Linux-Hardware Digest #84, Volume #13 Wed, 21 Jun 00 11:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: CD Recorder Software (pose laurent)
Re: Linux on Aviion (Johan Kullstam)
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? (Jorge JUAN CHICO)
Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?! (Rod Haper)
Re: driver for yamaha-cd-writer ("bdl")
Re: Kernel-Compilation for Athlon ? (Ancipital)
Re: Redhat 6.2 and 15 GB IDE disk NOT BOOTING (Steve Martin)
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution (Chris Beauchamp)
Re: 2.2.16 Redhat RPM install breaks 2940uw ("Rex Dieter")
Re: terminal on linux? ("Scott G. Hall")
Re: driver for yamaha-cd-writer ("Ozetechnology")
Re: Help on motherboard decision ("Tom Brinkman")
Re: ide problem (Mark Hahn)
Re: Abit KA7 and mouse problems (Neal Bambha)
Re: Need a clean hard disk (David C.)
Re: Water cooling system (John Gluck)
Re: Need a clean hard disk (David C.)
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From: pose laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Recorder Software
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:09:53 +0200
the easiest way : gtoaster!!!!
you can use drag 'n drop mp3 file
SageMage wrote:
> Is there Any software for Linux that records mp3s to CD (converts to wav
> or track on the fly), kinda like nero for Winblowz???
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Aviion
Date: 21 Jun 2000 08:26:28 -0400
"Lynn Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Lynn Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Hi, Anybody know if Linux runs on the Data General Aviion range ok?
> >
> > you mean like an ALR revolution quad6 (4 ppros)? i am using one to
> > compose this message right now.
> >
>
> Well, maybe. I don't know the AViiON hardware yet. There are potential
> customers who have these machines running DG/UX and I think NT. Don't know
> the model numbers yet; heard that they could be the AviiON 5000's. Can't
> find it on DG's web site. But they are all Intel, not Motorola, cpu's.
> What is your configuration?
what do you mean by configuration? i've got four ppros and 256MB of ram.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: Jorge JUAN CHICO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:34:00 +0200
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 2 wrote:
> peter wrote:
> >
> > I'm setting up two 486 linux systems, one will be a small web sever,
> > firewall, and ip masq.
> >
> > The other will be a machine to write perl programs on.
> >
> > I have two 250 meg drives, I don't plan to install X, so which distro
> > is out there that will allow me to do what i want to do on the 486's
> > ???
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter
>
>
> RedHat 5.2 can fit in to 200 meg with X and netscape. It's quite a lot
> smaller without. As for really small distros, Monkey Linux comes on 5
> floppies _with_ X and there is an apache package for it. That will leave
> loads of space for data and swap.
>
> http://www.spsselib.hiedu.cz/monkey/
>
A basic (not base system) but functional Debian installation will take
under 40MB. Debian is very modularized and allow you to select exactly
what you need. You can try "potato" (pre 2.2 release). The home page will
point you to CD-images (www.debian.org).
jorge.
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From: Rod Haper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?!
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:06:22 GMT
This issue keeps coming up over and over. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO section 3.2 "Using
More than one Ethernet Card per Machine". It tells you how to use multiple ethernet
interfaces with the drivers either as loadable modules or built into the kernel.
MH wrote:
>
> I've read the posts here on 3C509 and they all seem to revolve around
> loadable modules. I'm confused. Recent kernels offer support for this
> card compiled directly into the kernel, or as a module. (Why would
> anyone install a NIC as a module?) Once PNP has been disabled on the
> card, why would there be any problems?
>
> I'm almost certain I've run this card before without any configuration
> on my part, but I can't get it to work on my latest box which is
> dual-homed. The other card is a 3C905B, both cards' drivers are
> compiled into the kernel. Only the 3C905B (eth0) loads at boot
> however. The 3C509 (eth1) "fails to initialize". I tried setting
> parameters via Linuxconf, but nothing seems to work. The parameters for
> this card are IRQ 10/0x300 and there are no conflicts. What am I
> missing?
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From: "bdl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: driver for yamaha-cd-writer
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:15:13 GMT
In article <8ipt25$nke$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a driver for the Yamaha CRW6416SX-VK for using it under
> Linux.
>
> Does anybody have an idea?
