Linux-Hardware Digest #348, Volume #14 Thu, 15 Feb 01 00:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: IDE RAID5 card (?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter (Chris Webster)
Repost: AWE32 problem in RedHat 7.0 HELP!!! ("Al Mal")
Re: Good news ... Bad news ... Alcatel USB Modem (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: Linux 2.2.16-22 and Adaptec AHA-1520 (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: SCSI bus hangs up, configuration wrong?: HP ScanJet IIcx, ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI bus hangs up, configuration wrong?: HP ScanJet IIcx, ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCSI Bus Reset: No active SCB for reconnecting target ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP Pavilion 9870 can't see keyboard ("Stephen S. Murray")
Re: Can't compile emu10k1 for SBlive (Mike Manley)
Re: Good news ... Bad news ... Alcatel USB Modem ("Al Mal")
Re: nvidia card and monitor despair (Dances With Crows)
Re: Ghost on Linux boot drive (Dances With Crows)
PCI rev 2.2? (Dan Smith)
Re: highpoint ide-raid (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: PCI rev 2.2? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Problem getting SMP enabled on Abit BP6 (Topp Dogg)
i810 and Seagate - 2.4.x Bug? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FOR SALE 3Com ISDN Router 3c895 (Topp Dogg)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IDE RAID5 card (?)
Date: 14 Feb 2001 18:02:53 -0500
Can you please point me to where 3ware.com supports RAID5?
It says so on:
http://www.3ware.com/products/linux3ware.shtml
But when I download the spec sheets (6000, 5000), they mention only
RAID 0 and 1.
Has anyone got it working in RAID5?
Thanks,
Richard
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From: Chris Webster <[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 16:43:39 -0700
> >Hmmm, still waiting for Win98 to support my USB Jumpshot card reader.
.....
> BTW what does that thing do anyway?
Reads compact flash cards (for digital camera in my case). Mounts just
like a disk, then you can copy files on or off.
--Chris
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From: "Al Mal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Repost: AWE32 problem in RedHat 7.0 HELP!!!
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:47:47 GMT
Hi,
I used to set up the sound support in RedHat same way for years but
surprisingly can't get MIDI working in RedHat 7 with any kernel. Here is a
message that is troubling me:
Loading midi module (awe_wave): Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/sound/awe_wave.o: init_module: No such
device
/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/sound/awe_wave.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/sound/awe_wave.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/sound/awe_wave.o: insmod awe_wave failed
[FAILED]
The card (not PNP) is installed on IRQ 5, DMA 1 & 5, port 220. OSS support
is compiled as module with SB support on. sndconfig successfully configured
digital sound but failed on MIDI test.
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: Good news ... Bad news ... Alcatel USB Modem
Date: 14 Feb 2001 23:49:55 GMT
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:22:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:06:34 -0000, Jon Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Does anyone have a beta driver for the Alcatel Speed Touch USB modem.
> >
>
> I don't believe there is one. There was an independent effort that had a
> working beta (I think), but that ran afoul of Alcatel's legal dept from
> what I heard, and that URL is no longer good.
There was an article on www.theregister.co.uk yesterday saying that
Alcatel had agreed to write drivers and would post them (and source)
in about a month's time. Whether it's true is another matter... ;-)
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.16-22 and Adaptec AHA-1520
Date: 14 Feb 2001 23:49:55 GMT
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:44:07, "Jack Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Okay... hmm...
> I tried the following command:
> modprobe aha152x io=0x340 irq=10
>
> and got:
>
> aha152x.o: invalid parameter parm_io
> aha152x.o: insmod aha152x.o failed
I just compiled it and ran
modprobe aha152x io=832 irq=10
and it told me that it couldn't find an adapter (not surprising since
I don't have one (-;). 832 is decimal 0x340. BTW this is also the
default value for io so you probably don't need it at all!
BTW, it doesn't complain about io=0x340 for me either. I am testing
this on 2,40 and it appears that the module has changed quite a lot
between 2.2.13 (my last 2.2.x source) and 2.4.x. I don't see any
mention of it accepting parameters in the format you're using in
2.2.13. If letting it default to 0x340 doesn't work, try IOPORT
instead.
> "Jack Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:mCni6.1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi all:
> >
> > 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
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI bus hangs up, configuration wrong?: HP ScanJet IIcx,
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:31:04 +0100
Bernd Huebenett wrote:
> your configuration seems to be ok (termination and so on). What does
> happen if you do large data transfers on the harddisk while using the
> scanner ??
It works fine.
> I am not a friend of using scanners, zip drives,... at the
> same SCSI controller together with hardisks.
Why? What kind of problem can occur (which cause, not which symptom)?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI bus hangs up, configuration wrong?: HP ScanJet IIcx,
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:36:54 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Bernd Huebenett wrote:
>
> > your configuration seems to be ok (termination and so on). What does
> > happen if you do large data transfers on the harddisk while using the
> > scanner ??
