Linux-Hardware Digest #433, Volume #14 Sat, 3 Mar 01 21:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Sound card blues: Resource ALWAYS busy ("Matt Ng")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("Ron Reaugh")
MODEMS and SETSERIAL problems ("george.piponidou")
cdwriter 2x ok, 4x not w/ ricoh mp7040a (Ignacio E Thayer)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Re: ASUS A7V133 (optimator)
IDE CDRWs and slow CPUs (Foolproofing Lab Test Subject)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: Sound: Creative AudioPCI128 problems (Dances With Crows)
Re: cdwriter 2x ok, 4x not, ricoh mp7040a (Dances With Crows)
help: linux driver for MC97 modems on Apollo PRO133A (via vt82c694x) (Dorin Ioan
MARINCA)
Re: IDE CDRWs and slow CPUs (Jean-Francois Landry)
Re: KVM;RECOMMENDATIONS ANYBODY? (Monte Milanuk)
3COM NIC Driver ("colm hoban")
xatitv not working (chris humphrey)
Gigabyte GA-7ZXR m/b & Raid 1 ("Lewis Foti")
installation ethernet card problem ("jterry")
Re: 3COM NIC Driver (Dances With Crows)
Re: Disk Geometry with Promist ATA100 Controller (David Lerner)
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From: "Matt Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card blues: Resource ALWAYS busy
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 13:48:13 +0500
If you don't mind using the commandline and doing it manually, you could
try using modprobe to get the module going.
ex. modprobe sgalaxy io=0x520 irq=7 dma=1 dma2=0 sgbase=x260
if it gives the same error, check to see what modules are running, maybe
use rmmod sgalaxy and then try it again.
Hope that works.
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:18:56 GMT
J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote in message ...
>I said:
>> I wouldn't say [RAID 0 is] useless--that depends on the data stored on
the
>> volume and how well the site has prepared for failure. But I agree--RAID
0
>> is a high price to pay for failure.
>
>Ron Reaugh replied:
>> Nope, just keep good backups like is required with a single HD.
>
>Of course backups are good. There are situations when restoring a full
>backup of a huge RAID 0 is too time consuming and backups are not easy to
>make because the data is changing all the time. If a client is in the shop
>and a drive in the array fails, the last thing they want to hear is "Wait
>while I restore the array from a backup.". Hardware that can hot swap and
>automatically rebuild a single failed drive in a RAID 3 or 5 while users
>continue using the volume is a valuable compromise. To get that level of
>insurance out of RAID 0 you'd need RAID 0+1 which doubles the price of the
>array for no increase in storage space.
Well, you invoked mean time to repair which is really meaningless for
either a single drive or two drive RAID 0 as it'll happened very
infrequently. Also in the real world "Wait while I restore the array from a
backup.". will be greeted with an "oh thank god". The only thing you can
invoke then is mission critical and then you need to discuss the entire
system and not just disks and describe how you intend to deal with a
repeatable software failure rather than hardware.
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From: "george.piponidou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MODEMS and SETSERIAL problems
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:35:53 -0000
Hi,
I'm trying to get connected to the web using my Linux Redhat 6.1 system
and unfortunately having some pretty basic problems. I've a 3com 56K voice
faxmodem (external) that connects to my system with a serial 9pin/25
connection. When I plugnpray it to the computer, on boot up, Linux correctly
identifies it and says that it installs some (presumably driver) software
for it and according to my book (Redhat for dummies - which is how I'm
feeling at the moment) I'm supposed to work out which serial line (port???)
my modem is connected to. Stop me if I'm making any mistakes. To work this
out (as the system does not have a dual partition with Windows so no COM
help there) I'm to issue the statserial followed by the serial line
designation such as:
setserial /dev/ttyS0
setserial /dev/ttyS1
and unplug any other devices (apart from my modem) connected to my serial
ports.
Then hopefully the serial line (port) which has the modem connected to it
will return a 1 value for the Clear to Send and Data Set Ready
designations.
My trouble is that none of the setserial values return any 1's in the CTS or
DSR using the setserial program. I'm a complete newbie and am unsure as to
my next move, could anybody offer me some advice, links or help as to what
I'm doing wrong (in plain English if possible)?
