Linux-Hardware Digest #31, Volume #14 Thu, 14 Dec 00 15:13:04 EST
Contents:
Motherboards with sound and ethernet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3C905c NIC won't do 100Mb? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: LS-120 Drive RO? ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2 (Lew Pitcher)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Kernel won't mount raid0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
120M Superdisk ("J. Bhasker")
Re: Dual processor advantage ("Robert M. Stockmann")
Re: modem busy (Ilya Sterin)
Re: ESS PLUG AND PLAY ISA MODEM INTERNAL 33.6 K ("Chris Ripp")
Re: Motherboards with sound and ethernet ("Robert M. Stockmann")
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Dual processor advantage ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: Dual processor advantage ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adaptec 1480 or 1460 pcmcia scsi ("Joe Fahy")
Internal IDE Zip drive ("Joe Fahy")
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2 (James Richard Tyrer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Motherboards with sound and ethernet
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:11:45 GMT
Are there linux compatibility problems with ATX AMD thunderbird socket A
motherboards that have a sound card and ethernet port on the board?
Does Linux support these? Plus, I have heard that if you try to put
your own sound card or ethernet card you will also have problems. Is
this true? I'm trying to avoid them, but there are some really good
deals with them.
Thanks, Jeff
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3C905c NIC won't do 100Mb?
Date: 14 Dec 2000 18:34:05 GMT
Evan Carew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting my 3c905 to autosense the line speed. It
> seems that sometimes I can get it to start out at 100Mb but is will then
> slide back to 10mb. Anyone have any experience with this? Oh & by the
> way, I am using a 3com 10/100 hub with this card.
Which driver are you using? RedHat defaults to 3c59x. In our boxes
with 3c905s, I've seen that module not get 100Mb. Switching to 3c90x
(from 3Com) seems to get the speed right. Give that a shot.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:38:33 GMT
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Unrot13 this;
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to James Richard;
<SNIP>
> Obviously Mozilla is smart enough that it doesn't bother with the MIME
> stuff when its sending plain text.
>
> IF the message contains any MIME attachements, there will be IN THE
> HEADER AREA, an line defining the boundary marker, which is usually a
> fairly long string of randomly generated characters surrounded by a
> fixed number of dashes.
>
> IF this is defined, then when the reader software encounters it, it
> reverts to the header read mode, reading the next line to find out what
> sort of data the next section of text represents, and its name. It then
> reads the base64'd data, decodes it and writes to the filename until it
> hits the next copy of the trigger line.
>
> ISTR the trigger line must be preceeded and followed by a blank line.
>
> For all the claimants to this argument, there were NO mimed messages in
> this thread as it arrived here. My reader, Amiga's THOR, can be
> switched with the click of a button to show me the full, complete
> message raw. Other newsreaders should be as versatile and complete.
> Sadly, nothing I've looked at in the linux offerings even comes close.
Thank you for your expertise in e-mail. I have noticed these strings of
digits and could clearly see that they were some sort of delimiters but did
not fully understand them.
It also appears -- after some further research -- the they seem to have
confused the MIME format with MIME encoding (either quotable printable or
base64)
I am not all that happy with Netscape Messenger but I need a smart reader.
The THOR feature sounds quite useful. With Netscape you have to open a
separate window to see the "raw" message.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:42:57 GMT
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Gene Heskett wrote:
> JRT> This message is sent in MIME.
>
> JRT> JRT
>
> No it wasn't. It was pure text.
Yes, I know that. I should have indicated that what I did was tell
Netscape to send it in MIME. But, it didn't because there weren't any
8-bit characters to encode.
JRT
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS-120 Drive RO?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:52:48 +0100
Hi,
Probably you stated in fstab the line as read-only instead off read-write.
/dev/hdx /mnt/ls120 vfat defaults (treats the
drive for handling long filenames, read-write)
msdos noauto,owner,rw
(no long filenames, read-write)
Good luck,
Huub
Young4ert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an LS-120 drive installed on my Athlon system running SuSE-7.0
> Pro distro with the latest Linux kernel (2.4.0-test12) and am facing
> some sort of problem trying to write to the drive. The error message
> shows with the following error messages:
>
> Dec 14 12:10:11 kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,0)
> Dec 14 12:10:11 kernel: SCSI device sda: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1
> MB)
> Dec 14 12:10:11 kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
> Dec 14 12:10:12 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
>
> It looks like the drive is initialized as RO during the boot. Can
> anyone please help me on how to make this drive RW?
