Linux-Hardware Digest #578, Volume #14 Fri, 6 Apr 01 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: usb-joystick question (Johann Deneux)
Re: MagicImage 400 (DR-MD400) (Young4ert)
Re: USB gives device not accepting address err=-100 (Hamish Marson)
Re: SB Live! Value PCI ("G�rald Valentin")
Re: Serial mouse is detected as PS/2 mouse (John Todd)
Re: AIC78xx driver problems in newer kernels (Dan Jones)
Re: AIC78xx driver problems in newer kernels (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Isa and pci problems (Eric P. McCoy)
Solo1 soundcard plays but won't record (Tom Roberts)
CDROM Rip rate (Tom Roberts)
Re: support for adaptec 2100s under RH7.0? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: K7V133A & RH7.0 (Tom Roberts)
Re: Madge Smart 16/4 PCMCIA Token Ring Card ("Ian Ellis")
Re: DLT and Linux (jurriaan kalkman)
Re: DLink DFE-530TX+ Revision Problems ("Ian Ellis")
Re: Time server setup ("Michael Faurot")
Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software ("Chris Morton")
Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software ("Chris Morton")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johann Deneux)
Subject: Re: usb-joystick question
Date: 6 Apr 2001 18:10:41 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dear newsgroup,
> i need a gamepad with usb-interface to control a mobile robot with three
> degrees of freedom (so a really serious application, no gaming). I bought
Do you mean gaming is not serious stuff ? ;)
> a �wingman rumble pad�, which perfectly suits my needs. But ...
> i am using a 2.2.16 kernel with a usb backport from the 2.3.99 kernel
> (thats what comes with suse7.0).
> With the input.o, hid.o, joydev.o modules jstest recognizes the gamepad,
> but gives wrong values.
What do you mean by wrong values ? You might consider calibrating the pad,
even if that sounds stupid. For example, I did that with one of those force-
feedback wheels, which are auto-calibrated, in order to have values ranging
from -32768 to +32767 instead of -128 to +127.
If your problem resides in too small reported values by the driver, then
calibrating would solve it.
> Is this joystick be supported in later kernels? Can i patch my kernel
> somehow?
Have a look at this page for supported devices:
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/
Three different kinds of wingman pads are supported. Maybe it includes yours ?
--
Johann Deneux
CS student at DoCS (www.docs.uu.se/~johannd) and
ESIL (www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~jdeneux)
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MagicImage 400 (DR-MD400)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 15:55:55 GMT
Roberto wrote:
> Young4ert wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just bought a MagicImage 400 (DR-MD400) digital camera and am
>> wondering if there is a support or driver under Linux to use this digital
>> camera. This camera can be used as a stand-alone single/multiple shot as
>> well as a videocam attached to the USB port.
>
> try www.gphoto.org
>
Thank you very much for the pointer but the MagicImage digital camera is
not listed on the supported cameras section. Does this mean the software,
gphoto, is not able to detect and communicate with the camera?
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From: Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USB gives device not accepting address err=-100
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:32:41 +0100
Johann Deneux wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Both devices work fine under (yuk) windoze... And both connect ok on a
> >> > thinkpad.
> >> Which ms win ? 9x or NT ?
> >>
> >
> > Windoze 98... But that was on the thinkpad... Not on the dual proc (I'm not
> > sullying that machine with any MS garbage).
> >
> > What MB are you using? I'm wondering if it's the USB chipset. The error I get
> > back seems to be a timeout (If I'm reading usb.c and usb.h correctly, then the
> > usb codes are direct mapped to (negative) codes from errno.h, and 110 is
> > ETIMEOUT....
>
> My MB is an Asus one (P2BD). I did a search concerning dual procs and USB,
> and it seems nobody is having trouble. I guess my chipset is really damaged.
> Unless very few users use USB devices (which are generally oriented to the
> 'normal' user) with dual procs boxes (which are supposed to be for
> professionals only).
>
> > The rest is speculation of course... I might pop down & buy a PCI USB card
> > after work & see if that makes any difference...
> >
> I was planning to do that also. If it works for you, please tell me.
> Do you know what is actually the brand and model of your USB chipset ?
>
It (The USB) runs off the VIA Apollo on the VP6. It's part is 82c866 (Or similiar.
