Linux-Hardware Digest #579, Volume #14 Fri, 6 Apr 01 20:13:03 EDT
Contents:
HP Colorado Streamer / FC 20 Controller (Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hageb=F6ke?=)
Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software ("Chris Morton")
Re: Internal Modem (Dranthony)
IRQ condivisi ("Pazzetto")
Re: how to set time in cmos clock so it doesn't revert on reboot? (Andrei Ivanov)
Re: 3 com nic (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: HELP: Newbie to Linux (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Trevor Hemsley)
sys 6326 video driver ("dario mendez")
Re: support for adaptec 2100s under RH7.0? (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F8rn?= Wennberg)
Re: Isa and pci problems ("Blushade")
Re: Time server setup ("Bob Parnass, AJ9S")
linux parition question (nospam)
Multimedia an OS's (Nick Bourry)
Re: Multimedia an OS's (Nick Bourry)
Re: Redhat 7 and Gigabyte AC97 Sound. ("wfromoz")
How to Installed AccleRaid 352 card in redhat ("tthave")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (George Macdonald)
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From: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hageb=F6ke?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: HP Colorado Streamer / FC 20 Controller
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:12:58 +0200
Hello folks,
I have an old P1 computer equipped with a HP Colorado 1000 Travan floppy
streamer.
That streamer is connected to a FC 20 controller (for compression
purposes).
The distribution I use is SuSE 7.1 (kernel 2.4)
Background:
with kernel 2.0.xx, I used ftape as a module - the streamer worked
perfectly.
Then, with kernel 2.2.13 (SuSE 6.3), I suddenly had to compile streamer
support into the kernel
and use zftape/compressor support. And BTW: the module-version didn't
work any more.
Now I installed SuSE 7.1 with kernel 2.4 which has a pre-compiled module
support for the
ftape and zftape interfaces. But none of them actually do work. I always
get the response
/dev/ftape: No such device
The same applies for zftape.
My aim is getting that streamer working (of course) with
zftape/compressor support.
An if possible - somehow - by using a module which is loaded on demand.
The streamer/controller settings are the defaults:
FC 20: I/O 210-217
DMA 3
IRQ 9
Colorado: I/O 180-187
This configuration works perfectly under windows - and it did with
previous kernel versions
(as described).
Please help me with 2.4.
Best regards,
Thomas
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From: "Chris Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:12:14 -0400
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9akf91$lht$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Christopher Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5 Apr 2001 14:38:20 GMT, Joshua Baker-LePain
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>Travan -- the tapes are expensive, the drives are slow, and they get
very
> >>hot. For about $1200 you could get an Exabyte Eliant 820 -- 7GB native
on
> >>cheap ($3-4) tapes.
>
> > You see the problem here is that's nearly six times the price of an
> > EIDE Travan drive. It's tough to sell the price difference,
> > especially when the customer's needs are so small.
>
> Well, at least go with a SCSI Travan and a cheap UltraSCSI card (an
> Adaptec 2930 is ~$90). Backups are *important*, and I would never
> willingly trust them to IDE.
>
> Also, keep in mind that if you want to do archiving, your tape costs
> are going to start rising very quickly with Travan.
I don't have a problem with EIDE, but SCSI offers greater flexibility for
future expansion. So I may recommend that he get a SCSI Travan drive.
Thanks.
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From: Dranthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Internal Modem
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 20:20:56 GMT
I have the same modem, Viking 56k LT and to my dismay I can't get it to
work under RH7.0. It just won't initialize. It is even a little buggy in
windoze though too.(big surprise there, right?) i now use an external
USR 56k modem that runs "fine"
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From: "Pazzetto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRQ condivisi
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 22:47:26 +0200
Nel mini HOWTO Isdn in italiano ho letto che � meglio evitare di avere IRQ
della scheda isdn condiviso con un altra pereferica. Ma poi da qualche altra
parte ho letto che gli IRQ sono condivisibili se si tratta di hardware PCI.