>
> Alex
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
Driver?? We dont need to stinkin driver! What type of CDR is it, IDE or
SCSI? If its IDE, you need to compile in generic SCSI support as well as
do some other tweaks to the kernel - then load the proper modules upon
boot, passing arguments to the kernel to load the IDE drive as a SCSI
drive. If the drive's SCSI, just enable SCSI CDROM support and your'e done.
The complete story: read the CDWRITING-HOWTO @ www.linuxdoc.org
--
bdl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux 2.2.16usb #1 Sun Jun 18 19:27:13 PDT 2000 i686
6:08am up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.16, 0.05
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ancipital)
Subject: Re: Kernel-Compilation for Athlon ?
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:15:17 GMT
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:15:56 -0500, "Mark Langsdorf"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Andreas Tretow wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Hi,
>>
>>yesterday I installed an Athlon 700, now what option do I have to use
>>for the kernel configuration (i386;i486..etc) ?
>
>
>My Athlon kernel (based on the stock 2.2.15 code) uses the PPro/6x86MX
>option in 'make menuconfig'. This is not the best optimization possible
>but the best stable and available choice until the 2.4 kernels come out.
Might be an idea to upgrade from .15, however, especially if the box
concerned is involved in a fair bit of network traffic, there are some
nasty bugs in that version. Some of them are so severe that they can
cause a total lockup of near NT proportions (as I discovered to my
cost, on my squid box).
On the other hand, on this box, i use the same options (it's an athlon
too), and it's quite nice, certaoinly nicer than my old pII machine.
Of course, on my athlon box at home, the 2.2 series doesn't
understanmd my pci devices at all[*] and doesn't boot on anything less
than 2.3, anyway.
[*] I have a gadget labs wave 8/24 sound card, full length pci mosnter
with a 1u rackmount breakout module (windows drivers only, sadly), and
it confuses the fsck out fo 2.2 kernels, which lock while
bootstrapping. However, it boots just fine under 2.3/2.4-test.
Ancipital- Inedible Buddhas reality control #1
http://www.buddhas.org is currently tqt- back soon.
To unmung email addr, get rid of "nospam-" and maybe even "-thanks"
"I'm not crying victim, but I am stating that a lot of spammers
are genuine scumbags." -Sanford Wallace
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 and 15 GB IDE disk NOT BOOTING
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:18:46 -0400
> 1 hard disk: WDC WD150AA 05.05B05 (western digital)
> custom installation process, to make sure all I want will be there. th
> process ends up fine, but the machine won't boot. Somehow it seems that the
> MBR (Master Boot Record) is not being recorded (saved) to the first sector
> of boot partition.
You might check to make sure that the kernel is detecting the geometry
of
the disk properly. Boot from the floppy and watch the messages that go
by during the boot. When the bootup process detects the drive, it will
display the geometry as it detects it.
Also, there might be a problem with the way you have the drive set up in
the BIOS. I just went through that problem with a new 10 Gb drive I put
in my system, turned out that when it was set up to use LBA, the BIOS
set it up for 255 heads, which mke2fs did not like. You probably don't
have the same problem (you said the install progressed properly, which
it
wouldn't have done if mke2fs had choked), but it might be related.
I'd double-check the BIOS settings against what the bootup detects and
make
sure they match. If they don't, you can give LILO a command line
parameter
to force the geometry of the drive. See the BootPrompt HOWTO and the
Lilo mini-HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org for details.
Hope this helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Beauchamp)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:56:49 +0100
In article <8iq7le$avc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Clafton wrote:
>A man of my word - for all you techies out their who would like to build
>themselves a 1U Server to their own specification, we now have available a
>BARE BONES kit with 1U Case, PSU, Motherboard and Floppy Drive - rack
>mounting kit and all other accessories.
Phweee! may well take up up on that in the near future (I did have a case
supplier lined up, but its always nice to get something that someone has
used abd can recommend ;-)
Ta
Chris
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From: "Rex Dieter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.16 Redhat RPM install breaks 2940uw
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:09:25 -0500
"MH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> mark kennett wrote:
> >
> > Anyone else having this same
> > problem? One note when I installed the new kernel it didn't create a
> > corresponding "/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img" for the new kernel, so I
> > commented this line out. Since I am unfamiliar with the contents of the
> > file, might that have some impact of my problem? Thanks in advance.
