Linux-Hardware Digest #914, Volume #14 Sun, 17 Jun 01 22:13:03 EDT
Contents:
3rd party partitioning tool ("cj101")
Re: Mandrake 8.0 freezing with DMA problems, please help! (Dave Uhring)
Re: Question: Erase partition tables from hard drive (Lars Luthman)
Re: USB Modem Prob ("kaidemuyo!")
Olitec Drivers ("kaidemuyo!")
SPARC Interest Fading? ("Cliff Kotnik")
Re: Linux, DAT and DOS Tapes ("Peter Kohut")
Top 10 poster (Michael Heiming)
Re: Digitalcamera Kodak DC 4800 ("arthur")
Re: Cheap place to buy new/used SCSI disks? (MindPatrol)
Re: Question: Erase partition tables from hard drive ("Fenster")
Re: USB Modem Prob (Georg Acher)
Re: VIA Lockups w/o IDE ("Gerard Daubar")
Re: Mandrake 8.0 freezing with DMA problems, please help! (Yu Di)
PSX USB gamepad adaptor? (HID compliant) (Keenan Clay Wilkie)
Re: IDE CD-ROM audio interface specs needed ("Mike Lowey")
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From: "cj101" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3rd party partitioning tool
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:03:32 GMT
I know this has probably been asked before, but I was wondering which 3rd
party Partitioning tool worked better: System Commander or Partition Magic
I'm running WinME, W2k, and would like to run Red Hat 7.1, Suse 7.1 &
Solaris 8 (Intel). To make things easier (if that's possible..:)) , I would
like to use a 3rd party application. Any insights?
thanks!
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 freezing with DMA problems, please help!
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:27:48 -0500
Yu Di wrote:
>
> Hi, I have installed Mandrake 8.0 with Cheapbytes CD-Roms. I have
> experienced innumerous system freezes during the installation and
> after I got it installed. Usually the pattern is that during some RPM
> software installation, the system suddenly freezes and I have to press
> "reset".
>
> This morning, I was trying to install a package using "rpm --install
> ..." in the console mode. I have already successfully installed some
> other packages in the same session. When the installation starts,
> after a while, I got these messages:
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
> hda: irq timeout: Status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete
> DataRequest}
> hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
> hdb: irq timeout: Status=0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete}
>
> Then the messages repeat themselves until I used "kill -9" in another
> console (the system is not yet completely frozen), and I got:
> hda: DMA disabled
> hdb: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
>
> I then ran the rpm command again, and immediately got a system freeze,
> the message is:
> hda: lost interrupt
>
> So I think this is a DMA problem, am I right? How shall I make it
> work? Thanks!
>
> My hard drive information is:
>
> hda is JV100-31 Samsung SV0432A, Ultra DMA Mode-2, S.M.A.R.T. Capable
> and Status Ok
> hdb is BAC51KJ0 Maxtor 32049H3, Ultra DMA Mode-4, S.M.A.R.T. Capable
> and Status Ok
>
> hda: Size=4312, Cyln=8912, Head=15, Wpcom=0, Sec=63, LBA=On, Blk=On,
> PIO=4, 32bit=Off
> hdb: Size=20492, Cyln=39704, Head=16, Wpcom=0, Sec=63, LBA=On, Blk=On,
> PIO=4, 32bit=Off
>
> My processor is PII350. I have 288M memory (8M of which is used as
> video card memory)
>
> Thanks a lot!
What motherboard chipset is dmesg reporting?
For the meantime, run as root
# hdparm -d0
which will turn off DMA and maybe save what data you have on the drive.
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From: Lars Luthman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Question: Erase partition tables from hard drive
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:39:31 +0200
Rod wrote:
> You should install Windows before linux if you plan to have both installed
> shouldn't you??
True, forgot about that. When you install Windows it replaces GRUB or
LILO with it's own bootloader which won't boot Linux.
But this might work:
Run the installer program for Mandrake (or any other installer that lets
you create FAT partitions).
Create partitions for Linux and one FAT partition for Windows.
Save the MBR too a floppy (I think that Mandrake has tools for this
too).
Install Windows in the FAT partition.
Boot from the floppy, boot Linux and install GRUB again.
Ugly, I know. =(
--ll
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From: "kaidemuyo!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Modem Prob
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:00:51 +0800
Hey, if no one can help me, I'm just gonna return this or sell it again!
"kaidemuyo!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9g7dpq$9if$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I bucked down for a new external modem, cos the internal winmodems are
just
> too much of a pain for me. I got a D-Link USB modem with a conexant
chipset
> (Mandrake 8 has Conexant chipset drivers). So how do I get Linux to
> detect/install my usb modem?
