Linux-Hardware Digest #693, Volume #14 Fri, 27 Apr 01 02:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: oldest terminal you have used (Nader)
Re: Removable IDE hard drive tray and rack ("R. A. Fiol")
Re: general noise (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Stable sound card for SMP system (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: es1371 - No Sound ("Christaki")
Re: find out phone number from modem (Drew Roedersheimer)
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oldest terminal you have used
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:11:31 -0700
Papyrus BC1000 (made famous by the Egyptians) when my modem driver was flakey
Paul Repacholi wrote:
> "Paul Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Just out of interest, what is the oldest terminal anybody here has used with
> > Linux? I have an old ICL 6402/00 that I plan to try. I've checked, and
> > it's supported. Rather good going, as the terminal is from about 1983!
>
> Tek 4006/10/14.
>
> --
> Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
> +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
> West Australia 6076
> Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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From: "R. A. Fiol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: Removable IDE hard drive tray and rack
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 05:32:39 GMT
Living in an area prone to huricanes (and their evacuations), I find it
convenient to have the removable racks for my four harddrives on two
systems. If I have to "bug out", I don't have to waste time ensuring that I
have a thorough backup or go through the effort of removing a typical drive
install. I just unlock them and run.
I have three Kingwin KF22 removable racks on one system and one Lian-Li MR27
on the other. The Kingwins are made of aluminium (rack and removeable
enclosure) and have two 40mm fans each (one in the rack and one in the
enclosure - which will support a second). They support ATA 100 / 7200 RPM
drives and provide the maximum cooling. They are not hot swappable but ,
like youself, that was not my criteria.
I purchased them through ebay.com for $24.00 each (which is a bargin for
aluminum racks). The vendor is easy to deal with on shipping and didn't hit
me up for three times the shipping cost for the three racks. After
contacting the manufacturer of the racks, I discovered that the vendor was
the sole distributor of the racks. Presently, he has six up for bid on ebay
with no bids received at time of posting. The racks can be seen at the
following link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1232934904
He seems to regularly have them on ebay, so if you miss the bid on any of
them, keep an eye out. I originally bid on three, but only won on two. I
contacted the vendor and he agreed to sell me a third at the same price
without making me bid and he shipped them all together (very professional).
Hope this helps,
R.A.F.
> I am thinking of buying removable hard disk trays and racks
> for IDE drives.
>
> It seems the best connection between the rack and the tray
> is probably made by centronix socket.
> So I am looking for sets with centronix supporting UDMA33/66/100.
> (UDMA 66/100 may be dropped.)
> I do not need hot-swap capability.
>
> If you know good reliable ones, please let me know
> the names of the products and where they are available.
>
> If your have used removable hard disk trays,
> I would appreciate for your opinion/recommendation/unrecommendation
> of using such mechanism.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ---------
> Ed
>
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Subject: Re: general noise
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 27 Apr 2001 01:42:36 -0400
Piet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a small other question. I currently have a p-III @ 550Mhz,
> and this thing is really _incredibly_ noisy :( I have to shut it
> down when I go to bed, where I would rather just leave it on all the
> time. Do recent machines still have this major disadvantage?
I have dual P3-450s in a rackmount case with 3 fans (counting P/S).
In addition to dual PPro-200s in a regular case with 2 fans (ditto).
They don't bother me in the slightest.
Actually, believe it or not, I have trouble sleeping if they're off.
It's like the everpresent hum on the Enterprise: you don't notice it
after a while, except when it's gone.
I'd suggest, like everyone else is, that you look for quieter fans,
but I don't think it's worth the hassle. Spend a couple of sleepless
nights with your computer and you'll get used to it fast enough.
--
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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Subject: Re: Stable sound card for SMP system
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 27 Apr 2001 01:44:54 -0400
"Jason Gillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking for a _stable_ sound card for use in an SMP system (dual
> PIIIs). This system will have a heavy playback load, so stability is a
> must.
Haven't had any problems with sound cards on SMP boxes. Experience is
the onboard chip on an Intel Providence (440FX, an ES-something) and a
Diamond Monster Sound something-or-other (Aureal Vortex 2 - the sucky
drivers I could get worked fine, except for poor quality).
If it hadn't required opening the box and changing the jumper, I
would've skipped the Vortex and used the onboard sound on my 440GX,
but...
--
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: "Christaki" <*****@blueyonder.co.uk>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: es1371 - No Sound
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 05:56:10 GMT
I had problem getting to work and eventually hit the jackpot when I turned
off Plug & Play O/S in the BIOS (I should have read the paper work LOL)
"Bob Bucy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: find out phone number from modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 06:06:33 GMT
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:34:32 +0200, Beifu Wu wrote:
>
>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
I'm assuming that you know that your modem is Caller ID compatible.
I have a US Robotics (not really sure about the model number), which
works great for this. I use a console based app called cid - you can
find it at:
http://linux.wku.edu/~sporadic/download.html
HTH
-DR
--
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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