Linux-Hardware Digest #100, Volume #14 Fri, 29 Dec 00 16:13:07 EST
Contents:
If you have hardware from Pacific Micro Data/StorageNow... (Maurice Volaski)
problem with my scanner (Edorta Gastelu)
Re: problem with my scanner (Michael Heiming)
Matrox G450 and Xfree86 question (Eugene Wu)
Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment? (Chris Rankin)
USB Olympus Camedia (Fred K Ollinger)
Re: Dual Pentium III Motherboard Recommendation (Chris Rankin)
Question: Disabling CPUID serial number...general protection fault 0000 ("Ray
McCormack")
Re: FlashRam pcmcia cards? (Andreas Hinz)
Re: Motorloa SM56 (FMRCYouth)
Re: A good place to buy components? (Bharath Krishnan)
Re: Question: Disabling CPUID serial number...general protection fault (Bharath
Krishnan)
Mandrake 7.0 - Getting Startx Working again for the \root account (Harry Broom)
Neoware Motherboard (Brian)
Re: CD Burner (Bill Unruh)
Can I use more than 4 IDE devices? (Phillip Deackes)
Re: 30 Gig or 40 Gig hd. Quantum, Maxtor or Western Digital? (Kelvin Leung)
Re: Is this DO-able? (Steve)
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From: Maurice Volaski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware
Subject: If you have hardware from Pacific Micro Data/StorageNow...
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:04:51 -0500
Pacific Micro Data/StorageNow (http://www.pmicro.com and
http://www.storagenow.com) is a manufacturer of RAID hardware. They
stopped answering their phones in early October and all indications are
that the company has ceased operations.
Without them, it is difficult to obtain tech support. Infortrend
provides their RAID controllers and has agreed to offer some technical
assistance, but they are not familar with their enclosures and can
offer limited assistance with it.
Alpha Micro handles their warranty repair, but it is not clear if they
can fulfill this obligation completely.
If any of you out there have any of their hardware, what plans do you
have with it in light of this situation?
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From: Edorta Gastelu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: problem with my scanner
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:05:21 +0100
a) INSTALLED HARDWARE:
Adaptec 2904 PCI(Supported SCSI card)
Artec AM12S (Supported Scanner)
b) MESSAGES I OBTAIN WHEN I DO "dmesg"
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/3/0
(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI)
5.1.31/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: ARTEC Model: AM12S Rev: 1.06
Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI generic total.
c) MESSAGES I OBTAIN WHEN I DO "cat /proc/scsi/scsi"
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: ARTEC Model: AM12S Rev: 1.06
Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
e) STEPS I FOLLOWED TO REACH THIS POINT:
* Kernel recompilation with scsi support, scsi generic support, scsi
card support.
* My scanners ID is 5, so I've done "ln -sf /dev/sg5
/dev/scanner" otherwise, the scanner won't be detected in
"dmesg" and "cat
/proc/scsi/scsi"
d) DOCUMENTATION I'VE READ:
* Everything I found in www.mostang.com/sane
* man sane-scsi
* sane-artec in www.mostang.com/sane
e) PROBLEM:
I scanner doesn't work in Linux, and when I do "scanimage -L" I get
no
device list.
T H A N K S
Linux user #175011
Debian GNU/Linux Potato.
Kernel 2.2.17
Pentium 200 MHz 64 Mb RAM
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:22:36 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: problem with my scanner
Hello,
Edorta Gastelu wrote:
> a) INSTALLED HARDWARE:
> Adaptec 2904 PCI(Supported SCSI card)
> Artec AM12S (Supported Scanner)
> b) MESSAGES I OBTAIN WHEN I DO "dmesg"
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/3/0
> (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI)
> 5.1.31/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
> scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: ARTEC Model: AM12S Rev: 1.06
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI generic total.
> c) MESSAGES I OBTAIN WHEN I DO "cat /proc/scsi/scsi"
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
> Vendor: ARTEC Model: AM12S Rev: 1.06
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> e) STEPS I FOLLOWED TO REACH THIS POINT:
> * Kernel recompilation with scsi support, scsi generic support, scsi
> card support.
