Linux-Hardware Digest #12, Volume #14 Mon, 11 Dec 00 04:13:05 EST
Contents:
RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller ("Jason Greenbaum")
Auction: 4mm and 8mm external SCSI tape drives! ("Mike Saunders")
Re: Asus A7Pro or Abit KT7? (Michael Sierchio)
What is the command to . . . ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Activating the Multimedia keys - DONE! (Andreas Mohr)
How do I . . . ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner? (Andreas Mohr)
Re: Setting/reserving interrupts/irqs (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Acer Travelmate603 & Suspend-to-Disk? (Andreas Mohr)
DIAMOND:STEALTH III 540, 32MB, AGP, Savage4 Chipset (John Hanson)
Re: How do I . . . ? (E J)
Re: modem driver (James Richard Tyrer)
Problems with resolutions ("Drew")
Re: 56K modem as backup (Eric Ho)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Josef Moellers)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Josef Moellers)
Re: NIC identification (Eggert Ehmke)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? ("deadmeat")
Modem ISDN pci Winmodem. Someone working obout?? ("Gabo")
Re: Asus A7Pro or Abit KT7? (Natalie)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? ("Z")
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Paul Colquhoun)
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From: "Jason Greenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:15:01 -0500
I am trying to install Redhat Linux 7.0 on a computer with a Promise Ultra66
controller. It seems that Linux cannot find the drive attached to this
controller. Does anyone know a workaround?
-Jay Greenbaum
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From: "Mike Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.forsale.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Auction: 4mm and 8mm external SCSI tape drives!
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:02:31 GMT
Apologies in advance for the "spam," but didn't know
where else to post to...
4mm external SCSI tape:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1201519501
8mm external SCSI tape:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1201518312
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From: Michael Sierchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Asus A7Pro or Abit KT7?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:17:59 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have used and had great success with the Asus A7V. I highly recommend it.
Me too. I'd rething using the Duron, since the T-birds are pretty
inexpensive now:
Thunderbird-750...........................$135
Thunderbird-800...........................$159
etc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:30:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am looking for the command that will help me compare two directory
structures.
I just did a file copy to an NFS drive and I want to make sure that I
got everything.
I used
cp -axv /dev /mnt/vol00
cp -axv /bin /mnt/vol00
cp -axv/usr /mnt/vol00
etc . . .
Doing some sampling, it appears that everything copied okay.
What I am looking for is the equivalent to this
dos command: dir *.* /s
i.e. I am looking for file counts and directory counts as well as
total sizes.
thanks in advance,
charles
p.s.
linux 8)
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 & Promise UATA66 Controller
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:06:22 GMT
Jason Greenbaum wrote:
> I am trying to install Redhat Linux 7.0 on a computer with a Promise Ultra66
> controller. It seems that Linux cannot find the drive attached to this
> controller. Does anyone know a workaround?
>
> -Jay Greenbaum
I don't understand why, but it appears that the Kernel that Red Hat supplies
does not have the IDE patch applied.
The HOWTO explains how to install with an unpatched Kernel:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-5.html#ss5.1
Then you need to down load a clean copy of the Kernel from:
http://www.kernel.org
and apply the patch which is available from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
And, build a new Kernel.
Until you do that, edit your "lilo.conf" file. Add the append option with the
same parameters that you used to boot for install.
JRT
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Activating the Multimedia keys - DONE!
Date: 11 Dec 2000 05:15:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>> > These keys DO NOT generate any scancodes (checked with showkeys and xev)!
>> They DO GENERATE scancodes. (at least for my Logitech Cordless)
>> You didn't use showkey -s, right ?
> By default on my Chicony KB8993 they did not generate any scancodes!
> I found the way to activate these keys as explained at:
> http://www.win.tue.nl/math/dw/personalpages/aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-2.html
oook.
Hmm, I'm afraid that in this case... err... you're right :)
Andreas Mohr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: How do I . . . ?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:21:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am looking for the command that will help me compare two directory
structures.