Io ho una scheda madre con un controller audio Intel IHC etc. che risulta
avere IRQ uguale a quelle della mia scheda isdn Teles PCI.
Qualcuno ne sa di piu' a proposito ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Ivanov)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: how to set time in cmos clock so it doesn't revert on reboot?
Date: 6 Apr 2001 20:56:28 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running redhat 6.2 and I do the rdate -s time.server.com and it updates
> the clock but when I reboot, it reverts. I compiled in Enhanced Real Time
> Clock Support in the kernel but that doesn't help. How do I do this?
The command sequence is ('hwclock' is part of 'util-linux' package, which
is part of the Base package cluster; 'ntpdate' is part of 'xntp3'):
1. Check whether /etc/sysconfig/clock file contains this line:
UTC=true
2. Adjust system clock from NTP server (replace 1.2.3.4 w/ ip address
of your preferred NTP server):
# /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -b -p 8 -u 1.2.3.4
3. Adjust hardware clock from system clock:
# /sbin/hwclock --systohc --utc
That's it. H/w clock set to correct UTC time.
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andrei
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: 3 com nic
Date: 06 Apr 2001 21:01:08 GMT
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:58:24, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used the 3com software in dos and set the card to isa {non-pnp}
> and i know the params are 0x300 and irq 10.
>
> but still the card fails to initialize, and i cant get it to work.
> i set up the eth0 in linux conf, basic network settings, but i know i am
> forgetting the
> obvious here. how do i get linux to load this card? what am i missing?
Did you also tell your motherboard BIOS that it should not use IRQ 10
for PCI/PnP? If you don't do that then it's likely that that IRQ will
be being used for PCI devices and the 3Com cards are not keen on
sharing IRQs between ISA and PCI ;-)
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: HELP: Newbie to Linux
Date: 06 Apr 2001 21:01:08 GMT
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:55:58, William Robinson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for reading. Does anyone have any guidelines for what
> i should be looking for? i have no idea what kind of processor speed i
> am after, how much memory, how big a hard drive, what's compatible with
> what, what kind of monitor (just as long as it's at least 17"/19"),
> sound hardware, graphics hardware, etc. that i might be after. thanks
> for your time.
It depends on how much you want to pay ;-) Being a student, the answer
to that is probably something along the lines of "as little as
possible"... but you gets what you pay for (mostly).
What you might want to do is pop along to a computer fair or three and
check out what is available. There's one in Hove town hall next Friday
(13/4/2001) which'll cost you a couple of quid to get in. There are
usually stalls there selling secondhand gear - the one I went to at
Brighton racecourse last weekend had a stall full of things like
IBM/Dell/Compaq Pentium 166's with 32MB RAM and a couple of GB of disk
space. Not stunning by today's standards but relatively _cheap_ - a
couple of hundred quid if I remember right (and I may not). Oh, and
there were people selling new machines too...
Brighton computer fairs aren't the cheapest around - if you go up to
London at all then there are 3 or 4 of them in close proximity around
Tottenham Court Road and these cost one pound to get in and have about
50 times as many stalls as the B'tn ones. Since competition is so much
more, prices tend to be much less. For example, 128MB RAM in London in
January was �40 and in B'tn the following weekend was �50+.
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice?
Date: 06 Apr 2001 21:01:09 GMT
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:00:54, "Bastiaan Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Keep in mind however that Pentium II and III
> are a done deal... (production is stopped for these processors).
Is that true? I know P-II's are no longer made but P-III's still are.
Intel have recently announced that they don't aim to make (many more)
*slot 1* P-III's but that isn't the same thing as stopping P-III's.
