Linux-Hardware Digest #442, Volume #13 Fri, 18 Aug 00 12:13:11 EDT
Contents:
ISDN TA - Assistance Reqd ("Chris Andrew")
ISDN TA - Assistance ("Chris Andrew")
Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: ISDN TA - Assistance (Nicolas Iselin)
Re: USB CD-R Installation? (Glitch)
Re: installing modem in linux (Glitch)
USB ethernet adapter (Franck Poirot)
vertical line on X screen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Screen Blanking Problem ("J.E.J. op den Brouw")
Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems (Nico Holvoet)
Re: My modem hangup after the negociation...... (sideband)
Re: Trackballs. Anyone using one? (Marc D. Williams)
Linux with Apple Cinema 22" LCD monitor on PC? ("Carl T. Bergstrom")
SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset.... (John Burton)
Re: Install into two physical disks? (Arne Hanssen)
video card questions (Art Werschulz)
Re: Yamaha DS-XG and ALSA (Bart Oldeman)
Re: Digiboard ("Bjoern steinmann")
Linux crash - bad CPU or disk? (Mark Giesbrecht)
RedHat 5.0 and Adaptec 1510 SCSI controller (macrocracker)
Re: can't read contents of floppy disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux crash - bad CPU or disk? (Art Haas)
Re: Linux crash - bad CPU or disk? ("Peter T. Breuer")
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Reply-To: "Chris Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Chris Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN TA - Assistance Reqd
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:46:23 +0100
I am looking for information on setting up the following ISDN TA under Linux
(RedHat 6.2):
"Chiron IDSN Connect 250 Data Adaptor"
Could anyone tell me the basics of setting up this particular device?
Might it be possible to use AT commands?
Thanks,
Chris
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Reply-To: "Chris Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Chris Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN TA - Assistance
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:03:26 +0100
I am looking for information on setting up the following ISDN TA (external)
under Linux
(RedHat 6.2):
"Chiron IDSN Connect 250 Data Adaptor"
Could anyone tell me the basics of setting up this particular device?
Might it be possible to use AT commands?
Thanks,
Chris
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:42:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Steuber) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik) writes:
>
>' >My first thought was that the interrupt for the IDE drive was taking
>' >up all the CPU time so that the NIC couldn't be serviced. But a
>'
>' You're probably right :) Try "hdparm -u1 /dev/hd<device letter>". This
>Man hdparm has dire warnings about this one. But I sure could use the
>speed. The machine I am setting up as a server uses the Abit VH6
>board with Via chipset. Will this be safe? Another machine that
I think so, yes. There's only one way to really find out... hehe. Anyway,
this is relatively new hardware which should support this option.
--
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA - Assistance
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:04:36 +0200
Chris Andrew wrote:
>
> I am looking for information on setting up the following ISDN TA (external)
> under Linux
> (RedHat 6.2):
> "Chiron IDSN Connect 250 Data Adaptor"
I don't know this particular device. But if it is really a ISDN TA connected
to the serial port, then it is in fact set up using AT commands. For
linux, it is treated like a plain external modem.
Nicolas
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 05:59:12 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB CD-R Installation?
Linux doesn't fully support USB right now which will probably hinder
your progress, at least until 2.4 comes out (whenever that will be). At
this time the best thing to do is to get USB setup by looking at the
site that is developing USB for Linux. I can't remember the name but
doing a search should surely find it. This may get usb setup for your
current kernel however it may not provide support for the actual cdrw
drive you are working with.
That's as far as my knowledge goes.
HTH
Brandon
mpierce wrote:
>
> I'm using RH6.2, kernel2.2.16-3.
> My CD-RW is an HP8200 USB.
> I've looked at the old posts here and cannot find what I'm looking
> for.
> Has anyone configured this hardware setup to work under linux?
> If so, can you please tell me what I need to do to get the hardware
> configuration operational?
>
> If I can get this working and Samba working, I'll finally be able to
> leave
> WIN98 which is what I am trying to do.
> PS - still a newbie
> Marvin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:04:48 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing modem in linux
A real modem never requires a driver contrary to what Windows makes you
think.
Anyway, check out http://o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html to see if yours
is a winmodem. If it's not then it will work in Linux.
muralidharan wrote:
>
> i have an internal modem PCI 56k motorola fax/voice/data modem.
> does it require a driver to be installed in linux.
> if so where can get a driver from.
>
> it is running ok on win 95.
>
> --
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From: Franck Poirot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB ethernet adapter
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:54:36 +0200
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Hi,
I got wound up with a laptop and a Netgear USB ethernet adapter.
I need to install RedHat Linux on it and get the networking going with
this horrible device.
Can I be that lucky that this USB ethernet adapter is supported??
If anyone knows something, please respond with an email.
