Linux-Hardware Digest #770, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 18:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Adaptec 2930CU, RH6.2 and BRU backup questions (William N Moore)
Re: Intel Fayettville motherboard (David Miller)
lm_sensors giving very little information (Ian Pilcher)
Re: RH7.1 kernel fails on dual Asus motherboard ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: LinkSys NIC (Thomas Corriher)
Re: that PCMCIA question (Linksys PCMPC100 V2/Dell Inspiron 4000) (Edward Ned Harvey)
Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with ATA100 disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Keyboard acting up in X (Scott Weber)
CD-Rom drive slow ("Winston Smith")
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Subject: Adaptec 2930CU, RH6.2 and BRU backup questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William N Moore)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:12:24 GMT
Hi,
We have RH6.2 installed on a DELL Poweredge 2300. We have an Adaptec
2930CU SCSI card installed into this machine which runs the Seagate Travan
tape drive. BRU is used for our backups. For some reason, the backups
keep working, then not working, they work for about a day or two then quit
working out of the blue. If you try to issue a tapestat or tapeinfo, it
won't even be able to communicate with the tape drive. Once a reboot is
forced though, we will be able to issue tapestat and tapeinfo commands even
though the backup may or may not work for that night. It is very
inconsistant which is the hardest part about solving the problem. ANYways,
we decided to post to see if anyone was running close to the same
configuration and was/was not having this same problem. Any information
you can provide to me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick Moore
Literati Information Technology
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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Fayettville motherboard
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:16:18 -0400
check out lhd.zdnet.com under motherboards.
-DM
Jorgen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am about to buy the Intel Fayetteville motherboard for use with the Suse
> 7.1 -have any of you tried this combination?
> -if yes, what are your experiences? -I'm thinking in terms of graphics, nic
> and sound system compatibility issues, if any. I plan on using this
> motherboards capabilities, and don't want to buy additional hardware for
> graphics/network/sound capabilities.
>
> There's going to be an X-server, ftp+http server running on it -any problems
> with that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jørgen
------------------------------
From: Ian Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lm_sensors giving very little information
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:43:03 GMT
I'm trying to get lm_sensors set up on my desktop system:
* Tyan S1854 "Trinity 400" w/ VIA Apollo Pro 133A
* Matrox Millenium G200
* 128MB PC100 SDRAM
* 1GHz Pentium III
* Red Hat Linux 7.1
I've run sensors-detect, and it successfully installed a bunch of
modules:
eeprom 3216 0 (unused)
sensors 6480 0 [eeprom]
i2c-matroxfb 3952 0 (unused)
i2c-algo-bit 7328 0 [i2c-matroxfb]
matroxfb_base 18768 0 [i2c-matroxfb]
matroxfb_Ti3026 5904 0 [matroxfb_base]
matroxfb_DAC1064 7392 0 [matroxfb_base]
matroxfb_accel 8832 0 [matroxfb_base matroxfb_Ti3026
matroxfb_DAC1064]
matroxfb_misc 5520 0 [i2c-matroxfb matroxfb_base
matroxfb_Ti3026
matroxfb_DAC1064 matroxfb_accel]
i2c-viapro 4432 0 (unused)
i2c-core 13408 0 [eeprom sensors i2c-algo-bit
i2c-viapro]
parport_pc 17968 1 (autoclean)
lp 5168 0 (autoclean)
parport 25952 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
ne2k-pci 5088 1 (autoclean)
8390 6816 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
ipchains 38976 0 (unused)
nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9392 1 (autoclean)
fat 32672 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
raid1 13088 1 (autoclean)
sb 7856 0
sb_lib 36016 0 [sb]
uart401 6768 0 [sb_lib]
sound 62688 0 [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 4464 5 [sb_lib sound]
usb-uhci 20720 0 (unused)
usbcore 49664 1 [usb-uhci]
I've also added the suggested line, 'alias char-major-89 i2c-dev' to
/etc/modules.conf. I have the following files:
crw------- 1 root root 89, 0 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c0
crw------- 1 root root 89, 0 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c-0
crw------- 1 root root 89, 1 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c1
crw------- 1 root root 89, 1 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c-1
Despite all this, the 'sensors' command prints very little information:
eeprom-i2c-0-50
Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000
Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
Memory type: SDRAM DIMM SPD
SDRAM Size (MB): 128
I've also tried 'gkrellm', and also reports essentially no information.
