Linux-Hardware Digest #560, Volume #14 Mon, 2 Apr 01 20:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problem with second ethernet card (Scott Alfter)
RH6.1 Raid 1 Setup ("Gerry")
External modem HELP!!! (Zak)
Re: RH6.1 Raid 1 Setup (Dan Smith)
Re: scsi tape recognised as a disk?! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: CD-RW on a Pentium 133 w/ 96MB RAM (Walter Francis)
xawtv sound problem ("Brian")
Re: Considering Linux implementation instead of HPUX -- Advice needed (Juha Laiho)
Re: OnTrack Disk Manager and Linux partition ("Barry L. Kline")
Re: CD-RW on a Pentium 133 w/ 96MB RAM ("Brad Anderson")
Re: Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 Controller (John Murray)
hotswap keyboard without reboot? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: scsi tape recognised as a disk?! (Rolf)
Re: good video card for linux??? (Rossz Vamos-Wentworth)
Re: HELP: Boot linux with Windows 2000!!! (Rossz Vamos-Wentworth)
ezonics EZ cam II (Eugene VonNiedehrausern)
Re: does anyone know vmware? (Peter Bismuti)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem with second ethernet card
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 19:37:42 -0000
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In article <Wi3y6.140816$j_4.2130064@Flipper>,
Micha Huybrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried to locate the file you mentioned, but I do not have a directory
>called sysconfig in /etc/ ... Do you have slackware? I think the problem
>maybe is located within my modules.conf. Do you know the correct syntax for
>the option command?
>
>right now I have:
>option ne2k-pci irq=10,11 io=0x6100,0x6200
>
>is this correct? I think the io's look a bit odd, but this is actually what
>linux detects....
Since they're PCI devices, you shouldn't need to specify IRQs and addresses,
unless you want a particular NIC to be eth0 or eth1 (even then, I'd
recommend just leaving the addresses out, figure out which NIC is set up as
which device, and plug in your cables accordingly).
What you really want in /etc/modules.conf looks something like this (stolen
from my firewall):
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 tulip
In your case, you'd replace "3c59x" and "tulip" with "ne2k-pci," but the
rest ought to be the same.
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From: "Gerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.1 Raid 1 Setup
Date: 02 Apr 2001 19:41:19 GMT
Does anyone know how to setup disk mirroring in RH6.1
I need a step by step guide to acheiving this. I have 2 identical drives on
2 controllers.
I would prefer to mirror the whole thing but being able to mirror at least
one partition would be helpfull.
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 19:23:45 -0500
From: Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External modem HELP!!!
Hi,
i had many difficulties on configuring my internal modem so i finally
bought an external modem(CNET Ambiant , 56k/V90, serial). I tried it on
windows and it works fine on com4 irq3 (with driver on floppy).
I understood before that linux supports all external modems, but using
the kppp i couldnt make it work, when i query the modem it gives a
message saying 'couldnt get a response from the modem. I could see the
RS and TR light go on when i press the query modem but no result...i
couldnt find much help in the how to in linux.org and many other sites
that only talk about internal modems and stating that external modems
have no problems...im using mandrake 7.2, and kppp 2.0...please help!!!
or refer me to any good site on internet...Thank.
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.1 Raid 1 Setup
Date: 02 Apr 2001 16:02:25 -0400
Have you read the Software-Raid-HOWTO?
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
--Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: scsi tape recognised as a disk?!
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:36:48 GMT
Christian Monfort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Rolf wrote:
[...]
>> Just acquired a scsi dat tape drive of unknown vintage. Rear case says
>> Tapeware model no. DT-4GBX. Attaching it to the card and modprobe as above
>> loads the card as before but then detects a scsi disk (!), device /dev/sda.
[...]
>Did you configure your kernel so that it can handle tape drives ?
[...]
Well, that would be a problem if he just couldn't _use_
the tapedrive. This error, however, is much more serious, as
it seems that the tapedrive is identifying itself as a SCSI disk
instead of a SCSI tape. Either the drive is broken, or it uses
some very strange SCSI implementation. "Unknown vintage" might
as well indicate "unknown quality" - or incompatible SCSI
interface solutions (yes, these do exist; there are, e.g.
MAC-specific tapedrives out there that can exclusively be used
with Mac systems and nowhere else).
Michael
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: CD-RW on a Pentium 133 w/ 96MB RAM
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:30:43 -0400
Michael Shobe wrote:
> I vouch for plextor drives. Fast. Good. Never messes up.
> Very good quality, i'd say the best. Also if you feel like
> doing digital audio extraction, your plextor cdrw will also
> be _very_ good at this. Plextor is awesome.
And get a Plextor BurnProof drive, this way if the computer can't stream
the data fast enough the burner will pause until its buffer fills and
then restarts the burning process; no failed burns because of buffer
under-runs.
I have a PII 400, and I've burned CDs compiling, anything.. The burning
is a lot slower, perhaps 15 minutes will a heavy load on the machine, 6
minutes normally. But no coasters.
