Linux-Hardware Digest #426, Volume #14 Fri, 2 Mar 01 10:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Big Drive, Reluctant BIOS, how to work around? ("g.montgomery")
Re: Harddisk performance ("Snarf")
Re: USB Harddrives? (John Hong)
HP Kayak fx4 video and linux 2.4.x (gladys)
Re: Re: Difference in disk performance between 2.2 & 2.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
iomega zip strange problem (Olivier Ravard)
Re: Help! hde lilo bios=0x80 and hang at "LI" (Gregg Morris)
Re: beep(good), then (boop) bad ("Roy B")
Re: CDROM on ide1 not seen (Stefano Ghirlanda)
H.D.D. Seagate 1.7 Gb ST31720A za 90 DEM ("Milan")
Re: Problems with NetGear FA311 & Mandrake 7.2 ("Blue")
Re: Yet another Newbe Question: defrag? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Yet another Newbe Question: defrag? (Lew Pitcher)
Any way to swap config files? (Cubic Meter)
Problem with LAN-Cards: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate Memory (Alexander Hachmann)
Re: Linksys LNE100TX ver 4.0 SuSE 7.1 Probs (Arctic Storm)
GA-5AX & AMDK6-2+ 450 - Report (Patrick F Harris)
Re: Is the PCI bus going away? (Paul Repacholi)
Re: Installing RH 7.0 on a new ATA100 based system - help! (Patrick F Harris)
Re: Can I print to my LaserJet 3100 from Linux? (Stefano Ghirlanda)
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From: "g.montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Big Drive, Reluctant BIOS, how to work around?
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:58:55 GMT
D F wrote:
>
> The only problem that I can see for you is if your BIOS
> actually hangs during boot. If that's the case, you need a
> BIOS upgrade.
>
Right, that's what happens, unless I disable the BIOS
by putting "None" in for that "HARD DISKS" column
entry in the standard CMOS setup.
>
> If it boots fine but doesn't detect the drive, you're okay.
> Linux kernels since 2.2.16/2.3.29, IIRC, will access a drive
> bigger than 33 GB just fine.
Right, I don't have any problem accessing all 40 Meg
of the drive after setting the BIOS to None, and booting
with the boot disk made by the RH7.0 installer. I'm
running kernel 2.2.16 as it came with RH7.0.
> All of this is in the Large Disk HOWTO, BTW.
Yes, I have been referring to it -
>
> Dave Fluri North Bay, Ontario Canada
>
> (The opinions herein are mine. I do not speak for my
> employer unless I expressly indicate otherwise.)
Thanks Dave. I'm back on it again to see if I
can get past the BIOS hang.
Gene.
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From: "Snarf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd,alt.windows98,alt.windows-me,hk.comp.pc,microsoft.public.win98.setup
Subject: Re: Harddisk performance
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:43:34 GMT
Okay, I'll be nice. To begin with, actual ATA100 vs. ATA33 drives
throughput varies from drive to drive. This primarily depends on platter
spin speed and aureal density of the platter. The actual burst speed
(ATA100 vs. ATA33) has little to do with everyday use. Access time is also
a factor with each drive. Since I don't have the specs of your hard drives
in front of me, I consider your post vague. The latter one may work slower
than it should due to the former.
Its best to put two hard drives on different ide ports.
Dave
Jerry Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:97lnos$ljp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I want to install two harddisks in one IDE which supports ATA100. If one of
the harddisk is ATA100 and the other is ATA33, will the former one work
slower than that it should be due to the latter one?
--
http://members.hknet.com/~wong63124
(In Chinese Big 5)
http://members.hknet.com/~wong63124/linux.htm
(In English)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: USB Harddrives?
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 06:40:18 +0000 (UTC)
Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another thought; Do you have it working under Linux?
I'll soon find out. Both the hard drive enclosure and SuSE 7.1
Personal are on there way to me. Should have them both by the end of next
week. <Fingers-crossed>
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From: gladys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Kayak fx4 video and linux 2.4.x
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 07:21:55 GMT
I have the beta driver released by HP for the fx4/fx6 but it always
complains of unresolved symbols when I depmod it.
Am I making a simple error or do I have to run the specific kernel that
the driver was built for (2.2.16smp)?
It seems a pity to leave this machine to the mercy of microsoft.
tia.
