Linux-Hardware Digest #441, Volume #14 Mon, 5 Mar 01 18:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Pleeeaaassse Help: Cannot get external cdrw working ("rdlittle")
Re: Re: Need LOTS of disks: Promise ATA RAID?? (ECHHSStudent)
Re: Modem problems (ahmad barbar)
Re: UDMA: can't turn it on with hdparm anymore. (Tim Moore)
KT7A RAID et Linux (Guy Vivier)
Re: Monitor loses signal ("Dan Pinson")
Suggestion on Epox Mobo and AMD K7 (Michael Heiming)
Re: sound only with xmms!? ("Roland Zumkeller")
error fixating CD-R with cdrecord 1.8, linux 2.2.17 (Dennis van Dok)
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From: "rdlittle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pleeeaaassse Help: Cannot get external cdrw working
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:18:47 -0600
It's frustrating, aint it?
I have been trying also to get a Backpack CDRW to work on RH7.0. I have met
with a bit more success, but still cannot use the drive.
I do know there is a later version of the backpack.o module on
Microsolutions's web site. However, it is for kernel 2.2.16-22. If you
delete the bpck.o module and put the module from Microsolutions in it's
place (as backpack.o) you may get the module to see your drive.
I know also, that scsi emulation needs to be built into the kernel.
I have to reinstall my Linux system, as I have screwed it up somehow. After
I get back on stable ground, I can post more on what I have done so far with
the backpack.
If you get yours working, could you also post what you have done?
Together, we may find a solution.
- Bob
Faldar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:PiOo6.73314$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have been trying for over a week to get a Backpack CDRW working on a
> Redhat Linux 7.0 machine running kernel 2.4.2. I really need help here
and
> I hope that someone will be able to help me get it working. The computer
> has a scsi harddrive and internal scsi cdrom. The Backpack, is of course,
> an external cdrw that is supposedly ide.
>
> As far as I know, I have all needed support in the kernel including scsi
> emulation and the bpck protocol.
>
> Here is the related output from dmesg:
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP, TRISTATE, COMPAT, EPP, ECP]
> parport0: irq 7 detected
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
> ...
> paride: bpck registered as protocol 0
> ...
> pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0
> pcd0: Autoprobe failed
> pcd: No CD-ROM drive found
> pg: version 1.02, major 97
> pg0: Autoprobe failed
> pg: No ATAPI device detected
>
> The rest of the output appears to be unrelated to the drive or parport.
>
> Among the massive amounts of howtos and other files I have read in trying
to
> get this piece of s&*% working, I read that an append line should be put
in
> the lilo.conf file for such drives if they were internal. Such as
> 'append="hda=ide-scsi"' What such a line read for an external drive like
> mine. There are no other ide devices (internal or external) in this
> computer other than this drive. As mentioned earlier, the harddrive and
> internal cdrom are scsi. Could the scsi drives be affecting me getting
this
> working?
>
> The command 'cdrecord -scanbus' also yields nothing since only the two
> internal scsi drives are listed.
>
> I really appreciate any assistance I can get. If I cannot get it working
in
> the next couple of days, I will be giving up and turning to windoze for my
> cdrw needs including backing up the company server.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike C
>
>
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From: ECHHSStudent
Subject: Re: Re: Need LOTS of disks: Promise ATA RAID??
Date: 5 Mar 2001 20:19:22 GMT
It's too bad that it doesn't, really... I don't actually care, I just have to do this
for a good grade in my class :)
> In comp.os.linux.hardware S. Joel Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : adaptec make a ide raid card
> : that might be ok for u
>
> It doesnt support linux.
>
> -Dan
> (To reply in email replace blort dot invalid with anime dot net)
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From: ahmad barbar
Subject: Re: Modem problems
Date: 5 Mar 2001 20:35:13 GMT
> I'm using BestLinux running KDE and when I try to use my modem, I get
> the error "Sorry, modem busy". The documention says that the most likely
> cause is that I own a Winmodem, but I'm fairly sure I do not. Is there
> anyway to find out if my modem is or isn't a Winmodem. If the latter is
> true, then what is the cause of the error message?
probly a good idea is to take the modem or the modem box and look for any thing that
will tall you if is a Winmodem or not
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA: can't turn it on with hdparm anymore.
