Linux-Hardware Digest #689, Volume #13 Sun, 8 Oct 00 00:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Questions about Linux on 43P-140 (Ric Rivera)
Re: ATA-100 support -- Need help applying kernel patches.... please ("Michael George
III")
External ISDN Modem connection Help!! (John)
Re: Optra 40 setup (Scott Alfter)
Re: what CPUs for this mobo? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: pogolinux.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: External ISDN Modem connection Help!! (David_C)
Re: what CPUs for this mobo? ("William Fong")
Re: Exploding external modem. Stopped working suddenly (Michael Young)
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP (Steve Yelvington)
Re: Maximimun Process Size 555Mb ? ("William Fong")
XFree86 4.0.1/nvidia driver Modeline rejection problem (Cameron Miller)
Re: how to wheel mouse (Cameron Miller)
Frame grabber for RTLinux ? ("David")
DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc (Alexandre Binette)
Re: what CPUs for this mobo? (David_C)
Re: what CPUs for this mobo? (David_C)
Linux doesn't detect my scsi controller ("Joel Cohen")
SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ("Michael Jones")
Re: Sparc/Solaris vs Intel/Linux: Webserver (Michael Young)
Re: Linux doesn't detect my scsi controller (David_C)
Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (David_C)
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From: Ric Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Questions about Linux on 43P-140
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:15:55 -0400
Oops... This was supposed to go to the AIX list.
I posted the same question on this group already.
Ric Rivera wrote:
> Hiya
>
> I realize this is not a Linux newsgroup, but my questions are more
> about the 43P hardware.
>
> What kind of hardware differences exist between the 43P-140 and
> 43P-150? If I can run Linux on the 150, shouldn't I be able to on the
> 140 as well? As far as I could tell, the only difference was the 150
> had a faster processor and a black case.
>
> Also, if it does run on the 140, are there any success stories? Is it
> hard to make it work? Where can I get a cheap 43P these days to try
> this out myself? I'm just looking for a cheap test machine, so any
> slow old beast will do.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ric
>
> PS- Please reply to my email as well as the group.
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From: "Michael George III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA-100 support -- Need help applying kernel patches.... please
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 02:22:44 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8ri11v$2e5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, how to have an ATA-100 HD working with linux and a kernel 2.2.16. Do
> I have to apply a patch or anything else?
> My ATA-100 controller is a Promise.
The best way I can see to proceed is do the following.
1) Install Linux with a non-ultra plain vanilla IDE controller.
2) Get the IDE patch here, and build it into your kernel
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
3) Move the drive to the new controller and hope the devices stay the same.
If not, figure out what the new device names are and adjust fstab.
However... I don't understand how to patch the kernel. If anyone
understands the process please let me know. Specifically, how do I match my
kernel version to the patch version, and once I get the patch where do I put
it and how to apply the diffs. The patch in this case looks like a
recursive diff made in the kernel source tree. Any help would be
appreciated. Trial an error here probably won't work.
Thanks in advance!
-Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:37:52 -0500
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External ISDN Modem connection Help!!
I hava an Eicon Diva T/A external ISDN modem I would like to get working
properly on my
Mandrake 7.1 side. This modem is working fine on my Widows2000 prof
side. The How-to's
leave a lot to be desired and very confusing at the least. Is there
someone who knows how to
correctly install this modem on a Linux box. I am a little surprised by
the somewhat lack
of experienced techies in this group. If there is a qualified support
company that knows what
they are doing and charges reasonable fees that can help I am open to
this also.
I've have some experience on an older Unix Xenix OS, but new to Linux,
and am experienced
in VB4,5,6, Java, and some shell programming. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Optra 40 setup
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:01:40 -0000
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got a Lexmark optra 40, which is working ok as a text printer
>using lpr and the 'generic' slackware/bsd /etc/printcap. I've looked at
>the howto's and around the web to find what I need to print
>postscript, but haven't found anything that nails it down.
