Linux-Hardware Digest #866, Volume #13 Thu, 9 Nov 00 13:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: redhat7 and ESS Allegro sound card incompatibility ? (Lionel)
Re: SIOCSISFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable. (or something like that) ("Thor
Thorvaldsen")
Re: Freecom USB CD-RW in Linux? (RedHat 7) ("Kevin White")
Re: DVD-RAM support in Linux for reading/writing data (Moritz Franosch)
SCSI or IDE for harddrives? (Gary Hennigan)
PCMCIA nic problem (WindSurf)
Re: Adaptec 160 timeout Problem (Ray Schwamberger)
Re: which 100Mbps NIC ? (Ray Schwamberger)
Re: SCSI or IDE for harddrives?
Problems with Yamaha CRW-8824/Asus A7V/RedHat 7.0 (David Joerg)
Re: Was: Software RAID (Lee Allen)
Re: SCSI or IDE for harddrives? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Software RAID ("Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS")
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From: Lionel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat7 and ESS Allegro sound card incompatibility ?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:30:07 -0000
Thanks Trygve,
Where can I get OSS driver from ?
What is this OSS driver ?
Trygve Selmer wrote:
>
> Lionel wrote:
> >
> > when running sndconfig , I am told my sound card is not supported .
> > any idea which driver I could use that would work ?
>
> You have to buy the commercial version of the OSS driver, costs you $30.
>
> Trygve.
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From: "Thor Thorvaldsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIOCSISFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable. (or something like that)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:32:46 +0100
Or, you could move it from one PCI slot to another (remember they share
irq's in pair!) Have the BIOS updated (with force if needed) and you got a
new irq for your network card!
just my 2 cents,
tåget
"El Bunzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i melding
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hmmmm,
>
> I had the same problem a while ago, and indeed when I changed the IRQ of
my
> networkcard the problem was solved. I don't know what type of card you
have, but
> normally the card runs in PnP mode and you can download software to
disable the
> PnP in your networkcard to define your own IRQ.
>
> This works at least with 3COM cards (http://www.3com.com)....
>
> Hopes it will help.
>
> El.
>
> Schmerm wrote:
>
> > Ok, I have an NE2000 PCI clone (realtek 8029), and whenever I try to do
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 up
> >
> > it gives me that error message.
> >
> > I've tried compiling ne2k-pci into the kernel, and as a module. It
detects
> > it just fine, irq and all, proc/ioports lists eth0, but proc/interrupts
does
> > not. Ifconfig can set it's IP fine too, but just can't bring it up.
> >
> > One thing to note is that I have my UDMA66 IDE controller on IRQ11 (the
same
> > irq as this ethernet card). The kernel has no problems with that, and
> > neither does ifconfig when it tells me the IRQ of the eth0 device.
Proc/pci
> > shows my udma66 on irq11, but not the network card.
> >
> > This is kernel 2.2.1.7
>
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From: "Kevin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freecom USB CD-RW in Linux? (RedHat 7)
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 11:06:19 +0600
I don't know if you've tried this or not but heres what I can do with my
ZipUSBCD to read only....
after boot as root
modprobe usb-storage
then you can
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/zipcd
w/ CD in there you can read... Am still working on getting cdrecord or
some other utility to burn...
I am assuming that you can use usbview and see the specs for the device?
In article <ISmN5.13179$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cream"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Howdy Folks...
>
> Just a quick question..
>
> I have a Freecom External USB CD-RW drive.. Running Redhat 7 with Kernal
> 2.2.16-22.
>
> The system sees the USB CD-RW on boot but has no drivers for
> it...Freecom dont supply or have any information for a driver in Linux.
> I know some people have had success with using SCSI drivers for USB
> storage devices but I have been unable to find any info for the Freecom
> CD-RW drive.
>
> Just wondering if any of you folks have this drive and have any
> success/help/info that you could pass on to a poor soul such as me:)
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help you can give...
>
> Cream.
>
>
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From: Moritz Franosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: DVD-RAM support in Linux for reading/writing data
Date: 09 Nov 2000 18:10:37 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blaise Canzian) writes:
> Is there support in Linux for reading and writing data (not movies,
> music, etc.) to DVD-RAM?
