Linux-Hardware Digest #535, Volume #13 Wed, 6 Sep 00 04:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Moved modem to ttyS2 - not dead. (Dave Critelli)
Re: Voice mail for Linux? (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: Partition Magic ("Robert Andrew Bell")
Re: CD Writer problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Good Inexpensive Video Card (Adrian Hicks)
Re: modem fails to respond (Grega Bremec)
Re: the second ISDN channel (Leon Garde)
CD writer Memorex CRW620 (Dennis James)
Plexwriter cactus!! (Wayne Fallen)
Re: Good Inexpensive Video Card - may be ATI Mach64 family ? ("Dmitry A. Antipov")
Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device (Justo M. Casablanca)
Linux Driver for NI PCI6035E ("Yuhong Ren")
Re: modem fails to respond ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Best Backup solution? (William Barwell)
HP DLT 80 tape drive and Amanda ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Backup solution? (William Barwell)
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 00:07:52 -0400
From: Dave Critelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved modem to ttyS2 - not dead.
Thanks "LCR", that was the trick. I'm back in action.
Dave
LCR wrote:
> >Do you happen to know which system file I need
> >to update to make this work?
> >
> /sbin/init.d/serial
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voice mail for Linux?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:55:46 -0700
EV wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to use my voice/fax/modem as answer machine, and I'm trying to
> find some softwares can do that for Linux...
>
> I know "mvm" can do it but I'm looking for something else....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
The mgetty package has several voice modem utilities, such as vgetty (answering
machine), vm (message play/record) and various sound format converters. This
software is included in my RedHat distribution and I assume in most others as
well. In RedHat this particular package is called mgetty-voice. It works, but
some voice modems just aren't working properly due to bugs in their firmware.
--
Vladimir
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From: "Robert Andrew Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Magic
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 04:28:19 GMT
Not completely true, as long as you have made a set of recovery disks you
can manage your partitions from dos. To resize your one large partition you
need to use the create partition command which is completely covered in the
PM handbook.
Rob.
"Andrey Vlasov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there,
>
> what version PM do you use? I know that PM V5.0 support linux partitions
and
> allow to resize them but I did not try it. Just check that you have PM
V5.0 and
> update it from POwerQuest web site as I guess that original version will
not
> support big disks. Remember that it works only from Windows and there is
no DOS
> version. If something wrong with Windows you will not able manage
partitions
> without reinstall Windows. PM V4.X allow move Linux partitions but not
resize.
> But, "Do you really need PM if you can create partions with linux fdisk?".
> PM convinient only when you need move/resize partions. All another
patitions'
> operation you can do with fdisk and format/mkfs.
>
> Andrey
>
>
> Steve Kenealy wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use Partition magic on my drive in order to install
Linux.
> > When I run PM it seems to be informing me that there is no space
available
> > on drive C, although it is a 30Gig drive and I know I have at least 24
> > Gigabyte remaining.
> > On the GUI the drive is a plum colour, listed as "other" in the legend.
I
> > believe that PM should allow me to use the window as a slider control to
> > adjust the sizes, but none of this reacts when I try to use it. Also,
all of
> > the drop down menus are greyed out.
> >
> > Any Ideas would be appreciated.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD Writer problem
Date: 6 Sep 2000 00:36:13 -0400
Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> When I try with cdrecord -scanbus I 'm getting a warning saying
>> "controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page"
>>
>> When trying to record a disk (KisoCD) it works somehow but won't write
>> more than around 300MB.
>>
>> If I disconnect the CD-reader warning message disappear and everything
>> is fine.
> You need to upgrade to kernel 2.2.16.
Is that a stable version yet? Or still a test version?
> This has an updated
> atapi interface driver that will recognize the changed configuration
> of your reader (would this be an acer 50x by chance?) If so the
> acer 50x had some issues with the < version 3 atapi cd driver.
> As of kernel 2.2.16 and the 3.0x driver this has been fixed.
> Also see www.linuxdoc.org and the file CD-Writing-HOWTO.
> This will explain how to setup the system with the cdrom as an
> atapi device and the cdrw and an emulated scsi device.
