Linux-Hardware Digest #597, Volume #13 Mon, 18 Sep 00 18:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (-ljl-)
Re: Palm Software on Linux (Robert Wiegand)
Re: 486 DLC 40 Server (mst)
@@@ El BUS-X, Sexo en Directo GRATIS @@@ ("Info")
Re: Which Soundcard? (Stanislav Kogan)
Re: CueCat troubles (mst)
Re: "Installing SUSE 6.4 on SCSI hard drives from SCSI CD" (Dirk Schenkewitz)
Re: interrupt HD access, how ? (ZIP-Prob.) (Dirk Schenkewitz)
I/O Magic CDRW work with Linux? (David Hostetler)
atapi brenner unter Linux (Marcus Hardt)
expand video ram on an old machine?? (Davis Eric)
newbie for RAID setup ("taiji")
newbie for RAID setup ("taiji")
dual boot problems ("GreatSage")
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (Harshal)
Re: Mounting FAT32 (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: aha152x-module (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: VCR - MATROX G 400 TV ("Marcel Janssen")
Re: xcdroast and devfs ("Marcel Janssen")
Re: LS120 C/H/S values ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Insulated or Non-Insulated metal standoffs for Motherboards
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UDMA blues (Andrey Vlasov)
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:02:03 GMT
In article <8q5mf6$1fj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for all your suggestions. I have not modified the kernel.
> It is a standard Red Hat 6.1 install.
You can try and load your adapter's module by hand using "insmod".
Keep an eye out for error messages, check "dmesg | less" too.
...
> # /sbin/lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> 3c59x 19112 1 (autoclean)
You only have one module loaded?
[root@lou2 /etc]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
3c59x 19652 1 (autoclean)
st 25452 0
nls_cp437 3908 2 (autoclean)
vfat 9596 1 (autoclean)
fat 31200 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
maestro 27240 0
soundcore 2756 2 [maestro]
advansys 82184 0
[root@lou2 /etc]#
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Palm Software on Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:50:02 -0500
Kenneth Crudup wrote:
> >It works under VMWare, but only for slow serial port speeds.
>
> Not true- I use 115.2Kbps on mine. Quite reliably, too.
You must be lucky.
>From the VMWare web site:
Serial port performance on the host machine may
suffer when a virtual machine is running
VMware for Linux may disable interrupts on the host
for a long period of time which can result in host
UARTs dropping characters intermittently. No
corruption will occur, but retries in the software
controlling the UART(s) will reduce the transfer rate of
the host. This problem should be fixed in the near
future.
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Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 DLC 40 Server
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:22:55 -0400
Andrew Lee wrote:
>
> I am a newbie to linux red hat... I was wondering whether it be possible to
> install linux on a 486 DLC 40 with 4 mb ram. I only want dos based server,
> the pc only has a 40 meg hdd.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated....
> Ryan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would definitely suggest more RAM - 4M isn't enough for most distros
to install. Slackware can, but then you want a bigger HD too for swap
space. A minimum for keeping other distros happy would be 8M.
MST
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From: "Info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.stratus
Subject: @@@ El BUS-X, Sexo en Directo GRATIS @@@
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:27:03 GMT
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From: Stanislav Kogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Soundcard?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:26:45 -0400
Hi!
Steve Bradley wrote:
>
> G'day,
> Opinion time:
> I'm experiencing problems with my soundcard - it's a Diamond
> MX300. Great card, but not supported by Linux. The folks at
> Sourceforge have some excellent drivers for it, but they conflict with
> the Nvidia 0.9-5 drivers that I want to load for my video card - or
> the Nvidia drivers conflict with it - either way, as soon as you
> access any sound functions while using the AU8830 driver and Nvidia
> 0.9-5 together, the system completely locks up.
This may be a correctable problem. Try moving the card to another slot.
I had a similair problem with Vortex2 (same chip), and a completely
different video card (an ATI Rage II). After I moved the sound card to a
different PCI slot, the problem disappeared.
Besides from that is can also be a motherboard problem. Which
motherboard do you use?
BTW, Aureal Vortex2 is a great sound card. I wouldn't trade it for
anything.
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CueCat troubles
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:26:38 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Unrot13 this;
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi all;
>
> I stopped by friday night and picked up one of those CueCats from my
> local radio shack.
>
> Then I dld'd the driver from a freshmeat link, and installed it.
