Linux-Hardware Digest #840, Volume #14 Tue, 29 May 01 17:13:09 EDT
Contents:
ide-tape.o errors (Ga Mu)
Red Hat 7.1 and Megaraid Problems (Anthony Ewell)
Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP! (Ricardo da Silva)
VFS: Disk change
Debian Potato webcam (Shayne Hourigan)
Please help me get WIN98 back!! ("Somphong K")
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Server Garaging ("Andy Chessum")
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (Obnoxio The Clown)
Ultra100 (Promise) with SuSE Linux 6.4 ? (Achim Jansen)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (James Knott)
Re: Multiple SCSI controllers? (Jeff Jonas)
Re: Tape, Travans and Misery ("Ian Ellis")
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From: Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: ide-tape.o errors
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:10:55 GMT
HELP!
I have an HP/Colorado 4/8 GB Travan-3 tape drive in a newly constructed
RedHat Linux 7.1 system. The tape drive is currently configured as
/dev/hdd and I have /dev/tape linked to /dev/ht0. (Or is that /dev/ht0
linked to /dev/tape...) I am trying to restore files from a backup made
on another system. That system had no problem writing to the same drive
(it was moved from the old system to the new). mt commands appear to
work fine. E.g., I can retension the tape with 'mt retension'.
However, tar can't read from the drive. I get the following error
messages when I try:
===========================================
[root@c1125351-a backup]# tar -xzf /dev/tape
tar (child): /dev/tape: Cannot read: Input/output error
<...snip...>
[root@c1125351-a backup]#
===========================================
If I look in /var/log/messages, I see this:
===========================================
May 29 11:01:26 c1125351-a kernel: ide-tape: Reached idetape_chrdev_open
May 29 11:01:26 c1125351-a kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8,
key = 5, asc = 2c, ascq = 0
===========================================
I remember having the same problem with the same error/log messages when
I initially got the drive going in the original system. Unfortunately,
I can't for the life of me remember what I did to resolve the problem
the first time. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Greg
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:14:19 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Red Hat 7.1 and Megaraid Problems
Hi All,
Help!
I have a Dual PIII-600, BX chipset server with an AMI
Express 500 (AMI 4751010232A) controller. The
controller works superbly under Red Hat 7.0
(I tested it with a full install and several
networking and X11 tests after it was installed).
But, under Red Hat 7.1, I can not get the
partition utility (fdisk) to properly read,
recognize, or write partition tables. It is
like a ghost table exists: if I go in and out of
fdisk enough times it will eventually read a
previous table. But, even if fdisk eventually
reads the table, when it comes time to format the
partitions, the format utility can not see the
partition tables -- shutting down the install utility.
Many thanks,
--Tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s. if you are responding, please respond to both the
newsgroup and my eMail address (nntp problems!) --thanks
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From: Ricardo da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP!
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 11:11:02 -0700
I'm using RH 7.1 on my laptop, the video card is a
Cyber Blade i7 (not the same!).
RH 7.1 use the XFree86 4.... but (i don't know why..)
the X is linked to XSVGA from XFree 3.3.6, and its works fine.
It was the default instalation using Xconfigurator.
[]s' Ricardo.
Stephe Thayer wrote:
>
> Lyrch proclaimed:
>
> > I have a Compaq Presario 12XL310 that I'd like to put redhat linux 7.1
> > on. Well, actuall it's already on. One problem. Video in Xwindows.
> > I only get the right 1/3 of the screen to display, the rest is black.
> >
> No idea if this will help but my old 133 thinkpad with some sort of "cyber"
> chip was real weird with xfree 4.0. Went back to 3.3 and it works fine....
> With 1 meg or video ram and a 133 chip, I don't need any sort of "special"
> video anyway.
>
> Stephe
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: VFS: Disk change
Date: 29 May 2001 18:43:31 GMT
Does anyone have a guess why the following message is being sent
to my dmesg log about once a second? (2.2.18, rtl-3.0 patch)
...
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
...
Be assured that no disk change is taking place.
