Linux-Hardware Digest #347, Volume #14 Wed, 14 Feb 01 18:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Can I use my ATA/100 hard drive with my ATA/66 controller motherboard? ("Mordak")
highpoint ide-raid ("Ferry van Doorn")
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter (Aaron Kulkis)
power management under X doesn't work, outside of X is fine. (Stewart Hector)
Re: Can't compile emu10k1 for SBlive (Stewart Hector)
Re: How to get the Aiptek Hyperpen 8000 working (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Re: S.O.S. for my parport scanner ("Ferry van Doorn")
Re: Beowulf
All of linux in this site www.frecell.6go.net is the best site of linux ("frecell")
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Problems with IDE HDD and DMA ("Mordak")
Re: IDE RAID5 card (?) (Vincent Fox)
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter (Peter Hayes)
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: highpoint ide-raid (Vincent Fox)
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ghost on Linux boot drive ("Peter T. Breuer")
NEED HELP, lost partition table (Kostis Mentzelos)
Help: NFS and Input/output error (Xiaoqin Qiu)
Re: DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Re: Swap Partition Error (JosvK.)
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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 20:11:53 GMT
It's an IDE Hard drive controller. It worked fine with windows but SuSE
didn't have any drives so I removed it until I can use it again.
Incidentally, it came with a special driver disc for windows because I got
it when the ATA/100 drives were just starting to come out. CompUSA had it
before the hard drives.
Mordak
"John Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
|
| >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
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ferry van Doorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: highpoint ide-raid
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:53:37 +0100
I have a highpoint udma 100 controller with two harddrives in raid
0(stripping), now I've seen that the drivers for this card don't support
riad, but I've also seen that in kernel 2.4 has raid support. Can I combine
these two to get my raid working?
Greetz,
Ferry
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:59:24 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:21:04 -0700, Chris Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Yea.
> >> Run Windows instead of Linsux .
> >>
> >> Or, do without your hardware like most Linux users.
>
> I have been using a USB keyboard, mouse and joystick for 12 months.
>
> I have been using fully suppported 3D gaming cards of various kinds
> for over 2 years.
>
> I have been using a flatbed scanner and video overlay card for
> over 2 years.
>
> What is it that I'm supposed to be missing?
Blue screens of death.
>
> >
> >Hmmm, still waiting for Win98 to support my USB Jumpshot card reader.
>
> --
>
> The LGPL does infact tend to be used instead of the GPL in instances
> where merely reusing a component, while not actually altering that
> component, would be unecessarily burdensome to people seeking to
> build their own works.
>
> This dramatically alters the nature and usefulness of Free Software
> in practice, contrary to the 'all viral all the time' fantasy the
> anti-GPL cabal here would prefer one to believe.
> |||
> / | \
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:00:24 -0500
Chris Webster wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:21:04 -0700, Chris Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Yea.
> > >> Run Windows instead of Linsux .
> > >>
> > >> Or, do without your hardware like most Linux users.
> >
> > I have been using a USB keyboard, mouse and joystick for 12 months.
> >
> > I have been using fully suppported 3D gaming cards of various kinds
> > for over 2 years.
> >
> > I have been using a flatbed scanner and video overlay card for
> > over 2 years.
> >
> > What is it that I'm supposed to be missing?
>
> Just Winmodems, if that's considered a flaw.... ;^)
Actually, there are drivers for LOSEmodems now, too.
>
> --Chris
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: Stewart Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: power management under X doesn't work, outside of X is fine.
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:50:54 +0000
hi.
The motherboard I have will go into a deep sleep under a linux console,
*outside* of X.. it will power down hard discs, etc.
However, inside of X this doesn't happen: As soon as the motherboard powers
down, for some reason it is powered back up again.
What is forcing it to power back upa gain, and how can i get around this?
Using the hdparam command I can make the hard disc power down OK while
under X. And using the xset command I can set the cpu to sleep.
So, something must be waking up the PC - What is forcing it to power back
up again, under X. and how can i get around this?
Thanks.
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From: Stewart Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't compile emu10k1 for SBlive
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:56:00 +0000
I have had this problem before: its the fault of Mdk 7.2.