I just did a file copy to an NFS drive and I want to make sure that I
got everything.
I used
cp -axv /dev /mnt/vol00
cp -axv /bin /mnt/vol00
cp -axv/usr /mnt/vol00
etc . . .
Doing some sampling, it appears that everything copied okay.
What I am looking for is the equivalent to this
dos command: dir *.* /s
i.e. I am looking for file counts and directory counts as well as
total sizes.
thanks in advance,
charles
p.s.
linux 8)
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner?
Date: 11 Dec 2000 05:24:55 GMT
Dan Chirica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please, can somebody give me some pointer how to configure a ide cdrw to
> work in Linux.
> It seems like I can't find a useful howto.
> Thanks,
> Dan
Hmm?
IMO the CD-Writing-HOWTO is perfectly sufficient.
At least I didn't have any problems with it, but rather with the fact
that my drive's firmware is somewhat broken.
Andreas Mohr
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting/reserving interrupts/irqs
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:24:59 GMT
Frank Samuelson wrote:
> All my devices are plug and pray except one. An old
> aha152x adaptec SCSI card. The card has a jumper on
> it and is set to IRQ 9. (It can also be set to IRQ 11, I think.) I had
> /sbin/modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9
> in my rc.local file and everything worked fine. Then I added another
> ethernet card and the card doesn't work any more.
<SNIP>
> How can I tell Linux not to use IRQ 9? Or is that not what I want to do?
This is a BIOS problem.
You need to use your BIOS setup -- in the section labeled PNP/PCI or
something like that -- and set IRQ 9 to reserved for legacy ISA or
something like that.
Then the BIOS will assign a different IRQ to your other card.
JRT
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From: Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acer Travelmate603 & Suspend-to-Disk?
Date: 11 Dec 2000 05:29:08 GMT
Thomas Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mein Acer Travelmate 603 l��t sich unter Windows problemlos in den
> "Suspend-to-Disk"-Modus fahren, unter linux klappt das nicht.
> Im BIOS gibt es scheinbar keinerlei Optionen zum Steuern des APM. Das
> wird mit einem sog. NotebookManager unter WIN gel�st.
> Tipps?
Maybe the key Fn-A helps (in case it's a newer Phoenix BIOS).
Andreas Mohr
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From: John Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DIAMOND:STEALTH III 540, 32MB, AGP, Savage4 Chipset
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:53:26 GMT
I'm going to be building a new box for my son and I want to use my
existing Ati Expert98 card in it. I would then like to purchase the
diamond stealth III 540 and use it in my existing Linux/FreeBSD box.
Is there any problems with the diamond card with either Linux or
FreeBSD? It is on a Tyan 1590 mobo if that makes any difference.
TIA
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do I . . . ?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:53:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking for the command that will help me compare two directory
> structures.
>
$ tree directory1 > directory_structure1
$ tree directory2> directory_structure2
$ diff directory_structure1 directory_structure2
>
> I just did a file copy to an NFS drive and I want to make sure that I
> got everything.
>
> I used
> cp -axv /dev /mnt/vol00
> cp -axv /bin /mnt/vol00
> cp -axv/usr /mnt/vol00
> etc . . .
>
> Doing some sampling, it appears that everything copied okay.
>
> What I am looking for is the equivalent to this
> dos command: dir *.* /s
>
> i.e. I am looking for file counts and directory counts as well as
> total sizes.
$ tree -s directory #file count and directory counts
$ du -k directory # total size
>
>
> thanks in advance,
> charles
>
> p.s.
> linux 8)
>
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem driver
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:57:13 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> -J=P- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:04:56 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Dances With Crows wrote:
> >>> I do not understand why we continue to tell people that they need to buy an
> >>> external modem.
> >>
> >>What's your problem with understanding? 99% of PCI modems are
> >>winmodems. 5% of those have a linux driver.
> >>
> >>> I have a 3Com/USR PCI modem -- model 3CP2976 -- and it works fine.
