Linux-Hardware Digest #834, Volume #14 Mon, 28 May 01 03:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Trying to add RAM to my old Pentium 133MHz machine (Rajesh Radhakrishnan)
help installing scsi card ("aceman")
pcmcia-cs and kernel stuff ("Tyron Washington")
Search 34 Linux News Groups ("David D. Huff Jr.")
Re: Back up in Linux ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Back up in Linux ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Back up in Linux (David Konerding)
Re: Back up in Linux ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Back up in Linux (Dave Martel)
NIC Driver in C ("Tyron Washington")
Re: copy floppy with 8k-sector using fdrawcmd (Markus)
Re: Trying to add RAM to my old Pentium 133MHz machine (Adam Leinss)
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From: Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Trying to add RAM to my old Pentium 133MHz machine
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:15:56 -0400
Hi,
Thanks for your help.
On my 586 motherboard, I found out I have two 8MB 72-pin EDO memory
cards.
Found this company on the internet selling 72-Pin EDO Non-Parity SIMM
http://www.accessmicro.com/zone2.php3?catsubcat=9901&vendor=Standard+Simm%2FFlash+Memory+Card
What does non-parity mean? Any suggestions on whether if this is the
memory I am looking for?
Thanks
Rajesh
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From: "aceman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help installing scsi card
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 10:35:29 +0200
I have aha1540 scsi and i've installed linux on my pc
my windows recognize it but my linux is don't.
i run kudzu and no resaults.
i don't know how to configure it , please help!!!
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From: "Tyron Washington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: pcmcia-cs and kernel stuff
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 00:46:44 -0400
I'm running RedHat Linux 7.0 (kernel version 2.2.16-22) and I'm trying to
install pcmcia-cs with a contributed driver so I can use my IBM EtherJet PC
card. After typing <make config>, I get a error message saying:
Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]: <I hit enter here>
Linux source tree /usr/src/linux is incomplete or missing!
...
[config] Error 1
I download several source kernels (from 2.2.xx to 2.4.5) from kernel.org.
What do I do now?
Do I install the latest stable kernel source (2.4.5) and run <make config>
for pcmcia-cs again?
Can someone tell me the instructions step by step including the necessary
commands so I can get this network pc card working?
any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David D. Huff Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Search 34 Linux News Groups
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 05:01:05 GMT
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.windows.x.kde,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:00:05 -0400
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Investigator wrote:
> > >
> > > The short answer is "yes".
> > >
> > > More detail is needed, however, to explain the process.
> > >
> > > Importantly, you do *not* want to back up any draconian system (like Linux)
> > > while it is active with a full-bore "tar czf /dev/whatever/BACKUP.tgz /*"
> >
> > This is true of ALL operating systems, including losedos.
>
> perhaps not MS-DOS. but then you could honestly argue that it is not
> fully an operating system.
I wrote a REAL OS in only 4 weeks..by myself, no less!
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.windows.x.kde,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:02:46 -0400
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> "Johan Kullstam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > Jerry Wong wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I used to backup the windows by Ghost software. In linux, can the
> command "tar"
> > > > be used like Ghost. I means to backup the whole Linux system by tar it
> and
> > > > restore it when necessary. I have windows98 and two Linux system in my
> PC
> > > > (Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0), so I can tar one of them when running
> the other.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible? Please give me some advice.
> > >
> > > tar is okay for groups of files, but NOT good for the entire system.
> > >
> > > learn to use dump, and/or BRU or Arkeia.
> >
> > dump is not a sufficient solution either. linus had a few comments
> > about this on linux-kernel about a month ago. it seems that the only
> > way to get a clean snapshot of the disk partition is to unmount it
> > first and then save. this is especially true of the journalling
> > filesystems.
>
> Tar is actually better than dump at dealing with an active filesystem
> but neither will handle the case where multiple files must be saved
> as a snapshot of a consistent state. What we need is kernel support
> to freeze the 'real' filesystem while letting the system continue to work
> with changes staying in the buffers or paging out to swap if necessary - and
> of course, a way for the backup utility to read the frozen copy.
Everything I've seen always says to get a PERFECT level 0, go to
single user mode (init S) and remount the root filesystem read-only.
>
> Les Mikesell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Konerding)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.windows.x.kde,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
Date: 28 May 2001 05:06:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 May 2001 21:07:31 GMT, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "Johan Kullstam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > > Jerry Wong wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I used to backup the windows by Ghost software. In linux, can the
> command "tar"
>> > > be used like Ghost. I means to backup the whole Linux system by tar it
> and
>> > > restore it when necessary. I have windows98 and two Linux system in my
> PC
>> > > (Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0), so I can tar one of them when running
> the other.
>> > >
>> > > Is it possible? Please give me some advice.
>> >
>> > tar is okay for groups of files, but NOT good for the entire system.
>> >
>> > learn to use dump, and/or BRU or Arkeia.
>>
>> dump is not a sufficient solution either. linus had a few comments
>> about this on linux-kernel about a month ago. it seems that the only
>> way to get a clean snapshot of the disk partition is to unmount it
>> first and then save. this is especially true of the journalling
>> filesystems.
>
> Tar is actually better than dump at dealing with an active filesystem
> but neither will handle the case where multiple files must be saved
> as a snapshot of a consistent state. What we need is kernel support
> to freeze the 'real' filesystem while letting the system continue to work
> with changes staying in the buffers or paging out to swap if necessary - and
> of course, a way for the backup utility to read the frozen copy.