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> PS. Remove "4" from e-mail address should you want to reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:02:11 GMT
?????
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:38:33 GMT, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--------------21FA5678738C4C2E8496D863
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> Unrot13 this;
>> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to James Richard;
>
><SNIP>
>
>> Obviously Mozilla is smart enough that it doesn't bother with the MIME
>> stuff when its sending plain text.
>>
>> IF the message contains any MIME attachements, there will be IN THE
>> HEADER AREA, an line defining the boundary marker, which is usually a
>> fairly long string of randomly generated characters surrounded by a
>> fixed number of dashes.
>>
>> IF this is defined, then when the reader software encounters it, it
>> reverts to the header read mode, reading the next line to find out what
>> sort of data the next section of text represents, and its name. It then
>> reads the base64'd data, decodes it and writes to the filename until it
>> hits the next copy of the trigger line.
>>
>> ISTR the trigger line must be preceeded and followed by a blank line.
>>
>> For all the claimants to this argument, there were NO mimed messages in
>> this thread as it arrived here. My reader, Amiga's THOR, can be
>> switched with the click of a button to show me the full, complete
>> message raw. Other newsreaders should be as versatile and complete.
>> Sadly, nothing I've looked at in the linux offerings even comes close.
>
>Thank you for your expertise in e-mail. I have noticed these strings of
>digits and could clearly see that they were some sort of delimiters but did
>not fully understand them.
>
>It also appears -- after some further research -- the they seem to have
>confused the MIME format with MIME encoding (either quotable printable or
>base64)
>
>I am not all that happy with Netscape Messenger but I need a smart reader.
>The THOR feature sounds quite useful. With Netscape you have to open a
>separate window to see the "raw" message.
>
>JRT
>
>
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> name="tyrerj.vcf"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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> filename="tyrerj.vcf"
>
>begin:vcard
>n:Tyrer;James Richard
>tel;fax:call first
>tel;home:(520) 648-3720
>x-mozilla-html:FALSE
>org:JRT Engineering
>adr:;;1468 North Rio Sonora;Green Valley;Arizona;85614-4007;USA
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>
>--------------21FA5678738C4C2E8496D863--
>
Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:02:28 GMT
???
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:42:57 GMT, James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--------------44D359D7F9D659AD8AE65F1F
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> JRT> This message is sent in MIME.
>>
>> JRT> JRT
>>
>> No it wasn't. It was pure text.
>
>Yes, I know that. I should have indicated that what I did was tell
>Netscape to send it in MIME. But, it didn't because there weren't any
>8-bit characters to encode.
>
>JRT
>
>
>
>--------------44D359D7F9D659AD8AE65F1F
>Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;
> name="tyrerj.vcf"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Content-Description: Card for James Richard Tyrer
>Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="tyrerj.vcf"
>
>begin:vcard
>n:Tyrer;James Richard
>tel;fax:call first
>tel;home:(520) 648-3720
>x-mozilla-html:FALSE
>org:JRT Engineering
>adr:;;1468 North Rio Sonora;Green Valley;Arizona;85614-4007;USA
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>
>--------------44D359D7F9D659AD8AE65F1F--
>
Lew Pitcher
IT Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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From: [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,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: Kernel won't mount raid0
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I boot Software Raid1 (mirroring) and it works well.
Support for this included setting the partition types as fd (Raid
Autodetect) with fdisk, Compiling ALL raid support in the kernel,
including boot support, and Following the instructions here:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html
It took me over 72 hours to figure stuff out, but I am comfortable
with it now. I will be going into production with bootable Raid 1.
It wasn't the setup that was difficult, it was recovering from
simulated failures that was time consuming.
I am still looking into ide, vm and raid patches as I am not sure
which is the most reliable kernel/patch configuration, but I know that
I haven't had any problems with 2.2.17-21.
I have found the simplest and quickest way to react to a single drive
failure in bootable Raid 1 is to do the following:
SWITCHING FROM RAID 1 TO NON-RAID
--Note, this procedure includes a dos-bootdisk with loadlin.exe and a
functional kernel that works with your hardware. It also assumes that
you are familiar with partitioning, and have knowledge of the linux
boot process. It also assumes use of the ext2 filesystem.