Yes, for SCSI.
> Is this kernel support?
Yes.
> Is the support harware specific (Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic, etc)?
As far as I know no. DVD-RAMs are simply changeable SCSI disks. They
should be recognized correctly as CD-ROMs _and_ changeable SCSI disks
at the same time, however.
But there have been some issues depending on the hardware.
We have a TOSHIBA DVD-RAM SD-W1111 that works without any problems
with kernel 2.2.14. (I haven't tried write protection.)
Moritz
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From: Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI or IDE for harddrives?
Date: 09 Nov 2000 10:19:11 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Practically speaking, is there any huge advantage to using SCSI
harddrives over using IDE harddrives if I'm looking at a max of 2
drives? This is a workstation, not a server, so that's not an issue.
I know a lot of people consider this an almost religious issue, and
I've personally been using SCSI for a long time, but I'm putting
together a new system and I think it would ease my configuration if I
didn't have to mess with SCSI, except for non-hard drive
peripherals. I am going to use SCSI (cheap SCSI) for any CD, DVD,
CD-RW and tape drives.
Are there any Linux driver issues with the ATA/100 interface. I
remember something about problems with UDMA support but I don't know
how that relates ATA/100?
TIA,
Gary
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From: WindSurf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA nic problem
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 17:25:57 GMT
Greetings,
I am having problems getting a 3COM "3CCFE575CT-D" PCMCIA NIC working in
a Dell Latitude Laptop
Redhat Linux Kernel: 2.2.12-20
PCMCIA version 3.014
- I built a new Kernel using the 3C590/3c900 Fast EtherLink Driver as
per the HOWTO's the documentation indicates the 3C575_cb driver gets
deployed
- Initially the PCMCIA manfid strings did not match and I got
unsupported messagaes in the dmesg and messages files
- I added a new entry in the /etc/pcmcia/config and the driver seems to
be OK with the card see: messages and dmesg below
- Things go wrong when network start eth0 is attempted
- There are no 10/100 lights lite on the card
- Netconfig core dumps
- ifconfig eth0 192.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.0 up works but does
not light leds and pings to remote machines do not work
- A ping of local host is successful
I hope I have included enough information about the problem, Help is
appreciated!
Windsurfer..............
/var/log/messages:
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services:
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost pcmcia: modules
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.14
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: kernel build: 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep
27 10:40:35 EDT 1999
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: TI 1225 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot
3, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci
& irq] [no pci irq] [lat 32/32] [bus 32/34]
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci
& irq] [no pci irq] [lat 32/32] [bus 35/37]
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10,15
status change on irq 15
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost pcmcia: cardmgr.
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost cardmgr[341]: starting, version is 3.0.14
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost cardmgr[341]: watching 2 sockets
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff:
clean.
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff:
excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff:
clean.
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost cardmgr[341]: initializing socket 0
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost cardmgr[341]: socket 0: 3Com Corporation
3CCFE575CT Fast EtherLink XL
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost cardmgr[341]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/pcmcia/cb_enabler.o'
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost cardmgr[341]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/pcmcia/3c575_cb.o'
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: cs: cb_config(bus 32): vendor 0x10b7,
device 0x5257
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: fn 0 bar 1: io 0x100-0x17f
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: fn 0 bar 2: mem
0x60021000-0x6002107f
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: fn 0 bar 3: mem
0x60020000-0x6002007f
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: fn 0 rom: mem 0x60000000-0x6001ffff
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: vortex_attach(bus 32, function 0,
device 5257)
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c575 series CardBus
(unknown version) at 0x100, 00:50:da:30:64:d1, IRQ 3
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split,
MII interface.
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: MII transceiver found at address 0,
status 7809.
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and
whole-frame receives.
