Linux-Hardware Digest #477, Volume #14 Tue, 13 Mar 01 11:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Anyone using Funitso 640MB magneto-optical? (Richard D. McRoberts)
Re: ttyS00 & ttyS0 (Dr Mike Waters)
Re: ISDN TA's (again) ("Darren Davison")
Linux on IBM AS/400 ("Juan Ram�n Garc�a Martel")
Accesing an Ericsson T10 phone from a Linux box ("Francisco Monteagudo")
Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem ("Vladislav Dembskiy")
Adaptec AIC-7815 ?? ("B�r")
Re: ISDN TA's (again) ("Darren Davison")
Sola UPS under Linux (Segger)
Re: hard disk problem (Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju)
Re: hard disk problem (Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju)
Re: Fujitsu HDD crash under kernel 2.4.2 (Patrice Fortier)
Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem (Dr Mike Waters)
Re: hard disk problem (Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju)
Re: hard disk problem (Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju)
Re: Burn baby burn!...? (Kenneth P. Turvey)
Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem ("Vladislav Dembskiy")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard D. McRoberts)
Subject: Re: Anyone using Funitso 640MB magneto-optical?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Mar 2001 06:02:10 -0500
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:43:33 -0800, Ronald Bruck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is anyone using a Fujitsu MCA3064AP6 magneto-optical (640MB)
>drive?
>
>If so, presumably you have Linux drivers :-) How fast do you
>find the drive? (Faster than a CD-RW? Faster than DVD-RAM?)
>How reliable is it?
>
>Where'd you get the drivers?
I'm using a Fujitsu 640MB (3.5 inch) MO Drive, but the model
number in your inquiry doesn't sound like that of my SCSI
unit which I think (from memory) is M2513A. It is (was?)
also marketed as a standalone external unit called the
Dynamo 640. Presumably the one in which you're interested
has some other interface.
At least for the SCSI interface, there is no need to find
special drivers. The device is handled by the generic
SCSI driver for hard disks. Presumbably the same may be
true for whatever interface you're considering. The 640MB
media have 2048 bytes per sector, which in very old kernels
was not supported. 2048-byte-per-sector support, at least
for SCSI, was added several revisions ago in the 2.2.x kernel
series, maybe around 2.2.14 or so, but I don't recall exactly.
I haven't done any speed measurements, or comparisons with
other devices. Subjectively I'd guess it's 2 or 3 MB per
second. The device has been very reliable for me. Supposedly
this is the most reliable media you'll ever find. I even
heard anecdotal stories (on the 'Net) that somebody
took some recorded media on a scuba dive and it was
readable (maybe after being washed?) just fine thereafter!
The media are more convenient to handle than CD-RW because
they fit in a shirt pocket (but also more expensive). I
think Fuji has since introduced drives and media with 1.3GB
capacity, but they are difficult to find. If you need
such high capacity, DVD-RAM is probably a better deal.
And for 640MB, CD-RW is a lot cheaper. Therefore I believe
this 3.5 inch MO technology has a cost disadvantage which
is getting squeezed between CD-RW on the low end and
the greater capacity of DVD-RAM on the high end.
Hope this helps.
Richard D. McRoberts
Union, WV USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dr Mike Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ttyS00 & ttyS0
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:33:33 +0000
ken pile wrote:
> I can not get my system to recognise my modem. It has worked fine before
> but
> recently it refuses to detect. I am running SuSE 7.0 (2.2.16-SMP). I
> suspect the problem
> is since I flash upgraded my bios on the Mobo (Gigabyte GA6-BXD). The
> reason
> I suspect this is because I have noticed that when booting up I get the
> message that
> the kernel has detected ports ttyS00 & ttyS0 instead of just ttyS0. I am
> running an
> ADSL modem plugged into COM1 with COM2 disabled.
> If I enable COM2 also in CMOS then the kernel detects ttyS00, ttyS0,
> ttyS01 and
> ttyS1. I have never seen this before, and so I suspect that this is why
> my modem wont
> detect ( modem works fine in windoze, all flavours ). I have done a
> clean install of SuSE
> so I can be sure I have not set anything wrong.
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ken
>
what is x in /dev/ttySx is the one that your /dev/modem linked to?
regards
Dr Mike Waters
--
Doh! Nuts! Mmmm! Donuts!