LVM (logical volume manager) has support for this. You basically create a "snapshot"
of the filesystem at some point in time and point the backup system at that.
unfortunately,
LVM support under linux is rather immature- people tried to do this under heavy
filesystem
activity and got kernel OOPSes. I also tried LVM and found that it wasn't robust-
in particular, if the LVM state wasn't exactly consistent on bootup the LVM modules
would OOPS. I gave up testing with LVM after a while because I had a prodction server
and couldn't afford to waste all that time testing. There are other platforms with
robust
LVM support (AIX is a good example) and I expect eventually linux will have a robust
LVM
too.
Dave
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:30:40 -0400
David Konerding wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 May 2001 21:07:31 GMT, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > "Johan Kullstam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > > Jerry Wong wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I used to backup the windows by Ghost software. In linux, can the
> > command "tar"
> >> > > be used like Ghost. I means to backup the whole Linux system by tar it
> > and
> >> > > restore it when necessary. I have windows98 and two Linux system in my
> > PC
> >> > > (Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0), so I can tar one of them when running
> > the other.
> >> > >
> >> > > Is it possible? Please give me some advice.
> >> >
> >> > tar is okay for groups of files, but NOT good for the entire system.
> >> >
> >> > learn to use dump, and/or BRU or Arkeia.
> >>
> >> dump is not a sufficient solution either. linus had a few comments
> >> about this on linux-kernel about a month ago. it seems that the only
> >> way to get a clean snapshot of the disk partition is to unmount it
> >> first and then save. this is especially true of the journalling
> >> filesystems.
> >
> > Tar is actually better than dump at dealing with an active filesystem
> > but neither will handle the case where multiple files must be saved
> > as a snapshot of a consistent state. What we need is kernel support
> > to freeze the 'real' filesystem while letting the system continue to work
> > with changes staying in the buffers or paging out to swap if necessary - and
> > of course, a way for the backup utility to read the frozen copy.
>
> LVM (logical volume manager) has support for this. You basically create a "snapshot"
> of the filesystem at some point in time and point the backup system at that.
>unfortunately,
> LVM support under linux is rather immature- people tried to do this under heavy
>filesystem
> activity and got kernel OOPSes. I also tried LVM and found that it wasn't robust-
> in particular, if the LVM state wasn't exactly consistent on bootup the LVM modules
> would OOPS.
Boot off the primary image(s), and THEN activate the mirror(s), using a
"synchronize mirror image" option.
> I gave up testing with LVM after a while because I had a prodction server
> and couldn't afford to waste all that time testing. There are other platforms with
>robust
> LVM support (AIX is a good example) and I expect eventually linux will have a robust
>LVM
> too.
>
> Dave
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 23:37:17 -0600
On 28 May 2001 05:06:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Konerding) wrote:
>LVM (logical volume manager) has support for this. You basically create a "snapshot"
>of the filesystem at some point in time and point the backup system at that.
>unfortunately,
>LVM support under linux is rather immature- people tried to do this under heavy
>filesystem
>activity and got kernel OOPSes. I also tried LVM and found that it wasn't robust-
>in particular, if the LVM state wasn't exactly consistent on bootup the LVM modules
>would OOPS. I gave up testing with LVM after a while because I had a prodction server
>and couldn't afford to waste all that time testing. There are other platforms with
>robust
>LVM support (AIX is a good example) and I expect eventually linux will have a robust
>LVM
>too.
FWIW, Norton Ghost can backup/restore EXT2 partitions.
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From: "Tyron Washington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: NIC Driver in C
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 02:33:54 -0400
I'm new to Linux and I need to know how to install a driver for my network
card. The driver file ends in .c, which I have no idea what to do with it.
I'm plan on running RedHat 7.1. and the NIC is a SMC 1211TX. I don't see any
install instructions on SMC's web site. They just link directly to the
driver file:
http://www.smc.com/smc/drivers/Drivers/1211/rtl8139.c
Please help.
Even if RedHat 7.1 will recognize the card during installation, please still
tell me how to install drivers in .c format so I know how to do this stuff
myself.
Thanks in advance,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus)
Subject: Re: copy floppy with 8k-sector using fdrawcmd
Date: 27 May 2001 23:47:48 -0700
"Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<8Y9Q6.1884$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> A usual trick for many copy-protection schemes is to format one sector with
> weird size and / or address. It seems to me that you're overwriting the
> sectors 1 to 5 when writing the oversize sector. There is only 5 * 512 bytes
> = 2560 bytes (+ gaps and headers) of data space for the 8 kbyte sector.
Thank you for your reply.
I'd agree completely with you -- when I would write more than(!) 6*512 bytes
to sector 18 (0x12 - which is the 13th sector due to my ordering system).
> You should probably avoid writing the extra-size sector, if possible. Also,
> it seems to me unnecessary to format the sectors 13 to 17.
Unfortunately, the copy protection key(?) resides on sector 18 .... :-(
Thanks again
Markus
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From: Adam Leinss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Trying to add RAM to my old Pentium 133MHz machine
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 06:55:57 GMT
On Mon, 28 May 2001 00:15:56 -0400, Rajesh Radhakrishnan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>On my 586 motherboard, I found out I have two 8MB 72-pin EDO memory
>cards.
>
>Found this company on the internet selling 72-Pin EDO Non-Parity SIMM
>
>http://www.accessmicro.com/zone2.php3?catsubcat=9901&vendor=Standard+Simm%2FFlash+Memory+Card
>
>What does non-parity mean? Any suggestions on whether if this is the
>memory I am looking for?
Parity memory means it supports error checking; non-parity memory
doesn't. Safe bet is to get non-parity memory. You can usually turn
off parity checking if you system supports it. Very few computers use
parity memory now-a-days.
Adam
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