Linux-Hardware Digest #231, Volume #14 Tue, 23 Jan 01 10:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: 2.4 architecture support (Lew Pitcher)
Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story...... (Mike Edwards)
Re: geforce 2 mx under latest xserver (David Balazic)
adding second drive to ATA66 controller (ekk)
Re: 2 sound cards/one only used (David Balazic)
Re: Serial Terminal (Harri Haataja)
Re: squid ("Neil Oakman")
Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story...... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: PlexWriter 12/10/32S (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: cups demon daemon (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable? (Anders Skovsted Buch)
Re: squid ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What soundcard should I use? (Lars Luthman)
Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: 2.4 architecture support
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:10:23 GMT
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:52:13 -0500, jafgon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> Does anyone have a definitive list of the number of different
>architecture's that the Linux 2.4 kernel support's? I mean everything
>from the IA-64, i386, MIPS, Crusoe, etc...
> Optionally...is there also a definitive list that M$ supports? I'm
>trying to compile a comparative run-down of the two.
Well, OTTOMH, I can answer the second one: Microsoft currently
supports only one architecture: i386. They _used_ to support Alpha as
well (Windows NT), but dropped that a year or so ago.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story......
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:25:33 GMT
She said she's running Corel (Debian) so probably doesn't have rpms.
I'm guessing it's a dead issue, though as we haven't heard any rantings
lately...
Cheers!
Mike
John Thompson wrote:
>
> Tina Carter wrote:
>
> > The thing is that, I don't know if there is wvdial and I can't tell nor I
> > can installed I can uzip file and the folder but that's about it....
> > Make and Makefile don't workkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
> > WhY??????????
>
> Have you installed them? Try running "rpm -q make" to see if the
> "make" package has been installed:
>
> [john@starfleet john]$ rpm -q make
> make-3.77-6
>
> This shows I have make v3.77 build 6 installed here.
>
> If it's not installed, get out your distribution CD, find the RPM
> directory and run "rpm -ivh
> [path/to/RPM/directory]/make-n.nn-n.rpm" (where the "n.nn-n"
> represent the version and build number on your distribution CD.
> Then run "make; make install" or whatever as required. But your
> distribution CD should have pre-compiled binary packages of most
> basic software you will need, so compiling your own stuff from
> source won't be an issue unless/until you need a program
> unavailable in pre-compiled form.
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
Mike Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: geforce 2 mx under latest xserver
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:31:14 +0100
The latest nvidia drivers v-0.9.6 support GF2MX
Also the xfree86 v4.0.2 supports GF2MX, but only in 2D.
yong wrote:
>
> Jan
>
> Refer to Tom's Hardware Guide
> http://www4.tomshardware.com/graphic/index.html
>
> yong
>
> "Jan Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a Geforce 2 MX graphics card. UNfortunately there are no
> > drivers available under Linux for this card. Does anybody know, how to
> > get the X-Server running anyway or where to find drivers for this card?
> >
> > The latest drivers available from Nvidia do not yet support the Geforce
> > 2 MX though every other Nvidia board is being supported.
> >
> > Thx for advice
> >
> > Jan
> >
--
David Balazic
==============
"Be excellent to each other." - Bill & Ted
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adding second drive to ATA66 controller
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:27:46 -0500
Hello,
Sorry to bother you again - I'm trying to put a 2nd drive on the same
cable as the first on my promise controller. According to the
documentation I've found on the web and with the controller, it should
be as simple as setting one to master an the other to slave. But, I've
done that but it hangs during boot at 'Verifying DMI Pool Data'.
Everything is fine with only one drive. Do I need to tell Lilo
something before I install the drive?
Thanks,
Ken
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From: David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 sound cards/one only used
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:46:11 +0100
In your /etc/modules.conf you have something like :
alias sound-slot-0 es1371
alias sound-slot-1 sblive
Just change it to
alias sound-slot-1 es1371
alias sound-slot-0 sblive
and now /dev/dsp will be the Live! card
This also makes the modules to load automatically
( unless you disabled that on purpose )
Most programs accept a parameter to tell them which sound
output to use ( /dev/dsp , /dev/dsp1 ... )
If not , report the bug to the author :-)
David Balazic
alargentaye wrote:
>
> I have 2 sound cards: a sblive (emu10k) and a sb16pci (ens1371 if I remember
> well). Don't ask why. Trouble's this: how do I choose which I use on
> playback. e.g., I use mpg123, which uses /dev/dsp, which invariably
> (murphy....) plays on the sound card that's NOT connected to the speakers.
