Linux-Hardware Digest #366, Volume #14 Sun, 18 Feb 01 15:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: ASUS vs ABit motherboards (hac)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("Anthony")
Re: IDE Controller Compatibilty (hac)
KT7-RAID disk recognition? ("Peter Crosland")
Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Dirk Hufnagel)
Re: Linux OCR (was: Re: Canon Perfection 1640SU Scanner drivers) (Karl-Heinz
Herrmann)
Re: new scsi drive woes (Paul Repacholi)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Bass/Treble in Mixers Possible w/Soundblaster 16 PCI (Edward Westin)
Bass/Treble in Mixers Possible w/Soundblaster 16 PCI (Edward Westin)
ISA PCMCIA Adaptor (Swapbox) Problem ("D. N. Knisely")
Re: Bass/Treble in Mixers Possible w/Soundblaster 16 PCI ("lobotomy")
ppd file for Star LC-10 Color ?? (Keith Rhodes)
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS vs ABit motherboards
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:24:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of shopping around to upgrade my system. I currently have a
> P-120 with an ATI Mach64 card, a couple of IDE drives, Creative Labs 8x CD and
> a Soundblaster card (don't remember what but it's PnP/PCI).
>
> I want to upgrade to an Athlon 1GHz and 512MB of memory. I'm trying to figure
> out if I should go with an ASUS or an ABit board. I'm also going to get a
> Thunderbird CPU. I see that there have been a flurry of newer boards from ASUS
> and ABit. Has anyone purchased those noards? What type of problems (if any)
> did you have?
>
My 1GHz Tbird ASUS A7V133 works fine. My previous Abit BX6.2 worked
fine. But I think that ASUS keeps on top of BIOS updates a bit better
than Abit. If features and price match up, I prefer ASUS. I would
buy Abit again, though, if there were some feature that met my needs
better. For example, the A7V133 has no ISA slots. I don't need any,
and it looks like you don't, but someone else may.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:40:14 +0800
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
In article <96kl8t$bcr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "bgeer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My Tekram ultrawide SCSI cost a whopping $90 3 years ago; I'm sure it
> costs less now! Generic SCSI cards are available for less than $50. I
> doubt very much your scanner & tape drive will operate any faster on a 160
> SCSI card, so why spend all the money required to buy an all-up Adaptec?
So is mine. Tekram is already more than half the price of Adaptec. The
biggest problem for me is that it is now impossible to get a ultrawide hard
drive, except in the second hand market. They just don't make them anymore.
If I go for LVD or Ultra160 than I will have to get another scsi card, and
god knows when they come up with Ultra 320 and stop production on those
Ultra160 drives!
Nowadays scsi card cost the same as a new mainboard, I might as well get a
new mainboard that came with udma 100, save me a lot of headaches.
--
Linux 2.4.0 #2 Fri Feb 2 07:35:10 CST 2001 i686
up 14 days, 20:04, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE Controller Compatibilty
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:41:16 GMT
"A. Dean Caulfield" wrote:
>
> I am looking for recomendations for an IDE Controller that is compatable
> with Redhat 6.2 (original Kernal)
>
> I am running a P III
>
> on an Itel 440BX board I am looking into a knew hard drive But I
> already have two on the machine. Unfortunately the boot drive (hda) is
> only two gigs on a dual boot (NT4.0/Linux) system. I have had a rather
> experienced friend help me try to get Linux to see the SIIG ATA 33 card
> that I curently have in place to no avail. Further more SIIG's sight is
> little help since they do not support Linux & their Tech Support people
> (e-mail) were surly at best.
>
The BX has two IDE channels, allowing four drives. Doesn't your
motherboard have two connectors?
I would question the point of keeping a 2GB drive. Copy the
filesystems onto your new drive, and take the old one out. It might
be useful for a firewall or other non-demanding task, but old drives
like that don't belong in your desktop system. Don't add on, replace.
> One last thing , I strongly recomend avoiding SIIG Cards If you are
> running Linux or NT
Why qualify it? A nice, simple "Avoid SIIG" works for me.
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Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter Crosland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KT7-RAID disk recognition?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:50:21 -0000
Reply-To: "Peter Crosland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can someone please point me to the URL that will assist me in getting LINUX
to recognise disks connected to the RAID ports on this motherboard? Disks
connected to the non-RAID ports are seen. I presume I need a driver but my
searches have failed to find one. Any help gratefully received
Regards from Peter Crosland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16)
Date: 18 Feb 2001 17:58:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:56:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My system:
>> Red Hat 7 (2.2.16-22smp)
>> Joystick : MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB (I can connect in the
>> gameport without the USB adaptor)
>> I am able to load joystick.o, but if I try to load the hardware
>> specific driver (joy-sidewinder.o), it gives me the following error:
>> [root@localhost /root]# insmod joy-sidewinder
>> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22smp/misc/joy-sidewinder.o: init_module: Device or
>> resource busy
Hmm. What's the sound card, and does it detect the joystick port at
0x200? (0x200 is the standard place, IIRC you can load "joystick" if
the port isn't initialized but loading joy-gravis or whatnot will then
return an error.) I do this with the line
options es1371 joystick=0x200
in /etc/modules.conf . Do a "dmesg | grep 0x200" and see if you get
something like "soundcard: features joystick 0x200" back.
