Linux-Hardware Digest #206, Volume #13 Mon, 10 Jul 00 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
HD not IDE (Luis Seidel)
Re: Efficient Networks 3060 ADSL ("mcfrisch")
ati rage 128 pro: random placement of text lines (Bob Terrell)
Re: 16 bit computer (Kenneth R�rvik)
USB Tape Drive Support (OnStream) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW? (Johan Kullstam)
i386 Problem (Harry Styron)
Re: equipment for multi-DSL conections? (Harry Styron)
Compaq 5000 with Storage Unit F1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LS-120 FLOPTICAL (Mark Paulus)
Most compatible HW? ("Steve Woodward")
Re: Linux home server: Clean-slate hardware plan? (James Knowles)
Re: Strange boot-up message about NMI 21/30/31 (Charles T. Schofield)
Re: Netgear FA-310TX with Tulip chip (Neil Wolvin)
Re: Integrated motherboard (Kenaniah)
Re: 16 bit computer
Re: Efficient Networks 3060 ADSL (Hal Burgiss)
Redhat 6.2 on new Dell Dimension (Steve Versteeg)
Re: glut&mesa problem ("FROZEN_Steam")
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From: Luis Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD not IDE
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:59:05 +0200
Dear all,
I've got a new P iii - 700Mhz, 128MB RAM, and I've tried to breed it with Linux
Mandrake 7.1, but the Hard Disk isn't recognized. I've tried everything
(fiddling with the BIOS, pass parameters to the kernel, format or unformat the
disk with W98 fdisk,...), but always when the installation gets to the point of
partitioning the disks, it freezes, and in the console says:
(retrieved with dmesg)
hda: no response (status 0x80)
hda: non-IDE drive, CHS=35174/4/18
and then, every time the installation script tries to mount /dev/hda, it says
hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
I must stress that the physical status of the disk is correct, and that it
works under W98. (Also, Suse 6.4 and an old Debian 1.3.1 installation disks
have been tried).
The essential data: Seagate ST313021A (13GB)
motherboard: Soltek with VIA 82C586 chipset.
Needless to say, any help will be greatly appreciated (even more, the people
who sold me the machine, have no better idea that pointing me to this
newsgroup).
Many thanks in advance of despair,
Luis Seidel
Dpto. de Fisica Aplicada
ETSI Industriales
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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From: "mcfrisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Efficient Networks 3060 ADSL
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:19:31 -0400
Well that seems to be the consensus. I guess for now, I will have to use my
Windoze 98 as a Proxy to access the DSL. I read the information about the
Speedstream 3010 implementation and wondered if it is at all compatible. It
seems like a generic PPP over ATM installation, but are the parameters
listed specific to the 3010 or ATM25 in general?
Anyway, I will have to be patient as I would guess the Linux drivers won't
be available for several months, at least. Thanks for the link, very
informative.
L8tr
Rob Frischauf
mcfirsch<ANTISPAM>@hotmail.com
"Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:16:09 -0400, Rob F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Does anyone know if Efficient Networks 3060 ADSL modem is supported in
> >any way?
>
> Yes, and it definitely is not. Supposedly they are working on Linux
> drivers, but wouldn't hold my breath.
>
> http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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From: Bob Terrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ati rage 128 pro: random placement of text lines
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:35:51 -0400
Hi. The rage 128 pro works pretty well on a redhat 6.2
system after following the advice about the
ChipId 0x5246 line in XF86Config as in
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/rage128-howto.html
but there is still a small problem: sometimes a line
of text gets written in a random location on the screen,
like if you are in an xterm and do ls, then the first
line of output might appear at the top or side of the
screen instead of in the xterm.
This is with XFree86-3.3.6-20.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
thanks,
Bob
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Subject: Re: 16 bit computer
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:38:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sanjeev) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hallo everybody
>I have a very basic question:
>What does te mean by 16 bit computer or 32 bit computer etc.?
This refers to the width of the data-bus in the computer, i.e how many bits
can be transferred at a time (a bus-clockcycle) on the databus. There are
several buses in a computer system, for example the databus, address bus or
even the PCI or ISA bus. A bus in this context means the interface between
different parts of the computer.
However, I am no bus-expert, so if anyone has corrections feel free .)
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USB Tape Drive Support (OnStream)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:31:09 GMT
Would anyone like to make an educated guess if this drive (USB30) will be
supported in future versions of Linux?
Thanks!
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.verilog
Subject: Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW?
Date: 10 Jul 2000 09:31:20 -0400
smp root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
why talk about ddr? pc133 sdram is giving pc800 rdram a run for its
money *right now*.
