Linux-Hardware Digest #690, Volume #14 Thu, 26 Apr 01 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
AHA1520 SCSI Adapter ("Brian Mitchell")
Need Help with PCMCIA (Dave Rahbany)
Re: pctv miro ("Mark")
Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW? (Jose Luis Marin)
display problem (khalid)
Re: NICs for multi-multihomed hosts (D. C. Sessions)
Re: 3c905-tx-m and linux red hat 6.2 problems (collisions and no 100 full duplex)
("Matthew Darcy")
Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW? (Barry Keeney)
Re: AHA1520 SCSI Adapter (Alex Yung)
find out phone number from modem (Beifu Wu)
Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL Modem probs ("Sam")
Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW? (Young4ert)
Sane & mustec 1200 usb plus ("mEgA")
CD-RW using ide-scsi on kernel 2.4 (Adam Miezianko)
Re: Best RAID controller for Linux ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Best RAID controller for Linux (Hubba Bubba)
Re: Promise FastTrak100, which distribution supports it? (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
Re: AHA1520 SCSI Adapter (wally)
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From: "Brian Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AHA1520 SCSI Adapter
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:05:55 +0930
I have fitted an old 1520 SCSI adapter and I have forgotten the
arguements to pass to the module. Could not find it the docs. Had this
adapter working previously. I think it is something like 0x340,11,1
Thanks
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From: Dave Rahbany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Need Help with PCMCIA
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:50:44 GMT
Hello gurus,
I am trying to use the PCD-RP-202E PCI-CardBus reader to support two
network interface cards on a Linux (kernel 2.2.19) PC using the
PCMCIA-CS package v3.1.25. This card reader is Intel 82365SL
compatible, and uses the Ricoh RL5C476 PCI-CardBus bridge.
When the CS services load, they complain that there is "No CPI
Interrrupt routing table!". If I have and Ethernet PCMCIA card inserted
(I have tried a variety including 16 and 32 bit versions, 10Mbs and
100Mbs) the drivers appear to load, and the interface initializes, but
within about 5 seconds, the PC reboots.
The only card that works in this system is a Webgear Aviator 2.4
wireless LAN card.
I have tried a variety of PCIC-OPTS settings such as:
pci_int=0
pci_int=1
irq_mode=0 pci_irq_list=5,5
irq_mode=0 pci_irq_list=10,10
irq_mode=1 pci_irq_list=5,5
irq_mode=1 pci_irq_list=10,10
None of which have worked. I am a bit of a newbie at this stuff. Any
help/advise is greatly appreciated.
Below is relevant output from the dmesg command... The reboot happens
just after eth2 initialization (note the media description - 10Base2 -
is not correct:
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.25
kernel build: 2.2.19 #3 Sun Mar 11 17:04:28 MST 2001
options: [pci] [cardbus]
No PCI interrupt routing table!
Intel PCIC probe:
Ricoh RL5C476 rev 80 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:09, mem 0x68000000
host opts [0]: [isa irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [no pci irq] [lat
168/176] [bus 32/34]
host opts [1]: [isa irq] [io 3/6/1] [mem 3/6/1] [no pci irq] [lat
168/176] [bus 35/37]
ISA irqs (default) = 3,5,7,9,10,12,14,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
ray_cs.c,v 1.23 2001/02/28 03:41:13 root Exp - Corey Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ray_cs Detected: WebGear PC Card WLAN Adapter Version 4.88 Jan 1999
eth1: RayLink, irq 3, hw_addr 00:00:8F:48:14:46
xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x1f0-0x1f7
0x370-0x37f 0x3f0-0x3ff 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0178-0x01ef: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x01f8-0x036f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0380-0x03ef: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0400-0x04cf: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x04d8-0x04ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: excluding 0xaf8-0xaff
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
eth2: Xircom: port 0x300, irq 5, hwaddr 00:80:C7:FC:31:D9
eth2: media 10Base2, silicon revision 1
Thanks,
Dave Rahbany
--
Dave Rahbany
Information Technology Analyst
The Hain Celestial Group
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
303-581-1267
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pctv miro
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:32:12 -0600
You'll need the bttv/Video 4 Linux packages for this. I've got the Pinnacle
version of this card and it works great, at least with cable-tv it does.
