Linux-Hardware Digest #505, Volume #13 Thu, 31 Aug 00 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: gforce 2 mx and x 3.3.6 (Holger Kral)
Maxtor 96147H8 62Gb hard drive badly detected (Jean-Marc BOUCHER)
Re: Xircom realport driver on RH 6.2 ("Alistair Mann")
GBit network cards ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Generate an Interrupt on parallel port ("loc")
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Chris Rankin)
Re: Problem with GeForce 2 GTS ("George")
EIDE-DMA-Support (Jochen Witte)
Re: Canon BJC-6000 Printer Support? (Joe Umiker)
Re: EIDE-DMA-Support (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: EIDE-DMA-Support (Kenneth R�rvik)
How to boot windoze on an ATA100 drive ? (The Black Unicorn)
Re: Diamond Viper II Video Card--- HELP, I NEED A DRIVER (Jeroen Roodhart)
Setting up an ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0 (mike)
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Justo M. Casablanca)
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Justo M. Casablanca)
Re: flash/diskless Linux hardware project?? (alan)
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Sven Bovin)
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From: Holger Kral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gforce 2 mx and x 3.3.6
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:42:25 +0100
Jim Broughton wrote:
>
> Holger Kral wrote:
> >
> > hello,
> > i ahve installed suse6.4 with xfree3.3.6. i'm using an els erazor 3 pro
> > and it works fine. now i want to buy this ne hercules 3d prophet 2 mx.
> > does anybody know, whether it works with 3.3.6?
> >
> > thank you,
> > holger
> > _________________________________________
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.holgerkral.de
>
> Not to my knowledge. You will probably have to upgrade to
> xfree86 4.0.1 AND get the nvidia drivers in order to use this
> card. (what chipset does the erazor 3 pro use??)
>
> --
> Jim Broughton
> (The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
> If Sense were common everyone would have it!
> Following Air and Water the third most abundant
> thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
the erazor 3 pro uses the nvidia riva tnt2 pro.
thanks holger
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From: Jean-Marc BOUCHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maxtor 96147H8 62Gb hard drive badly detected
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:43:47 GMT
hi
i have an ide Maxtor 62Gb hard drive and want to install it in linux box
running Redhat 2.0.36.
my problem is that this disk is not well detected.
i put the following line in the lilo.conf append "hda=119108,16,63"
but when the system boot up it tells me -> hda: Maxtor 96147H8, 26367MB
w/2048kB Cache, CHS=53572/16/63, UDMA
and i could not see the 62 Gb of my drive
any idea ? how to deal with ?
regards
JMB
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From: "Alistair Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Xircom realport driver on RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:29:48 +0100
"Ken Crofts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Alistair Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Ken Crofts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I have installed Linux Red HAt 6.2 Toshiba Satellite 4100XDVD laptop.
I
> > > wish to use Xircom Realport 10/100 CE3 card. From reading David Hinds
> > > PCMCIA-Howto it suggests card is compatible with Linux. I have loaded
> > > xirc2ps_cs module, and this module appears when I type in lsmod. When
I
> > > type in cardctl ident it identifies card. however when I insert or
> remove
> > > card it gives a high beep then a low beep which I believe indicates
card
> > is
> > > not configured properly.
> > >
> > > The problem I have is when I use the Kernel Daemon Configuration from
> teh
> > > ControlPanel it asks me to select type and module. I select type as
> > "eth",
> > > but when I go to select module there appears to be no driver for
xircom
> > > card. Does anyone know what name of module should be, and whether I
> need
> > > to copy anything into lib/modules/2.2.14-12/net/ directory. I am
> > relatively
> > > new to Linux so fairly simple instructions would be appreciated.
> >
> > A high beep and a low beep means the PC Card was recognised properly but
> > that the software needed to actually use it failed. The reason for that
> > failure would normally be written to /var/log/messages.