<URL:http://www.semibiznews.com/story/OEG20000708S0001>
> i think not, and for the
> moment, as you say, the only screw up with RDRAM is the price.
price isn't everything. the other half of the screw-up is the rather
lackluster performance of the rdram. if it was twice as fast, we all
gladly pay that price.
> and that's not so bad for brand new technology.
it's terrible for new tech. it has to be clearly better than the
stuff it replaces. this has to be better in price or performance or
preferably both. this is not true with rdram. it's same or worse in
performance and much worse in price.
> 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.
no, but they didn't make sdram chipsets until they were dragged
kicking and screaming. maybe one day rdram will be the ram winner,
maybe not. the thing that gets everyone upset is how intel dropped
support for a working technology sdram before it was time. sdram
still has a couple of years of life left in it.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: Harry Styron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i386 Problem
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:49:44 -0700
I just moved my Linux 2.0.38 Debian system from a 386-40MHz to an Intel
586-166MHz SY016 processor on an Octek Rhino 20+ Motherboard.
I now get the following messages repeated at fairly short intervals
(otherwise the system seems to be working fine)::
alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt 00000608
eth1: Tx FIFO error! Status 02e2
eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2
This is way over my head. Anyone know enough to say what's going on?
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Harry Styron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: equipment for multi-DSL conections?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:54:21 -0700
Hi Chris:
You can't just put a dumb switch or bridge between you and your ISP, and then
put more than one computer on the other end. Each computer requires its own IP
address. You can do this with a masquerading firewall on Linux, or you can get
multiple IP addresses from your ISP (and probably pay for the privilege).
Harry Styron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Chris Harshman wrote:
> I can vouch for the Linksys device. Worthy of note:
> - It's a 4-port 100/100 SWITCH, not just a hub.
> - It can do port forwarding, so port 80 on the firewall (the DSL IP address)
> can point to port 80 on your Linux box, allowing you to serve from behind
> the firewall.
> - You can set up a DMZ host that has unfettered access to the 'net, and
> vice-versa.
> - It supports PPPoE (necessary for running over my el-cheapo PacBell feed;
> dynamic IPs suck)
>
> I've had one in place for about a month, and couldn't be happier. I'm
> running Firmware 1.22, which had to be downloaded from the website and
> installed, no big deal.
>
> > If you want to keep it simple and not dedicate a full-blown machine, buy
> > one of these:
> >
> > http://www.us.buy.com/comp/product.asp?Sku=10235958
> >
> > A friend of mine bought one on my recommendation and has been very
> > pleased with it. Basically a 4-port hub that does NAT/firewall and all
> > that good stuff. Just plug it in and go. Got a good mention on
> > http://www.grc.com too (Shields UP! site, quick test of network
> > security, lots of neat info).
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Compaq 5000 with Storage Unit F1
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:52:49 GMT
Does anyone have good/bad experience to share on installing Linux on a
5000R with/without an extneral storgae unit. The system has a
SmartArrary 2 controller installed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Paulus)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LS-120 FLOPTICAL
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:00:39 GMT
I have to mount mine as a hard drive. I would do:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/floppy.
My LS-120 is the master on my second IDE channel,
and everthing else in my system is SCSI based.
This gives me access to any floppy I put in,
LS-120 or 3.5".
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 02:35:10, "KASI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a ls-120 superdrive installed in place of a regular floppy drive.
> When Linux(RH) boots it identifies the drive as hdd which is correct as it
> is installed as the slave on my secondary IDE port. Linux, however does not
> set up or recognize the drive in control panel or linuxconf. It does
> however list a floppy device which it should not since all floppy drives are
> turned off in the BIOS. I guess what I need to know and have been unable to
> find in the help documents is the mount point(s) for a LS-120 when using a
> 1.44M floppy disk and when using a 120M superdisk.
> Thanks.
> KEN
>
>
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From: "Steve Woodward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Most compatible HW?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:13:38 -0400
I'm getting ready to put a new box together and want to spec it out to work
with Linux as flawlessly as possible. Is there a list somewhere of hardware
that works well with Linux? I'm most interested in video, sound and NIC
cards. Thanks!
Steve W
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux home server: Clean-slate hardware plan?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:21:36 -0600
> > He's got two drives already, a hard disk and a CDROM drive. A
> > third drive would be catastrophic for IDE performance.
>
> What do you mean by catastrophic?
This may be a combination of hard drives and MB. I have a K7M with an
identical setup, but I can only pull 2MB/s from the second HD, as either
hdb or hdc. hda pulls ~11MB/s no problems *if* I enable DMA in
lilo.conf. I suspect the HD on this one, since enabling DMA always
resets the drive.
--
My stars, it's full of dogs!
- 2001 Dalmatians
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From: Charles T. Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange boot-up message about NMI 21/30/31
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:30:04 GMT
Look at your motherboard for jumper settings that say Parity check make
sher they are disabled then go into your bois setup and disable your
parity check fecther be shour to look at all of your subpages.
