Linux-Misc Digest #13, Volume #19 Sat, 13 Feb 99 19:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers (Matthias Warkus)
Re: first unix port to x86 (Matthias Warkus)
Q: Protocol problems (Mark Grosberg)
WANTED:Linux RF design software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I don't want come back to Windows NT ...! ("Giuseppe Frangiamone")
extended partition problem (Dawid Michalczyk)
Re: Europarlement wishes to ban Proxy servers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DHCP ("Jeremy L. Buchmann")
Help Needed: buffer cache ("Jeff Chua")
sharing files between to linux machines??? ("The NightmarE")
Re: hacked login (Johan Kullstam)
SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2 ("Brian Wildasinn")
Re: Need info on OS case of failure (Johan Kullstam)
Re: XFSTT & emacs: No fonts match... (David M. Cook)
Re: Flush swap manually? ("Norm Dresner")
Does anyone know of a VGA overlay board with NTSC compatible output? ("Norm Dresner")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:36:24 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 12 Feb 1999 19:35:17 GMT...
..and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> They destroyed what he put the most credence in. The way history will see
> him.
>
> He deserved it. He is a piece of shit.
>
> So are most Democrats.
I increasingly feel like you, Sir, are a troll.
mawa
--
So being a network guru qualifies you to 'judge' all OSes, and to
predict that Linux won't work because Netscape fails on your machine?
I don't think so.
-- Persona, on comp.os.linux.advocacy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: first unix port to x86
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 21:38:30 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 13 Feb 1999 00:30:31 -0500...
..and Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip original UNIX had no memory protection]
> >Spawn me XTerms.
> Gimme your time machine. X in 1969?
Hum, this was *an exclamation*.
> X in 24K (erm... 16K)? You are
> kidding. BTW, if you want to look at the description of original beast look at
> www.cs.bell-labs.com/~dmr. Dennis keeps an impressive archive there (including
> manpages of v1 dated Nov 3, '71 and several pretty interesting papers on the
> history of thing).
I'll have a look.
> >No segfaults, then?
> Nope. Just panic(). Damn, get Minix or ELKS and try them - both are
> easily available. Both run on 8086 quite fine (Minix runs on other MMU-lacking
> platforms).
I still don't get it - how can the system panic() when it's got no way
to determine whether there has been a violation? Or is panic()
unrelated to memory management?
mawa
--
You gotta watch your toes! Your toes, that is!
-- The Rooster
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From: Mark Grosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Protocol problems
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:14:21 GMT
Hello all,
I am seeing something very strang with my Linux box (2.0.36). It functions
as a router from my home ethernet dialing into my ISP. For my Linux box
and the other machines in my house I have static IP's so I can get to them
from anywhere.
Everything is working fine except:
Some HTTP servers refuse to send back any information when I send
them a GET request. If I do it from the machine I am dialed up into
(via PPP), it can get them fine. So the problem is either in my link
or my Linux box.
The most annoying of these sites is www.amazon.com. It is not a routing
problem, I can ping/telnet/etc to them just fine. It is only a problem
with HTTP.
So, if I (on the machine I am dialed up into) type:
% telnet www.amazon.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
I get back the data. If I do the identical command on my Linux box (or on
my HP-UX or Solaris boxes) it just hangs _AFTER_ I submit the GET request.
So, I can send packets to them, and they can send them to me (since we
established a TCP socket), but they won't send back the data.
It is as if they are waiting for something from my machine or who knows
what (most of the offending servers seem to be IIS-4.0 though).
I don't serve up the PTR records on my DNS server but they seem to be
easily obtainable (and I have let a GET request sit for over an hour and
it never did anything -- just sat there -- so whatever is on the other end
isn't timing out).
I do run a local (caching only) nameserver that points to the root
servers. But it gets back the same IP as on those machines that work.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this before? Please help, this is very
frustrating.
Thanks,
Mark G.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: WANTED:Linux RF design software
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:19:55 GMT
I'm looking for antenna and RF filter design programs for the LINUX OS.
I've found a few not very good ones and I've asked the ARRL (they don't
have any info), so if anyone has some info, it would be very much
appreciated.
Thanks!
georgej.