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From: "Darren Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA's (again)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:26:15 -0000
Hi Kerstin,
"Kerstin Hoef-Emden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98ktbb$l7k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Do the LEDs of your ISDN-TA respond, when the computer starts
> up and tests the different interfaces? This is the first, I would look
for.
no.
> Is the interface numbered or labelled at your computer�s back?
> How many serial interfaces are recognized during bootup procedure?
>
at boot, Linux reports /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1, both with UART 16550A
chips although only one 9-pin serial port exists at the back of the PC.
> Start up as root with "minicom -s" and go into the setup, try the
different
> settings /dev/ttyS0 until /dev/ttySn (all of the interfaces you have). An
> ISDN TA should be able to do 115200 bps. Do you have a UART chip in your
> computer supporting the higher speeds?
>
minicom complains of I/O errors on both /dev/ttySx ports, but is happy to
accept /dev/modem
> To be able to access the user profiles, first the communication between
> computer and TA should work. You type in AT and the TA says - as a modem
> would do, too - "OK". With an expanded specific AT command it will tell
you
> its current profile settings. A cryptic list of register settings will
show
> up 3 fold: a) active profile, b) stored setting no. 1 and c) stored
setting
> no. 2.
once minicom starts it says 'initializing modem' as usual, but the TA shows
no sign of activity. Attempting to type anything into minicom's interface
produces no result (the keystrokes are not even echoed to the screen).
Minicom, via the CTRL-key commands, will hang up, reset, initialise and
attempt to dial through the modem without reporting any errors, but nothing
ever happens to the TA and dial attempts obviously just time-out.
I know the port itself is not faulty as my analogue modem works perfectly
well on it just now.
I spoke to BT this morning who supplied the device (although it's
manufactured by a German company - AVM) and they said that they wouldn't
expect it to work unless there was some virtual CAPI modem present on the
OS. This apparently is the case in Windows also, whereby HyperTerminal
would not be able to access the device directly through COM1 or COM2 without
the additional CAPI layer being present. Does this make sense?
Thanks again for the assistance,
DD
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From: "Juan Ram�n Garc�a Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on IBM AS/400
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:11:24 -0000
It seems that IBM showed in Paris an AS/400 (now rebranded as E-eries), with
4 Power PC 64 bits processors running Kernel 2.4 as a preview for the third
quarter of 2.001 release.
Running 1 OS/400 and 3 LINUX in the same box concurrently
Does any one know how did it performed ? or how was the showing?
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From: "Francisco Monteagudo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accesing an Ericsson T10 phone from a Linux box
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:20:28 +0100
Hello; I have an Ericsson T10 mobile phone with the cable to connect to
the serial port, and I'm trying to use it from a Linux box.
Someone know what are the serial port parameters to work with this phone?
And the command set? (I read that it uses the standard AT command set)
Thanks,
Francisco.
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From: "Vladislav Dembskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:51:48 +0100
Hi All,
I have just installed SuSE 7.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. It was clean
install - default + office. Kernel 2.4.0. Everithing is working fine except
sound card. Yast2 does not detect my sound card and I tried to configure it
manually but unsuccessfull. Earlier I did installation of SuSE 6.4 and it was
working.
What I did:
Sound card driver: Yamaha OPL3SA2+
Sound card Model: generic Yamaha OPL3SA2
Options:
Port #: 0x538
SB port #: 0x220
WSS port #: 0x530
FM port #: 0x388
MIDI port #: 0x330
IRQ #: 5
1st DMA #: 1
2nd DMA #: 0
ISA PnP detection: 0
Error:
An error occured during installing generic Yamaha OPL3SA2 (Yamaha OPL3SA2+).
The kernel module snd-card-opl3sa2 for sound support could not be loaded.
The same error was if I tried to use OPL3SA3 model.
In Toshiba Hardware Configuration options the card has the following options:
I/O address:
WSS: 530h
SBPro: 220h
Synthesizer: 388h
Control: 538h
MPU401: 330h
Interrupt Level: 5
DMA Channel:
Playback: 1
Record: 0
What I did wrong?
Thank you,
--
Vladislav Dembskiy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "B�r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec AIC-7815 ??
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:10:15 +0100
Hi Folks,
is there any chance to get the Adaptec AIC-7815 IDE-Raid-Controller to work
with Kernel 2.4.0?
Greetings, Roland
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From: "Darren Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN TA's (again)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:44:25 -0000
I've asked BT today to exchange the TA for the internal PCI card, for which
there *is* good information on several sites about using it with Linux!