> Both sound cards are modules (not compiled in the kernel). Is there any way
> to use a mixer or something to choose on the fly which sound card is used
> (instead of doing rmod/insmod)?
>
> I tried the ALSA drivers, which supports multiple cards, but I didn't get a
> sound out of them (yes, I DID load the oss modules too.). Why? How?
>
> thx.
>
> John
--
David Balazic
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"Be excellent to each other." - Bill & Ted
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Serial Terminal
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:59:29 GMT
Roland Scheike wrote:
>My settings of the terminal are:
>v.24/ 38400 / 8n1/ xon,off, ANSI
You could start at 9600.
>On my linux-box I setted up inittab with the following:
>
>S0:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 38400 ttyS0 ansi
Are you on runlevel 2 or 3?
>Now I have the problem that there is no response at all.
>Getty is running fine- but there is no login-prompt on the
>terminal.
Did you hit enter on it a few times?
>Btw. I don`t get any entries in my log file concerning
>agetty. Can I change this?
RTFM. Perhaps it's not doing anything worth logging.
Does it run (ps aux | grep getty)?
Forgot to read inittab (telinit q)?
Start at the humblest settings and try to get up as things
start working. Do drop to 9600 first. Then when that works
perhaps select a better emulation mode and start uppting
the speed. If you can't do 9600, it's probably the cable.
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From: "Neil Oakman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: squid
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:59:50 -0000
Hi,
I had the same problem.
Try
/usr/local/squid/bin/squid -z
as shown in section 3.5 of the FAQ on squid.nlanr.net
Hope this helps.
Neil
"Jeff Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have compiled and installed squid 2.3 and I get this error.
>
> squid -z
>
> FATAL: none: (2) No such file or directory
> Terminated abnormally
>
> I have read the faq and install manual, and I have checked the config
> file for errors, nothing shows.
> The syslog shows the same error.
> Is there something I am missing?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jeff Moore
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story......
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:15:34 GMT
Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[in the wrong place]
> She said she's running Corel (Debian) so probably doesn't have rpms.
I believe she said CALDERA. But then I'm expired.
Peter
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PlexWriter 12/10/32S
Date: 23 Jan 2001 14:12:51 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Trevor,
> Sound like a winner. Let hope the extra price means
> that it will stay working for a while (CD-RW writers
> tend to fall apart on me, which is why I am looking for
> a new one).
Plextor has one of the *best* reputations for quality in the
industry. It also doesn't hurt that all their SCSI drives can
be jumpered to 512 byte blocks, meaning you can use them as
boot/system drives in "real" Unix workstations (i.e. SGIs, Suns).
> Are you able to play a music CD on it yet? And, what
> player are you using?
On a related note, I've got both a Plextor 12/10/32S and a standard
48X IDE cdrom in my system, and ripping music off the Plextor is
much faster, smoother, and produces less system load than off the
IDE CD. A lot of that is simply due to the fact that it is a
SCSI device, but I've *never* had a skip in the output files.
grip is a great program both for playing music and bulk-ripping/encoding
off of CDs. Look for it on freshmeat.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: cups demon daemon
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Jan 2001 09:19:33 -0500
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:36:06 +0000, Sinner from the Prairy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know the magic words to stop cups while in the middle of
>> a print job? Neither 'cancel -a' nor 'lprm -' seem to have any
>> impact. In fact, neither does killing cupsd either. The on/off button
>> works only until it is turned back on.
>
>Cups is a wonderful tool... if you read the documentation. LEt's do it
>easy and go for the graphical admin.
I have read docs till I am blue in the face. If it was not for
linuxprinting.org, I'd still be reading. The man pages for lprm AND
cancel indicate these can be used to cancel a print job. Either I am
missing something (quite possible), or they don't do it in this
situation. Perhaps, these are only for queued jobs, and not actively
printing jobs? In which case, what commands are there to stop a run away
print job?
>*Get a web browser. Better a graphical one, that supports HTML 3.0 or
>4.0. Like Netscape 3.x or better,
>
>*Point the browser to the address http://127.0.0.1:631
>
>*Administer your printing system effortsless.
>
>Note: for some tasks, you'll be asked for your "admin" username and
>password. User "root" and "[your_root_password_here]" should work.
