Linux-Hardware Digest #231, Volume #13 Fri, 14 Jul 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: AHA 1542 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: 1U case? (Mike Frisch)
confusion about cd-rw setup and use (frogman)
External Monitor ("Francisco Cantarero")
Re: Lilo Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CPU temperature (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: CPU temperature (Kenneth R�rvik)
3com network cards playing up ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
multiserial port card config prob!! pleease ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-RW access only for local users (Elmar Klaus)
Upgraded System (Jamie Tomlinson)
Sony - SDT-9000 Density ? (Sebastian Kloska)
Re: I Did A Bad Thing... (Sebastian Wenner)
Re: Tape Drive ("Mike Sanders")
Re: AHA 1542 (Thomas Gagne)
Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard ("K T Puah")
serial ports work with loopback but not with devices (Brian McCrary)
GeFORCE & Riva TNT2 Driver ? (Justo M. Casablanca)
Re: A question about a hard drive and RAM upgrade. ("Alan Pettigrew")
Bernoulli 230 MB (Jerry Van Brimmer)
Re: AHA 1542 (Max TenEyck Woodbury)
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Date: 14 Jul 2000 0:17:47 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA 1542
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Thomas Gagne;
TG> Let me know if you can get it to work. I've been trying for the
TG> past two weeks to get one working in my brother's PC without
TG> luck. It's running at
TG> 0x230, the diagnostics run fine (during bootup) but when the
TG> kernel starts it gets nothing but timeouts.
TG> Ditto the comment about building it into the kernel.
TG> If you examine your dmesg or /var/log/messages, look for a line
TG> that says something about SCSI hosts. When I had aha1542
TG> compiled as a module it always reported 0 hosts, but that may
TG> have had something to do with the timeouts. When I compiled it
TG> into the kernel I was rewarded with a 20-minute boot.
Well, after I changed tape drives, it seemed to get super-picky about
its terms. Bear in mind you have to set that thing up either with dip
switches or the builtin bios extension you get when you hit a ctrl-a at
the right point in the bootup. I finally decided I had had enough of
picky, and threw money in the form of an Advansys 930-something-or-other
at an empty pci slot. Zero problems with it so far.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware
Subject: Re: 1U case?
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:31:08 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 03:02:04 GMT, Dave Paton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>microATX mobo compatible
>1x PCI slot (yep, riser card)
>3x 3.5" bays (HDs & floppy...I might be able to go with 2 bays here)
>1x 5.25 bay (CD)
>$200ish with power supply
>
>Is that too much to ask?
I take it you have not priced MicroATX motherboards? You're definitely
asking too much.
Mike.
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From: frogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: confusion about cd-rw setup and use
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:50:57 -0600
Hello all,
I've read thru the cd-writing howto at linuxdoc.org, but I am really
inexperienced with the whole deal. I compiled in the support for using
scsi emulation, scsi cd player, and disabled ide cdplayer in the kernel
config. My cd reader and writer are both able to mount cd's, and I'm
able to play audio with my regular cd player. If I ask too many
questions, I apologize.
>From the howto: do I need to make devices if I already know which
devices the cd hardware are on (/dev/sr0 - /dev/sr1)? What software do
I actually need? I see that mkiosfs or mkhybrid are mentioned in the
howto for images. Do I need one of those if I have cdrecord,
cdparanoia, and xcdroast? This is probably the most confusing to me.
If someone can send in a good sample list of software that would allow
me to write cd's and make mp3's (along with a recommendation of what
combination to use), I would really appreciate it. I also looked at the
setup options for xcdroast, and it made no sense to me. I'm definitely
not opposed to reading documentation, but I'm not understanding what
I've read so far. A summary of what needs to be done would be much
appreciated. Thank you.
Bob Gamble
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From: "Francisco Cantarero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External Monitor
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:23:43 GMT
How can I setup the XF86Config file to use a external monitor and the LCD in
my laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600X 2645-5FG) at the same time?
I have already configured it to use the LCD.
Thank you in advance
Pako.---
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lilo Problem
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:25:11 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"JJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> had the same problem, cleaning up the mbr seemed the only solution
that
> worked, resetting lilo didn't change the result. There might be some
garbage
> left from previous installations (partitions) at least that was my
problem.
