Linux-Hardware Digest #234, Volume #14 Tue, 23 Jan 01 14:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why? (moonie;))
Re: A7V-133 IDE raid support? ("Keith Wheeler")
hdparm (Eric Ho)
Questionable boot up messages (David Filion)
Soundcard: YMF744 and optical output (Stephan Rottmann)
Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story...... (Henrik Carlqvist)
RH 7.0 & ATA100 on Asus A7V ("Keith Wheeler")
Re: hdparm ("Corey W. Clamp")
Re: Cable question ("Keith Wheeler")
Re: Microsoft FUD here? ("Corey W. Clamp")
Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System ("Adam Becker")
Re: Microsoft FUD here? ("BDS")
Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PS/2 mouse will not select/copy (David Filion)
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard
Subject: Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:08:30 -0500
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Marcus Lauer wrote:
>Steve Swiss wrote:
>
>> First let me tell you I am no novice user, I have been using linux since
>> the kernel was like 0.8 or something, and I am pretty sure this isn't
>> BIOS problem or a jumpering problem or something so trivial, but I hope
>> it is. ;)
>>
>> I had been running a older TX mainboard with DMA using the following:
>> M-Tech R541 Mainboard w/96 Meg Ram
>> Symbios Logic 53c875 SCSI card with 9 Gig Seagate UW Barracuda
>> Generic CD-Rom 48x /dev/hda
>> HP9100i CD-RW /dev/hdc
>> 3Com 3C595 10/100 Network Card
>> Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla Sound Card
>> ATI Expert @ Play 98 PCI Video
>> Dual Boot Win98/Linux-Mandrake 7.2
>>
>> Everything worked fine and dandy, but slow for me, So I got a new MSI
>> K7T-Pro2A Mainboard with 192 Meg PC133 Ram and a AMD Duron 800 CPU,
>> swapped it into a new ATX case with a 300 watt PS, all other peripherals
>> the same, except using onboard sound instead of TB card. Well Windows 98
>> worked perfectly, can burn a cd and surf the net and compile C code
>> while never getting the CD-RW's buffer under 90% while copying a CD.
>> Problem comes when under Linux, system is irrattic, doesn't allow the
>> proper use of any IDE device, gives lots of errors if it does boot up,
>> errors are timeouts and lost interrupts on IDE devices from either the
>> kernel or ide-scsi module, if I remove the HP9100i, everything is OK,
>> Hook it back up and whether I load the ide-scsi module or not the system
>> just goes bonkers. I have tried swapping IDE channels, turning DMA on
>> and off, and just about anything else I can think of. If anyone has any
>> ideas, it would be appreciated. Would really like to use a real OS
>> instead of Win98. ;)
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>>
>
>
> That MSI board uses the new Via vt686b South Bridge. Supposedly this
>is not perfectly supported under Linux yet. I remember reading that ATA-33
>support works fine, but ATA-66 and -100 support is not there yet. I wish I
>could tell you exactly how to solve this problem, but I don't know. Maybe
>setting your hard drives to ATA-33 mode?
>
> Incidentally, I also have an 800Mhz Duron and that same MSI
>motherboard coming to me in the mail as we speak, so if you even find a
>solution, please tell me :)
This would be a problem for me as well, as I was just getting ready to order
this board. I would like to point out that I have been using the vt686 (FIC
503a) for about a year with NO problems at ATA/66. Anybody else having any
problem with the vt686b?
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
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Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
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Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
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From: "Keith Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A7V-133 IDE raid support?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:48:46 -0700
Henning,
I have that motherboard. It is an Asus A7V with 200MHz FSB and PC133 SDRAM
support. You may be thinking of the Abit K7 series. I believe they have an
IDE RAID M/B.
I am running the AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000 on the Asus A7V. I have two
Intel PRO/100+ NIC's. I have installed RH 7.0 and it runs, but my onboard
Promise ATA100 controller is not yet supported. Other than that it runs
great. I have "played" with the 2.4.0 kernel which DOES have support for the
Promise controller, but this introduces boot difficulties (can't boot to
Promise controller).
