Linux-Hardware Digest #661, Volume #13 Mon, 2 Oct 00 18:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Intel D815EEA compatible w/ RedHat 7.0 (Bill Stapleton)
Linux on 386? (eric turbide)
PCI bus problem with ASUS A7V? (MH)
SCSI Errors, Advansys + Seagate help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCSI Errors, Advansys + Seagate help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Watchdog timers in holland... (Where?) (System V)
Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
UW/SCSI slower than U/SCSI??? (Sebastian Kollmann)
multiboot confusion (Alan Jones)
Re: Adaptec AVA1505 irq problem ! ("Heath Doane")
Re: IRQ Setup ("bluster")
Re: My Modem.... ("bluster")
Re: My Modem.... ("bluster")
Issues with SCSI Tape Unit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux on HP Pavilion ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Stapleton)
Subject: Re: Intel D815EEA compatible w/ RedHat 7.0
Date: 2 Oct 2000 18:14:45 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <8r79c7$jnt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dirk Lankens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> I installed RH7 this morning on an Intel D815EEA (with a Matrox G400, so
|> no difficulties there). I have problems getting the integrated Pro/100 VE
|> controller
|> to work. RH loads the eepro100 module but this quits with the message
|> 'Device
|> or resource busy'. The e100 module available from Intel used to work on 6.2
|> but doesn't compile any more on 7.0 . Any suggestions? (I'm not a C guru)
Wrong module, but the right one is there in RH7. Load the "e100" module
instead.
|> Thanks,
|>
|> Dirk
--
Bill Stapleton University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information & Media Technologies
Web Janitor, http://www.uwm.edu/ Technical Solutions
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From: eric turbide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on 386?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:52:08 +0200
My father has an old 386 computer with 8 meg RAM (that's been in my
closet for a number of years!) and i was wondering if it would be
possible for me to install Linux on it. If so, is there a particular
version that would suit it the best ?
Thanks in advance,
Patrick Turbide
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI bus problem with ASUS A7V?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 11:53:38 -0700
Recently installed an ASUS A7V (w/ AMD 800 TB) and experienced
intermittent problems with PCI devices. The board I have does NOT have
onboard sound, and I am not using the ATA100 controller. The first
thing I noticed was my NIC in PCI slot 3 was not recognized. I replaced
it, thinking the NIC might be bad and that SEEMED to be the case.
Eventually, the second NIC went unrecognized, so I changed PCI slots.
Once again, everything was fine.
I then installed a sound card in PCI slot 3 and it worked fine, for a
time. Eventually, the sound card was no longer recognized. I moved it
to another PCI slot, and everything seemed fine. I assumed that PCI
slot 3 was bad. However, I had also been experiencing problems with my
SCSI CDROM. It was attached to the secondary channel on my Adaptec 2940
UW. For example, upon booting RH 6.2 from the SCSI CDROM everything
went fine until I was asked to "place the RedHat CD in your drive" (or
something like that), at which point Linux no longer recognized the CD.
This occurred a couple of times, so I eventually bought another IDE
CDROM and installed it. Then, I once tried to mount the SCSI CDROM and
discovered Linux didn't see it. Rebooted the system and all was fine.
I'm not sure if I have some faulty hardware here, or whether it's a
problem with the VIA southbrige controller. I hope it's the former, but
I fear it may be the latter. I've returned the MB for replacement, so
I'll know soon. Anyone experience similar problems with this type of
system? Any long-term, rock-solid success stories out there?
Other components: SB Live Value; ASUS Geforce DDR; 3COM 3C905B; Yamaha
16x4x4 CDRW; ASUS 50x IDE CDROM; 128 MB PC100 SDRAM ECC.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI Errors, Advansys + Seagate help
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:45:51 GMT
I am having problems with my SCSI drive on my Linux system and I hope
that someone can help me decipher these errors.
System: Pentium 233 MMX 64MB RAM
OS: Red Hat Linux 6.2
kernel: 2.2.17
Advansys SCSI Card: ASB-3940UA
Advansys Driver Version: ASC_VERSION 3.3A
Hard Disk: Seagate ST410800N
The errors that I am receiving are below. Can anyone tell me if
this is a problem with my SCSI card, the OS or just a bad drive? Your
help is much appreciated!