You probably already know that the Optra Color 40 groks PostScript, so all
you have to do is feed it something already in that format and it will print
it. The simplest way to do that would be something along the lines of "cat
foo.ps >/dev/lp0" (or whatever), though setting up lpr to pass PostScript
jobs through unmolested isn't difficult at all. Here's the relevant section
from the printcap I use:
raw|lp4|PS_600dpi-letter-raw|PS_600dpi letter raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-letter-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-letter-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-letter-raw/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/PS_600dpi-letter-raw:\
:la@:mx#0:\
:tr=:cl:sh:sf:
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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Subject: Re: what CPUs for this mobo?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07 Oct 2000 22:32:12 -0400
Bob Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The socket is Socket 7 - 321 pin.
> I realize this motherboard is very old, but will Pentium IIs or K6-2
> CPUs work in this?
The P2 and P3 both use Slot 1. Celerons use Socket 370. Slot 1 and S370
CPUs can be adapted to the other form factor, but not to S7.
AMD chips still around - I think the K6-2's - use S7.
[...]
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Invest the $20 or $30 for a P2/P3 motherboard. If you eventually
decide to go from a P2-266 or whatever and up to a P3-700, just change
the jumper from a 66MHz FSB to a 100MHz FSB.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: pogolinux.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07 Oct 2000 22:39:48 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Friedman) writes:
> I am thinking of purchasing a system from pogolinux.com and I wanted to
> see if anyone knew anything about them. I checked resellerratings.com and
> bizrate.com but they didn't have any information on pogolinux.
>
> The system I am considering costs $650 and has the following
> essential features:
>
> Asus A7V motherboard and AMD 600 Duron processor
> 64 MB Mircon PC133 RAM
> Voodoo3 1000 AGP graphics card
> IBM 20GB 5400RPM hard drive
>
> This seems like a good system, but I wanted to see if anyone had any
> thoughts...
Seems a little pricey. I'm also not a big fan of AMD, although I
realize that many others are.
40GB, 7200rpm drives run about $250 or less; 256MB RAM is about $250;
modern CPUs are in the $200 range; motherboards cost about $50; I
just bought a Voodoo3 card for $70 after a rebate over the summer; a
good case won't go much past $100. I think you can extrapolate from
these numbers whether you're overpaying.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: External ISDN Modem connection Help!!
Date: 07 Oct 2000 23:07:28 -0400
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I hava an Eicon Diva T/A external ISDN modem I would like to get
> working properly on my Mandrake 7.1 side. This modem is working fine
> on my Widows2000 prof side. The How-to's leave a lot to be desired and
> very confusing at the least. Is there someone who knows how to
> correctly install this modem on a Linux box. I am a little surprised
> by the somewhat lack of experienced techies in this group. If there is
> a qualified support company that knows what they are doing and charges
> reasonable fees that can help I am open to this also.
>
> I've have some experience on an older Unix Xenix OS, but new to Linux,
> and am experienced in VB4,5,6, Java, and some shell programming. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's the home page for your modem:
http://www.eicon.com/dimodem/default.htm.
According to the owner's manual
(http://www.eicon.com/pubs/20626803.pdf), you should be able to use it
the same way you use an analog modem - by setting up a chat script and
running pppd - communicating over a serial port (/dev/ttyS0 or
/dev/ttyS1)
If you aren't sure what commands to put in the chat script, you may want
to read the reference guide (http://www.eicon.com/pubs/20619308.pdf),
which documents them all.
Also note that they have a readme file for Linux
(http://www.eicon.com/pubs/21109801.txt). It may help you out somewhat,
although it appears to be based on Eicon's own setup utilities, and
doesn't describe how to manually set up everything.
If you don't have their Linux software, you may be able to download it
from Eicon's web site. I'm not sure however - they ask for personal
information (probably for a customer database) before making downloads
available, and I didn't want to give them anything.
-- David
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what CPUs for this mobo?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:16:29 GMT
You can probably put in an Intel Pentium 200MMX or 233MMX chip. You cannot
put in a Pentium II. What multipliers are on the board? What voltage
levels? That will determine if you can use an AMD K6-2.
-will
--
______________________________
William Fong - www.digitaldev.com
"Bob Berman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a spare PC and the motherboard manual for it says that it
> acccepts Pentium P54C/P55C MMX CPUs, AMD K6 CPUs, Cyrix/IBM 6x86L/6x86MX
> (M2) CPUs.
