Linux-Hardware Digest #324, Volume #13 Sun, 30 Jul 00 14:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Module for Maestro3 (Hannes Fremann)
Re: Ripping CD's with Linux??? (kf)
HD size limit (John Jacques)
Banyan multiport? (CJF)
Re: need dual-scsi-controller (kf)
Re: Dual NICs of same type? (David Steuber)
Re: HD size limit (Dances With Crows)
Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk ("Dave Stanton")
Re: CD-RW Support in Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: HD size limit (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Not all memory detected under linux (kf)
Best Backup solution? (Bartek Kostrzewa)
SIS 900 ("Matthew Darcy")
Re: Please help with LCD panel (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences? (kf)
Re: HD size limit (Bartek Kostrzewa)
hardware problems ("Joshua McAdams")
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From: Hannes Fremann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Module for Maestro3
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:29:03 +0200
Hi,
Does anybody know if there's a working driver module
(other than from OSS) for the Maestro 3 sounddevice ?
Cheers
--
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Hans-Georg Fremann email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pfalzgrafstr. 14 fax: 08161-871260
85356 Freising
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:30:33 -0400
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?
>
> 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"?
Obviously, if there was a clear answer, then everyone would be using that one
and you wouldn't have to ask the question. That said, I recently purchased
Mandrake 7.1 (Complete) and haven't been too happy with it for a couple
handfuls of reasons:
The technical support they offer is hard to get to. I probably never would
have found it if another kind user on this newsgroup hadn't given me the URL.
The installation itself is flaky. I've installed it about a dozen times,
it'll work fine until I reboot, then there's all kinds of problems. After
doing a normal install, I found there was no manpage for X and other key
commands, even though I had installed X and numerous related packages. I did
the same install again and the manpages were there. Funny, huh?
A normal Custom & Server installation where I said "just install everything"
didn't install emacs-X. No big deal. I used rpm to install it, but was told
that libraries were missing, something I thought rpm was meant to avoid.
They say that they support the Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI card, but I haven't been
able to get it to work and haven't found any documentation on how to make it
work either on their website or in the accompanying hardcopy documentation.
The Mandrake website is bulging with "Buy-Me!" links making it hard to find
what you're looking for. In comparison, Suse's website is a pleasure.
Mandrake has partnered, it seems, with Macmillan publishing, so trying to find
info takes you to Macmillan where you can buy more stuff.
There are some nice things about Mandrake's installation, but also too many
boobs.
hth,
kf
--
My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
of Worthington, Ohio.
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From: John Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD size limit
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:37:49 GMT
I just searched the how to's and they say Linux should handle any size
hard drive witht the newer kernels, but it gives no specs.
I found a newsgroup message saying something like 2.2.13 had a 33gig
limit and 2.2.16 works with 61Gig IDE HD's.
I'm running 2.2.16 and was wondering what the limit if any there is on
the HD size?
Thanks
John Jacques
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: CJF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Banyan multiport?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:49:14 GMT
I recently picked up what looks to be a multiport serial card produced
by Banyan, however, their web site speaks mostly about their 'VINES'
product. Anyone else seen one of these? There are all sorts of numbers
across it, so I'm not sure which is the product number; here are a few
that stand out: 500044-800, P018022, P00779575, PBA 500236-002. Any info
on the board would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Chris
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need dual-scsi-controller
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:55:45 -0400
peter pilsl wrote:
>
> cause we run out of pci-slots we need to combine out LVD-drives and our
> standard-scsi-drivers (cdrom, streamer) to one controller.
> I�ve heard the adaptec29160 can do this, but I think it is not supported
> under 2.2.x-kernels.
>
> Any other controller that is supported in linux ?
> thanx,
>
> peter
>
> --
> pilsl@
> goldfisch.at
Look at the Adaptec 2940U2W.
--
My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
of Worthington, Ohio.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dual NICs of same type?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:00:02 GMT
Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
'
' > Will two 3Com 3C905B-TX type PCI NICs play nicely together in a single
' > Linux box, or should I get another type of NIC for eth1?
'
' I have two 3C905B in my firewall and never encountered a problem.
'
' The only minor problem I can see is that you may have to figure out
' which one is which by either trial and error or by looking at the MAC
' (hardware) addresses. And, if you unplug eth0, eth1 becomes eth0....
' But those issues are there even if you have different NICs.
Cool. Thanks, guys. I guess I'll order that second NIC then.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
The problem with AI is that it has a mind of its own
--- Devon Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: HD size limit
Date: 30 Jul 2000 16:03:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:37:49 GMT, John Jacques wrote:
>I just searched the how to's and they say Linux should handle any size
>hard drive witht the newer kernels, but it gives no specs.