You haven't upgraded kernels before, have you? (-:
Installing a kernel doesn't create the initrd file for you. You need to run
mkinitrd by hand. I'd recommend running,
1. mkinitrd --image-version /boot/initrd 2.2.16-1
(replace 2.2.16-1 with the exact version of your new kernel).
2. Update /etc/lilo.conf to reference your new kernel/initrd image.
3. Run lilo
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Administrator
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
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Crossposted-To: comp.terminals,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
From: "Scott G. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: terminal on linux?
Reply-To: David Szotten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:52:28 GMT
David Szotten wrote:
> I've got my hands on a vt420 terminal and I'm trying to get it to work with
> my linux system. I haven't got much experience in terminals, so does anyone
> have any idea as to what I have to do to get it to work?
This question is best asked in one of the Linux sys-admin newsgroups:
comp.os.linux.setup
comp.os.linux.questions
comp.os.linux.hardware
comp.os.linux.misc
or simply a unix sys-admin newsgroup: comp.unix.admin
Basically, you want to setup a terminal port monitor process to run on the
serial port you want wish to connect the terminal -- for SVR4 systems use
"ttymon", most other systems (like Linux) use a form of "getty" or "uugetty".
Though each UNIX is different, there is usually a good set documents or man
pages for setting up the port monitor. In fact, the most common example is
how to setup a simple terminal -- such as what you want, and usually a modem.
The port monitor is responsible for generating the infamous UNIX "login:"
prompt, sometimes it can provide a preamble output file or script (like
machine name, system id, OS vendor and version, and so on). When the user
enters a login id, it passes control on to the login program which provides
the "Password:" prompt and authenticates the user. Then control passes on
to the user's startup shell program.
The port monitor is restarted when the last user shell dies, or the port
is reset, via a control file: /etc/inittab for SVR3 & SVR4 & Linux systems
(I forget what it is for BSD-derived systems or HP-UX). Look for the
keyword "respawn" in the startup control file.
Note that the port monitor has to set the serial port settings. For SVR4
based systems, this is specified as arguments to the "ttymon" command for
that port, for most other UNIX systems as arguments to the "getty" program,
both sequencing through a "/etc/gettydefs" file. I know that BSD-derived
systems used "/etc/ttys" to specify what /etc/gettydefs entry to start with.
Gettydefs entries can refer back to themselves (for fixed-baud-rate ports),
or refer to the next speed slower in a "hunt group" that would try different
port settings until your terminal responded correctly.
I cross-posted to a couple of the above mentioned newsgroups, and set all
followups to the first. I would look there for further details and answers.
--
Scott G. Hall General Dynamics Communication Systems
ph: 919-549-1189 North Carolina Systems Center
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Triangle Park, NC USA
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From: "Ozetechnology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: driver for yamaha-cd-writer
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:59:30 +1000
No driver is needed, its a scsi drive.
I use a SCS drive also under Linux (RH 6.2) burns very well, far better
than windoze ever did, zero failure count. There is a howto for cd writing
under linux, that you may want to look at.
On the X-CD-Roast home page there is a list of supported drives, mine was
not on that but falls into the generic category, as most likley does
yours. Give it a try and see what happens.
some urls that may help.
Home of X-CD-Roast www.xcdroast.org
Home of mkisofs (needed for X-CD-Roast)
www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/mkisofs.html
Home of cdrecord (needed for X-CD-Roast)
www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
David
Site: www.ozetechnology.com
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In article <8ipt25$nke$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a driver for the Yamaha CRW6416SX-VK for using it under
> Linux.
>
> Does anybody have an idea?
>
> Alex
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on motherboard decision
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:01:08 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neal Lippman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings. I am planning to build my first PC this summer.
> Although I've done various hardware additionals/substractions over
> the years, this will be my first attempt at building the whole
> thing from scratch. I am hoping for a little guidance on hardware
> selection.
