Linux-Hardware Digest #316, Volume #13 Sat, 29 Jul 00 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences? (John Broadhead)
Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4 (blowfish)
Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Brother HL-1240 (Kawah Lau)
Re: RAID on exiistin IDE system ("Gerald R. Jensen")
Re: Ripping CD's with Linux??? (Dances With Crows)
Re: RAID on exiistin IDE system (Tim Moore)
Re: linuxcluster recommendation? (Tim Moore)
Re: Looking for Voodoo drivers... (Rob Blomquist)
Re: Ripping CD's with Linux??? ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: Token Ring Network card on Linux (Gene Wiggins)
via82cxxx onboard sound (J. Roe)
Re: Linux and Adaptec 39160 (Markus Kossmann)
Re: usb zip? (Markus Kossmann)
Backups (Gerard Schlundt)
Re: 8gb and 13gb = problem (Chem-R-Us)
Re: Backups (Tim Moore)
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From: John Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:09:02 -0600
David Steuber wrote:
> Another problem I had was with the UDMA/66 (AKA Utral ATA/66 IDE)
> ribbon cable that comes with the board. One of the wires was cut. I
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Actually don't get mad about this if it's a UDMA-66 cable. For some
strange reason that's how they're supposed to be.
-John
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:22:48 -0700
Kevin Adams wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Creating a new initial ramdisk did the trick. Thanks for the info.
>
> Although I do have one more question - look at my *new* boot messages (below) -
> is "enable_irq() unbalanced" something I should be worried about?
>
In YaST or YaST2. There's an option called add new hardware. ;-)
Alex / blowfish
> .
> .
> .
>
> <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> <4>Uncompressing........................done.
> <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> <6>(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/0
> <6>(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
> <6>(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
> <6>(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
> <6>(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
> <6>(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
> <6>(scsi0) during machine bootup.
> <6>(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
> <6>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded
>
> <4>enable_irq() unbalanced from d000ea36
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> |
> +-------- Should I be worried about this?
>
> <4>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.25/3.2.4
> <4> <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
> <4>scsi : 1 host.
> <6>(scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> <4> Vendor: iomega Model: jaz 1GB Rev: J.83
> <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <4>Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> <6>(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> <4> Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.10
> <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> <4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray
> <4>SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2091050 [1021 MB] [1.0 GB]
> <4>sda: Write Protect is off
> <4> sda: sda4
> <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Kevin Adams
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:14:11 -0600
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> I cannot get LILO booting from an SCSI disk. Can you give me some
> hints?
>
> This is the situation. I've just installed Linux Red Hat 6.2 on a Dual
> Pentium III machine equipped with:
> Mainboard: SUPERMICRO, SUPER P6DBE
> SCSI controller: Adaptec SCSI Card 29160
> SCSI disk: Seagate ST318436LW (17.5G)
> IDE disk: Seagate STS320430A (20GB)
>
> The IDE disk is only temporally installed, and it is going to be used
> only to hold data, no system files. All the system is installed on the
> SCSI disk. This is the partition table (generated with disk druid):
I just went thorugh something very similar, moving from an IDE drive that
was used for installation/configuration to a RAID array. You simply have to
enable the boot BIOS on the SCSI card, then put these lines in your
lilo.conf:
boot = /dev/sda # overwrite MBR of hdc
disk = /dev/sda # tell how hdc will look like:
bios = 0x80 # the bios will see it as first drive
Then, run "lilo", and you should be set.
steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kawah Lau)
Subject: Re: Brother HL-1240
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:23:51 GMT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:07:56 GMT, Bruce Forsberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Svend Garnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The HL-1240 is fairly well supported with a standard driver. See:
>>
>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=234953
>>
>> I'd recommend a HL-1250 any day, though.
>
>If you can afford it the HL-1270N is a good choice as well. It has
>Postscript emulation builtin, a 10/100 Base T network card and works
>very well. It comes with 4 MB standard and you can add 1 72 pin non-EDO
>simm upto 32MB. If you will use graphics with postscript you will need
>more memory. If you have alot of old computers laying around you
>probably already have the extra memory. Since it has postscript it is
>alot easier to setup, you don't need ghostscript.
>
>Bruce Forsberg
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
This is interesting. A networkable, postscript printer
for 400+ US$ (cnet). I was wondering if the postscript
(BR script?) is a "real" postscript as opposed to something
like the postscript option in NEC 870, which does not work
for linux.
Also, any other networkable, postscript, affordable laser
printer options out there. I know lexmark makes a couple,
but their lower model does not do network (they are postscript,
though).
What are the differences between postscript 2 and postscript 3.
The lexmark M410n does network and is proscript 3, but cost
more than the brother, though. Are there any measurable
advantage?