>
I use BashCat from freshmeat; it's a mere shell script, so you don't
have to patch the kernel :)
MST
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From: Dirk Schenkewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: "Installing SUSE 6.4 on SCSI hard drives from SCSI CD"
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:23:16 +0200
Hi Tom,
Tom Millington wrote:
>
> Sorry - sent two messages and got the titles mixed up!
>
> "Tom Millington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:...
> > I am a newbie trying to put Linux on another server, namely an old
> > P133 (Altos) that has 3 x 4.5Gb SCSI hard drives and a SCSI CDROM.
> > ...
> > I have tried to use the Linux boot floppy but neither the hard drives
> > nor the CD are seen - in other words it says I have no hard drives or
> > CD player.
How far did you came with the SuSE boot disk?
In case you just did not get the right idea:
- find out what kind of SCSI controller you have, if you can.
- enter the menu "load kernel modules" --> "load scsi driver" or so.
- select the right module and watch what happens when it loads.
(if you cannot find out what scsi driver you have, try loading all
of them one by one until one of them loads successfully AND FINDS
YOUR HARDWARE ! Perhaps you need the 'modules'-floppy, too.)
If that works, go back and continue with "Installation from CD", the
system now tries to mount the CD, if that fails, well come back here :-)
> > Where do I go from here? Help! I am a newbie so simple steps please.
hope this helps
dirk
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From: Dirk Schenkewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: interrupt HD access, how ? (ZIP-Prob.)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:51:28 +0200
Stolm�r Tam�s wrote:
>
> Dirk Schenkewitz wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is there a way to make accesses to _locally_mounted_ discs interruptible ?
> >
> > The problem is: when I acces a ZIP drive, it sometimes happens that the drive
> > goes into a loop of rhythmic stepping and such, over and over, ...
Let me point out that the zip drive now appears to the linux system as if you
have cut off the parallel cable - it accepts no data anymore and answers to
nothing.
> > ... until I pull and replug its power (It's a parallel ZIP, accessed via ppa).
> > After that, the ZIP-drive calms down, but now the linux system hangs completely
> > - no console switching, no shutdown via alt-ctrl-del, only hard reset works.
> > ...
> > I know that nfs-mounts can be made interruptibe - is there a solution for
> > local HDs ?
>
> fuser -mv /mnt/zip will show you which pids are using the mount point.
> So you can kill them.
Thanks for answering !
But that is no option: after the the zip-drive has gone berzerk, the system
hangs completely - it accepts NO key-press at all !- so I cannot switch to
another console and do what you say :-(
> After that do a sync if you want, so the system will write out all puffered
> data. Somehow it's possible to disable caching on specified devices.
>
> Then umount, and then
> echo "remove-scsi-singledevice 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi
> then you can discoonect the device safely.
Well, I did not know the last part, but anyway, I get no chance to do so, because
the system (or maybe better, the kernel) waits for the zip-drive to finish its
(uninterruptible) operation - and since the zip-drive never reports that it has
finished its job, the system waits forever....
This behaviour is useful in most cases: so-called "atomic" operations (like 'mv')
should not be interrupted, so it is impossible that such an operation is half-done,
which might leave the filesystem in an unconsistent state. But in case of hardware
failure, the system just plays dead.
'man mount' says under "Mount options for nfs" (among other stuff):
hard 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 was.
This is probably what you want.
"The program accessing a file on a (locally) mounted file system will hang when
the hardware stops responding" - that is exactly the problem. So, if either
a) there is a way to disconnect and reconnect the zip drive WITHOUT having the
system loose all contact to it, or
b) there is a way to simply interrupt the access (which would be similar to having
'intr' for a local filesystem), disconnect the zip-drive, then do all you des-
cribed above, then reconnect the zip-drive and repeat the interrupted access,
I would be all happy. (Even if reconnecting does not work, I would be happier than
I am now.)
I would be rather surprised if nobody had seen that type of problem before me.
If that would be true, there is nothing left than hacking the kernel by myself,
but then comes the next question: where to start ?
Anyway, Many Thanks for Your answer and sorry for the delayed reaction - I was busy
with other stuff (and I nearly abandoned all hope to get an answer for this non-
trivial question. :-/ )
Cheers
dirk
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From: David Hostetler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I/O Magic CDRW work with Linux?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:46:27 -0500
I have an I/O Magic DR-CDRW832 8X4X32 EIDE CDRW. I was wondering if it
will work under Linux Mandrake 7.1 as it isn't listed in the Hardware
compatibility list. I have several pieces of hardware that werent
originally in the compatibility list that work fabulously under MDK 7.1
. Also what do I need to do to get this drive working? I want to replace
an old HP SCSI CD burner with this one...