> >
> > Try it again, then immediately look at the log. This will give you (and
> > perhaps us) more insight into what the failure is.
> >
> > As far as the control panel is concerned, my one (with a Xircom XEM5600
> and
> > xirc2ps_cs/serial_cs) filled in automagically with the tulip driver.
> >
> > HTH
> > --
> > Alistair Mann
> > visit the uk.local.london website at
> > http://www.london-online.org.uk
> >
> >
>
> Messages were:
> shutting down socket 0
> executing : './network start eth0'
> executing: 'rmmod xirc2ps_cs'
Are you sure that wasn't './network stop eth0'? Otherwise this is you
removing the card, then...
> initializing socket0
> socket0: Xircom CE#-10/100 Fast Ethernet
> executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-12/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.o
This was the card going back in and being dealt with by cardmgr...
> xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (ddjn+kvh)
> Xircom: port 0x300, irq 5, hwaddr 00:10:A4:FA:F4:C2
> executing: 'network start eth0'
> MII link partner: 0021
> MII selected
> media 10baseT, silicon revision 4
... and this is the kernel recognising and starting the Xircom module and
hardware.
This doesn't actually mention any failures at all. A couple of things spring
to mind tho:
1. Does the card have any other devices (such as modem) on it? It could be
that something else that isn't configured.
2. If you do -- at a prompt -- 'ifup eth0', what is the response?
If you are able to, send me /var/log/messages itself from the point it says
"shutting down socket 0". If you can't, email me so and I'll try to take you
through how you can.
And it is convention when replying in email and in the group to state that
fact at the top!
Cheers,
--
Alistair Mann
visit the uk.local.london website at
http://www.london-online.org.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GBit network cards
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:28:28 GMT
I'm looking to get some Gbit ethernet cards to put in some of our file
servers and was wondering if anybody could advise me of what to go for.
I suppose that in essence I'm looking for success/failure reports.
I've had a look in the kernel config for 2.2.16 and have found these
four cards in the Gigabit section:
Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit
support Packet Engines GNIC-II (Hamachi)
support Packet Engines Yellowfin
Gigabit-NIC support SysKonnect SK-98xx
support
I've no experience of Gbit ethernet under linux at all - are some known
to perform better than others?
Thanks.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "loc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Generate an Interrupt on parallel port
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:35:00 +0200
Hi everybody
Does anybody know how to generate an interrupt on the paralle port? I tried
with a raising signal on pin 10 without success.
Thanks for helping.
Christian
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:54:12 +1100
Justo M. Casablanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everything below except for comments in "//" is copied-and-pasted from the
> command-line. I am really at wits end trying to figure out how to get this
> thing to mount. Oh, and, I do not load the lp module; my printer is not
> Linux-compatible, so I stopped lp from being loaded at boot-time
>
> Aug 26 22:56:16 somehost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778)
> [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
There's no IRQ mentioned here. Do you have an "irq=7" option for your
parport_pc module? I think you need a line like this in your
/etc/moduless.conf:
options parport_pc irq=7 io=0x378
The port does claim EPP support, which is a good thing because ppa
cannot use ECP.
> Aug 26 22:56:16 somehost kernel: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to
> enable interrupt-driven operation.
You aren't using the IRQ on your parallel port, and I think it's
complaining. For comparison, this is what I see when I mount my ZIP
drive. (It doesn't claim EPP support, but it's there - a quirk):
wellhouse kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS2]
wellhouse kernel: parport_probe: failed
wellhouse kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
wellhouse kernel: ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
wellhouse kernel: ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32
bit
wellhouse kernel: ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32
bit
wellhouse kernel: scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
wellhouse kernel: scsi : 1 host.
wellhouse kernel: Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03
wellhouse kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
wellhouse kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0,
id 6, lun 0
wellhouse kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=
196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
wellhouse kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
wellhouse kernel: sda: sda1
Chris
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From: "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with GeForce 2 GTS
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:10:04 -0600
Should, but they don't - unless someone has gotten 'em to work.
