Linux-Hardware Digest #527, Volume #14 Mon, 26 Mar 01 00:13:18 EST
Contents:
Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question (Jefferson Ogata)
Re: HELP: Boot linux with Windows 2000!!! (Markus Kossmann)
USB or AMR modem ("web")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Anthony Hill)
Trouble with Epson Stylus Color ("Gregg Black")
Re: Trouble with Epson Stylus Color (Hal Burgiss)
linux with athlon (James O'Reilly)
Re: SCSI types... Ultra, SCSI3, etc... ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Chris Rankin)
Re: Trouble with Epson Stylus Color ("J. E. Garrott Sr")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (indeterminate)
Copy Solaris Boot CD (Randy Broman)
Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question (J Sloan)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? ("Yousuf Khan")
Re: Diskless installs, single floppy firewall/ip masq ? and rr cable modem. (Andreas
Schweitzer)
Re: linux with athlon (Dances With Crows)
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From: Jefferson Ogata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:18:30 -0500
J Sloan wrote:
> Gerardo Gregory wrote:
> > Well I can add on the Dell side....we started getting rid of all server
> > systems at the company I work. We have now 2 Dell 4400, 2 dell 4300, 1 Dell
> > 2400, 1 Dell NAS, 1 Dell PowerVault back-up system, and 1 Dell 6400. (and I
> > might be missing one or two)....as far as RAID is concerned we have a spare
> > drive for each box, in failure we just swap it, reboot, and we are on our
> > merry way after the drive initializes and so forth....
>
> Just curious, what is the purpose of the reboot?
You have to reboot the machine for the Dell PERC RAID controller to discover
any new drives. You can, however, keep a hot spare in the machine.
> We are talking about Linux, not nt, right?
Yes: Linux on Dell hardware.
--
Jefferson Ogata : Internetworker, Antibozo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.antibozo.net/ogata/
whois: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Boot linux with Windows 2000!!!
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:42:12 +0200
"Pedro Rom�o" wrote:
>
> Seems like Windows 2000 is not like Windows NT and I can't Boot linux with
> the Windows 2000 loader.
>
> My BOOT.INI is
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=5
> default=C:\
> [operating systems]
> C:\="Microsoft Windows Millenium"
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> Professional" /fastdetect
> C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="SuSE Linux 6.4"
>
> and BOOTSECT.LNX was made by linux with the command:
>
> # dd if=/dev/hda1 of=BOOTSECT.LNX bs=512 count=1
>
Did you install lilo into that bootblock before dd'ing it ?
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB or AMR modem
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:33:54 +0800
Hi, everybody,I cannot installed TP-link modem(ambient 5826V ham) om my
linux. I'd like to buy another modem. Would you please tell me if linux
support USB modem or AMR modem? Thanks.
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From: Anthony Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:55:50 GMT
On 25 Mar 2001 19:55:24 GMT, "B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have several machines and a shortage of space for keyboard,
>mice and so on. I would also like to use the same monitor for more
>than one machine. Can I use the same set for both machines through a
>switch-box that I see sold in computer stores, one that has mice/KB/
>video forking switches? My concern is that while I understand video
>connectors to be relatively benign as far as being unplugged "hot" is
>concerned, I have heard that hot-unplugging PS/2 peripherals can and
>have been known to cause catastrophic failures. Note that this is a
>mechanical switch, not an electronic one ...
The better boxes will take this into account and won't cause any
problems at all. The cheaper boxes might make sure that there is as
little disturbance as possible and they might work and might not. The
really cheap ones... well, you better make sure that you're systems
are turned off when switching between them :> Unfortunately I don't
think I could name off the top of my head who makes a really "good"
KMV-switch box (or who makes a bad one for that matter, though I'd
imagine that the likes of Belkin would probably be in the mid-range
for this kind of thing).