Thank you,
Tony Groff
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Oct 2 12:44:24 zorak kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 80439, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 23 1
7 3f 00 00 80 00
Oct 2 12:45:04 zorak kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 81396, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 24 f
5 bf 00 00 80 00
Oct 2 12:45:26 zorak kernel: advansys: asc_isr_callback: scp c0000000
has bad host pointer, host 1
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: advansys: asc_execute_scsi_cmnd: board
0: AscExeScsiQueue() ASC_ERROR, err_code 17
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: advansys: asc_execute_scsi_cmnd: board
0: AscExeScsiQueue() ASC_ERROR, err_code 17
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second
half of retries.
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0
channel 0.
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: advansys: advansys_reset: reset request
not active or waiting, completing anyway c3fca400
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: scsi0: device driver called scsi_done()
for a syncronous reset.
Oct 2 12:45:59 zorak kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 83680, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 29 6
b bf 00 00 80 00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI Errors, Advansys + Seagate help
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:54:48 GMT
I am having problems with my SCSI drive on my Linux system and I hope
that someone can help me decipher these errors.
System: Pentium 233 MMX 64MB RAM
OS: Red Hat Linux 6.2
kernel: 2.2.17
Advansys SCSI Card: ASB-3940UA
Advansys Driver Version: ASC_VERSION 3.3A
Hard Disk: Seagate ST410800N
The errors that I am receiving are below. Can anyone tell me if
this is a problem with my SCSI card, the OS or just a bad drive? Your
help is much appreciated!
Thank you,
Tony Groff
=====================
Oct 2 12:44:24 zorak kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 80439, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 23 1
7 3f 00 00 80 00
Oct 2 12:45:04 zorak kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 81396, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 24 f
5 bf 00 00 80 00
Oct 2 12:45:26 zorak kernel: advansys: asc_isr_callback: scp c0000000
has bad host pointer, host 1
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: advansys: asc_execute_scsi_cmnd: board
0: AscExeScsiQueue() ASC_ERROR, err_code 17
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: advansys: asc_execute_scsi_cmnd: board
0: AscExeScsiQueue() ASC_ERROR, err_code 17
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second
half of retries.
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0
channel 0.
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: advansys: advansys_reset: reset request
not active or waiting, completing anyway c3fca400
Oct 2 12:45:28 zorak kernel: scsi0: device driver called scsi_done()
for a syncronous reset.
Oct 2 12:45:59 zorak kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 83680, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 29 6
b bf 00 00 80 00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (System V)
Subject: Watchdog timers in holland... (Where?)
Date: 2 Oct 2000 19:07:59 GMT
Hello,
I need a watchdog timer for my project. But I can't seem to find any
timer which will work with Linux, and is sold here in Holland.
Does somone know a store where I can buy a device like this.
(Or a UPS which will do the trick)
SysV
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 19:44:47 GMT
Thanks Adam. It would be great to know if you can use the
ATA/100 drive as your primary (boot) drive, and if you had to do
anything special to get things to work (at all/at full speed/at full
capacity/etc). Also, what drive are you using?
Thanks for the help -> Nick
In article <DqXB5.590$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An ATA/100 drive shouldn't pose a problem. Mine is ATA/100
(although
> admittedly it is currently sitting on an older IDE channel which
doesn't
> support the improvements). I'm going to try it on one of the RAID
channels
> on my machine (which do support ATA/100). I'll let you know how
it goes.
>
> Adam
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From: Sebastian Kollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UW/SCSI slower than U/SCSI???
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:20:09 +0200
HI,
I am using a Adaptec AHA2940/UW with three disk drives.
sda IBM DDRS-34560
sdb IBM DDRS-34560W
sdc IBM DDRS-39560W
I was checking hdparm -t on each device and was totally supposed:
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.43 seconds = 11.79 MB/sec
/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 13.79 seconds = 4.64 MB/sec ??
/dev/sdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 13.73 seconds = 4.66 MB/sec ??
I think the UW/SCSI drives should have at their minimum the same speed
as the U/SCSI.
I checked my configuration and changed different settings without any
result.
Is there a problem to use UW and U drives on the same controller??
I would be very thankful for any possible help.