> good luck,
> Alex
> "FROZEN_Steam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8ifnf6$rhs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having some trouble using lilo.
> >
> > I've configured lilo on mbr, but when it starts, There's only
an 'L' on my
> > screen and I can do nothing but hit reset...
> >
> > I hava a Gigabyte GA71XE mainboard wth an AMD Athlon 700
> >
> > Could someone pls help?
> >
> > Thanx,
> > Floris
> >
> >
>
>
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Subject: Re: CPU temperature
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:42:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>As for your 100 degree figure, please tell me which PC CPU is rated to
>function at that temperature.
He was probably referring to _most_ CPUs - which can have temperatures well
into this range in their core when operative. One exception is the
Transmeta Crusoe, which runs considerably cooler than the usual
Pentiums/K6/K7 and similar. All Electronics that require cooling will have
a difference between their core and the actual cooler/sink. So even if the
sink temperature is -40degC, the core might still be operating at 100degC.
And it probably will be too.
The key point is this: The whole idea about kryotech cooling, and all other
forms of cooling, for that matter, is to ensure the chip doesn't get _too_
hot. So when pushing a design beyond it's normal limits, (which will raise
the core temperature beyond what is healthy...) extra cooling will be
employed to keep the internal temperature in it's normal, specified range.
Same as most overclockers do when adding extra fans, peltiers or larger
sinks.
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Subject: Re: CPU temperature
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:47:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Pentiums/K6/K7 and similar. All Electronics that require cooling will
>have a difference between their core and the actual cooler/sink. So even
>if the sink temperature is -40degC, the core might still be operating at
>100degC. And it probably will be too.
Correcting myself, it is of course possible that the Kryotech cools the
core well below normal temperatures to enhance stability, but for most
normal systems today, the core will be really hot... :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 3com network cards playing up
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:43:11 GMT
I have a server with 2 3com network cards in it. I'm running Red Hat
6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20. The cards were working fine, but are now timing
out on telnet and ftp, and very slow on http connections. The following
is coming up in /var/log/messages at boot time:
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/driver
: eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xe400, ***INVALID CHECKSUM 002f***
00:50:da:1b
: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate
interface.
: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 780d.
: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
: eth1: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xe800, ***INVALID CHECKSUM 002f***
00:50:04:b9
: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate
interface.
: MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
and running ifcfg gives:
[root@gertrude /]# /sbin/ifcfg eht0
shift: shift count must be <= $#
/sbin/ifcfg: [: too many arguments
/sbin/ifcfg: [: -ge: unary operator expected
/sbin/ifcfg: [: -ge: unary operator expected
/sbin/ifcfg: [: -ge: unary operator expected
/sbin/ifcfg: ip: command not found
Error: cannot enable interface eht0.
for both cards.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: multiserial port card config prob!! pleease
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:51:29 GMT
hello friends,
i got a multiserial port card for PII machine,which is running as a
linux web server.In that I want to configure this multiserial card.
so that thru the serial port more numbers of users can connect using
PPP.can anyone give links or other resources or direct help in
configuring the multiport serial card. already two modems which have
been connected using COM1 and COM2 are running perfectly.OS recognizes
the multiserial port card.
thanks in advance
pleeeease help me.
yours
gowtham
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From: Elmar Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW access only for local users
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:10:36 +0200
Hi,
I want to regulate the access to a CD writer in a network so that only
local users are able to use it. Does anyone now how to accopmlish this
and where I can find general information about reglementing hardware
access to local/remote users?
Thanks, Elmar
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From: Jamie Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Upgraded System
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:29:47 +0100
Hi,
I wonder if anyone can shed some light on the following problem.