=======================
Tony Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Gregg Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,alt.comp.linux
Subject: Trouble with Epson Stylus Color
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:17:40 -0800
I was doing a reinstall of my 7.2 set because I just received the ext2 disk
(yeah I know... newbie... shouldn't have to do this). Anyhow, as I got the
printer setup, I selected lpd instead of CUPS(my general linux book doesn't
cover this daemon). BTW, what is the CUP Server?
So I selected lpd thinking that's the safe choice. Then selected at first
the Stylus Color... something plain txt driver? After mapping it to
/dev/lp0 and selecting the default quene, the printer didn't work. Tried it
with 360 x 360 res, letter size, and ASCII test. No workie. After that I
went back up the install tree and selected the Epson 800 / Esc P2 since my
stylus color is a Esc P2 model. That still didn't work. Tried postscript
as if that's going to help anything. You're probably going to ask if I
redirected standard output to the printer, and yes I did. That works, but
just the driver doesn't. What can I try and do differently here?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Trouble with Epson Stylus Color
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Mar 2001 21:21:26 -0500
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:17:40 -0800, Gregg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I was doing a reinstall of my 7.2 set because I just received the ext2
>disk (yeah I know... newbie... shouldn't have to do this). Anyhow, as
>I got the printer setup, I selected lpd instead of CUPS(my general
>linux book doesn't cover this daemon). BTW, what is the CUP Server?
www.cups.org
>So I selected lpd thinking that's the safe choice. Then selected at
>first the Stylus Color... something plain txt driver? After mapping it
>to /dev/lp0 and selecting the default quene, the printer didn't work.
>Tried it with 360 x 360 res, letter size, and ASCII test. No workie.
>After that I went back up the install tree and selected the Epson 800 /
>Esc P2 since my stylus color is a Esc P2 model. That still didn't
>work. Tried postscript as if that's going to help anything. You're
>probably going to ask if I redirected standard output to the printer,
>and yes I did. That works, but just the driver doesn't. What can I
>try and do differently here?
I would suggest going to http://www.linuxprinting.org and look around.
Great site. I found it a bit of ordeal to get an Epson 777 to do both
postscript and nice color, but it certainly is workable. And that site has
all the answers. FWIW, I am using the gimp-print driver for images, etc.
and the postscript generated driver from linuxprinting for most
everything else. And with CUPS too. One nice feature of cups is an web
interface for managing printer, queue, etc.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: James O'Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux with athlon
Date: 26 Mar 2001 02:35:23 GMT
Can anyone recommend an Athlon-based computer which runs Linux?
Jim O'Reilly
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI types... Ultra, SCSI3, etc...
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:43:55 -0600
Check out www.blackbox.com under some of their technical info. The catalog
has a good discussion.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AKA Grunt<><
"Dan Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone either explain or point me to a good site that explains
> all the differences?
>
> I have an IBM DCHS that is SE Fast Wide 20, but I get 40mb/s out of
> it. It calls itself SCSI3, but I find very little information about
> SCSI3. It seems to go SCSI SCSI2 Ultra Ultra2, etc.
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Thanks!
>
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:46:18 -0600
The best I've seen is BlackBox ServSwitch series at www.blackbox.com. They
work and work well. I am using many of them at work and some at home. The
ServSwitches allow you to connect one keyboard and monitor to several
machines (how many is up to you based on what you buy). The Servswitches
make the computers think they are connected even when they are not so you
don't get freezes, etc. The switching can be done by pushing a button or
using a easy keystroke.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AKA Grunt<><
"B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99lifc$p3t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear People:
>
> I have several machines and a shortage of space for keyboard,
> mice and so on. I would also like to use the same monitor for more
> than one machine. Can I use the same set for both machines through a
> switch-box that I see sold in computer stores, one that has mice/KB/
> video forking switches? My concern is that while I understand video
> connectors to be relatively benign as far as being unplugged "hot" is
> concerned, I have heard that hot-unplugging PS/2 peripherals can and
> have been known to cause catastrophic failures. Note that this is a
> mechanical switch, not an electronic one ...