>
>
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From: "kaidemuyo!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Olitec Drivers
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:01:45 +0800
Anyone know whether the olitec drivers for the Conexant Chipset Modems for
Kernel 2.4 are out?
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From: "Cliff Kotnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SPARC Interest Fading?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 22:03:07 GMT
I am checking into getting started with Linux on a SPARC workstation.
Looking around, it appears that interest (or perhaps support) for Linux on
SPARC is fading. It makes me wonder if this is a good thing to get into at
this point in time.
Is Linux/SPARC still going strong?
--
Thanks,
Cliff
Cliff Kotnik
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter Kohut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, DAT and DOS Tapes
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 22:12:27 GMT
Thanks a bunch for your reply! However, I might not have expressed myself
clearly enough. I do not intend to do any backups, all I want to do is to be
able to restore the tapes that were originally created using Win
Backup/Restore. I thought if I can share the physical device then I might be
able to use the standard backup/restore app from Windows.
Anyways, thanks for your help!
Cheers,
Peter
"Krzysztof Gozdziewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9girfp$2co$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Peter Kohut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > I have a machine running Redhat Linux with a SCSI interface and a SONY
4mm
> > DAT hanging of it. I also have a bunch of tapes which were originally
> > written using NT Backup and Restore. My question is
>
> > a) is there any way that I can restore the content of the tapes using
Linux?
> > b) I also have a second machine running Win 2000, but unfortunately
without
> > SCSI. The Win 2000 machine is connected to the Linux machine using
simple
> > TCP/IP and SAMBA shares. Is it possible to configure the systems such
that I
> > can use the Windows 2000 Backup/Restore application with the DAT drive
> > hanging of the Linux machine?
>
> You can use free backup software called amanda
>
> http://www.amanda.org/
>
> Amanda works in serwer/client architecure. Windows machines may be
> archived with amanda too, it needs samba on the serwer working.
> Take a look at http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html.
>
> I think it will perfectly fit your needs.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Krzysztof Gozdziewski
> Life ain't fair, but the root password helps - BOFH
>
>
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 00:27:50 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Top 10 poster
Top 10 posters for the 7 day period ending 2001-06-18.
(comp.os.linux.hardware)
posts kbytes name address
1 13 29.8 Dances With Crows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 8 22.9 Steve Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3 8 17.7 Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
4 8 16.1 Denis Leroy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5 6 12.6 Phlip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6 5 11.9 Michael Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
7 5 11.9 Robert Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
8 5 11.6 Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
9 5 10.8 A. GUILLEVIC aguillevic@dmv-stainless.
10 5 6.6 Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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68 151.9 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
291 posters
434 articles
825.7 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.4% of the posters
15.7% of the articles
18.4% of the bytes
Averages:
1.5 articles / poster
1.9 kbytes / article
2.8 kbytes / poster
1 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 1 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
0.3% of the posters
0.2% of the articles
0.1% of the bytes
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From: "arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digitalcamera Kodak DC 4800
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:57:14 -0700
Manfred
Does SuSE include the mc (midnite commander)?
I find it nice for dealing with .tgz and other compressed formats.
Perhaps your download is bad? Did you download the files again?
I would do that and if it fails a 2nd time email the site you used.
If possible, find your missing libs on an FTP site. Much faster
and more accurate. Another nice http browser that works on Linux
is Opera. A little buggie at times but nice features and faster and
uses less memory than Netscape. I've given up on NS on Win98
and only use it on Linux when Opera fails (Opera doesn't handle
some types of http+plugins).
I have a Kodak DC240 and could use gPhoto (gnome) in serial
mode but prefer to have Win98 on the machine and use that
for things that don't yet work on Linux. I can access the Win98
partition from Linux and use Linux tools (if I want) to edit photos.
cheers
Arthur (remove .remove to email)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MindPatrol)
Subject: Re: Cheap place to buy new/used SCSI disks?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:16:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:18:04 -0400, "Ryn"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to purchase 6 4/9/18 gb SCSI disks. Has anyone found any
>cheap places on the web? I need the HH drives that would fit in
>an Ultra 1.
>
>Thanks for any info,
>
>- Ryn
>
>
Have you tried <http://www.softwareandstuff.com>
They have cheap full height drives, don't know about HH.
They're in San Jose, California, USA and I've bought stuff
from them in the past.
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From: "Fenster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Question: Erase partition tables from hard drive
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 19:23:06 -0400
Thanks tremendously for all the solutions offered.
THANKS!
Fen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Acher)
Subject: Re: USB Modem Prob
Date: 17 Jun 2001 23:34:54 GMT
In article <9gj947$rea$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"kaidemuyo!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Hey, if no one can help me, I'm just gonna return this or sell it again!
