Linux-Hardware Digest #18, Volume #14 Tue, 12 Dec 00 09:13:06 EST
Contents:
SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100 ("Jacob Hooysma")
Storage Solution? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Seeking Informer Info (Olli Salonen)
Re: modem driver (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board (chris ulrich)
Re: [On compiling New Kernel] What is a K6-2? (Wolfgang Fritz)
help tekram scsi wont work (christian prause)
Re: SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100 (christian buchta)
Re: SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100 (Bharath Krishnan)
looking for SCSI Domex DMX 1391D driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100 ("Jacob Hooysma")
Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 & Suse Linux 7.0 ("ole c")
Re: GeForce 2 MX (Creative) problem with linux. (Stefan Stommels)
Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board (Nick Andrew)
Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board (Nick Andrew)
linux modem advice
Linux USB via PCMCIA? (David Thor Bragason)
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From: "Jacob Hooysma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:03:11 +0100
Hi All,
I just got SuSe 7.0 and trying to install it on a
Asys MoBo A7V with a Quantum Fireball plus 20,4 as master on the ATA100
interface and a Seagate Barracuda 20,4 as slave on the ATA100. The first
problem
was that Suse didn't recognise both HD. After downloading a special boot
flop from
the Suse site is does find the harddisk during boot but after that the
system hangs.
Has any body seen this before or knows a solution to this problem ?
Grtx Jacob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Storage Solution?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:28:14 GMT
I am looking for suggestions on my new storage server. I need as much
space as possible on a single computer but low performance requirement.
I have got Asus A7V which has two ATA/66 port and two ATA/100 port. I
know I'll need drivers for ATA/100 controller, right? I plan to populate
this server with Maxtor 80G drives. I plan to boot off one 20G drive
(special reason) and then have the other drives running software RAID 5
and yes, I know that's going to kill performance, but as I mentioned,
performance is not an issue here.
Other than the one drive that is the booting drive, I can host 7 other
80G drives with the on-board IDE, am I correct? And would I be possible
to also use PCI IDE controller card to get more drives on this computer?
Are there any disadvantages of doing this? My target is 11 drives x 80G,
is that archievable?
Jason Lam
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Olli Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.folklore.computer,alt.folklore.computers,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Seeking Informer Info
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:04:38 +0200
Google search with Informer terminal didn't give too much result, but see
http://www.classiccmp.org/mail-archive/classiccmp/2000-03/0159.html
-Olli
Funsize wrote:
> I have recently come into possession of several old Informer serial
> terminals. I have no documentation and cannot find the manufacturer (I
> suspect they have gone out of business or changed names). The only info I
> have been able to find is in Eric Raymond's termcap file, where the Informer
> 304 is mentioned.
>
> The two models I have are Informer 203/378 and 205/378.
>
> Does anyone know
> 1) what happened to Informer?
> 2) where I can find more info about these terminals?
> 3) any settings that I can use in termcap/terminfo to get these working?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Funsize
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem driver
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:05:24 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
>
> > only a 3Com/USR modem with that model number, buy only form a mail order retailer
>
> The model numbers on 3coms aren't externally visible (or at least not
> correlated with the markings on the box), as far as I can gather. I'd
> vouch for that on USR equipment, anyway!
>
> > that clearly labels modems as Win or Non-Win, or (as I did) go into a real
>
> Nobody labels their modems as "non-winmodem". They couldn't. The
> name is trademarked, and the trademark holders wouldn't do it!
Well, surf on over to:
http://www.pcprogress.com/cart/getlist.asp?ItemCat=MODEMS&OrderID=36229876039959353208541
Notice the phrase:
"NON-WINMODEM HARDWARE MODEM W/VOICE MODEL 2976 NON-WIN"
in the description in the 3COM section.
JRT
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Crossposted-To: aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris ulrich)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:16:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
B'ichela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
%%gOn Mon, 11 Dec 2000 06:29:49 -0600, Dave Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
%%g having a Wangtek 5150es (its the scsi version). I have made
%%gDC600A tapes on it without a hitch! Forget those DC300XLs! Those wont
%%gwrite (never tried a read). if the tapes are DC600s you should not
%%ghave a problem. PROVINDING that the restore software is the same type
%%gas on the SUN. If the sun used dump. use dump to read em back. if tar
%%guse tar. if it was cpio, try the gnu cpio.