Anyone know what I could be doing wrong? Thanks!
--
========================================================================
Ian Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
========================================================================
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.1 kernel fails on dual Asus motherboard
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:09:33 -0600
> I am trying to install RedHat 7.1 (comes with kernel 2.4.2) into this
> box, Dual Pentium III 933 Coppermines on a Asus CUV4X-DLS motherboard.
> The RH installation runs well, but when it comes time to boot, the
> following error messages come up,
Set your MPS level to 1.1 in the BIOS, not 1.4. It will then work with
APIC enabled. As far as I know, the only benefit of 1.4 is if you're
using PCI-to-PCI bridges.
steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Corriher)
Subject: Re: LinkSys NIC
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], abuse@[127.0.0.1]
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:46:30 GMT
On Wed, 9 May 2001 13:30:51 -0500, Justin Mahn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I'm having a prob with the 10Mb uplink card. It works just
>fine until I leave it for a while and when I come back the card
>is 'Inactive'. What logs should I look at to find out why it
>just stops working? I can 'Activate' it just fine, but the wifey
>doesn't appreciate having to mess with the server comp while I'm
>away.
Your computer's "power management system" (APM) may be turning
the card off when the machine is idle. Check your system setup
settings. Also, try disabling apmd.
A temporary work-around is to have cron reload the card's driver
every 5 minutes. This isn't a real solution, of course, but it
will keep the wife happy until you do get it fixed. The down-
side of this is that your connection will briefly stall (burp)
every 5 minutes.
If the network card gives you Internet access (ie. cable modem),
another jerry-riged temporary work-around is to send a single
network command every five minutes via cron to a single
destination. I would pick a destination that is not real, so
you do not annoy any administrators. For instance, let us
assume that your internet provider's DNS server is called
"ns.really.special.dns.com" you could request information from
that server by using "dig ns.really.special.dns.com" every 5
minutes. That should not cause any problems. However, an
automated ping might be annoying if you used that command
instead. You should try to stay out of trouble with both your
wife and your ISP.
If the network card is just joining your computers, then I
would use pings instead, every 4-5 minutes.
"ping -c1 -w1 $COMPUTER &"
I suggest that you do not mount any remote drives with NFS
until this is fixed. It is better to be paranoid than sorry.
--
From the desk of Thomas Corriher
The real email address is:
tcorriher at earthlink.
net
------------------------------
From: Edward Ned Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: that PCMCIA question (Linksys PCMPC100 V2/Dell Inspiron 4000)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:05:42 GMT
Can you tell me if it applies to Dell Inspiron 8000? I am also having
trouble with my pcmcia, but strangely enough, my Inspiron doesn't seem to
behave the same as other Inspiron 8000's.
I haven't figured out if it's the Flash BIOS revision or not...
David Hinds wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.portable Yuri Fialko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 2) I was about to "downgrade" to 2.2, when Jerry McBride indicated
>> that he could get the card to work with the 2.4.4 kernel (my RH7.1
>> has 2.4.2). Does this mean that the bug has been fixed
>> in 2.4.4 (David Hinds said that Linux is still working on this problem)?
>
> The bug has not been fixed yet. The bug is not specific to this card;
> it is specific to certain laptops. That is why other people report
> that your card works fine for them with 2.4.* kernels.
>
> -- Dave
>
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 21:18:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> Thankyou for your email.
>
> The results you received from DFT, and the details in your email, have been
> seen in similar configurations.
>
> Windows 98 shuts down faster than the drive has had time to write from the
> cache to the disks, resulting in a bad write. On reboot you will have
> problems booting the drive, and the drive will make a noise as it performs
> error recovery.
>
> The only solution is to run DFT (you will get 0x70) and then to erase the
> disk.