I'll check at home). FWIW I'm buying a Belkin PCI USB card. Theyc ome in 2 & 4 port
versions. I'll see what's available on the shelf in about 30 minutes when I get to
the store...
>
> --
> Johann Deneux
> CS student at DoCS (www.docs.uu.se/~johannd) and
> ESIL (www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~jdeneux)
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From: "G�rald Valentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! Value PCI
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:34:22 +0200
Thank all of you for your help :-)
Finally it works but I don't know why...
I have only changed settings in my apps and window managers and know
everything works fine :-)
but it does leave me uneasy about the possibility of future problems...
Regards, G�rald.
"G�rald Valentin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
997jsf$kph$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I'm running kernek 2.2.17 and I can't make my sound card (Sound Blaster
> Live! Value PCI) work correctly.
> Any help would be appreciated :-)
>
> When I make a "cat
/usr/X11R6/lib/GNUstep/Apps/WMMail.app/Sounds/NewMail.au
> > /dev/audio" I can hardly hear a very bad quality sound with a lot of
> noise.
>
> Dmesg tells me the following:
>
> Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 13:20:10 Oct 5 2000
> emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x02 found, IO at 0xc400-0c41f, IRQ 10
>
> that is really good! But when I try "cat /dev/sndstat" it answers me "No
> such device".
>
> Looking in /etc/isapnp.gone I found:
>
> #
> # sound
> #
> #IO 0x220,16
> #IO 0x330, 2
> #IO 388,4
> #IRQ 5
> #DMA 1
> #DMA 5
>
> which are the good settings of my sound card (same as under Windows98).
>
> What is more, looking in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
>
> class: AUDIO
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: emu10k1
> desc: "Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio)"
> vendorId: 1102
> deviceId:0002
> subVendorId: 1102
> subDeviceId: 0020
> pciType: 1
>
>
> Everythings seems good and I feel very close to the solution but I'm
> stuck...
>
> For instance xmms 1.2.3 tells me the following when I try to play an mp3
> file:
>
> Couldn't open audio
> Please check that:
> 1. You have the correct output plugin selected
> 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard
> 3. Your soundcard is configured properly
>
> Any idea of how to make everything fit together?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Regards, G�rald.
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Serial mouse is detected as PS/2 mouse
Date: 6 Apr 2001 16:13:20 GMT
If your distro has " mouseconfig " you could try that.
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:52:20 -0700, Nguyen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>I have a serial mouse, but my Mandrake 7.2 always detects it as a PS/2
>mouse, how come ? (that's why I have trouble sometime with the mouse).
>Your answer will be appreciated.
>
>Steve
>
>
>
--
John E. Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Internet for All!
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From: Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AIC78xx driver problems in newer kernels
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 10:15:47 -0700
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello group.
>
> > I have been using my Adaptec UW2 and U160 cards for a while with no
> > trouble. Because of security issues, I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.3.
>
> First, 2.2.19 is enough to fix the security issues. Second, note that,
> by default, the aic7xxx driver in 2.4.3 is a completely different
> one from that in 2.4.2 and the entire 2.2.x series. The "old" driver is
> included in 2.4.3 as aic7xxx_old. Also, the new driver maintainer is
> recommending that you use the latest version of the driver (6.1.8) rather
> than the one bundled with 2.4.3, which is 6.1.5. It's available here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/
>
The aic78xx driver is not the same as the aic7xxx driver. You could
try a google search on aic78xx. For instance, this might be interesting:
Subject: New aic78xx driver code update
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/03/07/0014.html
> > Everything works fine but I can no longer successfully write a CD using
> > xcdroast. On another similarly configured machine running 2.2.18 also has
> > the same problem. I can take my CDR over to my print server, which runs
> > 2.2.16, and it burns the CD successfully. I have tried recompiling
> > cdrecord and xcdroast. Has anyone else experienced this? A log is listed
> > below.
>
> Hmmm. I haven't seen this specifically, but the first thing to look for
> is *always* proper termination and cabling. Is your burner on
> the same chain as your hard drive(s)? Then your cable lenght (not to
> mention bus speed) on that chain is severely restricted. Also, you'd
> better be terminating the high bits, as your burner is most likely
> a narrow device and those are wide adapters.