1) convert raid partitions to 83 with fdisk
2) remove /etc/raidtab
3) modify /etc/fstab to mount non-raid partitions
4) modify /etc/lilo.conf to non-raid bootable configuration and
execute lilo
5) reboot
If you cannot access your filesystems since your bootable raid device
is busy, or you are in maintenance mode and the filesystem is read
only, you can use the rescue option of the distro cd, or a
root-bootdisk to mount the filesystems. I do not recommend the use of
Tom's root-bootdisk to do any of this with because of the older
libraries and filesystem versions.
I realize that linux raid has hot add and hot remove features, but I
do not have hot swap hardware and I also have not been able to
overcome the issue of /dev/md0 being busy when trying to do a raidstop
or a partition table modification, so inevitably, a reboot is
necessary, IMO, with bootable raid 1.
My current configuration is Mandrake-7.2 with the Mandrake kernel
2.2.17-21.
Tyan Tiger 133 VIA Chipset
Dual PII-400 in SMP mode
640MB PC-133
(2) 3Com905c 10/100's
(1) Dec21040 Tulip
(2) Western Digial 20GB hard disks (ATA-33) Raid 1
(1) Adaptec 2940U
(2) Seagate Baracuda 4GB hard disks Raid 1 (Boot)
Nvidia TNT2 AGP v.95 driver
Voodoo II PCI
Sound Blaster 32 ISA w/IDE
48x Cd-Rom
Zip drive
My best suggestion is if you are going to play with Software Raid on
Linux, then backup all of your directories to a separate drive that
you can restore from. Ideally, be doing this with a test box and not a
production machine.
Best regards and many thanks to Michael Robinton for a well written
HOWTO.
Charles Wilkins MCNE MCP A+
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:33:06 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> In comp.os.linux.misc Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> > /dev/md0 raid0,16k,0,802eab69 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdc2
>>> > oo Kernel 2.2.18pre23 and Kernel 2.2.17pre6 (both tried), with the
>>> > necessary RAID options (raid0, boot) enabled. Not as modules of course.
>>> > image = /vmlinuz
>>> > label = Orlok_Kernel
>>> > root = /dev/md0
>>> > read-only
>>> > vga=4
>>> > append="md=0,0,16,0,/dev/hda3,/dev/hdc2"
>>>
>>> waaaaaaaaaaah. Raid mirror root. Bad bad bad. Can you really do this?
>
>> No! Good (tm) idea! ;) However, I never talked of mirror mode.
>
>Oh, raid0 isn't mirror? What is it then? Oh, I see, raid1 is simple
>mirroring and raid0 is striping. Sorry, I really only use linear mode
>in earnest, so I forgot.
>
>> There is support to boot linear and striped (raid0) arrays since
>> 2.2.x. I can really do this. Or, that is, I should really ought to be
>> able to be doing this ;).
>
>Yes, I know. However, very few people are doing so, and I doubt if
>anyone is doing so on a pre-release kernel. Go back and try it on some
>other kernels.
>
>>> > ---
>>> > EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group
>64 not
>>> > in group (block 3670038)!
>
>That block is very far upstream for a root device! Your root is at
>least 60MB in size. Well, I suppose that's OK.
>
>>> > EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
>>> > ---
>>>
>>> Yes, well, not surprised. Go find a kernel that is guaranteed to do
>>> raid mirror root,
>
>> As said above. All kernels >=2.2.0. There is only the uncertainty of
>> me being able to read or not.
>
>And whether or not it's been messed up in the pre-release you are
>looking at.
>
>>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
>>> CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=y
>>> CONFIG_MD_BOOT=y
>
>> I don't need MD_MIRRORING (raid0 only), although I actually have it in
>> the kernel. As for the rest, I have it all of course.
>
>> Imho, there must be some slight difference in creating the /dev/md0
>> device between doing it from userspace via raidtools, or directly in
>
>Well, did you say you chunked at 16? 1KB chunks would be normal if the
>device file system has 1KB blocksize.
>
>> the kernel via boot options. The second imho most likely thing is that
>> I give the wrong chunk size factor. Kernel's md.txt isn't really clear
>> about that.