How to make them both scsi?
Why does he have problems writing to the burner if the reader is causing
the error message?
Ah well ... more work but greater satisfaction in finally gettting it to
work in Linux than in Windows.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Hicks)
Subject: Good Inexpensive Video Card
Date: 6 Sep 2000 04:48:08 GMT
Hi all.
I'm in the market for a video card for a Linux-based business machine.
Main desirables are:
1. Good performance for business app's.
2. Not too expensive.
3. Supported out of the box by the late Linux distributions.
I'd appreciate your recommendations based on what you've had success with.
Please state whether it's AGP or PCI.
Thanks much.
Adrian Hicks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grega Bremec)
Subject: Re: modem fails to respond
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 05:03:10 GMT
...and Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> used the keyboard:
>I am running Mandrake 7.0 and under KDE, KPPP says that the modem
>isn't responding. I have a Rockwell V.90 modem. Its an ISA non-win
>modem. The modem works fine in Windows 9X and NT. Anyone have ideas
>on things to check?
DUMP KPPP IMMEDIATELY! It is said to give such headaches to people
using it that _anything_ else would work better.
I was lucky enough to get my modem running using kppp, but only after
configuring it properly elsewhere, and even that didn't go without
trouble. Plus it's so braindead as far as pppd's options are concerned
that it really doesn't pay off using it to set up a modem.
So, try running whatever modem setup script Mandrake features and set
your modem up from there. Then try the ppp-go (might as well be ppp-on
on your distribution) command and see if it works. After you've
achieved that, try kppp again, but only after backing up the /etc/ppp
directory.
Good luck,
--
Grega Bremec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gbsoft.org/
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the second ISDN channel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Sep 2000 15:51:09 EST
Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an ISDN terminal adaptor that is connected to my serial port. I
> normally configure it with AT commands.
> In Win98, I can use Hyperterminal to connect to it, send 'ats80=1' and
> this opens up the second channel. Then I can shut off hyperterminal and
> connect to the internet at 128kb/s! This gets pricey because of the
> archaic pricing scheme that is used for ISDN, so I don't do this all the
> time. When I am done, I use Hyperterm to send 'ats80=0' and it goes
> back to single channel.
> In Mandrake 7.1, I have tried doing something similar with minicom, but
> to no avail. The TA echos that it has been set up to use the second
> channel, but it will not open up when I start ppp. (I can easily
> monitor the connection using the LED display on the TA.)
> So does anyone know what might be preventing me from opening up that
> second channel?
how do you start ppp ?
see, if put the setting ats80=1 into the init string used when ppp dials.
then it might work
the program you use to start ppp probably does an "atz"
when it dials.
in win98 you can use the "Extra settings" option so set
s80=1 or s80=0
to save going to hyperterminal to make the change.
do the similar thing in linux.
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From: Dennis James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CD writer Memorex CRW620
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:05:26 -0500
Has anyone been able to get a Memorex CRW620 to work?
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Dennis James | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux User #169330 (http://counter.li.org
Pure Linux (SUSE) User
PGP key available on request
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 16:04:29 +1000
From: Wayne Fallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plexwriter cactus!!
Anyone had the experience that I had recently? Installed a new
Plexwriter 4/2/20 SCSI and NCR53c810 SCSI card only to find the
Plexwriter will not read any sort of CD. This resulted me installing
Windoze 95 to satisfy the supplier, and of course it would not read any
sort of CD with Windoze 95 either.
A real bummer.
cheers
--
Wayne:
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From: "Dmitry A. Antipov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good Inexpensive Video Card - may be ATI Mach64 family ?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:29:31 +0400
Adrian Hicks wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I'm in the market for a video card for a Linux-based business machine.
>
> Main desirables are:
>
> 1. Good performance for business app's.
>
> 2. Not too expensive.
>
> 3. Supported out of the box by the late Linux distributions.
>
> I'd appreciate your recommendations based on what you've had success with.
>
> Please state whether it's AGP or PCI.
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Adrian Hicks
ATI Mach64 PCI family seems a good choise for you. For example,
I'm running ATI Xpert@Work (PCI) with 4 Mb memory last 2 years
and have no problem at all.