>
> External clock speed is 50,55,60,66,75,83 MHz.
>
> The socket is Socket 7 - 321 pin.
>
> I realize this motherboard is very old, but will Pentium IIs or K6-2
> CPUs work in this? I can't find plain Pentium CPUs on the market anymore
> and PIIs are pretty cheap. The CPU right now is a Pentium 90 that I'd
> like to replace with something a little beefier, but for not too much
> money (~ $50 or so).
>
> The motherboard is a Eurone 5571A.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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From: Michael Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Exploding external modem. Stopped working suddenly
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 21:21:50 -0600
Sindh wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I have a cheap noname external v90 modem which until lastnight worked
> perfectly. I used it for a while and then disconnected from the net.
> When I try to get back on to the net it just refused to start.
> /var/log/messages says
>
> ATZ is giving a responce ERROR and says bad init string. I tried to find
> out which part of rp3 , usernet config is this ATZ command living in to
> remove it. I tried the modem under windows and it is working ok. I
> suppose windows does not try to ATZ it. I also tried kppp which does
> not allow me to use it with out ATZ. It keeps hanging.
>
> Is there a way round it? Anybody else had this problem with modems? Even
> under linux minicom can reset the modem and dialout through
> atdt1232131.... ATZ gives a response of error.
>
> Please help.
> Sreekant
>
> --
> A man needs to sleep for 36 hours a day atleast.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
RP3 uses WVDial. The config file is /etc/wvdial.conf. Use the text editor
of your choice. Although it seems your modem is indeed unhappy.
Mike
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From: Steve Yelvington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:25:35 GMT
James wrote:
> Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
> dhcp...faile
> > [FAILED]
At the console, type "locate dhcpcd" and make sure you have it, probably in
/sbin. If you don't, find the dhcpcd rpm and install.
--
http://prattle.sourceforge.net/
PHP/mySQL discussion software, GPLed
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maximimun Process Size 555Mb ?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:27:23 GMT
Hmm... Sorry can't be of much help, but it seems like it might be beneficial
to invest in a Microsoft solution. I don't know how large of a server setup
you are serving, but at my previous employer, we had about 3,000 clients
running from one NT4.0 server (Dual Pentium II w/768MB-1GB RAM).
You might consider using more than one server? Split the RAM into two
servers.
-will
--
______________________________
William Fong - www.digitaldev.com
"Michael George III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:IpQD5.29276$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Matt,
>
> There is one thing to consider, "The bounded buffer problem".
>
> I run squid too, and did not review the squid cache architecture before
> writing this, so I might be speaking nonsense, but here goes. As we know
> squid keeps a memory cache, and keeps the hottest objects resident in
> memory, warm objects and disk, and expires the cold objects using the LRU
> algorithm. So the point is this, at what point does the cache become so
> large that it is faster to just go get the object rather than try to
rumage
> around in the cache.
>
> Another way to ask it, how is the squid memory cache organized and what is
> the search algorithm? Is there ever a point where it is faster to go to
disk
> cache than to search the memory cache? For example: it might take 3 secs
to
> search in cache mem and only 1 sec to get off disk.
>
> And of course I could be all wet on this, but it is a question to think
> about before investing in an insane amount of RAM :)
>
> As for memory allocation issues, I can't answer that one. I would have
> guessed ulimit. My only experience in this area is with Oracle and making
> large SGA's (shared memory segments) and it has always been a pain. Also,
> keep in mind that PC architecture always in lagging. Most PC mother
boards
> can't even address 500MB of RAM and asking Intel for more than 4-way SMP
> makes them shudder with fear. Anything big always seems to be a problem,
> big filesystems, big files, big memory allocations.
>
> Good Luck!
> -Mike
>
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8rnlog$f6b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > G'Day All,
> >
> > Righto, we run an ISP and have a Large Linux / Squid proxy box. We put
> > some more disk in, and our squid process begain to grow (this is
> > expected) - to this end, we bumped the ram on the machine up to 1Gb.
> >
> > When our squid process bombs ouy (at 555Mb) we see
> > "xmalloc: unable to allocate 32768 bytes!".