My thanks, and best regards to the community,
George
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From: Ignacio E Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdwriter 2x ok, 4x not w/ ricoh mp7040a
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:37:05 -0500
I have a ricoh mp7040A, and it wont write in quad speed. it works fine in
2x, but i get a scsicmd error with 4x. its a quad speed drive, and it
wrote at 4x when i was using 2.2.16, but i just upgraded to 2.4.2 and now
it doesnt work in quad speed. i'm using cdrecord 1.9 and -scanbus output
is below. anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?
i've checked the faqs and other stuff, but i couldnt find anything.
thanks
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST15150W ' '0017' Disk
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'RICOH ' 'CD-R/RW MP7040A ' '1.20' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: 3 Mar 2001 19:56:19 GMT
Ron Reaugh wrote:
> Also in the real world "Wait while I restore the array from a
> backup.". will be greeted with an "oh thank god". [...]
That depends on how far away the backup was from the failure and the kind of
work being done. Pro DV edit sessions can't be backed up frequently enough.
> The only thing you can invoke then is mission critical and then you need
> to discuss the entire system [...]
In DV work typically the entire system is not on the RAID. The OS and the
DV editing software are relatively fixed and can be backed up with
traditional tape backup or CDs.
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From: optimator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS A7V133
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 20:47:40 GMT
hac wrote:
>
> optimator wrote:
> >
> > OK, Here is the deal....
> >
> > System Configuration:
> > Motherboard - ASUS A7V133 (Bios 1002a.1)
> > RAM - 512MB PC133
> > HardDrive - Maxtor 30G ATA100
> >
> > Problem:
> > I have tried installing both Redhat 7.0 and SuSe 7.1(Professional). They
> > both
> > seem to stall out during the install.
> >
> Well, I have an A7V133, 512MB RAM, and an older ATA66 Maxtor, and Red
> Hat 6.2 works fine. It was already installed when I swapped the
> motherboard in, though. Perhaps the difference is ATA66 vs ATA100.
> Try changing the BIOS settings for the drive mode, disabling DMA, for
> example. It's hard to troubleshoot without a system installed.
>
> I'm steering clear of RH7 as long as they use a different version of
> the compiler than everyone else.
>
> --
> Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Howard,
I disable the DMA in the bios for the harddrive and the install worked
just fine. Now, I will try to setup the kernel to handle the UDMA.
Thanks again,
Mike
--
Mike Favrot
HMS Software
225.293.2620(Office)
225.293.1550(Fax)
225.907.3931(Cell)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Foolproofing Lab Test Subject)
Subject: IDE CDRWs and slow CPUs
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 20:55:02 GMT
What's the slowest CPU that anyone has successfully used to burn a CDRW on an
IDE burner? What was your CPU utilization while it was in progress?
I have an AMD K5PR133 (100MHz clock), a spare garden-variety IDE
controller (both channels free), and am currently thinking of buying
an IOmega 8x4x32 CDRW drive, mostly because it's on sale locally at
about $100. Anyone had success with this sort of setup? I'm guessing
that CDRW burning will be CPU-bound on this hardware. I can't afford
SCSI if IDE will work.
I might conceivably get more bandwidth to the CDRW by using the UDMA33
controller, but then it would be shared with the HDD holding the data
to be burned, and I don't know which way that tradeoff goes. I'm currently
getting 2.5MB/s from a 1995 IDE HDD on a garden-variety controller, and
8.5MB/s from a 1998 UDMA HDD on the UDMA33 controller, as measured with
hdparm -t. Presumably it would be less through the filesystem, and with
possibly fragmented files (hdparm -t measures the almost-raw device).
Where can I find out the current state of CD packet-writing under Linux?
Does it need kernel 2.4? The CD-Writing HOWTO is badly out of date.
All experience-based advice welcome.
-D
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 21:18:16 GMT
J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote in message ...
>Ron Reaugh wrote:
>> Also in the real world "Wait while I restore the array from a
>> backup.". will be greeted with an "oh thank god". [...]
>
>That depends on how far away the backup was from the failure and the kind
of
>work being done. Pro DV edit sessions can't be backed up frequently
enough.
And there are probably real time requirements and so just as I said an
overall redundant Tandem like system solution is required. RAID 5 does
little for real time high speed professional video.
>> The only thing you can invoke then is mission critical and then you need
>> to discuss the entire system [...]
>
>In DV work typically the entire system is not on the RAID.
Then it is NOT true Pro DV in the critical path.
> The OS and the
>DV editing software are relatively fixed and can be backed up with
>traditional tape backup or CDs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Sound: Creative AudioPCI128 problems
Date: 3 Mar 2001 21:39:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:33:07 +0000, Dave Williams staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Hello folks,
>I am in the process of trying to setup Linux on some spare kit. I
>acquired a Creative AudioPCI128 soundcard, in the belief that being of
[large snip]
>The technical necessities are:
>Redhat 7.0 - Kernel 2.2.16-22
>sndconfig version is 0.57
modprobe es1371 joystick=0x200
That's all you should need to do. If that works, go edit
/etc/modules.conf and put in the following lines:
alias char-major-14 es1371
options es1371 joystick=0x200
If that doesn't work, then you have one of the latest and greatest
es1371s, which has slightly different firmware. Kernel 2.2.18 should
support those with the very same command and procedure.
