Linux-Hardware Digest #591, Volume #13 Sun, 17 Sep 00 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH 6.2 - Disk Drive Replacment (Frederick Artiss)
Re: RH6.0 machine connection lost after unplug from switch (Thomas Corriher)
Re: Linux/SMC EtherEZ IRQ conflict hell.. (mst)
Re: purchase question (Mark Post)
Problems with my modem ("Jonas Strandberg")
I Need A Shell Script, Or A C Program.... (Michael Lauzon)
Re: How can I save my firmware-less Pioneer DVD drive? ("Purple Phase")
Re: dma_intr errors (UDMA) (Michael Burian)
Re: UDMA blues (Sindh)
Elsa Synergy II, Sony GDM-W900 and Linux ("W.Gdanski")
Re: boot floppy ("Hemant R. Mohapatra")
ALSA and VIA chipset (Bart Friederichs)
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From: Frederick Artiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardawe,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 - Disk Drive Replacment
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:25:47 GMT
I think a backup of your data if possible is the best course, followed
by reinstall.
-I would put the new drive on the primary IDE as master, move the old
drives to other positions, and remember to jumper all hard drives as
needed. Reinstall, setting appropriate mount points during the install
so you can access the old drives. Afterwards, pull any needed data off
the old drives that's salvageable, then discard the old drives, and edit
out their entries in /etc/fstab.
A good way to reduce problems like that in the future is to mount /home
on a separate partition and use it for your data. That way if you must
reinstall there's a good chance your data is intact.
There are other possible methods besides a formal reinstall, but since
one or more of your hard drives is suspect, I would not recommend them.
Vinson Armstead wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been seeing these messages in my log files for a few days and I think
> one of my drive is beginning to fail.
>
> I am running RH 6.2 on a system with two IDE drives (1.6 & 1.2GB). I have a
> single drive (7GB) to replace the two existing drives.
>
> I figure, at worse I will have to remove the two old drives and install the
> new drive and re-install RH 6.2.
>
> Is there a simpler way to replace the drives and allow me to add the extra
> drive space to the existing filesystems without re-install RH 6.2
>
> Any advise would be greatly appreciated
>
> Vinson
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> kernel: ide0: reset: success
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=134761,
> sector=134698
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=134761,
> sector=134698
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=134761,
> sector=134698
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=134761,
> sector=134698
> kernel: ide0: reset: success
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=134761,
> sector=134698
> kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 134698
> kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): trunc_indirect: Read failure,
> inode=12128, block=67349
> kernel: hdb: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=1, stat=0x71
> kernel: hdb: write_intr: status=0x71 { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete
> Error }
> kernel: hdb: write_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=126175,
> sector=118895
> kernel: ide0: reset: success
> kernel: hdb: write_intr error1: nr_sectors=1, stat=0x71
> kernel: hdb: write_intr: status=0x71 { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete
> Error }
> kernel: hdb: write_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=126175,
> sector=5
> kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Sep 17 04:04:33 cn909876-a kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> Seek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Corriher)
Subject: Re: RH6.0 machine connection lost after unplug from switch
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], abuse@[127.0.0.1]
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:09:49 GMT
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:32:49 -0400,
Zhenlei Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I forgot something last time I posted. This is from the NFS
HOWTO:
hard (option)
The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will
hang when the server crashes. The process cannot be interrupted
or killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is
back online the program will continue undisturbed from where it
were. This is probably what you want. I recommend using
hard,intr on all NFS mounted file systems.
Here's an example from my /etc/fstab file:
notebook:/home /mnt/notebook/home nfs \
noauto,rsize=4092,wsize=4092,hard,intr 0 0
The "notebook" home directory is being mounted on the local
/mnt/notebook/home directory. Note that you should probably
not break the lines as seen in this example, and of course,
remove the "\" character.
--
From the desk of Thomas Corriher
The real email address is:
corriher at bellsouth.
net
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/SMC EtherEZ IRQ conflict hell..
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:33:33 -0400
Melanie wrote:
>
> Right.. so, I installed a SMC EtherEZ card into my Mandrake 6 PC. It
> worked, after sticking it in a DOS computer and setting it up. It's happy
> on IRQ 3 and I/O port 0x340h, and the driver works. But my modem also wants
> IRQ 3, and it's on /dev/ttyS1. I've tried setting the ethernet card to use
> IRQ 5, which would be convenient, but it insists on using 3. I've passed
> the "ether=5,0x340,0,0,eth0" to the kernel at boot. Which is ignored.
>
> So, should I pursue twiddling with a working ethernet card, or tell my
> modem to use a different IRQ? Oh.. and.. how? <g> (Tried using setserial to
> change the IRQ of my modem, but I just get 'device busy'.)