I just upgraded my system from a 486 DX2 66 to an AMD K6-2 500 with 64
Mb of RAM. As you can see this was a major overhaul with virtually
everything replaced except hard-drive cd-rom, modem and network cards. I
booted linux for the first time and it went through Kudzu (yes I've got
RH 6.1) and added new hardware and removed old drivers for sound and
graphics. The good news is this seemed to work better than Windows
(there's hope yet?). However I am now experiencing the following
problems:
1. My new M/board is a Gigabyte GA-5AX and I'm having problems detecting
the Modem. I went through this when installing the modem on the 486 so I
have a rough idea what to do normally?? I have set the bios as no PnP os
and set it to automatically configure the settings and also to restore
from ECSD (the bios is award). Windows sets the modem as com3 port 03e8
irq 5 however the initial bootup identifies three ports ttys0,1,2 ports
03f8, 02e8, 03e8 irq 4,3,4 respectivly (is this what setserial initially
detects?). Then I see boot msg for two setserial lines I believ this to
be the old config for ttys0,1 on my old system. My problem is,
regardless of what I enter with setserial I get the error "input/output
error". I suspect that this is a problem with Identifying the pci/isa
chipset (or something?) because this is the error I get for all ports
and all options within setserial. I have found on the linhardware
website (www.linhardware.com) that there is a patch for this m/board for
the Ali chipset but it seems to be for the PCI-IDE part. Should I apply
this patch? (considering this would be my first compile it seems a bit
scary to do a patch as well). If I do this option would I be better to
download 2.2.16 from ftp.kernel.org?
2. Whilst trying to configure this modem I used pnpdump --dumpregs which
agrees with the windows setting. However after doing a "pnpdump -c >
/etc/isapnp.conf" and uncommenting the relevant options and then doing
an "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" I get "isapnp.conf:114 error: trying to
check device already activated. Do I not need to do this?, or just sort
out setserial.
3. Another minor issue is regardless of what I enter on lilo boot prompt
I always go to run level 5 if I type "rh 3" (rh is my label for rh6.1)
it still goes to run level 5, why is that?
Apart from the above issues I am quite impressed with the upgrade and
the performance boost it has given me (roll on Gnome 1.2 ;-)). I just
would like to get my modem working so I don't have to use winblows for
surfing:-(.
Would I be better to effectively re-install linux?
TIA,
Jamie T.
P.S. sorry for the long post but I figured the more info the better.
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From: Sebastian Kloska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony - SDT-9000 Density ?
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:37:59 +0200
hello .......
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Currently trying to do my backups on a Sony SDT-9000 Dat tape which =
should support DDS3 at least but I can't seem to force high sensity
mode. All attempts via mt setdensity xxx failed.
This is RedHat 6.1 and the tape is connected via a Adaptec 152x adapter
If the tabe drive is simply crap (which I've heard from some people)
could someone recommend a better one which handles at least DDS3 ?
Thank you
Sebastian
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From: Sebastian Wenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I Did A Bad Thing...
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:11:10 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I just flashed the BIOS on my system. The system boots up just fine!
> But...I re-adjusted the settings in the BIOS for my system, as they
were
> now set to 'system default.' I (stupidly) auto-detected my hard
> drives. My old BIOS wouldn't detect anything over 8 gigs (Not a
problem
> when Linux overrides the BIOS) but Windows (yes, I dual boot) thinks
> that the partition table is FUBAR, and won't boot. Where can I find
the
> information I _used_ to have in there? Cyl and heads and whatnot?
>
> TIA,
>
> Arthur R Peale
>
Hi !
Can't you just reinstall your old bios, look at the parameters and update
again ?
You made a backup, didn't you ?! ;-)
Otherwise ask the manufacture.
Greetings
Sebastian
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From: "Mike Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Tape Drive
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:25:00 -0700
> If it's SCSI-2 compatible, it will. The driver is the driver for your
> scsi card. I have a pair of SDT-9000's that work just fine.
>
> $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
I ran the above command and got:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: SONY Model: TSL-9000 Rev: L201
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Now how do I start using this autoloader? Can someone give me some hints?
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From: Thomas Gagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA 1542
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:38:01 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What did you pay for the Advansys 930-something-or-other and where did you get
it? I'm assuming you found a compatible Linux driver in make config?
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From: "K T Puah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 20:43:02 +0800
Installed Redhat Linux 6.2 Professional successfully on a HP E60 Netserver
550MHz Dual CPU with 512K L2 Cache and 383Mb RAM. The combination was
gorgeous! Now contemplating doing the same for my other dentical E60!