>
>It shouldn't matter, provided your whole device size is a multiple, of
>course.
>
>Why are you striping root? I can't think of an advantage. Root is
>essentially only read once for daemons and libs and stays in memory
>thereafter, so you don't get a speed up. There would be an advantage
>(robustness) in having a mirrored root.
>
>Peter
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From: "J. Bhasker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 120M Superdisk
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:17:50 -0500
Hi:
I am trying to use a 120M Superdisk drive on my Toshiba Tecra 8100
running SuSE6.4 linux. I tried mtools to copy files to the Superdisk
but I get error. For example, on issuing "mdir", I get:
Cant set disk parameters for A: invalid argument.
Cannot initialize 'A:'
What am I doing wrong? Is there a different mechanism that I can
use to copy files from my linux dir to the superdisk floppy?
If I use a regular 1.44M floppy, I dont have any problem with
mtools.
- bhasker
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From: "Robert M. Stockmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor advantage
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:18:27 +0100
John Dixon wrote:
>
> I run Mandrake 7.2 on an old ibm box with a Pentium Pro 180mhz chip.
> The motherboard has provision for a second PPro. Would I see much
> improvement if I went to the trouble to find one and install it? Or
> would this just make sense if I was doing a lot of number crunching -
> which I am not?
it sure makes a difference. you can see it as if you get twice the
horsepower.
compiling with make -j2 or make -j4 will go twice as fast.
regards
Robert
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From: Ilya Sterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem busy
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:10:38 GMT
SOrry, but this is the definition of "it".
When I use the setserial to set ttyS2 to irq 9 port 0xa400 and then run
the
setserial -g /dev/ttyS2
command it displays IRQ 2, but when I set the ttyS2 to any other IRQ it
works and the setserial -g /dev/ttyS2 returns the correct IRQ that I
just set. Can someone explain the problem. Also my modem is detected
through DrakeX hardware configuration, but it still shows busy when I
use kppp to dial out.
Ilya Sterin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ilya Sterin wrote:
>
> > I installed a PCI modem USRobotics pro modem (not winmodem and linux
> > compatible). In the hardware configurations the modem shows up
> > properly, but when I try to dial out or query the modem it says that
> > the modem is busy.
>
> This "busy" signal can also mean that it (Kppp?) simply can't find the
> modem.
>
> > When running setserial -g /dev/modem it displays
> > IRQ 2 eventhough I try setting to 9. When I set to anything else it
> > works but when setting ttyS1
>
> Normally ttyS2 is a better choice since most current motherboards
include
> two serial ports (ttyS0 and ttyS1).
>
> > to IRQ 9 and linking to /dev/modem
>
> "/dev/modem" is only a link. You don't need to use it. It is
probably
> better to use the actual name of the device you are using unless your
> software will only recognize "/device/modem" or it is the only way to
> specify it.
>
> > it goes
> > back to IRQ 2 ??? But my main concern is how do I get my modem to
work?
> >
>
> You have an unreferenced pronoun 'it' which appears to be the center
of
> your problem.
>
> What is the 'it' that goes back to IRQ 2?
>
> You don't set the hardware. What you set with "setserial" is the
software
> driver.
>
> The hardware is either fixed by hardwiring or is (in the case of PCI)
set
> by the BIOS at boot.
>
> You can tell the serial driver which ttyS? to use with your modem (if
it
> hasn't already decided on its own) and the address and interrupt
number to
> use (again if it hasn't found it by itself).
>
> See my previous post for additional information.
>
> JRT
>
>
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From: "Chris Ripp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ESS PLUG AND PLAY ISA MODEM INTERNAL 33.6 K
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:35:04 -0600
If it's an ISA modem, more than likely it will work OK. You'll probably
have to run the mfr's. config utility for it (if it's PNP) from a DOS boot
to set up the com port you want it on, then remember to disable that port in
your BIOS settings.
I haven't seen too many ISA winmodems....
"Alan Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9187qj$388lk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> WORK WITH linux?
>
>
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From: "Robert M. Stockmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motherboards with sound and ethernet
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:24:28 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Are there linux compatibility problems with ATX AMD thunderbird socket A
> motherboards that have a sound card and ethernet port on the board?
