Linux-Hardware Digest #417, Volume #13 Mon, 14 Aug 00 07:13:07 EDT
Contents:
GUS under linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1 (hac)
Re: Horror story...please help me! LM 7.1 expert install zeroed the partitions of
my Promise raid0 ("Chris")
Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux (Craig Bingman)
Re: sound card (Mike)
Re: Linux on AMD (Craig Bingman)
Re: ATA-100 on ATA-66 moboard -- hdparms... (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Best print filter for PCL5E printer (News User)
sangoma.com wanpipe (brad white)
SCSI and IDE devices (sanjeev)
Re: Modem Problem - help required (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: deleted partition table ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working ("dids")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GUS under linux
Date: 14 Aug 2000 06:33:48 GMT
Hi y'all.
I've picked up a GUS classic with no docs. Can't find much about on the web
re: jumper settings, etc.
Can anyone who's set on up walk me through jumpber settings and any params
you have to feed the kernel (module) about it?
Cheers
/dave
--
/ David Manchester <mustang @ ucc.asn.au> (UCC Wheel and Committee person) \
| If Life hands you lemons today, smile and give thanks. |
| Then, when Life isn't looking, give him a quick knee to the groin. |
\ That'll learn him. /
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 06:38:46 GMT
bernieo wrote:
>
>
> RedHat 6.1.
>
> INITIO Ultra SCSI PCI card which has been in the system for 2-3 months
> without
> problems. Has a scanner set on id 2, cd recorder on id 3.
>
> In the SCSI BIOS, I had to set the drive to be allowed to use
> ASynchronous
> transfer for things to be stable under Windows. Either way, Linux does
> not work.
>
> Any clues. Is there some other parameter that need to be configured for
> this
> SCSI drive under linux?
>
> After setting the SCSI BIOS to Async transfer mode, it works great under
> Win98.
> Made 3 different CDs.
>
I suspect the usual cable or termination problems. My Initio card
works fine with my CD burner, and did not require any changes from the
default BIOS settings, other than termination.
Linux is well known for finding hardware faults that Windows hides.
Make sure that you are using short, high quality cables. Terminate
both ends of the bus. Use an active terminator. My scanner caused
problems until I pitched the cable and passive terminator that came
with it. It was OK if only the scanner was connected, but not if
anything else was connected. A better cable fixed that.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.madrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Horror story...please help me! LM 7.1 expert install zeroed the
partitions of my Promise raid0
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:03:34 +1000
Nice response; even better attitude. People ask for help on this forum, they
don't ask to be ticked off. Sure, he should have backed up (I'm sure that he
won't forget to do *that* in a hurry again) but I fail to see the need for a
response like that.
Have a nice day.
Chris
Robert M. Stockmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Paolo Servadei wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Here's the horror story i experienced this afternoon.
> > I a word...LM 7.1 install won't recognize my FastTrack 66
> > RAID adapter, considered it some sort of non supported ide
> > PCI controller...and "repaired" the "bad" partition table...
> > All this with expert install, and having explicitly choosen to
> > leave the partition table alone, and to NOT format any partition.
> > If you want detailed infos, read the rest of my posting.
> > If you know that there is some sort of log of the operation
> > that were done to the disks, i could recreate the partitions and get
> > back the VERY VERY important files i missed (just deleted from
> > any other media, having scheduled for tonight to burn most of
> > them on cdr's.
> >
> >
> > The installation process of Mandrake 7.1 broke up a RAID0
> > stripeset, erasing all the information about the partitions
> > contained in such stripeset.
> > This is nothing less than terrible, as i had many gigs of
> > apps and data, that are not mirrored in any other disk, and
> > that i didn't backup...:-(
> > It's the worst disaster in my informatic life, cause i missed
> > hundreds of technical documents, that were previously mirrored
> > on a Jaz drive, and that i erased on the Jaz cartridge just
> > yesterday...and that i planned to burn on a cdr this evening.
