Linux-Hardware Digest #576, Volume #13 Thu, 14 Sep 00 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problem with cdda2wav (Gerry Jacobs)
Re: Any Good MP3 Players For Linux? ("Ozetechnology")
Re: Linux on a 386 (Trent Piepho)
Micron Clientpro PCI problems with RedHat Linux 6.2 (Edward Wozniak)
Re: SCSI Jaz Drive Problem
Re: To AMD Athlon and SBLive users ("Zebediah C. McClure")
Re: To install routines for network interface ("tthave")
Re: Help installing Linux Redhat 6.2 on laptop drive ("tthave")
HPDeskjet 810c ("Zebediah C. McClure")
Re: IRQ's and DMA (Eric)
linux & AMD TB 750 (Michael Mayo)
Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird! (Michael Mayo)
Re: 256 MB memory cant work in REdHat 6.1 (moonie;))
Re: heden zaterdag 22 juli 00 (Eric)
Re: Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO (KK Leung)
Re: Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO (KK Leung)
Re: Linux on a 386 (David C.)
Append and LILO commands (Martin Booth)
Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird! (Tristan White)
Re: Linux with dual P90's (Gereon Wenzel)
Re: Linux on a 386 (Gereon Wenzel)
ATAPI Zip 250 drive on Asus K7V ("Larry P. Ammann")
Re: Append and LILO commands ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: Gerry Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with cdda2wav
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:55:36 GMT
Thanks for your reply,
I tried several audio cd's but they gave all the same error.
When I use cdparanoia I don't see any errors on the screen.
But when I play the wav file, it sounds very distorted.
I think it's a scsi problem, because when I run cdparanoia or cdda2wav
on another pc with an IDE cdrom, it works perfect.
Gerry Jacobs
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Ozetechnology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any Good MP3 Players For Linux?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:07:23 +1100
I use a jazz piper, and would like to write linux support for this, if the
manufacturer ever gets back to me. So far they have ignored every attempt
at contact, charming?
Failing that there are linux drivers for the rio (including the 500), you
can get this from freshmeat
David
Site: www.ozetechnology.com
+++ New Images in the Gallery +++
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Karlo Szabo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry I didn't remember the name of the player but it was made my a
> german company.
>
> It had driver support for wincrap and linux.
> (As stated by the add in the computer mag)
>
> reply if you want me to find the mag, it's somewhere under all the other
> stuff.
> (Else I will forget and eventually throw it away)
>
>
> karlo
>
> "Marco R. Gazzetta" wrote:
>>
>> Hi, there,
>>
>> After a long and unsuccessful debate with Creative Labs, I have given
>> up looking for a Linux driver for their Nomads.
>>
>> Does anyone have any input (s)he might want to share about good MP3
>> players that have Linux support? Personal preference would be a company
>> that came out with their own driver for Linux (i.e. I don't like the
>> Rio approach too much, reverse engineer because those guys won't give
>> you any hints).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Piepho)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: 14 Sep 2000 04:06:43 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"David C." wrote:
>
>> Colm O'Gairbhith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> > I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz.
>>
>> A 386/sx has a 16-bit bus. So it can not handle more than 16M of RAM,
>> regardless of what you install.
>
>Huh? I thought the 8086 has 20 address bits. The 286 and 386 certainly
>have more. However, the support chip sets probably won't handle DRAM over
>1M anyway.
The 286 has 24 address lines, and can support 16 MB of memory. The 386 DX,
had 32, but intel came out with the cheaper SX version that only had 24
address lines and a 16 bit data bus so motherboard makes could make cheaper
machines with 286 chipsets. Strangely, the 386SX was slower than a 286 of
similar clock speed, yet was more popular than the faster 386DX.
This persons computer is going to be nearly worthless with it's limited memory
and slow CPU. Better to just buy a 486 MB and cpu for $10. I'd probably try
compiling a 1.2.13 kernel, and see if it could boot that. You would probably
also want to go back to libc4 and a.out, glibc is pretty bloated. I ran linux
for a bit on a 386DX-20 with 6MB of memory, way back when my super fast
computer was a 486DX-66 with 8MB. Kind of sad really, used to be a 386 with a
few MB of memory was a typical Linux machine. Now it can't even boot Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Wozniak)
Subject: Micron Clientpro PCI problems with RedHat Linux 6.2
Date: 14 Sep 2000 13:41:50 +0200
I have a Micron Clientpro DX5000 (Model number OR840-T-PIII733)
which is a Pentium III system
with dual processors running at 733MHz. The chipset is number 840
and a bus speed of 133MHz.
