Linux-Hardware Digest #697, Volume #13 Mon, 9 Oct 00 03:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: 46 gig hdd under linux on old pc ? (Matthew McClintock)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2) (Siukong)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2) (Siukong)
Re: stcolor epson860 (Grant Taylor)
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card ("Jeffrey J. Potoff")
Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII linux system? ("D. Stimits")
Re: ISDN - How to install? ("tesKing")
Re: xfree86 4.0 ("D. Stimits")
Re: xfree86 4.0 ("D. Stimits")
Re: SMP and IDE LOST INTERRUPT (Peter J King)
Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3 (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: UDMA-Driver (IDE) 4 ASUS K7M (Kenneth R�rvik)
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From: Matthew McClintock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 46 gig hdd under linux on old pc ?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:39:27 -0500
Andreas Leitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got this IBM-DTLA-307045 harddisk. Linux on bootup reports it with those
> parameters: hdd: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=23819/16/63
> That looks rather ok to me. The hard disk is supposed to have 46 gigs, but
> whatever. But when I try to make a partition or just format hdd, I only
> get 11G out of it.
>
> There is a lengthy article at IBM describing the same problem with some
> older BIOSes. But since with Linux I bypass the BIOS anyway (not booting
> from that device), I thought I don't need to care.
>
> I am using linux 2.2.12-20 on a i386 RH 6.2 box. It's a really old P75. Is
> there anything I can do? Should I upgrade the kernel to 2.2.17 or 2.4.x even?
>
> many thanks in advance,
> Andreas
You might try manually setting the cylinders, sectors, etc... in fdisk advanced
mode and then make your partition... hope this helps...
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From: Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 03:43:15 GMT
Matt G,
well, i followed the howto to add the append="hdd=ide-scsi"
into the line in lilo.conf. however, it doesn't seem to work for me. the
mnt/cdrom1 still be the only way to access my cdrw and i cannot mount
the /dev/scd0 while a disk is presence in the drive.
as the howto says, the ide is loaded as modules and it says the
change above wouldn't help. it suggest another way instead.
put the following in the modules.conf. however there is no such file
so i made one and filled it with:
options ide-cd ignore=hdb
alias scd0 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
===================================
however, it doesn't seem to work neither because i still couldn't mount
the cdrw with mount /dev/scd0
so now, i still don't have a clue how to make it work.
help.....
Dummy V
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:21:39 GMT, Siukong wrote:
> > recently, i tried to setup up my cdrw drive to my rh 6.2 system.
> >After doing some brief research, it led to a point that i should have
> >scsi emulation in order to setup my ide cdrw drive. well, no, i don't
> >have a scsi card in my computer and i am not sure whether i have
setup
> >a scsi card support while installation. i do have scd* nodes in my
/dev
> >directory. does it mean that i have scsi support installed already?
> >however, while i typed the command cdrecord -scanbus, it complaint
that
> >it couldn't open the scsi bus as, of course, i was a root user.
that's
> >why i am a little bit confused about the have/have not scis support
> >situation. ok, if it determines that i don't have it,
>
> SCSI support and IDE-SCSI support are not the same thing. There is a
> detailed guide to this subject at
> http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html , and I suggest you
read
> it.
>
> And RedHat 6.2 ships everything you need for IDE-SCSI support by
> default; if you haven't built your own kernel yet, you probably don't
> need to, just follow these steps:
>
> 0. Boot system with
> linux hdX=ide-scsi
> where X is the location of your IDE CD-RW (usually b, c, or d)
> 1. "modprobe ide-scsi"
> 2. "modprobe sg"
> 3. If those commands didn't generate any error messages, you should be
> all set, but keep in mind that your CD will now be on /dev/scd0
instead
> of /dev/hdX.
> 4. RTFM to find out how to make the series of commands in steps 0-2
> automatic upon bootup--the HOWTO addresses this question, among many
> others.
