Linux-Hardware Digest #643, Volume #13 Thu, 28 Sep 00 11:13:04 EDT
Contents:
sym8751SPE - low performance (Tom Assmuth)
sym8751SPE low performance (Tom Assmuth)
Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940 scsi cards (Allen Mcintosh)
Vortex 2 Sound Card Supported w/ Red Hat 7? ("Glenn Merkel")
Re: Vortex 2 Sound Card Supported w/ Red Hat 7? (Stanislav Kogan)
scsi card problem (Jennifer Hadley)
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From: Tom Assmuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sym8751SPE - low performance
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:02:03 +0200
Hallo,
I tried now several day but I've run out of ideas to get my
Symbios Logic scsi board work in a adequate speed.
Hardware:
sym8751SPE (pci to ultra SCSI Host adapter ; with NVRAM and
SYM53C875-chip)
it has a normal 50-pin and a 68-pin connector internally
Im using Athlon 650 with an ASUS K7M board
i upgradet from suse 6.3 (kernel (linux-2.2.13.SuSE)) to 6.4 (kernel:
linux-2.2.14.SuSE)
in the old system i compiled a Kernel with the following adjustments in
the .config:
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
this invoked a rather good performance (especialy to set _SYNC from 20
to 40):
I have 2 raid0 devices in the system with 2 hard-drives each.
a copy from md0 to md1 was then performed with 14MB/s (before it only
was 4,5 MB/s)
for the new kernel i took the followng switches:
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400=y
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO=m
CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IMM=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SIM710=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=64
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PQS_PDS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
and i even activated the switch
] allow FAST-SCSI [10MHz] (CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST)
I gave the kernel following parameters at boot-time:
append="sym53c8xx=tags:8/t8t9t10t11q16,sync:40"
(the md-devices are id 8, 9, 10, 11 and the doubling of tags increases
performance a bit indeed)
But regardless of the sync:40 and stuff transfer-rates are only about 5
MB/s
no matter wether copying within or between the md-devices.
also led - activity of the devices is low. especially those 2 where Data
are written to.
(in the last working system all led lightend continously while copying)
(i did not change /etc/mdtab at all because it worked at once)
The scsi - part of dmesg I added in the end
I do not really understand the messages, but the DNES drives are
correctly
recognized whith their 40MB/s - capability
but I have the impression, that the controller is initialized wrong.
should not ther be fast-40 in this line?
sym53c875-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
and should not be said something of at least Fast-20 for devices 8 to 11
in the following context???
sym53c875-0-<4,*>: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
sym53c875-0-<1,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2109840 [1030 MB] [1.0
GB]
sym53c875-0-<2,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
=============
I WOULD BE VERY GLAD IF SOME OF YOU COULD MAKE SUGGESTIONS OR SHARE
SOME EXPERIENCE.
would you try another kernel (generic 2.2.14 (not from Suse)) or
use the SCSI_NCR53C8XX and not the SCSI_SYM53C8XX?
thanks Tom
lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
raid1 personality registered
raid5 personality registered
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 15, function 0
sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up)
sym53c8xx: 53c875 detected with Symbios NVRAM
sym53c875-0: rev=0x04, base=0xefffff00, io_port=0xd800, irq=10
sym53c875-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
sym53c875-0: initial SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
05/4e/80/01/00/24
sym53c875-0: final SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
05/46/80/00/08/24
sym53c875-0: on-chip RAM at 0xefffe000
sym53c875-0: resetting, command processing suspended for 2 seconds
sym53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
sym53c875-0: enabling clock multiplier
sym53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : sym53c8xx - version 1.3g
scsi : 1 host.
