Linux-Hardware Digest #610, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
CUV4X-D, io-apic problem (VIA chipset) (Pietro)
Driver for DP83815 for SuSE 6.4 with kernel 2.2.14 ("Aalderd Bouwman")
Re: Driver for DP83815 for SuSE 6.4 with kernel 2.2.14 ("Aalderd Bouwman")
Superblock ("Aalderd Bouwman")
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Slash)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Roeland van Ochten)
Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HELPPPPPPPP !!!!!!! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Christian Garms)
Re: Micron Netframe MV 5000 with AMI Megaraid problems (shane)
Re: Question: Anyone got ide2 *and* ide3 working on Promise ata100? (Roeland van
Ochten)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Slash)
Re: sys 6326 video driver ("LittleFish")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pietro)
Subject: CUV4X-D, io-apic problem (VIA chipset)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:23:10 +0200
Hi everybody,
I've recently bought a CUV4X-D motherbord equipped with a VIA82C694XDP
chipset. I have problems with io-apic. In particular I have a RLT network
adapter and a sound card absolutely not listed in my /proc/interrupts.
I've tried both 2.4.3 and the last AC path (-ac3).
The problems is obviously with the io-apic since if I boot the system with
"noapic" option it doesn't hang, but I'm still unable to address correctly
my adapter. With 2.4.3-a3 and without kernel option I receive this message:
"probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a
motherboard." and I can't boot.
With plain 2.4.3 I can boot but the irq redirection map is still broken.
I also receive this msg during boot:"unexpected IO-APIC, please mail ..."
does nobody know if there is a patch for this problem ?
TIA,
pietro
this is my /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 28428 77928 IO-APIC-level timer
1: 102 200 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 6 1 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
14: 602 309 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 5 1 IO-APIC-edge ide1
18: 0 0 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci, usb-uhci
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 5144 5169
ERR: 0
and this is my log booting with plain 2.4.3:
Linux version 2.4.3 (root@pulp) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(Debian release)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 12 08:19:28 CEST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes.
found SMP MP-table at 000f5460
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126972 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #3 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Floating point unit present.
Machine Exception supported.
64 bit compare & exchange supported.
Internal APIC present.
SEP present.
MTRR present.
PGE present.
MCA present.
CMOV present.
PAT present.
PSE present.
MMX present.
FXSR present.
XMM present.
Bootup CPU
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Floating point unit present.
Machine Exception supported.
64 bit compare & exchange supported.
Internal APIC present.
SEP present.
MTRR present.
PGE present.
MCA present.
CMOV present.
PAT present.
PSE present.
MMX present.
FXSR present.
XMM present.
Bus #0 is PCI
Bus #1 is PCI
Bus #2 is ISA
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Int: type 3, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 00
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 01, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 01
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 02
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 03, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 03
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 04, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 04
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 06, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 06
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 07, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 07
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 08, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 08
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 09, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 09
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 0c, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0c
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 0e, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0e
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 0f, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0f
Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 1, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 10
Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 00
Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 0, IRQ 13, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 12
Lint: type 3, pol 1, trig 1, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID ff, APIC LINT 00
Lint: type 1, pol 1, trig 1, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID ff, APIC LINT 01
Processors: 2
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000)
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=243 ro root=306 idebus=66
ide_setup: idebus=66
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 810.023 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1615.46 BogoMIPS
Memory: 513040k/524272k available (1134k kernel code, 10844k reserved,
431k data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.41 usecs.
Getting VERSION: 40011
Getting VERSION: 40011
Getting ID: 3000000
Getting ID: c000000
Getting LVT0: 8700
Getting LVT1: 400
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
CPU present map: 9
Booting processor 1/0 eip 2000
Setting warm reset code and vector.
1.
2.
3.
Asserting INIT.
Waiting for send to finish...
+Deasserting INIT.
Waiting for send to finish...
+#startup loops: 2.
Sending STARTUP #1.
After apic_write.
Initializing CPU#1
CPU#1 (phys ID: 0) waiting for CALLOUT
Startup point 1.
Waiting for send to finish...
+Sending STARTUP #2.
After apic_write.
Startup point 1.
Waiting for send to finish...
+After Startup.
Before Callout 1.
After Callout 1.
CALLIN, before setup_local_APIC().
masked ExtINT on CPU#1
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 1618.73 BogoMIPS
Stack at about c188dfbc
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
OK.
CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
CPU has booted.
Before bogomips.
Total of 2 processors activated (3234.20 BogoMIPS).
Before bogocount - setting activated=1.