Greetings, Sebastian.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: multiboot confusion
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:10:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need some advice on a multiboot system. I have an Abit PB6 system
with dual Celeron CPUs, but I'm not using the HTP 366 controller yet.
Initialy I set it up with an old 200M HD on ide 0, 500M on ide 1, IBM
13,5G on ide 2 and ide CDROM on ide3. I normaly booted and ran
DOS/WIN3.1 from the 200M drive. The 500M drive is FAT 16 data. The
IBM drive is partitioned 500M DOS/WIN3.1. 2G FAT32 (WIN98SE not yet
installed)., 2.5G ext2- Mandrake 7.0, then an extended partition with
a 128M logical Linux swap partition. I also have a 100M external SCSI
Zip drive, but I don't have extra disks available for backup.
I installed Mandrake 7.0 with LILO on the 200M drive. All my drives
and partitions were recognized, and boot options were created, but
only Linux, and DOS on the first disk would actualy boot from LILO.
Recently I swapped IDE cables to put the IBM drive on ide0 and I
installed the full Partition Magic and Boot Magic (on tthe fist DOS
partition of the IBM drive). I also created another 500M FAT 16
logical data partition in the IBM extended partion. Boot Magic now
boots everything that it should. However, booting DOS from the old
200M drive, only that and the Zip drive are acessable. Booting DOS on
the IBM drive, only that and the Zip drive are accessable. I have
not been able to get PM/BM to make the other FAT 16 partitions visible
(as LILO did before).
I have an inch think pile of prindouts of FAQs, Howtos, etc. on
multibooting and related issues. Should I try one of the other boot
managers, and if so which one? The docs I have are confusing,
contradictory, and possibly outdated. I want to install WIN89SE to
the FAT32 patition. However, there are several warnings not to use
FAT32 on a multiboot system. I have not read a complete explanation
for this, and I know other people do it. Should I use FAT16 instead
of FAT32?
I was planning on a full reinstall of Mandrake 7.0, this time putting
LILO on the Linux partition, with Boot Magic (or possibly another boot
manager) on the IBM MBR. Of course I should install WIN98 first.
BTW, Linux is not currently bootable. I made a boot disk before I
swaped IDE cables, but the boot diskette is not smart enough to search
other drives for a Linux partition and boot it.
And yes, I plan to do more disk swapping and partitioning in the
future. At least one of the small older drives will go back into a
386 PC. I'll move the IBM drive to the HPT 366 controller as soon as
I get a new distribution based on the stable 2.4 kernel. I'll increase
the size of the Linux partition and add more FAT16 data space below
8G, and ext2 data space above 8G.
Alan Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Heath Doane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AVA1505 irq problem !
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 20:30:56 GMT
Hi There,
Personally, I'd suggest disabling the IRQ for the video card (usually
done in BIOS, though a setting like "Use IRQ for VGA") - Unless you're doing
video capture, the effects should be fairly minimal. Then use IRQ 10 for
the SCSI card.
As always, YMMV
Heath
"Oleg Krivosheev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi, All
>
> i bought SCSI CD burnur which came with
> AVA1505 card. It could wotk with io=0x140
> or 0x340 (jumper switchable) and
> irq 9,10,11 or 12 (could change it
> using isapnp tools)
>
> The problem is i do not have any of those interrupts
> free.
>
> 9 is allocated for ethernet
> 10 is allocated for video
> 11 is allocated for sound
> 12 is ps/2 mouse
>
> all above are PCI cards except ps/2 being on mb.
>
> Anyway, if i try to set any of above irq by isapnp,
> it complains that resource already in use. If i set
> for example irq5 then isapnp works fine but i'm unable
> to load module
>
>
> Any ideas/help are greatly appreciated
>
> thank you
>
> OK
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ Setup
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 16:32:24 -0400
The current hardware settings for IRQ, IO-PORT, and DMA are listed
in the following files: (if you have the /proc filesystem installed)
/proc/interrupts
/proc/ioports
/proc/dma
You can view them with the cat or less command.
also /proc/devices will show how the devices are registered with the OS
and /proc/modules will show which device drivers are loaded as modules
If a driver is loaded as a module AND you can turn off PNP on the card
and set its address/IRQ then you can add those settings to the file
/etc/conf.modules.