When I try to install Redhat Linux, the computer starts to boot and
freezes at the point where it is probing
the PCI hardware (PCI: Probing PCI hardware). This is as far as it
gets and the only way to boot Redhat
is to disable the PCI. However, this makes everything useless with
the PCI diabbled. Does anyone know
if the Micron Clientpros DX5000s are compatible with Redhat Linux or
any other version of Linux?
--
Edward Wozniak
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
412-268-6198
--
Posted from chopin.psc.edu [128.182.63.52]
via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Jaz Drive Problem
Date: 14 Sep 2000 11:09:25 +0900
>> "BP" == Bernard Puc schrieb am Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:33:10 -0400:
BP> Hi, I've got a 2GB SCSI Jaz drive which had been working without a
BP> hitch for a year.
you're approaching the limit of iomega product lifespans
BP> Now, whenever I insert a cartridge and try to
BP> do anything, such as mount, fdisk, make a filesystem, the SCSI bus
BP> continuously resets:
if you've changed your scsi setup, look at that, but i started getting
similar errrors when my jaz drive started to fail.
g.y.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello. Just walk along and try NOT to think about your INTESTINES
being almost FORTY YARDS LONG!!
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From: "Zebediah C. McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To AMD Athlon and SBLive users
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:58:45 GMT
I have an Athlon 550 /w 256mb of ram and a SBLive XGamer.
I noticed that XMMS started breaking up whenever I did anything
computationally extensive. I fiddeled around with some of the preferences
in XMMS most notibly the Buffer related stuff and that seemed to fix
my problem. Hope it helps you..
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire?= Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Duron and a Sound Blaster Live Player (the cheap one =)). When
> I load Seti@Home and plays an MP3, the music is somewhat saturated. If I
> shut down the Seti client (which run with NICE 19 btw), the sound is
> clear (perfectly). So this is not exactly a bug report because I know a
> solution, but however, I'd like to know if this "cracking sound" is
> related to the Duron's smaller internal cache or not. Can someone who
> has an AMD Athlon and a Sound Blaster Live could tell me if this problem
> also happens? I'd like to know if this is a hardware or software
> problem, this could be interesting.
>
> Thanks for answers...! Gregus PS : Please copy possible answers to
> gregus(guess =))linux-mandrake.com
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From: "tthave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To install routines for network interface
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:06:05 GMT
Which linux distributation that you are using?
Thave
Kejvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pq2am$2t5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> I have installed a new network card (NIC) on a linux machine. The idea is
to
> build my own little network with Linux as a router between two subnets.
How
> do I install the drive routines for the new card (say interface eth1) and
> how to configure the two nets, just consisting of two other computers, for
> now, both connected to the Linux box by ethernet.
> Thank you.
>
> Kejvan
> Student doing Master Thesis
>
>
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From: "tthave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing Linux Redhat 6.2 on laptop drive
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:12:40 GMT
I think Salim Douba is right.
you have to specify / partition as well. & also at one point of your
installation it will ask where to boot from, then youcould specify like
hda(if you have IDE disk) . try this.
Good luck
Thave
sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On or about Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:47:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED], using the
> forum comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
> :
> :I partition the disk so that:
> :/boot 32 Megs
> :/ 400 Megs
> :/usr 2000 Megs
> :/home 1000 Megs
> :swap 128 Megs
> :/var the rest
>
> /var is good at around 100M, 200 if you're lazy and don't clean out
> your old log files.
>
> Use the remainder for /root. or something else that won't be used
> much. Then at least you can shrink the partition and use the space for
> something later, if your needs change.
>
> :
> :The installation proceeds smoothly until the system reboots after I am
> :prompted with a message that says that the installation compeleted
> :successfully. Upon rebooting however, the notebook bios prompts me to
insert
> :a bootable disk. Linux simply fails to boot. Could someone shed some
light
> :to tell me what i am doing wrong?
