Linux-Hardware Digest #504, Volume #14           Tue, 20 Mar 01 02:13:05 EST

Contents:
  What is the Gotcha with this combo? ("B.Y.")
  Riser Card System (Aminudin Khalid)
  Re: Help!!! ("D. Stimits")
  Re: Motorola Cellphones serial protocol??? (Michael Meissner)
  via apollo chipset - interested? (Kenneth Siersma)
  MegaRADI & PERC ("Matt")
  Re: Need help building linux system (Dances With Crows)
  Re: Epson 777 and Wordperfect (Hal Burgiss)
  Re: insert pcmcia card = locks up, hangs. DWL-650 D-Link wireless (David Hinds)
  TNT 2 or G-Force video card for Linux and Windows ?? (mike)
  printcap setup, no X installed ... (Norm J)
  Re: SMC EtherEZ is not recognized (Norvell Spearman)
  Re: This is a test. This is only a test. (Juergen Pfann)
  Digiboard serial board (Ken)
  Re: printcap setup, no X installed ... (Bill Unruh)
  Re: cdrecord fails for audio data (Juergen Pfann)
  Re: Tekram390F and Yamaha6416 a trick to know (Juergen Pfann)
  Re: ATAPI CD-R won't write (Jeffrey Newmiller)
  Re: SMC EtherEZ is not recognized (Peter Teuben)
  Re: MegaRADI & PERC ("B.Y.")

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From: "B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: What is the Gotcha with this combo?
Date: 20 Mar 2001 02:48:45 GMT

My hardware:

Tyan Thunder S1867 motherboard, including these built-in
        Creative ES1373 sound chip
        LSI Symbios 53C1010 2-channel Ultra160 SCSI controller
        Intel EtherExpress 10/100 Ethernet 
        Using Serverworks' HE chipset

2x PIII/800 Slot 1
2x Kingston ValueRAM Registered ECC 256MB DIMM
40GB Fujitsu IDE UDMA HDD (5400rpm) 
18GB Fujitsu SCSI Ultra2W HDD SCA with 80-68 converter (7200rpm)
640MB Fujitsu 3.5" SCSI MO
Ricoh 9060A IDE CDRW/DVD combination drive

DOMEX Ultra-SCSI controller, Avansys based, bootable
Number Nine 16MB SDRAM Revolution IV "Ticket To Ride" Video Card
Trendware RTL8139-based 4-port Hub Combination NIC

Symptoms:

        SCSI HDD not detected when Red Hat 7.0 and Red Hat 6.2
CD-ROM boots.  Windows 2000, Traditional Chinese version is now
installed on the IDE HDD and sees all of the items above.

        Do I need a special driver?  Any futher gotchas?


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From: Aminudin Khalid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Riser Card System
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:54:02 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Hi,

Just want to  hear some opinions from you guys about the recent hardware
development  scenario .What do  you guys think about the AMR, CNR and
ACR board system  ? Would these  system  replace PCI devices ?

Thanks.

--
Mohd. Aminudin bin Mohd. Khalid
System Software Development
MIMOS



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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:52:00 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help!!!

cedric wrote:
> 
> Had to reinstall RH 6.2.
> All my data was on /dev/hdd.
> /dev/hdd is there during boot up.
> I added:
> /dev/hdd        /mnt/data       ext2    defaults        0 0
> to /etc/fstab and /mnt/data to /mnt.
> I can't find my data.
> 
> What do I have to do?
> 
> cedric

Are you sure it mounted correctly? If you cd into a directory at the
time of mount, it will fail, it has to be empty. But do this, cd to your
mount point (/mnt/data), and see if the directory "lost+found" is there.
If not, no ext2 system was mounted. If it is there, then it is mounted
and lack of data would mean it is lost. It isn't unusual for someone to
accidentally repartition in a way that causes the partition to be lost,
or to format by accident. Another test to see what is mounted where, as
root, run "df". The last column of this command output is the mount
point of any mounted partition. As a last test, it won't break anything
to try to mount a partition twice, or umount it...it'll simply give an
error. So try once manually each of these, look for messages:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/data
umount /dev/hdd

