Linux-Hardware Digest #474, Volume #13 Thu, 24 Aug 00 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: serial port/mouse combo test? (Brett C. Cammack)
Help on CS4281 sound (Demian Gutierrez)
Re: KDE (Nels Tomlinson)
Re: epson 1270 photo printer -> Linux (Svend Garnaes)
SOHO ISA card ("Blaine")
Re: sound card trouble (awe64) (Ozette Brown)
HP Scanjet 5100c (Stefano Bolli)
Sony Vaio C1 Picture book ("Richard Crossley")
Re: sound card trouble (awe64) (sideband)
Re: bttv: Wierd Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-ROM woes (Chuck)
set up ISA modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: set up ISA modem (sideband)
Re: set up ISA modem
low power linux devices ("Kurt M. Alonso")
Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: set up ISA modem (sideband)
Re: low power linux devices (sideband)
Re: IDE Problem with my VA 503+ Motherboard? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: sound card trouble (awe64) ("Shadowhawk")
Re: Help! Brand new hard drive showing mostly bad blocks ("Charles R. Wright")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett C. Cammack)
Subject: Re: serial port/mouse combo test?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:12:20 GMT
Found a very nice DOS serial port diagnostic utility and was able to
deduce the CMOS line drivers between the UART and the ribbon header
were toast.
Regards,
Brett C. Cammack
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From: Demian Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on CS4281 sound
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:15:40 -0400
Any ideas, I don't even find a driver (sorry OSS has one, but is nor
free) Any way, sooner or later... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Nels Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:17:58 -0500
Ralph wrote:
>
> How do I make the screen size fit the actual screen size on my monitor.
> Mine's too big and I can't get down to the bottom to click the buttons. I
> have tried everything.
>
> Thanks
> Ralph.
Hi,
The alt-left-mouse-click recommended in the first reply works well.
Also, if you read the man page for xwindows, (try apropos x11, perhaps?)
you should be able to get some instructions on setting up a virtual
desktop, larger than the physical one, which you can pan across. I
think that you might be able to figure it out just by reading the
x86config file. By the way, that's in /etc/x11/x86config, on my
mandrake system. Should be there for redhat too.
Good luck,
Nels
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From: Svend Garnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: epson 1270 photo printer -> Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:09:30 +0200
Also, see
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?get_make=Epson&recnum=284169
HTH
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Svend
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From: "Blaine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SOHO ISA card
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:14:07 -0700
I'm having trouble installing my SOHOware ISA ethernet card on my old 486.
When I run the netconfig setup program that comes w/ the slackware distro,
it seems to detect it. However, it doesn't show up when i type
"ifconfig -a". Was soho a bad choice for a network card? Is it compatible?
I'm kind of a newbie, so any help would be great.
Blaine
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:16:59 -0400
From: Ozette Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sound card trouble (awe64)
Hi,
I've got a Create AWE 64D. It's is PCI card and for the life of me, I can't
get it to work. I can't run the isapnp tools obviously. I've tried to build
the modules for it but nada. Do you have any idea what I could do to resolve
this problem???
Please help.
Ozette
mst wrote:
> Shadowhawk wrote:
> >
> > I've had repeated trouble trying to get my pnp Creative Awe64 working in
> > Slack 7. I've played with isapnp and recompiled the kernel. (2.2.13)
> > any suggestions??
> >
>
> Please post exactly what the trouble is - I've got the AWE64 working
> perfectly in Slack 7.0; what I did is follow the
> Soundblaster-AWE-mini-HOWTO to the letter
> (http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE). Is
> your card correctly setup by isapnp? If so, it's just a matter of
> inserting the right modules.
>
> MST
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From: Stefano Bolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Scanjet 5100c
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:20:52 GMT
Hi guys,I'm searching for the last version of hpscan,module for
/dev/hpscan,to support
my parallel port scanner under Linux.The official ftp server is
everytime down!
I think last version is hpscan-0_1_1_8.tar.gz
Can you help me?
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From: "Richard Crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony Vaio C1 Picture book
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:17:52 +0100
Hi,
I'm thinking of buying one of these little beasties, they look really cool
and they're sized between a laptop and a Personal Destop Assistant. The only
problem I can forsee is the very strange screen size, 1024x480. They are
shipped with Windows 98, but has anyone tried running Linux on one. I have
Mandrake 7.0.
