Linux-Hardware Digest #522, Volume #14 Sat, 24 Mar 01 20:13:04 EST
Contents:
ps2 mouse ("Ivan Danicic")
Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question ("NM")
Re: S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) attributes of IBM disc (Cokey de Percin)
cdrom (Tomas Carnecky)
Re: ps2 mouse (Dances With Crows)
Re: SoundBlaster X-Gamer (Dances With Crows)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) (John Hong)
Internal Modem ("Matt")
Re: cdrom (Dances With Crows)
RH7.0 - Problem with Modem - Please help!!! ("Blaine Mincey")
Re: Experience with Abit KT7A? (Garglemonster)
Re: SCSI tape drive under linux: HOWTO (Garglemonster)
Re: Internal Modem (Dances With Crows)
Mysterious HDD noise ("Taavi Hein")
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From: "Ivan Danicic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ps2 mouse
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:15:21 -0000
Hello, I've bought an ms intellimouse which is ps2
compatible. Is there a simple way of making this
work on my debian system? The mouse HOWTO
tells me to change to some directory .../linux and then run 'make config'
but none of this is understood by debian.
I have another mouse which does work but I'd
prefer using the ps2 mouse. Any help is
much appreciated.
Ivan
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From: "NM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:09:48 GMT
Howdy Folks!
I'm setting up RAID-5 on Dell PowerEdge 2400 server with PERC 2/Si RAID
controller and 3 32GB each SCSI disks. Dell has preconfigured two
containers:
#0: 4GB (boot)
#1: 60 GB
All three disks are part of both containers. I am planning to install RedHat
7 and create the folllwing partitions:
/, /boot, and swap in container #1 and install OS there.
/home/data partition of 60 GB in container #2.
My questions: Is 60 GB partition too large? I really want one large
partition. This partion will hold all user data (It's a fileserver). I know
a few drawbacks of having single large partition as opposed to having
mulitple smaller partitions:
- Longer fsck times assuming no journaling filesystem (don't care)
- More prone to corruption due to one large i-node table (maybe not valid in
RAID-5?)
- Less convenient for tape backup (don't use dump for backup.: so don't
care)
- Any other reason I should have smaller partitions?
BTW, what is the biggest partition you folks have ever handled? And for
what?
Also I would like to have some pointers in learning more about disaster
recovery of RAID systems. Please feel free to share your experiences in
dealing with DELL Support in such incidences.
Thanks
Newbie SysAdmin
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Alexey Koptsevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S.M.A.R.T. (SMART) attributes of IBM disc
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:32:35 GMT
Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there any UNIX/Windows/DOS utility to read SMART _attributes_ of _SCSI_
> drives? I have IBM DDYS-T18350, and ez-smart utility from IBM does not
> show values of SMART attributes...
>
> Please cc: me your reply.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
Try this:
http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/smart.shtml
Seems to work, but is still in beta.
Cokey
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From: Tomas Carnecky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrom
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:20:38 GMT
my cdrom doesn't work
i have rh 7.0
the cdrom is on hdc
/dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc
but it says that my cdrom is not a valid block device
modprobe ide-cd:
/lib/modules/.../ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol unregister_cdrom_R9889..
...
...
/lib/modules/.../ide-cd.o: insmod ide-cd failed
what can i do now=20
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ps2 mouse
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Mar 2001 21:33:56 GMT
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:15:21 -0000, Ivan Danicic staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Hello, I've bought an ms intellimouse which is ps2 compatible. Is
>there a simple way of making this work on my debian system? The mouse
>HOWTO tells me to change to some directory .../linux and then run 'make
>config' but none of this is understood by debian. I have another mouse
>which does work but I'd prefer using the ps2 mouse. Any help is much
>appreciated.
You shouldn't have to recompile the kernel to use a PS/2 mouse, but you
*should* go get the kernel source, 'cause you will probably need that at
some point. I thought Debian installed the kernel sources by default.
apt-get the appropriate package. No need to recompile the kernel yet,
but you might want to try it out (with "make menuconfig", not "make
config"!) for practice.