>
> You ::might:: have forgotten to set /boot and/or /
> bootable/active/whatever when you were in FDISK. Boot the rescue
> floppy, run fdisk, and make sure one of those is bootable (you might
> have to play with which one to set bootable/active, I've never split
> /boot off from /). I'd assume /, but like I said.... Maybe someone
> else can help with this point?
> :
> :Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> :
> :Thanks in advance
> :
> :Salim Douba
>
> -SSB
>
> (you know what to do with the email address to make it work..)
>
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From: "Zebediah C. McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HPDeskjet 810c
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:14:46 GMT
I have a DeskJet 810c, and so far I have had minimal problems with it in
linux (RHL6.2) but now I need to do some color printing and desktop publishing
type stuff with it, and I'm currently using the old 550series driver, which only
supports up to 300dpi. I was wondering if there is another driver that is known to
work with the 810c that supports the full 600dpi, and perhaps the color layering?
Thanks,
Zeb McClure
Alliance Interactive
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ's and DMA
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:46:29 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ashutosh S. Rajekar wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I haven't found many documents that explain in detail the working of DMA
> and Interrupt handling under Linux. Could anyone throw some light ???
>
> Thanks,
> ----------------------
> Ashutosh S. Rajekar
Best advise I can give you is reading a module/driver that uses these
things.
That's the power of opensource.
Eric
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From: Michael Mayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux & AMD TB 750
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:53:56 GMT
I have an Abit KT7 (non-raid) with a Thunderbird 750 (locked, aluminum). I'm
attempting to run Gentus 3.0, and the installation seemed to go fine.
However, upon boot it goes into LILO. Windows will load fine, but Linux will
stop during bootup. It tries to "disable CPU serial" which causes a "general
protection fault". Several other messages flash up and it ends up trying to
"kill the idle process" and having a "sync error". Any suggestions?
I noticed another user (in the Abit group) had a similar problem with a
previously working version of RedHat, but it had the same error message when
he transferred that HD to his Abit KT7/TB 750 setup.
TIA.
--
Michael Mayo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Mayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird!
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:56:01 GMT
In article <8ppgru$7pe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I am having the same problem with a thunderbird 750 on an asus A7V running
> rh 6.2. I have tried to guess at boottime arguements, have tried to boot
> the rescue floppy. Nothing works. The problem can be avoided by
> recompiling your kernel, but I can't boot to a linux environment to even
> attempt that! If anyone knows a solution for this problem, please post
> ASAP!
WOW! I just caught this thread (I posted another below, oops). I also have a
Thunderbird 750 with the same exact problem. Maybe the 750's a problem?
--
Michael Mayo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: 256 MB memory cant work in REdHat 6.1
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:56:57 -0400
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, miko wrote:
>I have used 128MB x 2 (total 256MB) in the RH6.1 (Kernel 2.2.12-20)
>however I found only 128MB show on 'dmesg'.
>
>I have already changed the file 'lilo.conf'.
>the context is as follows:
>boot=/dev/sda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>default=linux
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/sda12
> append="mem=256M"
>
>I have also reboot the machine.
>
>Moreover, I can find 256MB ram after reboot.
>
>what should I do ?
>
>Michael Kwan
did you run lilo (ie type "lilo" in an e-term) after you changed lilo.conf, and
before you rebooted?
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
http://counter.li.org
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: heden zaterdag 22 juli 00
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:58:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grega Bremec wrote:
>
> ...and Leroy van Engelen used the keyboard:
>
> >Voorzover ik kan nagaan,heb ik heden niets ontvangen,dus ook niet het
> >afgesproken e-mail�tje van jou.
> >Ik probeer maar wat te posten,zoals het heet,en kijk of het aankomt.Je
> >tegenbericht afwachtend verblijf ik.
> >Het zal me benieuwen.
>
> I'm very sorry Leroy, but I can't understand a single thing you wrote.
> Must be because you posted to an English-speaking group, don't you
> think so? I'm sure there are some groups like nl.*.linux.* where you
> can speak your mind in your native tongue. Or repost it in English on
> the other hand.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Grega Bremec
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.gbsoft.org/
You didn't miss much here, just some weird talk about a mail this leroy
didn't receive. I guess he accidentally posted to this NG.
Eric
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From: KK Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:53:48 +0800
I'm using the old RH5.2 (comes w/ 2.0.sth). Quite a bit of effort to patch
everything to work with the latest kernel, considering I'm just a linux
newbie.