--
Dmitry Antipov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Justo M. Casablanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip100 Mount Problems - /dev/sda4 not a valid block device
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 06:29:17 GMT
> Probably a waste of time, but maybe you could try enabling EPP alone?
Just tried it - didn't work either.
> OK - I have used a machine with an IDE CD-burner and a ZIP drive.
> However, it was a Linux 2.4 kernel and a USB ZIP drive. (Still worked
> OK, though.) IIRC, a CD-Writer uses the SCSI generic layer and the SCSI
> CD-ROM drivers. These should not be affected by the SCSI disk driver;
> does your CD-Writer work OK? Can you read CD-ROMs?
My CD-Writer does work, both under Linux and Win98SE. I can read CD-ROM's,
CD-R's, and CD-RW's. I can also write to CD-RW's and CD-R's.
> Fair enough, although what would happen if you were to put a disk in the
> drive at boot-time? (Just curious.) The error messages look exactly the
> same as the ones I see when loading the drivers with no disk present.
Nothing different happened at first when I tried this. Then I realized I
had to change my /etc/fstab file to mount the zip drive at boot time. This
produced the same set of errors I have been encountering all along.
> Ugh. Vendors such as RedHat add loads of little "extra bits" into the
> kernel, so there's no telling what you have. If you just run "modprobe
> ppa" then Linux will then make sure that all the other modules are
> loaded in the correct order and initialised. No need to do everything
> individually.
I modified my /etc/rc.d/rc.local to only load the ppa module module at
boot time. You are correct - the other modules are automatically loaded
as well; lsmod confirms this.
> Look in the /proc filesystem for /proc/scsi. Have you mounted the /proc
> filesystem? Put this line in your /etc/fstab if you haven't:
>
> none proc /proc defaults
My /etc/fstab entry looks _almost_ exactly like this one. Mine reads:
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
Hmm, the "/proc" and "proc" are reversed compared to your example, and mine
ends in "0 0". Is this a problem ?
> Then "mount /proc" as root. However, I'm pretty sure that RedHat will
> have done this for you. Once ppa is correctly loaded, you should have
> this file:
>
> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 5 23:31
> /proc/scsi/ppa/0
>
> which should contain something like this:
>
> Version : 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
> Parport : parport0
> Mode : EPP 32 bit
Mine reads exactly the same.
> There should also be this file:
>
> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 5 23:33
> /proc/scsi/scsi
>
> which should contain:
>
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Mine reads a little different, but it's just a different ZIP revision #,
and the fact that I have 2 SCSI devices instead of just 1:
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-RW CW-7585 Rev: 1.04
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: K.05
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Here's another 'twister'. Whenever I try to mount the zip drive (i.e.
> > mount /mnt/cdrom),
>
> mount /mnt/cdrom ??? Is that a misprint?
Nope, not a misprint. My /etc/fstab reads as follows for the cdrom:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
Also, /dev/cdrom is just link to the appropriate SCSI device (i.e.
/dev/scd0).
> $ modprobe -c
>
> and search through all the output for "block-major-8". Does it appear
> only once? Is it aliased to sd_mod? If you do anything to block-major-8
> in your /etc/modules.conf file then comment it out, because this alias
> should be set automatically.
I do not alias "block_major-8" in /etc/conf.modules. Also, here is the
partial output from the "modprobe -c" command:
$ modprobe -c | grep block-major-8
alias block-major-8 sd_mod
> Is ide-scsi compiled into your kernel too? If your CD-Writer works and
> you can't find this module then I would guess "yes".
Then, yes, that is the case.
> If still no joy then you're going to have to start stripping your
> configuration down, module by module, device by device to find out what
> is messing the SCSI disk driver up. Either that, or compile a kernel
> from source. I suspect that your ZIP drive would work pretty quickly
> then ... Do RedHat publish a list of "differences" between their kernel
> and standard 2.2.16?
Ugh. I will definitely try stripping the config to the bare essentials and
starting all over for the zip drive, but I am not confident enough in my
Linux education to recompile the kernel. I've done it twice in the very
recent past and ended up with a completely unusable system.