Thanks for any help.
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Kirk to Enterprise - Beam down yeoman Rand and a six pack.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sideband)
Subject: Re: sound card trouble (awe64)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:37:42 GMT
cat /proc/pci
find your card
Set the modules up to use that IRQ/DMA/etc...
Have fun.
-SSB
On or about Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:16:59 -0400, Ozette Brown
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, using the forum comp.os.linux.hardware
did say:
:Hi,
:
:I've got a Create AWE 64D. It's is PCI card and for the life of me, I can't
:get it to work. I can't run the isapnp tools obviously. I've tried to build
:the modules for it but nada. Do you have any idea what I could do to resolve
:this problem???
:
:Please help.
:
:Ozette
:
:mst wrote:
:
:> Shadowhawk wrote:
:> >
:> > I've had repeated trouble trying to get my pnp Creative Awe64 working in
:> > Slack 7. I've played with isapnp and recompiled the kernel. (2.2.13)
:> > any suggestions??
:> >
:>
:> Please post exactly what the trouble is - I've got the AWE64 working
:> perfectly in Slack 7.0; what I did is follow the
:> Soundblaster-AWE-mini-HOWTO to the letter
:> (http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE). Is
:> your card correctly setup by isapnp? If so, it's just a matter of
:> inserting the right modules.
:>
:> MST
:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bttv: Wierd Problem
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:34:33 GMT
Hi,
Check the following WEB site: http://kwintv.sourceforge.net/
also the Video for Linux at:
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
Miguel.
___________________________________________________________________
>From the WEB site:
BTTV
Ralph and Marcus Metzler's BT848 chipset driver. This supports a large
number of boards that use this excellent chipset
including.
ADS Channel Surfer
Hauppauge Win/TV PCI bus cards.
Miro PCTV.
STBTV PCI boards.
Diamond DTV2000 cards.
Intel BT848 based PCI cards.
VideoLogic Captivator PCI.
3Com/US Robotics 'Big Picture' capture card/camera.
The current driver also includes support by Gerd Knorr for the MSP3400
audio processor and the onboard radio on the later Hauppauge cards.
Unlike most other cards the BT848 can do on screen TV with almost no CPU
overhead.
_________________________________________________________________
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Before you buy.
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From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-ROM woes
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:22:38 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey all,
I have a Plextor PX-20TS, SCSI CDROM drive, mounted on a
BusLogic BT-930 PCI Ultra SCSI host adapter, and it's giving
me problems.
The system boots fine, and I have no issues with the SCSI hard
drive on the same bus. All logs concerning SCSI and/or CDROM
appear without any hints of errors *(see footnote). I can mount
the CDROM, and it's somewhat useable. I can copy a couple files
off the drive, but if I keep working it, the machine will lock up. If I
put in an audio CD, the GUI software (XPlay or whatever) will
identify the CD label, and start to play. Within a few seconds, the
machine will lock up. (The CD keeps playing lound and clear.
I think it's just mocking me.)
Any advice - Chuck
* In /proc/scsi/BusLogic/0, the one thing looks a little funny to
me is that the CDROM ID in the 'Tagged Queuing' column is
listed as 'Not Supported'. The hard drive ID in the same column
is listed as 'Active'. I don't know what tagged queuing is, so I
don't know if this is significant.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: set up ISA modem
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:27:47 GMT
# ls -l /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 27 18:06 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0
# ppp-go
# Connect script failed
I have been through the man pages for pppd, pnpdump, chat, setserial,
and more. I have printed out and read PPP-HOWTO, the Modem-HOWTO, as
well as FAQs, scoured usenet posting . . . anything that might
possibly provide a clue.
I have set-up a LAN with four boxes (two of which are Win98),
configured Samba, Apache, written Perl scripts and C programs. I have
done all this without asking for help; by Reading The Fine Material
available. But I can not get a freaking modem to work under Linux.
