Linux-Hardware Digest #694, Volume #14 Fri, 27 Apr 01 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW? (Jose Luis Marin)
Configuration of a D-Link DFE-570TX (Andreas Gutowski)
Setting PCI interrupts (D. C. Sessions)
Re: AMI MegaRAID 1600 + RH 7.1 not working ("Oliver Olsen")
Epson Color Stylus 777 ("Dave")
Fluctuating voltage. ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Cannot Install RH7.1 - Partition Table Corrupt ! (J-Pip)
Re: Stable sound card for SMP system ("Snowman")
Re: Epson Color Stylus 777 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Manual SCSI Drive spindown (Mike Walsh)
via 82c686a (Alessandro D'Angelo)
Where can I find ATI Rage Mobility drivers for Linux? ("Julien Petiot")
Re: Errors writing on CD-R with Kernel 4.2 and UDMA100 (Juergen Lindemeyer)
Re: Ultra160 ("Oliver Olsen")
Re: Partitioning problem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Manual SCSI Drive spindown (Karl-Heinz Herrmann)
Re: via 82c686a (Kenneth R�rvik)
Motherboard/CPU FAN controller (Thomas Rasmussen)
Re: Webcam (Georg Acher)
Re: Dual port NICs (Peter Holzleitner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jose Luis Marin)
Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW?
Date: 27 Apr 2001 06:39:21 GMT
In article <BNYF6.18167$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Young4ert wrote:
> 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?
I agree; it's just that I already got the Adaptec for a quite cheap price
second-hand. Another thing is I will not need to bother with the
ide-scsi emulation that cdparanoia and cd writing programs usually need.
And yet another is that my box is a lowly Pentium 133, and I'm not so sure
that my on-board IDE system would be up to this, as you suggest.
Thanks for the tips,
--
Jose
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From: Andreas Gutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuration of a D-Link DFE-570TX
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:18:07 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
how can I configure a D-Link DFE-570TX.
The normal configuration is not the problem.
I want to bundle 2 ports to a virtual device with one IP-address.
Where can I find a documentation about this?
with best regards
Andreas Gutowski
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From: D. C. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting PCI interrupts
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:48:04 -0700
Bound to happen, I suppose.
I have a new Athlon mobo (MSI K7T Turbo/R) and the BIOS is so
Windows-oriented that the non-PNP PCI setup is pretty crippled.
Basically, you *must* set up interrupts in the OS or live with the
conflicts. (You also need to disable the RAID controller in the OS
if you're not using it.)
So what alternatives do I have for setting up the PCI assignments
other than scrounging up a copy of LoseBlows and using it as a
configuration tool?
--
| 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: "Oliver Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID 1600 + RH 7.1 not working
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:50:00 +0200
"Roberto Migliorati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cacgp$r50$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> With RH 7.0, were you using the stock standard kernel?? Some manufacturers
> (Dell and others) include customised patches in their kernels to support
> their hardware (RAID controllers in particular). If this is your case then
> try and visit the server maker we-site and look for patches that will work
> with your setup.
My server is one of the server-packs you can buy from Intel (yes, case,
mobo, cpu's are from Intel) and yes, I used standard kernel as I am booting
from the cd.
The AMI-card is bought separately, and I naturally tried AMI for support.
However, their support is the worst I've ever experienced. Totally arrogant
with one-line answers and no useful info whatsoever.
I've tried several news-groups as well as Bugzilla. No solution here yet. I
know Dell use some of these controllers (guess they have "Dellified" the
firmware/BIOS) but they claim a working driver is included with RH 7.1.
Guess I'll have to stick with RH 7.0 and the 2.2 brach if no solution is
found shortly.
regards,
Oliver
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From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Color Stylus 777
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:07:51 -0700
If anyone owns this printer, I'd like to hear your opinion on it before I
buy one. They are only about $100 US now, or less. Linuxprinting.org
recommends it, but they also mention somewhere that most of the low-end
Styli series are no great for printing black text (???). They also mention
the fact that Epson printer heads are part of the printer as a disadvantage.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fluctuating voltage.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 04:17:59 +0600
Not a Linux-specific question, but maybe someone can help anyway.
