Linux-Hardware Digest #666, Volume #14 Sun, 22 Apr 01 03:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Eric P. McCoy)
Re: NICs for multi-multihomed hosts ("Carsten Cimander,,,")
Re: Where can I buy bridgeboards? (B'ichela)
Re: Where can I buy bridgeboards? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
es1371 - No Sound (Bob Bucy)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (George Macdonald)
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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?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 22 Apr 2001 00:48:15 -0400
Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, you're of course right that the storage requirement constantly
> grows. However, as a normal (more or less) home-user I really don't know
> how my 45 Gb will get filled up any day soon.
% df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 54348 18456 33086 36% /
/dev/md1 58971668 42263980 13712104 76% /disk
% du -kcs ~mp3 ~movies /disk/export/Program\ Files/
8388336 /disk/home/mp3
27679580 /disk/home/movies
756952 /disk/export/Program Files
36824868 total
This is a slightly unusual situation, as I'm using my Linux box as a
file server for my Windows 2000 workstation, but there's also about
7GB of stuff on the workstation's local disk (for when speed matters).
Most of the rest of the space is probably used by photos from my
digital camera.
> I don't normally play any games. Mostly, I use my computer for
> normal day-to-day tasks like writing letters, etc.
I kind of have a multimedia obsession. The games I play a lot are on
my workstation's local drive.
> I'm also into programming, and that must be the reason why I
> like to have all the software on my Linux box available in source format so
> that I can compile and install it myself (and look at the sources, of
> course). Still, right now I only have 6 GB out of 45 filled up. I think the
> remaining space should last for some years, shouldn't it? I really don't
> know what should come along and fill it all up soon.
It took me about two months to go from using 13GB to using 40GB. The
more space I have free, the faster I use it up. This last 12GB or so
will last me a comparatively long time.
--
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: "Carsten Cimander,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NICs for multi-multihomed hosts
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 07:15:21 +0200
AFAIK 3Com and intel and DEC offer PCI-Cards with 4 LAN interfaces on one
single card. each card is treated as a single interface. But I am not
shure if this
works like LUN-numbers (subnumbers) of SCSI-IDs (mainnumbers) i.e. if the
interfaces must be invoked as a subinstance of the main/carrier card.
As you want to implement a 2.4 kernel I assume that you don't want to
install
it on an box with a i386 CPU :-)
> I want to implement an i386-architecture firewall/router with at least 8
> FastEthernet network Interfaces (10/100 or 100 Mbps) with a 2.4 kernel. This
> should be hardware which fits in an off-the-shelf standard PC. Anyone any
> experience with some piece of such hardware?
>
regards,
Carsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.cpm,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Where can I buy bridgeboards?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 05:06:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 02:20:28 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But the bigger problem -- which someone already alluded to earlier
>in this thread -- is that an RLL drive is built to different technical
>and material specifications than is an MFM drive.
>
>If you connect an MFM drive to an RLL controller, you can usually expect
>to get an inordinate number of physical disk errors at the time you low-
>level format the drive.
In my case. Now that I got my board talking and it Did try to
do a nice format (RLL) on my ST-225. it formatted OK but mke2fs -c
/dev/sde under Linux found TONS of errors (not unexpected). Now I want
to find a REAL RLL drive. I know Hi-TECH cafe has some. I will pick up
a 50MB ST-250R drive for $15 in a week or two. BTW what is the
Biggest capacity RLL drive one can buy? lets see if you have 16 heads
32 sectors per track at 512 byte sectors with 2048 cylindars.
Thats based on the Limits of my ACB-4070 mode select. that
comes out to 536,870,912 bytes! I never saw a 520MB RLL drive before!
(but then this DOES make sense with the original 520MB limit of the
AT bios (its a legacy limit from RLL!)
Lets see what that is for a MFM drive
based on 17 sectors per track with 512 bytes per sector
comes out to 285,212,672 bytes!
>
>Even if the low-level format completes without an outrageously large
>number of errors, you generally find that disk errors begin to creep in
>as the disk is used on a day-to-day basis.
Right and I am finding that out during my testing. As I said I
have to aquire a RLL drive. Now that I know the board is fine. I only
used a MFM for testing as thats ALL I HAD! I don't recommend anyone do
this if you are going to be storing valuable data on it. Same with
that 1.44 hack you mentioned.
--
B'ichela
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.cpm,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Where can I buy bridgeboards?
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:10:28 -0000
On 2001-04-22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela) said:
>...BTW what is the Biggest capacity RLL drive one can buy?...
RLL drives are obsolete now, but the largest capacity RLL hard
disk listed by Seagate that I can find is the model ST1150R:
128.4 megs
1072 cylinders
9 heads
26 sectors per track
write precompensation on cylinder 300
There's also a later model ST4144R that's 122.7 megs.
Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive
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From: Bob Bucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat
Subject: es1371 - No Sound
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:29:28 -0500
I have been trying to get my SoundBlaster 128PCI running under redhat
linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2), actual printing on sound card says "AudioPCI
5200", works fine in Windows using SB 128PCI drivers. Actually, I had
tried getting this sound card working in previous versions of redhat
6.1, along with attempts at kernel upgrades, etc., finally gave up
hoping when 2.4 came out I'd have better luck. Well 2.4 is here and
still no luck. One last attempt at getting this thing working, if not,
I'll start looking for a replacment card (suggestions welcome).
