Linux-Hardware Digest #209, Volume #13 Mon, 10 Jul 00 17:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: mother board recommendations for an 800MHz system (David C.)
Re: CPU temperature (David C.)
Re: Can NOT TELNET but can ping. (Peter Teuben)
Corel Linux, UDMA, Dell Dimension XPS T____ ("David B. Small")
Re: sndconfig error (Peter Greenwood)
Re: keyboard with additional function keys (Jan Panteltje)
Re: PCI Internal Modem (David W Demmin)
Re: how to make boot.b for a raid? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: keyboard with additional function keys ("LY")
Re: keyboard with additional function keys (B'ichela)
Re: fastest SCSI for Linux & AMD 900? (Mark Ferrell)
MD or LVM for Sybase ? (Robert Herzog)
Problems with Java under an SMP setup. ("Hey Zeus")
Some questions about /dev (Roelof Knibbe)
Re: hotrod66 ("Prime")
Re: Request for comments on system specs... (Kenaniah)
Re: 3c503 and Catalyst 6506 and Linux (Kenaniah)
SoundMax Intergrated sound (Yidao Cai)
tape on scsi bus (serveraid) ("anonymo")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: mother board recommendations for an 800MHz system
Date: 10 Jul 2000 14:11:10 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> I am looking to build a new system, and I have gotten hung up on
> picking a motherboard. Any suggestions for a mobo running a singe
> PIII 800MHz? Chipset? I am looking for something that will be
> upwardly compatible with faster CPUs. I have looked at Abit, Asus,
> and SuperMicro boards and cannot decide.
Note that your motherboard's bus won't be running at 800MHz.
You will probably have a 133MHz bus. The CPU will have a 6x clock
multiplier circuit on-board, which will produce an 800MHz clock for its
own internal use.
Any board you get that supports a 133MHz bus should be able to handle
any faster CPUs that also use a 133MHz bus. As far as the motherboard
is concerned, it's all 133MHz. But this isn't a guarantee, so I'd check
out some independant reviews. See below.
Keep in mind, also, that a 6x multiplier (what an 800MHz CPU uses) is
pretty high. It is likely that your next-generation CPU will use a bus
speed faster than 133MHz. Also note that Intel's next-generation chips
are going to use sockets again, not Slot-1. In other words, it is
likely that your next CPU purchase will require a new motherboard
anyway. I wouldn't worry too much about the ability to upgrade the CPU,
unless you plan to do so within 6 months or so.
WRT chipsets, there are two major brands out there. VIA and Intel.
Intel's chipsets generally require expesnive RAMBUS memory. VIA is
making high-speed chipsets that support the less expensive SDRAM. Both
vendors have good, bad and ugly chipsets. There are some other vendors
as well, but I'm not familiar with them. I won't recommend a specific
chipset, but I will point you at two resources I know of:
- The current issue of Maximum PC magazine has a review of common
chipsets: http://www.maximumpc.com/reprint/chips/index.html
- Tom's Hardware Guide: http://www.tomshardware.com
WRT motherboards, I have found Asus to be very reliable. There are
other good brands, but I don't have personal experience with them.
There are numerous web sites that review boards, I happen to be familiar
with Tom's Hardware Guide: http://www.tomshardware.com.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: CPU temperature
Date: 10 Jul 2000 14:23:52 -0400
Alex Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I am wondering what is the normal temperature for AMD K6-3 450 CPU...
Check out section 17 of AMD's K6-III data sheet:
http://www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/pdf/21918.pdf
According to this, the maximum temperature of the CPU (at the center of
the chip's upper surface) should not exceed 65 degreed C.
> I think my is pretty high. I can't find out what is the actual
> temperature when running. What I did was reboot the machine and get in
> the BIOS and check for the temperature after running for a week or
> so. The reading is about 50-60 C. Is this normal?
it seems a bit high to me. Given that the limit is 65 degrees, I'd want
to try and keep the temperature down below 50 degrees. Preferably below
45, if possible. Here are some things to check out:
1: Do you have thermal compound between the top of the CPU and its heat
sink? If not, get some and apply it. This actually helps a lot.
If, for any reason you need to separate the CPU from the heat sink in
the future, be sure to remove the old and apply new compound before
reinstalling the heat sink.