Thanx in advance!
PS.. oh yeah, the model is : Netgear EA101
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: vertical line on X screen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Aug 2000 12:06:54 +0200
Hi all!
On my X screen, I get a vertical stippled line. This line appears
even if I start the server without any arguments at all, i.e. without
loading any clients or window managers.
This is not visible in low-resolution modes, but appears at 1024x768,
1152x864, and 1280x1024. It is at different positions: as the
resolution increases, it moves to the right and upward, and space
between stipples increases.
The line is not just a display artifact, but actually appears in video
memory: If I make a screenshot, it is present in the screenshot file.
If part of the screen with the line scrolls, or if I move a window
across it, all pixels that come in contact with the line get "tainted"
and stay violet until redrawn by the application.
I am running on a new K6-2 500 with a new Matrox MGA G400 board, using
XFree86 3.3.6 and the utah-glx drivers. If I comment out the Modules
section from XF86Config, thus not loading the utah-glx drivers but
using the SVGA driver, nothing changes. The system is continuously
on, and the problem first appeared after two days running in high-res
mode.
I am a bit stuck at this point and would appreciate any help.
TIA,
Marc Andre
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From: "J.E.J. op den Brouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Screen Blanking Problem
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:10:12 +0200
Hi all,
I'm using RH 6.2 on a noname laptop and just upgraded my kernel to
2.2.16-3 (RPM) and now I'm faced with the fact that if the screen
blanks, the keyboard gets locked.
Does anyone know how to proceed?
--
--jesse
======================================================================
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Haagse Hogeschool 2521 EN DEN HAAG
Sector Techniek The Netherlands
Opleiding Elektrotechniek +31-70-4458936
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From: Nico Holvoet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:49:52 +0200
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Hi,
I remember having read somewhere (I believe it was the ZIP HOWTO) that you
should FIRST load the imm module because otherwise parport will claim all
parallel ports it finds for itself leaving nothing for imm.
Try to move 'insmod imm' above 'insmod parport'.
(I only have this from the documentation. I've been doing quite some reading
on ZIP since I'm going to buy a ZIP-drive myself very shortly, I don't have
any practical experience on this, yet ;-(
Regards,
Nico.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> modprobe lp had no effect. still "device or resource busy" when trying
> to load either imm or ppa. is there anything else I can try? a
> diagnostic of some sort?
> gabe.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:23:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get my Iomega zip drive to work under linux.
> > >unfortunately, I ok, the kernal is compiled per the instructions in
> the
> > >zip drive mini-HOWTO. all the switches (SCSI support, etc.) were
> set.
> > ># insmod -f parport
> > ># insmod -f parport_pc
> > ># insmod -f imm
> > >/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy
> > > I still don't have a working zip drive. how do I get rid of the
> > >device or resource busy message and load the module so I can mount
> the
> > >drive? also, FWIW, after I get the module loaded, how will I know
> how
> > >to mount the drive; e.g., will it be sda, sda1, sda2, sda4, etc.?
> >
> > modprobe lp
> > modprobe imm
> >
> > (ZIP drives on the parallel port require the lp module to be loaded.
> > Until then, they won't work.)
> >
> > Once that is done and you don't get any error messages, you should be
> > able to mount a ZIP disk by doing "mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip" assuming
> > the directory /mnt/zip exists. Most ZIP disks are partitioned so that
> > all the data resides on partition 4, but a few of them are partitioned
> > so that the data resides on partition 1.
> >
> > --
> > 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: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My modem hangup after the negociation......
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:52:41 -0400
franck dubuis wrote:
> I don't think, because I've no problem under windoz!
>
> > Sounds like a dirty phone line to me...
> > Have your telephone company come out an do some line noise tests, and if
> the
> > line is noisy, have it fixed.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > -SSB
> >
> >
Hrm.. Well, then. Winmodem support isn't that great under Linux, if the
support is there at all... Might want to think about getting a real modem, if
you're having trouble with yours, or wait for improved drivers for your
particular modem.
-SSB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: Trackballs. Anyone using one?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:54:03 GMT
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:29:14 GMT, Mel Moore wrote:
>
>The enginerring people a work use them on the CAD machines and like them
>alot but had no idea if one would work on a Linux box. I want try one
>because my hands are starting protest about using mice all the time.
>
Standard trackballs are no different than mice really so there shouldn't
be much problems. I use a Mouse Systems PC-Trackball II in Mouse Systems
mode (3-button). No problems at all with either gpm or X.
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
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From: "Carl T. Bergstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux with Apple Cinema 22" LCD monitor on PC?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:47:43 -0500
Hello,
Has anyone managed to get the Apple Cinema 22" LCD monitor working
with Linux on a PC (not a PowerPC)? Any hints or suggestions? XFree
drivers? Modelines?
