Linux-Hardware Digest #114, Volume #13 Sun, 25 Jun 00 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Thoughts on this configuration? (Thomas Zajic)
Annoying Key Combination for Shutting Down my Computer ("Niall Wallace")
Re: Q: HD > 1024cyl (Dances With Crows)
Re: Acceleraid 250 prevents Linux from booting (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Thoughts on this configuration? (no one)
cdrecord/mkisofs - final close for W95 (Anthony Roberts)
Modems ("Tom McIntyre")
Re: Linux & USB mouse: how?!?
Re: Compaq Presario 1200XL soundboard/modem problems (Rod Smith)
Re: 5 ethernet ports on the same Linux Box (chad pauli)
Re: 5 ethernet ports on the same Linux Box (chad pauli)
Re: Compaq Presario 1200XL soundboard/modem problems (Rod Smith)
hp colorado eide travan tape drive (chad pauli)
Re: Thoughts on this configuration? (Johan Kullstam)
Epson Stylus problems fixed ("Eric J. Shamow")
ATI XPert 99/2000 Graphics Adapter & Linux ("Viola J. Riggle")
SB PCI 512 sound issue ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Thoughts on this configuration?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:08:07 GMT
[ FUP colh ]
On 25 Jun 2000 15:15:14 -0500, no one wrote:
> I'm interested in thougts that other readers might have about my
> chosen configuration, and whether my expected costs for the parts
> seem reasonable:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> 2 each Maxtor EIDE 18GB fixed disk 220
^^^^!
> IDE cd-rom reader/burner 200
^^^!
> Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card 175
^^^^?
> [ ... ]
Huh? Is it just me, or can you save some 175 bucks here? 8-)
Curious,
Thomas
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From: "Niall Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Annoying Key Combination for Shutting Down my Computer
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:02:56 +0100
Hi, there is a really annoying key combination that can be set in the bios
that will turn off the power supply on my computer, it would be fine if it
was the Turbo-Power keys on my key board but it's not it's
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
The computer dual boots with Win 95 and when ever Win 95 crashes this is
usually the easiest way to turn the thing off, is there any way I can get
Linux to disable this function but still keep it active for when I really
need to kill the thing. Or do I just have to turn it off in the bios and try
and get at the power button?
Thanks in advance
Niall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Q: HD > 1024cyl
Date: 25 Jun 2000 19:20:30 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:58:48 -0500, Dima Maziuk
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Linux kernel lives above 1024 cylinders. 528Mb fat has ntloader and
>msdos 6.2 on it. The whole thing worked fine in a P-233 TX m/b.
>
>I moved to recently States and bought an HP Vectra PPro-200 -- for
>now. Its BIOS (latest available from hp) has only 2 ide translation
>settings: "standard" and "extended". According to fdisk, "extended"
>reports 1027 cylinders on the drive (bug?).
>I'm just curious -- what's wrong with the damn thing that kills PM
>and dos. 1027 cylinders? Just how LBA and Large translation modes found
>in decent BIOS are supposed to work (I know they remap cylinders to
>heads; what's the difference between large and lba anyway)?
Large and LBA differ mainly in the number of C/H/S translated heads they
support. Large poops out at 64 heads (2G), while LBA provides C/H/S
mappings for up to 255 heads (8G) or possibly more. Switching translation
modes without repartitioning is somewhat risky, and anything
BIOS-dependent like DOS or NTLDR or LILO will suffer full confusion when
the translation mode the BIOS uses switches.
I *think* that you could boot Linux from a floppy, then re-run LILO with
boot=/dev/hda and then you could boot Linux from the hard drive... that
may not be what you want though.
--
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: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acceleraid 250 prevents Linux from booting
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:38:57 GMT
Xavier GALLEZ wrote:
>
> I am encountering troubles with an Acceleraid 250 RAID controller. Very
> briefly, the computer does not boot if the RAID controller is installed and
> configured. Here is how the system is configured:
>
> - motherboard: Intel Lancewood w/ on-board Ultra2 et Ultra wide SCSI
> - OS drive : on the motherboard's Ultra wide bus : ChB, target 0, IBM single
> ended.
> - RAID controller Acceleraid 250, RAID 5 with 5 Seagate 36.4 GB Ultra2 SCSI
> HD (SCSI ids ranging from 1 to 5)
>
> When the RAID controller is pugged in, but not configured, the system boots
> just fine on the IBM drive. The BIOS initialisation sequence however
> completes with a (counter-intuitive) message like "No system drive
> installed. DAC960 scan complete".
This is the DAC960 bios message and it makes complete sense as it hasn't
detected
any drives.
> If, on the other hand, the RAID controller is configured, the system
> restarts after the BIOS initialisation sequence, which this time issues the
> message "1system drive installed. DAC960 scan complete". I can boot from the
> floppy though. The IBM system drive is however detected when the SCSI buses
> are scanned very early in the initialisation process.