> >
> > After much trolling around lists / squid archives etc I just couldn't
> > find any (linux specific answers).
> >
> > I needed to work out if it was a squid issue or a memory issues. I
> > wrote a small C program that mallocs 1 byte at a time. Malloc _always_
> > fails at: 576797824 bytes. (which is around the same size as the squid
> > process).
> >
> > I have also tried intentially getting other processes to blow out
> > memory wise, and sure enough they all die around the same size. This
> > has been done on 4 machine (the ones with enough real memory test with
> > swap off too).
> >
> > I have gone through all of the ulimit issues etc (all show data seg
> > size set to unlimited).
> >
> > So - is there some kind of kernel limitation on the maximum size of the
> > kernel ? (if so where on earth is it!!!).
> >
> > FYI: (main squid proxy)
> > Gigabyte Motherboard
> > P3 800 (100)
> > 1Gb Ram
> > Slackware 7.0 (with kernal upgrade to 2.2.16)
> >
> > With my little "memory test" program, I managed to stop it 1 byte
> > before the failed malloc - at this point, /proc/process_num/-
> >
> > status
> > Name: test1
> > State: S (sleeping)
> > Pid: 15523
> > PPid: 10677
> > Uid: 0 0 0 0
> > Gid: 0 0 0 0
> > Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10 11
> > VmSize: 568708 kB
> > VmLck: 0 kB
> > VmRSS: 568044 kB
> > VmData: 567700 kB
> > VmStk: 8 kB
> > VmExe: 4 kB
> > VmLib: 972 kB
> > SigPnd: 0000000000000000
> > SigBlk: 0000000000000000
> > SigIgn: 0000000000000000
> > SigCgt: 0000000000000000
> > CapInh: 0000000000000000
> > CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
> > CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
> >
> > stat
> >
> > 15523 (test1) S 10677 15523 10677 771 15523 0 141935 0 106 0 14 358 0 0
> > 9 0 0 0 120640442 582356992 142011 2147483647 134512640
> > 134514411 2147482400 2147481856 716493729 0 0 0 0 21486041
> >
> > statm
> > 142011 142011 77 2 0 142009 14193459 0 0 17 0
> >
> >
> > I have looked _everywhere_ but I can't even find mention of max data
> > size process limits.
> >
> > ANY help at all would be fantastic.
> >
> > If anyone has the solution, please mail it to me asap: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > All help appreciated!
> >
> >
> > Kindest Regards,
> > Matt Robinson BCompSci
> > ISP Dr Internet (Australia)
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
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Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 11:54:59 +0930
From: Cameron Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFree86 4.0.1/nvidia driver Modeline rejection problem
I have a TNT2 card, XFree86 4.0.1, using the NVIDIA drivers.
I have a Modeline line in my XF86Config file to set the 1024x768
resolution mode:
Modeline "1024x768" 65 1024 1032 1176 1344
768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
This line gives me a standard VESA 1024x768 resolution with 60Hz
refresh. This line works OK when the Video Driver is set to "nv",
however it will not work with the Video Driver is set to "nvidia". BTW,
I've tested the nvidia driver with out the modeline: it starts OK but
gives me a non-standard hfreq/vfreq which I don't want, but that shows
that I've got the nvidia driver installed OK.
When I start X, I get the following messages, and X aborts:
<snip>
(**) NVIDIA(0): Mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz
<snip>
(==) NVIDIA(0): Write-combining range (0xe4000000,0x2000000)
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA driver enabled successfully
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Could not set 1024x768 for current monitor.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): FAILED MODE INIT
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
Any idea why the "nvidia" driver refuses to start up that mode? As
said, "nv" driver is happy with the same line.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Cameron
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 11:15:16 +0930
From: Cameron Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to wheel mouse
Have a look at:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
I'm using a wheel mouse (Logitech).
I put the following lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
# Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
<snip>
The only new lines I added were
o Option "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
o Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
the others were there already.
If you are running XF86 3.?.? then you may have Section "Pointer" rather
that "InputDevice". I'm using XF86 4.0.1.
Have a look at the specific instructions on the above hyperlink for
instructions for specific apps.
Good Luck,
Cameron
nDim wrote:
>
> I would like to get my logitech wheel mouse to usee the wheel under
> linux ....any help is greatly appreciated.