Alternatively, is there a serious PC-specific LCD competitor in the same
price range (4K) that does that sort of resolution (1600 x 1024)?
Thanks in advance,
Carl
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset....
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:13:05 -0400
Recently I posted a request here asking about a SuperMicro Super 370DL3
/ 370DLE motherborad (they are essentially the same board, the only diff
is that the DL3 has onboard SCSI). The nice thing about these boards is
that they are dual processor (socket 370) motherboards supporting the
Intel Pentium III Coppermine with a 133Mhz FSB. Unfortunately I was on
vacation for 10days and then our news server suffered a disk crash and
lost all old messages and was down for another week - basically if
anyone responded to my post, I didn't see it... So I ask again...
Does anyone know anything about the SuperMicro 370DL3 mother board? Does
anyone know anything about the performance of the ServerWorks SeverSet
III LE chipset? I've been looking for benchmarks & reviews of this
board but I haven't found anything. Any thoughts or suggestions?
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Hanssen)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: Install into two physical disks?
Reply-To: ahh-AT-go.enitelia.no
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:15:59 GMT
On 15 Aug 2000, Dr. David L. Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:05:00 -0400, Tim Murray
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Thanks for your info, but one question still remains: will the =
>>installation software allow me to do this? That, really, is the core of =
>>the question.
>
>Yes, if you specify "expert" at the very beginning, or whatever the
>fully interactive mode is called.
Even the standard GUI installer should give you the opportunity to
partition the disk(s) the way you want to.
--
mvh.
Arne Hanssen
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Subject: video card questions
From: Art Werschulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:57:37 GMT
Hi.
I'm running RedHat Linux 6.2 on a Dell box. "uname -a" produces the
output
Linux sobolev 2.2.16-3 #1 Mon Jun 19 19:11:44 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
Juding from the output of "xstart", I am using an ATI Mach64 AGP
graphics card with 4 Megs of VRAM. Here are some of the details from
the output:
(--) Mach64: PCI: Mach64 RagePro rev 92, Aperture @ 0x41000000,
Registers @ 0x40000000, Block I/O @ 0x1000
(--) Mach64: Card type: AGP
(--) Mach64: Memory type: SGRAM (1:1) (5)
(--) Mach64: Video RAM: 4096k
I would like to have more VRAM. I'm not particularly interested in
gaming; I would just like (e.g.) wmaker to have sufficient colors
available, and I would like netscape to not need a local colormap.
So:
(1) Can additional memory be added to this card?
(2) If not, what would be a good replacement card to use? What
gotchas should I be watching for?
Thanks.
--
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From: Bart Oldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha DS-XG and ALSA
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:42:55 GMT
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, alien8 wrote:
> I recently purchased Corel Linux and I've got it running in a dual-boot with
> Win98. This computer's motherboard is Intel's MU440EX which has the Yamaha
> DS-XG onboard PCI audio.
> I've followed linuxnewbie.org's ALSA installation how-to, and everything
> went great up until the command 'modprobe snd-ymfpci' which brought up the
> following error:
> /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/snd.o: unresolved symbol printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074
It could be that the corel kernel was compiled without versioning info,
check this by the output of the following:
grep printk /proc/ksyms
nm /lib/modules/2.2.12.misc/snd.o | grep printk
Does the first one give printk and the second printk_Rsmp_1b7d4074?
These kind of problems have also been reported with the NVIDIA modules.
You might be able to solve this by compiling alsa without versioning
info, i.e., after ./configure comment out the GENKSYMS=... line in
Makefile.conf. For me this is
# GENKSYMS=/sbin/genksyms -k 2.2.16
but you probably have to put a # sign in front of
GENKSYMS=/sbin/genksyms -k 2.2.12 ...
Bart
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From: "Bjoern steinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digiboard
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:14:14 +0200
Best get the "drivers" from digi itself. If you install them the script asks
you which board is installed, compiles the drivers and makes you nice boot
scripts. All you will have to do is to call the digi script from your rc
script. The ports are called /dev/ttyD0...15. So you won't to compile a new
kernel or something like this. The described software can be found at
http://support.digi.com/support/drivers/linux/4001450M.rpm
I have done so under SuSE linux so it wouldn't be very helpfull to describe
how to edit the rc files in this enviroment but I guess RedHat has it in
/etc/rc.d/...
By the way RedHat 6.2 is listed at Digi as supported OS but not SuSE so you
should definitely get it running :-)
Bjoern
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone successfully configured a Digiboard under RH 6.2?
Any pointers as to where I can find info would be appreciated. I have a
2-port Xe and a 16-port one.
KS
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From: Mark Giesbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux crash - bad CPU or disk?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:25:29 -0600
Hey all,
I've got a 3 month old installation of Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14) on a PII
233 with an 8.4GB disk. In the last couple of days, the system has
frozen solid, forcing a hard reboot.