Currently I have the HDD on the VIA ATA66 controller and all is fine.
Waiting for RH to encorporate 2.4.x into the next RH release for now.
Hope that helps.
Good Luck,
KW
Henning Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello everyone,
> i have heard with the new ASUS A7V-133 mainboard comes a hardware ide-raid
> controller, is it known to be supported? Is it known if someone is working
at
> drivers (Kernelsupport) for this feature?
> Or is it maybe allready supported and i just don't know?
> any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Henning Evers
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hdparm
Date: 23 Jan 2001 18:14:08 GMT
Could someone teach me how to optimize my hard disk performance
using hdparm ?
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
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From: David Filion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: mlist.linux.kernel
Subject: Questionable boot up messages
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:10:33 -0500
I recently upgraded to 2.4.0 with SMP and am curious about some of the
messages I get. Here are the messages I'm most concerned with:
1)
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-10, 2-11, 2-17, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23
not connected.
2)
CPU#0 NMI appears to be stuck.
3)
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail...
4)
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
5)
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
6)
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
(Q: does this mean the bus it at 33 while the CPU and SDRAM are at 133?)
I've done research into some of these but I'm still not clean which ones
I
should worry about.
I've included the full listing below so you can see these lines in
context.
Here is a quick summary of my system:
Abit VP6
VIA Apollo Pro 133A Chipset with 133MHz capability for CPU and SDRAM
Intel P3 866Mhz (133 bus) x 2
256M SDRAM (133 bus) x 2
Abit VP6 mother board
- 370 Socket x 2
- VIA VT82C694X and VT82C686B chipsets
- Supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100
- AGP slot (APG 1X/2X/4X)
- PS/2 mouse
- PS/2 keyboard
- USB port X 2
Qunatum 30Gb 7200 ATA/100 harddisk (/dev/hda)
Sony CD-RW (/dev/hdc)
ASUS GeForce2 V7700 (32M) AGP videocard
SMC NEC2000 pci ethernet card (connected to a cable modem)
Software:
Slackware 7.1 + some updates
GLIBC 2.2
GCC 2.91.66
Thanks ahead!
=============================================================================
reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 730.79 usecs.
Getting VERSION: 40011
Getting VERSION: 40011
Getting ID: 0
Getting ID: f000000
Getting LVT0: 700
Getting LVT1: 400
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
CPU present map: 3
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
Setting warm reset code and vector.
1.
2.
3.
Asserting INIT.
Waiting for send to finish...
+Deasserting INIT.
Waiting for send to finish...
+#startup loops: 2.
Sending STARTUP #1.
After apic_write.
Initializing CPU#1
CPU#1 (phys ID: 1) waiting for CALLOUT
Startup point 1.
Waiting for send to finish...
+Sending STARTUP #2.
After apic_write.
Startup point 1.
Waiting for send to finish...
+After Startup.
Before Callout 1.
After Callout 1.
CALLIN, before setup_local_APIC().
masked ExtINT on CPU#1
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 1730.15 BogoMIPS
Stack at about c189bfbc
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
OK.
CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
CPU has booted.
Before bogomips.
Total of 2 processors activated (3453.74 BogoMIPS).
Before bogocount - setting activated=1.
Boot done.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
Synchronizing Arb IDs.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-5, 2-10, 2-11, 2-17, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23
not connected.
..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
activating NMI Watchdog ... done.
CPU#0 NMI appears to be stuck.
number of MP IRQ sources: 19.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00178011
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
06 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
07 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
08 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
09 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0f 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
10 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 89
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 91
13 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 2
IRQ1 -> 1
IRQ3 -> 3
IRQ4 -> 4
IRQ6 -> 6
IRQ7 -> 7
IRQ8 -> 8
IRQ9 -> 9
IRQ12 -> 12
IRQ13 -> 13
IRQ14 -> 14
IRQ15 -> 15
IRQ16 -> 16
IRQ18 -> 18
IRQ19 -> 19
.................................... done.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 865.3824 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 133.1356 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1331356, slice: 443785
CPU0<T0:1331344,T1:887552,D:7,S:443785,C:1331356>
cpu: 1, clocks: 1331356, slice: 443785
CPU1<T0:1331344,T1:443760,D:14,S:443785,C:1331356>
checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
Setting commenced=1, go go go
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P3) -> 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P3) -> 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I12,P0) -> 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I13,P0) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16
isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
DMI 2.3 present.