I've trimmed out linux.redhat, lots of crossposting is unncessary.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xawtv sound problem
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:56:44 +0200
Hello Gurus: I'm running Mandrake 7.2. I have an Avermedia bt848 TV card and
xawtv shows me all the channels fine but I can't get any sound. I have the
TV out plugged into the S/Blaster 16 input with and external cable. Works
fine in WinMe. Linux just gives me a sort of humming sound. Same noise if
the volume of xawtv is 0 or 100%. If there's no channel selected there's
more of a hiss, with any channel, any volume that hum. Some one in this
group said to move tes6300 from bttv-076/driver/old to bttv-076/driver.dir.
But I don't have any of those on my whole system - no tes6300 or any
bttv-076*anything. I'm really new - I have most of everything working
finally but I don't know where to go from here with this one.
Thanks for any pointers.
brian
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From: Juha Laiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Considering Linux implementation instead of HPUX -- Advice needed
Date: 2 Apr 2001 18:14:43 GMT
"Greg Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm considering migrating an HPUX server to a Linux implementation and would
>like some advice concerning the feasibility of this. The server provides
>mail, web storage space, and document storage (via Samba and FTP) for around
>4000 students and faculty.
Greg,
while I don't have that size of an environment to run, I'd still be
interested in what kind of solution you end up.
>There are some applications such as SAS, SPSS, and compilers also run
>on this server. Mail access is via Pine and IMAP/POP3 with the bulk
>being POP3/IMAP. I have been very pleased with HPUX but the support
>costs are getting very high on this five year old server (4-way K220
>with 1.75GB RAM and 120GB of disk) so I'm looking at alternatives.
One more choice might be to use some hardware classified as workstations;
J6000 or so. You perhaps don't get all the low-level hardware diagnostics
features you have with the K-class, but you'll end up with a lot smaller
overall system (smaller power consumption, smaller cooling requirements).
And at least my memory is that workstation support costs are a lot less
than server -- even when you use the workstation as a server.
>What I'm considering doing is replacing the one large HPUX server with a
>smaller HPUX server for telnet/Pine access and application support and a
>Linux server for the POP3/IMAP and web support.
This wouldn't be a bad solution either -- typically software like
Apache (and related tools: OpenSSH, OpenSSL, perl, mod_perl, ...) are
a lot easier to compile on Linux than on HP-UX.
>The Linux server would house all of the user storage space (around
>300GB) with the HPUX box accessing it with NFS.
This is where I'd be a bit suspicious -- but on the other hand don't
have any hard evidence against. That is, what is the current state of
Linux NFS support (and this is not to say that NFS -esp. automount- on
HP-UX would be trouble-free, either).
>The Linux box would also run Samba to give the Windows NT/2000
>workstations in the computer labs access. Ideally, the accounts would be
>authenticated using Kerberos through Active Directory with NIS or LDAP being
>alternatives in the event Active Directory isn't feasible for us by then.
It looks like this would be possible (i.e. using the w2k AD/kerberos as
the primary authentication source). Unfortunately I don't have details
on this, but rumours indicate so.
>I currently run a combination of HPUX, Linux, and Windows NT servers.
... so, by choosing Linux you're not even growing your OS variation,
which makes sense.
>A couple of questions about using Linux for what I'm doing:
>
>1) How well does Linux do multiple processors?
Dual CPU should be ok, and Linux should also scale somewhat well to
four CPUs. Eight apparently starts to be a bit too much, from what
I've read. The performance still is over what you get with four, but
the scaling isn't linear any more -- and apparently os is the bottleneck.
I'm not sure if 2.4 helps in this regard.
>5) How is Linux's reliability and performance under high loads?
Extremely high memory and network loads apparently could be handled
better, but saturating CPUs or disks shouldn't be a big problem.
2.4 should bring enhancements on the memory side, but the netowrk
side isn't changing that dramatically.
>3) How well does Linux handle hundreds of Samba connections?
Mostly problems might appear if you heavily overload your network
bandwidth -- I don't see other problems.
>2) How well does Linux handle RAID? How about the Dell RAID controllers
>(Quad PERC 2)?
>4) How is Dell's commitment to Linux? How about their driver support?
>6) I've seen info on LVM for Linux. Is it viable at this time?
Hardware RAID somewhat reduces your need for LVM. Splitting the space
at the RAID controller level isn't as flexible as with LVM, but can be
done. I'd put Linux LVM still into the "semi-experimental, not much
used" -category. About Dell's commitment and quality of their RAID
solution I cannot comment -- but if it's ok, then you can use it to
avoid LVM.
>7) What are the limitations on the size of mount points or hard disks
>under Linux?
Hmm.. I've seen something over a 100G, so it's quite big. How big,
I don't exactly know.
I hope this was of any help,
--
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From: "Barry L. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OnTrack Disk Manager and Linux partition
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:11:08 -0400
Tommy wrote:
>
> You need to run the OnTrack Manager installation disk again to uninstall the
> Disk Manager. Since I did it long time ago, I don't recall the exact steps
> to uninstall the Disk Manager. Once you get into the Manager program,
> choose the hard disk that you want to uninstall, then play around with the
> options there. You should be able to figure things out at that
> point....since you are running Linux you are smart enough to do it. :)
> One thing to keep in mind is, I don't know if it will DELETE all the data on
> the hard disk though.