About ready to throw it all in the trash and go back to pounding nails
for a living.
signed, very frustrated
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sideband)
Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:54:17 GMT
Dear Frustrated:
First, make sure your modem is not a winmodem. Winmodems are little
more than glorified sound cards, and the ones that do work with Linux
don't work all that well. If it is a winmodem, replace it with a REAL
modem.
Second, if your modem is not a winmodem, why does /dev/modem point to
COM1? If it's an ISA add in modem, and PNP, you should use ISAPNPTOOLS
to find out what port it is on, (most likely COM2 or COM3, which would
be /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/ttyS2 respectively) and set /dev/modem's link
accordingly. Modemtool under RedHat is helpful for this, but you
didn't mention which distribution you are using.
Maybe a post of the output of dmesg might shed some light, as well as
/proc/interrupts.
HTH.
-SSB
On or about Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:27:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
using the forum comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
:# ls -l /dev/modem
:lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 27 18:06 /dev/modem -> /dev/ttyS0
:
:# ppp-go
:# Connect script failed
:
:I have been through the man pages for pppd, pnpdump, chat, setserial,
:and more. I have printed out and read PPP-HOWTO, the Modem-HOWTO, as
:well as FAQs, scoured usenet posting . . . anything that might
:possibly provide a clue.
:
:I have set-up a LAN with four boxes (two of which are Win98),
:configured Samba, Apache, written Perl scripts and C programs. I have
:done all this without asking for help; by Reading The Fine Material
:available. But I can not get a freaking modem to work under Linux.
:
:About ready to throw it all in the trash and go back to pounding nails
:for a living.
:
:signed, very frustrated
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:13:40 GMT
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:54:17 GMT, sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Frustrated:
>
>First, make sure your modem is not a winmodem. Winmodems are little
>more than glorified sound cards, and the ones that do work with Linux
>don't work all that well. If it is a winmodem, replace it with a REAL
>modem.
There's almost no such thing as an ISA winmodem. At 56kbps, the ISA bus
hasn't the bandwidth needed.
Also: they don't work so well w/ windows machines eithers unless paying
for a 500mhz PIII to get 200mhz PIII performance is acceptable. I'd rather
pay the extra $40 for a real modem than $250 extra on the CPU.
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From: "Kurt M. Alonso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: low power linux devices
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:14:42 +0200
Hi,
Can anyone recommend a linux setup that doesn't consume too much power?
I am about to get a cable inet link and would like to have a more or
less permanently
connected linux computer.
I don't need a high performance system, just a small computer capable of
running some net
services, caching DNS, routing, perhaps retrieving stock prices, etc.
In the short to medium term, however, I would like to computerize my
home, stream
MP3, OGG, RA, etc onto 1 or more linux devices having perhaps small LCDs
for general
information, ...
(In the medium to long term it would also be fun to also stream MPEG-2
files, if support
for MPEG-2 cards under linux improves. But that is still fantasy.)
I do not really require x86 compatibility. Price is not terribly
important. Low power
consumption is simply the main goal.
Cheers,
Kurt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.verilog
Subject: Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:11:11 GMT
In article <8lj76o$tih$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
neko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <wTLe5.69$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Hien Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Neko,
> >
> > What would be the cheapest home set up for design tools/hardware
that
> one
> > can have ?
> >
> > I can get linux to run with two intel 1GHZ CPU's, what tools can I
use
> ? Is
> > there any any sysnthesis tool to use with Linux these days ?
>
> I doubt it.
>
> I'm using a Synplify (FPGA synthesis tool) under Solaris/Sparc.
> I also uses Signalscan under Solaris/Sparc as a waveform viewer.
> Those are currently not available under Linux environment.
>
> This is one of the reason I hesitate to have Linux only environment.
> My previous posting is intended to provide an example of
consolidatition
> of Solaris and Linux (however Solaris is the primary environment).
>
> Cadence is considering to provide their tools under Linux.
> But they are very relcutant to do so.
> The reason is very simple ...
> Supporting Linux requires more investments but not much returns.
> (people are expecting cheaper prices when it comes to Linux.)
> I'm very skeptical that you can get a decent CAE tools under Linux
> within coming 3~5 years.
>
> But please remember that all depend upon your goal.
> If your goal is full-blown ASIC design, go for Solaris.