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sci.image.processing,comp.realtime
Subject: Frame grabber for RTLinux ?
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:33:46 +0800
Are there any frame grabbers for Linux available?
Are there Linux based drivers and libraries available for the MATROX CORONA
? (we are currently developing with CORONA on MS-DOS)
Thanx in advance !!!
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Subject: DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc
From: Alexandre Binette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:40:18 GMT
Hi!
I just installed Linuxppc on my iMac DV SE, and I'm not able to install
correctly my DSL connection. It would be great if anybody could tell me all
the steps to get the DSL working!
Thank you very much,
========
A.
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what CPUs for this mobo?
Date: 07 Oct 2000 23:46:21 -0400
Bob Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I have a spare PC and the motherboard manual for it says that it
> acccepts Pentium P54C/P55C MMX CPUs, AMD K6 CPUs, Cyrix/IBM
> 6x86L/6x86MX (M2) CPUs.
>
> External clock speed is 50,55,60,66,75,83 MHz.
>
> The socket is Socket 7 - 321 pin.
Socket 7 boards are still rather popular, and there are several CPUs you
can plug into them. Unfortunately, this one doesn't support 100MHz, so
the fastest Socket-7 processors won't work at their full speed.
> I realize this motherboard is very old, but will Pentium IIs or K6-2
> CPUs work in this?
Pentium II will not work. PII, PIII and Celerons use completely
different physical interfaces. Either Slot-1 or Socket-370. There's no
way you can make this work on a Socket-7 board.
The K6-2 and K6-3 will work. These are Socket-7 chips. But the faster
models will require a 100MHz bus to run at full speed. Still, there are
models that are meant for a 66MHz clock - which you can support.
You should be able to run a 100MHz chip at 66MHz, but the resulting
speed will be slower than the rating. For example, a 500MHz chip is
meant for a 100MHz bus with a 5x multiplier - if you put it on a 66MHz
bus, you'll get 333MHz. If you can still find a chip seller that sells
a K6-2 that's designed for a 66Mhz bus (I think the last ones made at
this speed were the 333MHz models), you should get one of those and save
yourself some money.
You can also try using a 100MHz chip at the 75MHz or 83MHz speed. If
you do, however, be careful that you don't end up overclocking your PCI
slots. The PCI slots must run at 33MHz or slower. Your board may have
special jumpers to allow this. If it doesn't, then don't try setting
the clock speed to anything faster than 66MHz.
(Note that your BIOS may not recognize an AMD K6-2 or K6-3 chip. It
should still work, but it end up identifying it as something else. You
may be unable to enable/disable some chip-specific features. It might
result in an unstable system, but I think that should be unlikely.)
Of course, everything becomes easier if you decide you want to just
replace the motherboard. Motherboards aren't terribly expensive. You
should be able to get a Super-7 (Socket-7 at 100MHz) board with full
K6-2 and K6-3 support for pretty cheap. Socket-370 boards (for
Celerons) are also pretty inexpensive.
Even a high-end board for a PIII or an AMD Athlon aren't very expensive
compared to the cost of the CPU. (Not counting server-oriented boards
with built-in SCSI, Ethernet and multiple processor sockets. They can
cost more than the price of a processor.)
-- David
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what CPUs for this mobo?
Date: 07 Oct 2000 23:48:31 -0400
"William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> You can probably put in an Intel Pentium 200MMX or 233MMX chip. You
> cannot put in a Pentium II. What multipliers are on the board? What
> voltage levels? That will determine if you can use an AMD K6-2.
Voltage levels are important (thanks for reminding me. I forgot to
mention it on my other post).
Multipliers are not. Socket-7 simply has three pins on the socket wired
to three jumpers. The multipliers associated with different jumper
settings will depend on the chip in the socket, not with the
motherboard.
-- David
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From: "Joel Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux doesn't detect my scsi controller
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:38:34 +0600
I'm running RH 6.0, with a 2.2.15 kernel.