sym53c875-0: command processing resumed
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST51080N Rev: 1144
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32430N Rev: 0510
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<3,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM OEM Model: 0662S12 Rev: 2 23
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TS Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Vendor: HP Model: C1533A Rev: 9503
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: VIPER 150 21247 Rev: -011
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Detected scsi tape st1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<8,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<8,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<9,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<9,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<10,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<10,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-318350W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi0, channel 0, id 10, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<11,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<11,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-318350W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdg at scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<1,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
sym53c875-0-<2,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
sym53c875-0-<3,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
sym53c875-0-<8,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
sym53c875-0-<9,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
sym53c875-0-<10,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
sym53c875-0-<11,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
scsi : detected 10 SCSI generics 2 SCSI tapes 1 SCSI cdrom 7 SCSI disks
total.
sym53c875-0-<4,*>: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
sym53c875-0-<1,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2109840 [1030 MB] [1.0
GB]
sym53c875-0-<2,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 [2049 MB] [2.0
GB]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2055035 [1003 MB] [1.0
GB]
SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB]
[8.7 GB]
SCSI device sde: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB]
[8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdf: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843670 [17501 MB]
[17.5 GB]
SCSI device sdg: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843670 [17501 MB]
[17.5 GB]
Partition check:
sda: sda1
sdb: sdb1
sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4 < sdc5 sdc6 >
sdd: sdd1 sdd2
sde: sde1 sde2
sdf: sdf1 sdf2
sdg: sdg1 sdg2
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
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From: Tom Assmuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sym8751SPE low performance
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:04:28 +0200
Hallo,
I tried now several day but I've run out of ideas to get my
Symbios Logic scsi board work in a adequate speed.
Hardware:
sym8751SPE (pci to ultra SCSI Host adapter ; with NVRAM and
SYM53C875-chip)
it has a normal 50-pin and a 68-pin connector internally
Im using Athlon 650 with an ASUS K7M board
i upgradet from suse 6.3 (kernel (linux-2.2.13.SuSE)) to 6.4 (kernel:
linux-2.2.14.SuSE)
in the old system i compiled a Kernel with the following adjustments in
the .config:
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
this invoked a rather good performance (especialy to set _SYNC from 20
to 40):
I have 2 raid0 devices in the system with 2 hard-drives each.
a copy from md0 to md1 was then performed with 14MB/s (before it only
was 4,5 MB/s)
for the new kernel i took the followng switches:
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380=m
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400=y
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO=m
CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100=m
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
CONFIG_SCSI_IMM=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SIM710=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=64
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PQS_PDS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
and i even activated the switch
] allow FAST-SCSI [10MHz] (CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST)
I gave the kernel following parameters at boot-time:
append="sym53c8xx=tags:8/t8t9t10t11q16,sync:40"
(the md-devices are id 8, 9, 10, 11 and the doubling of tags increases
performance a bit indeed)
But regardless of the sync:40 and stuff transfer-rates are only about 5
MB/s
no matter wether copying within or between the md-devices.
also led - activity of the devices is low. especially those 2 where Data
are written to.
(in the last working system all led lightend continously while copying)
(i did not change /etc/mdtab at all because it worked at once)
The scsi - part of dmesg I added in the end
I do not really understand the messages, but the DNES drives are
correctly
recognized whith their 40MB/s - capability
but I have the impression, that the controller is initialized wrong.
should not ther be fast-40 in this line?
sym53c875-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
and should not be said something of at least Fast-20 for devices 8 to 11
in the following context???
sym53c875-0-<4,*>: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
sym53c875-0-<1,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2109840 [1030 MB] [1.0
GB]
sym53c875-0-<2,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
=============
I WOULD BE VERY GLAD IF SOME OF YOU COULD MAKE SUGGESTIONS OR SHARE
SOME EXPERIENCE.
would you try another kernel (generic 2.2.14 (not from Suse)) or
use the SCSI_NCR53C8XX and not the SCSI_SYM53C8XX?