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 21:52:42 GMT
Alberto BARSELLA wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
>
> > The 2.4.x series does not support DMA with VIA chipsets unless you do a
> > little hacking--some people have reported problems with data corruption,
> > so VIA DMA is not an option for Joe User until Hedrick and the other IDE
> > chipset gurus can find/fix the bugs.
>
> I guess this answers my question of not being able to push my disks
> beyong udma mode 2, even if they should support until udma4....
> (MSI K7Pro2A motherboard).
> What's the required tweaking to do? I'm not scared of patching and
> doing some damage to have some fun :)
I run an Abit KA7 (Athlon Slot A) at UDMA4 with no hdparm setting, data
corruption or other problems. 2.4.x is released but remember it took 18
minor releases to get from stable to 'very, very' stable for 2.2.x.
Kernel: 2.2.18 + ide.2.2.18.1221.patch + 2.2.19pre8 patch
In /etc/lilo.conf: append="ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66"
...
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 8371
Chipset Core ATA-66
VP_IDE: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!!
Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
VP_IDE: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!!
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: IBM-DTLA-307020, ATA DISK drive
hdb: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307020, ATA DISK drive
hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DTLA-307020, 19623MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=2501/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307020, 19623MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=39870/16/63, UDMA(66)
...
# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.95 seconds =134.74 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.85 seconds = 34.59 MB/sec
# /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/vid/test bs=4k count=60k
61440+0 records in
61440+0 records out
0.12user 7.90system 0:17.26elapsed 46%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (124major+17minor)pagefaults 0swaps
# ls -l /vid/test
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 251658240 Mar 5 13:42 /vid/test
# echo "(251658240/17.26)*2" | bc -q
29160862
That's about 250MB read and written at an average 29MB/s.
# hdparm -iv /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 2501/255/63, sectors = 40188960, start = 0
Model=IBM-DTLA-307020, FwRev=TX3OA50C, SerialNo=YH0YHF45553
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=40188960
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 udma3 *udma4 udma5
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Guy Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KT7A RAID et Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:51:51 +0100
J'ai fais l'acquisition d'une carte KT7A raid , j'ai pluger mon disk dur
Western digital
sur IDE3 pour b�n�ficier de ATA100. Lors de l'installation de la
mandrake 7.1
ainsi que pour la redhat 7.0, j'ai le message suivant:
An error has occured. no valid devices were found
on which to create new filesystems.
please check your hardware for the cause of this probl�me.
Pouvez-vous me d�panner sur ce probl�me.
Merci d'avance
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From: "Dan Pinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor loses signal
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:58:01 -0800
Thanks for the lead, Chris. I, too, put in an older video card and the
problem went away. Apparently, there are [unreported] problems with our
cards. FYI, the old card I put in is also based on the Virge chip.
I'm disappointed that the Matrox card that I was using is listed as
supported and has such a lethal problem and not just with X. Glad I didn't
just purchase it.
Regards,
Dan
"Chris Armitage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3c4o6.99$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've got a similar problem to yours, in that if I install my video card
S3
> Virge DX ) and then install Linux-Mandrake 7.2. After all the setup
> operations and configurations have been gone through my monitor does
exactly
> the same as yours.
> The only way round it that I have found is to use another video card, in
my
> case a lowly ATI 1Mb job. This seems to work ok except for the colour bit
> rate which is down to 256 colours. I then shut down the system take out
the
> ATI card, install the Virge and when it reboots it finds that the system
has
> altered. I then remove the configuration for the ATI card and it then
finds
> the Virge card, I set the colour depth and resolution and Hey Presto
> everything works ok. Don't ask me how this seems to work because I've no
> idea.
> I hope that this can give you a pointer as to a solution for yourself. I'm
> only just learning myself, so you probably need help from the more
> experienced guys in here.
> I'll be watching with keen interest for any posting to your query.
> Chris.
>
>
> "Dan Pinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:97pgdc$qak6a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've seen similar postings but no resolutions or information on 'why'.
At
> > the shell prompt or under X either one, my monitor shuts off after just
> > seconds of no keyboard input. It appears that the signal from the
computer
> > is lost based on an LED on the monitor. Neither mouse or keyboard wakes
it
> > up. The system is alive and well as it responds to the keyboard. No
> problem
> > with this hardware under other OSes.