>
> So, it looks like the motherboard Ultra Wide SCSI bus cannot be accessed
> after the controller initialises. Is there any option I should select when
> configuring the RAID controller ?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Xavier Gallez
>
> PS: OS is RedHat Linux 6.1, which detects the controller just fine.
I've had just the reverse problem. I'm currently using a Mylex Acceleraid
250 setup as RAID 5 with RH 6.2 and It's working just fine, the difference is
that I'm booting off the logical RAID device and the devices on the secondary
controller are my swap drive, CDRom & 2 tape drives. In order to do this, I
had to disable the bios on the secondary (on board) Adaptec controller.
I have a suggestion. Go into the bios on the Mylex card and turn off it's
ability to boot or just turn off the bios. On most SCSI cards the bios is
just used to boot and doesn't affect the actual operaion.
Best
Cokey
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Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Thoughts on this configuration?
From: no-one@all (no one)
Date: 25 Jun 2000 18:39:50 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Joshua Rosen) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I'd dump the Maxtor drives in favor of the IBM 75GXP. The
>45Gbyte/7200RPM 75GXP can be had for about $260. There are 15,30,45,60
>and 75Gbyte drives in the family.
>
Fair enough opinion. I'd prefer to have two smaller drives than one large
one, for redundancy and the ability to do stuff like striping, etc. What
are the cost ranges for the 15 and 30GB drives in this family? UDMA
access?
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From: Anthony Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrecord/mkisofs - final close for W95
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:59:44 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am creating multi-session CD's using mkisofs and cdrecord. (Joliet and
Rockridge extensions)
I can see the sessions on windows 98 and redhat 6.0
But the CD's are not visible to Windows 95 or redhat 5.1. I thought this
might be to do with "unclosed" sessions.
However I dont know why this happens (the cdrecord homepage says
that the session is "closed" if the disk is "fixated" at the end of each
session, which it certainly is each
time I do a multi-session burn).
I'm guessing (from the information below) that the disk is some sense
open - and this is
causing Windows95/RH5.1 to spit the dummy.
(http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/cdrecord-1.8.html)
This option makes only sense with a CD that contains at
least one closed session and is appendable (not finally closed yet)
So the questions are
(1) Whats wrong?
(2) How do I "finally" close a multi-session CD.
Thanks,
Tony
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From: "Tom McIntyre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modems
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:54:02 +0100
Hi. I currently have an "unnamed" modem, seems to be some sort of 56K
Rockwell. The problem is connecting to one of my ISPs - it just makes weird
noises (you can hear the negotiating noises over and over, until some time
it decides to work and go on and connect, or it makes a very loud hiss until
it times out), although occasionally it does connect first time. This only
happens with one of my ISPs, but it's the one I need to use a lot. Could it
be that my modem's not properly compatible with their modems? If so, is
there a way I can get a firmware patch (it is flashable) without knowing the
manufacturer/model, or can I find these out?
Otherwise, could someone recommend a good, internal, pure-hardware ISA modem
that will work with Linux? I'm using my Linux box as a router atm, and
that's the way I'd like to keep it, but so far I can only find Winmodems >:(
Thanks
--
Tom McIntyre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Linux & USB mouse: how?!?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:16:48 GMT
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:33:56 +0200, Ruud Mol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi folks,
You could try installing Mandrake 7.1.
The installer doesn't load any of the USB modules, however it
will setup a USB keyboard and mouse for you.
[deletia]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 1200XL soundboard/modem problems
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:39:51 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8j5t7k$j91$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collene Pearce) writes:
> I bought a Compaq Presario 1200XL 119 notebook
> a couple of weeks ago.
...
> So, although I wanted a debian kernel, I've gone on to
> install SuSE 6.4 on it and it installed beautifully, but
> the sound board and modem are not recognized.
>
> The built in sound board is a:
> VIA Technologies, Inc. -- VT82Cxxx -- Apollo.
In my experience, the ALSA drivers (http://www.alsa-project.org) work
well, although they're a bit of a pain to install.
> The built in modem is a: Lucent 56kb WinModem.
>
> I'm told modem help can be found at
> http://www.linmodems.org/ has the answer.
> It's binary-only; provided, but unsupported by Lucent.
> http://www.linmodems.org/linux568.zip
>
> Anyone have any experience with this?
This driver does work, at least with the Mandrake 7.0 installation I've
got.
For more information on my experiences with a similar computer, see:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/presario/
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: chad pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 5 ethernet ports on the same Linux Box
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:40:08 GMT
adaptec made a 4 port card. it was like $600 and not sure if it used one irq or
more.
Slawomir Siwek wrote:
> Sylvain Le Briero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Is anyboby here as managed to confiigure up to 6 ethernet cards on a single
> > host in order to make a firewall ?
>
> There is a card (don't remember who made it) with four interface on board
> (with one irq) Then you don't waste more irq.
>
> --
> S�awomir Siwek.
> Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne SA
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From: chad pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 5 ethernet ports on the same Linux Box
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:42:10 GMT
Adaptec made special server cards with 4 ethernet ports. The one I looked at was
$600. no idea if it used one irq. but take a look at adaptec, and yes they make
things other than SCSI. That surprised me as well ;-)
chad pauli
Slawomir Siwek wrote:
> Sylvain Le Briero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Is anyboby here as managed to confiigure up to 6 ethernet cards on a single
> > host in order to make a firewall ?
>
> There is a card (don't remember who made it) with four interface on board
> (with one irq) Then you don't waste more irq.
>
> --
> S�awomir Siwek.
> Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne SA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 1200XL soundboard/modem problems
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:48:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Keep on plugging away at the sound. If you are stil having trouble, you
> can try http://www.alsa-project.org/.
> If that doesn't help and you have some money you can purchase the sound
> drivers from http://www.4front-tech.com/. I heard they work well.
I tried the OSS (4Front) drivers. Unfortunately, they locked up the
computer about 1/3 of the time. (This was on a Compaq Presario
1200XL-106, which presumably uses the same sound chipset as the
1200XL-119 used by the original poster.) The problem was no doubt due
to the fairly new status of the specific chipset driver, and/or
interactions with other components, not to the OSS drivers generally.
It might also have been fixed by now, but I received no reply when I
reported the problem to OSS. The ALSA driver works well for me, aside
from the occasional audio glitch (which I get in Windows, too -- it
seems it's just a cruddy sound chipset).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: chad pauli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hp colorado eide travan tape drive
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:12:09 GMT
Hello,
A friend of mine will be buying a tape drive for his Linux box.
He is looking at the HP 10/20 Travan technology drive that is eide
interface.
Is anyone using this under Linux? He is going to be running Red Hat 6.2.
How was the install, or anything special needed to get it running?
Any suggestion as to what X-windows utility or program to use for backup
or command line utility?
chad pauli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Thoughts on this configuration?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 01:22:13 GMT
no-one@all (no one) writes:
> Hey gang:
>
> I haven't bought or built a PC since the early Pentium days (been spending
> my time playing with SUN and HP server equipment). Anyway, I find that
> it's about time for me to build a new development/test system to use with
> NT and Linux. To that end, I've tried to identify what I believe will make
> a good system and choose parts that are compatible.
>
> I'm interested in thougts that other readers might have about my chosen
> configuration, and whether my expected costs for the parts seem reasonable:
>
> Tyan SMP P3 Tiger 133 S1834 motherboard 160
> ATX 6 drive bay case with 250W power supply 30
> PS2 keyboard with tactile response 30
> PS2 3 button mouse 10
> 2 each 256MB 72 bit PC/100 SDRAM 600
> 2 each 600mhz P3 processors (slot 1 type SECC2) 440
> 2 each Maxtor EIDE 18GB fixed disk 220
why get an IDE when you can have a top-o-the-line scsi?
> IDE cd-rom reader/burner 200
plextor 8/24 SCSI cd-r 250
adaptec are nice but wicked overpriced
> Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card 175
symbios logic sym8751sp (53c875 based UW card) 70
(just as good as adaptecs hardware but with better linux support)
or tekram dc-390u2w (not the u2b) 150
(ultra2 wide lvd and also a symbios chipset 53c895)
> 2X AGP graphics card (S3 chipset with 8MB) 300
> 20 inch Vision Master 1600x1200 monitor 1000
> 100mb PCI network card 30
> ---------
> 3195
>
> I'm wondering whether I can gather the needed parts within the price range
> I've listed and I need to make sure that the parts I've listed are all
> compatible. Is there anything important that I've forgotten to list?
>
> Is anyone running a similar configuration and can you give me any idea
> about performance or noted problems?
>
> I can be reached by posting a followup, or email me at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] where the digits and the word (german) are
> removed from the domain name. The (O) is a letter, not a digit...
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Eric J. Shamow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Stylus problems fixed
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:09:30 -0000
Just wanted to drop a quick thanks to those that helped me with my Epson
ST740 problems.
The solution was to compile parallel port/printer/printer autodetection
directly into the kernel. Not sure yet why this is making such a
difference, but I can at least puzzle it out while the printer works at this
point!
Again, thanks all -
-Eric
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From: "Viola J. Riggle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI XPert 99/2000 Graphics Adapter & Linux
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:35:26 -0500
Does anyone know of a way to get the ATI XPert 99/2000 Graphics card (Mach64
chipset) to work with Caldera OpenLinux? If you can show me where to find a
driver, or at least the specs (clock rate, etc.), I'd much appreciate it.
ATI's web page was not very helpful. Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SB PCI 512 sound issue
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:49:06 GMT
I'm using a brand new Sound Blaster PCI 512 in my linux box with kernel
2.2.16 and the emu10k1 driver off soundblaster's open source site. When
I play .wav or .au audio, there's a quick boom at the beginning. MP3's
work fine however. This is pretty annoying; any ideas on what causes it
and how to fix it? I've tried fooling around with the mixer controls
with no success. Thanks.
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