40 structures occupying 1195 bytes.
DMI table at 0x000F0800.
BIOS Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
BIOS Version: 6.00 PG
BIOS Release: 11/06/2000
System Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc..
Product Name: VT82C694X.
Version .
Serial Number .
Board Vendor: ABIT <http://www.abit.com.tw>.
Board Name: 694X-686B (VP6).
Board Version: v1.0 ~.
Starting kswapd v1.8
request_module[parport_lowlevel]: Root fs not mounted
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS30.0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST32140A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX160E, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 60233564 sectors (30840 MB) w/1902KiB Cache, CHS=3749/255/63
hdb: 4127760 sectors (2113 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, DMA
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xdc00, IRQ 19, 00:E0:29:39:DE:EE.
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20000928 on minor 63
es1371: version v0.27 time 22:10:36 Jan 22 2001
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
Adding Swap: 248996k swap-space (priority -1)
Adding Swap: 124988k swap-space (priority -2)
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 22:13:35 Jan 22 2001
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8061 found, IO at 0xe000-0xe01f, IRQ 18
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
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From: Stephan Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundcard: YMF744 and optical output
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:16:14 +0100
Hi !
I have a sound-card with the Yamaha YMF744-chip under SuSE 7.0 with alsa...
Now, i want to use the optical output.
What have I to do to get a signal to the optical line ?
Rotti
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story......
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:46:23 +0100
Tina Carter wrote:
> Don't try to make things diffcult......
> Simple question was, Why my "Makefile" doesn't work.......?
A "Makefile" is only a textfile containing instructions for a program
called "make". It seems as if you haven't got the "make" program
installed.
Without the "make" program you will probably not be able to compile any
program from source. Even if you choose to install a binary package
containing wvdial it would be a good idea to install make anyway as it
might be useful for installing other programs in the future. Most
programs also need a C-compiler to be compiled.
regards Henrik
--
spammer strikeback:
root@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Keith Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7.0 & ATA100 on Asus A7V
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:25:41 -0700
I am reaching a point where I need to decide which way to go to continue to
move forward with my Linux system and would like to solicit some opinions
from the Newsgroup.
My hardware platform consists of the following:
Asus A7V (VIA chipset w/ Promise ATA100 onboard)
AMD Athlon 1000 Thunderbird
256MB PC133 ECC SDRAM
2 - Intel PRO/100+ NIC's
IBM 45GB 7200 RPM ATA100 HDD
48x Toshiba CD-ROM
SoundBlaster 128PCI
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP w/ 64MB
I am currently running the IBM HDD on the VIA ATA66 controller so RH7.0
(Guiness) (sp?) would find and install onto the HDD. But I would like to
install it back onto the onboard Promise ATA100 controller.
I have downloaded and played with the new 2.4.0 kernel, but have encountered
problems getting the 2.4.0 kernel to boot directly off the HDD. Also have
had NFS Lock problems which I understand are known to be an issue in the
2.4.0 kernel, so am now taking a wait and see attitude with regard to 2.4.x.
I have seen banter on this and other newsgroups about patching the 2.2.x
kernel to support the Promise controller. But the
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ URL
specifies it is for the 2.2.18 kernel and RH 7.0 uses a 2.2.16-22 kernel.
Bottom line, should I try to patch the 2.2.16-22 RH 7.0 kernel with this
2.2.18 patch? Should I try to wait for RH 7.1x? Should I look at another
Linux distro? I am new to Linux but been doing networking professionally for
13+ years, mostly with Novell. I find Linux to be very much like NetWare 2.x
where changes usually meant re-compiles of the kernel. That does not bother
me in the least.