>
> To ensure this does not happen again, you can obtain a fix now from
> Microsoft, which deals with this issue.
>
> On a second note, please ensure you have the latest bios for your
> motherboard. I believe Asus may have released a further bios to your level.
>
> Regards
> ------------------ In Response To ------------------
>
> Subject: two harddisks crashed and third one expected
> Dear Internet friends,
>
> I have a big problem: IBM DTLA 305020 harddisk (20GB) of 6 months old
> crashed and IBM DTLA 305040 ( new 40GB of one week old) crashed also. I
> expect the new maxtor DiamondMax 40GB 7200rpm shall also crash soon.
>
> Can anybody make a suggestion to solve this problem? I really need some
> help. The system configuration is as follows: asus a7v KT133 (rev 1.01,
> 5 pci slots), tbird 700MH, 256MB SDRAM + 256MB SDRAM (the second unit
> added two months ago), matrox G400, DVD drive of the brand DBV
> (connected to secondary slave ide), Plextor burnproof (connected to
> secondary master ide).
>
> The story: about 6 months ago (oct 2000) I bought the system with only
> 20GB harddisk of IBM connected to ide primary master (ata66), running
> redhat 6.2 and w98. Everythings looked stable after I had some problems
> with motherboard. The vendor replaced the motherboard, power supply,
> cpu. ATA100 was not used because redhat 6.2 didn't support it.
>
> 4 weeks ago I bought a IBM 40GB drive and installed in the system
> connected to primary slave ata66 mode. I have tried to install w2000 but
> w2k failed to identify all the hardware and get into conflict. I gave
> that up.
>
> But soon the 20GB drive made noise like something hitting or folding
> the metal plates and I got also errors at the same moment from redhat
> (ide hda timeout; LBA bad sectors) under normal operation. The errors
> occured more frequently till the whole drive failed. IBM drive software
> DFT identified the drive as defective nr=0x77 and 0x70. Soon I
> reconfigured the new 40GB IBM drive as master but running redhat7.1 and
> w98 (w2k also failed to install) on the promise ata100 connector (asus
> motherboard can support 8 ide devices nl. 4 ide ata66 and 4 ide ata100).
> The crash of the 20GB is considered as bad luck. But the same errors
> happened again on the 40GB IBM drive after one week operation. I contact
> IBM without satifactory result yet (Response (ref 109-930-638-6)). 28
> april I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 7200rpm 40GB drive in the hope that
> the problem lay on IBM design (physically the drive should not be
> damaged by the controlling software within a week). Neither the BIOS nor
> IBM DFT software can even identify the 40GB IBM drive because the drive
> was stuck at power-on (neither in ata66 nor in ata100 mode). After
> installing the maxtor drive (using ata100) I re-install redhat 7.1
> without problem and w2k gets to be installed by solving the multiple-irq
> assigning problem (acpi seems to be the cause). Yesterday I heard the
> noise again!! That terrifies me.
>
> Has anyone this experience? What should I do? If any additional
> information needed, please reply directy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Yours sin
>
> Talk to a product specialist on one of the following numbers:
>
> UK: 0870 0102866 Eire: 01
> 815 9408
> Germany: 07032 153050 France: 02 3855 7490
> Italy: 02 5962 2122 Netherlands: 020 513 2440
> Sweden: 08 793 1081 Norway: 066 998432
> Denmark: 045 233 178 Finland: 09 459 5698
> Austria: 01 21145 4474
>
> Mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> See us on the web at http://www.ibm.com/harddrive or
> http://www.storage.ibm.com/storagesmart
Dear Sir,
I have already send both harddrives to IBM Corporation
c/o UPS Worldwide Logistics
Veldweg 3
NL 6075 HERKENBOSCH
NETHERLANDS.
Because both drives are dead. DFT can not even recognize the drives anymore.
Therefore I cannot run ERASE drive neither. I have some doubts about your
diagnostics due to the fact that w98 had run for a half year. Still I shall
never run w98 again becasue of your warning. From now on I run w2k instead.