>
> -- B.Y.
>
>
>
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From: Chris Rankin <pacbell.net@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:00:29 -0800
I bought such a device in Australia - it's called the ServerLink SL-401E
and I have absolutely no complaints. Basically, you can plug up to 4 PCs
into it (using separate server cables) and can flip between any of them
using either an on-screen menu (Left-CTL 3 times brings it up) or a
button on the box. The box itself runs off the power from "PC number 1"
through the keyboard connection, I think. PC number 1 must therefore
always be the last machine powered off. The remaining PCs can be powered
up and down and disconnected from the box as required.
It cost me about AU$400; I guess that's about US$200.
Chris
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From: "J. E. Garrott Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,alt.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Trouble with Epson Stylus Color
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:08:59 -0800
Gregg Black wrote:
>
> I was doing a reinstall of my 7.2 set because I just received the ext2 disk
> (yeah I know... newbie... shouldn't have to do this). Anyhow, as I got the
> printer setup, I selected lpd instead of CUPS(my general linux book doesn't
> cover this daemon). BTW, what is the CUP Server?
>
> So I selected lpd thinking that's the safe choice. Then selected at first
> the Stylus Color... something plain txt driver? After mapping it to
> /dev/lp0 and selecting the default quene, the printer didn't work. Tried it
> with 360 x 360 res, letter size, and ASCII test. No workie. After that I
> went back up the install tree and selected the Epson 800 / Esc P2 since my
> stylus color is a Esc P2 model. That still didn't work. Tried postscript
> as if that's going to help anything. You're probably going to ask if I
> redirected standard output to the printer, and yes I did. That works, but
> just the driver doesn't. What can I try and do differently here?
CUPS (tm) is the Common UNIX Printing System.
Not too bad. I use it on my Linux From Scratch
partition. On my Slackware partition I use
Apsfilter. Both work fine.
I assume you're using Mandrake, which I have
no experience with, but I believe you still need
Magicfilter or Apsfilter (or CUPS) to do a proper
job. See the Linux Printing-HOWTO.
Good luck,
John
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From: indeterminate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 03:41:33 GMT
"B.Y." wrote:
>
> Dear People:
>
> I have several machines and a shortage of space for keyboard,
> mice and so on. I would also like to use the same monitor for more
> than one machine. Can I use the same set for both machines through a
> switch-box that I see sold in computer stores, one that has mice/KB/
> video forking switches? My concern is that while I understand video
> connectors to be relatively benign as far as being unplugged "hot" is
> concerned, I have heard that hot-unplugging PS/2 peripherals can and
> have been known to cause catastrophic failures. Note that this is a
> mechanical switch, not an electronic one ...
>
> -- B.Y.
well, no, you don't want a mechanical switch -- but electronic switches
are pretty cheap, I think the current model two-machine Linksys sells
for about $60.
I have an older Linksys, KVM100SK -- works great, no video degradation,
no problems -- tap the control key twice to switch machines, couldn't be
easier.
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From: Randy Broman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Copy Solaris Boot CD
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:43:31 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm attempting to duplicate a Solaris v2.6 boot CD. This does not use an
iso9660
filesystem, but instead has some partition structure with a boot
partition, some
UFS partitions, etc. I tried the following commands:
# /usr/bin/readcd dev=1,0,0 f=solaris26.img
# cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=1,0,0 -data /home/SOLARIS/solaris26.img
Doesn't work. Anyone know how to do this?
This is a RedHat 7.0 system with a SONY CD-RW CRX120E drive (only
one CDROM drive). Things work to the extent that I can read and write
from/to
the CD-RW drive; the problem is that the result is not a bootable
Solaris CD.
If someone knows how to do this, would appreciate the exact syntax of
commands.
Thanx!
--
"Don't spend $2 to dry-clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead.
They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for 75 cents."