Nov 8 12:59:24 localhost cardmgr[341]: executing: './network start
eth0'
Nov 8 12:59:25 localhost cardmgr[341]: + usage: ifup <device name>
Nov 8 12:59:25 localhost cardmgr[341]: start cmd exited with status 1
Nov 8 12:59:25 localhost inet: inetd startup succeeded
Nov 8 12:59:25 localhost cardmgr[341]: initializing socket 1
Nov 8 12:59:25 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe
0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
dmesg:
Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root@lap) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #6 Tue Nov 7 18:38:10 MST 2000
Detected 448628397 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 447.28 BogoMIPS
Memory: 192428k/196544k available (1080k kernel code, 416k reserved,
2280k data, 60k init)
DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc0ce
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, 11513MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=1467/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 997.077 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1046.988 MB/sec
8regs : 770.763 MB/sec
32regs : 438.150 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (1046.988 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Adding Swap: 72252k swap-space (priority -1)
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.14
kernel build: 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999
options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Intel PCIC probe:
TI 1225 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 3, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets
host opts [0]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 32/32]
[bus 32/34]
host opts [1]: [ring] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq] [lat 32/32]
[bus 35/37]
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10,15 status change on irq 15
cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
cs: cb_config(bus 32): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5257
fn 0 bar 1: io 0x100-0x17f
fn 0 bar 2: mem 0x60021000-0x6002107f
fn 0 bar 3: mem 0x60020000-0x6002007f
fn 0 rom: mem 0x60000000-0x6001ffff
cs: cb_enable(bus 32)
bridge io map 0 (flags 0x21): 0x100-0x17f
bridge mem map 0 (flags 0x1): 0x60000000-0x60021fff
vortex_attach(bus 32, function 0, device 5257)
eth0: 3Com 3c575 series CardBus (unknown version) at 0x100,
00:50:da:30:64:d1, IRQ 3
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7809.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 9) is a 16550A
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd(2,0).
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From: Ray Schwamberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 160 timeout Problem
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 17:30:04 -0000
The Adaptec SCSI drivers are maintained by Doug Ledford at Redhat, his page
can be found at http://people.redhat.com/~dledford
The page contains driver disks that will work for the different versions of
redhat linux.
Ray
Martin Hierling wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I experienced the same Problems described in posting "adaptec 29160N
> problem" (Ant Sims) from 4th of October. I tried all Kernel Versions up
> to 2.4.0-test9.
> After some heavy IO ( dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null ) i got the following
> message:
>
> SCSI host 0 abort (pid x) timed out - resetting
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid x) timed out - trying harder
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
>
> And some secs. later i got kernel panic.
> Unfortunately Windows2000 runs fine with heavy IO.
>
> Something about the system:
> BareBone Motherboard, AIC 7xxx (U160)with 2 18G IBM DDYS , IDE CDrom,
> 2xP3, VIA Chipset, Phoenix Bios (worst i have ever seen).
>
> Perhaps anyone solved this Problem.
>
> regards Martin Hierling
>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> - Tagline for Thursday, October 26, 2000
> - What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.
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From: Ray Schwamberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which 100Mbps NIC ?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 17:30:06 -0000
Well,
Here I use 3com 3c905b's Intel EtherExpressPro 100 (eepro100) and DEC Tulip
21140 based cards. Most of the tulip cards out there now use a Liteon PNIC
chip which works with the tulip driver and those are fairly inexpensive and
not bad for a workstation (wouldn't try one in a server). You're going to
have a difficult search looking for real Tulip cards because Compaq has
discontinued them.
Ray
Hans wrote:
>
>
> From the 'Gigabit and 100Mbps Ethernet Technology Page'
> (http://www.scyld.com/expert/100mbps.html) I'd guess that I best find a
DEC
> 21143 based card.
>
> The problem is that most shops in here only sell 3com and cheap
> realtek-based cards. I doubt that the current 3com drivers use the fast
> hardware capabilities, because until recently 3com did not provide specs.
>
> About 21143 I read that some manufacturers (LinkSys, Compex) now use
other
> hardware, that should be compatible, but who knows...
>
> any comments?
>
> Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE for harddrives?
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 17:33:39 GMT
On 09 Nov 2000 10:19:11 -0700, Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Practically speaking, is there any huge advantage to using SCSI
>harddrives over using IDE harddrives if I'm looking at a max of 2
>drives? This is a workstation, not a server, so that's not an issue.