> >>
> >>Bully for you. How does that affect the advice one should give to
> >>people? Or do you propose crossing the road with your eyes shut simply
> >>because 5% of the time you will survive?
>
> > Perhaps because if you over-simplify and say no PCI modems work and someone
> > hears elsewhere that in fact they (some) do work then they will be very confused
> > and may totally disregard your statement?
>
> And what exactly is the penalty of that? They then have a 50% chance
> (confused person) of going ahead and buying the non-working pci
> winmodem, instead of the 95% chance which they'd have had if they went
> ahead and bought a pci modem in the first place without receiving
> advice, or the 0% chance that they'd have if they heeded advice to not
> buy a pci (or USB!) modem.
>
> Do you know ANY game theory, decsion theory, risk analysis? NNNO.
>
> Telling them not to buy a pci modem is the optimal strategy against
> the game countermoves you proposed.
>
> And I suppose they aren't confused by being told that pci modems can work?
>
> Peter
Simple: Tell them to buy only PCI modems that say they support Linux on the box, buy
only a 3Com/USR modem with that model number, buy only form a mail order retailer
that clearly labels modems as Win or Non-Win, or (as I did) go into a real
electronics store and tell the clerk that you need a hardware modem for UNIX.
On the other hand you can tell them to waste $50 so they don't have to think!!
JRT
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From: "Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with resolutions
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:27:45 -0800
My nVidia TNT card will only display one resolution (the highest one) in
such a way that it fills the screen. All the other four or five resolutions
I have tried only display on the center half of the screen. I have tried
xvidtune to try to stretch out the display in these problem resolutions, but
they will only stretch so far (not far enough) before xvidtune reaches the
linit of how far it can stretch the image towards the edges of the screen.
Does this have something to do with refresh rates not being right or my
driver not really reflecting the capabilities of the video adapter?
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 56K modem as backup
Date: 11 Dec 2000 06:31:47 GMT
Hi,
Anyway, here it goes :
I usually use ADSL as my Internet connection, but the connection is
not always stable to say the least, so it would be nice to have a
dialup connection as backup. Although slow, it will still enable me
to keep in contact with the outside world :)
Now, since I use a broadband router to connect to the ADSL service
so that my brother and I can share the ADSL connection just to save
some bucks, and we both have to setup our machines so that when boot
up, our machines can contact the router's builtin DHCP server to get
an IP address assigned.
When I Kppp program, everything seems to be working
except when it connects and launch pppd, the modem just disconnects.
I am thinking that maybe I need to change some routings, but I have
no idea how to do that.
Could you give me some detailed instructions as what I should to fix
the problem ?
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
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From: Josef Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:15:34 +0100
Allen Wong wrote:
> =
> In alt.os.linux.slackware Markus Amersdorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro=
te:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" {} \;
> =
> This works, but it's alot slower than "find . -type f -name '*.txt' -pr=
int |
> xargs grep "Hello World".
These solutions won't tell where they found the match.
Markus' solution can be enhanced to do that:
find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" {} \; -print
-- =
Josef M=F6llers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize (T. Pratchett)
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From: Josef Moellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:25:02 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> =
> I am looking for the command that will help me compare two directory
> structures.
> =
> I just did a file copy to an NFS drive and I want to make sure that I
> got everything.
> =
> I used
> cp -axv /dev /mnt/vol00
> cp -axv /bin /mnt/vol00
> cp -axv/usr /mnt/vol00
> etc . . .
> =
> Doing some sampling, it appears that everything copied okay.
> =
> What I am looking for is the equivalent to this
> dos command: dir *.* /s
> =
> i.e. I am looking for file counts and directory counts as well as
> total sizes.