Thanks. I'll check this out. I'd actually prefer command line control
though. Nice to know this is available though. If I get in this
predicament again, I have another option to try.
>BTW, I love CUPS. You can admin it thorugh command line (documentation),
>web and QT-based interfaces! Of course, remote and local admin is
>available.
It does look impressive, I will say. Right now I just need to get up to
speed on some really fundamental aspects. Like how to avoid printing a
whole ream of paper for one small image because the driver is fubar and
not reading the file format correctly ;)
>And, of course, make sure that you do **not** have the old lp daemon
>installed.
In the bit bucket.
FWIW, the only way I could stop the printer from gobbling up paper, was
to kill a process something like 'parallel://lp0' (or similar), and then
turn the printer off. At least this is what seemed to do the trick. This
after stopping the cups daemon. I couldn't find any non-empty spool
files either. Does it spool in RAM?
Thanks again.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:25:00 -0500
From: Anders Skovsted Buch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable?
>> Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable?
> > Did anybody make this work? Did anybody give up?? Any comments will be
> > greatly appreciated!
> > (I wonder if I have to go back to the store and buy a parallel cable...)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Anders Buch
> >
> >
>
> Hi!
>
> No problem for me with kernel 2.4
> Works from scratch (using the stp driver from gimp-print).
> I'm getting very good results.
>
> -Gunnar
>
> (Does Your USB-Subsystem recognize the Printer as a printer? I had this
> problem with my scanner that was unknown to the usb-scanner module.
> Had to add the codes for it...)
Thanks a lot for your hints!
I moved the printer to a 2.4 system, and now the printer seems to be
recognized. From dmesg:
Jan 23 08:58:22 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1,
assigned device number 3
Jan 23 08:58:22 localhost kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional
printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0
I will continue by installing the gimp-print-4.1.2 package.
By the way, I'm using redhat 6.1. Do you know about a place to download
printtool filters for Epson 980?
Thanks!
Anders Buch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: squid
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:07:31 GMT
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:24:38 +0000, Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have compiled and installed squid 2.3 and I get this error.
>
>squid -z
>
>FATAL: none: (2) No such file or directory
>Terminated abnormally
>
>I have read the faq and install manual, and I have checked the config
>file for errors, nothing shows.
>The syslog shows the same error.
>Is there something I am missing?
Off the top of my head, do all the cache directories exist?
One thing which will work in general (not just for squid), is to use
the strace program. In your case
strace -o squid.output.file.from.strace squid -z
strace will create that file listed after the -o and send a copy of
ALL the system calls squid makes to the file. I did this once with
WINE, and got a file 138,000 lines long. But if squid is dying on not
being able to find a file or directory, you will see it in the system
call trace.
Gord
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From: Lars Luthman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What soundcard should I use?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:08:51 +0100
I'm going to build a new computer in a couple of weeks, and I would like
some suggestions on what soundcard to buy. I'll be using Linux (probably
Red Hat 7), and I want to use softsynths such as Csound, sfront, Octal
(when it's done) to make music. I'm not going to use MIDI right now, but
I might want to in the future, so I want a card that has reasonable MIDI
support (I don't really care about what GM instruments it has and things
like that, I'm more interested in low latency and good sync). Does
anyone have any suggestions, or maybe some URLs to websites where I can
find information?
--ll
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:23:48 -0500
This is a resend. Originally sent Mon 7:17 PM EST
Adam Becker wrote:
>
> "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Adam Becker wrote:
> > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > I've had the exact same thing happen with a dual celeron abit bp6 with
> > > > the original gentus linux and anything I've compiled since. Short
> > > > answer is hpt 366 is garbage. Get an ata pci card. Not a lockup
> since
> > > > I installed it. I think it was freezing during the slocate (updatedb)
> > > > cron job. That's the only rigorous thing that happens after I log
> off.
> > > >
> > > > I was (am?) using the RU BIOS and have been all along. I did not
> bother
> > > > testing the hpt controller in dma33 mode. You can probably buy a
> > > > Promise card for $30 - 40.00. I notice Abit stopped using the hpt
> > > > controller in recent releases.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Rinaldi]$
> > > > "Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
> > > > glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
> > >
> > > I added the Promise card, but the system still finds the hpt366 as
> ide2&3
> > > how can I disable it so the system will find the new Promise card??