(then repeat once more)

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Subject: Re: Motorola Cellphones serial protocol???
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Mar 2001 22:06:19 -0500

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bgeer) writes:

> I use a Motorola TimePort cellphone which has memory for 99 names & 4
> phone numbers for each.  I purchased their serial port hardware &
> software package [designed for Win95/98] for downloading that info.
> 
> It works ok but I hate to boot Win98 just to download my phone.
> Especially since the phone numbers I want to download are in my
> Handspring Prism which I manage with Linux & Coldsync.

I just did a google search, looking for Startac + Linux (I have a StarTac with
the data kit that I was never able to use as a modem under Linux), and found:

        http://www.acdcwireless.com/comdatkitfor.html

looks like a competing product that does work under Linux.  Also, I found:

        http://www.tir.com/~sgifford/startalk/

which looks like a utility to program the phone numbers, which is what you
want.

-- 
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: Kenneth Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: via apollo chipset - interested?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:30:17 -0500

Thought you may be interested -
A machine we just built:
    Dual 850 PIII
    Tyan 133 Tiger motherboard - VIA apollo pro chipset
    512 MB 100 MHz Bus Registered ECC RAM
Well, that's the important hardware stuff.  I put RH 6.2 with kernel
2.4.2 on it for best overall support.
We have ALOT of benchmark data using our software on numerous platforms,
and we expected this machine to perform quite well.  Sadly, our single
PII 450 beat it easily!
Why is this?  Unfortunately, I'm now in the process of converting the
machine to an NT box, but I'm still interested in hearing people's
opinions / experiences.
Ken


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From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MegaRADI & PERC
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:05:18 GMT

Hi all,

I've got what seems to be a VERY strange problem here.  We've just installed
and initialized a new RAID5 array of 3x 36GB hard drives.  We're using a
Dell PowerEdge 2300 w/ a PERC RAID card.  The PERC BIOS detects the new
array just fine, i.e. Logical Drive 1 (LD0 & LD1 exist as far as it's
concerned).

However, when I try to access the new array in order to fdisk/mkfs/etc, the
drive is not there (on /dev/sdb, etc.).  What's up with this?  I upgraded
(w/ RH's update site) to kernel 2.2.17-14smp and all I got for my trouble
was a kernel panic, can't mount root, etc.  I also tried booting from an
RH6.2 CD to see if setup could see it -- it couldn't even see my original
drive!

2.2.12-20smp still boots fine and everything is working fine, just no new
RAID5 array.  Is the array too big (~72GB)?

I talked to Dell support, they told me to try cfdisk -- which of course
didn't work (they seemed pretty clueless).  Then they told me that mknod may
be able to do something, but I'd have to call RedHat for that (pass that
buck! :-).

Anyway, here's my /proc/scsi/scsi -- any ideas?

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: DELL     Model: 1x6 U2W SCSI BP  Rev: 5.13
  Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 17136R Rev: ED4D
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: NEC      Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:465 Rev: 1.25
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Thanks in advance!!!

-Matt








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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Need help building linux system
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Mar 2001 04:12:35 GMT

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:04:20 -0500, Saurin B. Shroff staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>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

Hmm, were you looking for an x86 or a Sparc/PPC/MIPS/other box?  You'll
pay less for x86, and have more software available.  So:

Abit KT-7 motherboard+T-Bird 850        $280
2 256M DIMMS                            $200
45G IBM IDE hard drive                  $170
3Com 905B 10/100 PCI NIC                $ 40
Good mid-tower case                     $ 80
IDE 24x CD-ROM                          $ 25
Matrox G400 video                       $ 90
Trinitron 17" monitor                   $300
Floppy drive                            $ 20
PS/2 Keyboard+mouse                     $ 50 (approx, can go cheaper)
                                        ----
                                       $1255 + shipping
(all prices from pricewatch.com, taken from the middle of the heap.  You
can go cheaper!)