,-. |\_/| Randy Broman
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 04:15:05 GMT
Jefferson Ogata wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
> > Gerardo Gregory wrote:
> > > Well I can add on the Dell side....we started getting rid of all server
> > > systems at the company I work. We have now 2 Dell 4400, 2 dell 4300, 1 Dell
> > > 2400, 1 Dell NAS, 1 Dell PowerVault back-up system, and 1 Dell 6400. (and I
> > > might be missing one or two)....as far as RAID is concerned we have a spare
> > > drive for each box, in failure we just swap it, reboot, and we are on our
> > > merry way after the drive initializes and so forth....
> >
> > Just curious, what is the purpose of the reboot?
>
> You have to reboot the machine for the Dell PERC RAID controller to discover
> any new drives.
Ouch - that could be a real bad thing...
> You can, however, keep a hot spare in the machine.
Good to know, thanx for the tip -
jjs
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From: "Yousuf Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 04:18:15 GMT
"B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99lifc$p3t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear People:
>
> I have several machines and a shortage of space for keyboard,
> mice and so on. I would also like to use the same monitor for more
> than one machine. Can I use the same set for both machines through a
> switch-box that I see sold in computer stores, one that has mice/KB/
> video forking switches? My concern is that while I understand video
> connectors to be relatively benign as far as being unplugged "hot" is
> concerned, I have heard that hot-unplugging PS/2 peripherals can and
> have been known to cause catastrophic failures. Note that this is a
> mechanical switch, not an electronic one ...
I have a two-way mechanical switchbox. I wouldn't recommend using the
switchbox for anything other than video switching. Although I've never
experienced a catastrophic lockups of any kind. However, that being said,
the PS/2 mouse connectors once switched out, don't switch back in properly.
They become unresponsive. The older serial-mice on the other hand can be
switched in and out without any problems as much as you like.
I've been thinking about trying out the electronic switchboxes, they might
have workarounds for the PS/2 devices. For example, they might continue
sending electricity to the PS/2 ports even while switched out, thus
simulating that there is still a device there.
Yousuf Khan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Diskless installs, single floppy firewall/ip masq ? and rr cable modem.
Date: 26 Mar 2001 04:53:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, peter wrote:
>I'm trying to setup a single floppy firewall/proxy/ip masq. on a 486
>with two NE2000 network cards.
>
>What the best/easiest way to go ? I have roadrunner cable modem. So I
>need DHCP...
_Completely_ unbiased ... ;-)
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
>I lost the link to a web site that had every tiny install out there,
>does anyone have the link ?
Shameless plug :
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/minilinux.html
>I've tried the LRP, but the ne2000.img keep returning a disk error
>when I tried to rawrite...is there a special way I have to "format"
>the floppy ?
If you have 1.44MB images, you only need to do a standard
format and rawrite.exe should work.
If the images are bigger then you need special formatting
programs (or can DOS do that ???), e.g. from simtel.net.
You may also need a special version of rawrite.
Andreas
--
Andreas Schweitzer
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/
This post is brought to you by VIM, slrn and FreeBSD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: linux with athlon
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Mar 2001 04:56:26 GMT
On 26 Mar 2001 02:35:23 GMT, James O'Reilly staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>Can anyone recommend an Athlon-based computer which runs Linux?
Abit KT-7 motherboard + Tbird 850 processor + nVidia TNT2 graphics card
+ Ensoniq AudioPCI soudncard + IBM 45G drive + Cendyne 6/4/24 CD-RW +
192M PC100 RAM (also takes PC133). Works like a charm for me! I don't
know about OEMs that sell Athlon machines; the only one I know of atm is
Gateway and I would never buy *ANYTHING* from them ever.
Linux in general has no problem with Athlons. Linux may have a problem
with cheap-arse motherboards. There were some problems with some kernel
versions and the Duron processors--basically, the kernel got the
processor ID wrong and thought the Duron was a PIII, then tried to
disable the PIII serial number. This caused an immediate hang as Durons
don't have a serial number. This has since been fixed.
--
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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