Thanks in advance,
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From: "Gerald R. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID on exiistin IDE system
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:42:16 -0500
Tim:
Thanks for the info ... it lead me to Promise Technology and I am looking at
the Promise FastTrak ATA66 Hotswap Pro kit (comes with controler card and
two hot swap trays ... sells for about $180). It may be a leap of faith on
my part, but I assume this hardware config is supported on Linux systems.
G. Jensen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: 29 Jul 2000 00:51:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:45:24 GMT, dionysis wrote:
>I'm unable to iron out driver problems in Win 98 to be able to digitally rip
>audio CD's. Someone suggested I run Linux tandem with Win 98. I have a
>crappy Samsung SCR 3232, would be willing to install a CD-R or CD-RW to make
>this work.
>Are the Linux CD drivers better at digitally ripping audio CD's to MP3?
? Drivers have nothing to do with anything on the Linux side. Linux
has one driver for IDE CD-ROMs and another one for SCSI CD-ROMs, and any
"magic" that Linux can accomplish lies in the user-space program
"cdparanoia", available at http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ . This program
is extremely good at what it does and works even on slow, old, nasty
CD-ROMs, though it's a bit slower than other programs like cdda2wav. As
for encoding .wav to .mp3, LAME or gogo or bladeenc work well, and even
the slowest of those works faster than your average Lose9x mp3 encoder.
>I found Caldera Linux 2.2 with documention used for $20.
>I also found Linux 6.5 Mandrake used with documentation for $20. Should I
>go with that if I decide to try this? Which Linux is "better"?
Careful, you'll start a religious war.
The stock answer to that question is, "Whichever distro your friends are
using." If you don't have any Linux-using friends nearby, get some...
most large cities in the USA have a Linux User Group. That said, I'd go
with Mandrake over Caldera and SuSE over either of those, but that's
just me....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID on exiistin IDE system
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:15:22 GMT
> Thanks for the info ... it lead me to Promise Technology and I am looking at
> the Promise FastTrak ATA66 Hotswap Pro kit (comes with controler card and
> two hot swap trays ... sells for about $180). It may be a leap of faith on
> my part, but I assume this hardware config is supported on Linux systems.
A bit of caution here. I've played with FastTrak. It worked great for my
digital video W9x editing system, but all the RAID smarts are in the
drivers. There is no linux port though Promise has been 'threatening' to do
this for over a year.
Find a Promise Ultra/66 or Ultra/100 card and use the linux software raid
per the pointers I sent or try the scsi option. I've used the MegaRaid
hardware stuff before and it works also.
Once I got the raid up and running, I practiced with different error
conditions and rebuild/recovery situations before commiting real data. Made
for a high level of confidence.
Good luck.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linuxcluster recommendation?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 02:26:44 GMT
> I'm fairly new to the Linux world, and have been
> given the responsibility of purchasing a
> Linuxcluster for running compute intensive
> software, some of which already runs on
> Pentiums. VALinux has been recommended to me,
> but I wonder if I should be looking at other
> vendors and other chips, esp. either the athlon
> or the alpha. Anyone out there have experience
> with this?
There's about 15 different types of clusters in linux land, most are either
distributed computing or failover types. Try a google search on 'cluster
linux'.
Beowulf has a lot of history and is designed for distributed compute
problems.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Parallel_Computing/Beowulf/
As for hardware I've just today put up an Abit KA7/Athlon 800 combination.
I expect to post basic mem/cpu/IO comparisons between the AMD, Intel Celeron
and SMP Celeron by this evening. Given the KA7 architecture looks
suspiciously close to an Alpha with a wrapper, and their 200MHz bus I expect
the throughput to be a low cost alternative to true Alpha based systems. We
[company] may switch from intel to a Thunderbird/VIA base if my hunches are
correct.
Stay tuned.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for Voodoo drivers...
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:28:47 -0700
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Chris Everhart wrote:
>I just purchased a 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 card for my linux system because
>everybody raved about their linux support. Now I go to download the
>drivers so I can plug them into XFree86, and for the past couple weeks,
>linux.3dfx.com has been down. Anybody know what's up? Anybody have the
>latest copy of the drivers they can send me, or an alternate location to
>check out?
>
>I'm currently running RedHat 6.1, XFree86 3.3.5. I'm not ready to
>upgrade to 4.0 yet.
Upgrade to 3.3.6. It has native Voodoo3 support. I know, that's what I'm using
right now.
Rob
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:44:38 -0500
I can't answer the CD ripping but whatever you go with make sure you upgrade
to the latest. I use Caldera and like it.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft MVP
AKA Grunt<><
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"dionysis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:oplg5.317$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm unable to iron out driver problems in Win 98 to be able to digitally
rip
> audio CD's. Someone suggested I run Linux tandem with Win 98. I have a
> crappy Samsung SCR 3232, would be willing to install a CD-R or CD-RW to
make
> this work.
>
> Are the Linux CD drivers better at digitally ripping audio CD's to MP3?
>
> I found Caldera Linux 2.2 with documention used for $20.