> It works fine.
>
> > I am not a friend of using scanners, zip drives,... at the
> > same SCSI controller together with hardisks.
> Why? What kind of problem can occur (which cause, not which symptom)?
BTW: I have already reduced external cable length to 60 cm, used a 50
pin active pass-through terminator, changed SCSI-BIOS settings
(termination: disabled, enabled, disable Ultra SCSI Speed, no Initate
Sync Negotiation, Disable Disconnection), remove other PCI-cards.
Nothing helped. What does "No active SCB for reconnecting target" mean?
What is an SCB? May it have something to do with Interrupts, DMA?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI Bus Reset: No active SCB for reconnecting target
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:43:38 +0100
Hi,
what does this error message mean? When does it occur? For further
details see Thread "SCSI bus hangs up, configuration wrong?: HP ScanJet
IIcx, AHA-2940AU, HP C1554A".
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From: "Stephen S. Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Pavilion 9870 can't see keyboard
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:52:09 GMT
I installed Mandrake 7.2 on a clean HP Pavilion 9870 machine.
Install went fine and both mouse and keyboard worked during the
installation.
Upon reboot GRUB menu comes up but will not respond to the keyboard
(USB) so only the default system boots (Linux). Boot seems to be okay
(nothing fails) but at the login prompt there is no response to the
keyboad. It Ireplace the USB keyboard with a standard PC keyboard
everthing works properly - what can I do to get Grub and Linux to see
the uSB keyboard that comes with the HP system?
I changed the GRUB default to Windows, attached the USB keyboard and got
the same results at the GRUB menu, but once Windows booted, the keyboard
was working.
So, it appears that GRUB doesn't know about the USB keyboard, nor does
Linux.
Help......
Steve Murray
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From: Mike Manley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't compile emu10k1 for SBlive
Date: 15 Feb 2001 01:25:16 GMT
Stewart Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Thank you. I'll check into that tonight.
--
Mike Manley
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From: "Al Mal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good news ... Bad news ... Alcatel USB Modem
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:05:00 GMT
I think it's a good idea to go and sign the petition.
Al
"Trevor Hemsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> There was an article on www.theregister.co.uk yesterday saying that
> Alcatel had agreed to write drivers and would post them (and source)
> in about a month's time. Whether it's true is another matter... ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: nvidia card and monitor despair
Date: 15 Feb 2001 02:25:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:27:43 -0800, E staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I have, I think, an NVidia Vanta card, and cannot get it configured
>properly for RedHat. Since I don't see the card listed by name, I have
>made several mostly randome choices when choosing a card. The closest
>match is "STB nvidia ...". This did not work. Does anyone know what I
>should choose.
Which version of RedHat? Well, here's a place to look:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/82/1999/12/50/3029789/
Also try putting "Linux nvidia Vanta" into Google.
>My monitor is not listed either. I have a Pixie with horizontal sync
>is TTL Positive/Negative and Vert. Snyc is the same. My bandwidth is
>85 Mhz (-3dB) if that helps.
Horiz and Vert Sync rates are measured in KHz and Hz, respectively. If
you can find those, great... if not, try one of the available presets in
XConfigurator, like "monitor that can do 1024x768@60Hz". These presets
should provide at least something, though it may not be optimal. If
this monitor is old enough to be a fixed-frequency monitor, this will
not work, though.
>I cannot get my monitor/card configured. Originally, I could see
>nothing by text that is white--all other colors were rendered black.
>Now my text seems to have colors, but the font is literally at about 72
>font in X. The command line seems to be OK.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Ghost on Linux boot drive
Date: 15 Feb 2001 02:47:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:27:39 +0100, Peter T. Breuer staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>[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!
Eh? It's a bit more complicated than that... plug in both drives,
partition the new drive and mkfs the new partitions, transfer everything
using tar or cpio or whatever, edit /etc/fstab on the new drive, then
re-run LILO or Grub's setup tool. It's not as complex as it seems; take
it step by step and you should be fine.
>> 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.
For values of "trivial" that include "I've been messing with *nix for a
while, and I know how to set up a bootloader." This is not always the
case; this is why HOWTOs exist.
>> 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 ...
I haven't yet seen an x86 that couldn't read the 1.7M format Tom's uses.
Didn't Microsoft distribute software on 1.7M floppies for a year or two?
That kind of makes it a "de facto standard". Anyway, Tom's was designed
to put as much stuff as possible on one disk--the toolset is larger than
almost any rescue floppy, which can help. I still like the Linuxcare
Bootable Rescue ISO, though--100M of stuff, enough to rescue damn near
anything and perform a net-install of Debian to boot.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI rev 2.2?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:53:53 -0500
The manufacturer of a board I have says that it requires the PCI 2.2 bus
revision. How can I tell if my board has this? About when did this
revision hit the market?