If nobody comes up with a better solution (this works at least under the
bash):
cd olddir
find . -type f -print | while read path
do
newpath=3D`echo $path | sed "s/olddir/newdir/"`
# you can now compare the old and new files
if [ ! -e $newpath ]
then echo $newpath does not exist
elif cmp -s $path $newpath
then :
else files $path $newpath differ
fi
done
This reads back all files over the net. As an alternative you can do
cd $olddir
find . -exec cksum {} \; > /tmp/cksums
then move the file cksums over to the new machine and run this script
cd newdir
while read line
do set $line
n=3D`cksum $file`
if [ "$line" !=3D "$n" ]
then echo $line '<->' $n
fi
done < /tmp/cksums
HTH
-- =
Josef M=F6llers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize (T. Pratchett)
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From: Eggert Ehmke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NIC identification
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:43:10 +0100
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:16:06 +0200, "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Are you absolutely sure it has no label with MAC address (12 numbers) or FCC
>ID on it? Any of these numbers will surely help you identify board
>manufacturer, which can give you a further identification tips
Now I found out it is a Accton EN1660 card. According to the SuSE and
RedHat hardware lists, it should be a PCI card, but in fact it's an
ISA. Still can't get it to work.
Eggert
--
Eggert Ehmke
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "deadmeat" <root@[127.0.0.1]>
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 07:56:22 GMT
If nobody comes up with a better solution (this works at least under the
bash):
cd /dev
find . -type f -exec cmp '{}' /mnt/vol00/dev/'{}' \;
repeat for /bin and /usr
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From: "Gabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem ISDN pci Winmodem. Someone working obout??
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:59:40 +0100
Hi all,
this is probably the same letter obout winModem on linux.
I know there is a poject in progress (linmodem.org).
My question is: I think it'd be easier porting a winmodem ISDN pci. Do you
know if anyone is working obout this project?
thanks
Gabriele
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From: Natalie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Asus A7Pro or Abit KT7?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:26:58 +0800
Hello guys, according to Asus's URL for A7V, it supports
ATA66/100
http://www.asus.com/products/motherboard/socketa/a7v/index.html
But i keep seeing people having so much problems getting Linux to even
boot from CD and installing on a ATA66/100 drives.
Since both of you have successfully installed it, It would be nice
if you could state what other hardware you have in there.
The only thing thats stopping me from upgrading my hardware is this
ATA66/100 thingy.
/natalie
Michael Sierchio wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have used and had great success with the Asus A7V. I highly recommend it.
>
> Me too. I'd rething using the Duron, since the T-birds are pretty
> inexpensive now:
>
> Thunderbird-750...........................$135
> Thunderbird-800...........................$159
>
> etc.
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From: "Z" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:26:51 +0100
Once upon a while [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am looking for the command that will help me compare two directory
> structures.
>
> I just did a file copy to an NFS drive and I want to make sure that I
> got everything.
>
> I used
> cp -axv /dev /mnt/vol00
> cp -axv /bin /mnt/vol00
> cp -axv/usr /mnt/vol00
> etc . . .
>
> Doing some sampling, it appears that everything copied okay.
>
> What I am looking for is the equivalent to this
> dos command: dir *.* /s
>
> i.e. I am looking for file counts and directory counts as well as
> total sizes.
>
> thanks in advance,
> charles
>
> p.s.
> linux 8)
>
What I usually do to verify my copy is
"du" the original and the copy filesystem.
If you want to check every single file it
might be a good idea to write the two dumps
into two temporary files and "diff" these.
--
Z ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"LISP is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience
you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you
a better programmer for the rest of your days." -- Eric S. Raymond
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:47:02 GMT
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:30:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|I am looking for the command that will help me compare two directory
|structures.
|
|I just did a file copy to an NFS drive and I want to make sure that I
|got everything.
|
|I used
|cp -axv /dev /mnt/vol00
|cp -axv /bin /mnt/vol00
|cp -axv/usr /mnt/vol00
|etc . . .
|
|Doing some sampling, it appears that everything copied okay.
|
|What I am looking for is the equivalent to this
|dos command: dir *.* /s
|
|i.e. I am looking for file counts and directory counts as well as
|total sizes.
'diff' will do this.
diff -r --brief /dev /mnt/vol00/dev
etc.
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