--
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: cdwriter 2x ok, 4x not, ricoh mp7040a
Date: 3 Mar 2001 21:39:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:37:05 -0500, Ignacio E Thayer staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I have a ricoh mp7040A, and it wont write in quad speed
>it wrote at 4x when i was using 2.2.16, but i just upgraded to 2.4.2
>and now it doesnt work in quad speed. [...] anyone have any ideas what
>the problem could be?
Take a look at that last paragraph again and think, "Gee, what's the
main difference from when it was working and when it wasn't?" There are
still a number of problems with 2.4.x despite its "stable" status. You
can try recompiling cdrecord against the 2.4.2 kernel and see if it
helps, or get the latest cdrecord.
--
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: Dorin Ioan MARINCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: linux driver for MC97 modems on Apollo PRO133A (via vt82c694x)
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 21:41:50 GMT
--- Apollo PRO133A motherboard (via vt82c694x) with south bridge
vt82c596a/b ---
The sound is ok (with alsa drivers) but i can't find a solution for the
mc97 modem (an AMR modem)... Anyone can help me find one?
Thanks,
dim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Francois Landry)
Subject: Re: IDE CDRWs and slow CPUs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:08:07 -0500
Once upon a time, Foolproofing Lab Test Subject <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What's the slowest CPU that anyone has successfully used to burn a CDRW on an
>IDE burner? What was your CPU utilization while it was in progress?
>
>I have an AMD K5PR133 (100MHz clock), a spare garden-variety IDE
>controller (both channels free), and am currently thinking of buying
>an IOmega 8x4x32 CDRW drive, mostly because it's on sale locally at
>about $100. Anyone had success with this sort of setup? I'm guessing
>that CDRW burning will be CPU-bound on this hardware. I can't afford
>SCSI if IDE will work.
Well, I have a Teac W54E, a 4x4x32 ide drive, connected to the onboard
ide of my i440VX based motherboard. With a P100 on it. While burning at
4x cdrecord sucks up about 5% of my cpu time, and there's some (3% to
5%) system overhead. So I guess you could run it from a 486dx 50 Mhz
without problems.
Questions? Commentaries? Insults?
Jean-Francois Landry
--
The use of Windoze cripples the mind; its use should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offence. (With apologies to Edsger W. Dijkstra)
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 15:18:36 -0700
From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KVM;RECOMMENDATIONS ANYBODY?
I just installed (like last night) a Belkin OmniView SE 4-port (model
F1D104), and it seems to work like a charm so far. I am using it to
access my Win98 desktop, my FreeSCO firewall, and my (work-in-progress)
server box. No problems w/ any of the OS's seeing it, it works fine w/
my Dell 1626HT (21") monitor at 1024x768 resolution (I think it can go
higher), a PFU Happy Hacking Lite keyboard, and a M$ PS/2 Intellimouse
Trackball. It even works just fine w/ the trackball. The info on the
webpage for it says it will, the papers that came with it said it didn't
since the wheel used a non-PS/2 protocol. It has additional serial
ports for mice as well, and is daisy-chainable for future expansion to
control up to 16 total hosts. You can control the KVM from either the
box, or from the keyboard using 'ScrLk-ScrLk-UpArrow/DownArrow'
depending on which way you want to cycle. There are other key
combinations for cycling btwn banks if you end up daisy-chaining. The
scroll lock key is pretty easy to hit on a HHL keyboard, so it's pretty
slick -- tap,tap,beep,tap,beep,pause new screen ;) Works for me so far
Monte
Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> Aaron Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi. I'have the following configuration:
> >
> > 1. Compaq P110 monitor running at 1152X864 resolution and 85X97 KHz.
> > 2. PS-2 mouse.
> > 3. PS-2 keyboard.
> >
> > I would llike to know if anybody has any recommendations/suggestions on
> > selecting a 4 port KVM in order to support a 4 consoled Beowulf cluster
> > from one screen/keyboard/mouse.