2: Does the CPU heat sink have a fan on it? If not, consider a heat
sink with a fan. Unless you are certain that your case-fans are
moving enough air across the CPU, you should always use a heat-sink
with a fan.
3: Do you have any case-fans other than the one in your power supply?
If not, consider adding one or two.
4: Are your case fans blowing in the right direction? You want to make
sure that each additional fan increases the amount of airflow. If
one is installed backwards, it will decrease the amount of airflow.
5: You might want to consider an active-cooling heat sink for the CPU.
These (aka "Peltier" heat sinks) are small air conditioners. They
actively suck heat away from the CPU and blow it into the case. (You
will still need adequate airflow through the case in order to
dissipate this heat.) They can greatly reduce CPU temperature, but
they are usually not required, unless you're overclocking your CPU.
> I don't have any problem running in Linux... But, Windoz can't even boot
> up most of the time (new fresh installed system. Still a piece of crap.)
I don't think this is a hardware issue.
-- David
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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Can NOT TELNET but can ping.
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:31:58 -0400
Ahmed Abukmail wrote:
>
> Hello, I have a PC and a laptop both connected via a 10Base T hub. At
> one point the Laptop was running RH 5.1, I upgraded it to 6.2 while
> keeping the desktop at 6.0. I used t be able to telnet, ftp and rlogin
> from either one to the other. Ever since I upgraded the laptop, I can
> telnet, ftp, rlogin only from the laptop to the desktop, but not the
> other way around. However, I can ping the laptop from the desktop
> without problems.
>
> Any ideas would greatly be appreciated
reverse name lookup perhaps?
If so, add proper entries in /etc/hosts for both machines,
that should solve it.
- peter
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From: "David B. Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux, UDMA, Dell Dimension XPS T____
Date: 10 Jul 2000 14:35:56 EDT
After I choose Desktop, Desktop Plus, Server, or Custom, the system reboots.
1) What would cause this? (Clearly not the video card, since the GUI starts
just fine. Perhaps it's the ATA-66 controller? It's a new Dell w/40GB
disk.)
2) What's the workaround? I have another computer, so if it's just a matter
of copying the Corel CD to HD, replacing some files (such as kernel stuff),
and burning a new CD, I can do that.
I've found http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-9.html
and I think it might be useful once the OS is installed. But I'm not sure
how to get it installed in the first place!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Greenwood)
Subject: Re: sndconfig error
Date: 9 Jul 2000 22:58:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>"The following error occurred running the ISAPNP program:
>/etc/isapnp.conf: 203--Fatal -IO range check attempted while device
>activated." This error shows up during the sound test and therefore, I
A suggestion I've seen elsewhere is to disable PnP in your bios and try
it again - this would fit in with the error message.
Best of luck
--
Peter Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: keyboard with additional function keys
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:56:41 GMT
Someone mentioned this site, a little while ago here:
http://www.kettering.edu/~ormb7576/linux.html#tip5
Pocket money hey:-)?
How'bout giving everyone here an icecream?
Jan
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From: David W Demmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI Internal Modem
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:53:45 -0700
I recently bought a creative labs modem blaster II and it works great
under linux.
Other hints to determine if a modem will work with linux are:
Does it support DOS/Win 3.x -- then it will most likely work under linux
Does it say win-modem on the box -- will NOT work in linux
is it ISA -- I am pretty sure it will work under linux
does it cost less than 20$ -- probably will not work with linux and is
most likely a piece of junk also :)
Hope this helps.
On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
> Real PCI modems work fine in Linux, it's winmodems that don't work. I
> have a US Robotics PCI voice modem and it works fine. If you want to be
> on the safe side external modems always work.
>
>
> Ned wrote:
> >
> > Further to this, what is a good modem to buy to use with linux? Is it safest
> > just to get an external modem. So many modems (including external modems)
> > seem to have some sort of reliance on windows.
> >
> > Anyone know any particular modems that present few problems under linux?
> >
> > ned.
>
>
--
David Demmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to make boot.b for a raid?
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:45:05 +0200
hunter wrote:
> the slackware7.0 's lilo didn't know Mylex DAC960 Raid :(
> I try to boot with slackware7 CD-ROM,and mount the /dev/rd/c0d0p1 (my
> / ) , and use a lilo from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to install : lilo -r /dis
> (/dis is my raid's root ) , it seem's the lilo want to read
> /dis/boot/boot.b , because it display a error message "the
> sector seems have not lilo sign..." ��
Maybe you will have to upgrade the files in the /boot-directory if you
upgrade LILO. Did you do some kind of "make install"?
