Linux-Hardware Digest #378, Volume #14 Wed, 21 Feb 01 05:13:05 EST
Contents:
adaptec boot (Tom Gafford)
Re: ATA cable length (hac)
Samsung Syncmaster 750s and RH7 (Ben)
Re: IDE Controller Compatibilty (hac)
Re: linux 2.4.1 and pppd (Paul Kimoto)
Re: linux 2.4.1 and pppd (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: ASUS vs ABit motherboards ("Jamie Peppers")
USR CP5610A Modem in RH 7.0 ("Edward Stammer")
Re: adaptec boot (Eric P. McCoy)
Ker-Clunk on Western Digital Drive - Normal for Linux? (Lewis)
Re: USR CP5610A Modem in RH 7.0 (Nader)
How to Install Linux on HP LDPro? ("chengyaojin")
Re: adaptec boot (Drew Roedersheimer)
upgrading RPM!! ("Hatem")
2 USB root hubs problem ("Chris Thomson")
Syjet (parallel) and Linux (Albrecht =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ei=DFler?=)
Re: Trying to install RedHat 7.0 on an hp...please help (Anonym5530)
Re: SanDisk Compact Flash USB Reader (SDDR-31): WHICH DEVICE? ("Kolbjorn Bekkelund")
Re: Problem with Soundblaster PCI 128 (Janez Trenz)
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From: Tom Gafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adaptec boot
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:32:31 -0800
I'm trying to set up an adaptec 2940u2w to boot directly into linux. The
disk works fine when I do a lilo boot from a floppy. I have the adaptec
scsi select set to include the drive in the bios scan, and to boot the unit
number of the drive, and the motherboard bios to try the adaptec before the
ide drive (MB is Intel 440-BX 'Jabil'), and it sure looks like YaST (SuSE
6.3) is writing to the MBR of the scsi drive when I do a lilo config, but it
sure don't boot! Is this supposed to work?
tom gafford
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA cable length
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:38:45 GMT
"lewis e. lipkin" wrote:
>
> The cablle that cane with my plextor cdRW is 18 inches long--not
> quite long enough to reach the 2nd IDE port connector on the mother
> board in my tower case.
>
> Is there an imposed limit on cable length in ATA systems? If not
> are there longer standard cables? If not the only alternative
> seems to be a controller card. Any caveats about that?
>
Yes, there is. That's why my Plextor burner is in the lowest slot,
and the SCSI CD-ROM is in the top slot.
You can buy longer cables, but it's probably better to move the drive,
if you can.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samsung Syncmaster 750s and RH7
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:46:55 GMT
I've been trying to install Red Hat seven all day and I keep getting
there, only to find that my monitor is configured wrong. The 750s is
not listed in the installation-configuration menu so I've been trying to
use a generic monitor or a Samsung of a narrower range. None of it has
worked. I can get command line version to install but the graphical
interface seems to cause a problem when I try to reboot after the
installation.
Diamond Monster Fusion video card.
Do I need to get a specific driver file for this monitor? If so, what
do I do with it once I download it?
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE Controller Compatibilty
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:59:12 GMT
"A. Dean Caulfield" wrote:
>
> hac wrote:
>
> > "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?
>
> Of Course it does but I need to keep the CdDROM and CD Burner on
> seperate Channels for reason I don't want to go into
> here. The HDs are not the only issue.
>
I have a Promise controller integrated into my ASUS A7V133
motherboard, and it appears to work fine. I had to apply Andre
Hedrick's patch to the 2.2.18 source in order to get the Promise
driver. It's a standard part of the 2.4 kernels, but I have some
reservations about switching to 2.4 just yet.
I was preparing a drive for another system, and having a spare channel
let me keep drive jumpered as master. The ATA100 controller handled
an older UDMA33 drive just fine.
Now that everyone's switched to ATA100, you should be able to find the
Promise ATA66 controller for less than $30. It won't work with a
stock kernel, but if you aren't booting from it, patching and
compiling a new kernel is not a big deal. Check for the previous
Promise controller threads, as I think that at least one distribution
has included the Promise driver. So, right now installation requires
some fiddly bits, but support will be standard in the future.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.bz2
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: linux 2.4.1 and pppd
Date: 20 Feb 2001 22:33:46 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <T9Fk6.2466$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Larry Sonderling wrote:
> Is there a newer version of pppd that I should use with
> kernel 2.4.1
Well, /usr/src/linux-2.4.1/Documentation/Changes says there is.