%%g B'ichela
If you use the lower density DC600A tapes and write with a QIC150
tape drive, the resulting tapes will be 125mb and will not be readable
in a 60mb tape drive.
You will be able to read them with a QIC150 tape drive, though.
chris
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From: Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [On compiling New Kernel] What is a K6-2?
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:58:30 +0100
Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to caonfigure the new 2.2.18 but... I have an AMD K6-2/400 cpu
> and I do not know what flag should I put for processor.
>
> Pentium/K6/TSC ? Quote: "Pentium" for the Intel Pentium/Pentium MMX,
> AMD K5, K6 and K6-3D.
That's the right one. I use it for my K6-2/350.
Wolfgang
[...]
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From: christian prause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help tekram scsi wont work
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:33:14 +0100
tekram 390f uw scsi controller install redhat 7 rh7
hi,
i´m trying to install a redhat 7 to the following machine:
233 on Intel Al440LX mainboard
2hd´s on Tekram 390F UW SCSI Controller
1 hd & CD-ROM at IDE Bus
matrox g400 graphics
96MB RAM
...
when i boot from the install cd an run standard inst the system
hangs
during loading of the scsi driver (ncr53c8xx), just stops does
nothing
tried lots of things nothing helps
something irritating happened when i tried to flash the
controllers bios
the flash-prog told me that there is no controller installed,
smells like some kind of misconfiguratet pnp, but i couldnt figure
out
how to set the kard up manually
or is it something else?
please help
ps: the controller works under win98
in german:
wenn ich von der install-cd boote und die standardinst laufen
lasse
hängt sich der installer beim laden des scsi treibers (ncr53c8xx)
auf,
bleibt einfach stehen
ich hab schon alles mögliche probiert aber noch keinen erfolg
gehabt.
als ich versucht hab das bios des controllers zu updaten hat mir
das
flashprog
mitgeteilt das sich kein passender controller im system befindet.
riecht irgendwie nach verkorksten pnp einstellungen, ich hab aber
noch
keine möglichkeit gefunden den controller
auf handbetrieb umzustellen...
bitte helft!
ach ja: unter win98 läufts, der controller scheint also zu
arbeiten
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From: christian buchta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:10:25 GMT
Jacob Hooysma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just got SuSe 7.0 and trying to install it on a
> Asys MoBo A7V with a Quantum Fireball plus 20,4 as master on the ATA100
> interface and a Seagate Barracuda 20,4 as slave on the ATA100. The first
> problem
> was that Suse didn't recognise both HD. After downloading a special boot
> flop from
> the Suse site is does find the harddisk during boot but after that the
> system hangs.
>
> Has any body seen this before or knows a solution to this problem ?
>
> Grtx Jacob
we had the same problem with a maxtor 40gig and a seagate 30gig (barracuda
ata II, ST330630A) using ide patched kernel 2.2.17. meanwhile we got the
maxtor stable on the non-ata primary ide interface (with udma66 using
hdparm after installation) but the seagate continues to hang the system
with strange drive_cmd errors. I suggest you try to install on the quantum
... let me know if you observe similar problems with the seagate drive,
e.g.
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
you can see them with dmesg, or in the system logs. you can test it with
hdparm -Z /dev/hdx (x your segate drive). that should not hang your system.
gcb
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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 04:13:18 -0500
From: Bharath Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100
Hi,
I have never used Suse before, but I suspect that the problem is due to the
following.
The default kernel that Suse 7.0 installs probably does not have support
for ATA100 devices.
The boot kernel that you used probably had support for this.
One way of overcoming this problem is as follows:
Move over one of the harddisks to an ATA33 controller. Install linux on
this.
Boot in, and download say the latest development kernel from www.kernel.org
Build your own kernel with support for ATA100 controllers and any other
funky hardware you might have.
Boot into the new kernel. Migrate the linux install to the other harddisk
on the ATA100 controller which will now be recognised. Boot to the linux
install on the ATA100 drive. Check if everything works.
Move over the disk from the ATA33 controller to the ATA100 controller.
keeping the boot partition intact, migrate or repartition the install to
cover both disks.
sit back and enjoy.