P-III slot 1 is dead, long live FCPGA ;-)
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: "dario mendez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sys 6326 video driver
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:10:33 -0400
wehere i can find drivers to install a agp sys 6326 video on linux(genome),
please help me
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Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid
Subject: Re: support for adaptec 2100s under RH7.0?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F8rn?= Wennberg)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:22:42 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
I'm not a hardware wuzz, but you should try to enable the extra
checks in scsi commands under the SCSI kernel config.
About termination. You just hook up all disks on the cable and terminate
the cable at the end.
You should also try one disk at a time and see if you are simply having
problems with one of the disks.
>
> 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: "Blushade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Isa and pci problems
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:29:40 GMT
Well maybe because I have to install it on linux box,
the full story, I have an isa card that is not seen bye the bios or pnpdump.
I have a pci card that is seen be the bios, and is not seen bye linux.
can anyone piont my to a program in run level 3 that will help me install
my isa or pci in linux.
"Eric P. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "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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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 16:47:52 -0500
From: "Bob Parnass, AJ9S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Time server setup
See http://www.linux-mag.com/2001-01/guru_01.html
A $100 radio synchronized clock from Atomic Time (Oak Brook, IL)
is connected to a serial port, where an Expect script
polls it periodically.
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Bob Parnass, AJ9S [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux User #209820 (Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
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From: nospam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux parition question
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:09:04 GMT
My hard disk has the following layout:
1. physical (fat32)
2. logical
2a. fat32
2b. ntfs
2c. ntfs
2d. linux (/boot)
2e. linux (/)
2f. linux (swap)
At boot time, I got this message:
localhost kernel: hda: hda1 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
The system mounts /dev/hda8 as /boot, hda9 as / and uses hda10 for swap.
My question is: what's the relationship between the layout and the
hda[1-10] partitions?
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From: Nick Bourry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multimedia an OS's
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:25:41 GMT
I would like your advice on this new project of mine.
I use to make music, graphics, ... . Now I'm setting up a multimedia
internetserver. Visiters should be able to create things for them self
online and in realtime. The IS is a Linux server, but that's not the
problem.
For the making of the site, wich OS (operating system) should I choose?
I made music with Win9x and Cubase VST, graphics with CorelDraw,
Programming with Linux (SuSE 7.0). I'm also interested in MacOSX.
About the hardware I should use, what would you recommend? I've added a
list of the system I'm working with at the bottom of this message. I would
prefer to keep using it, but if it's not possible or there are better
things, then it be so.
And what software would be recommendable?
--
Nick Bourry
Time is nowhere, we're just caught between.
Hardware:
- AMD Athlon thunderbird 750
- 256 MB Ram
- 17 GB HD
- nVidia Geforce 2mx
- MSI motherboard K7TPro
- Onboard Soundcard VIA ???? (no plugin becaus my old Guillemot refuse to
work with this motherboard)
- 17" Sampo Alphascan 712
- Yamaha Cs1x
Software:
- Suse Linux 7.0 + GNU programs
- Windows ME
- Cubase 3.7
- Coreldraw 10
- HomeSite 4.5
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From: Nick Bourry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multimedia an OS's
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:28:59 GMT
I forgot to tell that I would like to do all of this on one computer with
one OS.
Nick Bourry wrote:
> I would like your advice on this new project of mine.
> ...
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From: "wfromoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7 and Gigabyte AC97 Sound.
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:59:40 -0500
Another option - which I use - is the alsa driver. Go to
www.alsa-project.org for more information.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Harri
Haataja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> JNJ wrote:
>>I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZX1 motherboard with on-board AC97 sound. I can't
>>for the life of me get the on-board sound to work with Linux. Any
>>suggestions?
>
> Check the IRQ and enabling settings in BIOS, boot a fairly recent kernel
> and try for example:
>
> # modprobe ac97
>
> # dmesg | grep AC
> ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5340 (Analog Devices AD1881)
> $ cat /proc/pci | grep AC
> Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio
> (rev 1).
> $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep 82801
> 9: 0 XT-PIC Intel ICH 82801AA
>
> etc.. works fine with the Deskpro here.
