Linux-Hardware Digest #900, Volume #14 Wed, 13 Jun 01 22:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Help: SCSI device failure in Linux 2.4.2-2 (the softrat)
Re: RedHat v7.0 installation on Alpha 164LX (Robert Fleming)
Aureal Vortex 2 & Linux ("Leonidas")
Re: Old 486 and 56k modem (Bryn Joynes)
Sound Card Locks Up Machine (Rand Simberg)
Re: Tape, Travans and Misery (HP Colorado 8GB IDE) (Denis Leroy)
Re: Old 486 and 56k modem (Michael Meissner)
Re: Help please: internal IDE tape drive (Denis Leroy)
Re: ide-tape.o errors (Denis Leroy)
Re: ide-tape.o errors (Denis Leroy)
RH7.1 & Promise Ultra66 unable to install ("C")
Re: Old 486 and 56k modem (Marcus)
Re: 2 NIC's- Help pleeze!!! (Dances With Crows)
Re: Hard Drive Mess !! (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the softrat)
Subject: Help: SCSI device failure in Linux 2.4.2-2
Date: 13 Jun 2001 23:22:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two SCSI removable hard disk devices running on a SIIG SCSI Pro PCI
adaptor. The ZIP disk seems to work OK under Linux 2.4.2-2 (RedHat 7.1
modified). The ORB disk no longer does. They both work under M$ WIN98SE.
When I attempt to mount the ORB disk (scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0), I
get:
scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 2
along with a message about failing to BREAD FAT. Note that this drive used to
work just fine under a previous kernel and release of RedHat, probably 6.4.
I went to RedHat 7.1 for the ADSL support.
I changed disks and got similar (but different) error messages.
An attempt to load the previous kernel failed, but I frequently have this
problem.
Sometimes the attempt to mount the ORB disk will lock up the process which
will end up with a status of 'D'. I can still use other virtual terminals.
How does one go about debugging the SCSI problem?
--
the softrat
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.hardware
Subject: Re: RedHat v7.0 installation on Alpha 164LX
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:24:01 -0600
"P.Ravialahan" wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P.Ravialahan) wrote in message
>news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > recently I got to install RedHat Linux 7.0 on an AlphaPC with the
> > configurations given at the end of this message
> >
> > NONE of three installation modes are working out >>>
> Is any one how to get rid of this problem???
>
> >
> > 1)Installer gets crashed while loading the UI on GUI installation mode
> > SRM console commamd used:
> > boot dqb0 -file /kernels/vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/hda
> > initrd=images/ramdisk.img"
> > gives "Gdk: error"
> >
> > 2) When I was trying to install by "Text mode" with the SRM console
> > command as follows:
> > boot dqb0 -file /kernels/vmlinux.24 -flags "root=/dev/hda
> > initrd=images/ramdisk.img"
> > during this process, installation went well for first two
> > steps[Language selection, Locale settings, ]
> > on third step [installer source location-- Local
> > CDRom/HardDisk/NFS/FTP-HTTP]
> > It gives a message as follows "unable read Local CDROM......"
> >
> > 3) while using the command
> > boot dqb0 -file /kernels/vmlinux.j -flags "root=/dev/hda
> > initrd=images/ramdisk.img"
> > Its geting stucked in "uncompressing process" --- no error
> > message/running process
> >
> > Hardware configuration & SRM level used as follows:
> >
> > SRM level: 5.8-1
> > Graphics card: Fire GL 1000 ---- PCI
> > Mother board: Alpha PC 164LX
> > Processor: Digital Alpha 21164, 600 MHz
> > Display: COMPAQ Presario V410 Model 304u
> > HDD: Quantum FireBall LM A35 -----IDE
> > CD-ROM: Asus 50x CD-S500/A 2.0H ------IDE
> > Sound Card: Creative Labs sound Blaster 1.5, Pro 16 ---- ISA
You need to probe the hardware to see what is avalible. If you type
"show dev"
in the srm you will find that one of the devices is your cdrom.
>From there you issue the "boot <device> -fi /kernels/vmlinux.gz -fl 0"
you may have to change the boot flags but pretty much every thing else
is standard. If you have been using hda as root try scd0 instead
because you are booting mostlikely off a scsi cdrom.
--
Robert Fleming
Systems Administrator
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From: "Leonidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aureal Vortex 2 & Linux
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 02:05:30 +0200
I have a problem with installing Aureal Vortex 2 sound card (SQ 2500) in
Linux.
When i type in the command line "make install" (as it writes in the readmy
file) it types something like "cc - wrong command " or "cc - not found" ...