Try the ACM-driver and have a look at www.linux-usb.org. If the modem isn't
ACM-compliant (can't say...), buy an Elsa Microlink 56K USB (without the "Fun").
That works with the ACM-driver.
--
Georg Acher, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.in.tum.de/~acher/
"Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias
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From: "Gerard Daubar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA Lockups w/o IDE
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:45:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ralf Beyer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000
>> (rev 07)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Remove it (disable ist not enough)! Seems that the latest BIOS (1005A)
Is there an to the SB Live! card out there that works in Linux? I used
the digital out on the sb live for my surround speakers and would like to
keep this functionality.
I've looked at the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz but I couldn't find if it was
fully supported. Any recommendations?
Thanks again for that fix,
Gerard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yu Di)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 freezing with DMA problems, please help!
Date: 17 Jun 2001 18:01:27 -0700
Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> What motherboard chipset is dmesg reporting?
>
> For the meantime, run as root
>
> # hdparm -d0
>
> which will turn off DMA and maybe save what data you have on the drive.
Hi, I have pasted the "dmesg" output to the end of this message. When
I tried to boot Linux this time, I noticed that it said IRQ is unknown
for hda or so, and suggested using "pci=biosirq", so I re-booted and
started Linux with the option "pci=biosirq mem=280M". Then I ran dmesg
and got the information.
Also, I found that my /usr partition has suffered losses, a lot of
libraries were damaged, as a result a lot of applications cannot run.
Therefore I will need to re-install everything. If you found what is
wrong with my machine, could you kindly tell me how I can prevent it
from freezing up during the installation also? Thanks a lot!
=====================dmesg outputs
begin-------------------------------------
Linux version 2.4.3-20mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.0))
#1 Sun Apr 15 23:03:10 CEST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000117f0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000117f0000 - 00000000117f8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000117f8000 - 0000000011800000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 71680
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 67584 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 pci=biosirq mem=280M
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 350.794 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 699.59 BogoMIPS
Memory: 279284k/286720k available (976k kernel code, 7048k reserved,
287k data, 696k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 00:01.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 185197kB/61732kB, 576 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 01
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1.
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiS620
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: SAMSUNG SV0432A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 32049H3, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 44X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 8421840 sectors (4312 MB) w/220KiB Cache, CHS=524/255/63,
UDMA(33)
hdb: 40021632 sectors (20491 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63,
UDMA(66)
hdc: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: No disk in drive
hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 >
Serial driver version 5.05 (2000-12-13) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS
MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 696k freed
Adding Swap: 473876k swap-space (priority -1)
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
MSDOS FS: Using codepage 850
MSDOS FS: IO charset iso8859-1
cmpci: version v2.41-nomodem time 23:13:10 Apr 15 2001
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0f.0
cmpci: found CM8338A adapter at io 0xdc00 irq 11
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Subject: PSX USB gamepad adaptor? (HID compliant)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keenan Clay Wilkie)
Date: 17 Jun 2001 21:34:04 -0400
I've got a supposedly HID-compliant USB PSX/N64 -> PC gamepad adaptor
(id 6666:0667 -- Windows picks it up as a 16-button gamepad) and I've
been trying to set it up under Linux, but so far I've had no luck. I
have compiled my kernel with input core support, HID support and
joydev support and I've tried doing it both as modules and in the
kernelspace. I followed the advice from a USB assistance webpage and
tried 'mknod /dev/input/js0 c 13 0' but 'cat /dev/input/js0' tells me
that there is No such device.
The device is being picked up, as usbview lists it as an Unknown
Device, but I don't know how to get it recognized as my joystick.
Anyone have any suggestions?
--
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From: "Mike Lowey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE CD-ROM audio interface specs needed
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:39:58 -0700
I think that you are probably right. This is what I want to do. I have been
having a hard time finding the specifics on the ATAPI audio interface
though. You mentioned a web site where a PIC to do it? I will search some
more. If you have more specifics I would really appreciate it.
Thank you,
Mike
"Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ghq8q$fe7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <9ge9e4$sgg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mike Lowey"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I am looking for specs (pins, timing, etc..) to control a new cd-rom
> > drive to play audio CDs. I figured that some Linux people might be
> > writing an audio-cd interface and would have the info that I need. I am
> > going to be controlling the drive with a Xilinx FPGA so I need some low
> > level specifics. I have found information on IDE ATA interface for data
> > CDs but I need more audio specific info. Does anyone have any
> > suggestions? IT would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Mike
>
> If you are only going to play audio cds, then surely you only need ATAPI
> control data, the drive will decode and ouput the audio thro the audio
> socket to the soundcard. This has already been done using a pic
> microcontroller, the info is on a web page or am I misreadinf what you
> want to do.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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