I built a new system a few weeks ago, and tonight it started rebooting
spontaneously. After one such boot I brought up the BIOS "health"
screen, and saw that the voltages were flucuating pretty rapidly.
(Always before they have been very stable, i.e. no changes at all while
I was in that screen.)
I assume something burned out. Would the problem lie in the power
supply or the mother board? Any suggestions for troubleshooting?
Thanks,
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 19:20:53 +0800
From: J-Pip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot Install RH7.1 - Partition Table Corrupt !
Hello all,
Several attempts at installing RH7.1 failed because my partition
table is corrupt. I am trying to "repair" it to avoid blowing the whole
thing away. We've already tried out
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=512"
on my friend's computer, which had a similar problem, and saw that it
works fine, but I wanna save it as a very last resort in my case.
Could anybody please help me with this output from "FindPart",
there is a huge "imaginary" partition past the end of the disk that I
can't get rid of using fdisk from a linux rescue system.
I have "EditPart" also. Any links to sites that can help me better
understand the data presented are welcome.
-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
0 1 33 10000 4 2 10000 0 0 0 010303
1587
457 1 33 Second FAT not found.
638 1 33 6001 4 2001 6001 0 0 0 010302
1063
1465 0 34 Second FAT not found.
1531 1 33 13997 4 2 13997 0 0 0 010302
3151
2424 1 33 9580 16 52400 9580 0 0 0 010302 4226
Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*0B 63 10249407 5004 0 1 1 637 254 63 OK OK
0 2 0F 10249470 67906755 33157 638 0 1 4864*254 63 OK
638 1 0B 63 6152832 3004 638 1 1 1020 254 63 OK OK
638 2 05 6152895 32130 15 1021 0 1 1022 254 63 OK
1021 1 83 63 32067 15 1021 1 1 1022 254 63 OK OK
1021 2 05 6185025 273105 133 1023 0 1 1039*254 63 OK
1023 1 82 63 273042 133 1023 1 1 1039*254 63 OK
1023 2 05 6458130 7887915 3851 1040* 0 1 1530*254 63 OK
1040 1 83 63 7887852 3851 1040* 1 1 1530*254 63 OK OK
1040 2 05 14346045 14346045 7004 1531* 0 1 2423*254 63 OK
1531 1 0B 63 14345982 7004 1531* 1 1 2423*254 63 R0 OK
1531 2 05 28692090 39214665 19147 2424* 0 1 4864*254 63 OK
2424 1 0B 63 39214602 19147 2424* 1 1 4864*254 63 OK OK
2424 2 05 67906755 --- --- 4865* 0 1 1023 254 63 NB
Error reading sector 78156225.
Thanks,
J-Philippe.
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From: "Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stable sound card for SMP system
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:42:49 GMT
sb live value works fine in my dual 400
"Jason Gillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:TZ5G6.23535$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Epson Color Stylus 777
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 2001 07:52:19 -0400
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:07:51 -0700, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If anyone owns this printer, I'd like to hear your opinion on it before
>I buy one. They are only about $100 US now, or less.
>Linuxprinting.org recommends it, but they also mention somewhere that
>most of the low-end Styli series are no great for printing black text
>(???). They also mention the fact that Epson printer heads are part of
>the printer as a disadvantage. Any advice would be appreciated.
Well, I have one. It works. I really hate to reccommend anything since I
don't know your expectations. I'll say for the money I am pretty
impressed. My last printer (B/W) was several times as much ;)
I had a bit of hassle setting this up last winter. It probably is better
supported now though. I am fairly happy with text and filtered
postscript output (eg Wordperfect). The color works, but still seems
weak to me. The colors are not great, but possibly I should spend more
time tweaking it, dunno. Also, it is fairly noisy when it prints.