> It's so dispointed to me ,for why linux have DAC960 driver,but could
> not boot ?
If you are unable to boot with LILO from that drive you might be able to
boot by placing your root partition on an ordinary IDE- or SCSI-drive.
If you still find LILO useless you might want to try loadlin or as a
last resort you could make yourself a boot floppy.
regards Henrik
--
spammer strikeback:
root@localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "LY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: keyboard with additional function keys
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:47:20 +0200
Thanx for the information, but I still have the problem. I've mentioned that
if I press a key that I'll get a sequence of scancodes e.g. scancode for the
number "4" is 0x85, after pressing the additional function key I get 0x85
0x85. I can't work with this sequence of scancodes, because it's not unique.
However, thanx for the information!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: keyboard with additional function keys
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:58:22 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:12:35 +0200, LY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Can someone help me!
>
>I have a keyboard with about 30 additional function keys. If I press one key
>it gives me for example a double "4" or "a" ... (44, aa, ...). It means that
>I get double scancodes. These parts of this sequence of scancodes are the
>same and they are known.
>Do someone know how to change this sequence of double scancodes in a unique
>scancode? Or can somebody write a program for solving this problem?
>
>If someone can really solve this problem, then please contact me!!! I would
>give a little pocket money (allowance)!
Hmm. Who makes your keyboard? what is the model number of this
keyboard? Are you using it under X or the Text based system?
--
B'ichela
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From: Mark Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fastest SCSI for Linux & AMD 900?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:01:34 GMT
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
They're having a lot of problems right now with the larger Athalons. I
wouldn't be in too big of a hurry right now to buy one.
<br> Of course you could buy one anyhow, but you might end up constantly
logged on to this group trying to get it working right.
<p>Good luck!
<p>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>could I please get some recommendations for the fastest
SCSI controller
<br>& HD combo for Red Hat running Athlon 900 on FIC M-board?
<p>Where can I get the drivers?
<p>(recommendations for SuSe also appreciated)
<br>thanks--
<p>Sent via Deja.com <a href="http://www.deja.com/">http://www.deja.com/</a>
<br>Before you buy.</blockquote>
</html>
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From: Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MD or LVM for Sybase ?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:23:22 GMT
I am looking into improved performance from a couple of SCSI discs, but
cannot go for hardware RAID.
What is presently the better way to have two discs to be accessed
simultaneously, in order to reach better i/o ?
I used MD some time ago in another contexte and am told that LVM gives
similar possibilities.
By the way, my plan is to have Sybase database files on this volume. I
don't want to use the "raw" device possibility of Sybase, only writing
files to defined "devices" (logical files) from the RDBMS.
Advices ?
Robert
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From: "Hey Zeus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Java under an SMP setup.
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:27:41 -0400
Hi everyone:
I hope someone could shed some light into this problem:
I have a 64MB dual P5-200 (Non-MMX) system that is running 2.2.12-20 SMP and
it runs fine, except that any of the 2 JDK's I've tried on it usually hose
themselves, or hose the entire system. I use the java runtime in conjunction
with the Apache JServ and the GNU JSP stuff.
The sun 1.2.2 version causes a kernel panic (nice)
The IBM 1.3 (specifically the cx130-20000605 build) doesn't kill the
machine, but it winds up dying anyways.
I downloaded Blackdown, but I haven't installed it yet. So far, I'm 0 for
2...
Of course, everything's happy in Uniprocessor mode.
Here's my cpuinfo, if it helps:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 198.952003
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic
bogomips : 79.46
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 198.952003
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic
bogomips : 79.46
Thanks in advance for any insight,
Zeus
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From: Roelof Knibbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Some questions about /dev
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:36:03 +0200
Hi,
My system crashed a while ago. It used to work fine.
(RH6.0, Lilo dual boot.)
I've tried several LILO options like:
linux single
linux root=....
linux /bin/sh
These options all produce the same error. I do not get a
kernel panic
error.
It says:
....
VMS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60 k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
In the SUSE support database I read that tty1 could be erased. I think
this is the case.