Basically, the card seems to load fine (system recognizes it, es1371
module is loaded, no obvious errors, etc.), but no sound is created when
I play a CD or go into Gnome sound setup and test some sound events
(.wav files). Actually, the ESD Volume Meter display lights up like
music is playing. I've verified I do not have mute enabled, volume is
up in the mixer (xmixer, gmix), played musical slots with the various
cards, resetting of BIOS Interrupt assignments, etc. Anyway I am at a
lost, thought I would try posting some of my configuration and see if
anyone has any ideas The following is my config, thanks in advance for
any input you can give me. Bob Bucy
---- /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 377398 XT-PIC timer
1: 6070 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 624 XT-PIC es1371
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 41 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0
10: 14397 XT-PIC ide2
11: 3914 XT-PIC eth1
12: 126463 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
15: 80450 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
---- /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
(rev 3).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xfbffffff].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev
3).
Master Capable. Latency=128. Min Gnt=140.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 2).
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x14c0 [0x14cf].
Bus 0, device 7, function 2:
USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x1480 [0x149f].
Bus 0, device 7, function 3:
Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 2).
IRQ 9.
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20262 (rev
1).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x14e0 [0x14e7].
I/O at 0x14d4 [0x14d7].
I/O at 0x14d8 [0x14df].
I/O at 0x14d0 [0x14d3].
I/O at 0x1400 [0x143f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4000000 [0xf401ffff].
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
(rev 0).
IRQ 11.
I/O at 0x14a0 [0x14bf].
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 6).
IRQ 5.
Master Capable. Latency=96. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0x1440 [0x147f].
Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 32).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0x1000 [0x10ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4020000 [0xf40200ff].
Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TnT 128 [NV04]
(rev 4).
IRQ 11.
Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf5000000 [0xf5ffffff].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000 [0xfcffffff].
---- /proc/modules
es1371 25968 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 8800 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
soundcore 4464 4 (autoclean) [es1371]
sr_mod 15264 0 (autoclean)
autofs 11264 1 (autoclean)
ne2k-pci 5088 1 (autoclean)
8390 6816 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
tulip 38544 1 (autoclean)
ipchains 38976 0 (unused)
ide-scsi 8352 0
scsi_mod 95104 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd 26848 0
cdrom 27232 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
usb-uhci 20720 0 (unused)
usbcore 49664 1 [usb-uhci]
----dmesg
Linux version 2.4.2-2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.96
20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000001800 @ 000000000009e800 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000019000 @ 00000000000e7000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007efdc00 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000002000 @ 0000000007ffdc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000019000 @ 00000000fffe7000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 32765
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone DMA has max 32 cached pages.
zone(1): 28669 pages.
zone Normal has max 223 cached pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=2105
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 447.692 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 891.28 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126456k/131060k available (1365k kernel code, 4212k reserved,
92k data, 236k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
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
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd983, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 83896kB/27965kB, 256 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x14c8-0x14cf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
PDC20262: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 68
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0d.0
PDC20262: chipset revision 1
PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1400-0x1407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1408-0x140f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
hdc: TDK CDRW8432, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: WDC AC29100D, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0x14e0-0x14e7,0x14d6 on irq 10
hde: 17803440 sectors (9115 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=17662/16/63,
UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hde: [PTBL] [1108/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 < hde5 hde6 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 20:53:29 Apr 8 2001
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:10.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1480, IRQ 9
usb-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
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x781/0x200) is not claimed by any active
driver.
hdd: Disabling (U)DMA for CRD-8400B
hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TDK Model: CDRW8432 Rev: 1.05
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 8
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x4b
0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=3
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
ip_conntrack (1023 buckets, 8184 max)
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14 (February 20, 2001)
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x1000, 00:A0:CC:53:6A:9D, IRQ 9.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0e.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 01:00.0
eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x14a0, IRQ 11, 00:C0:F0:2B:84:92.
es1371: version v0.27 time 20:52:56 Apr 8 2001
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x06
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0f.0
es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0x1440 irq 5
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5903 (Cirrus Logic CS4297)
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
es1371: unloading
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
es1371: version v0.27 time 20:52:56 Apr 8 2001
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x06
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0f.0
es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0x1440 irq 5
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5903 (Cirrus Logic CS4297)
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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: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:59:23 GMT
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:07:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly
One) wrote:
>fammacd=!SPAM^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Macdonald) wrote:
>
>> >Music attained perfection about 270 years ago (give or take
>> >twenty years). HTH.HAND.
>>
>> WHAT?? How the hell could it predate even Beethoven...
>
>What do you mean, "even Beethoven"? Beethoven only
>wrote a few things. Whippersnapper. His complete
>works will fit on a set of half a dozen CDs. Which
>is better than a lot of modern music groups, but
>hardly impressive. And while some of it is pretty
>good, I wouldn't consider it better than the music
>of the previous century. (Although it's arguably
>*louder*.)
Yeah right - never mind the quality, feel the width... or Lenin's hoary old
"quantity has a quality all of its own".:-)
>> medieval pop music!:-)
>
>No, late baroque. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, et cetera.
>Since they died, the music industry has never been
>the same.
Like I said - medieval pop music... most of it rehashed from popular airs
and collected, to put it kindly, from peasant musicians when a "comission"
was in the works.
Rgds, George Macdonald
"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
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