All in all, for the money, I am happy with it.
--
Hal B
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From: Mike Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Manual SCSI Drive spindown
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:27:21 -0400
Most IDE controllers will automatically spin down a hard drive. You may
have to give it a dos command after each boot to configure the timer.
Ron Reaugh wrote:
>
> Dan Smith wrote in message ...
> >How can I, in linux, manually make a scsi drive spindown and/or power
> >off? I know IDE drives do this after a certain amount of time.
>
> Not on their own they don't.
--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
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From: Alessandro D'Angelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: via 82c686a
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:39:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I red there is problem with this south bridge and linux ata66 patch, for
kernel 2.2.x, is it true?
And if is true, there are solutions?
--
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Alessandro D'Angelo
Ermes Telematica & Comunicazioni Flashnet S.p.A. Telecomunicazioni
Staff Tecnico Ermes Sede di Avezzano
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http://www.ermes.it http://www.flashnet.it
Tel:+39 863 412674 EUnet Business Partner
Fax:+39 863 412078 AIIP and ANFOV associated
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From: "Julien Petiot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where can I find ATI Rage Mobility drivers for Linux?
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:46:09 +0200
Furthermore, what is the procedure to install them?
Thanks,
Julien
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From: Juergen Lindemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Errors writing on CD-R with Kernel 4.2 and UDMA100
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:53:05 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
as I tested yesterday, I get those errors allways when copying from or
to an SCSI-drive (I tested it with my good IBM DCAS SCSI drives).
/juergen
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From: "Oliver Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra160
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:28:34 +0200
"Piet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:dA2G6.26205$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> >> I keep hearing that hard disks are the slowest components of a
computer.
> >> About two years back, I read a very small article in a magazine about
> >> Ultra160. I believe they called it SCSI2 or something like that, it
was
> >> supposed to double as fast as a SCSI interface.
> >> The article also claimed Ultra160 was compatible with Linux.
> >> I'm wanting to hook myself up with a new desktop. Considering I have
an
> >> IDE interface now, if I can believe this article Ultra160 would be a
> >> major performance boost.
> >> Can anyone confirm this? Is there anyone here who has Ultra160 running
> >> under Linux, and wouldn't mind sharing his experiences with me?
> >
> > Yes, you can find U160 SCSI controllers that work under Linux.
However,
> > it only provides a theoretical bus throughput of 160 megabytes/second.
> > Realisitcally, you'll still be limitted to the speed of the drive in a
> > single-drive situation, or the speed of the drives in a RAID array.
Even
> > using ultra-wide SCSI 2, offering 80 MB/second, you've still got more
than
> > enough bandwidth for a single drive.
> >
> > steve
>
> I quite don't understand. I don't know much about hardware, but if the
> ultra-wide SCSI 2 you mention provides (more than) enough bandwith, why is
> there even a thing like U160 at all?
Read the end of the sentence - "for a single drive". If you have several
drives they all have to share the bandwidth. If I remember correctly, 15 is
the max number of devices connected to one SCSI-chain sharing the 160mb/s.
With only one drive, 80mb/s will probably be more than enough, but
connecting 3-4 Cheetas spinning at 15k rpm I'd opt for the U160.
> Surely I don't believe the websites promising me heaven on earth, but U160
> can be assumed to provide some advantages over older hardware?
Given the assumption of having more than one drive connected to this
controller - yes. Note, however, that 15k rpm drives tend to be slightly
noisy and not necessarily recommended for desktops. The also produce some
heat, which not all machines are too crazy about...
regards,
Oliver Olsen
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning problem
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:09:32 GMT
Jonadab the Unsightly One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> and then it prints the following and then dies:
>>
>> ****
>> Checking boot sector ...
>> Error: Invalid jump instruction in boot sector: 00 00 00
>>
>> The first three bytes of the boot sector must be a 3-byte jump (E9 xx xx)
>> or a 2-byte jump (EB xx 90). Perhaps the partition is not yet formatted.