>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.

http://www.arstechnica.com/ has a decent guide to putting together an
x86 system.  Any i386 CPU is compatible with Linux, and a fair number of
non-x86 architectures work too, including DEC Alpha, PPC (put Linux on
your iMac!) and S/390 (mainframe.  Yow.)  Motherboards are a bit
trickier, but most problems occur on the high end (damned i840 chipset)
or the low end (cheap-arse boards with integrated video+sound.)  Any IDE
or SCSI disk should work.  USB or FIreWire may be a bit trickier.

Asking "which distro is the best?" can start a flamewar.  The answer is,
"FInd a Linux-using local guru and use the distro he/she uses; that way
it's easier and quicker to get help."  But avoid RedHat 7.0 if you can.
I personally like SuSE 7.0 and wish they'd get SuSE 7.1 in stock
locally.  Linux drivers for most hardware come bundled with the distro,
or in the case of recent bleeding-edge stuff, are available at
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/ (most stuff) or http://xfree86.org/ (video).

http://linhardware.com/ and http://linuxnewbie.com/ and
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ could also be useful to you.  HTH, bonne
chance with your new system....

-- 
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!
=============================/    I hit a seg fault....

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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 23:28:27 -0500

On 19 Mar 2001 20:30:50 -0500, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Reams of gibberish there too I'm afraid. So back to square one. It was
>no small task to get decent printer output from Gimp, so I guess that
>was something. I feel like the girl in 'Adventures in Babysitting'. I
>can patch and build kernels in my sleep, but get an Epson printer to
>print Hello World in something other than courier 10? Ha, no steenkin
>way. 

OK, after re-reading all the excellent info at linuxprinting.org (great
site!), and then actually doing *everything* that was suggested, I've
got it going finally. Looks good too ... 

-- 
Hal B
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--

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From: David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: insert pcmcia card = locks up, hangs. DWL-650 D-Link wireless
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:29:15 GMT

In comp.os.linux.portable Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Info:
> Redhat 6.2, kernel upgraded 2.2.16
> pcmcia-cs-3.1.18

> etc/pcmcia/config:
> device "wvlan_cs"
>   class "network" module "wvlan_cs"
> card "D-Link DWL-650"
>   manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
>   bind "wvlan_cs

This combination (pcmcia-cs-3.1.18, wvlan_cs with a DWL-650 card) is
very unlikely to do anything useful.  That release did not have
wvlan_cs support for this card.  Try upgrading to 3.1.25 and see if
the problem persists.

-- Dave

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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TNT 2 or G-Force video card for Linux and Windows ??
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:41:26 -0500

Hi,
       I want to replace my old video card. A friend told me to
look at the TNT 2 card. While I was on the internet, I noticed
that a G-force card was just a little more money than the TNT
card. Another friend told me that he heard that even though
the G-Force card is faster, the TNT card has better video
quality.
      I would like to use the card for Linux and Windows.
Any thoughts on the two cards?

                                                    Thanks
                                                            Mike


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From: Norm J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: printcap setup, no X installed ...
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:46:32 GMT

hi,

i have a headless box w/o X on it, and am not crusty enough to write my
own /etc/printcap file from scratch ...

given that i am running rh7 w/ updates, LPRng (updated), and want to use
a postscript printer to print on that machine, any ideas on how to write
that printcap file?  'man printcap' is too scary for me ...




-- 
Learning is an ornament in prosperity,
a refuge in adversity.
                        -- Aristotle

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Norman M. Jacobowitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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From: Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ is not recognized
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:47:57 -0600

Vladimir wrote:
> When I install linux the linux doesn't recognize my ethernet card (SMC
> EtherEZ)

Which distribution of Linux did you install?  If RedHat, I believe they
have a pretty comprehensive hardware compatibility list.  Other
distributions should have similar information on their respective web
sites.