>
If I recall correctly, it will leave the data intact. The Disk Manager
was there for those BIOS without the capacity to handle the drive. I
think the last time I did it it left an empty partition on the drive.
YMMV.
Barry
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From: "Brad Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.hardware.arch.intel,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: CD-RW on a Pentium 133 w/ 96MB RAM
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:23:05 -0400
You also want to try to keep your other programs running down. I have
problems sometimes with lack of RAM. If I have a lot of programs running
sometimes I will get errors back from the writer.
"Michael Shobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Burning CD-R's isn't CPU intensive. If anything, it's I/O intensive,
> > so what hard disk you have and what mode it's running in is more
> > important.
>
> Make sure you have a lot of buffer cache on the cdrw.
> Make sure your hard disk has dma turned on (using hdparm), if
> available. If you're using scsi, don't worry about it, you've
> no problems.
>
> > You may wish to check out HP's support history in deja. The HP CD
> > burner division only markets burners made by others, and their support
> > is the antithesis of the real HP, now known as Agilent. I prefer
> > Plextor, myself.
>
> I vouch for plextor drives. Fast. Good. Never messes up.
> Very good quality, i'd say the best. Also if you feel like
> doing digital audio extraction, your plextor cdrw will also
> be _very_ good at this. Plextor is awesome.
>
> --
> --------------------
> -Mike
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From: John Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 Controller
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 07:56:34 +0930
Excellent, this is what I wanted to know. Thank you very much for
that......
Cheers
John Murray
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:05:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Kenneth R�rvik) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nader) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>If the kernel doesn't support HPT366 (e.g., 2.2.x), then you'll have to
>>pass ide parameters to the kernel during installation. See this web site
>
>Fortunately, Mandrake 7.2 has a patched kernel, so he should be fine out-
>of-the-box :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: hotswap keyboard without reboot?
Date: 2 Apr 2001 22:33:54 GMT
I often change keyboards, it appears that I must reboot everytime. Is this
correct, or is there some way I can hotswap keyboards? I believe that the
bios handles the keyboard, is there some way of "sig hupping" the bios?
Thanks
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Subject: Re: scsi tape recognised as a disk?!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf)
Date: 3 Apr 2001 09:02:30 +1000
>>> Just acquired a scsi dat tape drive of unknown vintage. Rear case
>>> says Tapeware model no. DT-4GBX. Attaching it to the card and
>>> modprobe as above loads the card as before but then detects a scsi
>>> disk (!), device /dev/sda.
>
>[...]
>
>>Did you configure your kernel so that it can handle tape drives ?
Yes. I have looked in kernel source and lots of tape drive models exist as
well as generic systems.
I neglected to mention that I have used the same machine with the same scsi
card successfully with other tape drives. eg A seagate model
somethingorother was detected and loaded without problems.
>the tapedrive. This error, however, is much more serious, as
>it seems that the tapedrive is identifying itself as a SCSI disk
>instead of a SCSI tape. Either the drive is broken, or it uses
>some very strange SCSI implementation. "Unknown vintage" might
>as well indicate "unknown quality"
Yes. I know no more of the drive than my original details: Tapeware Model
DT-4GBX. Nor can I seem to find any information about it online.
I am starting to think it may be broken. But I don't know of any way of
determining this.
Rolf.
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From: Rossz Vamos-Wentworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good video card for linux???
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:43:58 -0700
I have a GeForce2 MX and have been in an ongoing battle getting it configured
under SuSE 7.0. At one point I had it working without the hardward 3d support,
but I made the mistake of trying to get the hardware acceleration working. I
screwed things up so badly I decided to start from scratch and reinstall
everything from the CDs. Now I can't remember what I did to get it working at
all. :( Obviously, I'm still in the learning process for Linux.
Dances With Crows wrote:
> If you want 3D performance, then you probably want a GeForce. However,
> be prepared to do some tweaking and fiddling with (EVIL) binary-only
> video add-on modules and kernel compilation options if you want really
> high framerates for Q3.
>
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From: Rossz Vamos-Wentworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Boot linux with Windows 2000!!!
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:13:43 -0700
Get Partition Magic, which includes Boot Magic. It handles both Win 2000 and
Linux. Unfortunately, this is commericial software ($$$). None of the
freebie programs I came across were as good as this package.
"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
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
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From: Eugene VonNiedehrausern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ezonics EZ cam II
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 18:44:30 -0500
I just got an ezonics EZ cam II (free after rebate). Does linux have
drivers for this web cam?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: Re: does anyone know vmware?
Date: 2 Apr 2001 23:52:14 GMT
This may not be what you want to hear, but go back to Rh6.2 unless
you have a compelling reason not to do so.
Dan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: hi all,
:
: I run redhat 7.0 on SMP, and I'm having some sort of trouble with the
: vmware-config.pl working with my autoconf.h, I was told that I can
: comment out few lines with SMP on it in vmware-config.pl, but I forgot
: what those lines are.
:
: Can anyone help?
:
: -dan
:
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