>I found a newsgroup message saying something like 2.2.13 had a 33gig
>limit and 2.2.16 works with 61Gig IDE HD's.
>I'm running 2.2.16 and was wondering what the limit if any there is on
>the HD size?
The IDE/ATA standard in its current form does not specify behavior for
drives larger than 137G. So at the moment, that's the practical limit.
However, I don't think you can buy a single IDE drive that's larger than
80G at the moment. Give them 6 months, and then you'll run into the
137G barrier....
--
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: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:16:57 +0100
"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):
> --------------------
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2233 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 14 2233 17832150 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 14 906 7172991 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 907 1548 5156833+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 1549 1880 2666758+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8 1881 2174 2361523+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9 2175 2213 313236 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda10 2214 2233 160618+ 83
> Linux --------------------
>
> and this an excerpt from /etc/fstab:
> --------------------
> /dev/sda10 / ext2 defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda5 /home ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda6 /usr ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda8 /var ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/sda9 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> --------------------
> So the /boot partition is (/dev/sda1) located at very beginning of the
> disk.
>
> The overall installation was straightforward. Only the LILO
> installation issued a warning:
> "Warning: /dev/sda1 is not on the first disk"
>
> But then, before booting again I changed the BIOS booting sequence
> setting SCSI on the first place and IDE on the second. After saving
> this, the booting is restarted. The BIOS displays:
> "Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..OK"
> And then only appears:
> "LI"
> and it gets frozen.
> According to LILO's User's Guide (pag. 44):
> "LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
> installer."
> Of course, I haven't moved /boob/boot.b. Since the disk is a large one,
> I used the "linear" global option in lilo.conf, but no luck. I've also
> tried without it, with the same lack of success.
>
> If I install LILO on the IDE disk, it works all right, but I don't like
> this solution because of the temporal condition of the disk.
>
> LILO's version is 21.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help to get the SCSI disk booting
> properly.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Cheers!
>
> Jos� Manuel
The only thing I can add to the excellent other post is to turn off the IDE
drives in your bios. Linux does not need the bios to detect IDE and tries to
use these as the boot drive if they are enabled.
Cheers
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CD-RW Support in Linux
Date: 30 Jul 2000 16:13:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:31:08 +0200, Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
>Greg Boehnlein wrote:
>> > > I've just purchased an HP 9210i CD-RW drive. It kicks ass, but I'm
>> > > wondering if there is a way that I can access my CD-RWs from Linux? I'm
>> > > creating them with Adaptec Direct CD under Windows, but I would prefer
>> > If it's an IDE drive you'll have to recompile your kernel with generic
>> > SCSI support and ATAPI(IDE) > SCSI emulation, then use cdrecord (or one
>> > of the many GUI's for it)
>>
>> It is SCSI, hooked up to a BusLogic BT-946C. I don't have a problem writing
>> CD-R media. I want to be able to use the CD-RW media just like another hard
>> drive, as I do using Adaptec DirectCD under Windows. I seem to recall
>As much as I recall XCdroast has a good host of features for using it
>"almost" like a hard-drive (that is, you need to start it and then
>select and burn) Don't know of any special kernel patches though.
Acraptek DirectCD uses the UDF format when you're writing to a CD-RW.
The 2.2.x series does not have support for the UDF format at all, unless
you apply a kernel patch, located at
http://www.trylinux.com/projects/udf/index.html
The 2.4.x development kernel has read support for UDF included in the
experimental section. cdrecord can do UDF packet writing no matter what
kernel you're using, but it's not well-documented and it's marked
"highly experimental".
At the moment, it is not possible to use a UDF CD-RW "transparently"
like it was a huge floppy disk. Something to do with how the Linux SCSI
drivers are written. More information is available at the above URL.
--
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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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:22:00 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD size limit
John Jacques wrote:
>
> I just searched the how to's and they say Linux should handle any size
> hard drive witht the newer kernels, but it gives no specs.
>
> I found a newsgroup message saying something like 2.2.13 had a 33gig
> limit and 2.2.16 works with 61Gig IDE HD's.
>
> I'm running 2.2.16 and was wondering what the limit if any there is on
> the HD size?
>
> Thanks
> John Jacques
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, as Cows said, 137 is the limit, on SCSI it's 2 terrabytes,
although it's not very good to have such a large drive on ext2 (well,
you can't do such partitions so...). An SCSI Hardware raid controller of
100 GB drives would be great for that purpose, with Ultra 160 you could
easily achieve the max of 160 MB/sec
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:29:23 -0400
Frederik Tilkin wrote:
>
> With different kernels (now Redhat 6.2 using kernel 2.2.14-5 or something),
> the detection of the amount of RAM is wrong, resulting in my system using
> only about 16 MB of 128MB present.