Thanks - Chuck
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 03:14:50 +0800
From: Shayne Hourigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Debian Potato webcam
Hi all,
I rarely get time to check these lists and offer my meager experience so
if someone has an answer for me an email would be appreciated!!!!
Shayne Hourigan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to get my Logitech Quickcam express up and running. I get
miscellaneous errors all over the place from all the drivers I've tried.
I'll try em again in a minute and copy the actual error text in here...
but in the meantime
I have an AMD MS-6378 Micro ATX M/board with 2 USB ports. It runs of VIA
technology and causes no end of compatablility problems in Linux. Most
of wich I have sorted.... I only have the webcam to go in hardware, then
onto my specialised software.
I'm running the Potato dist. of Debian
I have compiled my kernel (2.2.19pre17) with USB enabled... I haven't
chosen specific modules in the section because I wasn't sure what
modules would make the bloody thing work!
Actually first I did try with the via module listed, on reboot I it
picked up the usb-root hub and detected the camera as device 1, then
continued on a bit further and assigned it to device 2 as well... then
continued on again and reassigned it all over again... after that I gave
up on that module and recompiled without the via option. It now compiles
with usb support but doesn't auto-detect the device...... grrrrrrrrrrrrr
This is my first attempt at getting a cam going on linux and after 3
days of trying evry suggestion I could find on the web I'm ready to
scrap the idea and just use the camera when I have to use Winblows (not
my ideal situation as you folks would understand!)
Any suggestions, hints, tips, or experience would be greatly
appreciated.
I have, however managed to get the vi686 sound chipset goingusing OSS if
anyone needs that bit of info. It's not free software which sorta pisses
me off, but it's the only one I found that actually will work properly.
OK, well... thanks in advance for any help you folks may have.
Shayne h.
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There is no plot, this is reality, deal with it
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From: "Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:22:12 -0400
During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as /boot
partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in MBR
or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid fooling
with MBR and opted for the later.
The lilo installation ended up with failure. Everything else went fine.
I created boot diskette. I then realized I was no longer able to boot
Win98. Everybody in my household jumped on me!! My wife wanted to search
webs about her stock investment, my kid wanted to play starcraft with his
folks, ....
I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
loading a few blocks.
When I mounted on to /dev/hda1, I could see that all Win98 directories
and files were still intact. I just do not know why drive/A broke when I
tried my best < which was obviously not good enough :-( > not to disturb
its MBR.
I would appreciate any advice that can pull me out of this mess.
1) What corruptions on drive/A and how to restore it??
2) I configured lilo to boot either linux and win98 but the later never
came up - it hang just like when I booted off diskettes. Could you
offer me a copy of /etc/lilo.conf to compare. My copy is at home.
3) I configured printer OK but not my sound card (Turtle Beach Montogo II
and Altec Lansing 495). sndconfig autoprobe concluded it was Altec
ADA305 and mentioned it is not supported by Linux yet. I tried without
probe but there were only 2 Turtle Beach choices and my Montego II was
not ont the list. I tried both and they all ended up in errors.
Does it mean I'm out of luck as far as sound card is concerned?
4) Does Linux support HP 6200C scanner?? If affirmative, how?
5) I have MSN connection which I usually use their 'MSN Internet Access'
tool to connect. Could and how I connect to MSN from Linux??
Please asnwer to my e-mail address. Thanks for kind assistance.
Rgds somphong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:16:26 GMT
"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
>surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
>to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
>loading a few blocks.
The Linux partitioning tool used probably made cyclic partition
tables. Change the type of the extended partition on disk 2 from 05 to
85 using Linux fdisk. Or post a partition table listing. Or set disk 2
to none in BIOS, boot to a DOS floppy and do fdisk /MBR. Keep disk 2
as none.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: "Andy Chessum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.html,alt.www.authoring,alt.www.marketing,alt.www.marketing.adverts,alt.www.sites,alt.www.webmaster.ads,comp.os.linux.networking,macromedia.dreamweaver,microsoft.public.es.webmasters,uk.comp.os.linux,uk.net.web.authori
Subject: Server Garaging
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:40:58 +0100
Hi,
We are currently looking into the feasibility of offering data garaging on
our network and I would be interested to hear from anyone who might find the
service useful.
