Linux-Hardware Digest #345, Volume #14 Wed, 14 Feb 01 12:13:07 EST
Contents:
Loading linux............ <reboot> (hauke wulff)
Re: Urgent: mandrake7.2 aic-7892b smp ("Alessio Spadaro")
Re: @@@@ I have fogotten my password help!!! @@@@@@@ (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Getting a faster IDE controller (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Can I use my ATA/100 hard drive with my ATA/66 controller motherboard?
("Mordak")
Re: hdparm crashes system (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Can't delete file (Jean-Francois Landry)
Re: @@@@ I have fogotten my password help!!! @@@@@@@ (Eric P. McCoy)
CED-8080B (cd writer) ("Mauro A. Cremonini")
Re: Linux 2.2.16-22 and Adaptec AHA-1520 (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP ("Matt Weisman")
Re: Can I use my ATA/100 hard drive with my ATA/66 controller motherboard? (John
Culleton)
Re: Newbie Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Driver for Lexmark Z12 printer (Mark Bratcher)
Re: @@@@ I have fogotten my password help!!! @@@@@@@ (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Supressing Audio Feedback (bgeer)
AMD increses bus from 266mhz to 6.4 gigs! (gman1)
Linux cannot boot on MSI 694D PRO-AIR Board ("Joern Koerner")
[slightly OT] Hauppauge WinTV card (Mike Edwards)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hauke wulff)
Subject: Loading linux............ <reboot>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:10:18 +0100
Hello,
i have a big problem to boot linux with lilo. It is an old Compaq
DeskPro XE 4100 with 20MB RAM. It has two 2 hd's:
<kernel>
hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT_CY2160A, 2014MB w/67kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63
hdb: ST33210A, 3098MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=8374/16/63
...
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [1023/64/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: [PTBL] [1046/128/63] hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
</kernel>
I use lilo-21.6.1 for booting. My problem is now the computer reboots
after lilo has loaded the kernel. I believe i can see the \n after all
the dots. :-)
I can not say where the problem is. If the problem is a CHS mismatch so
i tried many "lilo.conf" options like "linear" with setting the disk
geometry and without, but not the "LBA32" option because the BIOS does
not support LBA32 adressing.
I have the same problem if i put lilo and the kernel on a floppy disk.
But if i use an old suse bootdisk **without** lilo i can boot the
computer.
As a result of that i believe it is a problem kernel <-> lilo. Maybe
also the memory.
Has anyone an idee to resolve the problem?
h.wulff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Alessio Spadaro")
Subject: Re: Urgent: mandrake7.2 aic-7892b smp
Date: 14 Feb 2001 16:17:45 +0100
A little update:
i tried also red hat 6.2, slackware 7.0, Caldera
The server keep shuttin' down randomly
Please, help me!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: @@@@ I have fogotten my password help!!! @@@@@@@
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:29:58 GMT
At the LILO prompt (if you have one) enter "linux single"
In article <1kFh6.130216$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Morris wrote:
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Getting a faster IDE controller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 14 Feb 2001 10:45:36 -0500
"D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Software raid can actually beat hardware raid in some cases where the
> cpu(s) is (are) fast enough. Software raid has a strong dependency on
> cpu capacity, and it sounds like your cpu's might not be up to the job
> for that portion.
The system is seldom under 100% CPU load, and when it is, it's usually
not bound by disk access. And besides, if striping causes significant
CPU overhead, the md code needs to be rewritten from scratch (unless
I'm missing something big, it should take only a few instructions to
translate md-accesses to device-accesses).
% time hdparm -tT /dev/md0
[...]
real 0m29.671s
user 0m0.220s
sys 0m7.550s
% time hdparm -tT /dev/hda
[...]
real 0m30.635s
user 0m0.210s
sys 0m8.880s
Not quite the results, I expected, but they certainly support my
claim about not being bound by CPU power. (Note, btw, piss-poor
times, for both; about 3.5MB/s.)
> You might consider a newer dual cpu board if you want to keep the
> raid...others have stated cpu might be a part of the problem here
> already. Just don't get the i840 chipset; you can find some very
> inexpensive and NICE BX chipset boards out there now for PIII's that
> would probably have a significant impact on the software raid, and
> give room for other things to improve as well.
That's exactly what I'm trying to scrape together the bucks to do.
But considering that I make only about $55 a week and I'd need around
$600 to complete this plan...
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Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "Mordak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can I use my ATA/100 hard drive with my ATA/66 controller motherboard?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:46:22 GMT
Thanks to both of you.