"Neven Boric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I wouls like to buy a dual chip motherboard, but I have no experience on
> this, so I would appreciate some advice. I'm loking for something cheap,
> but powerful, i.e two Celeron or two K6-3. How much would this cost (the
> mb and the chips), wich is the better option, waht mb. model should I
> get, etc. Can anyone help me on this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian McCrary)
Subject: serial ports work with loopback but not with devices
Date: 14 Jul 2000 08:42:38 -0400
Hello,
I posted a message a couple of weeks ago about not being able to get the
serial ports to work under Linux on my FIC VA-503+ motherboard. I worked
on this some more, and am able to send and recieve from the reports when I
connect pins 2 and 3. However, it will not communicate with any serial
device. I see things going through the port by wstching /proc/interrupts
(it does increse when I send data) but nothing ever shows up. It almost
seems like to me the ports are operting at their own baud rate that
nothing else understands. These ports work fine under DOS, and I have
used stty and minicom to verify the port speed (prefer 9600). Anyone have
any suggestions?
Brian
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From: Justo M. Casablanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GeFORCE & Riva TNT2 Driver ?
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:30:05 GMT
Hi folks, I read in some ng postings that, if one can't get the NVidia
drivers to work for the GeFORCE, the Riva TNT2 is a good subsitute server
to use. I made the change on my own PC after backing up my original
XF86Config, and everything worked beautifully. The NVidia drivers for the
GeFORCE seem to be buggy as heck; I could not get them working at anything
higher than a color depth of 4 and resolution of 800x600. Mouse and
window movement was very jerky, and running Netscape sapped almost all
color from the desktop (so that netscape could use the resources,I assume).
What I want to know is, can this configuration damage or shorten the
lifespan of my monitor & video card ? I know one can damage some hardware
on a Linux system by specifying incorrect settings, and I'd like to know
how much of a risk I'm running by using a Riva TNT2 driver on a Hercules
GeFORCE 256 DDR-DVI (AGP, 32 MB) video card.
Thx in advance !!!
Justo M. Casablanca
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From: "Alan Pettigrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: A question about a hard drive and RAM upgrade.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:44:14 +0100
You may have problems with >64M of memory. If the BIOS reports the true
amount of memory, but Linux only sees 64M, look for the 'ACPI Aware O/S'
setting in the BIOS, and set it to 'No'.
I have a K7M board and AMI BIOS from 1999. Other BIOSs may call the setting
something different.
Good luck,
Alan
"Madhusudan Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> I have a Dell Optiplex GX1 system (P-450)with 64 MB RAM and 4.3 GB hard
> disk.
>
> As was inevitable, I am feeling the need to increase both.
> Now, comes the hard part : I have two partitions on my hard disk - one
> for Windows 98 (for kid stuff) and one for Linux (for serious work). The
> hard disk is split roughly even between the two.
> If I go ahead and attach a 10 GB hard disk in addition to my 4.3 GB
> hard
> disk, how would I make use of it ? I mean what I want is to shift the
> entire Windows OS to a portion of that hard disk, partition it, and claim
> the rest of the space for Linux as well as the space vacated on the
> original hard disk.
> If this is possible (sounds possible to me), how do I do it ?
> I expect the RAM addition - 128 MB (in addition to 64 MB I already
> posess) to be relatively uncomplicated. Tell me if there are some issues
> involved here.
>
> What is the typical bill for these additions ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Madhusudan Singh.
>
> PS : I would appreciate an email copy of your response.
>
>
>
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From: Jerry Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bernoulli 230 MB
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:41:19 GMT
Does anybody have any experience or information on using Iomega Bernoull=
i=20
SCSI 230MB drives with Linux?
Thanks,
Jerry VB
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From: Max TenEyck Woodbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA 1542
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 09:52:41 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> 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.
Hmm. If I have trouble, I'll make the 0x330 => 0x230 change, but let's
solve the other part of the problem first.
I've just been through the conf.modules, modprobe, insmod, depmod and
sysctl man pages looking for the exact syntax I needed to 'put it, and
its options' into conf.modules and came up blank. (I also looked for
the sysctl.conf man page that sysctl referenced, but it is missing from
the set that came with RH 6.2.). pardon my ignorance, but could you give
me a rough idea of what I should insert in /etc/conf.modules?
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