> * My scanners ID is 5, so I've done "ln -sf /dev/sg5
> /dev/scanner" otherwise, the scanner won't be detected in
> "dmesg" and "cat
> /proc/scsi/scsi"
>
sounds good so far, but if your scanner is ID=5 then /dev/scanner ==>
/dev/sg4,
it starts with sg0....
The link is not related to what dmesg or cat /proc/scsi/scsi show.
I own a cheap crap mustang scanner (SCSI I) that runs without a
problem...:-)
> d) DOCUMENTATION I'VE READ:
> * Everything I found in www.mostang.com/sane
> * man sane-scsi
> * sane-artec in www.mostang.com/sane
> e) PROBLEM:
> I scanner doesn't work in Linux, and when I do "scanimage -L" I get
> no
> device list.
>
> T H A N K S
>
> Linux user #175011
> Debian GNU/Linux Potato.
> Kernel 2.2.17
> Pentium 200 MHz 64 Mb RAM
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Eugene Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox G450 and Xfree86 question
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:33:16 -0800
Does the new Matrox G450 Dual head w/ 16MB memory work w/ an VIA dual
Intel processor motherboard work w/ Xfree 3.3.5?
Ewu
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From: Chris Rankin <au.com.zipworld@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:48:51 +0000
"D. Stimits" wrote:
> Instead try setting the serial port to match the current PCI card
> values. E.G.:
> setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 9 spd_normal
> skip_test
> OR
> setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 17 spd_normal
> skip_test
Alas, my soundcard is ISA-PNP and it INSISTS on using IRQ (5,7) with IRQ
(9,10). Like I said, my PCI slot HAS to use either IRQ 3 or IRQ 4.
And actually, I think I've solved the Linux-side of this problem now. My
residual problem is getting the accursed Win95A to comply! (I zapped
COM2, COM3 and COM4 in win.ini and so Win95 stopped wasting an IRQ on a
COM port driver. In short, it's all Windows' fault, although to be fair
I am using a horrendously early version here.)
Cheers,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred K Ollinger)
Subject: USB Olympus Camedia
Date: 29 Dec 2000 18:53:50 GMT
I'm trying to get my usb camedia smart card reader to work with linux. I
didn't even try usb support yet so yes, treat this all as vapour. However,
I'm reading a book on device drivers for linux and trying to learn c++.
I was thinking (thinking!) about trying my hand at a driver, but I would like
to know if it exists b/c I have many, many projects for linux and I don't
want to reinvent the wheel esp if I know that someone can do it better, but
I would like to get involved in a project or start my own if it doesn't exist.
OK, the point is, is anyone working on a driver for said device? If so how
far along is it.
Two, can anyone give me some pointers about usb functionality under linux? I have
built in usb on my packard bell. I have experienced anything 'built in' usually
(but not always) is a 'bad thing' TM under linux b/c of the arcaneness and
unavailability of the specs, as well as rareness and convolutedness of the
hw.
Fred
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From: Chris Rankin <au.com.zipworld@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Dual Pentium III Motherboard Recommendation
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:54:42 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Something needs to be done about the i840 IO-APIC problem. I can find
> i840 boards by the bushel, and for a sight less than comparable SW
> models.
>
> Is anyone working on this at all? Have we even confirmed what the
> problem is?
Well, my PIIIDME is stable under 2.4.0-test12. However, I haven't done
anything more brutal than fsck my IDE partitions (20GB disc) and
ext2-formatted ZIP drives on it. I would say that the problem is "in
remission" ... ;-)
Chris
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From: "Ray McCormack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Question: Disabling CPUID serial number...general protection fault 0000
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:59:15 GMT
I have a new Asus A7V (KT133 chipset) Socket A motherboard with AMD
Thunderbird 750 Mhz that seems to install Redhat 6.2 just fine. Upon reboot
and entering thru LILO the following error occurs:
Disabling CPUID serial number...general protection fault 0000 -> crash !!!
I looked through the BIOS and there does not seem to be any flags to shut
CPU identity off. I have also heard that if I set the env var
X86_SERIAL_NR=1 that should fix it. How does one do that from the LILO
prompt ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated ....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: FlashRam pcmcia cards?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:00:08 GMT
In article <7HN26.40$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>I put them in the pccard reader, it recognizes them, but I can't figure
>out how to mount it as drive space, or otherwise write to it.
