Linux-Hardware Digest #502, Volume #14 Mon, 19 Mar 01 16:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: cdrecord fails for audio data ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Epson 777 and Wordperfect (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Need help getting modem to work (Nader)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("NewsReader2")
Re: How to boot CD-ROM on old system? (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: ISDN (Markku Kolkka)
ASUS A7V133 lm_sensors (Temps not working et al) ("Robert Oschwald")
Re: HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . . (Vincent Fox)
SONY CD-Driver - Help required ("Benjamin Bindert")
Kt7 133A with hpt370 ("Marco Mangiante")
more promise controller problems - where does it end? (ekk)
HP2500C - MIO card port name for remote printing (A. Khan)
Need help building linux system ("Saurin B. Shroff")
Adaptec AHA-a50x install? ("George")
epox 8kta3+ and sound AC97 ("Norbert Kniffler")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails for audio data
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:11:18 GMT
Martigan wrote:
>
> Parminder Lehal wrote:
>
> > Hello, I am having strange problem with cdrecord. I can write data CDs
> > without any problem. But I can not write audio CDs. The problem is buffer
> > underrun. When I write data CDs fifo never gets below 90% but for audio
> > CDs it stays at about 5-6% and fails .... The cdrecord documentation says
> > that if fifo is below certain range then it might be hardware problem. But
> > then the same hardware is able to write data CDs.
> >
> > HELP PLEASE...............................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > Parminder
>
> In my experience with "burn'n" when you have this problem some times
> slowing the read and burn speed will help.
I recently read that audio CDs are all 1x speed.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Epson 777 and Wordperfect
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Mar 2001 11:24:27 -0500
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:27:34 +0000, Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm using a Stylus Color 600, and the "Word Perfect Default Printer at
>None". IIRC, once your printer is correctly setup you can just use the
>default setting like I did.
You must have a more recent version than I. I have nothing like that
listed anywhere. No luck trying to download the current version. cnet
says 'file Wordperfect.tar.gz' not found on this server :(
--
Hal B
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help getting modem to work
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:32:52 -0800
If this doesn't work for you, you may have to upgrade your kernel and device
drivers. I did this a couple of months ago for the exact same problem you are
having, even after setting the setserial commands correctly. My IRQs are
shared between the drive controller and the modem, but my kernel did not have
the latest device drivers. If your USR modem is on COM5 in Windows, it will
need to be setup on tty4 in Linux.
What version kernel are you using? Do you have a Highpoint Controller
(HPT366)?
bluster wrote:
> jpm27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > I have a U.S. Robotics 56k PCI Voice Modem and I'm trying to get it to run
> > under Linux-Mandrake 7.2. When I run HardDrake is shows that the modem
> has
> > been recognized under the modem category. But when I try to connect to my
> > ISP using Kppp and I try all the different com ports all I get on each one
> > upon trying to connect is a message that states that the modem is busy.
> Can
> > someone please tell me the steps I need to take to get the modem working
> so
> > I can connect to my ISP? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The registration of serial ports occurs when the serial driver is loaded.
> The logs of that are in the /var/log/messages, and /var/log/dmesg files.
> For example,
>
> <snip from /var/log/messages>
> zephyr kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
> zephyr kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> zephyr kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> zephyr kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> <snip from /var/log/messages>
>
> Here, COM 1 is the UPS attached to the on-board serial port. COM 2 is a
> mouse attached to the second on-board, and COM 3 is a hardware modem
> jumpered to COM 3 and IRQ 7. Notice the error in reporting the IRQ. I then
> run setserial as part of the boot scripts, to set the IRQ to the correct
> value.
>
> To make a quick check of the serial ports that were registered with
> the linux kernel at boot time (as root) type:
>
> [root@zephyr]# grep tty /var/log/dmesg
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> [root@zephyr]#
>
> If it *is* in the list but the IRQ or IO-port
> is wrong fix it with the setserial command (see: man setserial).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Bluster
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From: "NewsReader2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:29:25 GMT
"Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:CIZs6.3942$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Ed Blackman wrote in message ...
