Linux-Hardware Digest #194, Volume #13 Fri, 7 Jul 00 18:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Promise FastTrak100 (Michael Riggs)
Re: ATI rage II (Jianxin Xiong)
Device Drivers for HP CD-writer Plus 9300 series (greg tomczyk)
Weird corruption problems (Ross Vandegrift)
Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW? (smp root)
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? (Marc Perkel)
Re: Soundblaster - emu10k1 (Ross Vandegrift)
Re: Weird corruption problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hpt366. need support in 2.2.16 (Marius =?iso-8859-1?Q?Th=F8ring?=)
Voodoo Banshee ("T.W. Stokes")
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? (David C.)
Re: Weird corruption problems (Ross Vandegrift)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Michael Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise FastTrak100
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 16:36:06 -0400
Hello,
I just recieved a promise fasttrak/100 IDE raid controller and I am
having trouble getting it to work under linux. I've got it working under
win95, but who wants to run windows? (anyway my database will only run
under linux/intel or solaris/sparc) I have the latest kernel version
2.4.0-test2 with the test3 path applied along with hedrick's ide-test3
patch applied as well. The linux kernel detects the card during boot and
I get the following messages :
PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
PDC20267: chipset revision 2
PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20267: ROM enabled at 0xe5000000
PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER
Mode.
PDC20267: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
Clearly it is being half way detected, but I don't know what the last
error means. I can give the kernel parameter ide2=0x????,0x???? where
the i/o addresses are from /proc/pci and I can access my drives
connected to the fasttrak, but It dosn't solve the problem because it
dosn't kick the fasttrak into ultra dma mode. If anyone has any ideas,
please post or email me. Thanks.
Michael Riggs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Jianxin Xiong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI rage II
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:39:00 -0500
for XFree86 3.3.x use the "SVGA" driver, the "mach64" driver doesn't work
for me.
for XFree86 4.0.x the "ati" driver works fine.
Lior wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I have an ATI rage II (4 mb).
>
> I am almost totaly desprated but I want to know if I can run X windows
> in normal resolutions and how do I do that.
>
> any help will be welcome
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
--
O - O
(`Q`)
'
------------------------------
From: greg tomczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Device Drivers for HP CD-writer Plus 9300 series
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:50:14 -0700
I am looking for drivers for my HP CD-writer Plus 9300. it is an
internal drive and my system can not find it or recognize it. Are there
drivers for it yet?
thanks
Greg
------------------------------
From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Weird corruption problems
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:49:38 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I've had a server running on a dedicated T1 for a long time and
have had relatively few problems with it. It cooks along providing me
nice bandwidth and responsive service. However, it has recently become
plagued with a bizarre corruption problem.
I first noticed it while uploading some scripts from other Debian
boxen. The script would run fine on the local machines, and when FTPed to
any other Debian box on the network. However, when FTPed to the remote
one, the resulting file would be chock full o' errors. Weird stuff -
sometimes a whole line would be left out of the middle, sometimes a few
characters, and sometimes control characters would show up. I just redid
the upload and it was fine again.
I noticed it a second time when I recieved a "CRC error" report
about my release 3 SlackReiser boot disk from an extremely helpful
gentleman trying my software. He determined that the image on the remote
machine was corrupt, and I have verified this fact. Hmm, now I realize
something is fishy.
Today I got a call from a business associate who uses this remote
server for email, saying he couldn't relay mail from his new domain, could
I add his new domain to our realy-domains file. I said sure, and opened
it up. Much to my surprise, one of the characters in the file had been
replaced with a control character. I fixed the error, but now I'm really
scared about the rest of the data. What can I do to guarentee that it's
all there and correct? What on earth could be causing such a bizarre
problem? Situation 1 and 2 point to communication problems, but number 3
involves the relay-domains file - it hasn't been sent over FTP ever -
seems to say that it's a filesystem/hardware problem. Where should I
start looking?
Thanks,
Ross Vandegrift
Seitz Technical Products Inc
------------------------------
Subject: Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW?
From: smp root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.verilog
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:04:40 -0700
ok, i never pretended that the biggest problem with RAMBUS wasn't
the price...
however i must disagree with respinning hardware.. your view is
very 'short termist', what would they do in three years time???
respin again? unfortunately too many firms take the view you
have and that's not how technology advances... think of 3dfx -
once leader in the 3D card stakes, they've been screwed because
all they have done since the Voodoo2 is respin. the V3 was
respun to incorporate a 2D circuit and even the VSA100 chip in
the new V5s is only a respun V2... they're so close they're not
cousins they're brothers... remember the days when the best 3D
setup was 2 V2 pci in parallel - well does that not strangely
sound like the new V5 card??? yeah, technology lets them push
the chip harder and the frequency increases, but the chips DON'T
change... and that's why only ATI (Radeon) and Nvidia (NV15) are
real contenders as far as performance is concerned. sure
stability is easier to get when you've been building the same
chip for 4 years ;-)
don't believe that because the 440 was better IN IT'S TIME than
the 820 is now that the 820 was a mistake. at least Intel have
an RnD department that's not afraid to research. and they're not
going to be lumbered in 3 years time with 6 year old legacy
hardware while some are developping new and fast kit.