thanks Tom
lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
raid1 personality registered
raid5 personality registered
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 15, function 0
sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up)
sym53c8xx: 53c875 detected with Symbios NVRAM
sym53c875-0: rev=0x04, base=0xefffff00, io_port=0xd800, irq=10
sym53c875-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
sym53c875-0: initial SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
05/4e/80/01/00/24
sym53c875-0: final SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
05/46/80/00/08/24
sym53c875-0: on-chip RAM at 0xefffe000
sym53c875-0: resetting, command processing suspended for 2 seconds
sym53c875-0: restart (scsi reset).
sym53c875-0: enabling clock multiplier
sym53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
scsi0 : sym53c8xx - version 1.3g
scsi : 1 host.
sym53c875-0: command processing resumed
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST51080N Rev: 1144
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32430N Rev: 0510
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<3,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM OEM Model: 0662S12 Rev: 2 23
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TS Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Vendor: HP Model: C1533A Rev: 9503
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: VIPER 150 21247 Rev: -011
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Detected scsi tape st1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<8,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<8,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<9,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<9,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<10,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<10,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-318350W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi0, channel 0, id 10, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<11,*>: WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled.
sym53c875-0-<11,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-318350W Rev: SA30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sdg at scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0
sym53c875-0-<1,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
sym53c875-0-<2,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
sym53c875-0-<3,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 8
sym53c875-0-<8,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
sym53c875-0-<9,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
sym53c875-0-<10,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
sym53c875-0-<11,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 16
scsi : detected 10 SCSI generics 2 SCSI tapes 1 SCSI cdrom 7 SCSI disks
total.
sym53c875-0-<4,*>: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 15)
sym53c875-0-<1,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2109840 [1030 MB] [1.0
GB]
sym53c875-0-<2,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15)
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 [2049 MB] [2.0
GB]
SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2055035 [1003 MB] [1.0
GB]
SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB]
[8.7 GB]
SCSI device sde: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB]
[8.7 GB]
SCSI device sdf: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843670 [17501 MB]
[17.5 GB]
SCSI device sdg: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 35843670 [17501 MB]
[17.5 GB]
Partition check:
sda: sda1
sdb: sdb1
sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 sdc4 < sdc5 sdc6 >
sdd: sdd1 sdd2
sde: sde1 sde2
sdf: sdf1 sdf2
sdg: sdg1 sdg2
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen Mcintosh)
Subject: Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940 scsi cards
Date: 28 Sep 2000 10:07:45 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Melvin Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there
>something special you have to do to the scsi cards or the bios if you
>use multiple scsi cards?
If you are using LILO as a boot loader, it is possible (== likely :-) that
LILO and the BIOS will disagree on the order of the SCSI adapters. See the
description of "disk=" in the man page for LILO.
As another poster suggested, disabling the BIOS on everything but the
adapter for the boot disk may be a good idea.
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From: "Glenn Merkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vortex 2 Sound Card Supported w/ Red Hat 7?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:23:39 GMT
Hello all.
I'm a Linux novice that has been attempting to learn more about this OS.
However, I'm kinda a dummy when it comes to understanding this stuff... so
please bear with me.
I've installed Corel Linux 7 on one of the hard drive cages at home, and it
works pretty well what with its USB support, ATA66 support, etc.
However, I've never been able to get my Aureal Vortex 2 Sound Card working.
I've read about "kernal updates" or "driver updates"... but I've never
really understood what people are doing to get the sound card working. And
all indications were these were dangerous workarounds... not proper
solutions.
Any chance Red Hat has figured out how to support Vortex 2 Sound Cards yet,
and the card will be installed properly during the OS installation? If
not... is there anywhere I can get "detailed" fix instructions, since I
don't pretend to understand some of the suggestions / fixes I've read.
Thanks in advance...
Glenn Merkel
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From: Stanislav Kogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vortex 2 Sound Card Supported w/ Red Hat 7?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:59:35 -0400
Hi!
Glenn Merkel wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> I've installed Corel Linux 7 on one of the hard drive cages at home, and it
> works pretty well what with its USB support, ATA66 support, etc.