> I saw many projects wasting money and time trying out PC base tools.
>
> Hope you can find right tools and right CAE environment for you.
>
> Aki-
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I have to disagree with this. I have been successfully using vcs
on Linux for a while now. You do have to be carefull with what
version of Linux you use though. I would figure out what works and
then DON'T MESS WITH THE SYSTEM. This is critical under Linux as
unless you are a total guru you will have a hard time knowing what
affects what. This is most important for things like the X libs and
the libc packages.
Also, Signalscan is available on Linux. I ran it just today. However,
I can't seem to get the pli code to work yet. Something weird about
my libc.so.5 I have is making the sim core dump. Don't know what to
do about this as Cadence won't support this pli as far as I know.
- RP
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sideband)
Subject: Re: set up ISA modem
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:22:38 GMT
Um... Shark and Motorola both make an ISA winmodem. I know. I own one
of each.. They're called the SM56.
They performed relatively well under Windows, provided they were used
as answering machines and fax machines. Didn't perform worth a squat
for internet connectivity.
As for the ISA bus not having the bandwidth... I have to disagree...
56Kbps (53Kbits, per FCC limitations) is far less than 8 bits @ 8 Mhz,
which should be plenty of bandwidth, provided everything works
smoothly. At the worst, you can still get 33.6 out of them, if your
phone lines are clean.
-SSB
On or about Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:13:40 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (), using the forum
comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
:On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:54:17 GMT, sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Dear Frustrated:
:>
:>First, make sure your modem is not a winmodem. Winmodems are little
:>more than glorified sound cards, and the ones that do work with Linux
:>don't work all that well. If it is a winmodem, replace it with a REAL
:>modem.
:
:There's almost no such thing as an ISA winmodem. At 56kbps, the ISA bus
:hasn't the bandwidth needed.
:
:Also: they don't work so well w/ windows machines eithers unless paying
:for a 500mhz PIII to get 200mhz PIII performance is acceptable. I'd rather
:pay the extra $40 for a real modem than $250 extra on the CPU.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sideband)
Subject: Re: low power linux devices
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:32:05 GMT
Hrm...
Leaving 9 computers on all the time at my apartment raised my electric
bill a grand total of $6 a month. 2 of those machines are Vintage 1993
and 1987, with the power consumption to prove it..
Your best bet for low power consumption is probably an x86 compatible
architecture. Any of the more recent "green" systems, from an Intel or
AMD 233 on up should be just fine, if the green features are turned
on, and you use APM. They should have the medium term processing power
to route your network nicely, as well... My router, for those 9
machines, is an Intel P-133 Overclocked to 166, and it works just fine
for the job.
Hope this helps.
-SSB
On or about Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:14:42 +0200, "Kurt M. Alonso"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, using the forum
comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
:Hi,
:
:Can anyone recommend a linux setup that doesn't consume too much power?
:I am about to get a cable inet link and would like to have a more or
:less permanently
:connected linux computer.
:I don't need a high performance system, just a small computer capable of
:running some net
:services, caching DNS, routing, perhaps retrieving stock prices, etc.
:In the short to medium term, however, I would like to computerize my
:home, stream
:MP3, OGG, RA, etc onto 1 or more linux devices having perhaps small LCDs
:for general
:information, ...
:
:(In the medium to long term it would also be fun to also stream MPEG-2
:files, if support
:for MPEG-2 cards under linux improves. But that is still fantasy.)
:
:I do not really require x86 compatibility. Price is not terribly
:important. Low power
:consumption is simply the main goal.
:
:Cheers,
:
:Kurt
:
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE Problem with my VA 503+ Motherboard?
Date: 24 Aug 2000 21:15:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: the IDE interface. Every so often (that is, about every few hundred
: megabytes read or written), a single byte will be wrong. The problem
: shows up when I run a burn-in test by comparing two identical (sic)
: directories with "diff -r". And yes, the erroneous byte (if one appears
: at all) is NOT the same in each trial.
This is called "a hardware problem". Send the faulty part back.
Ahhh .. and which is the faulty part? Good luck! Memory, most likely.
Add cooling. down clock, and fiddle and swap until you find it.