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: linux 2.4.1 and pppd
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:54:41 -0600
/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/Documentation/Changes says you have to have a least
version 2.4.0 of pppd.
You can get the source at ftp://linuxcare.com.au/pub/ppp/. Don't know about an
RPM, never use them.
HTH,
Wyatt
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:50:43 GMT, Larry Sonderling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have recently upgraded from kernel 2.2.16 to 2.4.1 and I when I try to
>connect to my ISP pppd dies with a syslog message of "ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS)
>invalid arguement" after successfully connecting. This never occurred under
>2.2.16 and I cannot find a clue in the documentation that I have. i am
>using pppd 2.1.13. Is there a newer version of pppd that I should use with
>kernel 2.4.1 or have I missed something obvious?
>
>thanks,
>
>Larry
>
>
>
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From: "Jamie Peppers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS vs ABit motherboards
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 03:39:07 GMT
Go with Asus I have the Abit and ahve plenty of problems!
"Fred Marsico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am using the Asus A7Pro with Athlon 1.2 GHZ running Red Hat 7. All
> devices were auto detected, only I had to key in the sync rates for the
> bargain monitor and the Palit-Daytona video card that uses the SiS 300
> chipset. Pretty hefty video for a server, but the people that will take
> over the daily administator duties are Windoze only users, so I had to
> make everything GUI based.
>
> Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>
> > I use ASUS boards on Intel and haven't tried the AMD yet but I have been
> > very happy with the Asus boards.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Brett I. Holcomb
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Microsoft MVP
> > AKA Grunt<><
> >
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:fMRj6.467$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> I'm also going to buy an IBM Deskstar 45 or 70GB drive. In certain
posts
> >
> > I've
> >
> >> seen that the drive can cause a problem. If it matters any, I plan on
> >> installing Mandrake 7.2.
> >>
> >> Will I be able to keep some of the hardware from the old system? What
type
> >
> > of
> >
> >> hardware will I be able to keep?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> L
>
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From: "Edward Stammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR CP5610A Modem in RH 7.0
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 04:08:23 GMT
I have RH 7.0 installed, but to my dismay, the modem I ordered for using
with Linux supposedly only works in Kernel 2.3 or higher. I would love to
update my RH 7.0, kernel 2.2.16, to kernel 2.4, but without a modem, it is
kind of hard.
If anyone has this modem working in Linux kernel 2.2.16 or less, please, let
me know how you did it.
Ed
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Subject: Re: adaptec boot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 21 Feb 2001 00:13:09 -0500
Tom Gafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to set up an adaptec 2940u2w to boot directly into linux. The
> disk works fine when I do a lilo boot from a floppy. I have the adaptec
> scsi select set to include the drive in the bios scan, and to boot the unit
> number of the drive, and the motherboard bios to try the adaptec before the
> ide drive (MB is Intel 440-BX 'Jabil'), and it sure looks like YaST (SuSE
> 6.3) is writing to the MBR of the scsi drive when I do a lilo config, but it
> sure don't boot! Is this supposed to work?
Yes. I have an onboard AIC7895 which I've used to boot just fine.
You might get more help if you described what, exactly, went wrong.
Did you see any part of the "LILO" message, or does the BIOS simply
report it can't boot from the device? When installing LILO, does it
do anything like warn you about possibly not installing on the boot
device?
--
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] (Lewis)
Subject: Ker-Clunk on Western Digital Drive - Normal for Linux?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 05:52:07 GMT
Folks,
I know that's a real technical term (ker-clunk, that is), but that is
what I am hearing from my drive.
It is a WD400BB, a 40GB IDE drive from Western Digital. This is my
fifth Western Digital drive (the other 4 are still in service with no
problems), and I have been very impressed and happy with their quality
(thus far).
However, occasionally I will hear a 'ker-clunk' sound from the drive.
And after I have thought about it, I seem to only hear it when using
Linux.
The only thing I can think of is that I put my /boot partition near
the front of the drive, and the rest of the linux files are at the
back of the drive, and the sound I get is when it goes back and forth.