Glad.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re: Difference in disk performance between 2.2 & 2.4
Date: 2 Mar 2001 08:07:42 GMT
> Simon Turvey wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been running some speed tests between kernels using identical
> > parameters to hdparm and have found 2.4.0 to be significantly slower
> > than 2.2.18. Can anyone confirm this.
> >
> > For me the difference is from about 22MB/S to about 14MB/S
My difference is from 14mb/s to 5 mb/s
the reason is apparently *hdparm* breaks with some chipsets on 2.4 (mine is an i810)
i ran bonnie and got comparable results.
Ashwin
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From: Olivier Ravard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: iomega zip strange problem
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:10:54 +0000
I want to have a dual boot server with NT and Linux.
The PC have a DD, DVD ROM, and an iomega zip on ide.
I installed NT and all works fine.
I installed Linux RedHat 6.2 and all works fine.
Reboot on NT and blue screen...
Re-install NT and all works fine.
Re-install Linux deconnecting the zip. All works fine.
Reboot on NT reconnecting the zip and all works fine.
Reboot on Linux (reconnecting the zip) and the DD is not recognized...
Is someone have an idea ?
O. Ravard
University Rennes France
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help! hde lilo bios=0x80 and hang at "LI"
From: Gregg Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Mar 2001 03:55:01 -0600
"Mathias Rodenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> go for the old ide0 variation. i think lilo doesn't like not to be on hda
> (mbr)...at least that is what i experienced (would appreciate some comments
> about this)...it can boot any partition and system from there
>
> regards, M
>
I think you are right about this.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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Reply-To: "Roy B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Roy B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: beep(good), then (boop) bad
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 10:37:08 GMT
Normally, a beep followed by a boop means that the card didn't initialize
correctly.
About 98 times out of 100 this seems to be due to an interrupt conflict.
Sometimes the answer is to provide parameters for the card's driver
instructing it
to try to use another interrupt. Sometimes you just have to fiddle with
bios settings if
any are relevant. (This latter case might be more applicable in a desktop
where you are using
a PCMCIA - PCI bridge card). If you need to see how you specify parameters
like preferred interrupts to the Xircom driver type in man <name of driver>.
for example, on my system I type in man xirc2ps_cs.
I would suggest that the first thing you do is type in cat /proc/interrupts.
This will show you which interrupts are assigned to what devices. You
should see a line that refers to the Xircom driver. It is called xirc2ps_cs
(for my Xircom IIPS card - yours may vary slightly). There will be an
interrupt number in the left hand column referring to the xircom card.
If there is no mention of a xirc.... in /proc/interrupts that probably
means that there was an interrupt conflict.
Another way to see if there were any driver startup problems is to type in
dmesg. This will show you the messages that occurred when you started the
system (or anytime that you start services like pcmcia-cs.
I have had a lot better luck using pcmcia-cs than kernel-pcmcia-cs. You
might want to try that.
It's available from pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.com
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:97mqf4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I stick my Xircom pcmcia ethernet in my thinkpad 760el running mandrake
7.2
> and I get a high beep followed by a low beep. "cardctl ident 0" returns
> the appropriate name of the card, and I can't find any error messages in
> the log files. What the heck should I do now? This is my first
unix/linux
> experience and I am quite clueless. I leafed through the whole "pcmcia
> howto" and It's basically over my head. The answer may be there, but if
it
> is, I don't understand it. Should I just try installing the latest
version
> of the Pcmcia card manager available at sourceforge?
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM on ide1 not seen
Date: 02 Mar 2001 12:44:09 +0100
"charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If the IDE cable and the cdrom function correctly in
> another system, then your secondary IDE channel
> controller on the motherboard is blown.
That's probably the case: I switched cdrom and hd and booted
from a floppy, and now the cdrom is seen but the hd not... I will just
have to buy a longer cable then I can set the cdrom as slave on the
first ide channle, right?
--
Stefano - Hodie postridie Kalendas Martias MMI est
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From: "Milan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: yu.comp.hardware,yu.comp.software,yu.drenik.oglasi,yu.oglasi
Subject: H.D.D. Seagate 1.7 Gb ST31720A za 90 DEM
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:01:46 +0100
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From: "Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with NetGear FA311 & Mandrake 7.2
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:05:47 GMT
Ok, well... I finally compiled the drivers correctly, and was able to ping
the NIC with no packet loss. BUT it wouldnt show up in the Hardware list in
HardDrake, so I yanked it, went to the store and got a Linksys Combo PCII,
which was recognized right away by the system on my first boot up.