If you looking at a max of one drive and one cdrom then it doesn't matter.
If you going to put two devices on the same cable then there will be a
performance hit since IDE can't multitask.
I originaly went w/ scsi because ide devices only included disk drives and
having a scanner, tape drive and cdrom caused me to run out of IRQs for the plug
in boards each one required.
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From: David Joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Yamaha CRW-8824/Asus A7V/RedHat 7.0
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:41:43 +0100
Reply-To: David Joerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi!
I have problems with my Yamaha CD-RW 8/8/24 (ATAPI). Every two seconds,
RedHat writes a message to /var/log/messages that the drive is busy,
even if there's no CD inside and it's not mounted. The CD-RW is
connected to the onboard ATA/66 Secondary Port on an A7V motherboard.
Has anyone similar problems?
Thanks
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Was: Software RAID
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 17:50:12 GMT
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 14:40:40 +0100, "U. Siegel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Seems to be that there are several people having experience with
>software RAID.
>So, let's be a bit more detailed.
>Since one week i'm trying hard to get RAID5 to work.
>The System is a netfinity server with 2 Pentium III/933MHz, 2GB RAM and
>5 SCSI hd's. On 4 disk i created identicall partitions, each about 8GB.
>The first three shall be for working and the fourth as spare.
>Creating the array wasn't a problem, also the mke2fs completed w/o
>errors. But when i try to copy some data to the array the system
>crashes. All i get are EXT2fs errors in block allocation. This happens
>under kernel 2.2.17, 2.2.17, 2.3.40, 2.4.0-test9 and 2.4.0-test10.
>Always the same errors.
>Is there a trick about ext2fs?? I upgraded to the newest ext2fs-tools,
>but no change :..-((
>Can anybody help me?
>
How about posting your /etc/raidtab and /proc/mdstat files,
ideally after mkraid.
-Lee Allen
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI or IDE for harddrives?
Date: 9 Nov 2000 17:49:25 GMT
Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Practically speaking, is there any huge advantage to using SCSI
: harddrives over using IDE harddrives if I'm looking at a max of 2
Yes. Sure. What's your use scenario? How many users? How many processes
aaccessing disk at the same time? How much ram?
: drives? This is a workstation, not a server, so that's not an issue.
Oh, I love scsi on workstations anyway. I hate hangs through trying to
swap to the disk while trying to read from it! IDE can't handle it.
: I've personally been using SCSI for a long time, but I'm putting
: together a new system and I think it would ease my configuration if I
: didn't have to mess with SCSI, except for non-hard drive
: peripherals. I am going to use SCSI (cheap SCSI) for any CD, DVD,
: CD-RW and tape drives.
It's worth using cheap scsi for main disks too. Use IDE to hold your
backups. The fast thrput cache-to-dma of modern ide is useless,
since accesses aren't linear in any case, and you have to wait for
the drive to spin round once to get to the next bit that the o/s wants
whenever you empty the cache(s).
: Are there any Linux driver issues with the ATA/100 interface. I
Probably lots! Do you really need more than 10-12MB/s, which is what
ATA/33 provides???? (or is it 66 in the nomenclature ...).
Peter
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From: "Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Software RAID
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:08:20 -0600
I had that problem once. I believe the problem had to do with the
controller BIOS being setup for Microsoft OShit.
"U. Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Seems to be that there are several people having experience with
> software RAID.
> So, let's be a bit more detailed.
> Since one week i'm trying hard to get RAID5 to work.
> The System is a netfinity server with 2 Pentium III/933MHz, 2GB RAM and
> 5 SCSI hd's. On 4 disk i created identicall partitions, each about 8GB.
> The first three shall be for working and the fourth as spare.
> Creating the array wasn't a problem, also the mke2fs completed w/o
> errors. But when i try to copy some data to the array the system
> crashes. All i get are EXT2fs errors in block allocation. This happens
> under kernel 2.2.17, 2.2.17, 2.3.40, 2.4.0-test9 and 2.4.0-test10.
> Always the same errors.
> Is there a trick about ext2fs?? I upgraded to the newest ext2fs-tools,
> but no change :..-((
> Can anybody help me?
>
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