Thanks.
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From: Marcus Hardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: atapi brenner unter Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:20:37 +0200
Hi!
Hat wer Erfahrung mit 'nem Atapi brenner mit cdrecord?
--
Ciao,
Marcus.
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From: Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: expand video ram on an old machine??
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:16:25 GMT
hi, there,
Just got an old machine and want to install Linux RH6.2 on it. I would
like install Xwindow too. But the video ram of the machine is too small.
I want to expand it.
For this old machine, it is IBM personal computer 750 P90, it has two
video ram caches on board. I am not familar with these old machines. So,
sorry if my questions are stupid.
Problem 1, I could not find the video card, either PCI or ISA, which are
normally found on 486 and 586 PCs. Does this machine have only these two
video ram caches used as "video cards"? These two video rams are
actually two intergrated circuits pluged into two sockets on the
mainborad.
Problem 2, because these two video rams are plugged into two sockets on
the mainboard, does it mean that I can not change them? I want to expand
the video ram anyway.
Problem 3, is there anyway that I can add some PCI video cards or even
AGP video cards to this machine? I could find the PCI slots but not the
AGP whatever. I don't know what the difference between PCI video cards
and AGP video cards is at all. I would appreciate if you can explain
something.
After all, for these two video rams on the mainboard, is there anyway I
can expand or change or whatever to make the total video ram useable in
Xwindow larger? It is painful to look at the huge characters on my
screen.
Thanks a lot and sorry if these questions are not too smart.
Davis
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From: "taiji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie for RAID setup
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:38:59 +0100
Reply-To: "taiji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, everyone,
I am trying to set up RAID-5 over three 30G IDE hard disks. The problem is
that I have installed Apache on one of HDs. If I directly set up RAID-5 over
this HD, is all data going to be corrupted? If it is, what should I do so
that I don't need to reinstall Apache server as well as related packages and
data?
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Regards,
charles
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From: "taiji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie for RAID setup
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:41:02 +0100
Reply-To: "taiji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, everyone,
I am trying to set up RAID-5 over three 30G IDE hard disks. The problem is
that I have installed Apache on one of HDs. If I directly set up RAID-5 over
this HD, is all data going to be corrupted? If it is, what should I do so
that I don't need to reinstall Apache server as well as related packages and
data?
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Regards,
charles
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From: "GreatSage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual boot problems
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:49:19 -0700
Hi,
I have a computer that has one SCSI hard drive which I have partitioned for
WIN2000 and Red Hat Linux. I first installed WIN2000 on the first partition
and then installed Linux on the second partition. I had LILO installed in
the Linux partition and NOT in the master boot record. I can currently boot
to Win 2000 and can also boot to Linux but to linux via a boot disk. I am
currently trying to utilize the Win2000 boot loader to load both Linux and
Windows but Im having problems. This is what I did:
1) I stripped from the Linux partiiton the bootsector (dd if=/dev/sda6
of=/LINXLOAD.LNX bs=1300 count=1).
2) I copied this to a floppy.
3) Then in Windows 2000 I copied this file to the root directory c:\
4) I edit the boot.ini file (after removing the system and read only
attributes) to add the following line (C:\LINXLOAD.LNX="Linux")
So, when I reboot, I indeed get the boot menu and can successfully load
Win2000 but when I select "Linux" the screen goes black and just prints the
two leters "LI" at the left of the top most line. The computer never loads
Linux and seems to just hang ??
Does anyone have any insight into what I have done incorrectly.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Jerry
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From: Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:53:32 GMT
In article <8q5oqs$4fn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> You can try and load your adapter's module by hand using "insmod".
> Keep an eye out for error messages, check "dmesg | less" too.
I can add both aic7xxx and st using insmod (dmesg confirms this) but I
still can't use the tape.
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind gives:
/dev/st0: No such device
> You only have one module loaded?
Yep. This is a very minimal web server. I want to back it up on a SCSI
DLT drive that works fine on a couple of other Red Hat 6.1 systems we
have.
2 things still puzzle me:
1. I can't figure why a reboot is not loading the aic7xxx module
2. And why can't I use the tape after manually loading the module.
Thanks for all your help so far. I am pretty sure I am missing
something simple but I can't figure out what.
Any HOW-TOs or FAQs I should look at?