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us
to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin'
Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 03:45:14 GMT
Matt G,
well, i followed the howto to add the append="hdd=ide-scsi"
into the line in lilo.conf. however, it doesn't seem to work for me. the
mnt/cdrom1 still be the only way to access my cdrw and i cannot mount
the /dev/scd0 while a disk is presence in the drive.
as the howto says, the ide is loaded as modules and it says the
change above wouldn't help. it suggest another way instead.
put the following in the modules.conf. however there is no such file
so i made one and filled it with:
options ide-cd ignore=hdb
alias scd0 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
===================================
however, it doesn't seem to work neither because i still couldn't mount
the cdrw with mount /dev/scd0
so now, i still don't have a clue how to make it work.
help.....
Dummy V
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:21:39 GMT, Siukong wrote:
> > recently, i tried to setup up my cdrw drive to my rh 6.2 system.
> >After doing some brief research, it led to a point that i should have
> >scsi emulation in order to setup my ide cdrw drive. well, no, i don't
> >have a scsi card in my computer and i am not sure whether i have
setup
> >a scsi card support while installation. i do have scd* nodes in my
/dev
> >directory. does it mean that i have scsi support installed already?
> >however, while i typed the command cdrecord -scanbus, it complaint
that
> >it couldn't open the scsi bus as, of course, i was a root user.
that's
> >why i am a little bit confused about the have/have not scis support
> >situation. ok, if it determines that i don't have it,
>
> SCSI support and IDE-SCSI support are not the same thing. There is a
> detailed guide to this subject at
> http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html , and I suggest you
read
> it.
>
> And RedHat 6.2 ships everything you need for IDE-SCSI support by
> default; if you haven't built your own kernel yet, you probably don't
> need to, just follow these steps:
>
> 0. Boot system with
> linux hdX=ide-scsi
> where X is the location of your IDE CD-RW (usually b, c, or d)
> 1. "modprobe ide-scsi"
> 2. "modprobe sg"
> 3. If those commands didn't generate any error messages, you should be
> all set, but keep in mind that your CD will now be on /dev/scd0
instead
> of /dev/hdX.
> 4. RTFM to find out how to make the series of commands in steps 0-2
> automatic upon bootup--the HOWTO addresses this question, among many
> others.
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us
to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin'
Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stcolor epson860
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:02:25 GMT
"Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> GT> Use the stp driver from the Gimp-print project. See
> GT> http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
>
> I've been trying for about 4 days to get that to ./configure Grant, but
> its a no-go on my machine.
>
> Using kgcc, present kernel 2.2.18pre15, removed gimp-1.0.4, and have
> installed and removed the new gimp in both its default of /usr/local,
> and tried it a couple of times in /usr too. Its currently in its
> default install location of /usr/local.
>
> Hand exec'ing "gimptool --version" reports 1.1.27 IIRC, but during the
> configure, the next line after it says its checking gimptool for version
> >1.0.0 and proceeds to print 'no', it exits on the next line instantly
> saying the compiler isn't capable of compiling anything. That
> /usr/local/bin/gimptool is the only one on the system.
>
> And it spits out the correct path when queried with the pathlist
> options, or at least they look good to me.
>
> This is the same compiler that has built the last 2 kernels, and all the
> newer gimp stuff, and the last gtoaster. Gimp seems to run ok, but then
> I'm not a graphics whiz either.
>
> The config.log tries to convince me I need to run ldconfig, but thats
> been done after each gimp install, as has its config in /etc been
> checked, it looks ok.
>
> Ideas? As my only printer is a Stylus Pro, now getting ancient, I'd
> like to try these new ones to see if they can do what epson claimed it
> could do 6 years ago when I wrote a check for $531 and carried it out
> the door.
Hmm. Report this over on the gimp-print's forums at
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net. If there's a real build problem,
they'll want to know, and if not, they'll be able to help you.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor<at>picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
News, Discussion Forums, Support Database, Software, and more...
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From: "Jeffrey J. Potoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:38:02 GMT
There should be other ways around this, too. I have a bunch of machines
with these 3Com cards in them. I got them to be recognized right away
by Linux, so I could install via ftp, by changing the settings in the
bios. For my rigs, I changed the settings for IRQ 10 to "legacy ISA"
instead of PNP in the bios. The cards were then recognized right away.