>
You shouldn't really be using irq3 for a NIC, since it's most of the
times used by the second serial port - no wonder the modem wants it. I'd
suggest you assign a different irq to the NIC. It's not as simple as
just passing an option to the driver, the card itself must be made aware
of the change. The EtherEZ (a.k.a. SMC 8416T) may function in PnP and
non-PnP mode. I guess your card has been setup in non-PnP mode, and
assigned irq3, so before you change that it won't function with another
irq. Go to the manufacturer's web site (www.smc.com), then go to
"drivers", and from the "quicklinks" menu on the right select
:"utilities". I don't remember exactly which utility you need precisely,
it's either the "ISA DOS diagnostic" or the "agent for SMC NICs",
anyway, you're supposed to put it on a DOS boot disk (after
decompressing, IIRC), boot with the disk and use the utility to assign
new settings to the card - which will be stored in its flash memory.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: purchase question
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:37:49 GMT
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 19:27:18 -0500, Brad Friedman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I found a system offerred by Surplus Direct / Egghead that I like. This
>dealer got good reviews on resellerratings.com. It is a Nexar system and I
>really don't know much about them. I was wondering if anyone had any input
>on Nexar or on the system that I would like to buy. The specifications can
>be found at:
>http://www.egghead.com/category/inv/00000201/03271189.htm
I did a search on Nexar at http://www.deja.com. I came across a posting
that said Nexar was out of business. You might want to confirm or refute
that before you buy one of their systems. I also came across some postings
that said they use proprietary hardware, then someone else said they just
assemble systems from standard parts, etc., etc. All I can say is, make
sure you know what you'll be getting, and who will support it, if something
goes wrong. There are times when going _too_ cheap is a bad idea.
Mark Post
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: "Jonas Strandberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Problems with my modem
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:36:21 +0200
I'm having some problems with my internal modem. It seems to be there but I
always get this message: "Sorry, modem is busy". I have a "high speed
faxmodem", internal pci. If I have understood everything correctly, the
modem is supposed to be configured on /dev/cua01. Is this correct? Another
problem is that I'm not able to choose that device when I'm configuring
ppp...
I'm in desperate need of assistance
/Jonas Strandberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lauzon)
Subject: I Need A Shell Script, Or A C Program....
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:12:11 GMT
I need a shell script to run as root, it will search all the users who have MP3s, list
there usernames,
list the MP3s, and delete them if I so desire. So, what I am looking for is as
follows. A
program that searches, lists each user with a number before their username, which then
the program will
let me choose which user by number (or name), list all the MP3s that the user has and
asks me if I want
to delete them all at once, or one by one. This could also be a C program. I need
this by Monday at the
earliest, and a week Monday at the latest.
--
Michael
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/9180/
'Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may work.'
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From: "Purple Phase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: How can I save my firmware-less Pioneer DVD drive?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:50:30 GMT
Unfortunately no, that's not the solution.
I did try it out but it turns out that that's just an older Upgrade Firmware
version than the one I used that fried my drive.
What I really need is a Pioneer Firmware Installer - the same difference
between having a Windows XX upgrade (eg. the ones I've tried, which
rely on there being a previous version of it already there), and a full
Windows XX installation (eg. where nothing was previously there).
>From what little information I have on this I believe 1 of two
things are happening (actually it could be a range of each of
these having different effects...):
1. The problem is between the UPG4.EXE and the Vxxx.HEX file:
they actually require a viable firmware version to already exist on
the drive which, according to UPG4's printout while running, there
currently is no firmware on this drive now - or at least none of the
relevant information available from and about the firmware that
does exist on my DVD-104S. Sounds right, since from the name
alone UPG4 probably doesn't install a complete firmware version.
2. The Pioneer tech I spoke to late Friday was correct and no
matter what, if DOS can't detect the drive it doesn't matter if
you specify that you want to upgrade/install new firmware on
the secondary IDE master drive - it just can't happen.
So my problem isn't yet solved: my drive is dead, Windows and
DOS don't even recognize that it exists. Pioneer has to have a
way for burning the original firmware, ANY firmware into the
drive but the question is: does it require a setup besides a PC?
And if so, can I borrow it for 5 minutes?
If anyone else has ideas I'd be more than happy to hear them!
Thanks,
-Chris
"Paul Lower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pufc9$id2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> Sorry that was www.utobia.com/dvd_114_firmware.htm
> The 104 and the 114 have the same specs except one is a slot loader and
the
> other has a tray. The firmware should be OK for both. In any case what
have
> you got to lose?
> Paul
> "Paul Lower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8puegv$cg9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi
> > Look at www.utobiadvd.com/dvd_104_firmware.htm
> >
> > Paul
> > "Purple Phase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:lUyw5.283$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Is there any tool, utility, ANYTHING that I can use or borrow
> > > to get the firmware re-burnt on my Pioneer 104 DVD drive?
> > > Right now I'm looking at a fairly expensive brick in my computer
> > > and I'd really like to watch some DVD movies in the near future.
