine instead a server that is used
in a corporate environment, with stuff changing all the time. In that
environment, a backup plan like this might make a lot of sense:
- a full backup every week
- daily incremental backups every evening
- hourly incremental backups all day during business hours
When you do your daily incremental backups, you want to backup
everything that changed since the previous day's daily backup. You
don't only want the files that have changed since the previous hour's
backup.
With a full/incremental scheme, you can't do this. So if the server
dies and needs to be restored, your worst-case situation involves
restoring over 168 backup sets (the most recent full backup, plus 168
hourly incremental backups.)
With a multi-level backup, your worst case situation involves restoring
30 backup sets. (the most recent full backup, 6 daily incremental
backups, and 23 hourly backups.)
Now, this scheme only requires three backup levels, not the 10 that dump
offers, but this isn't the only backup plan that might be used. With 10
levels, it becomes unlikely that someone's will create a backup plan
that requires more.
-- David
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DDS-3 Backups
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:22:02 -0500
Paul Black wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use an HP C1537A DDS3 tape drive for backups but
> I'm having problems persuading the system that it has a 12GB
> capacity. When I dump a disk (1.2GB approx.), I get the following:
> DUMP: estimated 1190181 tape blocks on 30.59 tape(s).
>
> Not good!
Have you tried the -a option?
-a ``auto-size''. Bypass all tape length considerations, and enforce
writing until an end-of-media indication is returned. This fits
best for most modern tape drives. Use of this option is particu-
larly recommended when appending to an existing tape, or using a
tape drive with hardware compression (where you can never be sure
about the compression ratio).
Craig
Physics Department
University of Texas at Austin
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Installation problem wth nvidia drivers
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:29:02 GMT
FROZEN_Steam wrote:
>
> Ok, That works, I've downloaded the src package and the making process goes
> well.
> But when the driver is loaded, I get a segmentation fault...
> Any idea?
I had no crash and therefore can not really help you. From what I have
read in this newsgroup:
1. disable AGP
2. remove possible conflicts with Mesa files previously installed
For both cases, the FAQ from nVidia is fairly complete and clear.
Good luck.
Anton
--
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janeton<at>bellatlantic<dot>net
Anton.Deguet<at>inrialpes<dot>fr, JDelury<at>jhu<dot>edu
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From: lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-link DE220 can PING his own IP, but can't PING others'
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:30:08 GMT
I installed a linux (kernel 2.2.5-1) with a DE220 ISA NIC (of cause PnP).
When I finished the network configuration(IP 192.9.200.133)and connect it
to the LAN I'm using, I find I can only PING 192.9.200.133. When I PING
other IPs such as 192.9.200.1(It does work well or say "alive"), the
result is "request time out". I check /etc/conf.modules, alias is right:
"alias eth0 ne; option ne io 0x240 irq 10". I also
check /etc/sysconfig/network, is normally show: "networking=yes... IPv4
forward = no...". All the things seems good, but I still can't ping
anyother IP address in my LAN. What's the problem? Can you help me?
--
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ** HP machines w/ integrated graphics **
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:27:48 -0500
Carlos wrote:
>
> Hi, does anyone know if the cheaper HP machines with "integrated 2d/3d
> graphics" work with XFree86? I know they are not top performance machiens
> but I don't care about that...
>
I have a Pavilion 4450 with the integrated video. It uses the mach64
server.
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From: Peter Wagstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon fs2710 any software ?
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:47:29 +0100
Hi
I am running Mandrake 7 and it seems to reconise my scsi Canon film
scanner OK at bootup, but I have no idea what software I could use on
it, has anyone got one working OK and what programs are you using.
Thanks in advance
P G Wagstaff
South Devon, England
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From: Netscape Messenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/tape-reset
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:45:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HI
Does anybody know what this device stand for ?
/dev/tape-reset ???
Thanks
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware list
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:05:39 -0700
Linux Hardware Database: http://www.linhardware.com
"Antonius Herry Sukardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a list of hardware that are proven to have worked well
> with Linux. Can anybody point me to a site where I can find such a list
> ? (preferably with the drivers ready to be downloaded). I am
> particulary looking for Network Interface card and SCSI adapters (both
> with PCI interface). I know 3COM 3c509 works well also the NE2000. But
> I am looking for a newer and most importantly cheaper alternatives.
>
> Thanks
>
> Antonius
>
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From: Stephen Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster PCI512 problems
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:06:03 +0100
I have the same card. What sound drivers are you using. I found that the
chipset emu10k1 works better if I used alsa-sound project drivers than
kernel drivers. The project is at http://www.alsa-project.org.
Stephen
Dragonia wrote:
> I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and really would like to get my soundcard
> working. Here is what happens:
>
> I enter Hard Drake and find my soundcard (SB Live) and press the test
> button. The .WAV (of a guy who's barely understandable) comes on with
> no problems. Upon hitting Ok, I get the following message:
> ---------------------------------------
> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device
> ---------------------------------------
>
> I've checked my /dev directory, and the device does exist there. The
> permissions and details on the file are:
> ----------------------------------------------
> dsp lrw------- dragonia audio 0 18.06.2000
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> If anyone can help point me in the right direction, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
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