One of the sblive header files ( *.h) in the 2.2 subdirectory contains a
IFDEF (i think its an IFDEF) which decides what to compile in if you have a
certain kernel version. You need to "move" the IFDEF block to make sure
you don't compile in code until you remove all the compiler errors.
Its been a while since I have done this.
And so it came to pass that on 12 Feb 2001 05:52:04 GMT, Mike Manley wrote
as thus:
> I keep getting Error #1 when make gets to audio.o.
>
> I got this with kernel version 2.2.17 and now with 2.4.1.
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on a Gateway Performance 800 which has a Sound
> Blaster Live! Value card in it.
>
> I've tried 'make install' and also the instructions at linuxnewbie.org.
> Same error. I've tried compiling as a user and as root. Same error.
>
> If you haven't come across this error before, can you tell me what to do
> to generate more output that will help me track this down?
>
> Thanks.
>
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From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get the Aiptek Hyperpen 8000 working
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:59:04 +0100
Jacob Hooysma wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm using SuSe 7.0 and i've got a a Hyperpen 8000 (USB) from Aiptek.
> Does anybody know how to get this device working under SuSe ?
>
> Any help is welcome...
>
> Grtx Jacob
>
>
Hi,
recently I�ve got this mail on the sunject:
***************************************
Guten Morgen Ulrich,
ich habe in einer Newsgroup Deine Frage nach Linux-Treibern gefunden. Die
schlechte Nachricht: im Moment gibt es keine. Die gute Nachricht: bald gibt es
vielleicht welche. Ich habe (zusammen mit ein paar anderen) die Treiber fuer
die seriellen Hyperpens geschrieben und bekomme jetzt von Aiptek ein Tablett
und Doku fuer die Treiberentwicklung. Sobald ich etwas habe, wirst Du es auf
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xf86digitaledge/ finden.
11------------------------------------!!
Gruss,
Christian
************************************************
hopefully Christian soon will have something for us. Visit the referred
website after some time, and maybe the driver is there
TTFN Ulrich.
--
<O
\\__///
/\ Save the curlew!
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From: "Ferry van Doorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S.O.S. for my parport scanner
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:20:53 +0100
"aco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi! Guys:
> Finally (after some years) I'm moving to LINUX next month. After having
> checked up&down for drivers, it seems the only hard I'll be unable to
> "save" will be my mustek paragon II 800 ep scanner. Please, Does anyone
> know anything about this scanner running under LINUX?
> Many thanks in advance!!
> aco
>
Maybe this will help:
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
I couldn't find the ide version, only the scsi of your type.
grtz,
Ferry
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Beowulf
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:30:10 -0000
i built a 4+1 pentium class beowulf cluster
what can you expect? ............can you be more specific f
the programs have to be parallelised before you can run them on all the
processors
Pradeep
>
> Anyone has experience with this ? What should I expect if I wanted to
build
> a small one, say 4+1 pentium class..?
> And do all applications make use of the cpu's ?
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From: "frecell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: All of linux in this site www.frecell.6go.net is the best site of linux
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:43:48 +0100
All of linux in this site www.frecell.6go.net is the best site of linux
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:48:04 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Chris Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
>> >>
>> >>% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
>> >>
>> >>it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
>> >>adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
>>
>> What card? What are you talking about???? Laptops don't have "cards" in
>> the same way as desktops do. They have pcmcia sockets or cardbus
>> sockets.
> Hate for you to be the last person to find out, but they do now. It's
> called *miniPCI*. On my Dell C800 its a little card that plugs into the
So I have been informed (by mail)!
> bottom, it currently allows built in ethernet and modem. miniPCI is
> also used in docking stations. It is supported under linux.
Apparently these are mini PCI cards. As such, tehy work just like any
PCI card. Hooray. This years innovation.
Can one go round buying these things? I was just screwing up courage to
buy one of those usb video disk thingies that fit into walkmen or
something, to see if I could make it work like disk.
> To original poster:
> If you 'cat /proc/pci' does the minPCI and 3com show up?
One would hope it shows up as a normal pci device. Is there a
second bus (with a bridge to it) or is it just the cards that are mini?