> > In the meantime i decided to install Mandrake 7.1, and now
> > everything is gone.
> > In a few words, my hardware is as follows:
> > Abit BP6 dual with Celeron 366, on-board HPT366 controller
> > with a cd and an old eide HD connected, an Acard scsi-2 Ultra
> > adapter with a Plextor cdr (and occasionally a Jaz connected
> > externally), a Promise FastTrack 66 RAID adapter with two
> > Maxtor 10GB 7200rpm configured in RAID0, and another Maxtor
> > 10GB 7200rpm connected to the first eide port of the BX
> > chipset, like boot disk.
> > Previously everything worked extremely well, and after a major
> > hardware swapping i have just added Win 2000 Pro (ACPI SMP
> > kernel) to the Win 98 and NT4 Server OSes already present.
> > I started the installation of Mandrake 7.1, with boot
> > floppy for cd install, and the cd inserted into the cdr
> > connected to the Acard scsi controller.
> > Everything was running well, at first, but i had to do
> > all my choices with the keyboard, cause i used an USB mice
> > that was not recognized, even after i choose "USB 3 buttons"
> > for mouse hardware.
> > The other choices i did were expert installation, and Server
> > computer.
> > When it came to the choice of the install partitions, i tried
> > to make the system use the three partitions i had already
> > created with Partition Magic 5.0.
> > The root partition was at the end of the eide HD connected to
> > the main controller, while for the swap and the /home mounting
> > point i choose the ext2 and Linux swap partitions already
> > available on the small (1.2GB) eide disk connected to the HPT366
> > UDMA66 on-board adapter.
> > I choose to NOT format any partition...but before it started to
> > install the .rpm packages the message "formatting" appeared for
> > a couple of seconds on the screen.
> > What's more intersting is that BEFORE all this, when i came
> > to the partition selection screen, a message appeared saying that
> > there were problems with the partitions, and asking if it should
> > fix it; i choose cancel (NOT OK!), and i went on.
> >
> > I suppose that it "fixed" something anyway....and my RAID became
> > an emty one...still usable and healthy (Promise bios checks for
> > it at every boot), but with no partitions defined!
> >
> > What makes me crazy is that all the data are still there,
> > but i have no idea about the exact size of the three partitions,
> > so i can't recreate it.
> > I swear that trying to read the disk "physically" would
> > bring to nowhere, as it's not a single physical disk, but a
> > virtual drive where all the writes are split between the
> > two disks, in such a way that only the Promise bios can
> > interpretate.
> > I didn't wont to do nothing before asking for help, but i am
> > afraid that software like Tiramisu and the like could be of
> > no help for me (but we say in Italy that "the hope is the
> > last to die...").
> > Am i wrong?
> >
> > Anyway...the installation process did not succeed, cause after a
> > while the computer suddenly rebooted.
> > It was about at one third or less.
> > After the reboot i looked at what happened and i found out that
> > all my RAID partitions disappeared!
> >
> > The only hope to recreate the original partitions i can
> > think of (with my small knowledge of Linux systems), is that there
> > could be somewhere a log file that listed all the actions that the
> > installation process did to my disks...
> > I hope you could help me.
> > If i loose all the content of the three RAID partitions, it would be
> > one of the worst nightmares i could even dream of...
> > I had no cdr backup of 90% of it, cause i needed the drivers, docs,
> > technical literature, capture of Web sites, for my everyday work of
> > hardware assistance...so i preferred to keep everything on a faster
> > HD, with a Jaz cartridge that mirrored its content.
> > In the last two days i erased the Jaz cause i needed it, and i
> > transferred everything on two of the RAID partitions, cause the HD
> > were the data resided became one of the two disks of the stripe set!!
> > I was not feeling good with just one copy...and i planned to backup
> > everything on cdr media tonight...but i had the bad idea to install
> > Linux in the afternoon:-(
> >
> > Please forgive my convoluted english, and my long and heavy posting.
> >
> > I am in your hands...please give me some advice!