I wonder when I will got my harddrives returned. Is there any similar problem
for redhat7.1 and w2k? I can not imagine how a software error of windows can
cause such damage to the drives. I really mean it that both drives are totally
dead. Neither the BIOS nor DFT are able to detect the harddrives anymore.
If you are sure about the cause. I will add the two harddrives that you shall
replace soon, to the operating system (redhat7.1 and w2k). I hope that the
system will be stable. Believe me that it had cost me a lot of time (and
troubles) to reinstall and reinstall again everything.
Will it also happen to a maxtor harddrive? Since I have installed w2k
succesfully two weeks ago, the maxtor harddrive do not make such noise anymore
or I didnot hear it. At the begining I have installed w98 command.com at the
maxtor drive without the whole windows operating system (I need that because I
have to prepare a fat32 partition for w2k installation at ata100 controller;
It was a complex story. I am sure that even the maxtor drive has produced that
specifiek noise for a few times.)!! It can explain the noise if you are right!
There is no fix for command.com I believe. If your hypothesis is correct,
command.com of w98 can distroy the two harddrives within a few weeks. The
possible reason that the 20GB drive can hold for a half year because I only
need w98 when I was playing games under w98 or watching dvd movies. Most of
the time (95%) redhat6.2 was on the air.
Can you confirm that the replaced harddrives will survive under w2k and
redhat7.1? I will never install w98 again. Is the asus bios upgrade really
necessary? Can you give a recommendation of the asus fix version? There are
too many of them! Besides I have never upgrade a bios before!
r.s.v.p.
With compliments,
William.
PS: Please do not repeatedly advise me to run DFT, because both quickly died
drives are returned to factory.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.devel,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with ATA100 disk
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 21:28:08 GMT
Pierre-Yves Morgantini wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have setup up a cluster of 16 PC for doing computational chemistry
> calculations.
> All PC are built around an ASUS A7V or A7V133 motherboard, 1 GHz AMD
> Athlon Thunderbird CPU, 256 MB memory and an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30 GB
> UATA100 disk. I have RedHat 7.0 (kernel 2.4.0-0.26) on all the PC.
>
> I have problems with the disks. Sometimes, the IDE light stay on and the
> system
> try to read on the disk during 10 to 20 seconds. The disk emits some strange
> mechanical noise and the following error message is displayed on the console
> :
>
> wolf kernel: hde: dma_intr: bad DMA status
> wolf kernel: hde: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>
> Other messages (very similar) are also displayed. Some disks are O.K. but
> about half of them have this problem. Sometimes, after a big number of
> retries,
> the system crash. All the disk are new or have 4 months. I have also try
> with
> RedHat 7.1 but I observe the same type of problem. I have also try e2fsck -c
> on the file system without amelioration.
>
> The disks are connected to the Promise ATA100 controler integrated on the
> motherboard and use the following parameters for the disk :
>
> hdparm -v /dev/hde
>
> /dev/hde:
> multcount = 16 (on)
> I/O support = 3 (32-bit w/sync)
> unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> using_dma = 1 (on)
> keepsettings = 0 (off)
> nowerr = 0 (off)
> readonly = 0 (off)
> readahead = 8 (on)
> geometry = 59560/16/63, sectors = 60036480, start = 0
>
> hdparm -i /dev/hde
>
> /dev/hde:
>
> Model=IBM-DTLA-307030, FwRev=TX4OA50C, SerialNo=YKDYKFY1591
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60036480
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
>
> Any idea or hints ? Is there some others (happy) guys who use the same
> couple
> motherboard/disk with succes ?
>
> Thank you in advance for you help.
>
> P.-Y. Morgantini
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Pierre-Yves Morgantini / Assistant Professor
> University of Geneva / Department of Physical Chemistry
> 30, quai Ernest Ansermet / 1211 GENEVA 4 (Switzerland)
> Phone (41-22) 702 65 24 (direct) / (41-22) 702 61 11
> Mobile (41-79) 449 10 51 / Fax (41-22) 702 65 18
> E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ______________________________________________________________________
Dear friend,
My two IBM DTLA 305020 and 305040 are crashed within a few weeks. IBM support
has an explanation, but I have some doubts about it.