>> FIPS can only split DOS-formatted partitions.
>> ****
> Hmmm. This is over my head, particularly since I don't know
> jack diddley about FIPS (what's that?). I always do all my
fips splits dos fat partitions into two, moving files to fit.
The message above clearly shows that he's trying to use it on something
else (or nothing!). The solution is "don't do that then".
Peter
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Manual SCSI Drive spindown
Date: 27 Apr 2001 16:09:21 +0200
Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I, in linux, manually make a scsi drive spindown and/or power
> off? I know IDE drives do this after a certain amount of time.
>
> If I'm going to hot-swap a drive, can't I make it spindown?
If it will help for hotswap I don't know -- but scsistop.c is a little
Program which will do exactly what you asked for. Spin down/up a scsi
drive. No autospin up, last time I used it, it at least checked if
anything was mounted off that drive.
seems to be on sunsite, one link google had almost at the top:
http://ftp.cdit.edu.cn/pub/linux/sunsite.unc.edu-system/hardware/?N=D
K.-H.
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Karl-Heinz Herrmann
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: via 82c686a
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:20:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alessandro D'Angelo) wrote in <9cbpa9$lm4$1
@news.flashnet.it>:
>I red there is problem with this south bridge and linux ata66 patch, for
>kernel 2.2.x, is it true?
>And if is true, there are solutions?
I know there have been problems with the recent 2.4.x kernels, and that
there are fixes in 2.4.2 and up. Don't know about the 2.2.x patches, but I
find it likely that there are some problems. I'd recommend upgrading to a
2.4.3 kernel, or 2.4.4, which should be out soon.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Thomas Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Motherboard/CPU FAN controller
Date: 27 Apr 2001 16:42:36 +0200
Hi...
I've been messing around with ajusting the voltage for my processor
fan, and I have been running with 5V on a big 12V fan, however it
seems that my processor gets a bit too hot, so I want to be able to
control it, and ajust it according to the temperature.
The question is if there are any people who has been trying the
same. My motherboard is a Epox MVP3G2 (VIA MVP, vt82c598 chip).
I have installed lm_sensors and have it monitoring my hardware. It is
currently sending an email if/when there is a warning, however I would
like to be able to control the voltage on the CPU FAN connector on the
motherboard. As standard it gives 12 V, but I would like to ajust it
to ie. 6-7 V, and then via lm_sensors set it to 12V if the temperature
gets too high. I have been searching google, and can't seem to find
any information on how to do it, neither anybody who has tried it.
I think that it is possible to ajust the voltage, because I think I
have seen a windows utility that does this, but can't find the source
code or information on how it should be working.
Thanks
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Acher)
Subject: Re: Webcam
Date: 27 Apr 2001 14:55:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> How do I use my webcam?
|>
|> I found a driver for my logitech quickcam express usb, and it seems to
|> detect the camera fine, I've also compiled my kernel with Video4Linux,
|> and created the /dev/video[n] devices using MAKEDEV.
|> But then what?
|> I downloaded and compiled xawtv, but the "webcam" program therein says:
|>
|> v4l: oops: got sigalarm
|> ioctl: VIDIOCSYNC(0): Interrupted system call
|> can't set capture format
|>
|> What simple thing/kernel option/program did I miss?
Try usb-uhci instead of uhci
--
Georg Acher, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.in.tum.de/~acher/
"Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias
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From: Peter Holzleitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual port NICs
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:57:50 +0200
Mike McDade wrote:
> these NICs have two 100baseT ports each...
> there're expensive but would get a lot of ports into
> an old box that has only the 4 useable PCI slots...
>
> anyone tried one of these boards? what's it like
> getting drivers going for something like this
> in my 2.4.2-2 Linux boxes?
no sweat ... they have a PCI-to-PCI bridge and two NICs on board.
'modprobe eepro' will find both.
Check out D-Link DFE-570TX or similar, that's a 4-port DEC21143 (Tulip)
based card, works same way (& like a charm).
--Peter
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