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From: "Giuseppe Frangiamone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: I don't want come back to Windows NT ...!
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:42:00 +0100
I've trying to migrate from Windows NT company server to Linux but I've a
big problem with the SCSI controller.
I've installed Linux RH52 and after the kernel 2.2.1-4.
I've an aic7880 controller and I get timeouts errors coping files. These is
a part of log/messages:
at boot :
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi : detected total.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: IP-Config: No network devices available.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Partition check:
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host
adapter> found at PCI 16/0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419
instructions downloaded
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host
adapter>
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id
1, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id
2, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160W
Rev: S60B
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id
3, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DORS-32160W
Rev: WA6A
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: starting. named 8.1.2 Thu Sep 24 02:47:08
EDT 1998 ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/src/bin/named
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN)
loaded (serial 1997022700)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: listening on [10.57.9.181].53 (eth0)
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[280]: Forwarding source address is
[0.0.0.0].1024
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id
4, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 28388-XXX
Rev: 5.AC
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: Sequential-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 6.67 Mbyte/sec,
offset 15.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-ROM CR-506
Rev: 8S05
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Type: CD-ROM
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0,
id 6, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 15.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:56 linux named[281]: Ready to answer queries.
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCPD $Name:
V2-BETA-1-PATCHLEVEL-6 $
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 The Internet
Software Consortium.
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Listening on Socket/eth0/NIERING
Feb 11 17:48:57 linux dhcpd: Sending on Socket/eth0/NIERING
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 >
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sdb: sdb1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sdc: sdc1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sdd: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sdd: sdd1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: SCSI device sde: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: sde: sde1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=1
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 4,
s/g segs 16.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
5, lun 0
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at
0x8000, 00:60:97:7a:3b:aa, IRQ 5
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, 10base2
interface.
Feb 11 17:48:55 linux kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and
whole-frame receives.
...
sometimes copying files:
Feb 11 18:04:26 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8968) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8972) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:04:40 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:04:43 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:43 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:43 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:04:57 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 8968) timed
out - trying harder
Feb 11 18:04:57 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:05:00 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:00 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:00 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:13 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8968) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:05:13 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:05:13 linux kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid
8997, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 0x0a 06 ca ed f4 00
Feb 11 18:05:15 linux kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 8997) timed out -
resetting
Feb 11 18:05:15 linux kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
Feb 11 18:05:18 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:18 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Feb 11 18:05:18 linux kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec,
offset 8.
Please help me?
Thanks
Giuseppe
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From: Dawid Michalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: extended partition problem
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:16:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem description:
I have 2 harddrives and run Linux(RH5.1), NT, and W98 on my computer.Since I
need more
space for Linux, I want to devote one of the FAT16 partitions on hda to Linux.
The problem(I think) is that the partition which I want to devote to Linux is an
extended
one, and the Linux fdisk tool can't see the logical drives of the extended
partitions.
I get the following printout when using fdisk(under Linux):
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 246 1975963+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 247 247 1229 7895947+ f Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(1228, 254, 63)
The hda, which is FAT16 only, consists of one primary partition(C or hda1) and 4
extended
partitions(E, F, G, H or hda2).All 5 partitions are 1930Mb in size.Linux and NT
are both
installed on hdb.
I have deleted the H partition(using Partition Magic 3) and tried to add it
under
Linux, using fdisk.However, I always got the following message: no free blocks
available.
I also tried using cfdisk, and I get the following right after typing the cfdisk
command:
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition
Press any key to exit fdisk
I have a modern hardware setup and never experienced any problems:
P2 350Mhz/256MB RAM
hda is a 10.1GB IBM
hdb is a 6.4GB Quantum
Is anybody able to explain what m I doing wrong, or what I need to do in order
to
get more space for Linux?
Thanks in advance, Dawid
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows-nt.misc
Subject: Re: Europarlement wishes to ban Proxy servers
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:24:04 GMT
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:43:28 +0100, Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Those fucking guys with ties in Brussel, are thinking about banning
>proxy servers from the internet!!!
>They clame to provide copyright security this way.
>But infact it is the start of a new plan to let people pay tax per
>packet send over the internet.
>
>Let these fucked-up people do some usefull work for a change instead of
>picking their noses and drinking expensive wine and eating expensive
>food and come up with stupid plans.