>
> Oh, yes. Do remember to adjust the mixer if you just happen not to be
> getting any sound. More verbose postings also yield more useful answers.
>
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From: "tthave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to Installed AccleRaid 352 card in redhat
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 23:29:30 GMT
Hi all
I am installing Redhat6.2 in P3 700mhz systems with AcceleRAID 352 Ultra 160
SCSI to PCI RAID Controller , It's a new fresh instalattion, I found out
that this card does not have a driver in the 6.2 CD.It's gving me an error
saying that No harddrive found to Install linux. So i need to make a boot
disk with this driver included. I don't know how I cold make the boot disk
with this drive included. I downloaded the file called
DAC960-2.4.10.tar.gz & extract it .
Then I got these files
DAC960.c DAC960.h DAC960.patch
I transfered the file into the floppy, Then when I try to install the
driver first by using the boot disk issuing the command dd linux. it's ask
for the driver diskett , as soon as I insered the floppy ,It's giving me an
error message called this not a Redhat driver.
Any ideas, Or I am doing any this wrong, Or how to make a drive diskett. Or
How can I make the boot img disk with the driver included.
Please Help. It's urgent, I am totally cluess at this point.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks
Thave
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From: fammacd=!SPAM^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Macdonald)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 23:36:09 GMT
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:41:53 -0400, "John N. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"George Macdonald" <fammacd=!SPAM^[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I've seen this "warble" (I'd say wobble) in one 2nd floor corner of our
>> office and it seems to vary with monitor brand and vertical sync frequency
>> - the video card used doesn't seem to matter. This is a small office
>> building and the main power cable is routed along the outside top of that
>> corner of the wall before it goes down to the ground and into the basement.
>> The effect is worst when the A/C is running - IOW large draw on the main
>> power - and you can see it worsen as an A/C compressor kicks in.
>>
>> I'm not sure if the effect is caused by the the pulsing field around the
>> main power cable affecting the monitor circuits directly or if it's carried
>> into the monitor through its power or signal cables but there doesn't seem
>> to be a cure and the "quality" of the monitor doesn't seem to make a
>> difference. I found that a 17" Mitsubishi monitor was badly affected but
>> in the same position a 17" Viewsonic show no effects at all... and yet
>> another 17" Viewsonic (same model) nearby is moderately disturbed.
>> Sometimes you just have to admit: "this is out of my control".:-)
>
>Such "warbles" are usually caused by time varying magnetic fields
>acting directly on the electron beam in the CRT. A good way to
>check for this is to change the orientation of the monitor. For
>instance, if the warble is a vertical movement, and the monitor
>is placed on it's side, then a magnetically induced warble would
>still be vertical to the outside world, meaning it would now be
>horizontal to the monitor's frame of reference.
>
>Getting that much interference from a power line sometimes
>means there is a fault in the wiring. Normally, current
>flowing in the various wires in a power line exactly cancel,
>and stray magnetic fields drop to zero at distances large
>compared to the spacing between the wires. If there is
>(for instance) a ground loop, and a lot of current is flowing
>through that alternate ground path, then the power line will
>generate a magnetic field that drops off approximately linearly
>with distance (doubling the distance means half the field strength).
Interesting and thanks John for the info. Hmmm - ground loop - I wonder if
it could be this: as well as the main electric entry point ground, the
telephone installer (a local contractor) grounded our telephone system to
the water pipes. I'm suspicious that this is also the source of lightning
damage to various pieces when we get a nearish strike.
His reason for doing this wasn't entirely unreasonable - the trouble is
that the electric power enters the building half way along one side of the
building and the telephone enters on the corner of the same wall - about
30' apart. I was surprised when I saw this just after the building was
constructed. I thought it was "normal practice" with modern small
buildings to make sure that electric/telephone entry point were close
together to facilitate proper grounding.
Rgds, George Macdonald
"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
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