For example; I had problems with my eth0 card conflicting with the
sound card, the eth0 driver was loaded as a module. I had to turn
off PNP and set the IO-port/IRQ in firmware on the card (using the DOS
utility which came with the 3Com card) then inserted the settings into the
/etc/conf.modules file.
For example my settings looked like this:
alias eth0 3c509
options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
That fixed the address for that card and the rest of the PNP cards
auto-configured without any conflicts. Of course your milage may vary.
Hope this helps!
Bluster
Greg Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have never seen any HOWTO or Guide or utility that explains setting up
> IRQ usage or even checking the IRQ usage. I would like to know how to
> do this. Do I need a command to do this, edit a file, or do I need a
> utility? My situation is that I have a mix of ISA pnp and PCI hardware
> and they are all squirrelly. Each one is finnicky about IRQs and I have
> one card that is currently unrecognized (I think). I want to check what
> card is using what IRQ and possibly reassign IRQs to accomodate all of
> my hardware.
>
> thanks for help,
> Greg
>
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:05:42 -0400
If your modem is on COMM2 in DOS/WIN then /dev/modem should
point to /dev/tty1. If you are running X11 windows then you
can create the correct /dev/modem link using the GUI program
"modemtool" (as root).
If not then as root type:
ln -s /dev/tty1 /dev/modem
then set any communications programs (ppp, minicom, etc.)
to use /dev/modem.
To test it you can run the minicom program from the text console and
once it is started type "AT<enter>", if the modem responds with "OK"
then you are set!
What do you want to do with your modem, Connect to the internet (ppp)
or text terminal login (minicom)?
Good luck
Bluster
Rooty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:lmsz5.10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone tell me how to detect my modem?
> I'm running RedHat 6.2 an Win 98 on a Toshiba laptop. I looked at my specs
> and the HOWTO, and it is supported, but I didn't understand the HOWTO. My
> modem is on COM Port 2. I am fairly new with Linux, so would someone mind
> explaining to me what I have to do?
>
> Thanx
>
> --Rooty
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Modem....
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:45:58 -0400
Sorry, It's been a long day...
That SHOULD read ttyS1 note tty1 so:
If your modem is on COMM2 in DOS/WIN then /dev/modem should
point to /dev/ttyS1. If you are running X11 windows then you
=============^^^^^^
can create the correct /dev/modem link using the GUI program
"modemtool" (as root).
If not then as root type:
ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem
============^^^^^
Bluster
Rooty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:lmsz5.10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone tell me how to detect my modem?
> I'm running RedHat 6.2 an Win 98 on a Toshiba laptop. I looked at my specs
> and the HOWTO, and it is supported, but I didn't understand the HOWTO. My
> modem is on COM Port 2. I am fairly new with Linux, so would someone mind
> explaining to me what I have to do?
>
> Thanx
>
> --Rooty
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Issues with SCSI Tape Unit
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:42:52 GMT
Hope someone could help a newbie?
I have a scsi tape unit and I am trying to mount it to get a backup off
of it. I have used
mt -f /dev/st0 status and it has displayed the following:
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
How can I mount the tape os I can get the backup off???!
Thanks in advance
Giles
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux on HP Pavilion
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 21:36:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 17:53:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
> wrote:
>
> >I just finished installing Mandrake 7.1 (two CDs downloaded from
> >mandrake), on my HP Pavilion 6460. It auto-configured the video &
> >sound drivers, no problem, but does not seem to know that the
Rockwell
> >HCF 56K modem exists.
>
> Clarification: No sound, either, and from what I have been able to
> determine, I will need a new sound card & modem to convert the
> Pavilion to a real Linux box. Seems the Rockwell hardware is 100%
> undocumented & the maker would rather not have Linux support.
>
> Dem bastids... it's things like that, make me try and learn a whole
> new OS from the ground up.
>
> :o(
>
> Steve
>
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What kind of sound card and mobo do you have? Is the sound on-board?
On the Pavilion which I installed suse 6.4 on, there was an i810 intel
chipset with the onboard sound. My sound card was auto-configured, but
I had to add an additional alsa sound module in order for the sound to
actually work. I got some help from this page:
http://www.exocore.com/linux/i810/i810-7.html
>
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