(I did this because I was installing Redhat v6.2, and could not get
LILO to work otherwise, as the main partition was past the 1024 cyl.)
Is this normal? I have never had this happen before, but then again,
I never have had to split the /boot and / partitions for linux. Does
the system have to occasionally go back to the /boot drive, and thus
causing this problem?
Anybody else had this experience? If you have, has it only been in
linux with this configuration, or has it been with Windows 9X., NT,
etc.?
I've called WDC and asked them about this, and they say the problem
must be in the controller, the cable, or the power supply (I think he
was reading off the web site!) To be fair, I did run extended
diagnostics on the drive, and it reports ok.
I've got maybe a week to take it back (bought it 1/28/01), then I'd
have to RMA it with WDC.
Any suggestions on what's going on or what I should do?
Thanks in advance,
RJ
===================================================
The Lewis's
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR CP5610A Modem in RH 7.0
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:38:56 -0800
My USR modem is working under 2.2.16. In fact, it worked under 2.2.10 until
I encountered a PCI IRQ sharing problem.
Have you tried your modem in 2.2.16? What doesn't work?
Edward Stammer wrote:
> I have RH 7.0 installed, but to my dismay, the modem I ordered for using
> with Linux supposedly only works in Kernel 2.3 or higher. I would love to
> update my RH 7.0, kernel 2.2.16, to kernel 2.4, but without a modem, it is
> kind of hard.
>
> If anyone has this modem working in Linux kernel 2.2.16 or less, please, let
> me know how you did it.
>
> Ed
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From: "chengyaojin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to Install Linux on HP LDPro?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:16:24 +0800
I had a old server,HP LDPRO,180M Pentium Pro,96M Ram,4G SCSI HardDisk.I
wanna to install linux on it.
So,I had tried to install Turbo Linux 6.0 and RedHat 7.0 on it,When it probe
SCSI Device,install program
report failed to detect SCSI device,and can not continue.
Do u know how to install linux on a Linux unsupport hardware?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: adaptec boot
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:33:33 GMT
On 21 Feb 2001 00:13:09 -0500, Eric P. McCoy wrote:
>Tom Gafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to set up an adaptec 2940u2w to boot directly into linux. The
>> disk works fine when I do a lilo boot from a floppy. I have the adaptec
>> scsi select set to include the drive in the bios scan, and to boot the unit
>> number of the drive, and the motherboard bios to try the adaptec before the
>> ide drive (MB is Intel 440-BX 'Jabil'), and it sure looks like YaST (SuSE
>> 6.3) is writing to the MBR of the scsi drive when I do a lilo config, but it
>> sure don't boot! Is this supposed to work?
>
>Yes. I have an onboard AIC7895 which I've used to boot just fine.
>
>You might get more help if you described what, exactly, went wrong.
>Did you see any part of the "LILO" message, or does the BIOS simply
>report it can't boot from the device? When installing LILO, does it
>do anything like warn you about possibly not installing on the boot
>device?
>
>--
>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
This may not be it at all, but I'll give you my $0.02. I have the same board
which I've been using for quite a while under linux. I use lilo, and I've
found that I need to compile the aic7xx support (I think that's the name)
directly into the kernel... I'm sure there's a workaround with modules,
but if I don't compile it into the kernel, it hangs on boot. If you're not
even getting a boot prompt, then this is probably not the issue. Answers to
Eric's questions would probably shed some more light on the real problem...
HTH
-DR
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From: "Hatem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: upgrading RPM!!
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:03:37 GMT
I have an old version of RPM version 3, and need to upgrade it to 4..!!
the funny thing is that the new version(4) can not be extracted because it
needs a newer version of RPM,
it is like the chicken and the egg.!!
can someone help!!
thanks.
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From: "Chris Thomson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 USB root hubs problem
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:25:11 -0000
My system has 2 physical USB root hubs on the motherboard (One built in and
the other on a PCI card). I'm using Mandrake 7.2. Both work fine under
windows, but in Linux only the hub on the PCI card has it's devices
detected. Any idea why?
I'm fairly confident that Linux surports the builtin hub as my USB zip drive
which is connected to it was detected when I installed Mandrake but
disappeared as soon as the syetem booted.
Also, I know the zip drive is set up and configured, because if i plug it
into the PCI card it works fine.