Boot done.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
Synchronizing Arb IDs.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-5, 2-10, 2-11, 2-13, 2-17, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21,
2-22, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
number of MP IRQ sources: 15.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00178011
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 003 03 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 31
01 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
06 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
07 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
08 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
09 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0f 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
10 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 89
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 91
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0-> 2
IRQ1 -> 1
IRQ3 -> 3
IRQ4 -> 4
IRQ6 -> 6
IRQ7 -> 7
IRQ8 -> 8
IRQ9 -> 9
IRQ12 -> 12
IRQ14 -> 14
IRQ15 -> 15
IRQ16 -> 16
IRQ18 -> 18
.................................... done.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 810.0205 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 135.0033 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1350033, slice: 450011
CPU0<T0:1350032,T1:900016,D:5,S:450011,C:1350033>
cpu: 1, clocks: 1350033, slice: 450011
CPU1<T0:1350032,T1:448784,D:1226,S:450011,C:1350033>
checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
Setting commenced=1, go go go
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0cc0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Disabled enhanced CPU to PCI posting
PCI: Disabled enhanced CPU to PCI posting #2
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:04.0
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I4,P3) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I4,P3) -> 18
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd v1.8
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 340946kB/209874kB, 1024 slots per queue
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 66MHz system bus speed for PIO modes
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: User given PCI clock speed impossible (66), using 33 MHz instead.
VP_IDE: Use ide0=ata66 if you want to force UDMA66/UDMA100.
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:04.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-106S 010, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 80315072 sectors (41121 MB) w/1902KiB Cache, CHS=4999/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Serial driver version 5.05 (2000-12-13) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ
SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 18
uhci.c: detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 18
uhci.c: detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 48a port2: 48a data: 6
uhci.c: suspend_hc
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 58a port2: 58a data: 6
uhci.c: suspend_hc
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 488 port2: 488 data: 6
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 588 port2: 588 data: 6
Adding Swap: 249944k swap-space (priority -1)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
--
Undergraduate student of Computer Science - ALMA MATER STUDIORUM Bologna -
Alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pgp key: 1024D/8A091922 2000-10-18 Pietro Abate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Key fingerprint = 5111 D91B 5E0C 5CE6 FDA3 5EF4 6120 E18E 8A09 1922
public key avalaible via public key server at wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
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From: "Aalderd Bouwman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for DP83815 for SuSE 6.4 with kernel 2.2.14
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:49:28 +0200
Need a driver for given config on a P60
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From: "Aalderd Bouwman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for DP83815 for SuSE 6.4 with kernel 2.2.14
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:57:37 +0200
Ohh sorry,
This is a National semicondutor NIC 10/100 Mbps
Aalderd.
Aalderd Bouwman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9b3tn7$i34$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Need a driver for given config on a P60
>
>
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From: "Aalderd Bouwman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Superblock
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:16:09 +0200
hello all,
how can I set back a superblock.
I got a kernel-panic and my harddisk now contains a superblock with invalid
magic number.
Can anyone help me??
Aalderd
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From: Slash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill
them up?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 02:32:02 -0800
On 12 Apr 2001 10:29:40 +0800, Dan Jacobson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled:
>It seems that at least for a home dialup user, today's PC hard disks
>would surely fail before he could manage to fill it all up via say,
>browsing, even with caching proxies, etc. Therefore it seems deleting
>unneeded files might become a routine of the past? Hmm, 30 GB /(20
>MB/day)=4 years
20MB/day on dialup? Goodness, man! Try hader! :)
-Slash
--
"Ebert Victorious" - The Onion
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From: Roeland van Ochten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:06:38 +0200
"Keith R. Williams" wrote:
> However, how is your video fidelity? Any degradation? Can
> you do 1600x1200 @ 85Hz? I really wanna know, because
> that's what I need, and the BlackBox says it'll do it.
>
> ----
> Keith
Well, while electonic switchboxes may have a resolution/refresh limit, a
mechanical swichbox hasn't. But a cheap mechanical switchbox may have simple
unshielded wiring inside, which indeed degrades the video quality. If you are
into some soldering, you can replace those wires by 50 ohms shielded cable,
for instance RG 174 is a suitable thin coax-cable for this purpose. Check out
the VGA connector pin layout, and connect 5 shielded cables as follows:
1 Red (centre) and 6 Red ground (shielding)
2 Green (centre) and 7 Green ground (shielding)
3 Blue (centre) and 8 Blue ground (shielding)
13 H sync (centre) and 11 Sync ground (shielding)
14 V sync (centre) and 11 Sync ground (shielding)
Be careful with the pin numbering: male or female connectors are of course
mirror-images of each other... You can leave the other wires as they are,
those are either not bandwith-critical or even unused. I upgraded a cheap
(about $30,-) mechanical switchbox like this, and a friend tried it at
2048x1536@75 Hz; no complaints.
Now you also understand why cheap VGA cables give poor video quality: they
only have over-all shielding. If you don't like to buy expensive
"high-quality" cables (which are of course per-wire shielded 50 ohms cables),
you could compose a VGA cable by using the same wiring layout as inside the
switchbox. I didn't bother to do that: I paid the price for two HQ VGA cables:
about $15,- each.