Mordak
"Federico Bravo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| I currently use an ATA 100 HDD on ATA66 controller and RedHat 7.0. It
works
| fine.
| About performance I can only say that I tried ATA66 and ATA100 running
Windows
| and I DID notice higher speed on ATA100. ( I think Windows sees ATA100 as
SCSI,
| by the way ).
| Bye, Federico.
|
|
|
|
| Mordak wrote:
|
| > Hi all,
| > I just purchased a new 60GB Western Digital HD. It's an ATA/100 IDE
drive
| > and
| > I want to run it on my motherboards (Tyan Trinity S2380 and a Athlon
650)
| > ATA/66 controller - is this possible? I know an older drive can run on a
| > newer controller but I'm unsure about it the other way.
| >
| > Also, will SuSE 7.0/7.1 Pro have a problem with it? I plan on having it
set
| > up to have SuSE, FreeBSD, and Peanut Linux running on it to start and
then I
| > plan on adding Slackware and Debian in a couple of months.
| >
| > I guess I will be surprised if the answer is no with the backward
| > compatibility issue. I do have a CMD ATA/100 PCI Card but I don't
believe it
| > has any Linux drivers at this point. At least not that I have found.
| > Thanks,
| > Mordak
|
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Subject: Re: hdparm crashes system
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 14 Feb 2001 10:51:16 -0500
"Mathis Moder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Help! After reading manual carefully on hdparm i first changed settings on
> fly to > hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -m 16 /dev/hda < no problems there. But after i
> wrote it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local my system holds on CHECKING FILE SYSTEMS.
No messages about errors? Is it rc.local that checks file systems?
If so, it might be hdparm that's hanging, and it just looks like it's
doing a check. (On Debian, at least, it doesn't work that way, but...)
> I can go into maintenance mode, but when i try to change rc.local it
> says volume is read-only.
This:
mount -o rw ROOT-DEV /
should work. (But may not, I'm guessing.)
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Francois Landry)
Subject: Re: Can't delete file
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:53:53 -0500
Once upon a time, Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>bash-2.03# ls -l plusnode.gif
>ls: plusnode.gif: Value too large for defined data type
>bash-2.03# file plusnode.gif
>plusnode.gif: can't stat `plusnode.gif' (Value too large for defined data type).
>bash-2.03# uname -a
>Linux bbs 2.4.1 #38 Wed Feb 7 15:15:35 CST 2001 i586 unknown
>bash-2.03#
>
>Best Regards,
>Eric Ho
Looks like you've created a file larger than 2GB and your fileutils
aren't compiled for large file access.
Just "cat /dev/null > plusnode.gif" and rm it. If that doesn't work,
your filesystem is most likely damaged.
Jean-Francois Landry
--
Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Give up now.
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Subject: Re: @@@@ I have fogotten my password help!!! @@@@@@@
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 14 Feb 2001 10:55:12 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher) writes:
> At the LILO prompt (if you have one) enter "linux single"
On my computer, at least, single-user prompts for the root password.
If you don't enter it, Linux boots to multi-user.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "Mauro A. Cremonini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CED-8080B (cd writer)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:01:26 +0100
Hi!
Has anybody been able to record audio CD with cdrecord and the Goldstar
CED-8080B cd writer?
Just asking because me and some other friends get the same bunch of errors
whenever the writing process begins.
Thanks,
Mauro
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.16-22 and Adaptec AHA-1520
Date: 14 Feb 2001 16:09:12 GMT
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 04:10:53, "Jack Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have a P200 w/ 32mb running Red Hat 7.0/Linux 2.2.16-22 and an Adaptec
> AHA-1520 ISA scsi card. I have been trying to get the card to work in linux
> but I get the following when I run the command:
> modprobe aha152x ioport=0x340 irq=10
>
> aha152x.o: invalid parameter parm_ioport
> aha152x.o: insmod aha152x.o failed
> aha152x.o: insmod aha152x.o failed
It's io= not ioport=
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: "Matt Weisman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:09:13 -0600
Kenneth R�rvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja) wrote in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Kenneth R�rvik wrote:
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cuma) wrote in
> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>I�ve got problems with this graphic card under Red Hat 7.0.
> >>>Can anyone tell me where to get the drivers and how to install them?
> >>
> >>First of all - you should upgrade to XF86 4.0.2. www.xfree86.org
> >
> >.. or rawhide.
>
> And then pay nVidia a visit at
> http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html - recommended. Even
> if the drivers are proprietary... :/
> --
> Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
> Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
The drivers posted there do NOT support the GEForce2 chipset...
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From: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use my ATA/100 hard drive with my ATA/66 controller motherboard?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:16:19 GMT
>compatibility issue. I do have a CMD ATA/100 PCI Card but I don't believe it
>has any Linux drivers at this point. At least not that I have found.
>Thanks,
>Mordak
In general ATA devices are supported by recent kernels. And PCI is no sweat
with recent kernels. What does the CMD card do? Is it an HD controller, an
Ethernet NIC or what?
John Culleton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:50:42 GMT
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:28:51 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I am now trying to get my modem to work it is a Supra 56k pci PnP
>> (#2260 ) device ID# 0x080D4
>
>Isn't this a winmodem?
>
not according to Supra and they made the thing
>> I have attempted to check out the winmodem problem on
>> www.o2.????gromitc????
>> webpage that everyone says to try most times it is down the one time i
>
>It was up earlier today when I checked!
and it was down today and yesterday when i checked
>
>> managed to get it there were like 12 modems on it and I couldn't find
>
>Eh? There are all the major modems covered.
then I must have looked in the wrong place!
>
>> mine or am I looking in the wrong place??