WRT getting the PS/2 mouse to work, first make sure the mouse is plugged
in when the machine is powered-up. If no mouse is detected upon
poweron, the kernel probably won't initialize the mouse driver, and
hot-plugging PS/2 devices is not a great idea anyway. Once that's out
of the way, go to a text console, log in as root, and try "gpm -t
imps2". That should allow you to move the mouse and watch a cursor move
around on a text screen. If that didn't work, then you don't really
have an IMPS/2, but something else. If it did work, run XF86Setup and
tell it that you have an IMPS/2. Then you can log in to X using
xdm/kdm/gdm and have a working mouse. Painless, eh?
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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: SoundBlaster X-Gamer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Mar 2001 21:33:54 GMT
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:58:12 GMT, Charles staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>Here's the thing. It doesn't matter what I am logged in as... whether
>it's root, or as a user. DOS games play sound (thru linux), and
>RealPlayer plays, etc. It's just the system sounds that I can't get to
>work.. like the start-up, shut down, etc.
>I didn't install as "paranoid" I did a normal install.
...insert what Tom W. said regarding giving enough information for other
people to find out what's really wrong.
This is apparently a RedHat/Mandrake specific problem with KDE 1.x. It
affects *only* the "system sounds" that KDE plays. To fix it, look at
/etc/sysconfig/sound . This file should contain something like
"SOUNDCARD=es1371" IIRC (don't have RedHat installed anywhere but a
server without a soundcard, can't check for sure.) What's after the
SOUNDCARD= doesn't really matter. Restart X and KDE's system sounds
should be available.
(No, I don't know why this is. Earlier versions of SuSE had a similar
problem.)
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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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:34:00 +0000 (UTC)
peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I've heard great things about the new Suse distro., but I was told by
>someone that I should use the same distro that I use at work. At work
>we use Red Hat, at home I just setup Mandrake 7.1, but everyone says
>the new Suse distro is good and also Mandrake 7.2 is good.
In my opinion, if you are comparing between Red Hat/Mandrake to
SuSE, stay with Red Hat/Mandrake. SuSE has recently been becoming more of
a commercial distribution with little willingness to put out any GPL'ed
versions of their version of Linux. The only ISO they have available for
anyone to download is a live evaluation one, meaning, you boot into Linux
from the CDROM, but you can't actually install it into your computer.
That is not to say that it is a bad distribution, it is in fact
quite good. However, Red Hat and Mandrake both still release GPL'ed
versions of their distributions that one can install into their machines.
If you are already familiar with Red Hat/Mandrake, then there is little
reason to go with SuSE.
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From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internal Modem
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:10:35 -0800
I have a Viking 56k LT internal modem and everything i read says it should
work fine, but it never has. I've followed all the instructions i can find,
but no luck.
Has anyone got this same modem?
Thank you,
-Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: cdrom
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Mar 2001 23:27:10 GMT
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:20:38 GMT, Tomas Carnecky staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>i have rh 7.0
>the cdrom is on hdc
>/dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdc
>but it says that my cdrom is not a valid block device
>
>modprobe ide-cd:
>/lib/modules/.../ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol unregister_cdrom_R9889..
>/lib/modules/.../ide-cd.o: insmod ide-cd failed
>what can i do now
Provide more information. What is the make and model of the drive,
what's in the boot log (/var/log/boot.msg or something like that)
regarding the drive, and did you compile a new kernel? Or are you using
the RedHat 7.0 stock kernel? I thought the stock kernel shipped with
IDE-CD support compiled directly into the kernel, not as a module, in
which case the "modprobe" command you tried wouldn't do anything except
possibly return an error message.
Also, is this a CD-R(W)? If so, it's entirely possible that the
installation program detected this and set your machine up to use
IDE-SCSI emulation instead of direct IDE. Try mounting /dev/scd0 and
see what you get. If this works, change /dev/cdrom to point to
/dev/scd0 and things should work happily.
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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: "Blaine Mincey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7.0 - Problem with Modem - Please help!!!
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:17:53 -0500
Hi. I am currently running RH 7.0 , kernel 2.2.16-22. I recently installed
a US Robotics 56K Performance Pro modem PCI, model 3CP5610A.
