Linux-Hardware Digest #379, Volume #13 Tue, 8 Aug 00 13:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: "Turbo" and X-windows.
Fibre Channel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need Ideas For An ISA NIC (mst)
Re: Slow MO Drive (Tino Keitel)
Re: SoundMAX AC97 built on Motherboard (Marc Waeckerlin)
Re: AC 97 on ASUS K7V-T (Marc Waeckerlin)
Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Soundblaster sound recording... (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: How to configure X-server on Inter Chipset? (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: linux and i810 (Andrey Vlasov)
Canon BJC 2100 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
scsi mystery (Esa Tikka)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: "Turbo" and X-windows.
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:12:50 -0400
Doesn't the manual say that this is for their "testing" purposes ?
When a system is certified "reliable" at say 100 mhz, then there is room to
go +/- either way, . Turbo over clocks the MB. Unless your memory is up to
it, don't do it.
And also check out the PCI and the isa clock dividers etc.
Altering this will give you enough of a change to brag about, but not at all
noticeable.
Unless of course, your system hangs!Windows benchmarks show a few "points"
of change, but it's not worth the risk .
Some pci devices react rather badly to overclocked pci busses, so be
careful. i have heard that overclocking resulted in trashed filesystems, but
your mileage may vary.
X Windows may or may not work depending on how the VC handles out of spec
environs.
My only experience with odd stuff like this was on a comp.with a vl bus,
that kept seg faulting because it was over clocked. Also win95 's explorer
would crash as soon as it loaded .
Unlike when I went around messing with the system, I hope you have a backup
:)
Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi Linux users!
> Was browsing through Award BIOS setup on motherboard that I intended to
> buy when I came to "Ctrl+Alt+ +/-" as a way to
> change the "Turbo" status.
> OK I know this from past, but to find it on mobo which boasts 112M bus
> clock was a little odd.
> Anyway, how would this affect the changing of resolution in X-windows
> and what will respond to it - mobo speed or screen or both?
> Thanks for answers...
> --
> Stanislaw on Slak 7.1
> Registered on Linux counter No.162760.
> Even put Ulladulla on their database.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fibre Channel
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:16:18 GMT
Who knows why HP fibre channel network adapter is not supported in
LINUX?????
I need drivers for it... I don't find them. Help me!!!
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Ideas For An ISA NIC
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:22:51 -0400
Rick Bestany wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am trying to set up an older PC as a firewall. The motherboard has only
> ISA slots and all of my spare cards are PCI.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good ISA card that I can use. preferably a 10/100 MB
> type.
>
Get a 3c509 or a SMC 8416T (aka EtherEZ).
MST
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From: Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slow MO Drive
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:38:08 +0200
Georg Acher wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |>
> |> If nobody has the same problem, can at least somebody whose drive runs
> |> at full speed mail me his/hers configuration? Thanks.
>
> FUJITSU Model: M2513E on Adaptec AIC-7880U/Symbios810/860, from 2.2.x to 2.4.0,
> (Pentium/PentiumII/Alpha/K7): No problems. With non-limdow disks about 800kb/s
> write, 2000kb/s read.
>
> Maybe you are experiencing a weird termination problem...
I don't think so, because it works much faster with the same system and
settings and WindowsNT/95/98.
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From: Marc Waeckerlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundMAX AC97 built on Motherboard
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:36:35 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kris Doyle wrote:
> www.alsa-project.org has the driver that you will need
> the driver you will be using is the intel8x0
> it works like a charm just no midi
> or if you want the commercial soloution
> http://www.opensound.com
Why isn't MIDI supported? Is there a MIDI driver
in the queue?
Does the commercial driver support MIDI?
Regards
Marc
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From: Marc Waeckerlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AC 97 on ASUS K7V-T
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:39:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Kakareka wrote:
> I have a Asus K7V with AC97 and got it working with the alsa drivers,
Does it work with no limits (does MIDI work)?
Are there any restrictrions in using Alsa instead
of kernel modules?
Regards
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:57:38 GMT
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 07:03:18 -0700, Ray Tayek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> No No No you don't want any kind of internal modem, you need an
>> external ethernet modem,
>
>ok, isa for regular dial-p modem and an external modem for dsl?
>
>i assume the dsl modem plugs into a nic?
Yes, ethernet.
>> I've got a Cisco 675 works great. Also when picking a DSL provider,
>> assuming that you have any choice, try to find one that will give you
>> a fixed IP address and uses plain TCP/IP rather than PPPOE. PPPOE
>> does work on Linux but I gather it's still a little flaky.
>
>so, that's a static ip address and a router (as opposed to a bridge?)
>or is bridge/=pppoe? if not, would bridged be an ok way to go until the
>pipe was saturated?
PPPoE can run over bridged connection, just depends on how the ISP is
doing things. Nothing wrong with bridged. Of course, it all depends on
how well managed the bandwidth, etc is overall. This does not seem to be
much of a problem with DSL providers in general. I think they are
concious of the bad rap that cable has gotten on this issue (fair or
not).
>> Go to http://www.dslreports.com to check out providers and to see who
>> is available to you. ...