-bharath
Jacob Hooysma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just got SuSe 7.0 and trying to install it on a
> Asys MoBo A7V with a Quantum Fireball plus 20,4 as master on the ATA100
> interface and a Seagate Barracuda 20,4 as slave on the ATA100. The first
> problem
> was that Suse didn't recognise both HD. After downloading a special boot
> flop from
> the Suse site is does find the harddisk during boot but after that the
> system hangs.
>
> Has any body seen this before or knows a solution to this problem ?
>
> Grtx Jacob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: looking for SCSI Domex DMX 1391D driver
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:19:21 GMT
The Mustek SCSI scanner I use comes with a SCSI device called "Domex
DMX 1391D" which has a chip denoted as "DOMEX 536", sublined "9827".
I had a look at the scsi low level drivers in the kernel 2.2.17
xconfig app, some denoted with "53" at the beginning but non which
would really shout out -" take me"! I didn't expect to find
"DOMEX_xxx" but some chip should be compatible to the one on the Domex
controler - assuming it would be to expensive to design one from the
ground up.
Any suggestions or help?
Robert
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From: "Jacob Hooysma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe 7.0 and Asus A7V promise ATA-100
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:41:09 +0100
>we had the same problem with a maxtor 40gig and a seagate 30gig (barracuda
>ata II, ST330630A) using ide patched kernel 2.2.17. meanwhile we got the
>maxtor stable on the non-ata primary ide interface (with udma66 using
>hdparm after installation) but the seagate continues to hang the system
>with strange drive_cmd errors. I suggest you try to install on the quantum
>... let me know if you observe similar problems with the seagate drive,
>e.g.
>
>hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
>you can see them with dmesg, or in the system logs. you can test it with
>hdparm -Z /dev/hdx (x your segate drive). that should not hang your system.
>
>gcb
>
It's probably the seagate drive when booting the says found
Quatum Fireball pro
Seagate....
then it displays the properties of the quantum drive size, sectors etc..
and after that nothing...
I installed the quatum drive on the normal IDE channel and installed suse
without
support for ATA 100 (seagate is still on ATA-100) I will try to put kernel
with ata support
on the hd see if can recognise the seagate drive...
I will get back to you on that......Thanks for the help
Jacob
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From: "ole c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 & Suse Linux 7.0
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:07:00 +0100
"Holger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9136uv$5e2$06$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> got problems with PCMCIA on an Dell Inspiron 8000 with SUSE LINUX 7.0
Check out the dell-linux-laptop-group on eGroups:
http://www.egroups.com/message/linux-dell-laptops/1736
You might have to create an account to access this message, I'm not sure....
olec
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From: Stefan Stommels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GeForce 2 MX (Creative) problem with linux.
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:21:22 GMT
Well, here's what I did to get it going....
I got the CVS with "cvs checkout xc"
Then doing "make World" in the xc-dir gave no errors
"make install" gave several errors, but moest of them seemed to have
been fixed. So here's what to do if you get any errors:
Take a look at what directory produced an error and update that dir
again (e.g. ERROR: Leaving dir xc/programs/kbxcomp, you'll have to run
"cvs checkout xc/programs/kbxcomp") and then re-compile and install
again. I had to update 2 or 3 dirs again to make it work. After that, I
had to rip the fonts of the XFree 4.0.1 included with your distribution.
When all that's finished, just do xf86config and select NVIDIA GeForce
as your video-card. I can't get the NVIDIA-kernel drivers to work though
(nor the NVIDIA_GLX)
In article <XYWY5.94396$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"bigtiny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nvidia's website says it does.....
>
> I'm having trouble getting this to work too....
>
> k
>
> Stefan Stommels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9110p3$1fe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I know, XFree 4.0.1a doesn't support GeForce2 MX. So you need a
newer
> > XFree. Get it from www.xfree86.org/cvs
> > If you can get it working, at least you'll have 2D support in full
> > glory, but I haven't gotten the 3D working yet...
> >
> >
> > In article <910dnr$dnn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Maverick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have Intel Pentium III 667Mhz, 128MB RAM 133Mhz, ASUS CUV4X
Board
> > (VIA
> > > Chipset), and i have RedHat Linux 7.0 installed and use a Creative
> > Labs
> > > GeForce2 MX DDR.