> >
> > My configuration is:
> >
> > Red Hat 7
> > Trinitron monitor
> > Matrox G100 video card
> >
> > The hardware is listed as supported on Red Hat's site. Any help
> appreciated.
> >
> >
>
>
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:22:18 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suggestion on Epox Mobo and AMD K7
Hello,
I would like to purchase an Epox EP-8KTA3+ ( I don't need the extra IDE,
but the one without + is not available).
1.Is there a real performance difference between Slot-A and Socket-A
Athlon CPU?
2.Couldn't find any info if the onboard sound would work?
from www.elito-epox.com
[...]
Built-in AC97 Digital Audio(by VT82C686B):
Dual full-duplex Direct Sound channels
H/W Sound Blaster Pro for DOS legacy compatibility
FM synthesis for legacy compatibility
Supports game and MIDI port
[....]
If someone has some info about the above.
Thanks
Michael Heiming
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From: "Roland Zumkeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound only with xmms!?
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:31:59 +0100
> If you're using the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound), it will grab
> more-or-less exclusive access to whatever device file your sound card
> uses. This is likely the case for any other sound daemons as well.
> There may be a way around this; my way was to do "apt-get remove
> esound".
Thanks for the hint. But "fuser /dev/dsp" says no process is using this
device.
I also tried "apt-get remove", but due to dependencies it wants to remov
88 packages, including Gnome, which I don't want. Can these dependencies
be overridden and is it a good idea?
I really just recompiled the kernel with support for my soundcard. Isn't
there something more I have to set up?
Thanks again,
Roland
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Subject: error fixating CD-R with cdrecord 1.8, linux 2.2.17
From: Dennis van Dok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Mar 2001 23:48:47 +0100
Hi,
I've got a HP CDwriter+ 7200i. Used it before in another system, and
it worked fine. Now I got a lot of errors, possibly buffer underruns,
but the most troubling is that when I managed to get a CD recorded
completely, fixating the disc failed. I'm pretty experienced
troubleshooting stuff and finding my way around all kinds of
documentation, but I couldn't find any helpful hints. Below is the
output of cdrecord, and below that is my dmesg. Suggestions where else
to go for help are welcome too.
deep regards,
Dennis van Dok
PS running Debian 2.2
--- output of cdrecord ---
Script started on Sat Mar 3 00:28:01 2001
fozzy:~# cdrecord -v dev=1,1,0 /usr/local/data/0/image1.raw
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,1,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'HP '
Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 7200 '
Revision : '3.01'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 786432 = 768 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 600 MB
Total size: 689 MB (68:19.88) = 307491 sectors
Lout start: 690 MB (68:21/66) = 307491 sectors
Current Secsize: -1
ATIP start of lead in: -11700 (97:26/00)
ATIP start of lead out: 337050 (74:56/00)
Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 5
Manufacturer: FORNET INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD.
Blocks total: 337050 Blocks current: 337050 Blocks remaining: 29559
RBlocks total: 351411 RBlocks current: 351411 RBlocks remaining: 43920
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 600 of 600 MB written (fifo 100%).
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 629737472/629737472 (307489 sectors).
Writing time: 4101.650s
Fixating...
cdrecord: Invoer/uitvoer fout. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 19 00 07 2E A7 2C 04 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x04 (current program area is empty) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.008s timeout 480s
Fixating time: 0.066s
cdrecord: fifo had 19219 puts and 19219 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 19078 times full, min fill was 97%.
fozzy:~# exit
Script done on Sat Mar 3 05:45:59 2001
---- dmesg ----
Linux version 2.2.17 (root@fozzy) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #3
Fri Mar 2 23:13:38 CET 2001
Detected 700033 kHz processor.
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1395.92 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63220k/65472k available (900k kernel code, 412k reserved, 876k data, 64k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 64K
CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 00
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb250
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM15, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CRD-8520B, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM15, 14324MB w/1900kB Cache, CHS=1826/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 248996k swap-space (priority -1)
rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xec00, IRQ 11, 00:50:fc:0c:8a:41.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
parport_probe: failed
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: LG Model: CD-ROM CRD-8520B Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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