I have a Teac CD-R connected using an Adaptec AIC7850. I built the kernel
with modular support for the controller (aic7xxx.o), but Linux doesn't
detect the card:
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Any ideas
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From: "Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:57:38 GMT
I posted the majority of this message to the linux.redhat.install
group and have not received any advise. I need some assist getting RH
6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 to recognize my Future Domain SCSI Card. This
is probably a very basic matter, but has me stumped. If anyone can
help I would appreciate it. I have read the HOWTOs and pertinent
sections of the O'Reilly books Running Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux
and Linux in a Nutshell. Could not find answers in any of those
sources. Here are the particulars:
I would like to add SCSI support for my Future Domain TMC 1610M.
Red Hat's web page says that I should append
fdomain=IO_base,IRQ[,ADAPTER_ID] . So my append would be:
fdomain=0x140,10,7
But it does not say what I am appending this information to...
How do I enable this support. I tried adding that line to lilo.conf,
without any change. Boot screen still says: SCSI 0 hosts
SCSI 0 det total
Which tells me that it is just not seeing that darn card.
Anyone have any suggestions. I cannot access my Zip drive until I get
this working.
Thanks in advance for any assistance given. E-mail assistance
welcome, too.
Mike
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From: Michael Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sparc/Solaris vs Intel/Linux: Webserver
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:05:13 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> There's a very interesting discussion going on in
> comp.sys.sun.hardware on sparc v intel (luckily no-one's swearing at
> each other yet).
>
> I was wondering if there was anyone around who had compared
> sparc/solaris and intel/linux specifically as webservers? I'm looking
> at the following systems to use as webserver:
>
> 1. Compaq DL360 pIII 550 w/ 256 MB running Linux/Apache
> 2. Sun Netra t1 105 1 proc w/ 256 MB running Solaris/Apache
>
> The workload is going to be mostly dynamic pages, so the Web server
> really is just going to be proxying requests to the appserver
> (WebLogic). So basically I think it boils down to: "Which h/w OS combo
> can create, fork and destroy processes faster?"
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> SC
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I would have to vote for the SPARC.
Mike
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't detect my scsi controller
Date: 08 Oct 2000 00:03:33 -0400
"Joel Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I'm running RH 6.0, with a 2.2.15 kernel.
> I have a Teac CD-R connected using an Adaptec AIC7850. I built the
> kernel with modular support for the controller (aic7xxx.o), but Linux
> doesn't detect the card:
>
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
>
> Any ideas
Do you have a line like:
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
in /etc/conf.modules?
If not, put it there. The driver should auto-load at your next reboot.
If you don't want to reboot after making the change, you can manually
install the driver by typing one of:
modproble aic7xxx
or insmod aic7xxx
(I prefer insmod, but modprobe will check for dependencies and attempt
some auto-configuration - which you might or might not find useful.)
If you have any devices on that controller that must be available at
boot time, then you will have to either compile the aic7xxx driver into
the kernel or make an initial RAM disk (via mkinitrd) and have LILO use
that RAM disk image at boot time.
-- David
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: 08 Oct 2000 00:06:36 -0400
"Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I posted the majority of this message to the linux.redhat.install
> group and have not received any advise. I need some assist getting RH
> 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 to recognize my Future Domain SCSI Card. This
> is probably a very basic matter, but has me stumped. If anyone can
> help I would appreciate it. I have read the HOWTOs and pertinent
> sections of the O'Reilly books Running Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux
> and Linux in a Nutshell. Could not find answers in any of those
> sources. Here are the particulars:
>
> I would like to add SCSI support for my Future Domain TMC 1610M.
>
> Red Hat's web page says that I should append
> fdomain=IO_base,IRQ[,ADAPTER_ID] . So my append would be:
>
> fdomain=0x140,10,7
>
> But it does not say what I am appending this information to...
>
> How do I enable this support. I tried adding that line to lilo.conf,
> without any change. Boot screen still says: SCSI 0 hosts SCSI 0 det
> total
Did you run /sbin/lilo after making your change to lilo.conf?
Did you add an appropriate "alias scsi_hostadapter" line to
/etc/modules.conf? Possibly also requiring an options line with your
card's configuration.
If you need access to the card at boot time, did you make an initial RAM
disk with the driver? (Since you're using it for your Zip disk and not
your hard drive, you probably don't require this).
-- David
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