>They cost the european tax payers a awfull lot of money to come up with
>this stupid ideas.
You ain't seen nothin' yet. Europeans should be urging their governments to
withdraw from the EU before it's too late. Free trade of goods and movement of
people between countries is good; another larger layer of government is only
asking for trouble.
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From: "Jeremy L. Buchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP
Date: 13 Feb 1999 23:21:29 GMT
Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I having problems with DHCP on @home under Linux. Whenever I reboot my
: machines(both Linux), my resolv.conf is changed to nameservers that
: don't exist. How can I stop this?
What distribution are you using? Your boot scripts may have lines that
overwrite certain files when you reboot. Look in your /etc/rc.d/ and look
through the scripts to see if they overwrite your resolv.conf.
===================================================================
Jeremy Buchmann "Those who trade freedom for safety deserve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] neither freedom nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
===================================================================
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From: "Jeff Chua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help Needed: buffer cache
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 22:43:33 +0800
Is there a way to flush the buffer cache so that a "mount" would read
DIRECTLY from
the disk instead of looking at the buffer cache?
"sync" would flush data "to" the disk, but a "read" would still read from
the buffer
cache.
Jeff.
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From: "The NightmarE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sharing files between to linux machines???
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:26:35 +0100
help..
how do I share files between two linux machines...
thanx in advance.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: hacked login
Date: 12 Feb 1999 10:01:49 -0500
gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Graffiti wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rafael Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Someone probably hacked the login program in my Linux system and it
> > >doesn't record te remote host address for a remote telnet login in the
> > >"wtmp" file. I recompiled the login program but the problem persists.
> > >Any idea what else I should check to solve the problem.
> > > Thanks
> > > Rafael.
> >
> > Never, ever, ever, *ever* continue to use a compromised system if you can help it.
> > Re-install.
> > No, I'm serious.
> > You never know what *else* was compromised. libc? syslogd? cc? ftp?
> > You might try to grab an update to replace binaries that you *think* are
> > compromised, but that's completely useless if, say, ftp was compromised to grab
> > a trojan'd binary. Unlikely, yes. Impossible? No.
> > Re-install.
> > And when you do, pick different/new passwords for *all* your accounts.
> >
> > -- DN
>
> If you have an RPM managed system, RdHat, SuSE, etc, then you can use
> flags to RPM to determine which, if any, files have been modified. I
> forget the flags, but try it. IIRC it is -v or something, for verify. It
> can do MOD5 checksums, etc.
rpm itself can also be comprimised. you never know. the complete
reinstall is really the only way. you *did* make backups of important
configuration information, didn't you?
it's sad how backup systems remain expensive and are not made standard
with your system. a good tape drive is as essential as a cd-rom
player imho. yet major PC manufactures seldom include a back-up
system in their products.
--
johan kullstam
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From: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 06:16:36 -0800
Reply-To: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all!
Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.32
seem to be doing the same thing during installation.
they're all saying "No SCSI attached!!!"
Why is it that only Redhat5.2 was able to see my SCSI drive
during installation?
All the other installers gave me one choice only --/dev/hda1
(Linux via Debian & Slackware) or /dev/wd0 (*BSD)-- or
nothing at all if the UDMA drive was unplugged. It's been
a few days, but I think I had to trick Redhat also, by making
the bios select scsi first and removing the ribbon from the
IDE drive. Anyway SCSI first returns 0, then the SCSI Drive
and Card appear to do some sort of download of driver info,
so that the Redhat installer eventually sees the SCSI drive.
Looks like Redhat has a longer probe time than the other
installers. So what should I do?
I was really surprised about Debian since I've had 2.0 running
on a m68k macintosh for quite a while with SCSI disk chains.
Tho this one is a 2940U2W scsi card with matching transfer speed
IBM drive.
These other installers appear to probe the
system without looking at a BIOS selection, which for my
box can switch preferences between IDE and SCSI, which
looks similar to load order choice for floppy, CDROM, and C
drive, etc...
So is the only way to get these other OSes up is to unplug
PnP settings for the SCSI card? Or is there some other tweak
to solve this? By the way, only Redhat5.2 had a working
fips20, fdisk programs for FAT32 partitions. Changed the
unused paritions to FAT16, then tried them with Linux native,
but no go with that either.