>
>found that, it's a great sight.
>
>i am about 18,000 feet away, looks like i can get idsl from covad or
>northpoint. i am looking at isp's in the area. anyone out there in
>(562)- 272 land (lakewood)?
I have no idea where Lakewood is, but I have a very short list of Linux
friendly ISPs:
http://feenix.eyep.net/dsl/linux_dsl.html
--
Hal B
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster sound recording...
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 09:06:44 -0700
Hi Andrew,
did you check gain-in settings in mixer? If not try to adjust it to max. I had exactly
the same problem but in Windows 98 a few years
ago and found in Creative mixer this settings and it works that time. Since then I
know that there is not only main volume control and
CD/Line-In/.... but also gain-in and gain-out settings and by default they can make
sound very quiet.
Andrey
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure X-server on Inter Chipset?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 09:13:26 -0700
Hi Kevin,
I beleive that you are looking for these
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxpredrivr.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel815/30483.htm
Andrey
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 09:45:11 -0700
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Hi guys,
i read yours story and decided to share my experience.
So, I have two computers one with ASUS P2B and another with with P3B-F
motherboards. One day I decided to play with hdparm and discover to myself
that I have exactly the same HDD in both computers Fujitsu 8.4GB but on one
computer I can get about 11MB/s and on another only about 3MB/s both DMA/33.
I start to think about motherboard and did upgrade BIOS for P2B
motherboard. But it did not change anything. I continued to think what could
be a reason. Suddenly I came to conclusion that on system where I get better
performance I have original kernel from Redhat 6.1 and on another system I
have linux2.4-test4 kernel (I had original kernel from RedHat 6.2 as well).
Ok, I decided to check original kernel and it gave me same 11MB/s. So
conclusion was very simple - something is not configured in kernel. I check
and found some settings, after that I got same 11MB/s in linux2.4-test4. Later
I bought Promise UltraDMA100 and I got 24MB/s from Maxtor 40GB UltraDMA100
HDD.
Do not expect 100MB/s from HDD as it is BUS throughput, normaly you can
get about <= 25MB/s from IDE HDD.
So, in case if you download new kernel you should not expect that it will
configured to max HDD performance as it configured for stability on any HDD
but not for max performance.
NOTE: For a tests I used
hdparm -c1 -d1 -m8 /dev/hda
hdparm -tT /dev/hda
Andrey
Jim Orfanakos wrote:
> I am running RedHat 6.0 on a 486/50 Compaq Prolinea, 48MB RAM, with a
> Western Digital 3 GB EIDE drive with 256 kB of cache:
>
> hdparm -t = 1.49 MB/sec
> hdparm -T = 10.60 MB/sec
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8mm9oi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Cliff Pennock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : hdparm -t /dev/hda gives me on average 8Mb/s (slow!)
> > : hdparm -T /dev/hda gives me on average 17Mb/s (waaaaaaay to slow!)
> > : I've tried all I can think off, but it won't go any faster...
> > : Anyone has any ideas?
> >
> > Oh! Yours is so fast!!! Look at mine:
> >
> > AM5x86-133, UMC-8881 chipset with on-board IDE. Harddisk is Maxtor 15G
> > (5400rpm type, model number forgotten).
> > Linux 2.2.16(Slackware 7.0 upgraded)
> >
> > >$ hdparm -t /dev/hdb
> > (no result, because it's too slow to wait...)
> > >$ time dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/NULL bs=4096 count=500000
> > total time: 239m **s .... Oh! My God!
> >
> > Even older drive gives better result than it!
> > Quantum Fireball 1.2G: 2-3 MB/s
> >
> > Any suggestion? I tried to use hdparm to set some flags but of no use.
> >
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Hi guys,
<p>i read yours story and decided to share my experience.
<br> So, I have two computers one with ASUS P2B and another
with with P3B-F motherboards. One day I decided to play with hdparm and
discover to myself that I have exactly the same HDD in both computers Fujitsu
8.4GB but on one computer I can get about 11MB/s and on another only about
3MB/s both DMA/33.
<br> I start to think about motherboard and did upgrade
BIOS for P2B motherboard. But it did not change anything. I continued to
think what could be a reason. Suddenly I came to conclusion that on
system where I get better performance I have original kernel from Redhat
6.1 and on another system I have linux2.4-test4 kernel (I had original
kernel from RedHat 6.2 as well).
<br> Ok, I decided to check original kernel and
it gave me same 11MB/s. So conclusion was very simple - something is not
configured in kernel. I check and found some settings, after that I got
same 11MB/s in linux2.4-test4. Later I bought Promise UltraDMA100 and I
got 24MB/s from Maxtor 40GB UltraDMA100 HDD.
<br> Do not expect 100MB/s from HDD as it is BUS throughput,
normaly you can get about <= 25MB/s from IDE HDD.
<br> So, in case if you download new kernel you should
not expect that it will configured to max HDD performance as it configured
for stability on any HDD but not for max performance.