I am having much difficulty with getting it to work. I have run the
setserial commands, etc. I have tried using kppp but when I query the modem
is says that it is busy. When run 'lspci -v' I get the following output:
**Beginning of output **
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev c4)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0969
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable)
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP]
(prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: d4000000-d7ffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Apollo PRO] (rev
23)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596/A/B PCI to ISA Bridge
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at d000
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 11)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Unknown device 0925:1234
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at d400
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3050 (rev 30)
Flags: medium devsel
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
Subsystem: Ensoniq: Unknown device 2003
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d800
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev
10)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 1301
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at dc00
Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
00:0c.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01)
(prog-if 02 [16550])
Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com: Unknown device 00d7
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e000
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0969
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at e400
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:0d.1 Communication controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0969
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e800
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M
AGP 2x (rev 64) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
I/O ports at c000
Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [50] AGP version 1.0
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1
** Ending of output **
As you can see, several devices share IRQ 5. The modem is one of those
devices. What can I do to solve this problem? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks!!
Blaine Mincey
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From: Garglemonster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Experience with Abit KT7A?
Date: 25 Mar 2001 08:51:09 +0900
>>>>> "Dances" == Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dances> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:23:51 +0100, Stefan Rauch staggered
Dances> into the Black Sun and said:
>> has anybody of you experience with the Abit KT7A motherboard?
>> Does it work with Linux or is it not supported?
Dances> I've got a KT-7 here that's been working just fine with
Dances> Linux for almost a month. No problems at all. If the
Dances> KT7-A is the one with onboard HPT370 RAID, you will
Dances> probably have to do some dancing around to install Linux
Dances> and use the RAID features: Hook a drive to the UDMA/66
Dances> controller, install there, compile a kernel with HPT370
Dances> support and RAID support, then use that kernel. Full info
Dances> can be had by searching Google for "HPT370 Linux". HTH,
correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't think the raid features are
supported yet. the kt7a is the newer version of the board that has a
266 fsb. it also comes in raid and non-raid flavours.
g.m.
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From: Garglemonster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive under linux: HOWTO
Date: 25 Mar 2001 08:51:15 +0900
>>>>> "ds37577" == ds37577 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ds37577> OK, I've downloaded amanda. Is there not an GUI or
ds37577> menu-driven interface? Is it all just command-line
ds37577> tools? Just wondering if I'm missing something..
sorry -- dunno much about amanda. i use cron and dump here, but i
think the general philosophical issues are the same. to wit:
you don't want/need a gui. once you've got the backup schedule set
up, the interface should be human hand + tape + tape drive. i.e.,
stick the appropriate tape in the drive before you leave for the
night, go home and forget about it. this is something that ought to
be automated as much as possible, since many humans tend to say "aww,
fuckit" when it comes to precautions -- that is when they don't
forget about them altogether. unix utilities like dump, tar, cpio,
mt, and cron make it fairly easy to automate backups.
is app state applachian state university?
g.m.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Internal Modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Mar 2001 23:58:29 GMT
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 15:10:35 -0800, Matt staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I have a Viking 56k LT internal modem and everything i read says it
>should work fine, but it never has. I've followed all the instructions
>i can find, but no luck. Has anyone got this same modem? Thank you,
What exactly did you try, and what is the exact text of the error
messages you got? That info would help a lot; we're not psychic here.
"LT" on a modem often means "Lucent Winmodem" which means "Go to
http://www.walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk and get the tarball, then
follow the directions in the README and you're set."
You can verify this by doing a "cat /proc/pci" and looking for
information that relates to the internal modem. If the words "Lucent"
or "LT" show up anywhere in there, then you should follow the advice in
the paragraph above.
If this is an ISA modem, then it's a whole nother kettle of worms. What
do the boot messages say wrt serial ports, is this PnP or does it use
jumpers, which setserial commands have you tried....
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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: "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mysterious HDD noise
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 00:03:36 +0200
What could be wrong with the hard drive, everything is fine in Linux, but in
W98, after a period of time, it starts clicking and ticking (pretty loudly)
every few minutes (comparing to a car - as if someone pressed down the
clutch at a high speed and then in a second or so, released it again), it's
beginning to worry me.
Hoping, that someone can explain this :(
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Registered Linux user #209546
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