> > > With the drivers that came with RedHat my GeForce2 don't work,
then i
> > > installed
> > > the Nvidia-0.9.5 drivers, and the system says that i can't install
> > the AGP
> > > module because it can't find a supportable VIA chipset, then i use
the
> > > option UNSUPORTED_CHIPSET=1 when i install the AGP module, it
> > installs the
> > > AGP module and the GeForce module.
> > > But when i start X-Windows the systen crashes, black screen
forever
> > and
> > > system hang.
> > >
> > > Bye.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Andrew)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
Date: 13 Dec 2000 00:09:48 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder) writes:
>This is probably caused by the missing terminator. You'll need
>at least passive termination on the drive to get that working.
>I have to agree with the previous' poster: Get yourself a
>borrowed QIC-150 SCSI tape drive instead, as it can easily
>read 60 MB cartridges, although you'll have to experiment
>with the blocksize that the Sun had used when writing to the
>tape.
A kind soul is going to post me a QIC-150 SCSI drive tomorrow ... :-)
Nick.
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"Sorry to say this, but the job falls to the ultimate defenders
of liberty - you and me." [Keith Henson, 2000-06-29]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO-Problem after adding a HD
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:07:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Tauno Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Stefan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: The problem lies in the BIOS. When you add a second IDE drive to the system,
: the BIOS does not see the SCSI drives anymore: the BIOS knows of two hard
: disk drives with the internal numbers of 0x80 and 0x81. The BIOS numbers the
: drives so that the IDE drives are first. When the second IDE drive is not in
: the numbers are:
: 0x80 first IDE drive
: 0x81 first SCSI drive.
: When the second IDE drive is put in, the numbers are:
: 0x80 first IDE drive
: 0x81 second IDE drive.
If you want to use the new added hd for Linux only, you can set it
in the BIOS to "not installed".
That way LLLO will work as before, and DOS/Windoze will not know
about it.
Since the kernel does not need the BIOS after booting, the hd will
be usable under Linux with out any problems.
Well -- it *may* fail to correctly autodetect it's parameters.
You may have to tell the kernel about the size and geometry
via the "lilo.conf" file.
Regards
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Andrew)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.sun,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading ancient tapes using Emulex MD21 SCSI board
Date: 13 Dec 2000 00:15:22 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela) writes:
> having a Wangtek 5150es (its the scsi version). I have made
>DC600A tapes on it without a hitch! Forget those DC300XLs! Those wont
>write (never tried a read). if the tapes are DC600s you should not
>have a problem. PROVINDING that the restore software is the same type
>as on the SUN. If the sun used dump. use dump to read em back. if tar
>use tar. if it was cpio, try the gnu cpio.
The interesting things will be tars. Sometimes many to a tape. There
will be some dumps as well, perhaps Linux dump can read the format
written by SunOS 4.x
Whatever files I can get out of it, I will uncompress, compare
(disregarding duplicate versions), rearrange a bit then write
onto a few CDRs. When the CDRs become an obsolete storage medium
I'll copy them onto something else :-)
Nick.
--
Pacific Internet SP4 Fax: +61-2-9247-4738 Voice: 03-9674-7543
http://www.zeta.org.au/~nick/
"Sorry to say this, but the job falls to the ultimate defenders
of liberty - you and me." [Keith Henson, 2000-06-29]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux modem advice
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:30:06 -0000
I need linux drivers for a Rockwell/Conexant HCF modem(a winmodem), or
advice on what kind of modem I should buy to use with Mandrake 7.2. I
don't have any slots other than PCI so that would be perfered, however any
external modem suggestions are welcome as well.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Thor Bragason)
Subject: Linux USB via PCMCIA?
Date: 12 Dec 2000 11:59:24 GMT
Hello,
My old Compaq LTE 5200 laptop doesn't have any USB ports, but two unused PCMCIA slots.
Would it be possible to take
advantage of the new USB support in the Linux kernels using a "pc card" such as
"Belkin USB BusPort Mobile"? I've never had
a pc card, and don't know much about them. If anyone has done this, or knows whether
this works/works well, I'd appreciate
a tip.
--
David Bragason, <bragason at uni-freiburg dot de>
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