Peter
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From: "Mordak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with IDE HDD and DMA
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:08:04 GMT
Try chaintechs site http://www.chaintech.de/QUESTION/QUESTION.HTM. (I think
you would want the German site for the Vienna area.) See if they have a
flash update program to update the bios for your board. I had to do that for
my old Mobo and 266 PII cpu. It wouldn't allow me to boot with my LS-120 but
the bios update fixed that.
Mordak
Markus Wrote:
|
| My Bios seems to be really broken, no matter what I enter, it doesn't
| detect anything :-(
|
|
| --
| Markus Gaugusch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Subject: Re: IDE RAID5 card (?)
Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:07:25 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
writes:
>I'm looking for some kind of IDE RAID card for Linux that
>supports RAID5. Does such a thing exist ? Do the 3Ware
>cards support it ?
On 4 and 8-port versions, 3Ware does RAID 5.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: Peter Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:04:32 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:44:03 +0100, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:24 -0800, "Guillermo Auad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> >>I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
> >>
> >>% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
> >>
> >>it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
> >>adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
>
> What card? What are you talking about???? Laptops don't have "cards" in
> the same way as desktops do. They have pcmcia sockets or cardbus
> sockets. You need to install pcmcia drivers, and pcmcia tools, and so
> on.
These will be installed along with the rest of the OS. I'd be very
surprised if any laptop installation didn't install all the pcmcia modules,
etc.
I recently got a 56k pcmcia modem for my Gateway laptop running Mandrake
7.2 All I had to do was change the modem device in KPPP from ttyS0 (the
Com1 port for my external modem) to ttyS1 for the pcmcia card. That's all.
Windoze ME required the driver disk and the obliatory reboot (geez, when
WILL MS get away from this obsession with rebooting???).
Same scenario with my cheapskate ethernet card, identified as a NE2000
clone.
The original poster will have to find the driver for the card. Windows
Control Panel may help here.
Boot the machine with the card inserted. I'd be surprised if Kudzu couldn't
find the card, it usually does an excellent job of identifying hardware,
much better than Windows (which recently added an extra network card to my
Win98 box all by itself. I hadn't even taken the case off the machine).
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:51:06 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:21:04 -0700, Chris Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yea.
>>> Run Windows instead of Linsux .
>>>
>>> Or, do without your hardware like most Linux users.
> I have been using a USB keyboard, mouse and joystick for 12 months.
I must admit I've been using a usb keybd for a while, and just got a
mouse and camera). And I'm using kernel 2.2.15, slightly patched.
> I have been using a flatbed scanner and video overlay card for
> over 2 years.
Well, on that I think I run 5 years.
> What is it that I'm supposed to be missing?
Some joystick thing, I think. Also all those win* devices. Of course
it takes a while to support idiosyncratic proprietary hardware. What
beats me is why the companies who get supported in thsi way don't pay a
reward to the authors.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Subject: Re: highpoint ide-raid
Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:17:28 GMT
In <96er5c$b0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Ferry van Doorn"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a highpoint udma 100 controller with two harddrives in raid
>0(stripping), now I've seen that the drivers for this card don't support
>riad, but I've also seen that in kernel 2.4 has raid support. Can I combine
>these two to get my raid working?
The HighPoint BIOS RAID capability is like a WinModem.
It only works with the right device drivers. And even
then it has some deficiencies. Like I got it to work just
fine in mirroring in a Win2K box, but it has no BIOS programming
or userland app to beep and warn you a disk has failed!
It just keeps working, well until the other drive fails too.
For Linux, you'd access them as just drives, and be doing
the Linux software RAID.
I'm switching to 3Ware IDE RAID controllers.
Actually has monitoring programs that will beep
the console, e-mail a system account etc.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:29:52 GMT
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:21:04 -0700, Chris Webster
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Yea.
>> Run Windows instead of Linsux .
>>
>> Or, do without your hardware like most Linux users.
>
>Hmmm, still waiting for Win98 to support my USB Jumpshot card reader.
>
>--Chris
Maybe you're just not looking hard enough?
http://www.lexarmedia.com/dfreaders/dfr-software.html
BTW what does that thing do anyway?
Flatfish
Why do they call it a flatfish?
Remove the ++++ to reply.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghost on Linux boot drive
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:27:39 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tuesday February 13 2001 23:13, Dances With Crows wrote to All:
> DC> http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ and look for the Hard-Drive Upgrade
> DC> HOWTO.