Also, you may have to load a module for your ethernet card at boot up,
depending on your kernel.
 
> i checked in the /dev folder for eth0 and there wasn't wnything even close
> to this

As far as I understand it, eth0 isn't supposed to be in /dev.  I believe
it's an alias.  E.g., when the gateway device is specified to be eth0,
outgoing packets are sent to eth0 which is bound to the card's IP or MAC
address.  Since you can have more than one NIC in a computer, you need
some to differentiate between them (e.g., 1st NIC is eth0, 2nd NIC is
eth1, etc.).  Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

---Norvell Spearman
===========================
``Trouble is my business.''
          ---Philip Marlowe

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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: This is a test. This is only a test.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:08:55 +0100

"Colin G." wrote:
> 
> This is a test. This is only a test.
> 

This is not a test group. This is not at all a test group. 

Juergen

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From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digiboard serial board
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:26:31 +1200

I'm trying to figure out how to get a DigiBoard PC/X 8 port 
serial board working under Linux. The serial howto is of little
help, could someone here give me a clue.

So far I have configured the kernel with CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ
and CONFIG_SERIAL_MULTIPORT. My rc.serial looks like this:

SS=/bin/setserial
DEV=/dev/ttyS
NOTFP=^fourport

${SS} ${DEV}5  $NOTFP port 0x100 irq 5 uart 16550A
${SS} ${DEV}6  $NOTFP port 0x108 irq 5 uart 16450
${SS} ${DEV}7  $NOTFP port 0x110 irq 5 uart 16550A
${SS} ${DEV}8  $NOTFP port 0x118 irq 5 uart 16550A
${SS} ${DEV}9  $NOTFP port 0x120 irq 4 uart 16550A
${SS} ${DEV}10 $NOTFP port 0x128 irq 4 uart 16550A
${SS} ${DEV}11 $NOTFP port 0x130 irq 4 uart 16450
${SS} ${DEV}12 $NOTFP port 0x138 irq 4 uart 16450

${SS} ${DEV}5  $NOTFP port 0x100 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port1 0x100 mask1 
0xff match1 0xff

${SS} ${DEV}6  $NOTFP port 0x108 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port2 0x108 mask2 
0xff match2 0xff

${SS} ${DEV}7  $NOTFP port 0x110 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port3 0x110 mask3 
0xff match3 0xff

${SS} ${DEV}8  $NOTFP port 0x118 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port4 0x118 mask4 
0xff match4 0xff

${SS} ${DEV}9  $NOTFP port 0x120 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port1 0x120 mask1 
0xff match1 0xff

${SS} ${DEV}10  $NOTFP port 0x128 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port2 0x128 mask2 
0xff match2 0xff

${SS} ${DEV}11  $NOTFP port 0x130 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port3 0x130 mask3 
0xff match3 0xff

${SS} ${DEV}12  $NOTFP port 0x138 set_multiport port_monitor 0x140 port4 0x138 mask4 
0xff match4 0xff


The serial board is setup to use IRQ 5 for the first 4 ports, and 4 for the
last 4 ports. What am I doing wrong ?



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: printcap setup, no X installed ...
Date: 20 Mar 2001 05:30:43 GMT

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Norm J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>i have a headless box w/o X on it, and am not crusty enough to write my
>own /etc/printcap file from scratch ...

>given that i am running rh7 w/ updates, LPRng (updated), and want to use
>a postscript printer to print on that machine, any ideas on how to write
>that printcap file?  'man printcap' is too scary for me ...

Well, here is mine.
lp:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:\
        :lp=/dev/lp0:\
        :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/error:\
        :ac=/etc/printer/log/acct:

Not clear which you want. /dev/lp0 is the printer port.
:if is the printer filter ( not sure what LPRng sets up.) This is the
main program which handles the printing, mx#0 means do not limit the
size of the job, sd is the directory in which the files are stored for
printing, ac is the account file ( you may not want this) lf is the file
where error messages are placed.