> > > The guy at Pioneer's tech support said to try talking with my dealer
> > > (who is Egghead auctions), but didn't say if I should ask for a
> > > replacement or what for this thing. If I remember correctly, Egghead's
> > > policy is to take no responsibility for it's auctioned hardware - at
> > > least not a year after purchase (it's been about that long since I got
> > > it). All in all I'd rather fix it here if at all possible. I've only
> got
> > > Win98SE installed on this machine but I've got Redhat on
> > > another machine I could stick it in if there's anything available
> > > on the Linux side of the universe...
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance, and if possible please cc my e-mail account.
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> > > -------
> > > So how's this for a story: I was trying to get a game to install and
> > > the support people tell me to upgrade my "drivers" for my DVD
> > > and CD-RW drives. Pioneer's website has, near the top, one
> > > file listed as the driver for x24 CDs and DVDs, so I tried it out
> > > from Windows - it looked like nothing changed. I went and,
> > > eventually after more unclear directions, got my CD-RW's firmware
> > > to upgrade - didn't help. I got back to the DVD and looked at
> > > Pioneer's webpage more closely and it turns out that the driver
> > > listed at the top of the page was actually the DOS driver! Lower
> > > it says that you need to use another drive-specific driver (from
> > > MS-DOS mode) to update the firmware. So I rebooted to MSD
> > > and tried running their install using the directions in the readme
file.
> > > It said that it could take several minutes so I left it alone - an
hour
> > > later no progress, still stuck on 'code updating...' (approx.). I
left
> > > it for the night but after it had spent 8 hours stuck at the same
place
> > > I rebooted and Windows and DOS and my BIOS haven't seen
> > > the drive since.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Michael Burian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dma_intr errors (UDMA)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:06:01 +0200
there might be a Kernel option for fixing this.
(using 2.2.14 myself, no idea about 2.2.16, 17 ...)
If you know how to compile the kernel chances are that the following
would help:
when doing a make xconfig, (menuconfig, ...) in /usr/scr/linux
there is the CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE option in
the Section "Block devices", you have to search for
"Use multi-mode by default" and say Yes here. (press help to see why :)
then recompile- install the kernel, and see (and tell) if it helped.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just installed Redhat 2.2.16, recompiled the kernel to 2.2.17 and
> patched it with the latest ide patch from linux-ide.org
> My system is a PII400, 256 MB, ABIT HOTROD100 (HPT370 controller),
> Maxtor 20GB ATA100 & IBM 30GB ATA100 drives. After finishing with all
> the installation i boot fine (with pci=reverse) so that my hardisks are
> on /dev/hda & /dev/hdc respectively. Everything seems to be okay but I
> get sporadic errors in between the boot messages and when I get to the
> login prompt, I enter my login and get the following errors :
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> ide0: reset: success
>
> I enter my password and from then on everything seems to be fine. My
> questions are what do those errors mean and how can they be fixed if
> that's possible.
> Second thing is, how do I know if my drives are actually running at
> UDMA5 or not (i'm quite to new to linux, i'm surprised i got this far)?
> I tried the "hdparm -tT /dev/hda" command which gave me :
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.33 seconds = 96.24 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.23 seconds = 28.70 MB/sec
>
> Any ideas? I appreciate the help, thanx !
>
> -Firas
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
(when using make xconfig thats
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From: Sindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA blues
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 18:55:34 GMT
> They both seem slow - what processor & hd do you have? I'm running
> UDMA66, Thunderbird processor, with a slow HD (5400rpms) at approx
> 17.5MB/sec on disk reads. I'm using hdparm with the -c1d1 options.
> Prior to optimizing I was at ~4 MB/sec. Under Mandrake 7.1.
>
Abit BP6 , Celeron 433 Dual processor, 128 Mbps. HDD on IDE1 alone , no slave
either on the channel.
Thanks
sreekant
--
A man needs to sleep for 36 hours a day atleast.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "W.Gdanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Elsa Synergy II, Sony GDM-W900 and Linux
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:29:27 +0200
I intend to install Linux but I couldn't find any info as to whether there
is support for my Elsa Synergy II graphic card and special wide screen
resolutions of my Sony GDM-W900 24" wide screen monitor (I use 1600x1000 at
85 Hz). All inputs will be appreciated.
Regards
Wlodek gdanski
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From: "Hemant R. Mohapatra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppy
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:42:22 GMT
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> Tristan White wrote:
> > How do I make a boot floppy (using lilo or some other method is
> > fine).
>
> Short answer:
>
> cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0
>
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
-
Hemant
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALSA and VIA chipset
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:12:59 GMT
Hi,
I am struggling to get a VIA chipset to work with ALSA. It seems the
driver is installed and it recognizes the card. Still, no sound can be
heard and all programs looking for /dev/dsp reply with 'no such device'.
Should /dev/dsp be symlinked to /dev/asound or so?
My /proc/asound/sndstat says the card is installed, but lots of settings
are 'disabled in config'. Am I missing somthing?
TIA
Bart
PS
Why is it so hard to get sound working in Linux? I never heard Linux
make a sound, while Windows does this without even installing drivers
(it seems)
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