I've just installed linux, for the first time, so I'm completely unfamiliar
with it..
Please help.
Leonidas
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From: Bryn Joynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Old 486 and 56k modem
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 06:02:36 -0500
If you are using a dial up ISP with a bigger system than this 486, check
how fast you are connecting. You might find that you are too far away
from the central office to get a high speed connect. If so then the old
uart might work fine.
Bryn
Mario Giammarco wrote:
>
> I have an old 486 25sx with 16450 serial and ethernet.
> I would like to use it as a gateway to my home computers, but I remember
> that 16450 serials are not enough for a 56k modem.
>
> Is it true?
> New kernels have a solution?
>
> Thanks in advance for any reply.
> --
> --
> Mario Giammarco
> mgiammarco$libero,it
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rand Simberg)
Subject: Sound Card Locks Up Machine
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:22:05 GMT
I've got a new cm8338-based PCI sound card that I'm trying to use in
my RH6.2 system (running 2.2.19 of my own build). After many travails
(available in another thread in c.o.l.setup for those interested) I
got the drivers installed.
I can run 'modprobe cmpci' and it doesn't squawk, other than to tell
me that my /etc/modules.conf is more recent than ../../modules.dep.
I can load the mixer, and the CD player. But when I try to actually
make it make some kind of sound (e.g., esd from the command line, or
catting a .wav file to /dev/audio), the system locks up instantly and
has to be hard rebooted.
I know the card is OK, because I've run it in my W2K machine.
I've looked at /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports and see no conflicts
of cmpci with anything else. What other diagnostics can I do to see
why sound attempts send the machine off to never-never land?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Leroy)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Tape, Travans and Misery (HP Colorado 8GB IDE)
Date: 13 Jun 2001 17:22:17 -0700
"Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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
Since i have run through a lot of pain and suffering on this topic recently,
i'll add some more info.
I have an internal IDE HP Colorado 8GB tape drive, and the ide-tape module
from kernel > 2.4 no longer supports that drive (i hear the diagnostic is you
cannot read from the tape). The solution to this is to run the tape in
SCSI emulation, in which case it'll run just fine as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
I had a different problem though: my tape drive was just not working at all
neither in IDE or SCSI mode. I'd get I/O errors no matter what i tried to do,
rewind, retension, anything.
It turns out the drive was internally 'crashed', i.e. in a broken state.
I had to disconnect it from power for a LONG time to force a power-cycle
of some sort. I read another solution is to upgrade the firmware, as the native
firmware is known to be buggy. The firmware upgrade is available on HP's site
(support -> tape drives -> drives no longer sold -> internal colorado 8G).
I hope this info will help.
-denis
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Subject: Re: Old 486 and 56k modem
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Jun 2001 20:42:30 -0400
Mario Giammarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an old 486 25sx with 16450 serial and ethernet.
> I would like to use it as a gateway to my home computers, but I remember
> that 16450 serials are not enough for a 56k modem.
>
> Is it true?
> New kernels have a solution?
>
> Thanks in advance for any reply.
Another option would be to get a 16550 based serial card for the 486. Siig
among other manufacturers makes a bunch of different cards that are supported
by Linux in both ISA and PCI formats. Pricewatch lists the cheapest price as
$23 (15 + 8 for s/h) for an ISA card.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Leroy)
Subject: Re: Help please: internal IDE tape drive
Date: 13 Jun 2001 17:48:05 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Briggs) wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I'm having trouble accessing an internal HP Colorado 4/8GB. The hardware
> itself seems OK as it repositions the tape on bootup; and Linux seems to
> recognize it OK (dmesg reports "hdd: HP COLORADO 8GB, ATAPI TAPE drive").
>
> But taper -T ide (using /dev/ht0) returns "Input/output error while
> rewinding tape"; and mt -f /dev/ht0 status also returns "Input/output
> error". So Linux seems to know the tape drive is there, but can't access
> it.
>
> Any suggestions where I'm going wrong here? (I'm running RH 6.1)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ian
First of all, the HP Colorado internal drive has never been well supported by
ide-tape, you really want to use it in SCSI emulation (load the ide-scsi and
st modules, the drive is available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0, even better boot
the kernel with append 'hdd=ide-scsi').
Two things you should try :
1) power-cycle the drive, i.e. unhook the power cord (several hours)
2) upgrade the drive firmware (Windows upgrade available on HP site).
Hope this helps.