Any help is appreciated!
Brian Wildasinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
notes: Asus p2b 440bx PII350, Adaptec SCSI Card 2940U2W;
Win98 & Redhat dual booting with Win98 requiring first priority
in LILO to avoid hanging the MBR. Basically I;'ve got a 4Gig
drive with equal parititions for each OS.
Here's some of the /var/log/messages:
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using
exception 16 error reporting.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.0.36
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT
1998
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial
options enabled
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks
of 4096K size
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0
function 33
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, 9671MB w/512kB Cache,
CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdb: VerH, ATAPI CDROM drive
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:253, ATAPI CDROM
drive
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : detected total.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Partition check:
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: hda1
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
adapter> found at PCI 12/0
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255
SCBs
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 407
instructions downloaded
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.2/3.2.4
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
adapter>
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D
Rev: DC1B
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel
0, id 1, lun 0
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 80.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
Sectors= 8925000 [4357 MB] [4.4 GB]
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9
>
Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
<end of blah blah blah>
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need info on OS case of failure
Date: 12 Feb 1999 10:03:25 -0500
Malinda Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm a graduate student who is writing a paper on an operating system
> failure. I must identify and discuss a genuine case where a
> technological flaw in the OS resulted in loss or complete failure.
>
> Can anyone recommend such a case? Anyone seen articles on this?
>
> Email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you may want to peruse the microsoft windows groups.
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFSTT & emacs: No fonts match...
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:48:44 GMT
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:28:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>emacs -fn "-*-courier new-bold-r-normal-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
Try "-*-courier new-bold-r-normal-*-*-160-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
I've found this to be one of the better monospace fonts for programming.
(Although at 800x600, adobe courier works a little better.) If anyone knows
of a better monospace font I'd like to know about it.
Dave Cook
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From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Flush swap manually?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:22:23 GMT
Whoa. Swap space is used as an extension of physical RAM to form the
virtual memory space for _running_ programs, daemons, etc. There's no way
you can accurately say that you don't intend to use what's in swap space
unless you don't intend to use some running process, in which case you can
simply terminate it (or kill it if it has no user interface).
As for buffers,
man sync
Norm
oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<BKIw2.52$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Anyone know how I can manually flush swap?
> I know people say that the system is smart and will do it on it's
> own, but that sometimes doesn't happen when running a lot of
applications.
> For example, when I'm working with serveral gigabytes of
> multimedia files I'll sometimes find that swap is
> being used, but when I want to go back and work on other things that
> don't require a lot of memory usage I find that there's
> a lot of stuff still in swap and my hard drive works harder than usual.
> Most troubling is my hard drive's red light
> which STAYS on, even when the hard drive isn't being accessed!
> There's no way the system can know that I don't intend to work on
> anything it has saved in swap, there's no way
> the system can know that I'm going to use a whole new set of
> applications so it makes good sense in such cases
> to clear out swap manually.
> The same can be said with memory in ram. Anyone know how I could
> flush ram so that there's nothing in the buffers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Tony
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Abbreviate - af 2 millenia, a btr wy t rd n wri.
> http://www.eskimo.com/~oak/abr/
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does anyone know of a VGA overlay board with NTSC compatible output?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:15:07 GMT
We're currently using a TrueVision Targa+ board under (AMX, a Real Time
Operating System) which runs over DOS. We want to transition to
(real-time) linux and have three choices:
1) If it works, run the MS-DOS device driver in DOSEMU to initialize the
board,
or 2) Disassemble and write a comparable LINUX driver to initialize the
board
and in either cases 1 or 2 to use the library for which we have complete
source code that is independent of the driver linked with the program,
or 3) replace it with more modern hardware.
It's used with an NTSC input to create a VGA overlay which is then output
via RGB in NTSC to a "simple" TV monitor. We could get a much more complex
external video combiner, but that's also a lot more expensive than even the
labor to disassemble the DOS-driver would cost.
This video stream is not used as the main display of the computer which
also has a separate VGA for user interaction.
What's available that we could use that has LINUX-compatible drivers?
Norm
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