My switchbox also switches mouse and keyboard: serial mouse (9 pin Sub-D) and
AT-keyboard (5-pin 45 deg. DIN plug) didn't give any problem, but when I got
an ATX board I used a converter-wire (DIN socket to 6 pin mini-DIN ps/2 plug),
the keyboard sometimes hung. Switching a few times often helped, but somtimes
I had to unplug the keyboard wires to both computers to reset the keyboard
(because the keyboard is powered by both computers in OR fashion with two
diodes). I didn't make a keyboard reset-button yet and I got tired of
unplugging, so I have two keyboards now: when my Windows hangs, I sometimes
Ctrl-Alt-Del my Linux box, so be sure to include:
ca::ctrlaltdel:echo "Hey! This isn't Billie!"
in /etc/inittab to prevent rebooting, or write a script that asks for
confirmation...
With some effort, you can have it cheap *and* good.
Good luck,
Roeland.
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Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,dc.org.linux-users,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HELPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:24:04 GMT
James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dave Mundt wrote:,
>
> > and, getting a good, external model. That will hook right up, with no
> > problems.
>
> I really think that this advice is getting a little out of date.
not at all. blinkenlights never go out of style.
> A 3COM/USR 2977 internal PCI modem works fine with Linux.
>
> The current Kernel even auto detects it.
and how do you cycle power on just the modem without rebooting your host?
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill
them up?
Date: 12 Apr 2001 22:46:22 +0200
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems that at least for a home dialup user, today's PC hard disks
> would surely fail before he could manage to fill it all up via say,
> browsing, even with caching proxies, etc. Therefore it seems deleting
> unneeded files might become a routine of the past? Hmm, 30 GB /(20
> MB/day)=4 years
Don't forget the amount of modern OS'es (WindowsXP ~1.5GB, a full
Mandrake7.2 -install 2GB). And with more Highspeed-Internetaccess the
HDs will more quickly (no problem download *.avi's anymore!).
Anyway: Who use his/her personal computer longer then four years?
--
regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Micron Netframe MV 5000 with AMI Megaraid problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:33:48 GMT
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:26:27 GMT, "TheMartian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Apart from RH7 being a dog of a OS, the problem is the megaraid driver,
>its broken big time, still not fixed in the official 2.4.2 kernel release.
>A patch has been available from 2.4 ac7, works well with me, with my
>MegaRaid 438. Also looked at the driver on the megatrends.com web site,
>also broken.
>
>I have patched driver files that work well for me, want me to email them?
>
>David
>
>Sydney, Australia.
Yes, please send it to me! Without the driver working the box is
just sitting. The only drives in it are in that raid array, so w/o
a working megaraid.o I cannot use the machine.
Thanks,
Shane
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "shane"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install Redhat 7 onto a Micron Netframe MV 5000. It has an
>> AMI Megaraid card in it. During the install, it tries to insmod
>> megaraid.o, but shows the following:
>>
>> found suggestion of megaraid
>> found eepro100
>> found NCR53c8xx
>> going to insmod megaraid.o (path is null)
>>
>> /tmp/megaraid.o: init_module: %M
>> Hint: The error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
>> invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
>>
>> Then this throws the installer because it cannot find any valid devices
>> to install onto, and the installer reboots the computer.
>>
>> On bootup, the megaraid card shows:
>>
>> Megaraid disk array adaptor bios version 1.07 Aug 08, 1997 Copyright (C)
>> American Megatrends Inc. Host Adaptor-1 Firmware version TN0F DRAM
>> SIZE=32mb Battery module is present on adaptor 1 logical drive found on
>> host adaptor
>>
>> When I hit ^M to go into the AMI megaraid bios, it shows
>>
>> Megaraid conf utility ver 1.01 July 10,1997
>>
>> On the card I found "IMMD80100209"
>>
>> If I hit ^altF4 during the install I see:
>>
>> megaraid:v1.09 (August 7, 2000)
>> <6> raid0 personality registered
>> <6> raid1 personality registered
>> <6> raid5 personality registered
>>
>> The machine is a Dual PII300 with 400LX chipset. On boot it shows
>> Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 MB440LX Bios Release 6.0 The machine
>> originally had NT4 on it. When NT4 was on it it showed:
>>
>> american megatrends 960RX RAID Adaptor NT4 driver: mraidrx.sys
>> interrupt: 9
>> memory range: FC9000000-FCFFFFFFFF
>>
>> I've looked at micronpc.com's website, and found the server:
>>
>> http://support.micronpc.com/apps/srvrhub.asp?Hub=MV5000&Include=
>>
>> So as best as I can tell, the card is equivalent to a Mylex DAC960 or
>> possibly a "MegaRAID RPX Module "
>>
>> I've sent mail to tech support @micronpc.com to see if they could point
>> me to the card's correct modelname (to match to the ones listed at
>> http://www.ami.com/support/product.cfm ). I haven't heard back from
>> them. Email to AMI said "match your card to the products list". Yeah, I
>> tried that before I email them...