>
> I am planning an Intel PIII based system, maybe around 733 Mhz or
> so, with 256 MB RAM, and the usual array of accoutrements (30-40GB
> 7200 RPM HD, DVD, CD writer, USB ports, sound, maybe firewire,
> 10/100 NIC). To start off, I am trying to refine my selection of
> system board. I was thinking along the lines of the Intel cc820
> series, but having read so much negative press about them, I have
> come around to realizing that is not likely to be the best choice.
> Others on this NG have posted positive comments about the ASUS
> boards.
Asus or Soyo. Get a 700e or a 750e, but not a 733. You'll
have the best system with a BX board and a 100mhz FSB p3, ie, an
'e', but not an 'eb'. Use at least pc100 cas2 ram (8ns, CL2)
non ECC
The i8<whatever> chipsets are even worse than you're read,
VIA's aren't much better.... go BX. I like the Soyo 6ba+IV
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> What I am hoping to find is either some sage advice on system
> board selection, or perhaps some pointers to reasonable and
> reliable reviews of boards that would help me in making this
> decision.
>
> Oh yes, btw, I am more than likely to run Linux (Mandrake 7.1) on
> this system as the primary OS, possibly with Win98 either in a
> small partition of its own for a dual boot, or more likely in a
> VMware virtual machine, just in case I need to use something like
> Quicken. As a result, I need to ensure Linux compatibility with
> all components that I select.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help offered. Neal
>
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ide problem
Date: 21 Jun 2000 14:38:07 GMT
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
this means that linux is using a udma mode, since this is its report
that it has detected a corruption of a transfer. it retries, of course.
you can make the messages go away by fixing your cable, which is probably
too long (all ide must be <= 18"), or has a stub (plug both ends in),
or you're using udma66 without the necessary 80-conductor cable (which
is of benefit for all modes.)
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From: Neal Bambha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit KA7 and mouse problems
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:02:07 -0400
Yes, I have the same problems with Abit KA7 /Athlon 800/RH6.1
Previously I had an Abit BH6/Celeron 300, with no problems.
The X server also crashes (as much as Windows)
Neal Bambha
Dan Lapine wrote:
> Anybody out there having problems with the mouse in XWindows? Fresh
> install of RH62 and the mouse goes flaky every so often, usually after a
> button press. By flaky, I mean the spurious menus pop up or the location
> changes.
>
> --
> Daniel LaPine
> Student at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: 21 Jun 2000 11:04:08 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown) writes:
>
> From the IBM site: the description of WIPE.EXE:
>
> Wipe is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to every sector on a
> hard disk drive up to 8 GB. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE
> drives.
>
> When it says "every sector", it means it. I've used it.
Neat. That's better than what I used to use - the Norton WIPEDISK.EXE
program. It would write zeros all over a logical volume. Effectively
unformatting a floppy or a HD partition, but would not wipe the
partitions themselves.
Of course, couldn't you also just do something simple like:
cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda
This will also wipe the disk to the point that repartitioning and
rewriting the MBR will be necessary.
-- David
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From: John Gluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:56:05 -0400
The original post suggested an aquarium pump and drilling heatsinks.
I think that's what started the joking.
Eric W Braeden wrote:
> Guys, water cooling is not a joke. It is for real. If done
> correctly it is safe and about 25 times more effective
> in removing heat from your CPU or even vid card!!
Certainly effective but costly
>
> By the time was are all running 2+ GHz machines
> we might all be using liquid cooling.
>
I hope not we might be unable to afford the machines
>
> Eric
--
John Gluck (Passport Kernel Design Group)
(613) 765-8392 ESN 395-8392
Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed here are strictly my own
and do not reflect any official position of Nortel Networks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: 21 Jun 2000 11:08:20 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown) writes:
>
> I'm not quite sure exactly you want to do, but if you truly want to
> clean a drive, try a utility (such as WIPE.EXE from IBM) that will
> write zeros to each sector, returning the drive to esentially the same
> state it was in when it was first sold. That is, needing an
> fdisk/format.
Actually, this is less than when it was first sold.
Every drive I've bought came from the factory with a partition table and
at least one FAT (or Mac HFS, depending on vendor and drive model)
partition on it.
Some (like an ancient Seagate ST-296N) included a small partition
containing formatting utilities (in this case, an OEM version of
OnTrack). (The instruction sheet with the drive then directs you to
copy the program to floppies, and repartition/reformat the drive using
it.)
-- David
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