When I startup with a rescue image I can mount the root (/dev/hdb1) and
create a console (mknod ...).
After rebooting the system still halts but I do not get the 'unable to
open an initial console' warning.
When I look on the mounted disk, /dev is empty, except for the console I
created. (In fact /dev didn't
even exist at first.)
My questions:
What could have happened to /dev? Did I lose data from harddisk?
Can I somehow copy /dev from rescue floppy to my hard disk? How?
If not, any suggestions?
I would be grateful if someone has some useful suggestions.
Thanks
Roelof
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From: "Prime" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux,pandora.os.linux
Subject: Re: hotrod66
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:47:31 GMT
"Yves Bruggeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:8k75rn$1cg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Herman Timmermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Prime wrote:
> >
> > > Vol moed begonnen aan mijn eerste stapjes linux,
> > > doch in de kiem gesmoord.
> > > De harde schijven (maxtor 40,9gb en fireball 4gb) zijn via een ultra
dma
> > > controller verbonden met moederbord. Linux installeren lukt niet
omdat
> de
> > > harde schijven niet worden gevonden.
> > > Heeft iemand van jullie suggesties???
> > >
> > > prime
> >
> > Welke distributie en linux kernel versie gebruik je? Niet alle releases
> > hebben reeds support voor Ultra-dma, tracht op gewone 33 terug te vallen
> (via
> > bios) of kies een distributie die Ultra-dma reeds supporteert. Ik
geloof
> dat
> > de nieuwe SuSE Linux 6.4 deze support reeds heeft ingebouwd. Kijk eens
op
> de
> > volgende url: http://ldp.linuxbe.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-8.html voor
meer
> > info.
> > Indien je de juiste kernel hebt, een patch downloaden en installeren
....
> > maar eerst in 33mb/s opstarten uiteraard :-)
> > groetjes,
> > Herman
>
>
> Het probleem is hier dat het om een "off-board" controller gaat.
> Ik heb een Promise Ultra-66 en had hetzelfde probleem.
> Op http://ldp.linuxbe.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-5.html staat uitgelegd
> hoe je door het meegeven van bootparameters je HD aangesloten op de
> "off-board" controller als "eerste" kan laten detecteren.
>
> Daarna kan je best de kernel hercompileren met de optie
> "Boot off-board chipsets first support" aangevinkt.
> Deze optie staat onder "Block devices"
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y
>
> Groetjes.
>
>
de hotrod66 het is inderdaad een off-board controller
wanneer ik de cd met redhat 6.0 probeer te installeren met een boot-diskette
en ik geef bij het eerste scherm (general, expert, kickstart,...) het
commando "linux ide0=0xe000,0xd804 ide1=0xd400,0xd004" dan worden de harde
schijven correct gevonden. Toch stopt de installatie omdat er blijkbaar
niets op deze schijven kan worden geschreven (een melding over een /tmp
directorie op de c-schijf komt terug met een rc=0 wat ik interpreteer dat
daar iets niet klopt)
jou suggestie was dus al een stap voorwaarts
maar waar kan ik een niet gecompileerde kernel vinden en hoe kan ik deze
compileren?
prime
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From: Kenaniah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Request for comments on system specs...
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:54:46 -0400
I have to agree with the VIA boards. One of our employee's home machine has a
VIA chipset, and he has nothing but problems with his mainboard. I personally
like the Pentium line, and SuperMicro Mobos. But that's personal. Otherwise, I
would say your choices are sound.
Mark
Chris Harshman wrote:
> YMMV, but I've *always* had issues (serious issues) with machines running
> VIA chipsets, including Pentium IIIs running on VIA boards. Also, VIA
> chipsets in the past have not gotten along AT ALL with my SoundBlaster Live!
> Value (http://paradigm.uor.edu/~harshman/soundblaster); I left those boards
> behind for motherboards built on the Intel i440BX chipset, and have never
> looked back, so I don't know if the situation was ever resolved. (I do know
> that the i440BX is still regarded as a godsend for its stability and
> compatibility, especially among the rec.video.desktop crowd, which is always
> stressing the limits of their hardware.) Finally, be careful with the eepro
> cards (Intel); we've seen TX_TIMEOUT errors on them that have yet to be
> resolved. http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-eepro100/2000-Jun/0005.html
> We ended up going with cards that use the DEC (now Intel) Tulip chipset, not
> clones (Kingston, and others).
