Linux-Hardware Digest #230, Volume #13 Fri, 14 Jul 00 00:13:10 EDT
Contents:
AHA 1542 (Max TenEyck Woodbury)
Zoltrix Cobra 56 ???? Any drivers yet? None @ site. Hammer time..... (Slarty
Bartfast)
Re: Athlon Motherboards (Marshall Blythe)
Tekram SCSI controller and bootable cdrom (Garv Austin)
Re: AHA 1542 ("Gene Heskett")
Coppermine and Motherboard requirements ("Kevin Casey")
Re: Tekram SCSI controller and bootable cdrom (Craig McCluskey)
Re: AHA 1542 (Thomas Gagne)
Re: eth1 fails on boot!! (Donald Becker)
Linux Portable Device (Chairman Mao of Technology)
Re: RH 6.2 IDE Tape Drive (Juergen Pfann)
Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard (Lou Grinzo)
Re: Trouble with cdrecord..:< Additional info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is this a good machine for the money? (David Steuber)
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From: Max TenEyck Woodbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AHA 1542
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:56:23 -0400
For reasons beyond my immediate control, I need to get linux
to use a AHA 1542 SCSI card and I am missing something so
that I can't access it.
The device is working properly - I can access the attached
drive from MSDOS without problems. The card has io=0x330,
irg=11, dma=5. PNP for the irq and dma have been set for
legacy ISA.
There is a linux driver for this card - aha1542 - but it
doesn't get loaded automatically. What should I do to get
it loaded?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Slarty Bartfast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zoltrix Cobra 56 ???? Any drivers yet? None @ site. Hammer time.....
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:13:05 -0400
I'm loosing my mind over these damn WinModems.
If anyone has the specs, I'll try and build the installation source myself.
Or if anyone is already doing it, and needs help, I'd be happy to throw my
$0.02.
Maybe the hammer is not a bad idea....
Thanks, lates
Slarty Bartfast (Glacier Specialist)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshall Blythe)
Subject: Re: Athlon Motherboards
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:23:16 GMT
>I'm using an Abit KA7 and it works fantastically!
Ditto that here.
--
Marshall Blythe
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From: Garv Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tekram SCSI controller and bootable cdrom
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:35:26 -0700
I have an HP SCSI 9200 cd-rw. It came with an Adaptec 2906 SCSI
controller,
which does not appear to support bootable cdrom.
My AMI bios does support bootable cdrom and scsi (and the kitchen sink,
I believe). It booted fine when I used sense and had an IDE cdrom.
My Linux friends are not fond of Adaptec (their language reminds me of
winmodems
and companies in the Northwest).
Anyway, since I decided I had too much pocket money and went scsi, I am
looking
at Tekram cards, which the Linux gurus praise.
Here's the take:
Tekram DC-395U 50 pin (matches my cd-rw) at a reasonable price.
Will this card boot my cd-rw?
Tekram DC-390F Ultra (next step up?)
or the (drum roll, please):
Tekram DC-390U2W (built-in blender) which should boot my old Toyota
pickup.
Most comments and other suggestions appreciated.
cheers and beers
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Date: 13 Jul 2000 20:22:35 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA 1542
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Max TenEyck;
MTW> For reasons beyond my immediate control, I need to get linux
MTW> to use a AHA 1542 SCSI card and I am missing something so
MTW> that I can't access it.
MTW> The device is working properly - I can access the attached
MTW> drive from MSDOS without problems. The card has io=0x330,
MTW> irg=11, dma=5. PNP for the irq and dma have been set for
MTW> legacy ISA.
MTW> There is a linux driver for this card - aha1542 - but it
MTW> doesn't get loaded automatically. What should I do to get
MTW> it loaded?