>Hey, I have the same problem! I have an old Gravis PC GamePad. I tried
>to build the device with MAKEDEV but all I got was this:
>MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for Joystick
>Is there a HOWTO on this? I didn't see anything on Linuxdoc. Maybe
>someon has seen an article on this somewhere?
mknod -m 666 /dev/js0 c 15 0
/dev/js0 should already exist anyway.
--
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!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Dirk Hufnagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:04:17 -0500
Anthony wrote:
>
> In article <96kl8t$bcr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "bgeer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My Tekram ultrawide SCSI cost a whopping $90 3 years ago; I'm sure it
> > costs less now! Generic SCSI cards are available for less than $50. I
> > doubt very much your scanner & tape drive will operate any faster on a 160
> > SCSI card, so why spend all the money required to buy an all-up Adaptec?
>
> So is mine. Tekram is already more than half the price of Adaptec. The
> biggest problem for me is that it is now impossible to get a ultrawide hard
> drive, except in the second hand market. They just don't make them anymore.
> If I go for LVD or Ultra160 than I will have to get another scsi card, and
> god knows when they come up with Ultra 320 and stop production on those
> Ultra160 drives!
Well, SCSI is downward compatible, so there is no problem buying a Ultra2
or Ultra160 disk and sticking it on your UW Tekram. You only have to be
careful with termination because since Ultra2 the disks don't have terminators
onboard anymore so you will have to either put a separate UW terminator
or a terminated UW disk on the end of the SCSI cable.
Dirk
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux OCR (was: Re: Canon Perfection 1640SU Scanner drivers)
Date: 18 Feb 2001 19:18:47 +0100
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > comp.periphs.scanner. As I said in my earlier post, linux support is
> > better than doze except for OCR. At least I haven't found any ocr
> > software for Linux.Not relevant for slides, I think, but the original
> > post implies ordinary scanning required as well?
>
> I've not seen any native linux OCR software either. I have tried
> scanning to a file and then importing the file into Windows
> (VMware) to use the OCR software there, but the results have been
> less than satisfactory.
>
> Anybody else have any good experiences with OCR?
At least some :-)
Commercial: http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html
Was much too expensive for me (private use). Got me quite angry
actually because they use the same internal ocr engine, wrapt it up as
commandline tool which can process batches of files and charge ten
times as much as for the WinXX version with klicki-Gui.
Then there is xocr which seems not to be developed anymore since 2 or
3 years.
Then the one I use in Linux when I want ocr:
http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/index.html
I use a version at least 1/2 year old now, don't know if there is a
new one. If you have no kursive letters and well behaving fonts it
does a decent job, needs some reeditting, but then they all do.....
On gocr website I just found another link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jocr/
K.-H.
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Subject: Re: new scsi drive woes
From: Paul Repacholi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Feb 2001 00:47:04 +0800
Bernd Huebenett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> don't think that your new drive is the problem, but how about your
> cables and the termination ??
And the CD. Pull it off the bus, try again. Also try a single SHORT
cable to the drive, with the drive terminating. The drive reports
what it can do. If the cables etc can't handle the signal rate, it
goes tit-up!
--
Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
+61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
West Australia 6076
Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 18 Feb 2001 13:37:01 -0500
"Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Why? Raid0 is only marginally less reliable.
> >No, it is significantly less reliable than even a single disk.
> Nope.
Yep.
> > Pretty
> >much exactly half as reliable.
> Twice small is still small.
You're kidding, right?
(a) Twice small is not small, it's _smaller_; and
(b) Since you seem to admit that it _is_ less reliable than a single
disk (no matter how "insignificant" the difference), then I fail to
see our point of contention.
> > The more disks you put in a RAID0
> >array (technically you can only have two,
> Nope, you can have as many as are connectable.
You may be right.
> > but lots of people seem to
> >support more), the less the reliability of the entire array.
> Yep, but for small numbers the likelihood of failure is still small.
For my personal situation, I am guaranteed to encounter a
non-recoverable data error about every year, for each disk. With two
disks in a RAID0 array, I'd get twice the number of errors in the same
amount of time.
I have _already_ suffered data errors on _both_ disks in this
computer, and one disk is less than a month old. While it seems like
I've gotten some flakey hardware, I think it should still serve to
show that the likelihood of failure is _not_ small.
> >So what if a disk fails? That's what RAID is really for, not for
> >performance.
> Not true for RAID 0.
Which is why the "really" is in there. RAID0 is a red herring.
> > And it's why striping is RAID zero: because it's not
> >really RAID at all.
> RAID 0 is not really RAID and a logician could have fun with a red rose is
> not really a rose.
RAID = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
RAID0 is not redundant at all. Therefore its classification as a RAID
level is a misnomer. Every introductory book to RAID there is
comments on this; stop being pedantic.