Please read my posting (at the end) two weeks ago. My maxtor has been running
for 2 weeks now. I am still not sure about the stability.
Goed Luck,
William.
==================
Subject:
Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9
Date:
Mon, 14 May 2001 23:18:31 +0200
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BCC:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> Thankyou for your email.
>
> The results you received from DFT, and the details in your email, have been
> seen in similar configurations.
>
> Windows 98 shuts down faster than the drive has had time to write from the
> cache to the disks, resulting in a bad write. On reboot you will have
> problems booting the drive, and the drive will make a noise as it performs
> error recovery.
>
> The only solution is to run DFT (you will get 0x70) and then to erase the
> disk.
>
> To ensure this does not happen again, you can obtain a fix now from
> Microsoft, which deals with this issue.
>
> On a second note, please ensure you have the latest bios for your
> motherboard. I believe Asus may have released a further bios to your level.
>
> Regards
> ------------------ In Response To ------------------
>
> Subject: two harddisks crashed and third one expected
> Dear Internet friends,
>
> I have a big problem: IBM DTLA 305020 harddisk (20GB) of 6 months old
> crashed and IBM DTLA 305040 ( new 40GB of one week old) crashed also. I
> expect the new maxtor DiamondMax 40GB 7200rpm shall also crash soon.
>
> Can anybody make a suggestion to solve this problem? I really need some
> help. The system configuration is as follows: asus a7v KT133 (rev 1.01,
> 5 pci slots), tbird 700MH, 256MB SDRAM + 256MB SDRAM (the second unit
> added two months ago), matrox G400, DVD drive of the brand DBV
> (connected to secondary slave ide), Plextor burnproof (connected to
> secondary master ide).
>
> The story: about 6 months ago (oct 2000) I bought the system with only
> 20GB harddisk of IBM connected to ide primary master (ata66), running
> redhat 6.2 and w98. Everythings looked stable after I had some problems
> with motherboard. The vendor replaced the motherboard, power supply,
> cpu. ATA100 was not used because redhat 6.2 didn't support it.
>
> 4 weeks ago I bought a IBM 40GB drive and installed in the system
> connected to primary slave ata66 mode. I have tried to install w2000 but
> w2k failed to identify all the hardware and get into conflict. I gave
> that up.
>
> But soon the 20GB drive made noise like something hitting or folding
> the metal plates and I got also errors at the same moment from redhat
> (ide hda timeout; LBA bad sectors) under normal operation. The errors
> occured more frequently till the whole drive failed. IBM drive software
> DFT identified the drive as defective nr=0x77 and 0x70. Soon I
> reconfigured the new 40GB IBM drive as master but running redhat7.1 and
> w98 (w2k also failed to install) on the promise ata100 connector (asus
> motherboard can support 8 ide devices nl. 4 ide ata66 and 4 ide ata100).
> The crash of the 20GB is considered as bad luck. But the same errors
> happened again on the 40GB IBM drive after one week operation. I contact
> IBM without satifactory result yet (Response (ref 109-930-638-6)). 28
> april I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 7200rpm 40GB drive in the hope that
> the problem lay on IBM design (physically the drive should not be
> damaged by the controlling software within a week). Neither the BIOS nor
> IBM DFT software can even identify the 40GB IBM drive because the drive
> was stuck at power-on (neither in ata66 nor in ata100 mode). After
> installing the maxtor drive (using ata100) I re-install redhat 7.1
> without problem and w2k gets to be installed by solving the multiple-irq
> assigning problem (acpi seems to be the cause). Yesterday I heard the
> noise again!! That terrifies me.