> >
> > Thanks in advance ... Lief
>
> I used the Cybex SwitchView 4 port KVM for awhile, until I needed a KVM that
> passed the DDC information through due to problems with Windows and a laptop,
> and upgraded to a CompuCable PowerReach 8 port KVM. The Cybex was nice in that
> it seemed to remember the mouse current mode, wheras with the PowerReach, if I
> switch between screens that have my wheel mouse in a different mode, it doesn't
> probably refresh the mode. On the other hand, the sequence to change screens
> on the Cybex (control-control) was easily mistyped, and seemed to make my RSI
> (repeative stress) flare up more. The sequence to change the screens on the
> PowerReach is scroll-lock scroll-lock, which you can't type from they keyboard
> (but then you don't get RSI from pounding on the control key). The Cybex could
> handl 1600x1200 as ~ 80Mhz, though it was a little fuzze.
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
> PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
> Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
> Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: "colm hoban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3COM NIC Driver
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 23:24:24 GMT
Does anyone know of a driver for a 3CSOHO100-TX NIC or an equivalent for RH
7.0. As usual 3COM have been less than helpful,
TIA
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From: chris humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: xatitv not working
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 16:58:18 -0700
I am trying to get my ATI TV tuner to work in linux, not having much
luck.
I built a new kernel (2.2.17-21) made sure the linux video was on (as a
module).
installed the kernel (I know I installed the right one because it no
longer needs the scsi module, I compiled it into the kernel).
But I get the same message I got before. Which is:
# xatitv
Shared memory segment exists - opening as client
Stale lock on WRITE_BUFFER
Stale lock on OVERLAY
Stale lock on TUNER
GATOS: No ATI PCI/AGP Cards ?
GATOS: gatos_inita(): Invalid argument
xatitv: gatos_init(): Invalid argument
can anyone help me?
my installation is Mandrake 7.2.
Also, whenever I try to run gatos-conf I get a core dump, I did change
the settings in the /etc/gatos.conf file.
not sure where to go now! please help if you can.
-chris
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From: "Lewis Foti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gigabyte GA-7ZXR m/b & Raid 1
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 00:41:22 -0000
Hi
Has anybody got experience of Linux on top of the Gigabyte GA-7ZXR m/b with
the Promise ATA/100 controller running Raid 1? I want to put together a
small file server for light use by a few of users so the intended
configuration is two 46Gb drives, one per IDE channel. This would seem to be
the most cost effective solution currently available.
regards
Lewis
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From: "jterry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installation ethernet card problem
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:26:59 +0800
Hi sir may I ask you a question about my ether-net card.
The question is:
when I start my computer and use lilo to enter Liunx systen. I watch that
the
"bring uo interface lo ....[ ok] and
bring interface eth0 ...... [ok],
then when the sysem is set up I use root login and type "ifconfig" to see
the information but I only can see lo, then I use "ifconfig -a" also, this
time I can see lo information above and eth0 information under.
Then I try to type ifconfig eth0 140.118.233.155 to start this card but
there is a message.
"SIOCSIFLAGS: resource temporary unavailiable"
My ether-net card is D-Link 530 ver.A , module is via-rhine.o.
Thanks
Terry.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 3COM NIC Driver
Date: 4 Mar 2001 01:18:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 23:24:24 GMT, colm hoban staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>Does anyone know of a driver for a 3CSOHO100-TX NIC or an equivalent
>for RH 7.0. As usual 3COM have been less than helpful,
What does "cat /proc/pci" say about the card? Unless this is one of
those weird "phoneline NICs", then it should work with the 3c59x or
3c90x module. The 3c59x should work with the 590, 595, 900, 905, 905B,
and 905C, so try that first. 3c90x only works with 900-series NICs, and
not all the time with those--I've had no luck ever getting it to work at
all, but it may be necessary for the very newest 905C-TX cards. HTH,
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lerner)
Subject: Re: Disk Geometry with Promist ATA100 Controller
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 01:29:01 GMT
In article <N3Fm6.131$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"John Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to install SuSE 7.0 on the second of two 45G IBM Deskstars
>connected to a Promise ATA100 controller. This is sitting on an ABIT KT7
>motherboard (not the raid version.) The installation kernel sees both disks
>(the first one is Win2K - don't ask) fine but doesn't get the disk geometry
>right. Fdisk for both yast1 and yast2 insist that it is an 11G drive. Any
>suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>jweeks
>
>
There is a bug in fdisk for drives with more than 65536 cylinders. The easy
way around this is to use the expert mode (x) of fdisk to indicate the
actual number of cylinders. This will be 65536 more than the number
shown by fdisk. You can then allocate all of the space on the drive.
Cfdisk does not have this problem and you can use it after installation.
You may also be able to use lba translation to indicate that there are
255 heads. This will reduce the number of cylinders and avoid the fdisk bug.
The Promise BIOS infers the need for lba translation from the values in the
partition table. This is harder to accomplish than simply keying in the
correct number of cylinders.
Dave
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