> > please drop me a line by email if you see some way to get out from
> > this very uncomfortable situation, i can't monitor this newsgroup as
> > i'd like to be able to do (take out NONAG from my address!)
> > thanks
>
>
> well you had your lesson. Now please ditch that dinky toy RAID system
> and use serious gear, with a more serious/professional attitude.
>
>
> [msg(DDB)] ?? mandrake
> -DDB(~[EMAIL PROTECTED])- mandrake =
> Totally
> fucked distro based on RedHat. we can't fix it
>
>
> Robert
> --
> +============================================================+
> |Robert M. Stockmann SBA Automatisering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
> | Networking Engineer UNIX Consultant |
> +============================================================+
> Linux: A copylefted Unix-like operating system for several platforms :
> http://perso.wanadoo.es/xose/linux/linux_ports.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Bingman)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.apps.cdwrite,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux
Date: 14 Aug 2000 03:22:16 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I feel the need to prune out some incorrect information here.
>Sounds like an IDE CD Writer... You will need to build a kernel with the
>SCSI emulation switched on. Check out the file
>/usr/doc/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO for details.
With RedHat, I strongly suscpet that he just needs to load the ide-scsi
module and that a kernel compile is not necessary unless he has
compiled his own monolithic kernel in the past.
>If possible I would put the Writer on the master jumper and the CD
>reader on slave. Last time I tried XCDroast it wasn't happy about a
>'slave' writer even though it showed up in the list of devices.
It seems happy enough with my writer running as hdb
>You will need to change the link /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/scd0 (I
>think that is what the emulated disks become). No doubt the HOWTO will
>mention this...
No, I don't think that he needs to muck around with his fstab to
in that way. This is my fstab, and cd recording works just fine.
/home/cbingman> more /etc/fstab
/dev/hde1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hde5 /windows/D vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hde6 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hde7 /windows/F vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hde8 /windows/G vfat noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hdf2 swap swap defaults 0 2
/dev/hdf1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf10 /work ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf11 /vmware ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf3 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdf5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf6 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf7 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf8 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf12 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
# entries below this point made manually
# to establish mount points for zip drive
/dev/hdb1 /zip ext2 noauto,user,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/hdb4 /dzip vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777 0 0
/home/cbingman> ls -la /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 8 02:36 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
/home/cbingman> ls -la /dev/cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 27 04:49 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/hdc
Prior to getting the cdrw drive working properly, it was set up as a
typical read-only drive, and /dev/cdrom was linked to /dev/hdb
Craig Bingman
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 07:29:43 GMT
Hello,
I came into a similar problem when I tried to set up my sound card. I
recommend that you download a program called ISAPnP Tools. It is
available at www.freshmeat.net, or any other Linux download site. Just
download the file (in .tar.gz format), use tar to extract, and follow the
instructions indicated in the readme file.
Hope this helps.
-Mike
>
> I have Apackard bell with an AUREAL VORTEX PCI 3D and soundblaster
> emulation.Asindicated i did disabled the plug and play on the bios and
also
> got the configuration problem.Card reconized but lothar doesnt find it
and
> with all parameters IRQ DMA etc.impossible to work.No sound at all on
> startup exept the beepsound regular.Also tried soundblaster no way to
work
> with either.
> Iff anyone has the similar problem arf me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks anyway for support.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Bingman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: 14 Aug 2000 03:36:02 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, blowfish <..> wrote:
>If they just want everything by default, and .RPM every apps. Why
>not just stick with Windoz?
>--
>- Alex / blowfish.-
Maybe it is their first experience with linux. Maybe they are just sick
of using an operating system that falls apart when its web browser crashes.
There are as many reasons for starting with a stock distribution of linux
and keeping it relatively simple at first as there are disgruntled
Microsoft Windows users.
If you have an interest in Linux becoming truly mainstream, then this
attitude is really counterproductive.