Thanks again,
Harshal
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting FAT32
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:00:05 -0700
Hi there,
as root
suppose that you have disk /dev/hdb with one partition in this case
root# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/Windows
NOTE: mount point /mnt/Windows should exist before mounting if it doesn't
exist just create it
root# mkdir /mnt/Windows
PS: vfat should be compiled into kernel or as module, in case of module it
can requere
root# modprobe vfat
Andrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to Linux. I'm using a Redhat 6.2 I'm wondering how to mount a
> FAT32 drive. I'm tried using the Drive Mount Applet found in GNOME, but i
> do not know what to type in the mount point text box. Can anybody help?
>
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: aha152x-module
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:28:09 -0700
Hi Renzo,
I think that you have "PnP OS" option in BIOS switched on. When you start Windows it
will initialise card and after that you can use it in Linux. Check you BIOS and
disable if it still in "ON". Try after that use it Linux.
For kernels before 2.4 "PnP OS" is nightmare and it should be disabled before
istallation of Linux.
PS: Not solution but just idea
Andrey
Renzo Lauper wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a UMAX 1220S Scanner connected through an Adaptec AVA1502 SCSI-Card.
> I use the following options in /etc/conf.modules
>
> options aha152x aha152x=0x340,9,7,1,1
>
> and I load the modules with "modprobe aha152x". This works fine,
> but after a reboot I try to load the module again and I get the
> following messages in /var/log/messages:
>
> kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
> kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled,
>parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
> kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
> kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 $
> kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> kernel: scsi0, channel 0 : RESERVATION CONFLICT performing reset.
> kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
>
> Then it kind of repeats a similar message about 10 times.
> The strange thing is, that when I start Win95, which is installed on the same
> machine and I use the scanner there, then the scanner works in Linux
> again. But after rebooting Linux again, the scanner won't work any more.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated
> Renzo Lauper
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From: "Marcel Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VCR - MATROX G 400 TV
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:41:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Duclou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can i record a TV-program with a MATROX G 400 TV on a Linux Box ?
Have you checked : http://marvel.sourceforge.net/ ?
> My problem is to record periodically a TV program on (little) video file
> server and to read it on MacOs or window$ boxes with programs like
> Quicktime.
Check out : http://heroinewarrior.com/
-Marcel Janssen
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From: "Marcel Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xcdroast and devfs
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:46:59 GMT
Can help straight away. I can just report that my writer works with DevFS
(sym53c8xx scsi driver, Philips cdd2600 writer). I use gcombust to burn.
No errors so far.
-Marcel Janssen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LS120 C/H/S values
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:02:17 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Does anyone have C/H/S values for an LS120?
>>
>> The old BIOS in the PC on which I'm trying to use the LS120 doesn't
>> autodetect it, so I will need to manually enter the values.
>> (I believe that it has 1736 tracks when used with a 120MB disk?)
>>
>> I'm hoping that by making the LS120 the IDE bus master, and setting the
>> boot seqence to C: then A:, that I'll be able to boot from a 1.44 Mb
>> floppy.
> You shouldn't have to use the BIOS to use the LS120. Just create a
> directory-mount e.g. /mnt/ls120 and add a line to /etc/fstab :
> /dev/hdx /mnt/ls120 msdos noauto,owner,rw 0 0
> (where x is the IDE-port, a,b,c or d)
> This should work. Then you can directly mount it by 'mount /dev/hdx'
> and accessing it by 'cd /mnt/ls120' or something like that.
Maybe so. But first I have to be running Linux, which means I have to
boot Linux, which means I have to boot from a 1.44Mb floppy (my
'cold-start' floppy) in the LS120, because there's nothing on the HD
(it's a new one) and there's nothing else to boot from (I'm away from
home).
So I really do need those values for the number of LS120
cylinders/heads/sectors.
--
Roy Millar, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Insulated or Non-Insulated metal standoffs for Motherboards
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:03:45 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It is a good idea to just leave out the isolation washers. I do.
> My 2 boxes have been running for more than a year without an
> isolation washer in sight. I just place the MB on the brass standoffs
> and screw it down.
> The motherboard does need grounding but that is usualy provided by
> the power supply connections. Though any extra cannot hurt.
I recently came across a motherboard which had printed-circuit traces
running under the head of one of the mounting screws. So I used a nylon
screw, though an insulating washer would probably have been
sufficient.
It's something to look out for.
--
Roy Millar, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA blues
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:02:29 -0700
Hi there,
try next
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -m 8 -u 1 -A 1 /dev/hde
Andrey
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