--
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From: Neil Wolvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA-310TX with Tulip chip
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:31:06 GMT
I have 4 running. Two cards are used full time in linux (red hat6.0) The other
two are used in multi boot machines running windows and or red hat or caldera.
All have worked in linux with the supplied drivers on the distro cd.
Neil Wolvin
Cj wrote:
> I have one running in a linux box, I found it really easy to setup and run
> with the real tulip driver.
>
> Chris
>
> Steven Fosdick wrote in message ...
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> The Netgear FA-310TX with Tulip chip is alleged to work with Linux.
> >> They even include a *.c driver on a floppy that comes with the card.
> >> However, in the past couple of days I've heard twice from people who say
> >> they can't get it to work on their systems. It's long been included on
> >> the Hardware-HOWTO. What's the deal? Anybody here have this NIC
> >> actually working?
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From: Kenaniah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Integrated motherboard
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:42:45 -0400
Go to www.supermicro.com.
Lots of such boards. Linux Ready, and fairly Inexpensive.
"Michael J. Leaver" wrote:
> Does anyone know of a motherboard that has built-in graphics & sound
> (and maybe even a modem and/or NIC) and FULLY works with Linux?
> I looked at the Intel CA810E but from what I can tell there seem to be no
> drivers for it and it has problems recognising memory.
>
> Thanks for any help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: 16 bit computer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:49:45 GMT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:38:46 GMT, Kenneth R�rvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sanjeev) wrote in
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>Hallo everybody
>>I have a very basic question:
>>What does te mean by 16 bit computer or 32 bit computer etc.?
>
>This refers to the width of the data-bus in the computer, i.e how many bits
>can be transferred at a time (a bus-clockcycle) on the databus. There are
>several buses in a computer system, for example the databus, address bus or
>even the PCI or ISA bus. A bus in this context means the interface between
>different parts of the computer.
The "bitness" of a computer is generaly determined by the width
of the cpu's registers and the types of arithmetic that can be performed.
An 8088, with it's 8 bit bus, is considered a 16 bit processor; the 8085
is almost exactly the same bus is considered an 8 bit processor.
A pentium, even though it uses a 64 bit bus, is considered a 32 bit processor.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Efficient Networks 3060 ADSL
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:54:38 GMT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:19:31 -0400, mcfrisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well that seems to be the consensus. I guess for now, I will have to
>use my Windoze 98 as a Proxy to access the DSL. I read the information
>about the Speedstream 3010 implementation and wondered if it is at all
>compatible. It seems like a generic PPP over ATM installation, but are
>the parameters listed specific to the 3010 or ATM25 in general?
I've wondered about the 3010 also. Maybe this was popular back when this
project started, but it is not now. The 3060 is much more prevalent. You
might consider contacting Jens Axboe (?), who was working on this
project. Maybe he has newer info.
Bottom line for Linux, is an external ethernet modem. Can be had used
for less than $100 US.
>Anyway, I will have to be patient as I would guess the Linux drivers
>won't be available for several months, at least. Thanks for the link,
>very informative.
Efficient doesn't really say, but this will probably be binary drivers.
This is not good. You would probably get locked into certain kernel
versions in order for the drivers to work.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Versteeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 on new Dell Dimension
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:03:21 -0400
Hi,
Work has just given me a new Dell Dimension XPS T700r. It's a
PIII-700 with 128 meg of RAM. It came with Windows 98 installed, and
that works fine. I'm trying to install Redhat Linux 6.2 onto it.
The Redhat installation program is not finding my hard drive. At the
point in the installation when you are supposed to partition your hard
drive
I get the message something like "no devices to install on"
I have tried giving the disk geometry to the kernel at bootup with the
option hda=2482,255,63. But this does not seem to help.
I have tried playing with my BIOS settings. The unusual thing is that
there are not even any options for the hard drive.
Here are my system specs:
Dell Dimension XPS T700r
Hard disk: Maxtor 5 2049 U4 18gig (according to Windows 98)
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 release 6.0 A09
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Steve.
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From: "FROZEN_Steam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: glut&mesa problem
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:09:27 +0200
xfree86 4.0
"Rasputin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <FROZEN_Steam> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've installed mesa and the glx drivers for my tnt2 ultra card.
> >When I try to start an application wich uses 3d, I get an error:
> >'GLUT: Fatal Error in <program-name>: OpenGL GLX extension not supported
> >by display: :0.0'
> >
> >I've also installed the glx drivers from the nvidia site, could this be
> >the problem or is something else wrong?
>
> It sounds like your X-server isn't loading the module - what version of
XFree
> are you running?
>
> --
>
> Rasputin.
> Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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