-denis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Leroy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ide-tape.o errors
Date: 13 Jun 2001 17:52:29 -0700
Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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
The solution is to use the device in SCSI emulation mode, it'll work just fine.
modprobe ide-scsi
modprobe st
drive is now available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
-denis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Denis Leroy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ide-tape.o errors
Date: 13 Jun 2001 17:52:30 -0700
Ga Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 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
The solution is to use the device in SCSI emulation mode, it'll work just fine.
modprobe ide-scsi
modprobe st
drive is now available as /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
-denis
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From: "C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7.1 & Promise Ultra66 unable to install
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:05:57 -0500
Hi,
I'm trying to install RH7.1 on my home machine
(Digital Venturis 6200 with a 333Mhz Pentium Overdrive processor it has 64MB
Ram and a Promise Ultra66 controller (latest bios) and a AC28400R WD disk
which detects correctly on the controller.)
Onboard IDE is used for the CD i boot from, nothing else in the machine, the
display is an onboard Matrox MGA 2MB.
The installation bombs everytime (in both text and gui modes) when the
"installing software" screens come on, (after the software selections &
partitioninings)
I have it dual booted with NT which works fine.
The error message is
pfd:<some number> Xlib: unexpected async reply
on the console
tried all sorts of combinations of partitioning and installation.
Doesn't help.
Also in the text mode of install the message
type read: Operation not permitted
appears on the console before the machine reboots.
Would appreciate suggestions/help.
Thanks
Cyrus
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From: Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Old 486 and 56k modem
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:27:54 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mario Giammarco wrote:
> I have an old 486 25sx with 16450 serial and ethernet.
> I would like to use it as a gateway to my home computers, but I remember
> that 16450 serials are not enough for a 56k modem.
>
> Is it true?
> New kernels have a solution?
>
> Thanks in advance for any reply.
It'll work, but you'll get lots of comm overruns because of the small
(1 byte!) buffer on a 16450 UART, and data will need to be retransmitted a
lot. May I recommend that you try an internal modem (non-Windmodem, of
course)? Otherwise, get a serial card with a 16550AF or 16550AFN UART (not
the 16550A, which had some problems as I recall).
Marcus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 2 NIC's- Help pleeze!!!
Date: 14 Jun 2001 01:34:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:53:22 -0400, Kelly Watts at Ring's End staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
>I am a linux newbie and desperately want to avoid Windoze . My Redhat
>7.0 installer finds both my 3com905b-tx-m's and allows me to configure
>them. But after installation I can only ping the bottom card though
>ifconfig shows both cards there.
Please post the output from "ifconfig" that relates to eth0 and eth1.
Also, look at the output of "dmesg" for any errors that relate to
Ethernet. "lsmod" should show the 3c59x (or 3c90x, can't remember which
one works correctly with that 3com card, but I'm guessing 3c59x since
3c90x has never worked at all for me) module as loaded once. "cat
/proc/interrupts" should probably show eth0 and eth1 on different IRQs.
It should be possible for PCI cards to share an IRQ, but odd problems
might occur if both cards are on one and you're using 3c90x.
>I have another disk and installed Win98 on this machine and both cards
>work then, thereby proving the Asus A7V133 motherboard, irq's and nic's
>are ok.
No. Doze assigns IRQs to things differently than Linux does if certain
conditions are met. Make sure that "PnP OS" in your BIOS Setup is set
to "NO" as that will help you avoid a raft of other problems. Doze will
not care if it's set to "NO".
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Mess !!
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:46:45 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:49:07 GMT, cj101 staggered into the Black Sun and
> said:
>>A friend of mine gave me a an old PC that had W98 & Mandrake Linux on
>>it. Well, ..... I wanted to fdisk both partitions & fomat the whole
>>drive so that I could install RH 7.0 from scratch.
>>
>>Mistake 1: Removed partitions (Non-Dos).
>>
>>Mistake 2: Formatted HD. Apparentely, it still had Mandrake somewhere
>>on HD after formatting. RH FIPS boot disk says that I can't partition
>>"less that 12.??..?" CD started working at first, but then locked up
>>on me.
>>
>>My cdrom is reading W98 & ME, but not the RH Linux (from a book). I
>>want to TOTALLY wipe out my hard drive and then run just RH.
>
> Boot Linux in some way. http://www.toms.net/rb/ for the best rescue
> system you can fit on one floppy. Then do
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> ...et voil�, no more partitions of anything. Replace hda with sda if
> you're booting from a SCSI disk, of source. When you use the install CD
> for any OS, it will detect that the disk is unpartitioned, and start up
> a partitioning utility so that you can do whatever you want with the
> free space.
Education time. Is /dev/zero a legitimate /dev such as /dev/null? And
is bs=512 telling it to write to the MBR? What's count=1 do?
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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