Bad choice. If you want to learn Linux you shouldn't have installed
Corel. Corel is for people that DON'T want to learn (You don't even have
to recompile the kernel there! What have we come to?)
>
> However, I've never been able to get my Aureal Vortex 2 Sound Card working.
> I've read about "kernal updates" or "driver updates"... but I've never
> really understood what people are doing to get the sound card working. And
> all indications were these were dangerous workarounds... not proper
> solutions.
Oh, man if you think that "kernel update" and "driver update" are
"dangerous workarounds", then you have nothing to do with Linux. Those
things are the only way of life with Linux, and unless you'll learn
them, you will never be able to use it.
Go to http://aureal.sourceforge.net/ and download the latest drivers
(it's 1.1.1 I think). Then you need to compile and install them. after
that it should work. However, it may not. If not, send me a message, and
we'll try working it out.
D/L the drivers and read the README. If you don't understand what to do
with them, then send me an email (directly, not through the newsgroup),
and we'll work this out.
>
> Any chance Red Hat has figured out how to support Vortex 2 Sound Cards yet,
> and the card will be installed properly during the OS installation? If
Forget RedHat. They don't produce anything usefull anymore. (and no
drivers that's for sure) All they do is make profit off free software,
and finance some projects (and for that they have my deepest gratitude).
> not... is there anywhere I can get "detailed" fix instructions, since I
> don't pretend to understand some of the suggestions / fixes I've read.
Well I have one thing to tell you: you have a lot to learn.
Best regards.
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From: Jennifer Hadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi card problem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:04:12 -0600
I can't seem to get my scsi tape drive to write to tapes.
I am running RedHat 6.2 with all the updates, and I have rebuilt the
kernel to include scsi support for as well as atapi/scsi for the cd
burner. The scsi card is a Adaptec AHA-2910c and the tape drive is an
Onstream 50gb ADR.
When I first installed the card kudzu found it and but configured it as
a Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI, I'm not sure if this is causing my problem.
When ever I try to right to the drive I get and input/output error. If
I try to use KDat to mount a tape it says its unable to rewind the
drive.
I can't seem to find any information on this type of problem, can
someone help me?
Here are the error messages I get
[computer]# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
/dev/nst0: Input/output error
[computer]# tar -cvpf /dev/st0 --label=" backup " \ --directory /
--exclude=var/spool --exclude=proc .
backup
tar: --directory: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
lost+found/
boot/
boot/lost+found/
boot/kernel.h
boot/boot.b
boot/chain.b
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Input/output error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[computer]# mt -f /dev/nst0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 32768 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
#dmesg gives
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/10/0
(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 416 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.28/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 2 hosts.
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 7.
Vendor: OnStream Model: SC-50 Rev: 1.03
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100 Rev: 1.0g
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: LG Model: CD-ROM CRD-8400B Rev: 1.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 2 SCSI cdroms total.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
When I try to mount the tape the following errors are reported in
/var/messages
Sep 27 09:19:14 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:19:14 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid command
operation code
Sep 27 09:19:14 io kernel: st0: Write not multiple of tape block size.
Sep 27 09:19:14 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:19:14 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid field in
cdb
Sep 27 09:19:59 io kernel: svc: unknown version (3)
Sep 27 09:21:10 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:21:10 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid command
operation code
Sep 27 09:21:10 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:21:10 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid field in
cdb
Sep 27 09:21:20 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:21:20 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid command
operation code
Sep 27 09:21:20 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:21:20 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid field in
cdb
Sep 27 09:23:23 io inetd[530]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use
Sep 27 09:29:45 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:29:45 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid command
operation code
Sep 27 09:29:45 io kernel: st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0xb6ca6, Current st09:00: sense key Illegal Request
Sep 27 09:29:45 io kernel: Additional sense indicates Invalid field in
cdb
Thanks
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