> Does Linux support these? Plus, I have heard that if you try to put
> your own sound card or ethernet card you will also have problems. Is
> this true? I'm trying to avoid them, but there are some really good
> deals with them.
i always prefer boards with no sound on board. mostly its a el cheapo
on board sound card. just get a seperate sblive! card.
Robert
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|| R.M. Stockmann || InfoMagic Nederland VOF ||
|| [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Unix administration & support ||
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:28:29 GMT
Gene Heskett wrote:
> JRT> This message is sent in MIME.
>
> JRT> JRT
>
> No it wasn't. It was pure text.
Yes, I know that. I should have indicated that what I did was tell
Netscape to send it in MIME. But, it didn't because there weren't any
8-bit characters to encode.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:31:04 GMT
Gene Heskett wrote:
> JRT> This message is sent in MIME.
>
> JRT> JRT
>
> No it wasn't. It was pure text.
Yes, I know that. I should have indicated that what I did was tell
Netscape to send it in MIME. But, it didn't because there weren't any
8-bit characters to encode.
JRT
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor advantage
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:31:33 GMT
John Dixon wrote:
> I run Mandrake 7.2 on an old ibm box with a Pentium Pro 180mhz chip.
> The motherboard has provision for a second PPro. Would I see much
> improvement if I went to the trouble to find one and install it? Or
> would this just make sense if I was doing a lot of number crunching -
> which I am not?
Been running a PPRo/180 SMP system for about 2 years.
No major processing speed differences noted, but all user/operator
interraction seems to be much snappier (no delays) than the single
systems
I have, which are faster (400Mhz).
Also cool to run 2 copies of Seti@Home.
cheers...bob
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Subject: Re: Dual processor advantage
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Dec 2000 14:31:38 -0500
"Robert M. Stockmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[dual CPUs]
> compiling with make -j2 or make -j4 will go twice as fast.
Not quite, but close. It depends on how well your other system
components (particularly memory and hard drive) can keep up.
If you have a 10krpm SCSI hard drive and 512MB RAM, then yes, it
probably will go nearly twice as fast.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In one gloss of the cut interstellarly I must immovable protect the
universe.
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From: "Joe Fahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 1480 or 1460 pcmcia scsi
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:33:49 -0500
I understand that the 1480 is experimentally supported and that the 1460 is
supported. Does anyone have any specific success or failures with these
devices?
Thanks
Joe Fahy
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From: "Joe Fahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internal IDE Zip drive
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 14:35:23 -0500
I searched for info on the above but I have not been able to find anything
out. Does anyone know if these are supported devices?
Thanks
Joe Fahy
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 1
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:38:20 GMT
Lew Pitcher wrote:
> ???
A:
That is what it looks when you (accidentally) send a vCard as plain text.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WAS [Help please] Now: MIME? message number 2
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:39:51 GMT
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Unrot13 this;
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to James Richard;
<SNIP>
> Obviously Mozilla is smart enough that it doesn't bother with the MIME
> stuff when its sending plain text.
>
> IF the message contains any MIME attachements, there will be IN THE
> HEADER AREA, an line defining the boundary marker, which is usually a
> fairly long string of randomly generated characters surrounded by a
> fixed number of dashes.
>
> IF this is defined, then when the reader software encounters it, it
> reverts to the header read mode, reading the next line to find out what
> sort of data the next section of text represents, and its name. It then
> reads the base64'd data, decodes it and writes to the filename until it
> hits the next copy of the trigger line.
>
> ISTR the trigger line must be preceeded and followed by a blank line.
>
> For all the claimants to this argument, there were NO mimed messages in
> this thread as it arrived here. My reader, Amiga's THOR, can be
> switched with the click of a button to show me the full, complete
> message raw. Other newsreaders should be as versatile and complete.
> Sadly, nothing I've looked at in the linux offerings even comes close.
Thank you for your expertise in e-mail. I have noticed these strings of
digits and could clearly see that they were some sort of delimiters but
did
not fully understand them.
It also appears -- after some further research -- the they seem to have
confused the MIME format with MIME encoding (either quotable printable
or
base64)
I am not all that happy with Netscape Messenger but I need a smart
reader.
The THOR feature sounds quite useful. With Netscape you have to open a
separate window to see the "raw" message.
JRT
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