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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails for audio data
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:31:57 +0100

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I recently read that audio CDs are all 1x speed.
> 

Nonsense... 
When playing / listening to an audio CD, of course, 
your CD-ROM drive / stereo CD player works in 1x mode - 
per definition :-). 
But you can burn an audio CD as fast as media, recorder 
& SW allow. 
If you do get buffer underruns, however, try again with 
different media, try to run as few concurrent programs 
as possible, and of course try to reduce the writing 
speed - but not necessarily to 1x (I'd die of boredom 
if I had to...). 
Ahh - I forgot : do you try to record "on-the-fly" ?. 
It's *much* safer to grab the tracks first, and then 
write the track images from HD. 
On-the-fly doesn't even work without buffer underruns 
with my ~20x Plextor CD-ROM in 12x burning; thus 
grabbing all tracks in 20x and recording in 12x 
afterwards does give effectively ~8x - and that's still 
o.k. IMHO. 

Juergen

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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tekram390F and Yamaha6416 a trick to know
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:48:44 +0100

Johan Kullstam wrote:
> 
> i think you can use the sym8xx driver as long as you don't set it to
> assume symbios compatibility.
> 

...at least not for boards by Tekram and others (DawiControl etc.). 
BTW, I'd like to add my own experience here : When "upgrading" from 
a SYM 8750 SP (53c875 with only U-Narrow connectors) to a SYM21002 
(Dual-channel 53c896) last year, at first the kernel wouldn't 
recognize the (same) devices, only the 2 HA channels themselves. 
I had to recompile the kernel, because I had to *deactivate* 
the ...SYMBIOS_COMPAT option that had worked fine before - 
nota bene with a *genuine Symbios/LSI* board !! 
That was true for an old distro with 2.0 kernel->ncr53c8xx driver, 
and also for other distros on the same box with 2.2.x where I 
used the sym53c8xx driver (and kept using it). 
Thus, my recommendation is : Even with original Symbios/LSILogic 
HA boards, say "no" to this option - it apparently doesn't harm 
(as it is the NVRAM that matters), and it seems to be safer. 

Juergen

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From: Jeffrey Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-R won't write
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:11:02 GMT

Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Do you have SCSI cdrom support?

: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR

sr_mod is shown in output of lsmod
CD reads just fine

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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC EtherEZ is not recognized
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:13:40 -0500

Vladimir wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> When I install linux the linux doesn't recognize my ethernet card (SMC
> EtherEZ)
> 
> i checked in the /dev folder for eth0 and there wasn't wnything even close
> to this
> 
> Any advise how can i make the card work?
> 
> Oleg M
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I used a newer tulip driver that I got from Becker's website. redhat6.2
certainly didn't have this card in its database. 

peter

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From: "B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MegaRADI & PERC
Date: 20 Mar 2001 06:29:28 GMT

Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi all,

: I've got what seems to be a VERY strange problem here.  We've just installed
: and initialized a new RAID5 array of 3x 36GB hard drives.  We're using a
: Dell PowerEdge 2300 w/ a PERC RAID card.  The PERC BIOS detects the new
: array just fine, i.e. Logical Drive 1 (LD0 & LD1 exist as far as it's
: concerned). However, when I try to access the new array in order to fdisk/
: mkfs/etc, the drive is not there (on /dev/sdb, etc.).  What's up with this?

Your kernel was not compiled with Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs).  Your Logical
Drive 0 would appear to Linux to be scsi0:ID0:LUN0 and Logical Drive 1 LUN1,
except that the default kernel in many distributions can't see LUN1.  I have
an elder MegaRAID myself and ran into the same problem.  Recompile kernel to 
use LUNs and you are set.
                                -- hope this helps.


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