What do you mean when you said about the disabling of serial number??
AE wrote:
>
> Hey, quick question. Since you have an A7V, I am sure you are running a
> tbird/duron. What distro are you running? Using rh 6.2 (2.2.14), the
> kernel thinks my tbird is a PIII and tries to disable the serial number,
> which makes it hang. Did you run into this problem, and if so do you have a
> solution? If you did not run into this problem, tell me what distro you are
> running so I can try that out and test for the same problem.
>
> Andy
>
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From: KK Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:56:00 +0800
The Promise thing got BIOS support as it is a built-in controller chip on
the board.
Any other idea??
John in SD wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 02:42:27 +0800, KK Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I got a system here w/ ASUS A7V with an ATAPI CDROM, an IBM 30G and another
> >IBM 4G. Configuration as follows:
> >
> >Primary IDE: CDROM (/dev/hda)
> >Secondary IDE: None
> >Primary ATA100: IBM 30G (/dev/hde)
> >Secondary ATA100: IBM 4G (/dev/hdc) -- Linux root
> >
> >I can boot using floppy, passing boot parameters "ide1=0x9000,0x8802
> >ide2=0x9800,0x9402". However, LILO didn't work. It can install w/o error w/
> >the Linear parameter set, but when it boots, it stops at LI. If installed
> >w/o "Linear", it finishes with error claiming it doesnt know how to work
> >with the device.
> >
> >Any hint what I should do?? I'm using 2.2.17 kernel.
>
> If the new controller does not have BIOS support, then LILO cannot boot from
> it.
>
> From the LILO 21.5.1 source directory, run "make floppy" to make a diagnostic
> diskette to check for BIOS support of your hard drives.
>
> ftp: metalab.unc.edu
> dir: /pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
>
> --John
>
> LILO version 21.5 (18-Jul-2000) source at
> ftp: brun.dyndns.org dir: /pub/linux/lilo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: 14 Sep 2000 10:17:19 -0400
Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David C." wrote:
>> Colm O'Gairbhith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz.
>>
>> A 386/sx has a 16-bit bus. So it can not handle more than 16M of
>> RAM, regardless of what you install.
>
> Huh? I thought the 8086 has 20 address bits. The 286 and 386
> certainly have more. However, the support chip sets probably won't
> handle DRAM over 1M anyway.
Oops. My mistake.
It has a 16-bit data bus. the address bus is 24-bits - same as the 286.
Hence the 16M limit.
A DX has uses 32-bits for each.
Most 386 (sx or otherwise) motherboards I've seen can handle at least 8M
on-board, and many can handle 16M (either directly or via an expansion
board.)
-- David
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From: Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Append and LILO commands
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:18:15 +0100
Dear Folks,
This is probably a rather dim question but I can't find a solution. I
have 128 M of memory in my computer and an atapi cdrw, I tried getting
both top be recognised by:
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda3
label = Linux
append = "mem=130048k,hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for
checking
this, obviously, didn't work, the memory was recognised, but so,
unfortunately was the atapi cdrw which I wanted it to ignore. Any
suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Martin Booth.
P.S. In case of E-mails remove the nospam.
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From: Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird!
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:22:59 -0400
Same situation here. Supposedly the following works:
LILO: linux x86_serial_nr=1
this will turn of serial number disabling. Redhat's build has it in, and
mistakenly tries to do it for thunderbirds. Might be a 0 at the end
instead of a 1. Let me know.
Tristan
AE wrote:
>
> I am having the same problem with a thunderbird 750 on an asus A7V running
> rh 6.2. I have tried to guess at boottime arguements, have tried to boot
> the rescue floppy. Nothing works. The problem can be avoided by
> recompiling your kernel, but I can't boot to a linux environment to even
> attempt that! If anyone knows a solution for this problem, please post
> ASAP!
>
> Andy
>
> Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Can you find someone who knows this parameter? I would like to use it.
> > Or... Do you know how to tell lilo to boot your system using a stripped
> > down kernel on a floppy.
> >
> > Tristan
> >
> >
> > Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > > There has been a thread about this problem a week or so
> > > > ago. Apparently, the problem can be solved by recompiling
> > > > the kernel with the option _not_ to disable the processors
> > > > serial number. At least, that was the solution in the
> > > > previous thread IIRC.