Is this indicative of a bad cpu? Scrolling through Netscape, untaring a
file, etc. Any event seems to bung it up. I've not added any new
software or done any system updates in the last three months. I'm
fearful that it's the disk, as any attempt to copy the contents of my
home partition (/dev/hdc3) to another disk causes a freeze.
I have Win95 on my first disk, and have been unable to cause it to
freeze, no matter what.
Any ideas, thoughts, or chunks of wisdom?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
--
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GIS Programmer/Analyst
GeoArctic International Services Ltd.
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From: macrocracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 5.0 and Adaptec 1510 SCSI controller
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:27:40 GMT
Thanks for your help in advance
I'm trying to install redhat 5.0 on a vintage compaq 486sx33 circa
1994. The scsi controller is Adaptec's AHA-1510/152x(ISA/VLB)
(AIC-6260/6360). Unfortunately that is not one of the choices shown to
me during setup to autoprobe.
I have checked the Hardware compatibility FAQ (updated 9/99) and the
Adaptec AHA 1510/AIC6360 is listed as supported. However when I look on
the redhat site only the AIC 6360 is listed in the most recent version
and not in any of the previous releases. So whats going on here?
Is the fix as simple as getting the most recent version of redhat or
another distribution?
I've checked the caldera and corel websites and it is not listed. The
slackware site says it supports every thing in the Hardware compatibilty
FAQ. I haven't checked debian or turbolinux yet.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can't read contents of floppy disk
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:31:49 GMT
I appreciate your response to my question. The boot floppy was created
while compiling the kernel. I use make bZdisk for the creation. I don't
know what files or on it since I can't read it. I would like to solve
this problem so when I write files to a floppy from another program to
be able to read it. If i format a floppy and put a filesystem on it
(ext2), can I just copy a file from the hard drive to it. This isn't
necessarily referring to a boot floppy.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:44:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I have made a boot floppy rather than booting from the hard drive.
All
> >my attempts to read the contents of the drive in order to insert boot
> >parameters has failed. When the floppy is mounted the dialog returned
is
> >"/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device." I mount using mount /dev/fdo
> >/mnt/floppy and I do have a /mnt/floppy directory.
> >
> >Also while I am asking for help, I know how to format a floppy and
put a
> >file system on it; but how do i put a boot.img on it and still be
able
> >to read the disk contents? I use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 to format and
> >/mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0.
>
> It all depends on how the boot disk was made. A standard boot.img
will
> often be made using either the Minix filesystem (less overhead for
small
> volumes) or no filesystem at all (that is, if it's merely a kernel
image
> and a RAMdisk file.)
>
> Where are you getting this boot.img from? Have you tried mounting it
> like so?
> #mount /path/to/boot.img /mnt/floppy -o loop
> BTW, it's not necessary to mkfs a disk if you're just going to dd a
raw
> image to it. fdformat is necessary, though....
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us
to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
> http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> -----------------------------/ --Henry Spencer
>
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From: Art Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux crash - bad CPU or disk?
Date: 18 Aug 2000 10:56:10 -0500
Mark Giesbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey all,
>
> I've got a 3 month old installation of Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14) on a PII
> 233 with an 8.4GB disk. In the last couple of days, the system has
> frozen solid, forcing a hard reboot.
>
> Is this indicative of a bad cpu? Scrolling through Netscape, untaring a
> file, etc. Any event seems to bung it up. I've not added any new
> software or done any system updates in the last three months. I'm
> fearful that it's the disk, as any attempt to copy the contents of my
> home partition (/dev/hdc3) to another disk causes a freeze.
>
> I have Win95 on my first disk, and have been unable to cause it to
> freeze, no matter what.
>
> Any ideas, thoughts, or chunks of wisdom?
>
You could have a bad memory chip - go to
http://freshmeat.net
and find a ram testing program (there are several).
I had a SIMM go bad on my machine, and it locked up frequently until
the bad chip was replace.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux crash - bad CPU or disk?
Date: 18 Aug 2000 15:57:24 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Giesbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've got a 3 month old installation of Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14) on a PII
: 233 with an 8.4GB disk. In the last couple of days, the system has
: frozen solid, forcing a hard reboot.
: Is this indicative of a bad cpu? Scrolling through Netscape, untaring a
: file, etc. Any event seems to bung it up. I've not added any new
: software or done any system updates in the last three months. I'm
: fearful that it's the disk, as any attempt to copy the contents of my
And have you checked the ventilator?
: home partition (/dev/hdc3) to another disk causes a freeze.
error output from dmesg?
: Any ideas, thoughts, or chunks of wisdom?
not without data.
Peter
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