Thanks for the assistance - I may be back tomorrow asking for help on the
PCI setup :-)
Cheers,
DD
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Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.periphs,alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Sola UPS under Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Segger)
Date: 14 Mar 2001 00:30:52 +1000
I'm considering purchasing a Sola 305 425VA UPS, and was wondering if
anyone has had success (or failure) getting powerd or any other UPS
monitoring software to work with this UPS under Linux?
~Seg
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From: Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:14:33 GMT
Something in the BIOS....
Check to see if LBA mode and Ultra/ATA mode
etc... is enabled...
Also, some BIOSes have extra hard disk parameters that
need to be set correctly.
Vijay S Dhaka wrote:
> Hi ...
> I have a problem with my hard disk (Seagate Barracuda ATA II)
> Sometimes when I try to copy or move some file gen greater than 2-3 mb
> Suddenly the following error creeps in
>
> hda : status times out:status=0x80 {Busy}
> hda :drive not ready for command
> ide0:reset timed-out ,status =0x80
> ......
> Also If I reset the machine,the BIOS does not recognize the HD.
> And I have to switch off and on the machine again in order to start the
> system again..
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From: Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:15:04 GMT
Something in the BIOS....
Check to see if LBA mode and Ultra/ATA mode
etc... is enabled...
Also, some BIOSes have extra hard disk parameters that
need to be set correctly.
Vijay S Dhaka wrote:
> Hi ...
> I have a problem with my hard disk (Seagate Barracuda ATA II)
> Sometimes when I try to copy or move some file gen greater than 2-3 mb
> Suddenly the following error creeps in
>
> hda : status times out:status=0x80 {Busy}
> hda :drive not ready for command
> ide0:reset timed-out ,status =0x80
> ......
> Also If I reset the machine,the BIOS does not recognize the HD.
> And I have to switch off and on the machine again in order to start the
> system again..
------------------------------
From: Patrice Fortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: Fujitsu HDD crash under kernel 2.4.2
Date: 13 Mar 2001 15:17:15 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Kirill Kozmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where can I get this patch?
http://freshmeat.net/projects/linux/
should be a good start. There are the linus' 2.4.3 pre kernels
and the patches from alan cox.
BTW, I also spoted a K7 fix on the latest ac patches...
Patrice.
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From: Dr Mike Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:13:02 +0000
Vladislav Dembskiy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just installed SuSE 7.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. It was
> clean install - default + office. Kernel 2.4.0. Everithing is working fine
> except sound card. Yast2 does not detect my sound card and I tried to
> configure it manually but unsuccessfull. Earlier I did installation of
> SuSE 6.4 and it was working.
>
> What I did:
>
> Sound card driver: Yamaha OPL3SA2+
> Sound card Model: generic Yamaha OPL3SA2
> Options:
> Port #: 0x538
> SB port #: 0x220
> WSS port #: 0x530
> FM port #: 0x388
> MIDI port #: 0x330
> IRQ #: 5
> 1st DMA #: 1
> 2nd DMA #: 0
> ISA PnP detection: 0
>
> Error:
> An error occured during installing generic Yamaha OPL3SA2 (Yamaha
> OPL3SA2+). The kernel module snd-card-opl3sa2 for sound support could not
> be loaded.
>
> The same error was if I tried to use OPL3SA3 model.
>
> In Toshiba Hardware Configuration options the card has the following
> options: I/O address:
> WSS: 530h
> SBPro: 220h
> Synthesizer: 388h
> Control: 538h
> MPU401: 330h
>
> Interrupt Level: 5
> DMA Channel:
> Playback: 1
> Record: 0
>
> What I did wrong?
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Vladislav Dembskiy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
Is your card supported by alsa? IIRC SuSE6.4 didn't have alsa but 7.1 uses
it as the default sound driver system. try the oss drivers from the 6.4 CDs
(not the trial one but the older 'free' one).
regards
Dr Mike Waters
--
Doh! Nuts! Mmmm! Donuts!
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From: Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:21:58 GMT
Something in the BIOS....
Check to see if LBA mode and Ultra/ATA mode
etc... is enabled...
Also, some BIOSes have extra hard disk parameters that
need to be set correctly.
Vijay S Dhaka wrote:
> Hi ...