>
>Only you can tell us.
>
Or someone who has beeen there and seen a longer list
>> anyway I called supra (now 3com/diamond) and they say it is NOT
>> software based but that they cannot/willnot help me
>
>Good. So look at the ///proc/pci and confirm what the chip is, tehn
>follow the guides on gromit's page.
as said before no guide found on gromits page.
>
>> my modem is set to com 3 in win95 when i use lspci -v i find a
>> rockwell modem (i dunno) but it doesn't tell me what "port" it uses
>
>Rockwell! So you need one of the two rockwell/connexant drivers that
>have recently become avaialble. They're on the page.
>
thank you is there anyway to tell which one??? i,ll d/l both if the
page ever resurfaces
>Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:51:15 GMT
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:42:35 -0700, "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
First of all let me say thank you so much. You have been very helpfull
I have renewed faith that I may be able to get free from the micro$oft
trap. i was hoping that you could be of further assistance though
I am now much closer as in the setserial line is now working I copied
your "example" except changing to IRQ7 now I need to get the modem
itself configured as it still doesn't have a "port" i attempted to use
setpci for this first I did "cat /proc/pci" the reference to the modem
was as follows:
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
Serial Controler: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1)
Vendor id=127a. Device id=1002.
Medum devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 7
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffad0000
then i used setpci like this
setpci -d127a:1002 IO_BASE=0x03e8
(I tried manybut they all looked a lot like this) anyway that one gave
me an error ?unknown device?? (something to that effect) sometimes it
just echoed what I'd typed to the screen do I need to pipe it to the
/dev/ttyS2 ???
>A partial answer that might get you started.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I recently made the switch to linux Slackware 7 and I have Had no end
>> of troubles......
>>
>> I am now trying to get my modem to work it is a Supra 56k pci PnP
>> (#2260 ) device ID# 0x080D4
>
Generous amount snipped
>
>To see lspci -v and not lose the output:
>lspci -v | less
>
>To view /proc/pci easily:
>less -r -M < /proc/pci
>
>See also "man setpci".
>
>>
>> thanx for any help and I promise to endure all flames for posting a
>> problem that I'm sure y'all have solved a million times before
>>
>> e-mail addy is fake I plan on getting one set-up real soon now...
>
>The rest is probably perseverence of reading and trying things.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Linux Driver for Lexmark Z12 printer
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:12:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, troubadour wrote:
>Does anyone know if there's a suitable driver for LEXMARK's Z12 model?
>I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and need desperately to get my new lexmark
>printer to work
>
Check www.linuxprinting.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: @@@@ I have fogotten my password help!!! @@@@@@@
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:19:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric P. McCoy wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher) writes:
>
>> At the LILO prompt (if you have one) enter "linux single"
>
>On my computer, at least, single-user prompts for the root password.
>If you don't enter it, Linux boots to multi-user.
>
Eric, I'll have to double check when I'm home, but I think mine
does not prompt (at least I don't recall that it does).
Perhaps it is a setting somewhere.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bgeer)
Subject: Re: Supressing Audio Feedback
Date: 14 Feb 2001 09:32:29 -0700
Anes Lihovac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I would like to supress the audio feedback whenn doing microphone
>speech input under linux. I know that under Win32 that this can be
>done very easily, and I would like to have this option too, under
>Linux.
Could this be as simple as muting or reducing the volume setting on
your speakers?
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From: gman1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD increses bus from 266mhz to 6.4 gigs!
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:47:40 GMT
I know this isn't linux specific, but it is news everyone should
know....
"Compared with existing AMD system interconnects that provide bandwidth
up to 266MB/sec, HyperTransport technology's bandwidth of 6.4GB/sec
represents better than a 20-fold increase in data throughput.(40-fold
increase over INTEL 133MB/sec.)"
plans for the first products to be commercially available later this
year.
http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/21042.html
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From: "Joern Koerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux cannot boot on MSI 694D PRO-AIR Board
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:01:40 +0100
Hi everyone,
I�m trying to install RedHad(or any other) Linux on a MSI 694D PRO-AIR Board
(With Promise 20265 ATA100 Controller on board and RAID BIOS) but every
Kernel I tried (2.2.16 and up to 2.4.1) hangs just after detecting the IDE
buses with no comment.
The latest 2.4.1 Kernel detects the VIA IDE, the Promise IDE and right after
that it hangs. ;-((
I�ve updated everything to the newest bios - with no success and there is
really nothing special on this board.
No Cards or whatever...
Has anybody success with installing Linux ??? What I�m doing wrong ???
Any idea ? I really need help !
Thanks
Joern
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [slightly OT] Hauppauge WinTV card
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:02:01 -0600
Hiya folks!
I just installed a Hauppauge WinTV-radio (401) card and the associated
software kwintv and xawtv. They seem to be working OK (altho kwintv
conks out frequently), but I was wondering what other software is
available for this card? I'm especially interested in a program that
would let me listen to the radio that is included on the thing.
Thanks!
Mike
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Edwards Graphic Arts, Inc.
2700 Bell Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50321
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