For anyone determined to stick with the NetGear FA311 Here's how I was able
to get it working (even though it wouldnt show up in the Hardware list, it
DID respond):
Go to NetGear and download the RedHat 6.x Drivers.
AS ROOT:
Move all of the files into the same folder (doesnt matter which)
Compile fa311.c with the following command:
" -gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -m486 -c -I/usr/sr
c/linux/include fa311.c "
Move it to your /lib/modules/(version #)/net/ Folder
insmod fa311
That should do it! (although I recommend going and getting a card that will
be recognized without the hassle because you never know what other problems
this card may give you)
Remove 'NOSPAM!' to reply
Michael Repper
http://www.RepperTackle.com
"Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:XTrn6.227062$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed Mandrake 7.2 on a secondary box, but for the life of me I
> cant get my NetGear FA311 Network Adapter to work. I have tried four
> different sets of drivers of various website recommendations, the first
> three wouldnt even compile correctly. Now I *THINK* this last driver
> compiled correctly, I moved it to my /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net/
folder,
> but when I ran 'insmod fa311.o' last night It says "File not owned by
root"
>
> This morning 'insmod fa311.o' has given me a> no output & b> "No such file
> or directory"
>
> This morning 'modprobe fa311.o' gives me "Cant locate module"
>
> I am a newbie to Linux, and WILL NOT give up on it because WINDOWS IS
> USELESS CROTCH FUNGUS!!!
>
> Any help with this would be GREATLY appreciated!!
>
> Remove 'NOSPAM!' to respond.
> Michael Repper
> http://www.RepperTackle.com
>
>
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Yet another Newbe Question: defrag?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:09:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob 'n' Tina) wrote in
<HWCn6.5365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>New Linux user here (Linux-Mandrake 7.2).
>
>I'm wondering about the necessity, importance, and/or frequency of
>defragmenting a Linux EXT2 partition.
Defragmenting ext2 partitions is not necessary, as ext2 does not become
significantly fragmented. There are some situations in which fragmentation
can occur to a noticeable extent, but this is unlikely. I am sure someone
can comment on this.... :)
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Yet another Newbe Question: defrag?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:14:36 GMT
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:45:09 -0500, "Bob 'n' Tina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>New Linux user here (Linux-Mandrake 7.2).
>
>I'm wondering about the necessity, importance, and/or frequency of
>defragmenting a Linux EXT2 partition.
>
>I've flirted with Linux (Redhat 5 or so) for a while. Now it's my primary
>partition with M$ Win98 as an alternative boot. (I've got a SoundBlaster
>Live! Value card and I don't know if the wave table is supported by Linux or
>not, so I keep Win98 handy for such things.)
>
>I'm used to Norton's utilities and defragmenting. Do such things occur in
>the Linux world?
<grin> What makes you think that fragmentation is a bad thing?
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Cubic Meter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any way to swap config files?
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:09:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am switching hard drives and I can't copy one to the other, so I was
wondering if I could just copy my config files onto floppy and transfer
them. That way I don't have to go through and set up all my personal
settings again.
thanks
m^3
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From: Alexander Hachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with LAN-Cards: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate Memory
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:14:00 GMT
Hello,
I'm running a Server with two lancards, chipset: RTL8139.
The board is an 486 DX 2/66
When I boot the system it starts up eth0 well, but with eth1 there=20
appears the Error:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot allocate Memory
Does anybody know this Error? Both cards work well on standalone, and=20
even sometimes the system boots without any problem. But most time it=20
does not.
Thanks,=09
Alexander
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100TX ver 4.0 SuSE 7.1 Probs
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:20:23 GMT
> Can't get the known fixes for SuSE 6.3 or 7.0 to get my 7.1 working.
> Has anyone got any solutions.
>
> I don't think it is a IRQ problem because part of the problem when I
> tried to compile the updates was there was an error compiling
> pci-scan.o. So, not being an old hand at this upgrading process I do
> have a couple of questions.
>
> there are some commands like
>
> gcc -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_
> -l/usr/src/linux/net/inet
> -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c
> '[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversion.h]
> && echo -DMODVERSIONS
>
> Do I enter the command verbatum or are there something I should
> substitute for -DMODULE or /usr/src/linux/net/inet ?