--
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: Edward Westin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bass/Treble in Mixers Possible w/Soundblaster 16 PCI
Date: 18 Feb 2001 11:41:51 -0800
Mark, I don't know if the card supports tone control. It is a
Creative Soundblaster PCI 16 (OEM purchased at Central Computer in
Sunnyvale). As far as I knew it was the most standard of cards
($24.95). It is being recognized by Red Hat 7 as an Ensoniq 1371. I
don't know if there is a problem with that driver and this card but am
beginning to suspect it. I had a note from another person who said
that he was using a basic SB ISA card and was getting both controls
perfectly. It is inconcievable to me that this newer card would not
support tones, but since it is an OEM card it may not I guess. I am a
bit reluctant to move up to the SB Live 512 which I know is a great
card because it costs $99.99 here at Fry's. Heck, my 1996 Intel mobo
w/built in sound gives me the controls. I have a feeling that if I
purchase the Creative Soundblaster Live OEM (The basic model ($49)) I
am going to have the same problem. The whole sound thing is becoming
quite interesting though, and I am learning a few more things (gotta
look on the bright side :-) ). Well, what next? I don't know. I
guess I have to go back to usenet archives :-). Thank you very much
for taking the time to answer my post. Should anything else occur to
you please let me know.
Best,
Ed Westin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Edward Westin wrote:
> >I have an inexpensive Creative Soundblaster 16 PCI running w/Red Hat
> >7.0 and Yamaha YSTM-50 (2 speakers woofer) but am unable to adjust
> >treble at all). Is it possible at all to achieve this in linux???
> >Would it become possible if I moved up to a Soundblaster live card?
> >None of the 5 or so (including aumix) mixers in KDE or Gnome provide
> >bass or treble controls.
> >
> >Any comments most welcome.
> >
> >Best,
> >Ed Westin
>
> Ed,
>
> Does the SB16 PCI support tone control? I had an old 16-bit SB that
> didn't. I moved "up" to a SoundBlaster PCI 512 which is very nice and
> Linux gives it tone controls in the mixer.
>
> --
> Mark Bratcher
> To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Edward Westin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bass/Treble in Mixers Possible w/Soundblaster 16 PCI
Date: 18 Feb 2001 11:49:48 -0800
I have an inexpensive Creative Soundblaster 16 PCI running w/Red Hat
7.0 and Yamaha YSTM-50 (2 speakers woofer) but am unable to adjust
treble at all). Red Had recognizes the card as an Ensoniq 1371. Is it
possible at all to achieve bass and treble contols in linux??? Would
it become possible if I moved up to a Soundblaster Live card? None of
the 5 or so (including aumix) mixers in KDE or Gnome provide bass or
treble controls. The controls for volume etc. work fine though.
Any comments would be most welcome.
Best,
Ed Westin
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From: "D. N. Knisely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA PCMCIA Adaptor (Swapbox) Problem
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:14:21 -0600
I have acquired an ISA-to-PCMCIA adaptor (SCM Swapbox). The hardware is
recognized, the drivers are installed correctly, and insertions and removals
are recognized correctly. All events are recorded in /var/log/messages and
look normal. But, cardctl always shows "no product info available" even
when a card is inserted. The default "memory" drivers are always loaded
(or, rather, attempt to be loaded).
I have tried configuring with/without all options (PnP, CardBus support,
etc.); the behavior is always the same - PCMCIA (i82365) is found and
assigned IRQ 11, appears to work, but the OS cannot read any vendor
information from the cards. I have also removed all other non-essential
cards from the system (modems, network boards).
This error occurs on all PCMCIA cards (several LAN cards, a modem card, and
a flash memory card), all of which are recognized on other linux systems
with the same OS (Redhat 6.2) and PCMCIA version (3.1.24) installed.
All of the HOWTOs never consider what to do when all the drivers are
loading, yet NO hardware information is read.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
D. Knisely
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From: "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bass/Treble in Mixers Possible w/Soundblaster 16 PCI
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 19:25:45 GMT
This is probably a feature that your windows drivers do in software.
Since the source for those drivers is never going to be released, and
implementing it without that source would require much effort for relatively
little gain, the linux drivers don't have this feature.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Edward Westin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an inexpensive Creative Soundblaster 16 PCI running w/Red Hat
> 7.0 and Yamaha YSTM-50 (2 speakers woofer) but am unable to adjust
> treble at all). Red Had recognizes the card as an Ensoniq 1371. Is it
> possible at all to achieve bass and treble contols in linux??? Would it
> become possible if I moved up to a Soundblaster Live card? None of the
> 5 or so (including aumix) mixers in KDE or Gnome provide bass or treble
> controls. The controls for volume etc. work fine though.
>
> Any comments would be most welcome.
>
> Best, Ed Westin
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppd file for Star LC-10 Color ??
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:24:24 +0100
What's the correct ppd for a Star LC-10 Color dot-matrix printer?
At the moment, I'm using the Espon Dot_Matrix-eps9high.ppd but it only
does black...
Any ideas how to get the colours to work?
KR.
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