Put it, and its options in conf.modules. Or, better yet, build it into
your kernel. But I had lots of trouble with 0x330 as address, and
finally recompiled it with a defaultr 0x230 adress, at which point all
my troubles went away. Nothing was using 0x330, but it flat didn't
work on a tyan trinity mobo.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Kevin Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Coppermine and Motherboard requirements
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:40:22 GMT
Anybody have any views on the Pentium Coppermine series and best choice for
a motherboard (Chip set)? Actually, anybody have any feedback at all on the
Coppermine series?
KC
fabas indulcet fames
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tekram SCSI controller and bootable cdrom
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:11:17 -0500
Garv Austin wrote:
> Anyway, since I decided I had too much pocket money and went
> scsi, I am looking at Tekram cards, which the Linux gurus praise.
Why not look at Advansys. They officially support Linux on all
of their SCSI cards, current and past.
Their support statement is at
http://www.connectcom.net/support/software/os/linux.htm
Their home page is at
http://www.connectcom.net/
It has links to the various types of SCSI products, fast,
ultra, ultra wide, and ultra 2 wide. I recently got a new
ABP-940U ultra SCSI card via eBay for $26.
Craig
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From: Thomas Gagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA 1542
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:25:36 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let me know if you can get it to work. I've been trying for the past two
weeks to get one working in my brother's PC without luck. It's running at
0x230, the diagnostics run fine (during bootup) but when the kernel starts it
gets nothing but timeouts.
Ditto the comment about building it into the kernel.
If you examine your dmesg or /var/log/messages, look for a line that says
something about SCSI hosts. When I had aha1542 compiled as a module it always
reported 0 hosts, but that may have had something to do with the timeouts.
When I compiled it into the kernel I was rewarded with a 20-minute boot.
Good luck.
--
For Open Source Middleware Visit http://home.netcom.com/~tgagne
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Becker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: eth1 fails on boot!!
Date: 13 Jul 2000 22:48:07 -0400
In article <Ua4b5.226$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Devon Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>insmod seems to fail on boot-up.
...
>Here's a few lines from my /var/log/messages:
>
...
>Jul 9 13:36:14 mars insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/3c509.o: invalid
>parameter parm_io
Uhmm, don't try to set a module parameter that doesn't exist.
That error will prevent the module from loading.
(The bogus line is likely in /etc/conf.modules)
--
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Beowulf Clusters / Linux Installations
Annapolis MD 21403
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chairman Mao of Technology)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux Portable Device
Date: 14 Jul 2000 02:40:13 GMT
We are in the design stages of an Electronic book, and want to get feed
back from the linux comunity, in effect making the Book a Linux produced
product, the first p[roduct designed by the Linux comunity.
So we initially would like to get comments from people about what they
would like to see ina linux portabloe device, that is a Book reader, but
doubles as a PIM and game console.
It will be initially marketed as a Ebook that can be used for rapid text
input at meetings. We also plan that the unit will have a speech processor
to read the text content of books.
We wouldlike to find people who would also like to develope on this once we
past the prototype, but the Key for development will be small code.
Any way,
Please follow up with what you would concider a perfect portable Linux
based Electronic book.
Post coments here, and also CC to me at, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards
to all
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 IDE Tape Drive
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:23:19 +0200
Ron wrote:
>
> I have a Exabyte IDE TR4 tape drive and all I get is I/O errors when I
> access it. System recognizes it at HDD. I have no SCSI devices on my
> system. How do you issue a "rewind" command for this device?
> Can someone point to docs for IDE tape devices? It works fine in Win98.
>
> Thanks for any help... Ron
>
Ron, unfortunately I'm not familiar with IDE/ATAPI tape drives in
Linux, but let's see if I can derive some hints from my experience
with floppy and SCSI tapes...
First of all : generally, ATAPI tapes _are_ on the list of supported
HW in Linux. BUT that doesn't mean that this includes *all* tape
drives by *all* manufacturers. For instance, Onstream drives currently
don't work in Linux, neither ATAPI nor SCSI nor parallel versions,
due to the non-standard interface of those.
But in your case, Exabyte is a well-known manufacturer since "decades",
so my guess is, they do it "the right way" for their ATAPI devices also.