the problem is that RAM has not changed a great deal in a good
long time. and that with the increased cpu speed, it's starting
to matter. somebody had to try something new. has anyone, and i
mean anyone, actually SEEN a DDR mobo? i think not, and for the
moment, as you say, the only screw up with RDRAM is the price.
and that's not so bad for brand new technology. take a look on
usenet and there are hardware screwups worse than that... it's
not revolutionary, but if it cost the same as SDRAM, everyone
would have it. and the cost is not Intel's fault. the don't
make the damn stuff.
anyway, that's what i think...
as for keen - it's www.remarq.com, they stick crap on the bottom
of all my posts, remarq is the usenet equivalent of webmail, and
is very useful to me, as i work each day on around 10 different
pcs, under linux, bsd or windoze:-( and only a few are mine, so i
just use the web to follow news groups. problem is they stick
crap on my bottom ;-)
cheers
===========================================================
Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com.
Up to 100 minutes free!
http://www.keen.com
------------------------------
From: Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:11:23 GMT
I have an Exabyte scsi tape drive. How do I tell it that I have this
drive and where it is? Is there a driver I have to install for exabyte?
I get the idea that the tape drive is just a "file" but somehow I have
to tell linux what kind it is and where to find it, don't I?
How do I do that?
>
> Note that /dev/tape probably doesn't exist on your system. You'd
create it
> as a symlink to your tape device. In my case, /dev/tape -> /dev/nst0,
as I
> have a SCSI DAT drive. YMMV.
>
> I'd also strongly recommend the book "Running Linux", published by
> O'Reilly, now in its third edition. The Unix admin books by Nemeth
and
> Frisch are also good. RTFM, as they say. It helps.
>
> --
> Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
> Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.
http://www.opensales.org
> What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux
rocks!
> http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5:
http://www.kuro5hin.org
> GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
>
--
Supreme Commander * Nerd Liberation Movement
"We're comming out of the back room!"
http://www.perkel.com
http://www.ctyme.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster - emu10k1
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:23:35 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Poinsett Weldon wrote:
> > I`m trying to get a Soundblaster Live Card going under SuSE 6.4 without much
> > luck. I have the emu10k module running fine, when I "cat /dev/sndstat" I get
> > the usual list of information except the Config Line (irq number etc..) is
> > in brackets. The docs say that this is because the card has been configured
> > but not detected, they don`t go into anymore detail than that! Does anyone
> > have any ideas for a music starved SuSE user?
http://oss.creative.com (or maybe it's opensource.creative.com... don't
really remember...) is where the module is released fairly frequently. My
SBLive! MP#+ works great using this module!
Ross
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Weird corruption problems
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:25:40 GMT
I'd be looking at the disk subsystem. What controllers are you using? Sounds
to me like they maybe going bad. Anything in the log files? I've heard of
cases where extremely busy scsi buses can corrupt data, might that be the
case here? Give us some more details about the hardware involved.
Regards,
Chad
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:49:38 -0400
>From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.hardware
>Subject: Weird corruption problems
>
>Hi all,
>
> I've had a server running on a dedicated T1 for a long time and
>have had relatively few problems with it. It cooks along providing me
>nice bandwidth and responsive service. However, it has recently become
>plagued with a bizarre corruption problem.
>
> I first noticed it while uploading some scripts from other Debian
>boxen. The script would run fine on the local machines, and when FTPed to
>any other Debian box on the network. However, when FTPed to the remote
>one, the resulting file would be chock full o' errors. Weird stuff -
>sometimes a whole line would be left out of the middle, sometimes a few
>characters, and sometimes control characters would show up. I just redid
>the upload and it was fine again.
>
> I noticed it a second time when I recieved a "CRC error" report
>about my release 3 SlackReiser boot disk from an extremely helpful
>gentleman trying my software. He determined that the image on the remote
>machine was corrupt, and I have verified this fact. Hmm, now I realize
>something is fishy.
>
> Today I got a call from a business associate who uses this remote
>server for email, saying he couldn't relay mail from his new domain, could
>I add his new domain to our realy-domains file. I said sure, and opened
>it up. Much to my surprise, one of the characters in the file had been
>replaced with a control character. I fixed the error, but now I'm really
>scared about the rest of the data. What can I do to guarentee that it's
>all there and correct? What on earth could be causing such a bizarre
>problem? Situation 1 and 2 point to communication problems, but number 3
>involves the relay-domains file - it hasn't been sent over FTP ever -
>seems to say that it's a filesystem/hardware problem. Where should I
>start looking?
>
>Thanks,
> Ross Vandegrift
> Seitz Technical Products Inc
>
>
--
_\|/_
(o o)
==============================================oOO=(_)=OOo======
Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Packet filtering for Linux
http://www.packetfilter.dynip.com/
Now hosting IPChains mailing list v2
"...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good,
the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh)
===============================================================
------------------------------
From: Marius =?iso-8859-1?Q?Th=F8ring?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hpt366. need support in 2.2.16
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:47:12 GMT
Does anyone know where to find a ide-kernel patch
that enables the hpt366 controller in my system?