>
> I also found Linux 6.5 Mandrake used with documentation for $20. Should I
> go
> with that if I decide to try this?
>
> Which Linux is "better"?
>
>
>
>
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From: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Token Ring Network card on Linux
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:09:03 -0500
Madge makes several token ring cards with drivers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've used older IBM cards and older 3Com ISA cards.
>
> > Only IBM ISA cards that are NOT LAN_Streamers are supported. A very
> few other cards will work because they use the IBM
> > chipset. The very latest PCI card from IBM is also supposed to work,
> but I have not tried them yet. I have TR running
> > on a number of Linux PC's, including my laptop, but they all use IBM
> brand, older model cards.
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon He wrote:
> > > From: "Simon He" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Newsgroups:
> comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.
> os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
> > > Subject: Token Ring Network card on Linux
> > > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:49:51 +1000
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was trring to setup Red Hat Linux 6.2 on a Token Ring Network,
> somehow the
> > > token ring card could not be initialized at bootup even after
> editing the
> > > conf.module file. The error message I'm getting is:
> > >
> > > localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/net/ibmtr.o: init_module:
> Device or
> > > resource busy
> > > localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/net/ibmtr.o: insmod tr0
> failed
> > > localhost kernel: ibmtr: register_trdev() returned non-zero.
> > >
> > > I have tried both ISA and PCI card but to no avail, could anyone
> provide me
> > > with solution to this problem ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Simon
> > >
> >
> > Werner Kliewer
> > in Winnipeg
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
-- Gene Wiggins
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Public Encryption Key http://www.crosswinds.net/~gwiggins
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: via82cxxx onboard sound
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:01:55 GMT
Hi,
I've been reading all the posts and all the problems on this chipset.
I've got this sound chipset onboard an Asus K7V. I am running RH6.2
with kernel 2.2.14 and have been getting all the same symptoms as
everyone else with this chip. I'm not asking for help on getting this
chip to work but rather help on how I can boot into my system without
reinstalling!
Trying to boot into linux just fails on the loading sound modules part.
I don't know how to get around this. I've tried to boot into it by
using:
linux single
but for this doesn't seem to be working.
I hope someone can help me with this.
Also, there was a suggestion on a posting that adding:
options sb setup=1
to the conf.modules file will work. But does this work? I'm afraid to
try this and have the system hang all over again. Would it just be
safer to obtain the alsa driver?
--
Janine Roe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...the more i learn, the less i know about before
the less i know, the more i want to look around...
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 39160
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:34:18 +0200
James Myers wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running Linux 2.2.14 with an Adaptec 39160 and cannot get the
> channel B to work properly. I am
> forced to put all my SCSI devices on channel A. The problem with this
> is I have a tape drive with a much
> slower effective throughput and consequently it is slowing down my
> 10K rpm disk drives.
>
> Is there a patch available for this problem? Am I doing something
> wrong?
>
You might try the latest aic7xxx driver. You can get it from
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: usb zip?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:43:52 +0200
Wenming Ye wrote:
>
> is this supported? If so, where can I find more info...
>
On http://www.linux-usb.org/ you will find a link to a "Working devices
list"
This list says , that the USB ZIP is working if you have a kernel with
USB support.
If you are running a 2.2 kernel , you have to patch the kernel sources
with the Backport of the 2.3/2.4test USB code and rebuild your kernel
with USB support.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gerard Schlundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backups
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 04:51:04 GMT
My 4mm DAT drive just died :( After years of service, its time to look
for a backup solution.
Right now, I've got SCSI, but in my search that has been a fairly
expensive media for a non-commercial use...What is the general
experience with the much less expensive IDE Travan drives, or Onstream?
I really don't want to have to screw around with any additional drivers
-- what kernel based solution seems to be work best?
-Gerry
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:43:10 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 8gb and 13gb = problem
NecroBurn wrote:
>
> small questoin should my lilo.conf file say read-only??? any
> where in it?
Yes, below the location of the root directory. When Linux first boots,
it mounts the root directory as readonly so it can do system checks.
After those pass, it umounts it and the mounts it read-write, and then
it checks the other partitions.
--
.^.
Chem-R-Us /V\
/(_)\
^ ^
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backups
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 05:56:40 GMT
I've been using this one for about 6 months now.
Average 940KB/s (unless I've set something up wrong), no compression, travan
5, tape cost ~$4/GB uncompressed, loud.
US pricing/compare at a real store:
http://www.centralcomputer.com/PriceList/Hardware/TapeBackup.htm
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Vendor: HP Model: COLORADO 20GB Rev: 4.01
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
# hdparm -iv /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 1 (on)
HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Input/output error
readonly = 0 (off)
BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
Model=HP COLORADO 20GB, FwRev=4.010000, SerialNo=MX00687404
Config={ SpinMotCtl Removeable DTR<=5Mbs nonMagnetic }
RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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