What version of Deadrat are you running? Make sure you read the Docs/HowTo
thoroughly. What I did was compile a 2.4 kernel with Video 4 Linux support
as a module and I enabled the bttv module. After this it was just a matter
of adding the relevant lines to /etc/modules.conf or conf.modules and away
you go! You can also use a script file if you don't want to hassle with
modules.conf. If you want to go this route drop a line and I'll send you one
that I was using.
"H Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:82jF6.39187$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone tell me how to configure a miro pctv rave card in redhat?
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jose Luis Marin)
Subject: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW?
Date: 26 Apr 2001 15:00:58 GMT
Hi,
I'm looking for a reasonably priced CD-RW unit to run under
Linux, with a scsi Adaptec 2940 UWPro. But I'd like it to
be good at ripping cd audio too. Are Yamaha or Plextor the
only sure bets?
TIA,
--
Jose
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From: khalid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: display problem
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:30:08 -0000
Hi
I have p111 800MHz with s3 savage4 vga card 32MB and phillips 15" monitor
(model no 105E) 54KHz horizontal scanning,flicker free displays of
800x600at up to 87 Hz.well i am manage to install linux 7.0 from cd but
when it goes to x window(GUI)when i scroll down or up the screen ise that
pixel starts breaking up so that i can read any thing after some time
because alphabet overlap each other.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: D. C. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NICs for multi-multihomed hosts
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 06:44:00 -0700
Jeff McWilliams wrote:
> In article <4AwE6.13418$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Vik Heyndrickx wrote:
>
> Yes, check out the DLink DFE-570TX
> at http://www.dlink.com/products/Business/Enterprise/
>
> It's a 4-port card using Originally DEC 21141 "Tulip" chips.
> I have one in a standard Dell Dimension P133 system that now serves as
> a multiport router. Linux 2.4.x (Using a Debian distribution here)
> sees the card as four separate ethernet adapters with 4 separate IRQ's.
> No special configuration was done to get it to work.
Those four IRQs are going to be a problem. The PCI bus only _has_ four
IRQ lines, so something has to be shared somewhere. I seem to recall that
interrupt sharing among similar devices has been possible for some time,
so if four (or eight) identical LAN interfaces don't count I don't know what would.
>>As long as I can treat the four LAN Interfaces completely separately as e.g.
>>eth0 up to eth3, I would be very happy. Anyone, any experience with this?
>>Could this work that way?
>>
>>> 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 :-)
>>
>>Why not? I've been running 2.4 kernels since a couple of months on an actual
>>Intel 80386-16. But, no, in this case it would go in a state-of-the-art new
>>machine.
--
| I'm old enough that I don't have to pretend to be grown up.|
+----------- D. C. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------+
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From: "Matthew Darcy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3c905-tx-m and linux red hat 6.2 problems (collisions and no 100 full
duplex)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:02:43 +0100
I am trying to get the 905c to work is this the same as your card ?
"A.C. 'Static' Stadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_qsF6.39356$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> cande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9c3a3h$m4h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a workstation with red hat 6.2 and 3c905-tx-m ethernet card
(3C59x
> > driver) connected to a switch.
> > Both of them are capable of using autonegotiation, but however It
doesn't
> > work fine.
> >
> > I can't get 100 Mps full duplex and besides there are too many
> collisions.
> > What can i do to solve the problem?
> >
> > Update linux kernel, update driver, modify driver kernel ...
>
> This is way outside my field of expertiese. The last time I checked, the
> only time you can enable full duplex is if everything in your network and
> support full duplex. I had an older 3C509 card, and a vortex card (can't
> remember the card number), in both cases, the number of collisions/errors
> almost disappeared when I disables full duplex mode, and the throughput
> almost doubled, don't know why, but it worked for me.
>
>
>
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From: Barry Keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW?
Date: 26 Apr 2001 16:06:20 GMT
Jose Luis Marin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm looking for a reasonably priced CD-RW unit to run under
: Linux, with a scsi Adaptec 2940 UWPro. But I'd like it to
: be good at ripping cd audio too. Are Yamaha or Plextor the
: only sure bets?
I've used several of the Yamaha's for burning (4x, 6x, and 8x),
they all work great. I have an older adaptec 2940 for my scsi
disks so I used a adaptec fast narrow for the cd burner and 1 gig
jaz drives. works better this way the fast/wide doesn't have to
slow down for either the jaz of the CDRW. it was very noticable
when I tested them on the 2940.
but I prefer to use another drive for ripping. I'd rather not
waste my CDRW drive on something an el-cheapO ide cdr can do.