: VA 503+ motherboard
: 64 MB EDO RAM
: Cyrix 6x86L P166+ (133 MHz)
afair the cyrix is overclocked or may be a 75MHz bus, or a 66MHz one,
and set wrong. Check.
: bus speed at 66 MHz
Sure?
: I have tried replacing the 6.4 GB drive in /dev/hda with another IBM
: 30.7 GB drive identical to /dev/hdb, and it showed the same problems.
Well that eliminates the drive, and leaves memory, mobo and cpu as
main suspects.
: I did look at the UDMA Mini-HOWTO and noted that the stock kernel I was
: using from the Slackware distribution was NOT configured with support for
: my chipset (VIA Apollo MVP3). So I tried disabling UDMA in my BIOS. The
Dinnae worry about it ... you just need to support the controllers in
the mode they are running in (which won't be udma) ...
: problem persisted, now with the kernel running in Bus Mastering mode.
??
: I tried disabling this too (by using "hdparm -d0") but the problem did
Oh, I see, no dma.
: not go away. Then I went back into the BIOS and in desperation, set the
: IDE interfaces to PIO 0, thinking that would tax them the least. The
Yes, but you already eliminated the disks as the problem, and now you
eliminated the ide controller (i.e. most probably the mobo). There's
still a chance the mobo may be faulty, but I'd ignore it for now and
look at cpu and ram. Ram first.
: I also read in the UDMA Mini-HOWTO that a BIOS upgrade is a good thing
: to do when faced with apparent UDMA IDE problems. So I went to the
But you're not faced with them! You eliminated the disks as a problem,
and you eliminated the controller too!
: the stock kernels), then Bus Mastering, then PIO 0. They all showed
: the same symptoms of an incorrect byte in every few hundred megabytes
: read or written. (As an aside, "hdparm -Tt" said the drive performance
: improved dramatically after the BIOS upgrade.)
Good :-).
: This is driving me NUTS. I'm almost ready to give up on this system.
Why? Keep going. You are looking at the solution.
Peter
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From: "Shadowhawk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card trouble (awe64)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:42:31 GMT
Well, I also followed the instructions of the mini tutorial, and I can't
seem to get it to work =/
--
- Shadowhawk
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is
weird, people take prozac to make it normal.
A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of
marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
mst wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Shadowhawk wrote:
>>
>> I've had repeated trouble trying to get my pnp Creative Awe64 working in
>> Slack 7. I've played with isapnp and recompiled the kernel. (2.2.13)
>> any suggestions??
>>
>
>Please post exactly what the trouble is - I've got the AWE64 working
>perfectly in Slack 7.0; what I did is follow the
>Soundblaster-AWE-mini-HOWTO to the letter
>(http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE). Is
>your card correctly setup by isapnp? If so, it's just a matter of
>inserting the right modules.
>
>MST
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From: "Charles R. Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Brand new hard drive showing mostly bad blocks
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:06:58 GMT
Hello again,
Thanks for all the comments, but dig this: the drive is perfectly fine
now. I believe it was getting too hot. I took off the case and felt
the drive where it was sitting (temporarily) on top of the CDROM drive.
They were both very warm.
I cooled off the drive, but with no good result. I powered off,
rebooted into the BIOS low-level format and did a partial "automatic
scan" (or something). Then, on booting again, all sectors checked out
ok.
That'll be a lesson. Think I've reduced the lifetime much?
Charles Wright
"Charles R. Wright" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just installed a Western Digital 20.5 GB ATA-66 drive into my linux
> box (K6-II 300) and have been busy partitioning and repartitioning it,
> trying to get it to suit my needs.
>
> Now, the strangest thing has happened. I've been using the badblocks
> command to make sure things are ok before committing filesystems to the
> disk, and it seems that more and more blocks are indicated as bad as
> time goes on. Now it looks like there's only about 90 meg left that is
> any good! All the rest is bad - I save the bad block numbers and they
> just increase to the limit without missing a block. I have a badblocks
> file that's gigantic.
>
> What the heck is going on here? Is this a bad disk or have I screwed up
> the formatting some how in a way that is recoverable? This has all
> occurred over the past 24 hours.
>
> Thanks for the advice,
>
> Charles Wright
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