>
Hi,
are you talking about a CompactFlash card and a PC-Card adapter?
Then you can mount it as a hard drive.
Eg. if your hard disk i hda and your CD-drive is hdc, then the
card vill be hdb. You can mount the CompactFlash like this:
mkdir /mnt/flash
mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/flash.
ls -al /mnt/flash
Done that with the CompactFlash card from my digital camera.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen
Andreas Hinz, ACCI Aps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FMRCYouth)
Date: 29 Dec 2000 19:21:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Motorloa SM56
>How can my modem Motorola SM56 (PCI) work in Linux ?
It can't.
Linux doesn't support winmodems at this point (at least not the vast majority
of them) and the Motorola SM56 is a winmodem. It is what I have in my box
right now. For more info about compatible modems, check out www.linmodems.org.
God bless,
Randy Bennett
Registered user #198235 at http://counter.li.org
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:28:59 -0500
From: Bharath Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A good place to buy components?
Buy your memory at www.crucial.com. You get free shipping and
competetive prices for namebrand sticks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Any suggestions on a good place to buy components for a new
> "build-from-scratch" computer project? I'm trying to find a single site to
> order everything from as ordering parts from 3 or 4 different suppliers will
> be annoying on several levels, but so far I've only found a few of the things
> I'm looking for at each site. Here's a sample of what I'm looking for (heavily
> influenced by anandtech):
>
> Athlon Thunderbird 1.1 or 1.0 GHz
> Microstar K7T Pro 2A
> 256 MB CAS2 PC133 SDRAM
> IBM Deskstar 75 GXP 15 GB
> Sound Blaster Live! Value
> Fong Kai FK-320ATX Mid-Tower ATX
> NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
> Linksys EtherFast 10/100
> Yamaha 8x4x24 CDR-W (IDE) (or LightSpeed CRW2100EZ)
--
So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
Guns. Lots of guns.
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:33:54 -0500
From: Bharath Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Question: Disabling CPUID serial number...general protection fault
Here is one way:
lilo: linux x86_serial_nr=1
-bharath
Ray McCormack wrote:
>
> I have a new Asus A7V (KT133 chipset) Socket A motherboard with AMD
> Thunderbird 750 Mhz that seems to install Redhat 6.2 just fine. Upon reboot
> and entering thru LILO the following error occurs:
>
> Disabling CPUID serial number...general protection fault 0000 -> crash !!!
>
> I looked through the BIOS and there does not seem to be any flags to shut
> CPU identity off. I have also heard that if I set the env var
> X86_SERIAL_NR=1 that should fix it. How does one do that from the LILO
> prompt ?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated ....
--
So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
Guns. Lots of guns.
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From: Harry Broom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Mandrake 7.0 - Getting Startx Working again for the \root account
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:59:45 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello I'm afraid it's me again.
I'm following the sequence of exercises in a "teach me" book, using a
non privileged user account. One was about switching between KDE &
Gnome. I noticed there was also something called Another Level and
thought I'd have a look and switched to that. The setup couldn't have
installed it properly as all I got was a very plain VT Terminal based
environment, through which a I ran "switchdesk" and it told me that I
would have to re-start X Windows for the change to take effect - it
didn't.
I tried changing back to KDE with the same results. I did notice in
the terminal window a message that "for system defaults, remove
/home/harryb/ .Xclients"
Being a trusting soul I tried this and got the message back no such
file or command - so I assumed that because of the lower privileges
the user account has it ignored the request - it certainly didn't work
or do anything in this account (which I deleted and then re-created
and everything is back to where it was (I had made few or no changes).
The next bit's a bit stupid of me - I ran the remove line (before
recreating the user account) above in the root account, getting the
same message about no such file or command, and assumed that I had
just got some syntax wrong and that there had been no effect.