>
> I'm running a athlon K7 700 on an epox K7KXA mainboard.
> Does anyone know about this problem?
> Output of cat /proc/meminfo:
Edit /etc/lilo.conf and above the line "prompt" put
append="mem=128M"
I've heard that running /sbin/lilo rereads lilo, but don't know (don't think
that) this will convey the new info to already running processes in retro, or?
Rebooting will definitely give you 128M.
hth,
kf
--
My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
of Worthington, Ohio.
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:25:28 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best Backup solution?
I need a small backup solution. It mustn't be very large but at least
1.5 Gigs, one very important point is that it has to be fast. (SCSI or
IDE, no prob). I though about a JAZ or that new drive... ahhm, yeah the
ORB. Any ideas?
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From: "Matthew Darcy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SIS 900
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:51:10 +0100
Hi,
I have a SIS900 card, When I install redhat 6.2 on my Intel machine, and
configure X. Linux detectes a SIS900 nic. It then cofigures it and it works
fine, so I know my card is supported. I am using a USB keyboard and PS2
mouse plugged into the keyboard in my new setting and canot get X to work. I
would like to know how to detect and configure my card from the command
line.
Many thanks,
Matthew Darcy
PS if you have any idea on how to get the USB mouse and keyboard working so
I can start X it would be a great help.
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help with LCD panel
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:08:53 +0000
If you mean the pin-out from a standard VGA connector, this is it:
1------RED
2------GREEN
3------BLUE
4------MONITOR SENSE BIT "0"
5------N/C
6------RED GROUND
7------GREEN GROUND
8------BLUE GROUND
9------N/C
10-----SYNC GROUND
11-----MONITOR SENSE BIT "1"
12-----MOINITOR SENSE BIT "2"
13-----COMPOSITE SYNC
14-----VERTICAL SYNC
15-----N/C
HTH, Jim
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:19:09 -0400
Kim Carter wrote:
>
> [Lots of good tips.... I downloaded it for future reference.
Thanks, Kim!]
> Kim
A couple of things will make your shopping experience a little easier:
I put together a public webpage listing the components I was looking for (see
<http://cleveland.lug.net/~ken/sell-me.html>). Then, when I phoned a vendor,
rather than have to describe everything I was looking for, I'd just say, "fire
up your browser and go to this page." This page is now out of date and will
change in the near future, but I'll leave it as is in case anyone wants to
download it to use as a template for the purchase of their own systems.
Secondly, I put together another page for people wanting info on Linux
hardware. It's not exhaustive, probably not as good as tomshardware.com, but
it's current and often updated with new info. See
<http://cleveland.lug.net/~ken/compatible/>.
Third and fourth, before buying from a vendor, check them out on a Better
Business Bureau website... there's a few of them. And if you run into problems
with a vendor, contact a local State Attorney General's office, probably a
Division of Consumer Affairs. The Ohio AG has a webpage where you can fill in
a form online to register a complaint and their people have email addresses and
use them. Sure beats the heck out of voicemail and/or paper and stamps and
envelopes.
As I have time, I'll be adding more info in this area.
hth,
kf
--
My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
of Worthington, Ohio.
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 19:53:48 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD size limit
Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
>
> John Jacques wrote:
> >
> > I just searched the how to's and they say Linux should handle any size
> > hard drive witht the newer kernels, but it gives no specs.
> >
> > I found a newsgroup message saying something like 2.2.13 had a 33gig
> > limit and 2.2.16 works with 61Gig IDE HD's.
> >
> > I'm running 2.2.16 and was wondering what the limit if any there is on
> > the HD size?
> >
> > Thanks
> > John Jacques
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Well, as Cows said, 137 is the limit, on SCSI it's 2 terrabytes,
(on Linux) else I think SCSI is unlimited
> although it's not very good to have such a large drive on ext2 (well,
> you can't do such partitions so...). An SCSI Hardware raid controller of
> 100 GB drives would be great for that purpose, with Ultra 160 you could
> easily achieve the max of 160 MB/sec
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From: "Joshua McAdams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hardware problems
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:04:03 -0700
my home system has been running fine. the only problem I have had is that
the system settings and time get lost when i unplug it. i replace the
battery and the problem still occurs, but that's not the worst of it.... now
my computer won't even start. when i turn it on, all i hear is the speaker
letting out an awful wail and nothing happens.... has my mainboard had too
much. it's an A-Trend 6241. I really don't know what they do when they go
out... need help badly.
Thanks,
Josh
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thanks again
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