LinkSys LNE100TX ethernet card was a great buy for me; $10 rebate on a $14
card. LinkSys LNE100TX, like NetGear, uses the DEC chip, so you need the
Tulip driver. The lastest version of LNE100TX requires the latest Tulip
driver, and none of the distributions come with the latest Tulip driver.
Do not try to compile the driver from source code! Install the "Source
RPM". Of course, you must edit one of the configuration files to contain
the line "alias eth0 tulip". I have RedHat 7, and I had to remove the
interface and re-add the interface, so that the newly installed driver will
be used.
This issue of LinkSys LNE100TX and other DEC-based NIC has been discussed
several times in various newsgroup posts.
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From: Patrick F Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.giga-byte,linux.redhat.install
Subject: GA-5AX & AMDK6-2+ 450 - Report
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:33:16 -0600
All
I have loaded an AMDK6-2+ 450 on a GA-5AX 5.2 with F3 BIOS and TNT2
Vanta 16M AGP * Clocked at 110MHZ & 5x = 550 Mhz, 384M of PC133.
20MB Maxtor 5400 RPM DMA 100 running at DMA 66. First set of stress
test look fast and stable - complies linux 2.4 kernel (RH 7.1 Beta)
in about 7 minuets.
Patrick
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Subject: Re: Is the PCI bus going away?
From: Paul Repacholi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Mar 2001 20:23:09 +0800
"D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Intel and others have done exactly that, extend the PCI bus.
The extention is PCI-X.
PCI *is* 64 bit, but allows 32bit physical connection. It was also
speced up to 66Mhz. The problem is parity, doing a 64 bit XOR in cheap
silicon is not easy, and that can drive the interface chip to a faster
more expensive process. Going to 66MHz adds to the pain. But time
means that slow now, is heaps quicker than slow when it was speced.
> It isn't unusual for a motherboard that supports this to have
> several slots with dedicated 64 bit/66 MHz bus, and a second bus
> that is flexible and can run with older PCI cards.
If it does this, it is NOT PCI complient.
3.3V has been around a long time, it is a PS issue, and the power
traces. The signalling levels are the same.
--
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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From: Patrick F Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Installing RH 7.0 on a new ATA100 based system - help!
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:41:29 -0600
AFIK all the ide statement does is help the kernel find the controller.
You might check the BIOS and disable the other IDE controllers.
You will need to check /var/log/dmesg to see if the kernel found the
controller. BTW ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee looks like an isa controller address the
HPT should be on the PCI bus.
"" wrote:
> Help I am trying to get RH on my new system an Abit KT7A-RAID mother
> board with an HPT370 UltraDMA/100 controller, the only the HD in the
> system is installed as the master on IDE2 (2 and 3 are the ATA100
> interfaces)
>
> I have looked at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt but I am not
> sure how to get the redhat installer to see the drive, do I enter:
>
> ide2=0x1e8,0x3ee at the boot prompt ( as ide.txt seems to imply) or is
> there something else I have to do?
>
> Right now once I select the class of install (Workstation/server/....)
> I receive an error message to the effect that there are no 'valid'
> devices to install on.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Stephen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I print to my LaserJet 3100 from Linux?
Date: 02 Mar 2001 16:05:02 +0100
Robert MacGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The answer is probably 'no' but I'll ask anyway..
>
> I have a HP LaserJet 3100 printer. Each of my workstations is currently
> running Windows 2000, and because of this, I can share this printer
> among the workstations. Printer sharing was never part of HP's goals
> with this product, apparently, because you can only share the printer
> between two computers if both of their OS's are the same (Both W2K, NT
> 4, or 9x).
I am not sure whether this is a printer issue or the different M$ OS's
that do not agree about how to do things.
> I am assuming that if I cannot share the printer between a W2K and a 98
> box, that I definitely won't be able to share it between W2K and a Linux
> box. Hopefully I'm wrong.
I hope so too, or my understanding of the matter would be rather
faulty! What you seem to need is http://www.samba.org, that enables
sharing of files and printers among Linux and various Windows. It's
probably what you want. The best option seems to connect the printer
to the linux machine. Be careful though that there are some issues
with win2000, get at least version 2.0.7.
Good luck
--
Stefano - Hodie postridie Kalendas Martias MMI est
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