With "the right way", I refer to an interface of essentially the same
command set for tape I/O on top of the HW interface layer (SCSI, ATAPI,
the parallel port or the floppy disk controller, whatever). You could
verify that if you'd be able to rewind your tape media (with the *same*
'mt' tool) in a SCSI as well as an ATAPI drive, for instance, if you had
both...
So, now how to configure your system to eventually use your HW ?
Basically, you need at least two things : IDE/ATAPI tape support (of
course), AND the resp. device files as the standard UNIX interface
to the HW.
You said, your device is recognised by the system on boot. I'd like
to see the exact syslog line, in order to decide if that means that
the kernel activates the tape driver itself, or if it's only seen
as unknown/generic ATAPI device as slave on the secondary IDE
interface. Please give us more information here !
Anyway, if there isn't a line similar to "Detected ATAPI tape drive
ht0" (don't know the exact phrase!), this means one of two things :
either, there's no (ATAPI) tape support statically compiled in your
running kernel, or - more likely - the appropriate module simply
isn't loaded automatically. You can verify both of these by a
manual 'insmod ide-tape'; look at the syslog messages ! Chances are,
you're nearly done in case of success ! If not, we must go on
in our diagnosis.
BTW, before I forget to mention it : it might be necessary to tell
the kernel that your IDE secondary slave is not a HD but a tape drive
by adding the line 'append = "hdd=ide-tape"' to your /etc/lilo.conf;
alternatively, you can issue the line "linux hdd=ide-tape" at the
LILO-prompt; but you have to do the latter with each and every boot.
Thus, the "append =.." method is preferable; of course, you might
need other statements as well - then you'd construct *one* append
line for both/all your statements.
Next, I'd verify that the device files exist : These are at least
/dev/ht0 (that's zero) - character, major 37, minor 0; and
/dev/nht0 - character device, major 37, minor 128. If these do not
exist, you must issue the appropriate 'mknod' commands (man mknod),
or start a script for that, sometimes called MAKEDEV, in the /dev
directory.
Now, if you feel the module has been successfully inserted into
your kernel (or you've come up with a customized kernel with
static ATAPI tape support) AND the device files exist, it's time
to test the drive itself - with a media inserted, I suggest.
The tool to control the operation of *any* tape drive is, as
mentioned above, called 'mt' (again, see it's man page also).
I'd start with 'mt -f /dev/ht0 status', and I'd expect to get
a summary of, e.g. tape position, a status bitmask, etc.
If that looks o.k., you can test other mt commands like 'rewind',
'offline' and so on. Remember that /dev/ht0 is the device that
automatically rewinds the tape after each control operation,
whereas /dev/nht0 is the non-rewinding device.
Next step IMHO is to do a test backup, e.g. with "tar", and
the trial to read this test archive again. If that works, you
should be able to use your drive regularly, and all seems to
be set up correctly.
One last annotation : if you use the tape driver as module,
and it works with manual load of the latter, but not
automatically with a 'mt' command, for instance, one more
hint : verify that your /etc/modules.conf (or was it conf.modules
- always mix that up) contains a line saying "alias
char-major-37 ide-tape" - that should be sufficient for automatic
loading by kerneld.
Hope that helps, and Good Luck
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lou Grinzo)
Subject: Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:24:28 GMT
I second that emotion. <g>
I have a couple of BP6's, one with a pair of 400's, one with a pair
of 500's, and neither has given me a bit of trouble under about a dozen
different Linux distros (they're test rigs, obviously).
Take care,
Lou
In article <8khkvu$bdp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Heya Neven,
>
> I have an abit BP6 (http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bp6.htm) with
> two 400MHz cellery's clocked to 466MHz, 256MB, two 17GB drives, an ide
> cdrom and a scsi burner.
>
> I have _never_ had any problems with this board at all even though I did
> all kinds of wierd stuff with it. Linux (RH6.2 and 6) run like a charm
> also SlackWare 7.