> >On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:17:05 GMT, Ron Reaugh wrote:
> >>Ed Blackman wrote in message ...
> >>>On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:09:27 GMT, Ron Reaugh wrote:
> >>>>NewsReader2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ...
> >>>>>Just keep to a single drive for greater reliability and stability.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Choose 10K+ SCSI to improve workstation performance
> >>>>
> >>>>All nonsense. Nothing supplants a good backup scheme at 3:00 or at
> >>>>any other time. Fast inexpensive EIDE RAID 0 plus an appropriate
> >>>>backup/checkpoint scheme is just as reliable as a SCSI solution.
> >>>
> >>>Because a single drive failure in RAID 0 array takes down the entire
> >>>array, the probability of failure of a RAID 0 array is the *sum* of the
> >>>probability of failures of all of the drives in the array. So a single
> >>>drive *is* more reliable than a RAID 0 array.
> >>
> >>That's not the issue.
it is at least *PART* of the issue, and an important one at that.
> >
> >It might not be the only issue, but it's the one that my comments where
> >directed towards. Newsreader2 said that single drives had greater
> >reliability and stability. You said that his statement was nonsense.
> >I showed you were wrong: it *isn't* nonsense so say that single drives
> >are more reliable than a RAID 0 array.
>
>
> You are a bold faced liar as anyone who reads the thread for themself can
> see.
>
very confusing statement.
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Subject: Re: How to boot CD-ROM on old system?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 19 Mar 2001 12:05:11 -0500
Laurence Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know whether it is possible to boot a 'bootable' (El Torito)
> CD-ROM on an old system without 'boot from CD-ROM' support in the BIOS?
It's not possible.
> For a given CD (eg: a Linux distro) there is undoubtedly a specific boot
> diskette, but it should be possible to have a 'generic' boot floppy that
> snarfs the actual boot disk image from the CD (having first located it)
> and then somehow continues booting from that (possibly as a ramdisk).
> This should work with any bootable CD... or am I missing something?
Some sort of CD-ROM driver needs to be loaded before the CD can be
accessed at all. Practically, that means you'll need a kernel boot
disk. From there, you might be able to direct the kernel to load the
initrd from somewhere on the CD-ROM.
You could also install the root image on the actual CD (as an actual
root file system) and simply mount it as root.
--
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: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN
Date: 19 Mar 2001 19:22:11 +0200
"Arkadiusz Sawicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How to install modem ISDN under Red Hat 6.2 or 7.0
In 7.0, install and run the program isdn-config (it's on the CD 1).
--
Markku Kolkka
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From: "Robert Oschwald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS A7V133 lm_sensors (Temps not working et al)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:26:10 +0100
Hi Folks,
after 2 days of digging around, I'm stuck with the lm_sensors 2.5.5 on linux
2.4.2.
As we all know, the Voltages are wrongly monitored because of Asus's
restrictive
datasheet policy (shame on you, ASUS people!)
But this is not my only problem. Even the temp-sensors do not work and thats
the important
thing for me!
I tried several sensors.config files (suggested by news group posts, from
the lm_sensors2 cvs tree etc)
without success.
Maybe someone of you can give me a hint. (Even A7V people, becasue the
99127F Chip is the same)
I start the i2c stuff in a startup-script in /etc/init.d linked to rc1.d,
rc2.d, rc3.d which mainly does this:
modprobe i2c-viaprobe
modprobe i2c-isa
modprobe 83781d
I don't probe for the via686a, because it's unused on A7V/A7V133.
Here it comes:
#############Modules loaded
bash-2.04# lsmod
Module Size Used by
i2c-viapro 3920 0 (unused)
w83781d 16800 0 (unused)
sensors 6384 0 [w83781d]
i2c-core 12304 0 [i2c-viapro w83781d sensors]
...