>
> Why was it working before? *shrug* Maybe the new drivers are more
> sensitive to cabling issues. Or, maybe you just need to sacrifice a new
> goat. How long has it been since the last one?
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
--
Dan Jones, Manager, Storage Products VA Linux Systems
V:(510)687-6737 F:(510)683-8602 47071 Bayside Parkway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fremont, CA 94538
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AIC78xx driver problems in newer kernels
Date: 6 Apr 2001 17:41:46 GMT
Dan Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> First, 2.2.19 is enough to fix the security issues. Second, note that,
>> by default, the aic7xxx driver in 2.4.3 is a completely different
>> one from that in 2.4.2 and the entire 2.2.x series. The "old" driver is
>> included in 2.4.3 as aic7xxx_old. Also, the new driver maintainer is
>> recommending that you use the latest version of the driver (6.1.8) rather
>> than the one bundled with 2.4.3, which is 6.1.5. It's available here:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/
>>
> The aic78xx driver is not the same as the aic7xxx driver. You could
> try a google search on aic78xx. For instance, this might be interesting:
> Subject: New aic78xx driver code update
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2000/03/07/0014.html
Errmm, yes, *BSD has an aic78xx driver. But Linux doesn't. At least,
I couldn't find one in the source tree for 2.2.19 or 2.4.3. And as
we're talking about Linux here...
The "new" aic7xxx driver in 2.4.3 *is*, I believe, a port from the FreeBSD
code. But there isn't an aic78xx driver standard in the Linux kenrel,
to my knowledge.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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Subject: Re: Isa and pci problems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 06 Apr 2001 13:48:14 -0400
"Blushade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Somebody give me a web page on how to install an isa or a pci card...or help
> me out with the pci card, installation....
Your motherboard or computer manual almost certainly has the
documentation you need.
What does installing an expansion card have to do with Linux?
--
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: Tom Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Solo1 soundcard plays but won't record
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 12:33:24 -0500
System: Asus A7V133 motherboard (no onboard audio), Athlon 800, 128 MB
SDRAM, RedHat 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16-22).
Soundcard: ESS Solo1, PCI.
When I first brought up the system, the soundcard was detected by
sndconfig, but then it says "not supported" (?!). Debugging other stuff I
discovered I had told the BIOS "PnP-OS=YES" -- changing it to NO made
the other stuff better, and sndconfig found the card and did not complain.
I can play .wav and .mp3 just fine. But when I try to record
rec test.wav
the process hangs -- ^C won't dislodge it, but kill from another window
will. test.wav is 0 length. In the log I see a mysterious message about
"solo1: cannot start recording, DDMA mask bit stuck at 1".
In esssolo1.c I see a reference to this, but cannot decipher
it. There seems to be a kludge related to this in the driver
-- perhaps the kluge doesn't work for recent boards?
Looking at /proc/ioports it is clear that this card is NOT emulating a
soundblaster (port 220 unused).
Does anybody know what I should try next? Or what (cheap) PCI soundcard I
should replace it with....
Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tom Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM Rip rate
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 12:41:03 -0500
Does anybody know how fast the various CDROM drives can rip audio CDs
into .wav files? They all specify their speed for CDROMs, but audio
speed is VERY different....
I'm looking for one that can rip at least 8x realtime, so it can keep up
with MP3 encoding on my new system. I know the SONY CD-RW CRX160E can
do 8x (I have one at work), but I don't want to spend the $$ for a
CD-writer.
IDE/EIDE/ATAPI only; interface supports UDMA-100 and ATA-100.
Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid
Subject: Re: support for adaptec 2100s under RH7.0?
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 20:07:18 +0200
In comp.os.linux.hardware Bjorn Wennberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley) writes:
> URL to the aic7xxx drivers:
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/
> (The 6.1.5 version of the aic7xxx driver apparantly had a bug in the link-line
> adding the driver last when compiling the driver so you could actually end up
> getting your old /dev/sda becoming /dev/sdb. Gibbs recommends using the latest
> driver)
> btw - I just patched up a 2.2.19 kernel with the latest driver and saw
> major speed improvements.
I'm just trying for stability. I have a 19160 controller and 4 WD lvd
disks. I've stepped the controler down to 40MB/s and it's much more
stable. But putting 3 disks online and I get various horrors ...