We are considering charging £35 - £45 pm in order to house a server on one
of our IP addresses. Our network currently comprises a mix on Linux and
Win2k boxes and we would happily accommodate both machines. We would offer
DNS services through our own nameservers and would offer backup facilities
at extra cost.
This facility would be best suited to the individual or small business that
wants the benefit of 24/7 connectivity at an affordable price. We need a
minimum of 10 clients to make the service viable and if the interest is
there we would look to begin the service in September.
Any feedback appreciated.
--
Andy Chessum
The Hippogroup
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.hippogroup.com
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From: Obnoxio The Clown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:55:19 +0100
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Svend Olaf Mikkelsen wrote:
>"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
>>surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
>>to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
>>loading a few blocks.
>
>The Linux partitioning tool used probably made cyclic partition
>tables. Change the type of the extended partition on disk 2 from 05 to
>85 using Linux fdisk. Or post a partition table listing. Or set disk 2
>to none in BIOS, boot to a DOS floppy and do fdisk /MBR. Keep disk 2
>as none.
Having just been to this movie, isn't it "format /mbr"?
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From: Achim Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ultra100 (Promise) with SuSE Linux 6.4 ?
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:56:30 +0200
Hello,
has anybody a Ultra100 installed under SuSE Linux 6.4 ?
I have plugged in the card and connected a Western Digital Harddisk
WD400AB 40.0GB. During boot i got the message:
Ultra100TX2 (tm) BIOS Version 2.10 (Build 23)
(c) 1999-2000 Promise Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.
D0 WDC WD400AB-00BVA0 LBA 38166MB Ultra DMA 5
D1 Not Detected
D2 Not Detected
D3 Not Detected
IDE BUS Master Enabled
=
When booting Linux from CDROM, YaST2 comes up, but only the already
installed
onboard-controlled (E)IDE harddisks are detected. =
When aborting YaST2 and checking the System information for PCI in YaST
i has the following display:
Linuxrc v1.0.9 (Kernel 2.2.14) (c) 1996-2000 SuSE GmbH
PCI
....
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology Unknown device =
Vendor id=3D105a. Device id=3D4d68.
Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=3D32 Min Gnt=3D4.
I/O at 0x6600 [0x6601]. =
I/O at 0x6700 [0x6701]. =
I/O at 0x6800 [0x6801]. =
I/O at 0x6900 [0x6901]. =
I/O at 0x6a00 [0x6a01]. =
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe10000000].
I have tried to get information on the manufacturers website
www.promise.com but i havn=B4t found useful informations for installation=
=2E
Thanx for the help!
Achim Jansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 21:01:15 GMT
Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Svend Olaf Mikkelsen wrote:
> >"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
> >>surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
> >>to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
> >>loading a few blocks.
> >
> >The Linux partitioning tool used probably made cyclic partition
> >tables. Change the type of the extended partition on disk 2 from 05 to
> >85 using Linux fdisk. Or post a partition table listing. Or set disk 2
> >to none in BIOS, boot to a DOS floppy and do fdisk /MBR. Keep disk 2
> >as none.
>
> Having just been to this movie, isn't it "format /mbr"?
No, it's fdisk /mbr, but then again, since it is a Windows partition, he
may just want to "format c:". ;-)
--
Replies sent via e-mail to this address will be promptly ignored.
To reply, replace everything to the left of "@" with "james.knott".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Jonas)
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers?
Date: 29 May 2001 17:05:36 -0400
>> > > (Two SCSI HAs, Tekram 310 & unspecified Adaptec)
>> With all-LSI-/Symbios-HAs, you should have only _one_ SCSI BIOS "popup"
>> on boot for all such adapters, and can specify the adapter boot order
>> in the configuration menu.
>I'll buy some of that; I've done the same thing with Buslogic and Mylex
>(mutiples of each not across lines) as the bios will detect and control
>multiple controllers in the same family, but with multiple controllers of
>different manuf. ...