Thanx =)
------------------------------
From: "T.W. Stokes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo Banshee
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:50:37 -0400
Hi. I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a 400MHz Gateway G6-400 with an
OEM Voodoo Banshee AGP. I have to use the older XFree86 server (3.3.3-5)
in order for it to work. It's using a SVGA and not an accelerated
server. Does anyone know where I could get the accelerated drivers for
this?? Or is using SVGA as good as I'm going to get it. It runs videos
fine and smooth, but I think it can do better. By using an accelerated
server, does it make a huge difference between SVGA servers??
Thanks in advance,
T.W. Stokes
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup?
Date: 07 Jul 2000 17:48:52 -0400
Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I have an Exabyte scsi tape drive. How do I tell it that I have this
> drive and where it is? Is there a driver I have to install for
> exabyte? I get the idea that the tape drive is just a "file" but
> somehow I have to tell linux what kind it is and where to find it,
> don't I?
If you have SCSI tape support compiled and installed (it is in most
distributions), and your SCSI card is installed and working properly,
you don't have to do anything else. Just boot your system with the tape
drive turned on and it will be detected. If you have no other tape
drives, it will be assigned to these devices:
/dev/st0 - this interface will rewind the tape whenever it is
closed.
/dev/nst0 - this interface will not auto-rewind the tape. You
may still rewind via an explicit software command.
(eg. mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind)
-- David
------------------------------
From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Weird corruption problems
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:04:05 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'd be looking at the disk subsystem. What controllers are you using? Sounds
> to me like they maybe going bad. Anything in the log files? I've heard of
> cases where extremely busy scsi buses can corrupt data, might that be the
> case here? Give us some more details about the hardware involved.
Hmm, that's something along the lines of what I was thinking too. We use
all IDE controllers on the server - This one has four hard drives,
hd[abcd]. They're all Western Digital 13G UDMA 33 drives. The
motherboard is ASUS, IDE controllers are Intel PIIX4. hda4 is the root
partition, hd[bc]1 are RAID1'ed together, hdd2 is a seperate disk for
shell users' home directories. I can't imagine it has to do with the
harddisks failing, since IDE drives do sector relocation automatically.
Is there a chance it has to do with noise on the bus? Also, the location
isn't known for having a particulary good electricity supply (it was as
low as 90VAC once). I've seen this corruption happen on both /dev/hda4
and /dev/md0, so I doubt it's a bug in the RAID code. (which, btw is
kernel 2.2.11 with raid0145 patch)
The server is a Cyrix 6x86MX 150, 64M of RAM, 128M of swap (swap is on
hdd1). Network card is a 3Com 3C509B, video is a Bob's Generic Brand ISA
VGA card... It's probably a trident 1 megger or something old like that.
Thanks,
Ross
>
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
>
> >Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:49:38 -0400
> >From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.hardware
> >Subject: Weird corruption problems
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> > I've had a server running on a dedicated T1 for a long time and
> >have had relatively few problems with it. It cooks along providing me
> >nice bandwidth and responsive service. However, it has recently become
> >plagued with a bizarre corruption problem.
> >
> > I first noticed it while uploading some scripts from other Debian
> >boxen. The script would run fine on the local machines, and when FTPed to
> >any other Debian box on the network. However, when FTPed to the remote
> >one, the resulting file would be chock full o' errors. Weird stuff -
> >sometimes a whole line would be left out of the middle, sometimes a few
> >characters, and sometimes control characters would show up. I just redid
> >the upload and it was fine again.
> >
> > I noticed it a second time when I recieved a "CRC error" report
> >about my release 3 SlackReiser boot disk from an extremely helpful
> >gentleman trying my software. He determined that the image on the remote
> >machine was corrupt, and I have verified this fact. Hmm, now I realize
> >something is fishy.
> >
> > Today I got a call from a business associate who uses this remote
> >server for email, saying he couldn't relay mail from his new domain, could
> >I add his new domain to our realy-domains file. I said sure, and opened
> >it up. Much to my surprise, one of the characters in the file had been
> >replaced with a control character. I fixed the error, but now I'm really
> >scared about the rest of the data. What can I do to guarentee that it's
> >all there and correct? What on earth could be causing such a bizarre
> >problem? Situation 1 and 2 point to communication problems, but number 3
> >involves the relay-domains file - it hasn't been sent over FTP ever -
> >seems to say that it's a filesystem/hardware problem. Where should I
> >start looking?
> >
> >Thanks,
> > Ross Vandegrift
> > Seitz Technical Products Inc
> >
> >
>
> --
> _\|/_
> (o o)
> ----------------------------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo------
> Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Packet filtering for Linux
> http://www.packetfilter.dynip.com/
> Now hosting IPChains mailing list v2
>
> "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good,
> the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh)
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