> I am familiar with that old HOWTO, which btw is not included in the
> recent distros. Awfully complicated! There must be a better way.
Complicated? It's a one-liner!
> DC> Ghost is not necessary at all, and I wouldn't bother with it
> DC> anyway.
> Why not?
Because the task you are trying to do is trivial.
> Tomsrtbt is highly recommended.
Not by me. I always prefer a slackware root or rescue disk. Far better.
And at least STANDARD. What gave tom the idea of using a nonstandard
format on his floppy? You just try fiddling with the stuff on it ...
Peter
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From: Kostis Mentzelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEED HELP, lost partition table
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:35:11 +0200
Hi all, this is very strange.
I add a big IDE Hard Disk to my fine working SuSE linux 5.1
on my old Altos machine.
I configured it with fdisk as one partition
/dev/hda1 (16h,63s,39813c 20.5GB) , I run mkfs.ext2 -m 0 -i 1024 -b 1024
and I mount it on /u.
After the first reboot the partition table vanished and
I couldn't mount /u.
I configured it again the same way and it worked fine
for about a week.
Yesterday the partition table vanished again and the filesystem
collapse. I couldn't run fsck or configure the disk.
Do you have any idea?
Kostis Mentzelos
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From: Xiaoqin Qiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Help: NFS and Input/output error
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:43:11 -0800
Hi everyone,
I just installed a RedHat Linux 7 with kernel 2.2.16-22 on a HP omnibook
6000 laptop. This machine is a NIS client in our network and I installed
amd on it. Now I got several problems for it.
1) I keep getting the following error messages for NFS mount directories
in the /var/log/messages file:
nfs_statfs: statfs error = 5
nfs_stat_to_errno: bad nfs status return value: 116
2) amd is not working.
3) All the NIS users cann't login with no error message. (I think maybe
it is because the home directory is on NFS server and amd doesn't work.)
How to set up system so that user can login even if the home directory
cann't be mounted correctly? I know telnet can allow it. But how about
Gnome and KDE login?
3) reboot of the Linux cann't come up all the way. Actually it looks
like it got halted.
Thank you very much!
Xiaoqin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DPT SmartRAID VI on BIG server
Date: 14 Feb 2001 22:53:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
In <96e1nn$hfm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Doug Forbush" wrote:
> I put together a linux box at work here, it has the DPT smartRaid VI.. It
> also has 2G of RAM on it.. The install was great, simple kernel patch,
> compile and install.. The RAID works great IF I tell linux that there is
> only 900M RAM.. I'm not sure exactly how high I can go, but at 960M, the
> RAID initialization fails and /dev/sdc is not there..
>
> Any ideas on why this happens and how to get back over a gig of RAM?
>
> doug
>
That is very strange. At what point does initialization fail, as you put it ?
Do you
actually see 'DPT RAIDx' ( where x is the raid number ) on the DPT
banner ( in place of the brand name and model number of the
your SCSI drives ) when you boot the machine ? How did you build the array ?
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From: JosvK. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap Partition Error
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:55:58 +0100
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>
> recently, i've been receiving the following error report in
> /var/log/message:
>
> Feb 14 05:10:21 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of
> device]
> Feb 14 05:10:21 kernel: 03:03: rw=0, want=754065968,
> limit=2827440t [IPCP 14 05:10id=0x3 <addr 1kernel: dev 03:03
> blksize=4096 blocknr=-1958967157 sector=1508131928 size=4096 count=1
>
> i'm guessing device 03:03 is /dev/hda3. that's my swap partition (it's
> approx 90MB). when i receive this error, my filesystem usually sustains
> some damage. The last time this happened, linux reported that i had a
> file that was several terabytes long (which is wrong since i've only got
> an 8GB hdd :))), libraries were deleted when i ran fsck and it caused me
> a lot of headaches overall.
>
> I know that my harddrive isn't damaged. i've run badblocks on it several
> times. i've been running linux on this HDD for a while now...and it's
> only recently that these problems have been cropping up. what exactly is
> the problem and how can i fix it???
>
> thanks
> ali
>
--
Check if maybe some forgotten log file is filling up your sestem resources
e.g. ls -lR | sort +4n
(might take some time)
met vriendelijke groet,
Jos K.
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