> > > I tried disabling Ultrdma in bios, no luck.
> > > I tried ide2=0x9400,0x9802 ide3=0x9c00,0xa002 (from /proc/pci for
> Promise
> > > card), it still finds ide2&3 on the hpt366.
> > > I tried ide4&5 on same address, no luck. Is Linux limited to ide0-3?
> >
> >
> > Also emailed-----------
> >
> > Did you recompile your kernel with the Promise ATA 100 support?
> >
> > Let's take it from the top. What kernel are you using and how did you
> > install it; rpm, *.tar.gz/bz2? Do you have the source? You composed
> > this using MS, does Winblows see the Promise card? Do you know how to
> > patch a kernel?
> >
> > I don't believe the hpt 366 can be disabled without altering the BIOS.
> > I put support for both hpt and Promise in my current kernel. I still
> > get the blue Highpoint screen at boot, but have nothing attached. I may
> > hook a couple of udma 33's to it and do some massive data transfers and
> > diff the files. If it's ok, that's good.
> >
> > One request: I'll gladly give you all the help you need on this, but
> > please bottom post (as you did here) your replies and don't <snip> any
> > of the content. It will save me from having to refer to previous posts
> > for information.
> >
> > The law of Linux: learn what you don't know, teach what you do.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rinaldi]$
> > "Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
> > glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
>
> I have Kernel 2.2.16 SMP with ATA66 patch applied. Yes I patched it myself.
> I use the SuSE 6.4 distribution.
> I am currently downloading 2.4.0 to see if it works any better.
>
> ide config:
> 2- 8.5Gb hda,hdb on ide0
> 1-atapi cdrom hdc on ide1
> 1-13.5Gb hde on ide2
> 1-13.5gb hdg on ide3
>
> Initial I was running 2.2.13 with 'append="ide2=0x????,0x???? ide3=..."' (io
> addressed pulled from /proc/pci as per mini-howto) this worked well for a
> while. Later developed an intermitent problem, one of the drives not being
> recognized at boot by the htp366 bios, found out that if I powered down the
> box, the drive would show up in the bios again. Because of this
> intermittent loss of the drive, I upgraded to htp366 support by downloading
> 2.2.16 and applying the latest patch for the ATA66 support and recompiled.
> This worked, but the machine started locking up randomly in the middle of
> the nite. I have found that it locks up during heavy disk usage (probably
> locked up running updatedb on cron job).
>
> Got advice to scrap the hpt366 and use a Promise card. Installed Maxtor
> Ultra ATA/100 PCI card and moved the disks over. Initially I didnt
> recompile. I just tried to give the kernel the io address of the new ide
> card. This PCI card uses the Promise chip set.
>
> Next, I disabled the hpt366 and enabled the promise chipset. Recompiled,
> with:
> make clean
> make dep
> make bzlilo
> make modules
> make modules_install
> depmod
> I added the append = "ide2=0x9c00,0xa002 ide3=0xa400,0xa802", the boot
> message recognized that the hpt366 was still present, even tho I took out
> the chipset support. It did find the other 2 drives on the promise card at
> boot up but the following error also showed up:
> ide2: Disabled unable to get IRQ 10
> ide3: Disabled unable to get IRQ 10 (IRQ 10 in not in use per
> /proc/interrupts)
> The hpt366 showed up as ide4 and ide5 using IRQ11.
> I tried the card in serveral different PCI slots to ensure that the PCI IRQ
> was not conflicting with another device. It did change which IRQ was
> disabled and conflicted with one of the nics in one slot. Promise card is
> currently in slot4.
>
> No promise chipset specific boot messages appeared. After some research, I
> recompiled with Sharing PCI IDE interrupts ENABLED. This did not help.
>
> Hardware:
> BP6 Dual 366 SMP(no overclocking)
> NJ bios
> 2 network cards:
> eth0: 3c59x
> eth1: tulip
> hda Fujitsu MPD3084AT
> hdb same as hda
> hdc: ATAPI 40x cdrom
> hde: Samsung SV1533D
> hdg: same as hde
>
> Windozes in not loaded on this machine. Therefore I cant check to determine
> if there are Windoze related errors. I am posting from another Windozes
> box.
>
> Currently Im at a loss on what to do next, I will try and see if 2.4.0 can
> recognize that the drives are on the Promise card and enable the card.