> I have a problem with my hard disk (Seagate Barracuda ATA II)
> Sometimes when I try to copy or move some file gen greater than 2-3 mb
> Suddenly the following error creeps in
>
> hda : status times out:status=0x80 {Busy}
> hda :drive not ready for command
> ide0:reset timed-out ,status =0x80
> ......
> Also If I reset the machine,the BIOS does not recognize the HD.
> And I have to switch off and on the machine again in order to start the
> system again..
------------------------------
From: Uday Bhaskar Sarma Seetamraju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:23:31 GMT
Something in the BIOS....
Check to see if LBA mode and Ultra/ATA mode
etc... is enabled...
Also, some BIOSes have extra hard disk parameters that
need to be set correctly.
Vijay S Dhaka wrote:
> Hi ...
> I have a problem with my hard disk (Seagate Barracuda ATA II)
> Sometimes when I try to copy or move some file gen greater than 2-3 mb
> Suddenly the following error creeps in
>
> hda : status times out:status=0x80 {Busy}
> hda :drive not ready for command
> ide0:reset timed-out ,status =0x80
> ......
> Also If I reset the machine,the BIOS does not recognize the HD.
> And I have to switch off and on the machine again in order to start the
> system again..
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth P. Turvey)
Subject: Re: Burn baby burn!...?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:08:41 -0600
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:24:14 GMT, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>older JVC 2x2x24 under Mandrake 7.2. It reads just find but cant seem to
>burn. Is there some tweak or driver I'm overlooking? I havent tried anything
>except cdrecord -scanbus, and it sees it fine. So, on to burning...?
I just went through a bit of a hassle with a Phillips CDRW/800. It all
works now, but it took a bit. After solving a few small problems with
my configuration I was completely stumped. Everything seemed perfect.
As it turned out it was.
Although the documentation will tell you that your CDR will work at any
speed as long as it is lower than the maximum your drive supports, mine
didn't. My drive will not work with the speed set to the default speed
of 2 nor does it work at the speed suggested if you have problems, zero.
It will work fine if the speed is set to 4 or 8.
One more thing.. nice the process to a high priority just to be safe.
nice -18 cdrecord -vvv dev=0,0 speed=8 myimage.iso
Just a thought. You should try adding -vvv to the command line and
posting the output from cdrecord.
--
Kenneth P. Turvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
========================================================
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced
with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is
almost never given a fair hearing. -- George Orwell
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From: "Vladislav Dembskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:57:37 +0100
Yes my Yamaha OPL3SAx card is supported by ALSA. But it is not PnP card in my
laptop. I have similar PnP card in my desktop system and it is working fine
with the same driver.
Best wishes,
--
Vladislav Dembskiy
"Dr Mike Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
news:sNqr6.18240$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Vladislav Dembskiy wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have just installed SuSE 7.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. It was
> > clean install - default + office. Kernel 2.4.0. Everithing is working fine
> > except sound card. Yast2 does not detect my sound card and I tried to
> > configure it manually but unsuccessfull. Earlier I did installation of
> > SuSE 6.4 and it was working.
> >
> > What I did:
> >
> > Sound card driver: Yamaha OPL3SA2+
> > Sound card Model: generic Yamaha OPL3SA2
> > Options:
> > Port #: 0x538
> > SB port #: 0x220
> > WSS port #: 0x530
> > FM port #: 0x388
> > MIDI port #: 0x330
> > IRQ #: 5
> > 1st DMA #: 1
> > 2nd DMA #: 0
> > ISA PnP detection: 0
> >
> > Error:
> > An error occured during installing generic Yamaha OPL3SA2 (Yamaha
> > OPL3SA2+). The kernel module snd-card-opl3sa2 for sound support could not
> > be loaded.
> >
> > The same error was if I tried to use OPL3SA3 model.
> >
> > In Toshiba Hardware Configuration options the card has the following
> > options: I/O address:
> > WSS: 530h
> > SBPro: 220h
> > Synthesizer: 388h
> > Control: 538h
> > MPU401: 330h
> >
> > Interrupt Level: 5
> > DMA Channel:
> > Playback: 1
> > Record: 0
> >
> > What I did wrong?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > --
> > Vladislav Dembskiy
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> Is your card supported by alsa? IIRC SuSE6.4 didn't have alsa but 7.1 uses
> it as the default sound driver system. try the oss drivers from the 6.4 CDs
> (not the trial one but the older 'free' one).
>
> regards
>
> Dr Mike Waters
> --
> Doh! Nuts! Mmmm! Donuts!
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