<p>NOTE: For a tests I used
<br> hdparm -c1 -d1 -m8 /dev/hda
<br> hdparm -tT /dev/hda
<p>Andrey
<p>Jim Orfanakos wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am running RedHat 6.0 on a 486/50 Compaq Prolinea,
48MB RAM, with a
<br>Western Digital 3 GB EIDE drive with 256 kB of cache:
<p>hdparm -t = 1.49 MB/sec
<br>hdparm -T = 10.60 MB/sec
<p><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <a
href="news:8mm9oi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:8mm9oi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>...
<br>> Cliff Pennock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
<br>> : hdparm -t /dev/hda gives me on average 8Mb/s (slow!)
<br>> : hdparm -T /dev/hda gives me on average 17Mb/s (waaaaaaay to slow!)
<br>> : I've tried all I can think off, but it won't go any faster...
<br>> : Anyone has any ideas?
<br>>
<br>> Oh! Yours is so fast!!! Look at mine:
<br>>
<br>> AM5x86-133, UMC-8881 chipset with on-board IDE. Harddisk is Maxtor
15G
<br>> (5400rpm type, model number forgotten).
<br>> Linux 2.2.16(Slackware 7.0 upgraded)
<br>>
<br>> >$ hdparm -t /dev/hdb
<br>> (no result, because it's too slow to wait...)
<br>> >$ time dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/NULL bs=4096 count=500000
<br>> total time: 239m **s .... Oh! My God!
<br>>
<br>> Even older drive gives better result than it!
<br>> Quantum Fireball 1.2G: 2-3 MB/s
<br>>
<br>> Any suggestion? I tried to use hdparm to set some flags but of no
use.
<br>></blockquote>
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux and i810
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 09:48:16 -0700
Hi there,
did you been at these URLs
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel815/30483.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel815/linuxsoftware.htm
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxpredrivr.htm
Andrey
Manoj P wrote:
> My i810 chipset(integrated video and audio) system is able to run X at very
> low resolutions
> and 8 bit color.Xconfigurator says it has detected i810 but on typing
> startx,the above problem
> persists.As I am a newbie to linux,could anybody point me to any solutions
> or patches?
>
> Thanking you in advance,
> -manoj
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Canon BJC 2100
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:54:48 GMT
Hi,
Anybody have any luck with this printer under Linux? I've searched on
Deja and in linhardware, etc. but haven't found anything.
Thanks
Eric
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Esa Tikka)
Subject: scsi mystery
Date: 8 Aug 2000 16:42:17 GMT
I have a strange problem with my Adaptec 2940U2W and an old IBM AS400
drive 0664N1H (1.9GB wide). No other scsi devices are attached to my
system (don't have the money yet <g>). The drive is plugged to the second
last connector on the cable and an active terminator is in the last
(looking from the adapter). There is no termination in the drive. Adapter
termination has been set to automatic.
Drive id is 2 and adapter id 7.
I'm new to the world of scsi, but I think I got it right this far.
So, from time to time, there seems to be some data corruption in the scsi
bus. It always seems to happen at read time (or at least I haven't seen
any truly corrupted files). If I place a swap partition on that drive I
get segfaults. There are also scsi command timeouts and resets.
I did a little test by duplicating a partition on the disk by simply doing
cp on the files and then run diff on the partitions. Here's what successive
diffs did (nothing was changed on the disk during the test):
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root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
Binary files /dos/f/Quake/id1/pak0.pak and /dos/e/Quake/id1/pak0.pak
differ
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 171980, scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 21 b1 71 00 00 08 00
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 171981, scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 30 e4 2f 00 00 08 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 171980) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 351178, scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 32 93 61 00 00 02 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 351178) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 353462, scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 3a 7a 53 00 00 38 00
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 353463, scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 2b 87 95 00 00 38 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 353462) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 404990, scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 2a 1c 6f 00 00 02 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 404990) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
Binary files /dos/f/Quake/id1/pak0.pak and /dos/e/Quake/id1/pak0.pak
differ
Binary files /dos/f/modsyn/mspatchs/sintrem.ms1 and
/dos/e/modsyn/mspatchs/sintrem.ms1 differ
Binary files /dos/f/mp3/DJ Quicksilver - Synphonica.mp3 and /dos/e/mp3/DJ
Quicksilver - Synphonica.mp3 differ
root@aphrodite /root> diff -r /dos/f /dos/e
Binary files /dos/f/Quake/id1/pak0.pak and /dos/e/Quake/id1/pak0.pak
differ
Binary files /dos/f/warcraft/data/maindat.war and
/dos/e/warcraft/data/maindat.war differ
Binary files /dos/f/warcraft/data/snddat.war and
/dos/e/warcraft/data/snddat.war differ
----8<----
I'm running 2.2.16 kernel with modularized aic7xxx driver patched to
5.1.31 on an AMD K6/333 with 3 ide disks and 1 ide cdrw. No resource
conflicts known to me.
Here's what the kernel prints at boot:
----8<----
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/6/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 392 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: IBMAS400 Model: 0664N1H Rev: 5 58
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 3933040 [1920 MB] [1.9
GB]
sda: sda1 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
----8<----
I would be _very_ delighted for any help.
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