I didn't have to do anything to conf.modules, or write any funky
scripts.
Jeff
Gary Sandine wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Andrew Werden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO).
>
> Set the I/O and IRQ with jumpers so the device does not conflict
> with other devices in your box (watch for serial device conflict) -
> say I/O = 0x300 and IRQ = 5. Make sure /etc/modules.conf (or
> /etc/conf.modules) has the lines
>
> alias eth0 [module]
> options io=0x300 irq=5
>
> where [module].o is the driver for your network card (I don't know
> what module drives that card - I have never owned a 3com product).
> I use sis900.o and ne.o for my two ethernet cards.
>
> Once that's done, you activate the card by, as root, typing
> ifup eth0, or by setting ONBOOT=yes in the file
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> Here is the config script for my eth0 card:
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> USERCTL=no
> ONBOOT=yes
> BOOTPROTO=none
> BROADCAST=x.x.x.255
> NETWORK=x.x.x.0
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> IPADDR=x.x.x.y
> GATEWAY=x.x.x.z
>
> You will need your numbers at x,y,z - it depends on what you are
> using the card for. Once that is in place and the module is loaded,
> type ifup eth0 (or once all works, "ONBOOT=yes" will activate the
> device automatically at boot time). If you see no message like
>
> Delaying eth0 initilization
>
> it's probably working. Type "ifconfig eth0" to see.
>
> For Red Hat specific configuration information, read
>
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/Network-Config-Tips/Network-Config-Tips.html
>
> -[ http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes!) ]-
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:53:00 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII linux system?
Jay Norwood wrote:
>
> Have you actually tried an S2510?
> Jay
>
> "Mark Slicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8qtoff$l0m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I would recommend Tyan S2510. On this page
> > http://www.compute-aid.com/rack1u.html, there is
> > a link about that board.
> >
I would suggest almost anything that is NOT an i840 chipset. It has
IO-APIC problems.
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From: "tesKing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN - How to install?
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:38:34 +0200
Reply-To: "tesKing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have the same qusetion...
When I configure Connection to Internet (Mandrake 7+1/KDE shell), it says to
me that for Internal ISDN Cards that recognizes AT commands I have to set
device as ttyI0~3, but my card doesn't respond!!!
HELP!!!
tesKing
"Andr� Offringa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:8rn71q$2hc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have an ISDN network card in my computer but I don't know how to install
> it in Linux?
>
> Does anyone know anything about how to do that?
>
> --
> Borland or my life? Well... Errr..
> *sigh*
> ===Andr� Offringa===
>
>
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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:06:52 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: xfree86 4.0
manny wrote:
>
> I have read that the new Xfree86 4.0 has been redesigned. I will not
> pretend to understand this new infrastracture. However, I would like to
> take advantage of this if it is worth while for my needs. Basically, I
> have written some code for analyzing and displaying data. The code was
> written on an SGI using its OpenGL library. I don't consider myself a
> programmer (I have only picked up enough FORTRAN and C to help me with
> data analysis). I basically would like to port this code from the SGI to
> my Linux box with little to no recoding. With that in mind, could
> someone explain to me how this new Xfree86 structure helps me at all in
> accomplishing this? The 3D visualization code I wrote is not graphic
Better OpenGL support, including hardware accel in some drivers. I think
the NVidia ones are version 1.2 OpenGL, while older X is 1.1. Do you
need 1.2?
> intensive (I am basically visulazing point clusters in a 3-axis
> environment). Does Xfree86 come with its own OpenGL library (since SGI
> has open sourced it) or is Mesa still used?
Mesa is around.