And when you think about it, after you're done rip'n you're most
likely going to burn all those MP3's on to a CD as a backup...
--
Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rap is Square Dancing gone terribly, terribly Wrong...."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: AHA1520 SCSI Adapter
Date: 26 Apr 2001 16:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try aha152x=0x340,11,1
Brian Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have fitted an old 1520 SCSI adapter and I have forgotten the
: arguements to pass to the module. Could not find it the docs. Had this
: adapter working previously. I think it is something like 0x340,11,1
: Thanks
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:34:32 +0200
From: Beifu Wu <"r u o w u "@gmx.net>
Subject: find out phone number from modem
Hi,
I want to find out the phone number of an incoming call when my modem
rings.
For example by using minicom, if a call is coming in, "RING" will be
displayed but no
phone number. I studied the Modem HOWTO, but I have not found anything
helpful.
Does somebody have an idea?
Thanks
wu
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From: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL Modem probs
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:00:22 GMT
Hi,
I recently got ADSL installed and BT supplied the alcatel speedtouch USB
modem - after applying all the patches and config changes as described by
alcatel's website and failing miserably I found the following HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdude.co.uk/docs/Alcatel-Speedtouch-USB-mini-HOWTO.html
With this it was a sinch to setup, and I had it working in no time. Just one
problem tho - has anyone else found that the link will die at random? It can
be anywhere between a few minutes to several days defore it dies but the
only way to bring it up again is to kill pppd, kill mgmt, umount none unplug
the modem then rmmod speedtch and then follow the final installation
procedure again (modprobe speetch, mount none /proc/bus/usb, /usr/sbin/mgmt,
plug in modem....blah blah....). Obviously this is a bit annoying
particularly as there appears to be no warning or error messages displayed
in the logs when it fails and the modem led's seem fine.
I can always reliably kill the link tho by running unreal tournament from a
windows pc (I have ip tables and ip routing and iptables_nat running on the
linux box) with the utwf mod, connect to a server that is using a map that I
do not have, the map download starts and within a couple of seconds the adsl
link will die and I loose all connectivity to the internet. Yet I can
normally play Ut fine - its the map download specifically that kills the
link - very strange.
If anyone has any ideas on why this happens, has found a way of automating
the link-restart procedure or has a more up-to-date set of drivers than
those in the HOWTO or alcatel site then I would love to hear from you!
Cheers,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:20:33 GMT
Jose Luis Marin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a reasonably priced CD-RW unit to run under
> Linux, with a scsi Adaptec 2940 UWPro. But I'd like it to
> be good at ripping cd audio too. Are Yamaha or Plextor the
> only sure bets?
>
> TIA,
>
I got my IOmega 12x10x32 (ZIPCD3840INT-A, an ICD CD-RW). It works
flawlessly on my Linux box. I could be rip'n and also writing on any
CDR/W media while compiling a Linux kernel with no problem. The reason is
that the IOmega 12x10x32, not only a Plextor CDRW drive, is also a CD Burnt
Proof CDRW with a 20x Digital Audio Extraction (DAE). I could rip a full
CD in ~ 3 minutes and burn the whole audio CD in ~7 minutes (80 minutes CD).
Having said that regardless what type of the CDRW you have, ATAPI or SCSI,
you want to be sure that the CDRW you are buying has a burnt proof feature
to ensure that the written CDR/W is fully written with the designated data
(not blank ones due to buffer insufficient data). With a CD speed for 1x
@150KBps and if you are burning @ 12x, you are going to need only a 12 x
150KBps = 1.8 MBps data throughput. These days, an EIDE bus can surely
give you much more than 2MBps sustain data throughput. So, why spend more
money on SCSI for something you will not need while an ATAPI CDR/W, costs
less than a SCSI CDR/W, yet is capable to deliver what you will need?
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From: "mEgA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sane & mustec 1200 usb plus
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:43:53 +0200
please .....how to run it
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From: Adam Miezianko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW using ide-scsi on kernel 2.4
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:08:56 -0400
I have a HI-VAL 2242 CD-RW, and was using it for a while on RH 7.0 with
the 2.2 kernel. Just yesterday, I upgraded to RH 7.1 and found a lot of
odd errors in dmesg, stuff like:
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdd: drive not ready for command
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 2,
lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
The drive light comes on and off while these messages are generated, and
when I do a 'insmod ide-scsi' (after having the sg and scsi_mod modules
loaded) it takes about 30-45 seconds (all the while trying to talk to
that drive), the loads the module just fine in the end. But the only
devices it finds are my other two cd drives (both cd-roms). A cdrecord
-scanbus gives:
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-ROM 44X ' 'T4W8' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-M1212' '1L10' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
So clearly it's not liking that drive one bit. So, my question is, what
is the issue here? I thought about the drive being bad, but it worked
hours before my upgrade to RH7.1. Is it an ide-scsi problem, or
something else? Is this a configuration issue, or a bug of some sort?