I'm still rebuilding a Linux machine with 2 SCSI adapters of different mfgrs:
- NCR 53c825 based wide differential controller (with bios enabled)
to 2: wide differential disks
- Mylex narrow single-ended SCSI (with bios enabled) to PD CD,
and occasionally, external devices such as tape drive, CD-ROM, hard drive.
It's running an old Red Hat linux.
I'll be installing the latest Debian "any day now",
thus my halting any reconfiguration efforts 'till then.
I wimped out and booted from an IDE disk since it was easier all around
but the next install I'll try to be SCSI native.
Once booted, the system uses all SCSI devices just fine *BUT*
the narrow SCSI controller is always found first, so the PD-CD
(Phase Differential CD read/write) drive's dual personality impacts the
device name assignments. If the read/write cartridge is in the drive
during booting, it's considered a hard drive /dev/sda.
But if there's a CD or nothing in the drive, it's considered a CD-ROM
/dev/scd0. All disks are then assigned names AFTER that
(so the other drives could be /dev/sda&sdb or sdb&sdc)
Once I have the new Linux installed, I guess I need to explore
a) configuration specific to the PD CD drive so its dual personality is
properly handled for all booting conditions
and both devices are properly allocated.
b) boot parameters or whatever's needed to make one SCSI controller's
driver installed before the other
I know there's interesting development being done concerning dynamic
device naming since the whole /dev/sdxxx assignment is kinda hokey.
In my setup, adding any disks to the narrow SCSI bus then causes all the
wide disks to get different names (ex: /dev/sdb -> /dev/sdc).
I'd like persistent mapping of SCSI devices to names, even if that
leaves "holes" in the sequence for removable drives.
Names like Solaris: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s3 may look kinda long and verbose,
but it's very descriptive: controller 1 target 0 drive 0 slice(partition) 3.
I know that Linux's SCSI drivers have 'rescan' support,
but I think they reassign device names as needed
and I'm unsure how that interacts with already mounted drives.
Or I could use the differential <-> single ended adapter
and just use one SCSI controller, but where's the fun in that :-)
--
Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@panix(dot)com
The original Dr. JCL and Mr .hide
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Tape, Travans and Misery
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 22:07:44 +0100
Hi,
I have the same Seagate IDE Travan drive. It works fine. I have the kernel
compiled with Qic tape support and I access it through /dev/ht0. The kernel
is 2.2.16-3. Distributiom is RedHat - but I can't see that mattering.
Cheers
Ian
"kevin bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi,
>
> i have a similar tape drive - but i don't like the idea of emulating
> SCSI. apparently the ide-tape support in any kernel up to 2.2.17 was
> faulty. i have upgraded my kernel to 2.4.4 and now i don't get the same
> input/output errors. there is a program called taper which comes as
> standard with mandrake (7.2) and this works with the tape drive ok as
> long as you invoke it with
>
> taper -T ide
>
> i seem to have a glitch on my tape because the verify shows that one of
> the backed
> up files is different from the original. what i am looking
> for now is an app to check the tape - and if possible to format it so
> that any faulty bits of tape do not get used. any ideas gratefully
> received,
>
> kevin bailey
>
> In article <EAQM6.263598$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Chewter"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Linux new convert. Maybe I have missed some readily available document?
> >
> > I have a Seagate Travan IDE ST8000 but It detects as a hard disk
> > /dev/hdd and refuses to work
> >
> > A search of the web (and this group) reveal a lot of people with the
> > same problem (also with scsi tape drives) - seems to apply to HP
> > Colorados as well.
> >
> > There seems to be no Howto on the subject
> >
> > The answers seem to be in snippets all over the web
> >
> > So, could some kind guru possibly describe (step by step) how to install
> > an ATAPI tape drive and possibly turn it into a HowTo / Faq?
> >
> > ide-tape is in the kernal
> >
> > All tape software tried says there is no tape. Any help appreciated
> >
> >
> >
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