Cheers
Chris
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From: Albrecht =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ei=DFler?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Syjet (parallel) and Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:53:10 +0100
Having read How-To's and other parallel port device documentation I
haven't managed to get my parallel Syjet drive working however (RedHat
6.0). O.k., I'm not very experienced with Linux. I have SCSI support in
my kernel and I've understood that I have to load the epat module first.
But it seem's that there's another module necessary. Has anyone got the
same drive working, and how?
TIA
Albrecht
-- -- -- -- --
Albrecht Eissler
Stuttgart, Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anonym5530)
Date: 21 Feb 2001 09:13:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Trying to install RedHat 7.0 on an hp...please help
Hi,
Thank you. I wish hp and all of those kind of companies wouldn't make it so
difficult to upgrade their computers.
thanks again
Jon
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From: "Kolbjorn Bekkelund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SanDisk Compact Flash USB Reader (SDDR-31): WHICH DEVICE?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:34:23 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Darren Enns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.1 to get USB support. I can now use the
> 'photopc' program to talk to my Nikon 880 USB camera on the USB
> interface!
>
> I also bought a Sandisk Compactflash USB reader device -- which is
> supported in Linux -- and everything 'looks good' in all the places I
> look for messages, but when I make an effort to mount /dev/sda I get the
> message:
>
> mount: /dev/sda has wrong major or minor number
>
> I have no idea what I may be doing wrong. Here is a small amount of
> messages that show that things should be OK:
>
> hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 2 usb.c:
> kmalloc IF c688b4c0, numif 1 usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1,
> Product=3, SerialNumber=2 usb.c: USB device number 2 default language ID
> 0x409 Manufacturer: SanDisk Corporation Product: ImageMate CompactFlash
> USB SerialNumber: 000000000002
>
> usb-storage: *** thread sleeping.
> Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate II Rev: 1.30 Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision:
> 02
>
> Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100 Rev: 1.0g Type: CD-ROM
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate II Rev: 1.30 Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> Host scsi1: usb-storage
> Vendor: SanDisk Corporation
> Product: ImageMate CompactFlash USB
> Serial Number: None
> Protocol: Transparent SCSI
> Transport: Bulk
> GUID: 078100020000000000000000
>
> Currently, I have the following in my /etc/fstab file for this device:
>
> none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0
> 0
>
> This looks strange to me. I image that instead of 'none' I should have
> a valid device name, but every one of the '/dev/sda' devices don't seem
> to work.
>
> I am so close to success I can almost taste it!
>
> Any help?
Have you included SCSI-emulation in your kernel ?
I'm using it with my Fujifilm 1400Zoom. The camera is connected to the
computer via USB and the Smartmedia Flash-card registers itself as
/dev/sda1. Thius wont work without SCSI-emulation and USB Mass-storage
though. Include SCSI-emulation, SCSI support and generic scsi support and
try again.
--
Kolbjorn Bekkelund, Engineer ALOMAR
Andoya Rocket Range
http://www.rocketrange.no
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arctic Linux: http://home.online.no/~kbekkel
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From: Janez Trenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with Soundblaster PCI 128
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:37:47 +0100
Thor Kristoffersen wrote:
>
> Alan writes:
> > Sounds like a problem with your AC97 Codec not getting initialized correctly
> > or just not working (hence the src lockup and no codec vendor ID)...Have you
> > ever had the card working with Windows?
>
> No, I haven't tried that as I never use Windows.
>
> > Have you actually powered down the machine for a few minutes and then
> > tried again?
>
> Yes, I have also tried to take out the card and insert it in another slot.
>
> > I assume that since its a 5880 its on the motherboard, not a card?
>
> No, it is a card. I bought it as a "Soundblaster PCI 128". The card is
> marked CT4810, but the chip on the card is a CT5880.
>
> > It may be a rare Codec init. bug in the linux driver seeing as the
> > driver was written for the 137x cards not the 5880, although it should
> > work for it... Hope that helps....
>
> I have also tried the ALSA drivers, but I get the same error message about
> "sample rate converter timeout".
A colleague of mine had the same problem. He is using SuSE 7, and found
this on Suse support site.
<http://support.suse.de/sdb/de/html/swgkern_ensoniq5880.html> It is in
german.
I think that the new alsa drivers work with this soundchip.
Janez Trenz
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