>
> I don't know how long the celerons will remain available but at least
> they won't cost all that much.
>
> regards,
>
> -mindglow
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trouble with cdrecord..:< Additional info
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:40:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> root wrote:
>
> > Hello! I am experiencing a frustrating problem, so 4 or so coasters
> > later, here i am.
> >
> > Here is the standard output of a dummy write using gtoaster:
> >
> > everything "appears" to be normal.to this point, and then.....
> > fixating CDROM.
> > Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000
J�rg
> > Schilling
> > scsidev: '0,1,0'
> > scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> > Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> > Version : 0
> > Response Format: 1
> > Vendor_info : 'HP '
> > Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 7500 '
> > Revision : '1.0a'
> > Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> > Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> > Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> > Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single
session.
> > Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.8
> > seconds.7 seconds.6 seconds.5
> > seconds.4 seconds.3 seconds.2
> > seconds.1 seconds.
> > CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 80
> > Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> > Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
> > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) error refers to data part, bit ptr 0
(not
> > valid) field ptr 0
> > cmd finished after 0.007s timeout 40s
> > cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd:
retryable
> > error
> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > CD recording process finished.
> >
> > --
> > I have two 2.2.16 kernels compiled..one using no scsi modules (all
scsi
> > suupport is compiled into the kernel)
> > and one where its modulized..
> >
> > what is interesting is that when i was using 2.2.14 , a similar
setup
> > used the sg.o module..but i havent been able to use that yet
despite its
> > presence in /lib/modules/2.2.16/
> >
> > ANY suggestions are always welcome :)
> >
> > Tia,
> >
> > meany
>
> PS:
>
> BY the way, i forgot..this is an HP7200i
> and here is the current output of cderecord scanbus (note im using
scsi emu
> for both cd drives :
>
> [root@glowworm /root]# cdrecord --scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
> Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'MITSUMI ' 'CD-ROM FX140S !B' 'e12 ' Removable
CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7500 ' '1.0a' Removable
CD-ROM
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
>
> thanks,
>
> meany
>
>
=======================
I'm getting exactly the same error messages with my Pacific Digital
BR549 CDRW. I peeled back the Pacific Digital OEM label on the drive,
and underneath it was a HP 7200i CDRW ATAPI 2x2x6. I've tried it on two
different types of CDR media. Apparently, cdrecord is having some sort
of issue with HP drives. Maybe the author should try making a wide-
range support driver for HP ATAPI drives. Right now, this sucks. I want
to use my cdrw but there's only one program out there, cdrecord, and it
doesn't work! -- matt_o
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Before you buy.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Is this a good machine for the money?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:00:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
' Their 1U and 2U rackmount machines are cheaper than VA's, and still
' nifty (I'm waiting for approval to buy a pair of the 2U boxes). You can
' do a machine for less than $2K (substantially less if you don't need
' dual capability).
I've taken the plunge into the DIY PC game. I got more HD than I
need, a Maxtor 40GB model. It was hard to pass up considering the
cost vs a 20GB model was more than half the cost of the 40GB.
I'm going with an Abit ZM6 motherboard, Celeront 533 PPGA (The ZM6
doesn't do the FC-PGA, but I don't have a use for the extra
isntructions as far as I know), and a 128MB DIMM SDRAM. I also got a
heatsink with fan for the CPU. It was only $10, so what the hey.
I've already spent more than I expected, and still need to buy a box
for it all which I will look for locally. The motherboard kit is from
one vendor, the HD, CD-ROM, NIC, and a floppy drive (just in case) are
from another vender.
This should be educational.
If it turns out that I somehow manage to come up with a popular
website, I can always put together addtional boxes.
The cost savings over VA Linux or Aslab? A few hundred dollars at
most. For me, time is cheaper than money at the moment. Building a
machine from scratch, with OS installed and configured, should also be
valuable experience.
I'll be sure to post in these two groups my results. Then those of
you who are better at shopping for parts can one up me ;-).
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