Tbanks!
--Dan
(Please reply via email to: ds37577!@!appstate!.!edu <remove !'s>)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: highpoint ide-raid
Date: 15 Feb 2001 04:02:37 GMT
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:53:37 +0100, Ferry van Doorn wrote:
>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?
Kernel 2.4 supports software raid. (In fact 2.2 also does) This is
discussed in a HOWTO
--
Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ *
elflord at panix dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: PCI rev 2.2?
Date: 15 Feb 2001 04:30:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:53:53 -0500, Dan Smith staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>The manufacturer of a board I have says that it requires the PCI 2.2
>bus revision. How can I tell if my board has this? About when did
>this revision hit the market?
PCI 2.0 showed up in 1993, PCI 2.1 showed up in 1995. It's probable
that your board supports PCI 2.2 if it was made after 1998 ; a quick
GOogle produced some discussions on http://www.pcisig.com/ in mid-97
about the PCI 2.2 spec and what it would entail.
If you posted the make+model of your motherboard and the card you're
talking about, I think someone could give you a more concrete answer
about whether or not the combination is supported.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: Topp Dogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem getting SMP enabled on Abit BP6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:47:24 -0800
I am running the BP6 with two 466 celerons and just up'd kernel 2.4.1
last night. Make sure when you configure kernel that you select
detect off board controller first.... Big mistake on my part!!!! I
fixed easily with a ide=reverse in lilo and will compile again later
with the off board first. I say this because I see you are using the
HPT366. I sold a VP6 and two celeron 700's today to a guy that will
boot RH 7 and win2000. Looking forward to seeing his setup run. He
also purchased two 30gb ata 100 75 gxp IBM for his setup.
Leigh....
e-mail if you have anymore questions.
On 9 Feb 2001 15:40:06 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wilson) wrote:
>"Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Lord Bane wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm running an Abit BP6 dual Celeron system and when I enable SMP mode in
>>> the 2.2.18 kernel it refuses to find and initialize the hpt366 controller.
>>> It seems to do something weird with IRQ assignments (ie NICs go to IRQ 16,
>>> 17 from IRQ 7,10) and refuses to recognize the HPT controller (ide2) on IRQ
>>> 11.
>
>The weird IRQ assignments are controlled by the MPS setting in the BIOS.
>If you change from 1.4 to 1.1 it will be a normal 0..15 range. This only
>affects SMP so explains why you have no problems in UP mode.
>
>>The 2.4.1 kernel source has support for both off board and on board eide
>>(udma 66/100) controllers. BTW are you one of the lucky ones not having
>>problems with the HPT 366 controller? I disconnected mine (Abit bp6
>>also) and plugged in a pci Promise 100.
>
>My BP6 (2x 433MHz @ 66MHz FSB) has no problems (that I have detected) with
>3 Seagate drives running on the HPT366. 2.4.0 works fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: i810 and Seagate - 2.4.x Bug?
Date: 15 Feb 2001 04:07:30 GMT
Hi,
Why is it that my HDD performance under the kernel 2.4.x is worse than the
one under 2.2.17mdk? I have attached the stats below the mail- information and test
results under both kernels.
I use the following option under rc.local to set dma ;
�������� /sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -m16 -X66 /dev/hda
I use resierfs, Iam disappointed that 2.4 results are about 1/3rd and need to
know what to do.
I use a i810 mobo and seagate 8.4 gb hdd - its udma 33 capable.
I tried PII tuning on and off.
hdparm -i say udma 2 is running.
I have been trying various combos of config for the last one week and no results.
Please help. Thanks for your time.
Ashwin
___________________________
TEST RESULTS
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a) Kernel 2.2
(i) hdpartm -i:
/dev/hda:
�Model=ST38420A, FwRev=3.07, SerialNo=7AZ0PTZT
�Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
�RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
�BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
�CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=16841664
�IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
�PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
�DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
(ii) hdpartm -t:
/dev/hda:
�Timing buffered disk reads: �64 MB in �4.38 seconds = 14.61 MB/sec
b) Kernel 2.4.1
(i) hdparm -i
/dev/hda:
�Model=ST38420A, FwRev=3.07, SerialNo=7AZ0PTZT
�Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
�RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
�BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
�CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=16841664
�IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
�PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
�DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
(ii) hdparm -t
/dev/hda:
�Timing buffered disk reads: �64 MB in 11.61 seconds = �5.51 MB/sec
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From: Topp Dogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FOR SALE 3Com ISDN Router 3c895
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:52:50 -0800
e-mail if interested. This is an AWESOME setup. I have no need for
it now and will let it go for $100.00 and I will pay the shipping.
original box.
Leigh...
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