>
> Has anyone this experience? What should I do? If any additional
> information needed, please reply directy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Yours sin
>
> Talk to a product specialist on one of the following numbers:
>
> UK: 0870 0102866 Eire: 01
> 815 9408
> Germany: 07032 153050 France: 02 3855 7490
> Italy: 02 5962 2122 Netherlands: 020 513 2440
> Sweden: 08 793 1081 Norway: 066 998432
> Denmark: 045 233 178 Finland: 09 459 5698
> Austria: 01 21145 4474
>
> Mail us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> See us on the web at http://www.ibm.com/harddrive or
> http://www.storage.ibm.com/storagesmart
Dear Sir,
I have already send both harddrives to IBM Corporation
c/o UPS Worldwide Logistics
Veldweg 3
NL 6075 HERKENBOSCH
NETHERLANDS.
Because both drives are dead. DFT can not even recognize the drives anymore.
Therefore I cannot run ERASE drive neither. I have some doubts about your
diagnostics due to the fact that w98 had run for a half year. Still I shall
never run w98 again becasue of your warning. From now on I run w2k instead.
I wonder when I will got my harddrives returned. Is there any similar problem
for redhat7.1 and w2k? I can not imagine how a software error of windows can
cause such damage to the drives. I really mean it that both drives are totally
dead. Neither the BIOS nor DFT are able to detect the harddrives anymore.
If you are sure about the cause. I will add the two harddrives that you shall
replace soon, to the operating system (redhat7.1 and w2k). I hope that the
system will be stable. Believe me that it had cost me a lot of time (and
troubles) to reinstall and reinstall again everything.
Will it also happen to a maxtor harddrive? Since I have installed w2k
succesfully two weeks ago, the maxtor harddrive do not make such noise anymore
or I didnot hear it. At the begining I have installed w98 command.com at the
maxtor drive without the whole windows operating system (I need that because I
have to prepare a fat32 partition for w2k installation at ata100 controller;
It was a complex story. I am sure that even the maxtor drive has produced that
specifiek noise for a few times.)!! It can explain the noise if you are right!
There is no fix for command.com I believe. If your hypothesis is correct,
command.com of w98 can distroy the two harddrives within a few weeks. The
possible reason that the 20GB drive can hold for a half year because I only
need w98 when I was playing games under w98 or watching dvd movies. Most of
the time (95%) redhat6.2 was on the air.
Can you confirm that the replaced harddrives will survive under w2k and
redhat7.1? I will never install w98 again. Is the asus bios upgrade really
necessary? Can you give a recommendation of the asus fix version? There are
too many of them! Besides I have never upgrade a bios before!
r.s.v.p.
With compliments,
William.
PS: Please do not repeatedly advise me to run DFT, because both quickly died
drives are returned to factory.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:32:20 -0500
From: Scott Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Keyboard acting up in X
I'm having a real difficult time believing this is a hardware problem.
I'll be happily working in X (fvwm2) with an editor open, and a couple
of shells open.
Suddenly, one shell only echos what I type in CAPS. No combination
of Capslock, shift, alt, ... will make it stop. Bombing the shell
and re-running XTerm SOMETIMES works.
Meanwhile, the other shell works just fine.
The editor (codeforge) suddenly doesn't accept 9 or 3 on my numeric
keypad. All other numeric keys are fine. Numlock has no effect.
I kill and restart it, but it still doesn't work.
I kill X (Ctl-Alt-BS, or exit fvwm, either one) and use consoles.
They ALL work fine! I restart it (startx) and everything is fine.
Can anyone give any clue where to start looking for this problem?
XFree86 3.3.6
Linux 2.2.16 (although X says it's OS Linux 2.2.13 on startx????)
I do get this message during startup:
System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
-xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp
"> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server"
keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm'
:1: invalid preprocessing directive name
(Not my real email...)
-Scott Weber
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From: "Winston Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: CD-Rom drive slow
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:59:34 -0400
Hi,
I have a 40x scsi Plextor CD-Rom drive and when I benchmark it under
Windows 98, it's only 8x. In Configuration Panel / System I tried to
enable / disable synchronous transfert and it does nothing. I have a
Pentium III 600 with 256 Mo of RAM and an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card so
it's much more than needed. If someone as an idea...
P.S. : Also if someone knows a CD benchmark with Linux so I'd know if the
problem comes from how I configurated windows.
Thank you in advance.
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