############# weird sensors output
bash-2.04# sensors
as99127f-i2c-0-2d
Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at e800
Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
VCore 1: +1.82 V (min = +1.66 V, max = +2.03 V) (beep)
VCore 2: +0.11 V (min = +1.66 V, max = +2.03 V) ALARM (beep)
+3.3V: +3.56 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V) (beep)
+5V: +5.12 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V) (beep)
+12V: +12.58 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.11 V) (beep)
-12V: -12.12 V (min = -12.32 V, max = -15.06 V) ALARM (beep)
-5V: -5.06 V (min = -4.50 V, max = -5.48 V) (beep)
ERROR: Can't get IN7 data!
ERROR: Can't get IN6 data!
fan1: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM (beep)
fan2: 5328 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) (beep)
fan3: 0 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2) ALARM (beep)
ERROR: Can't get TEMP1 data!
ERROR: Can't get TEMP2 data!
ERROR: Can't get TEMP3 data!
vid: +1.85 V
alarms: Chassis intrusion detection (beep)
beep_enable:
Sound alarm enabled
##############Logfile of insmod's
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-core.o: i2c core module
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-viapro.o version 2.5.5 (20010115)
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-core.o: adapter SMBus vt82c596 adapter
at e800 registered as adapter 0.
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-viapro.o: vt82c596 bus detected and
initialized
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-isa.o version 2.5.5 (20010115)
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-core.o: adapter ISA main adapter
registered
as adapter 1.
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-isa.o: ISA bus access for i2c modules
initialized.
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: sensors.o version 2.5.5 (20010115)
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: w83781d.o version 2.5.5 (20010115)
Mar 19 17:36:01 ferrari kernel: i2c-core.o: driver W83781D sensor driver
registered.
Mar 19 17:36:02 ferrari kernel: i2c-core.o: client [AS99127F chip]
registered to adapter [SMBus vt82c596 adapter at e800](pos. 0).
Mar 19 17:36:02 ferrari kernel: i2c-core.o: client [AS99127F subclient]
registered to adapter [SMBus vt82c596 adapter at e800](pos. 1).
Mar 19 17:36:02 ferrari kernel: i2c-core.o: client [AS99127F subclient]
registered to adapter [SMBus vt82c596 adapter at e800](pos. 2).
Sorry for the long posting.
Thanks for your help!
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . .
Date: 19 Mar 2001 17:32:30 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Has anyone successfully installed any distribution of Linux on an ABIT
>KT7A-RAID mainboard, using RAID-1? If I install a 2.2.15 kernel on one
>of the HDDs (on a regular IDE channel), can I then upgrade to 2.2.16,
>adjust /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, run /sbin/lilo, and---oh, how exactly
>to I ensure the modules for the htp370 get loaded before the kernel
>tried mounting partitions---then mirror the drives?
My recommendation:
1) Disable HPT370 in BIOS
2) Install 3Ware IDE RAID card
3) Do *REAL* hardware RAID
I have a system where I installed 7.1 beta2 onto
the mirrored drive pair on a 3Ware 6200 card.
It "just installed", I didn't have to futz with
the installer, do some magic to with software RAID
or anything. Finally a system where my BOOT drive is
mirrored. I verified it by pulling one drive loose
and it still booted just fine. Considering the time
the card saved me it's well worth the $130.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: "Benjamin Bindert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SONY CD-Driver - Help required
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:26:21 +0100
Hi everybody,
I'm a newbie as to the usage of Linux.
I'm trying to get Linux SuSE 7.1 to work on a P100, 32MB, 1GB, 3.8GB
I'm using a Sony COR-334 2x CD-Drive, which is using the Sony COR334
interface card.
Where can I get a "driver" which will work with the CD-Drive?
Hope to find an answer here
Benny
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From: "Marco Mangiante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kt7 133A with hpt370
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:39:22 +0100
Hi,
I try to install Caldera Linux Distribution 2.3 with Kernel 2.2.10 version,
but after i set the keyboard, language and mouse i receive this message: "An
error has occured-no valid devices were found on which to create new
filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem". If
I upgrade to kernel version 2.4, I can install linux.