Chris I really want to thank you and all others who have responded to this
posting. Although I am an experienced C/C++ programmer on UNIX platforms,
I am new to Linux setup and administration. Thanks for the time you and
others have spent helping people like myself get our systems up and
running.
-Justo
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:27:47 +0800
Reply-To: "Yuhong Ren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Yuhong Ren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Driver for NI PCI6035E
Hi, all,
I have downloaded two Linus drivers for NI PCI6035E card, one is from the
NI's website, another is from Comedi. However, I could not setup them well
after trial and error. I always was informed that the device : /dev/nidaqX
or /dev/comediX could not be opened, but when I list with : ls -l /dev/ni*
or ls -l /dev/com*, the device all are there. I was puzzled with this
problem.
If you could please point out where I was wrong, I will be greatly
appreciated.
Warm regards,
Yuhong
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem fails to respond
Date: 6 Sep 2000 06:45:24 GMT
Grega Bremec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: ...and Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> used the keyboard:
:>I am running Mandrake 7.0 and under KDE, KPPP says that the modem
:>isn't responding. I have a Rockwell V.90 modem. Its an ISA non-win
:>modem. The modem works fine in Windows 9X and NT. Anyone have ideas
:>on things to check?
: DUMP KPPP IMMEDIATELY! It is said to give such headaches to people
No .. KPPP works fine. It's just a gui that runs pppd. As such, it
suffers from the usual deficiencies of a gui (works when it works, but
doesn't let you debug what's behind it when it doesn't). Try xisp or
ezppp instead if you don't like kppp. Or wvdial, which isn't a gui.
But the guy's proably just fundamentally mistaken in his belief that he
doesn't have a winmodem. The word "ROckwell" makes me shiver.
: So, try running whatever modem setup script Mandrake features and set
: your modem up from there. Then try the ppp-go (might as well be ppp-on
Well, the proper route is to read the Modem HOWTO and do what it says!
Once his modem is proved to be working, he can move on.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Barwell)
Subject: Re: Best Backup solution?
Date: 6 Sep 2000 02:26:46 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need a small backup solution. It mustn't be very large but at least
>1.5 Gigs, one very important point is that it has to be fast. (SCSI or
>IDE, no prob). I though about a JAZ or that new drive... ahhm, yeah the
>ORB. Any ideas?
I have been keeping an eye out on DVD-ram. Creative seems
to have a package deal at $279.95 from Dirt Cheap Drives.
5.2 gigs, SCSI 2, Disks are $35 or so.
A bit higher than Orb drives, but DVD-ram is supported by
several manufactors.
As a side benefit, it reads DVD disks.
But double the price of the Orb drive.
But disks cost about the same.
Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope of Houston
Slack!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP DLT 80 tape drive and Amanda
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 07:16:52 GMT
Hello,
I am considering buying an HP SureStore DLT 80 tape drive. Am I likely
to have any trouble configuring Amanda to work with it?
Thanks,
Daniel Baum
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Barwell)
Subject: Re: Best Backup solution?
Date: 6 Sep 2000 02:46:22 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Johan Kullstam wrote:
>> >
>> > Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>how about one of them fujitsu MO drives? i think the new line up does
>1.4GB (less than, but close to your requirement). they can connect
>via an external scsi cable.
Fujitsu MO's come in 640 meg, some larger sizes have been sold in the past
but they keep going obsolete. 5.2 gig drives is now the available
model. Sony, and several others seem to have settled
on this as the standard large size MO. But they are very
expensive. $1600. Even the 640 meg systems are running close to $400
dollars. I use the older 230 meg disks, They are OK. But if you
are going to use SCSI, DVD is going to be way cheaper. $279 for the
Creative package, and $60 for a SCSI external case. Add $69 for a SCSI
to USB adaptor for those situations where SCSI isn't available
on the road.
Of course, there are driver problems with either if you want to run
on a client's system.
CD-rom will work on all systems, but only 640 Megs,
unless you can span several disks.
Pope Charles
SubGenius Pope of Houston
Slack!
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