>>
>>
>> Does anyone use this model of Micron or this card with Linux? 2.2.x or
>> 2.4 would work. If so, what driver are you using and where did you get
>> it?
>>
>> I've went through deja (now google), I found a lot of mentions of
>> Megaraid, and the kernel, and the kernel archives, but nothing that I
>> seemed to be able to use.
>>
>> I looked at /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c (2.4.2) and it lists:
>> MegaRAID 418, 428, 438, 466, 762, 467 and 490.
>>
>> Maybe this card is not supported by the megaraid driver?
>>
>>
>> Any help appreciated...
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>
>>
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From: Roeland van Ochten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question: Anyone got ide2 *and* ide3 working on Promise ata100?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:48:42 +0200
jazbo wrote:
> With any IDE devices of any kind?
>
> I have a Promise ATA 100 controller card (not Fasttrack raid) that I
> have been trying to use with Mandrake7.2
> The main system installation is on IDE0
> IDE 0 and IDE1 are onboard ata33 capable busses provided by a Via MVP3
> chipset
> (board is FIC 503+ )
>
> I have bought a couple of Quantum Fireball AS Plus drives to use in a
> software RAID 0 config.
> Both seem to be ok individually. But I cannot seem to hook them up
> separately to the two channels of the Promise ata100.
> If I put them on separate channels (ide2 and ide3) with separate cables,
> Linux halts in the bootup right where it should report cyls/heads/sects
> for /dev/hde. (right after it does report that info for hda)
>
> I can hook either of them up alone. I am sure that they can be hooked up
> to the second IDE channel of the ata100 if nothing is attached to the
> first.
> I can hook both of them up to IDE2 (the first channel of the Promise
> controller) using one cable and setting hde to master and hdf to slave.
> But that's where the joy ends.
>
> Has anyone attached IDE devices successfully to both channels of a
> Promise ATA 100 card in Linux?
> Or is that second IDE header just for show?
>
> Thanks for any reports.
Reading the Ultra-DMA HowTo, I noted that the length of an IDE cable should
not be over 45 cm. As the Promise Ultra100 has only 1 IRQ, I suspect it is
only 1 IDE controller with 2 channels. This might mean that the 2 IDE cables
*together* shouldn't be longer than 45 cm.
Under Windows '98 my experience is that using only 1 channel master/slave
performs better than using a master on each channel. Perhaps Windows merely
lags where Linux stops altogether. Perhaps the 2.4.3 kernel you tried is
simply more tolerant to errors on the IDE busses, so it works, albeit slow.
As you are using both channels with one device each, you could try to
shorten the cables by cutting the cable and end-connector off near the
middle connector. This makes the cables about 30 cm each, so the total is 60
cm and not 90 cm. Unfortunately, because of the price of 80-wire IDE cables,
I myself am reluctant to probably waste 2 of those cables. If this doesn't
help and you want to go back to a master/slave combi, you will have to buy a
new cable...
As you can notice, I know little for sure in this matter, but I mentioned
some things worth testing. I was planning to do software RAID 5 on 4 IDE
drives with 2 Promise controllers, but until these issues are resolved I'll
wait with the purchase of the second controller and the drives, and I will
install Linux (probably Slackware 7.1) on this box, so I can try a few
tricks.
Good luck,
Roeland.
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From: Slash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill
them up?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 03:50:16 -0800
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 02:32:02 -0800, Slash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
scribbled:
>On 12 Apr 2001 10:29:40 +0800, Dan Jacobson
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled:
>
>>It seems that at least for a home dialup user, today's PC hard disks
>>would surely fail before he could manage to fill it all up via say,
>>browsing, even with caching proxies, etc. Therefore it seems deleting
>>unneeded files might become a routine of the past? Hmm, 30 GB /(20
>>MB/day)=4 years
>
>20MB/day on dialup? Goodness, man! Try hader! :)
Harder, even! :)
-Slash
--
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From: "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: sys 6326 video driver
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:38:55 +1000
it is a SiS 6326 video card I use one on linux and windozer. When you use
Xconfig it is offered as a option however you will need to manually edit the
XF86Config in the \ect\ directory file too stop accelleration ie #
NO_ACCELL just remove the # and save it. You need to do this because of the
clunky black unfilled blocks that appear on the screen!
Littlefish
"dario mendez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:whqz6.12563$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> wehere i can find drivers to install a agp sys 6326 video on
linux(genome),
> please help me
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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