Thanks
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: more promise controller problems - where does it end?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:28:54 -0500
Hello again everyone -
I, once again, am having promise controller Ultra 66 problems. I did,
by the way, work out the other problems I was having. My most recent
problem involves booting from the HDD. I have successfully installed
Linux on /dev/hde with the boot record going on MBR (no windows, so who
cares?), and I can boot using my freshly created boot disk (of course
the kernel is too old to recognize the controller, so the boot konks out
when it tries to check the disks). Once the boot stops, I can mount
/usr and recompile the kernel to include support for the promise
controller. After editing lilo.conf and running LILO, I try to reboot
from the hard drive, but it cannot find a boot record on SCSI. I don't
understand this - I've done this numerous times before, but it just
isn't working this time.
One interesting thing - if I dump the kernel on a floppy, I can boot
using the floppy, but when it starts checking the partitions, it pauses
at hde: Eventually, it continues with the following messages:
hde: hde: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hde: irq timeout: status: 0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete }
It gives that message 4 times, then says:
hde: DMA disabled
ide2: reset: success
And it then continues with the boot. Once I log in, if I do 'hdparm -t
/dev/hde1', I get a transfer rate of 3.5 MB/sec, as opposed to the
20+ I was expecting.
Any ideas?
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From: A. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP2500C - MIO card port name for remote printing
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:27:04 -0600
I have a HP2500C printer with a MIO print server card. I have been able to
set the IP params etc. I am able to ping the machine. However, don't know
the name to put in for :rp=: entry. The docs I downloaded from HP's
support site mention IP in passing.
Does any know the identification for the 'port' name associated with the
'lp' functionality. (FWIW, with Intel Netports it is LPT1_TEXT and
LPT1_PASSTHRU for text and raw mode resp.)
TIA
--
Arun K. (email: knura at yahoo dot com)
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From: "Saurin B. Shroff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help building linux system
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:04:20 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I want to build a linux system to be used as workstation.
My current requirements are:
. Fast cpu.
. Minimum 512M memory
. Minimum 20 GB disk space
. Network card (Capable to be networked with other Unix systems:
Sun/Solaris, HP/Aux)
. Graphics card (Graphics capability is not important, though
it should at least run some X window system)
. CD-ROM
I would appreciate if anyone can point me to a site that explains
how to build a linux system and talks about compatible CPUs,
motherboards, disks, which linux distribution to use, where to get
the drivers, etc.
If anyone has recently build such a system, I would like to find
out their choice of components and any problems to look for.
-- Saurin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec AHA-a50x install?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:02:31 GMT
Can anyone point me to a place where I might learn how to make my SCSI
adapter work?
I have my system set up as a dual boot. The adapter and tape drive work fine
in windows ME
the adapter is
Adaptec AHA-150X/1510/152X/AIC-6X60
Windows system mgr / Properties says
Input/Output Range = 0140-015F
IRQ 12
I'm running SuSE Linux 7.1 Pro and everything else seems to work great, just
can't get it to recognise the SCSI card and Tape drive and I can't seem to
find any instructions on how to get it to use hardware that it doesn't
recognise on it's own.
(I'm new to Linux, but I really like what I see so far)
Thanks
George
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From: "Norbert Kniffler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: epox 8kta3+ and sound AC97
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:25:49 +0100
hi news-group,
I'm running a 8kta3+ for 4 days with a linux kernel (2.2.14; suse
distribution 6.4). The system seems running well. The most important cards
are running (NE2000, SB VIBRA 16, Graphic and tv-tuner). So, I removed the
SB-card and wanted to use the integrated AC97 sound module. There is a linux
sound module for Caldera und Redhat in the software package. Does anybody
know, how this can be used for the suse 6.4 distribution. Is ist possible to
rewrite the installation procedure? Maybe there a difference in the
directory name?
Thanks you for your help!
Norbert
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