George
"Andreas Thell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Try to download the NVidia-drivers from their homepage. These drivers
> give you a module named "nvidia". This should work.
>
> Andreas
>
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From: Jochen Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EIDE-DMA-Support
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:33:52 +0200
Hello,
I tried tuning my EIDE-Harddisks with hdparm, but some disks returned to
non-dma after 2-3 seconds they return to non-dma-mode. The following
messages appear in boot.msg:
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
<4>ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
<4>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
<4>VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
<4>hda: Maxtor 93073U6, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: Maxtor 93073U6, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdd: CD-540E, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>hda: Maxtor 93073U6, 29311MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=3736/255/63
<6>hdc: Maxtor 93073U6, 29311MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=59554/16/63
<4>hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
...
<4>hda: timeout waiting for DMA
<4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 12
<4>hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
<4>hda: DMA disabled
<4>ide0: reset: success
What does that mean? I need to use dma to improve performance.
hdparm -i /dev/hda results in:
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 93073U6, FwRev=FA500S60, SerialNo=G60EE6KC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60030432
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3
ATA-4 ATA-5
Has anybody an idea?
Greetings
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:53:23 +0000
From: Joe Umiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC-6000 Printer Support?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom) wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8ob7rd$bfe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I have just bought a Canon BJC-6000 Color printer and am interested
> in
> > >setting it to use with my Linux machine running SuSE-6.4 Linux
> Distro.
> > >Does anyone have any idea what kind of software and setup do I need
> to
> > >get this Canon BJC-6000 Color printer running under Linux?
> > >
> > >TIA.
> > >
> > >
> > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > >Before you buy.
> > >
> >
> > See linuxprinting.org and references to the BJC6000. From what I read
> there
> > this printer is not fully supported by any current drivers and may
> not
> > print plain text. You will probably need to experiment with
> ghostscript,
> > apsfilter, magicfilter, or others to see if it can do what you need.
> >
> > The above site should provide ample info on how to set up your
> printer in
> > linux, although I thought SUSE's yast had some printer setup tools.
> >
> > I have been considering the BJC6000, and like the idea of the
> individual
> > ink tanks, but if I want to use it with linux I think I am more
> likely to
> > get the Epson 740 or 760.
> >
> > How is the text quality with the BJC6000, and can it print ok on a
> quality
> > plain copy paper?
> >
> > Although hardware support is improving in linux, you should always
> research
> > before buying anything if you want to use it with linux.
> >
> > Good luck with your printer.
> >
>
> Thank you for the response. In term of the its quality when printing
> on a plain copy paper under windows NT-4.0, it looks as if it is
> printed on a laser printer. I have not had a chance trying this BJC-
> 6000 under Linux. I am thinking of doing some reverse engineering work
> on this printer's drivers but don't know where to start. Although I
> have heard that there is such a thing called windows decompilers that
> will decompile the windows .EXE and .DLL files to a C source code, I
> still am not familiar myself with the Windows OS. May be after someone
> tells me where I can get the windows decompiler, it is then I will be
> able to start decompiling the printer drivers and port them to Linux.
>
> BTW, I only paid $15 (after the huge rebates and local tax before the
> rebates) for this BJC-6000. I guessed it certainly worths itself for
> $15 than paying more to get the EPSON Stylus 740.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
This printer works under Linux. Use the BJC600 driver.
Joe Umiker
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Subject: Re: EIDE-DMA-Support
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:05:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jochen Witte) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Has anybody an idea?
>
>Greetings
The 40MHz bus might be a problem, but which IDE-chipset are we talking
about?
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Subject: Re: EIDE-DMA-Support
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:06:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jochen Witte) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>What does that mean? I need to use dma to improve performance.
>hdparm -i /dev/hda results in:
> UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4
According to this you are using UDMA4.... what does hdparm -tT /dev/hda
say?