Craig
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Subject: Re: ATA-100 on ATA-66 moboard -- hdparms...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 08:25:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (EKK) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Kenneth R�rvik wrote:
>
>> off. I am using hdparm -u1 -c3 -m16, the drive uses UDMA4 by
>> default(2.4.0-
>
>
>ok, so '-u1 -c3 -m16' are adequate parameters?
>no errors and stable, right?
100% stable and no errors on my system. The VIA chipset should support this
just fine with a new drive.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (News User)
Subject: Re: Best print filter for PCL5E printer
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 02:38:03 -0500
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:53:38 -0500, News User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, that says it all. I'm running GhostScript 6.01 from Aladdin.
>I am on RedHat 6.0 + updates. I am running printtool 3.44.1 and
>rhs-printfilters 1.63.1 .
>I just purchased an NEC1800. This is a PCL5E/PCL6 printer with a duplexer.
>Right now, I'm running it as a LaserJet 4/5/6. But I don't seen a duplex
>option for that. I do see a duplex option for a LaserJet IIID.
>
>Also, GhostScript has a ljet4 and a ljet4d driver. I really think that I
>should be using these drivers, but they don't seem to be an option in
>printtool. I'm very ignorant of Linux printing, so I am totally dependant
>on printtool. Especially since this printer is really hooked up to a Windows98
>system and I'm using smbprint to print it.
>
>I know, *RTFM*, but a kind answer would be appreciated,
>
>John
The above was from me. Well, I actually found the file to edit to use the
ljet4d driver. I guess that I really should do more research before asking
for help. Printtool apparently doesn't support Ghostscript's ljet4d DEVICE
option, but I can use it by editting the postscript.cfg file in the correct
/var/spool/lpd/lp? subdirectory.
Sorry to have bothered ya'll. But I'll probably be back with more stupid
questions. If you wondered about the weird address in the previous post,
I was messing around with my ".slrnrc" file to munge my email address and
I really messed it up. Hopefully, I have munged it more reasonably now.
John
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From: brad white <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sangoma.com wanpipe
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 03:27:48 -0600
has any one used this product?
how about a review?
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From: sanjeev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI and IDE devices
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:11:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could someone point out the difference between SCSI and IDE devices?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Modem Problem - help required
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 07:08:24 GMT
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>has timed out or summat?) and occasionally this disconnection causes my
>modem to become "stuck" i.e. unable to hang itself up. I have tried forcing
>ATZ via minicom but it seems the only way I can get the modem to reset
>itself is to reboot the server. This is most annoying and isn't always
>convienient - this is a working Linux box !
That's what you get for using an internal modem.
>So my questions:
>(1) Can I specify a modem string to force a hang up when the above happens.
If the modem gets stuck in such a state, sending any init string will
show no effect at all.
>If so what should I try?
[...]
Junk it. Internal modems are a pain, and the problem you're encountering
is one of the more serious reasons against using them. Buy a nice
external modem that you may simply switch off/on again in case it gets
stuck.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: deleted partition table
Date: 14 Aug 2000 06:25:27 -0400
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, not being too bright, I managed to delete the partition table using
> the linux fdisk on a 1G Jazz drive that had a single dos partition on it. No
> changes have been made since.
Let's see ... I don't know what freeware programmes are available, but,
for example, Norton Utilities Disk Editor, treating the hard drive as a
physical drive - you should be able to browse it (it has a lot of sectors
though!) to find where partitions start and at least recover data
(probably only data that is in plain text files on defragged sections).
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From: "dids" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:26:25 +0100
i have a 310 working fine with the tulip module working with Suse6.4. I did
compile the one on the disk once before, but i havent copied it over yet
onto my new machine.
dids
"Ramin Sina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> Despite what is advertised on its box, netgear FA311 cards don't work
> with Linux (Atleast not with kernel 2.2.*) Tulip driver doesn't work
> with it. It comes with it's own linux driver that was written for 2.0.36
> and does not compile under Red Hat 6.2. Could someone please confirm
> this assessment;and are there any solutions to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ramin Sina
> --
> -
>
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