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 3 lun 0 return code = 70000
I/O error: dev 08:21, sector 11498
(scsi0:A:3:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-out phase
SEQADDR == 0x56
(scsi0:A:3:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-out phase
SEQADDR == 0x57
(scsi0:A:3:0): Unexpected busfree in Data-out phase
SEQADDR == 0x55
This is with the 6.1.5 driver under 2.4.0, but I believe it must be
hardware or cable related. The machine tends not to complete the bios
scan sometimes, which usually means cable or termination. Mind you,
the controller just verified (low level sweep) the disks successfully.
There are too many parameters to call ... One of the disks is offering
the termination. Should I set term-pwr on it? Surely that's only in
case an external terminator is there. That disk is set to term.
And what's with the init-target jumpers? I have the disks set to
delayed startup and the controller set to issue startup, which seems to
me to be right in order to avoid the forst power spike.
Sigh .. maybe I'll step things down further.
I'll also patch the 2.2.15 kernel (it's my favorite).
Peter
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From: Tom Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: K7V133A & RH7.0
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:06:57 -0500
Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
> In <2Qsy6.118698$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jeffrey Yu"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Hi, just want to find out if anyone has installed RH7.0 on an ASUS K7V133A
> >mboard, and would like to know of your opinion of such a combination.
> >Thanks in advance.
> Yes, it works. If You want ATA100, You will need to build Your own kernel.
I thought that Promise chip was a RAID controller.
I just connected my drives to the IDE controller, used "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda"
and got 32 MByte/sec (hdparm -Tt /dev/hda). This is an ATA-100 7200 RPM drive;
I also got a significant increase in performance and "feel". Will the Promise
interface do significantly better than that? Is it worth the hassle?
I just built a system with this motherboard and RH 7.0. Other than hassles
unrelated to the motherboard (video card, sound card, network interface card),
everything went quite smoothly.
HINT: the CPU clockrate is doubled to get the rate of the front-side
bus. So set it to 100 for a 200 MHz FSB.
Actually my motherboard model is A7V133.
Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Madge Smart 16/4 PCMCIA Token Ring Card
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:28:37 +0100
If anyone's interested, I sorted the problem myself.
I'd actually only tried the binary drivers with the 2.2.5 kernel. When I
compiled the source code driver it worked fine (after I'd taken my own hacks
out of the /etc/pcmcia/config file!)
Still won't work with 2.2.16 kernel.
I've downloaded the 2.2.12 kernel (the latest version that Madge says their
driver ahs been tested against) - this works fine (but it doesn't support
the nfs service - so I've still got some tinkering.)
Cheers
Ian
"Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I've got a Madge Smart 16/4 PCMCIA Token Ring Card, but I can't get it to
> work under Linux kernel 2.2.16 or 2.2.5.
>
> I've downloaded the binary and source code drivers from www.madge.com, but
> they just don't click. My kernels are compiled with Token Ring enabled. I
> load the mtok.o module first with parameter pcmcia=1. I've edited the
> /etc/pcmcia/config file so that it loads mtok_cs.o when the Madge card is
> started. This module loads OK, no messages, but device TR0 does not
appear.
>
> I've checked /proc/net/dev and there are no new devices, and an lsmod
shows
> that mtok_cs. is unused.
>
> This means that either the driver is wrong, or I'm going about loading
them
> incorrectly.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jurriaan kalkman)
Subject: Re: DLT and Linux
Date: 6 Apr 2001 18:29:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:34:05 +0200, didier roques
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got an external DLT Tape device (DLT4000D HP PN:A3590A), it seems
> to use a scsi interface (68 pins) fast & wide scsi (differential). Do
> you know which scsi adpatec card can i use to connect this device to my
> linux box ?
if it's fast and wide and differential, you'd need a 2944W, or 2944UW.
If it's LVD (Low Voltage Differential), you'd need a 29160 (but check
Adaptec's website, the current models are not known to me that good).
In short, compare the DLT's specs with the adaptec specs.
> thanks in advance,
> please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, this once then. Normal netiquette means that if we take the
trouble to answer you, you take the trouble to read it here. Otherwise,
go hire a consultant.
Jurriaan
--
I that case, I shall prepare my Turnip Surprise.
And the surprise is?
There's nothing else in it except turnip.