Startx no longer runs (except for a brief bit where the mono splash
screen comes up for about a tenth of a second and dumps me back at the
prompt. I can see the message "/root/ .Xclients no such file or
directory". Now I guess the command did work and totally clobbered the
ability to run startx under the root account - can anyone help me to
get this account to run startx again please? You'll have to spell
things out for me please as I've only been looking at Linux in my
spare time for the past couple of weeks.
Regards
__________
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights"
John Paul Getty 1892 - 1976
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From: Brian <bduke@mind#spring.com>
Subject: Neoware Motherboard
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:07:57 -0500
Does anyone know where to get the motherboard and possibly the case
found in the Neoware computer? I'd love to have one of these units,
but can't justify the $600 Neoware is charging for them. We have one
at work we bought for eval and the only markings on the mobo are
MB-5BLMP.
Thanks,
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CD Burner
Date: 29 Dec 2000 20:11:10 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Jimmy Gagnon wrote:
]> > >I would like to know how I could install and use a CD Burner as a CD ROM
]> > >like on Windaub?
]Basically you will follow these steps:
]1. Get SCSI working if you don't already (yes, even if you don't have a
]SCSI card)
] This is done by recompiling your kernel--not hard. This creates the
]ide-scsi module
aaaargh. No. almost nothing requires recompiling the kernel. ide-scsi is
included in all distros I know of. Telling him to recompile his kernel
is BAD advice. He is much more liable to mess something up than to fix
anything (especially something which is not broken in the first place)
]2. Set up your symbolic links appropriately:
] ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdburner
]3. Set up lilo to make the kernel use ide-scsi:
] append=" mem=256M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy"
] (hdb is my cdburner, this causes it to be /dev/scd0)
] (hdc is a zip drive so I use the ide-floppy kernel module)
]4. Get cdrecord:
]http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
]5. Get xcdroast:
] http://www.xcdroast.org/
]You should be good to go!
]For more information (this helped me a great bit) see the CD-Writing
]howto at
] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-1.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes)
Subject: Can I use more than 4 IDE devices?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:45:00 GMT
I am using the 2.2.18 kernel and currently have two hard drives on the
first IDE controller and a CDRW and CDROM on the second. I also have an
internal zip drive I would like to use. Is there any way I can connect
it to my system without losing any of the other devices?
My system has a Soltek SL75-KV2X motherboard with VIA chipset. I have
applied the IDE patch to my kernel and Linux is happily using UDMA 66
with the hard drives.
I have scoured around for documents but cannot find a definitive answer
to my question.
Many thanks.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Leung)
Subject: Re: 30 Gig or 40 Gig hd. Quantum, Maxtor or Western Digital?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:06:02 GMT
Get an IBM, it's fast/quiet and reliable! I have three IBM and one
quantum, two seagate running on Linux , Win.
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:56:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi everyone, I'm looking to buy a new harddrive 7200 rpm 30 to 40
>gigs. I was wondering if there was a difference in performance or
>reliability between a Western Digital, Maxtor or Quantum Fireball. My
>local shop offers them at more or less the same price, so not much
>difference to me. Any thoughs?
>
>Thanks, happy hollidays,
>Strachie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Is this DO-able?
Date: 29 Dec 2000 20:46:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:27:58 GMT, Young4ert wrote:
>
>1. Setup the Linux box with a PPP account (done).
>2. Let the modem "Line" open, i.e. do not connect it to the phone line.
>3. Connect an Aplio/Phone unit to the modem's "Phone" in-let.
>4. Setup the Linux box to generate the dial tone for the modem on its
>"Phone" in-let.
>5. Setup the Aplio unit to detect the dial tone (otherwise, it will not
>dial) and dial any number (can be a one digit or any number of digits), and
>have the Linux box detect such a tone to launch a PPP connection between
>the Aplio/Phone unit and the Linux box. If the Aplio/Phone unit does not
>need to detect a dial tone, then a Linux machine with a PPP account is
>sufficient in the sense to let the Aplio/Phone dial the number and have the
>Linux machine detect the such a tone on its modem in-let.
Have a look through the archives of comp.os.linux.announce, the has been
programs mentioned in there that seem to do roughly what you want.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
8:30pm up 11 days, 7:51, 3 users, load average: 1.12, 1.06, 1.01
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