>
> My goal is to put Raid-1 on hde&hdg to mirror critical data, but have been
> unable to get reliable disk usage. I am using this machine as a router,
> firewall, database engine(MySQL), samba file server for 5 other windoze PCs
> and development box.
> At this point I could care less whether the box can access the newer drives
> with the ATA66 burst mode enabled, I just want the drives to work reliably!
>
> dmesg:
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
> PCI: HPT366: Fixing interrupt 18 pin 2 to ZERO
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide4: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide5: BM-DMA at 0xc400-0xc407, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio
> hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: ATAPI 44X CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hde: SAMSUNG SV1533D, ATA DISK drive
> hdg: SAMSUNG SV1533D, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> ide2: Disabled unable to get IRQ -10.
> ide3: Disabled unable to get IRQ -10.
>
> gandalf:/proc # cat interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 192192 208529 IO-APIC-edge timer
> 1: 1 1 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 12: 32 1 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 2444 2617 IO-APIC-edge ide0
> 15: 24 2 IO-APIC-edge ide1
> 16: 902 935 IO-APIC-level eth0
> 17: 288 128 IO-APIC-level eth1
>
> /proc/pci
> Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev
> 2).
> Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d30.
> Medium devsel. IRQ 19. Master Capable. Latency=32.
> I/O at 0x9c00 [0x9c01].
> I/O at 0xa000 [0xa001].
> I/O at 0xa400 [0xa401].
> I/O at 0xa800 [0xa801].
> I/O at 0xac00 [0xac01].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xea000000].
> Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 IDE
> Ultra
> I/O at 0xb000 [0xb001].
> I/O at 0xb400 [0xb401].
> I/O at 0xb800 [0xb801].
> Bus 0, device 19, function 1:
> Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366 IDE
> Ultra
> Medium devsel. IRQ 18. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=8.Max
> Lat=
> I/O at 0xbc00 [0xbc01].
> I/O at 0xc000 [0xc001].
> I/O at 0xc400 [0xc401].
> Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Trident Image 975 (rev 243).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 16. Master Capable.
> Late
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5400000 [0xe5400000].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5800000 [0xe5800000].
I'm going to include some data from my system configuration. I don't
recall all the steps I went through to arrive at this, but *it works*.
Note that the patch applied to the kernel (2.2.18) is Hedricks 12/21
patch. Previous patch would boot from floppy but not from mbr. Note
also that 2.4.0 fails from the mbr as well. Will boot from floppy but
there are other issues keeping me from using it.
You may have to modify some of these entries e.g. idecd. I use
scsi/atapi for CD writing per cdrecord; if you don't do this configure
for ide. I suppose you have enough common sense to determine what your
chipset and other hardware require.
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_EXPERIMENTAL=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_WIP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD7409 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y
CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OSB4 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
Your /etc/lilo.conf may also require some fine tuning. Again this works
quite well:
boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 50
prompt
default = linux18-100
vga = normal
read-only
map=/boot/map
install = /boot/boot.b
disk = /dev/hda #first hd detected is always "a"
bios = 0x80 #bios of first hd is always 0x80
disk = /dev/hdb
bios = 0x81
#/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd are cdrom's.
disk = /dev/hde
bios = 0x82
disk = /dev/hdg
bios = 0x83
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18
label = linux18-100
vga = normal
root = /dev/hdg3
append = "ide0 = 0x1f0, 0x3f6 ide1 = 0x170, 0x376 ide2 = 0xbc00,
0xc002 ide3 = 0xc400, 0x802"
image = /boot/kernel-2.2.18
label = linux18
vga = normal
root = /dev/hdb7
append = "ide0 = 0x1f0, 0x3f6 ide1 = 0x170, 0x376 ide2 = 0xbc00,
0xc002 ide3 = 0xc400, 0x802"
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0
label = linux24
vga = normal
root = /dev/hdg3
other = /dev/hda1
label = dos
Make sure your BIOS is set for a P n P OS and auto handles the irq's. I
believe linux is supposed to handle them if the BIOS doesn't, but I
can't prove that. And I know it failed when I disabled it in BIOS.
BTW, I did notice something strange with my Western Digitals on the
Promise controller. As you can see I have them on ide2 and ide3. I
found that if I set the jumpers in the "master" position it wouldn't
work. Leaving the jumpers either off or in some inconsequential
position works fine.
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