Ultimately this system will get used as my edge device on my home network.
Therefore I am planning to run NAT, Apache, Sendmail or Qmail (not sure yet
which), JWebmail (SourceForge), ftpd, Squid proxy cache, and Webmin to make
daily admin easy.
So there you go. Please reply to my post and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
KW
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From: "Corey W. Clamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hdparm
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:26:34 GMT
Well I don't know exactly what kind of drive you are using, etc etc...
But to test the performance of your drive use "hdparm -t /dev/hd*"
Then you can enable 32-bit access and DMA with the "-d1 -c1" switches, run
the test again and see how it changes. Then when you are satisfied with the
results, write an rc script to apply the settings at boot.
If you need further help email me and I'll see what I can do to help...
Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:94khlg$e0a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Could someone teach me how to optimize my hard disk performance
> using hdparm ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Eric Ho
>
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From: "Keith Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable question
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:27:10 -0700
Rinaldi,
They shouldn't be THAT sensitive. Sounds like the cable MAY be flaky. Do you
have another to replace it?
KW
Rinaldi J. Montessi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Just how sensitive are the ide and power cables? Meaning is it normal
> that if a 40/80 pin ide cable is moved slightly on a running system that
> the status may be interrupted? This is more a wiggle than a tug, and
> can occur on both on/off board devices.
>
> --
> Rinaldi]$
> "Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
> glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
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From: "Corey W. Clamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:28:45 GMT
Excuse the ignorance, but what exactly does FUD stand for?
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In dealing with "Tina", I began to wonder if we were dealing with a
> > Microsoftian prank, but I didn't want to say anything. Now that
> > someone else has raised the issue, I'm wondering how we address it.
> > Even if Tina is legit, there will be other FUD's along those lines.
>
> > Here's my thoughts: If a few exchanged postings don't do the job,
> > recommend contacting someone in the local LUG. The complainer can
>
> I think contacting the local hospital would have been more appropriate.
> I'd be more worried about her parents than anything else.
>
>
> > to send strangers into someone's home). This way, the physical system
> > can be examined and debugged more reasonably.
>
> !!
>
> > If the complainer won't help arrange contact with a LUG, I'm willing
> > to believe we are dealing with a FUD prank.
>
> Peter
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From: "Adam Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:52:22 -0500
Thanks All,
I works with 2.2.18 with the latest patch(1221)!
"Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This is a resend. Originally sent Mon 7:17 PM EST
>
> I suspect it may be an issue with new/quoted text. Will snip
> (grudgingly) quoted material.
>
> Adam Becker wrote:
>
> <snip technical background stuff, hrumph>
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Rinaldi]$
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From: "BDS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:50:58 -0600
Corey W. Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:x3kb6.1067$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Excuse the ignorance, but what exactly does FUD stand for?
>
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
-BDS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed
Date: 23 Jan 2001 18:46:17 GMT
In comp.os.linux.alpha Cluster B. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But in alpha, Ultra-160 is not supported in internal SCSI controller
> yet, I know.
You mean by that that various built-in SCSI controllers you can find on
some Alpha boxes are not of Ultra-160 kind (which may be true, as this
is a hardware limitation) or that Linux kernel on Alpha will not support
Ultra-160 (which is obviously false and easily refutable by a simple
experiment with some sym53c81010 controller and current drivers)?
The situation is _exactly_ the same one for x86 boards with this
difference that I do not recall ever seeing x86 machine with a builtin
SCSI controller. But maybe there are some?
Michal
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From: David Filion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS/2 mouse will not select/copy
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:06:34 -0500
I recently installed slack. 7.1 on a new system. Unlike my old system,
this one uses a ps/2 interface for the mouse. My problem is that unlike
on my old system, when I select text, it does not seem to get copied to
the 'clipboard' like on my old system (a serial mouse).
Why is that? It has the same problem under X-windows.
The mouse is a MS Wheel mouse. If I remember correctly, the GPM(?)
deamon uses the imps setting and /dev/mouse (link to /dev/psaux).
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