>
> The next question is "what kind of video card should I buy which will
> take advantage of the new Xfree86"? The box I'm building currently has:
There are several. If you are looking at OpenGL performance, probably
something NVidia. You might be interested in:
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1322
>
> - ABIT kt7-raid mobo
> - 800 athlon TB
> - 128 MB Corsair RAM
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:08:26 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: xfree86 4.0
"D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> There are several. If you are looking at OpenGL performance, probably
> something NVidia. You might be interested in:
> http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1322
>
Forgot another one:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J King)
Subject: Re: SMP and IDE LOST INTERRUPT
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 08:22:42 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion regarding "noapic". Since posting my
original request for info I have found a few referrence to the
gigabyte DX586 motherboard. I don't know what chipset it uses.
It seems that iDX586 works fine if no ide devices are used ie SCSI
based disks. But all comments from users with ide hard disks report
the lost interrupts and if they are using the newer 2.3 kernels or 2.4
kernels then APIC errors are seen in large numbers when under heavy
load. Some reports suggest that after a number of hours of this it
falls over.
I have tried the "noapic" kernel setting with 2.2.16, 2.2.17,
2.4.0.test8. The lost interrupt doesn't occur. The APIC errors do
still occur under heavy load but much fewer than without the "noapic".
I have not tested it under load for any extended period to know if the
crashes still occur
Peter King
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:13:30 -0600, "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J King) wrote:
>> > I am running redhat 6.2 on and gigabyte GA-586DX
>> board with dual
>> > pentium 200 MMX cpu. The non-smp kernel works
>> fine. When I use the smp
>> > kernel I get randomn lost interrupts on ide disk
>> access.
>> >
>> > During a copy of the kernel source I would
>> average 5 lost interrupts.
>> >
>> > Anyone come across this before? Any help on
>> where to look for an
>> > answer would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > I have tried 2.2.17 kernel with the same result.
>> >
>> I'm running a GA-586DX board with a 2.4.0-test8
>> kernel and got similar problems under high
>> interrupt load with an SMP kernel. The logfile
>> shows tons of messages like:
>> APIC error on CPU#: 02(00)
>> APIC error on CPU#: 04(00)
>> APIC error on CPU#: 08(00)
>> This was already disussed in the lkml. These error
>> messages are enabled since 2.3.xx and they
>> indicate crc errors on the APIC bus, so it seems
>> that it's a hardware problem.
>> BTW, my systems freezes after 8-12 hours of under
>> heavy load - seems that not all errors are covered
>> by the crc error detection.
>
>I know this is a problem with the i840 chipset (big time). I'm wondering
>which chipset this particular motherboard uses, since he mentions only a
>200 MMX pentium. One suggestion for the people having APIC errors
>(mentioned by Alan Cox a while back as a workaround), boot with the
>kernel option "noapic". The irqs won't get sent to both cpu's after
>that, but otherwise both cpu's get used. Apparently the APIC can send an
>irq into never-never land if it isn't fully supported, but work for a
>while before it dies. If you have a kernel label 2.2.5-smp, for example,
>at the lilo prompt hit tab, then:
>2.2.5-smp noapic
>
>This would be a particularly useful test for the original poster, or
>anyone with a troublesome i840 chipset board.
>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 06:47:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (GAUTIER Christopher) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Marian Kamendy wrote:
>
>> Get the rpm and instructions here:
>> http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/cg_rage128_63.html
>>
>
>but are you sure it also supports the 3D acceleration for the ATI Rage
>128 ?
XFree86 4.0.1 does using DRI. You will need to get a kernel module r128.o
working first though.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Subject: Re: UDMA-Driver (IDE) 4 ASUS K7M
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 06:48:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (GAUTIER Christopher) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Yup. If you're not afraid of devel kernels, try 2.4.0-test8. Got my
>> HPT366 running.... :)
>>
>
>It is the same for me, but unfortunately, I am unable (poor newbie) to
>configure lilo correctly to boot on my hde1... When I choose windows on
>lilo, I have the message 'loading windows' and then the machine halts. I
>could not find documentation on this topic in the howto, I only know
>that I have to type a magical line to trick the BIOS, but I can't
>remember it.. Can anyone give it to me please ?.
You might want to list your configuration here (How many drives and where,
where is LILO, lilo.conf??).
You may also want to consider the kernel option "Boot offboard chipsets
first support". It's in the IDE section of config.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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