> > >
> > > IIRC the same effect can be achieved through a bootprompt
> > > parameter, can't remember details though.
> > >
> > > Btw. SuSE 7 works fine on my KT7, no trouble whatsoever.
> > >
> > > Greets Eric
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From: Gereon Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with dual P90's
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:41:24 +0200
It's not a big deal.
you just have to compile your kernel with the SMP flag set.
running an Asus P54NP4 PCI/EISA with 2x 133 Pentium for month now.
Gereon Wenzel
Aachen/Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> Want to run Linux on a PC (HP Vectra) having dual P90's.
>
> At the front end are there any obvious red flags you can offer me.
> Stuff like "it is impossible by definition for Linux to support dual
> processor operation" is what I am looking for. I do not expect it to be
> easy to get such a box running - but is it unreasonably difficult?
>
> Many thanks.
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From: Gereon Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:49:15 +0200
The only distribution I know running with 2M only
is TOMSRTBT (www.toms.net)
It does not even need a HDD but is very basic.
If this 386 supports PS/2 Simms it may need the parity version of the
modules.
Who is the manufacturer of the machine?
I know about IBM, Compaq, SNI using parity PS/2 only on some machines.
e.g. the IBM 8540SX accepts a max of 2x 8MB or 2x 4MB + 1x 8MB in its 3
sockets.
Gereon Wenzel
Colm O'Gairbhith schrieb:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz. teh machine only has
> 1920Kb of memory so I run into problems when trying to install tinyLinux
> or muLinux. Anyone know of a distro that can fit on such a weak machine.
> Also, any ideas as to what the max memory one can put on a 386. Someone
> gave me 2x8Mb SIMMs but the machine doesn't recognise them. On a
> pc-newsgroup two people told me that since the 1920kb is on the
> motherboard, trying to add 16Mb to it causes me to go over the 16Mb
> total limit for a 386, can anyone verify this ?
>
> Also, what , realistically, can I expect to run on a 386 ? I want ppp,
> telnet, a skinny web-browser, and also to do some developement in
> perl/mySQL ?
>
> Thanks in advance / Colm O'Gairbhith
>
> p.s. would appreciate replies to my e-mail as well as to the newsgroup
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From: "Larry P. Ammann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATAPI Zip 250 drive on Asus K7V
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:55:24 -0500
I recently received a new PC with an Athlon 750 on an Asus K7V mboard.
After installing RH6.2 successfully, I moved the ATAPI Zip 250 drive
from
my PIII mboard to the K7V. In both cases, the Zip drive is the slave to
the
cdrom on the second ide port, and so is listed as /dev/hdd. Everything
worked
fine with the Zip drive on the PIII mboard, and when I installed the
drive on
the K7V, it is recognized correctly at bootup:
Sep 12 12:00:37 rigel kernel: hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI Floppy, ATAPI
FLOPPY drive
However, most of the time whenever I try to mount a disk, I get the
following
errors reported:
Sep 12 12:07:32 rigel kernel: ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 28, key
= 5, asc = 21, ascq = 0
Sep 12 12:07:32 rigel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:44 (hdd),
sector 0
Sep 12 12:07:32 rigel kernel: FAT bread failed
Sep 12 12:07:32 rigel kernel: hdd: The drive reports both 250609664 and
250624000 bytes as its capacity
Sep 12 12:07:32 rigel kernel: hdd: hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd4
I say mostly because I did find one 100mb disk that would mount. The
disks
that would not mount work fine on my other zip drive, and as soon as I
put the
drive back on the PIII mboard, all of these disks mount fine. So it
appears to
be a problem related to the K7V. Has anyone else successfully installed
this
drive on a K7V, and if so, were there any special modifications that
were needed?
Larry Ammann
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Append and LILO commands
Date: 14 Sep 2000 14:53:24 GMT
Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Dear Folks,
: This is probably a rather dim question but I can't find a solution. I
: have 128 M of memory in my computer and an atapi cdrw, I tried getting
: both top be recognised by:
: image = /vmlinuz
: root = /dev/hda3
: label = Linux
: append = "mem=130048k,hdc=ide-scsi"
This line is incorrect. It should be:
append = "mem=130048K hdc=ide-scsi"
or
append = "mem=128M hdc=ide-scsi"
Peter
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