>
> Chris
>
> > Processor: AMD Athlon 950 MHz
> > Mainboard: ASUS K7V
> > Memory: 256 MB PC133 SDRAM
> > Video: Matrox G400 32 MB Dual-Head version
> > Soundcard: Soundblaster Live! Value
> > Network Card: Intel Pro/100+ PCI
> > Hard Drive: Western Digital 10+ GB drive with UDMA 66
> > CD-ROM: Generic 32X CD-ROM player
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From: Kenaniah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c503 and Catalyst 6506 and Linux
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:57:37 -0400
yep, that is unfortuanlly it. That's what I had to do with my old 386
when I brought it into my office, and I had that card. just issue the
following commands on the port
speed 10
half-duplex
:)
Mark
Bob Chiodini wrote:
> Nancy,
>
> Try configuring the switch port of your firewall to 10
> Mb/Halfduplex. We have numerous problems getting our Cisco 5500
> switches to autosense. It seems it has something to do with the
> cable length. In our lab, autosensing worked 100% of the time.
> Cable lengths were short, < 10 m. In the field, where the cables are
> around 60 m, we have seen negotiation problems with several different
> NICs (3Com and others). You may also try set port disable/set port
> enable. This for some reason has always brought the port back online
> (w/autonegotiation). But failures still occasionally occur (when the
> users reboot), unless we force the switch to the correct speed and
> duplex. Duplex is extremely difficult to autonegotiate. The 3c503,
> AFAIK, is a 10 Mb/s half duplex card.
>
> Bob...
>
> "N. Milligan" wrote:
>
> > Our configuration is a Linux system on Intel, a 3c503 interface,
> > Redhat 6.1 and a Catalyst 6506 switch. The linux system is a
> > firewall, so has two interfaces and is running IPchains. The
> > system was plugged into the new 6506 switch (the internal part of
> > the network) and stopped being able to communicate to the
> > masqueraded network (the inside). Works fine plugged into the
> > old switch.
> >
> > Is the 3c503 unable to autonegotiate with the Catalyst 6500 type
> > of switch? I'm completely stumped on this one. Doesn't seem
> > like the IPchains should have anything to do with this problem.
> > I flushed all the ipchains and still had the problem so figured
> > it wasn't related to that.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm completely stumped. Any ideas?
> >
> > Oh, while we're at it. Is there any way to query the interface
> > (3c503) and find out what mode it is running in (half/full,
> > speed)?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Nancy M.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com.
> > Up to 100 minutes free!
> > http://www.keen.com
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Bob Chiodini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ---------------------------------------------------------
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundMax Intergrated sound
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:00:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Analog web site says that it works with Linux, but where can I find a
driver for it?
--
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "anonymo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tape on scsi bus (serveraid)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:09:19 +0200
Hi,
I'm trying to use a Travan tape device on a IBM Netfinity 3500. Testing
simple tar returns io errors (really?).
Now, first thing, this tape is on a scsi bus on a ServeRaid Raid Array
Controller, behind three RAID5 disk drives. (Is that OK?)
distrib is RH 6.1
kernel is 2.2.12.20
ServeRaid bios is 3.60.21
kernel SCSI support: yes,
scsi tape support: st in module
#mt -f /dev/st0 retension
or
#tar -cvf /dev/st09 /etc
makes It wheeeeerrr and blink and prints on screen(among other things):
st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense
key Unit Attention
Additional sense indicates Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense
key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in process of becoming ready
st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense
key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in process of becoming ready
st0: Error on write filemark.
Here's what dmesg has to say on SCSI
scsi0 : IBM PCI ServeRAID 1.00.00 <ServeRAID 3L>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: IBM Model: SERVERAID Rev: 1.0
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Vendor: Seagate Model: STT20000N Rev: 7A51
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 71094272 [34714 MB] [34.7
GB]
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
(scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 3/1
(scsi1) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded
(scsi2) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 3/0
(scsi2) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi2) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded
scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi2 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 3 hosts.
#mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
Thanks for your help,
Andrew.
(this message has previously been sent to comp.os.linux mistakenly , sorry
for that)
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