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Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: The Black Unicorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to boot windoze on an ATA100 drive ?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:08:26 GMT
Hi,
I recently bought a Abit A7V / Duron system. It has two hard disks, one
on the ATA100 controller which has Windoze 2k on it, and another one on
the ATA66 on which I installed Slackware 7.1
How, if at all, can I configure LILO to be able to boot the Win2k
partition ? Any hope that lilo will properly recognize the ATA100 drive
on startup ? those fancy command line options (ide2=... ) won't do me
any good here, I'm afraid.
TIA for any hints
The Black Unicorn
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From: Jeroen Roodhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper II Video Card--- HELP, I NEED A DRIVER
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:36:37 +0200
Hello!
> if I am mot mistaken Viper II should use TNT2 chipset. Just try to configure it
> as any Video Card based on TNT2 chipset.
I'm sorry to say you _are_ mistaking, the Viper II uses the s3 savage2000
chip. You can find an adapted XFree86 driver at the site of s3/diamond:
ftp://ftp.diamondmm.com/pub/s3/desktop/410/410_xf86_1011.tar.gz
Also read the .txt file in the same directory
Cheers,
Jeroen
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up an ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:22:20 -0400
Hi,
a few months ago I had set up my mitsumi CR-4804 TE
ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0. My hard drive crashed and
I can't figure out how to set it up the cd recorder
again. I was using the program cdrecord and xcdroast.
When I do cdrecord -scanbus, it can not find and device.
I think that the ide-scsi.o module is supposed to set up a
software emulation of a scsi device so that it will be recognized.
I think the device is supposed to be /dev/scd0. When I try
to mount a cdrom in it by doing mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom ,
I get an message:
" the kernel does ont recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device.
If I look in /dev there exists a block device /dev/scd0.
Thanks
Mike
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From: Justo M. Casablanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:29:06 GMT
I just tried 'cdrecord -scanbus' yesterday, because I was trying to
get my CD burner working. My zip drive did appear under the resulting
SCSI device listing. However, I am still experiencing the same zip disk
mounting problems as described in the original posting.
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From: Justo M. Casablanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:29:07 GMT
> It looks like fairly normal boot messages .. for a zip drive without a
> cartridge in! You sure it is not an imm type?
I am sure it is not imm. The same zip drive and the same disks used to
mount just fine under RH 6.0 and 6.1, using the ppa driver. When I tried
to use imm under those previous OS versions, it didn't work.
> yes, that was noticable. Looks like a bad cartridge.
The cartridge is readable under Win98SE, even after reformatting with the
zip utilities. Just in case though, I will try another cartridge (6 were
included when I bought the zip drive).
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From: alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: flash/diskless Linux hardware project??
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:07:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Brown wrote:
>
> I seem to remember a linux (?) hardware project that replaced a hard drive
> with some sort of high capacity electronic (flash??) media card.
>
> Can anyone point me to such a project?
>
> Or to a site that has or has links to similiar projects?
>
> Thank you.
> --
> - Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
> - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
>
> NEW!! PGP Public Key ID: 0xCED9BD8A Key Server: http://www.keyserver.net/en/
I am using a board produced by TAPR that takes a standard compact flash
card and plugs into the IDE bus as a hard drive.
I am running the linux router project on it.
http://www.tapr.com (I think!) and follow the links for projects.
Cheers!
Alan.
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From: Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:44:53 +0200
"Justo M. Casablanca" wrote:
>
> I just tried 'cdrecord -scanbus' yesterday, because I was trying to
> get my CD burner working. My zip drive did appear under the resulting
> SCSI device listing. However, I am still experiencing the same zip
> disk
> mounting problems as described in the original posting.
Don't know if you tried already, but maybe you have to
mount this particular disk as /dev/sda1. I seem to remem-
ber that some Zip disks use the fourth partition and others
the first (would have something to do with MacOS IIRC).
HTH
Sven
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