Baldrick on Haute Cuisine
GNU/Linux 2.4.3-ac3 SMP/ReiserFS 2x1743 bogomips load av: 0.98 0.25 0.12
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DLink DFE-530TX+ Revision Problems
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:39:23 +0100
Hi,
I have two D-Link DFE-530TX cards - one of them (the older one) worked fine
with the drivers packaged in with the kernel's I've been using (2.2.5
through 2.2.16).
The newer one (which supports Wake on LAN) didn't. I had to get a newer
via-rhine driver for it. Try
http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
Good Luck
Ian
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to use DLink DEF-530TX+ NIC but no success. At boot time
> the card does not seem to be recogized. Now the strange thing of it all
> is that I previouly had the same model of card working on the same
> hardware a few months ago. In fact I pulled it out and have been I
> testing it along side the new card and found it still works. Now the
> working card is label, DFE-530TX+ Rev.A1, and the newer ( non-working )
> card is labeled DFE-530TX+ Rev. D1. So I've got two differenct versions
> of the NIC...one works, one doesn't. I've notice the non-working card
> does not seem to be recognize at boot time unlike the working card which
> is. There does not appear to be anything wrong hardware wise with the
> NICs as both of them work under Windows 98 and 2000.
>
> With the working card I had to turn off PNP OS in the BIOS before it
> would work. Of course I've done this the new card as well but no
> success. As well, I've updated to the latest rtl8139.c file ( 1.13 )
> but still no success.
>
> Has anyone run into this problem??? Better yet anyone soved it?
>
> The hardware is an Intel PIII 550 on an ASUS P3B-F motherboard. The OS
> is SUSE 6.4, kernel 2.2.14.
>
> Mark Lightfoot
>
>
>
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Time server setup
Date: 6 Apr 2001 17:35:03 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Helmut Haefner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Why do you want to use GPS. Also in the USA there are time-signals on
: AM, and I think you can buy a RC-clock with a serial or parallel port
: in the USA too. Here in Germany it costs ~20 U$ but this model will
: work only in Germany and the included software only works for Windows.
: I think any solution using GPS will cost a lot of more.
Anyone know of an inexpensive ($100 or less) device that has a serial
or ethernet interface that ntpd can talk to? Doesn't matter whether
it's GPS, WWV, etc as long as ntpd knows how to talk to it.
--
==============================================================================
Michael | mfaurot | He hath eaten me out of house and home.
Faurot | atww.net | -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
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From: "Chris Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:09:47 -0400
Frank Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9akkve$10f0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <X9%y6.387$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chris Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm setting up a relatively low volume RH 7 mailserver for someone. I'm
> >interested in users' recommendations regarding compatible tape backup
> >systems and backup software. Travan, DAT, DLT? Which would you
recommend.
> >I don't want to spend a lot of money, but I want something which will
> >efficiently back up a moderate amount of data.
> >
> >As far as backup software goes, I want something relatively easy to use,
but
> >flexible and reliable. The user is experienced with SCO Unix, but
doesn't
> >want to spend all of his time learning and executing commands. I'd like
> >something that will allow him to easily configure scheduled backups with
a
> >minimum of effort.
> >
> >Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You may want to consider a DVD-RAM drive. About the same price as a
Travan
> drive of similar capacity, but you (theoretically) can mount the device,
> and get far better access to individual files. Media costs are lower,
too,
> and will probably get cheaper with time. There are ATAPI (IDE) and SCSI
> versions. You can also use many of these to generate bootable CDROMs
which
> could serve as an emergency boot/restore device. The only question
involves
> drivers/kernel compatibility.
The last time I looked, DVD-RAM drives were something like $2000. What are
they running now? A decent Travan drive runs in the $200-$300 range these
days.
Got any more information? I'm interested.
Thanks.
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From: "Chris Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:10:23 -0400
Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Chris Morton wrote:
> >
> > I'm setting up a relatively low volume RH 7 mailserver for someone. I'm
> > interested in users' recommendations regarding compatible tape backup
> > systems and backup software. Travan, DAT, DLT? Which would you
recommend.
>
> I use a SCSI Travan tape (the entire suse 6.2 i on a scsi advansys)
> and it goes fine, sure the tapes are not cheap, but they are robust
> against e.g. dat.
> 3 gigaByte approx in 1 hour or so, using tar.
Thanks.
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