Linux-Hardware Digest #771, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 20:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question (Dan Smith)
newbie question: winmodem install information on the web?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Compiling of hpoj-0.7 package fails (Heinz Ruffieux)
Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9 ("You Know Who ~")
Re: Problem with ATA100 disk (Dave Uhring)
Re: Recommend sound card for Linux? (David J Bush)
Re: CD-Rom drive slow ("You Know Who ~")
hard disk, raid... (Me)
Re: CD-Rom drive slow (BoB)
Re: hard disk, raid... (Dan Smith)
Re: hard disk, raid... (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: CD-Rom drive slow ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: CD-Rom drive slow ("Boris")
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question
From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 2001 18:17:31 -0400
Can you give me instructions on how to enable/set encryption on the
ORiNOCO card?
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie question: winmodem install information on the web?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:25:05 GMT
Can anyone point me to a good "installing winmodems on linux for
dummies" type page on the internet?
I have heard that is more than possible now to get winmodems working
on linux, and I want to make sure I try everything with my modem first
before I try buying a new one.
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From: Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling of hpoj-0.7 package fails
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:30:07 -0000
Hi,
I would like to install the hpoj-0.7 printer package on my RH7.1 box
(2.4.2 kernel).
Now make fails with strange errors. Checking the INSTALL script downloaded
with the package I find the following (see bug section):
=============
If during "make" or "make install" you get an error trying to create a
symbolic link, then you are probably compiling and/or installing on a
file system that doesn't support symlinks, such as MSDOS or VFAT. Try
compiling and installing on a native Linux ext2 filesystem.
FEATURE: The kernel drivers require at least kernel 2.2, due to the
"parport" functionality they rely on.
BUG: The kernel drivers currently fail to compile under kernel 2.4.
They also do not work with SMP (any kernel version). These two problems
are being worked on.
==============
The same INSTALL file from http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/hpoj/INSTALL does
not have this BUG section.
Question: Does anybody know, if this package may be compiled under the
2.4.2 kernel? If not, are there any workarounds?
Thanks for your help.
Heinz
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Reply-To: "You Know Who ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "You Know Who ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:41:48 GMT
You expect us to read all of this?
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possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
|
| [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.
|
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From: Dave Uhring <[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 17:42:21 -0500
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]
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>
I recommend that you download and install linux-2.4.4 kernel, paying
particular attention during configuration to implementing DMA on your hard
drives and making certain that you include the drivers for your particular
motherboards (via82cxxx). You only have to compile it once, you know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David J Bush)
Subject: Re: Recommend sound card for Linux?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:19:21 GMT
How about audiophile-quality sound cards? For example, at the site
http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/index.htm
are test results for many cards. The following were given top marks:
Aardvark Direct Pro 24/96
CS 3310/4327/5335 chips (Event Darla)
C 3310/4327/5335 chips (Event Gina)
CS 3310/4327/5335 chips (Event Layla)
CS 3310/4327/5335 chips (MIDIMan Flying Cow external ADC-DAC)
DAL CardD Deluxe
Lucid ADA1000/PCI24
Lynx Studio Technology LynxONE
Has any progress been made with Linux drivers for any of these?
Thanks
David
On Mon, 14 May 2001 14:38:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Kenneth R�rvik) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter) wrote in <ZEbL6.10112$sk3.2713921
>@newsb.telia.net>:
>>> Can someone recommend a sound card for my Linux (v2.4, SMP Pentium3)
>>> system?
>>I'd recommend one of the SB Live! cards. I've got the 1024 version, can
>>be had cheap and is well supported.
>I agree - although it does not give all that much more than a PCI128 in
>terms of features in linux. Some versions of the PCI128 can be trickier to
>set up though.
David Bush http://www.geocities.com/twixtplayer/
Remove nospamtoday from my email
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Reply-To: "You Know Who ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "You Know Who ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-Rom drive slow
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:19:40 GMT
It's possible you have something running in the background (fast find,
scheduler, anti virus programs, etc.) or that you have set windows for a
huge vcache and little useful ram.
--
You know Who ~
Windows Help & Tour Purgatory Chasm:
http://home.att.net/~You_know_Who/
==============================================================
"I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years,
and I'm happy to state that I've finally won out over it."
Elwood P. Dowd in "Harvey"
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"Winston Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| 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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: hard disk, raid...
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:39:54 +0000 (UTC)
If I have 2 identical disks and configure them as RAID level 0 (striping), and
the capacity of each of the disks is 10 Gb, is the total size of the raid
combination 20 Gb?
How can I learn the block size of /dev/hda (the entire disk, not one of its
partitions like /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda5). I am hoping to make an image backup
of it. I have played with df, but the numbers I get back from it are
inconsistent, or I am misunderstanding what it is telling me.
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From: BoB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-Rom drive slow
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 23:40:03 GMT
Don't trust benches, just get a stopwatch and copy large files from the cd to
the hard drive and do the math. 300KB/s=2x
Winston Smith wrote:
> 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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Subject: Re: hard disk, raid...
From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 2001 19:43:34 -0400
Yes, RAID0 combines the sizes, while still increasing performance by
writing every CHUNK_SIZE bytes to adjacent disks. What is df telling
you that is incorrect? Are you using 'df -h'? The -h switch makes it
much easier to read..
--Dan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes:
> If I have 2 identical disks and configure them as RAID level 0 (striping), and
> the capacity of each of the disks is 10 Gb, is the total size of the raid
> combination 20 Gb?
>
> How can I learn the block size of /dev/hda (the entire disk, not one of its
> partitions like /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda5). I am hoping to make an image backup
> of it. I have played with df, but the numbers I get back from it are
> inconsistent, or I am misunderstanding what it is telling me.
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Subject: Re: hard disk, raid...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 14 May 2001 20:00:24 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes:
> If I have 2 identical disks and configure them as RAID level 0
> (striping), and the capacity of each of the disks is 10 Gb, is the
> total size of the raid combination 20 Gb?
Yes.
> How can I learn the block size of /dev/hda (the entire disk, not one
> of its partitions like /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda5).
The block size of a disk is the sector size, which for your hard disk
is 512 bytes.
> I am hoping to make an image backup of it. I have played with df,
> but the numbers I get back from it are inconsistent, or I am
> misunderstanding what it is telling me.
You are misunderstanding. E2FS reserves space for the superuser and
does not report it as free, even if it is. Thus, a drive may be 100%
full but still seems to have free space.
Also, I don't believe the blocksize `df' reports has anything to do
with the physical or logical disks, or the relevant filesystems. It's
just a convenient number.
--
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: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-Rom drive slow
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:06:09 GMT
Winston Smith wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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...
Try disabling domain validation on the 19160. Try the latest 19160 drivers
and BIOS and latest mobo BIOS.
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From: "Boris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: CD-Rom drive slow
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:08:44 GMT
"Winston Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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.
>
Try CD Speed for DOS and CD Speed 99 for Windows
(http://www.cdspeed2000.com).
For DOS all you have to do is boot from your Windows 98 CD (boot from HD
with CD-ROM support) and run the exe.
I had a similar problem with this SCSI card.
I eventually solved it by setting the 'include device in BIOS scan' to 'no'
in the SCSI BIOS.
Also make sure 'initiate sync negotiation' is set to 'yes'.
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