Thanks in advance. Please reply via email, I will summarize to the group.
Adam
adam at daslab dot com
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid
Subject: Re: Best RAID controller for Linux
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:02:55 -0600
> Very nice configuration, and I absolutely agree with your conclusions.
> I looked at such configurations, and ran into one problem. We're a
research
> group chock full of workstations. As such, we really don't have any
server
> hardware, and thus no boxen with 64bit PCI slots. Anything above the
> cheapest entry-level SCSI RAID cards requires 64bit PCI slots, and would
> have required us to buy a server-class system.
Au contrair, mon freir. : )
64-bit PCI cards will work in 32-bit slots. I've used both 64-bit RAID
and gigabit ethernet controllers in 32-bit slots when I needed to, they work
great. I'm not 100% positive, but I'm fairly sure that it's part of the
spec that 64-bit cards must also work in 32-bit mode.
steve
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From: Hubba Bubba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid
Subject: Re: Best RAID controller for Linux
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:38:49 GMT
This is correct. In fact, you could save even more money by
getting an Adaptec 2100S, put up 128 megs on it, and buy a 68-68
connector to daisychain the cabinets together onto one channel.
The Adaptec 3200S goes for ~$500 on the net used, and would
keep you in the RN processor instead of going to the RS based 2100S.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:02:55 -0600, "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Very nice configuration, and I absolutely agree with your conclusions.
>> I looked at such configurations, and ran into one problem. We're a
>research
>> group chock full of workstations. As such, we really don't have any
>server
>> hardware, and thus no boxen with 64bit PCI slots. Anything above the
>> cheapest entry-level SCSI RAID cards requires 64bit PCI slots, and would
>> have required us to buy a server-class system.
>
> Au contrair, mon freir. : )
>
> 64-bit PCI cards will work in 32-bit slots. I've used both 64-bit RAID
>and gigabit ethernet controllers in 32-bit slots when I needed to, they work
>great. I'm not 100% positive, but I'm fairly sure that it's part of the
>spec that 64-bit cards must also work in 32-bit mode.
>
>steve
>
>
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Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak100, which distribution supports it?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:54:23 GMT
>>>>> "iQXth" == iQXth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I don't really know about these distributions. However, Promise has a
closed source driver that will send you if you e-mail tech support.
When you e-mail promise will only send binary drivers.
The source + binary library is on their ftp site.
ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/FastTrak100/Linux/LinuxBETA/
Note this code will only work with kernel series 2.2.x. The complete
directions for installation in at the above site also.
Just for the record the promise raid controller is a software based
raid solution similiar to winmodems. I used Linux software raid that
comes with 2.4.x kernels (source is available for older kernels), and
it is faster with lower cpu utilization. I used bonnie to test the
drives with both setups. Therefore you may want to look at open source
linux solution than a closed source promise solution. The linux
software raid is very flexiable and is easier to use than promise
software raid solution. I have read that promise raid 1 is not a real
mirror that is difficult to recover from. However, I did not test this
because I'm using raid 0 for audio processing. This works well.
Good luck.
iQXth> I have a Promise FastTrak100 IDE RAID controller. Red Hat 7.1
iQXth> does not support it. Neither does Mandrake 8.0.
iQXth> How can I get it to work with these distributions? Which Linux
iQXth> distribution supports this controller card?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (wally)
Subject: Re: AHA1520 SCSI Adapter
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:50:20 GMT
In article <9c9irc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Try aha152x=0x340,11,1
>
>Brian Mitchell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: I have fitted an old 1520 SCSI adapter and I have forgotten the
>: arguements to pass to the module. Could not find it the docs. Had this
>: adapter working previously. I think it is something like 0x340,11,1
>
>: Thanks
I never could get my aha152x to work as a module. Had to compile into the
kernel and pass the appropiate append="aha152x=0x340,11" or whatever via lilo
at boot time.
--wally.
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