Linux-Misc Digest #862, Volume #23 Thu, 16 Mar 00 07:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT ("Gene Heskett")
Whats best way to set up dial-in to the linux box ppp? ("Robert Chalmers")
Problems with Win95 and Samba ("Wayne Hendricks")
Converter from PCL to PDF or GS or TiFF (Dietmar Labahn)
which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink it? (jauming)
Re: Plotting Tool for Linux? (Jens Ritter)
Re: which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink (Jens Ritter)
Fwd: BSD Printing system - header page (Erek Laatz)
Re: plip (GarbMan)
Re: Learning Linux (Martijn Brouwer)
Re: which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink it? (Villy
Kruse)
agp device and memory handling ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Old dos game for Linux ("gongtow")
Re: removing linux partition (Simon White)
Re: Help: Free JDBC Driver (Kira Smyllie)
Re: unkillable linux box (Simon White)
What are frame errors? (sleddog)
urgent: /dev/st0 readonly !! (peter pilsl)
unix commands (dEUS)
Re: Help with Linux advocacy (John Loukidels)
Re: Old dos game for Linux (John Loukidels)
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Date: 15 Mar 2000 22:5:33 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Sean Akers;
I am beginning to think this card is trouble. I ran one for 6 months,
no problem, then suddenly it decided to start locking the bus, and
thence the whole machine, requireing a hard reset and reboot to fix.
I gave up, and threw some more money at it, getting an Advansys card
which seems to be a lot more intelligent, and hasn't crashed me since.
In my case it would write maybe 11 megs to the tape, at a good rate,
then lock the scsi bus up tight. Diddling terms didn't seem to effect
it one way or the other.
SA> I have recently aquired an old Adaptec AHA1542b ISA SCSI card and a Sony
SA> SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT drive and am having problems. The SCSI card is the only
SA> SCSI card in my system (a P166 with 64Mb RAM running SuSE 6.3) and the
SA> DAT drive the only SCSI device.
SA> When I try to write to a tape say using a command such as
SA> find /home -print | cpio -ocva > /dev/st0
SA> It writes about 20 Mb then stops with a change media message. Unusual for
SA> a drive with a minium of 4GB capacity. It also seems to be writing very
SA> slowly. After the failure occurs I can no longer do anything with
SA> /dev/st0 without removing the aha1542 module and reloading it as I get
SA> "device not configured" errors.
SA> When it fails the console log contains one of the following messages:
SA> Sent BUS RESET to scsi host 0
SA> st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00:
SA> sense key Not Ready
SA> or
SA> Sent BUS RESET to scsi host 0
SA> Additional sense indicates Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred
SA> Additional sense indicates Logical unit is in process of becoming ready
SA> I am running the SCSI adapter as a module. It seems to load OK if i
SA> insmod aha1542. It also recognises the DAT drive. When the SCSI module is
SA> loaded it generates the following messages:
SA> Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at IO:330, IRQ 11, DMA priority 5
SA> scsi : 1 host.
SA> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SA> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
SA> Which all looks OK to me.
SA> running mt -f /dev/st0 status generates
SA> drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape
SA> drive status = 318767616
SA> sense key error = 0
SA> residue count = 0
SA> file number = -1
SA> block number = -1
SA> Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)).
SA> Soft error count since last status=0
SA> General status bits on (1010000):
SA> ONLINE IM_REP_EN
SA> The 1542b SCSI card jumpers are set to:
SA> Sync negotiation: disabled (factory default)
SA> SCSI Parity Bit: enabled
SA> SCSI address: 7
SA> DMA Channel: 5
SA> Interrupt Channel: 11
SA> DMA Transfer Speed: 8.0
SA> BIOS: disabled
SA> I/O Port Address: 0x330
SA> BIOS Wait State: 0
SA> BIOS Address: DC00
SA> Floppy Support: disabled
SA> DMA Request Channel: 5
SA> DMA Acknowledge Channel: 5
SA> IRQ Channel: 11
SA> The DAT Drive is jumpered as follows:
SA> SCSI ID: 6
SA> Data compression: enabled
SA> SCSI Parity: On
SA> Terminator on: On
SA> Terminator Power: On (I have also tried with this set to off as well)
SA> Oh, I forgot to mention, the drive is connected internally inside my PC.
SA> Any help would be much appreciated. I'm beginning to think the drive
SA> doesn't like the old Adaptec card. I'd prefer not to have to go and buy a
SA> new card if at all possible as I only really want to run this single
SA> tape drive.
SA> Cheers,
SA> Sean.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Robert Chalmers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Whats best way to set up dial-in to the linux box ppp?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:23:53 +1000
What is the best way to set up easy, no fuss dial in to the Linux box, ppp?
thanks
Robert
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From: "Wayne Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Win95 and Samba
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:26:31 +0200
Hey All
I am running samba 2.0.5a on rh 6.1 and have it up and running fine. My
win95 workstations can connect and the drives and printers map beautifully.
I can run programs I've set up and can write files and directories to the
server but .....
when I open windows explorer on my computer the files are not displayed. If
I go into the dos prompt and go to the drive they are there. All the files
are the standard dos 8.3 format and no funny characters. Am I missing
something?
My win95 machines are all 95 b.
Any help I can get will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Wayne
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From: Dietmar Labahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Converter from PCL to PDF or GS or TiFF
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:30:02 GMT
Where can i find such a converter? Trying to convert Printer Data streams
to other formats for Fax, E-Mail attachment etc
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From: jauming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink it?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:29:07 GMT
which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink it?
thanks in advanced!:)
please also reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plotting Tool for Linux?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:13:08 +0100
Hallo JR,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Does anyone know of a very good data plotting/curve fitting tool for
> Linux that is similiar to Microcal's Origin software? Unfortunately
> Origin is only available for Windoze systems and I am trying to migrate
> all my existing Windows applications to Linux equivalents. If anyone
> knows of any commercial software or freeware for Linux, I'd appreciate
> it if you could point me in the right direction...
There is a huge list of plotting utilities in SAL (Scientific
applications for Linux --- sal.kachinatech.com)
Of the Free (as in beer and freedom) utilities I think noteworthy are:
- gnuplot (script based, GUI available)
- grace (former x(m)gr, nice GUI but no replacement for origin, yet)
- PHYSICA
- robot
Especially for datamining and not so much as a Origin replacement:
- PAW
- root ( both available from CERN with extensive histogramming
and data analyzing fitting capabilities, extreme automation,
script based, free for research).
- ESO-Midas (from ESO)
- IRAF (mostly for astronomics)
Commercial programs with free replacement:
- s-plus (statistics programming language, see "R" for
free implementation)
- MatLab (free replacement available)
Propietary programs:
- tecplot (95 % near Origin, cheapest License: $1500 single WinXX
license,
focuses on 3D voxel display, but 2D is rather complete
--- I would buy this, but it is too expensive)
- khoros (data flow and pipe based, includes graph -> program mapping
GUI,
free for research)
Work in progress:
- guppi, gnumeric (the plotting module I mean)
HTH,
JR
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From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:16:03 +0100
jauming wrote:
>
> which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink it?
> thanks in advanced!:)
AFAIK none,
use wipe and a script.
Jens
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From: Erek Laatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,fido.ger.linux,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Fwd: BSD Printing system - header page
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:16:28 +0100
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Hi,
I'm just working in a project regarding SaMBa. Therefor we'd like
to share all available printers for everyone.
Here we have a problme with the printerd header page:
It has a really rough format and it was printed after the print job.
Does anyone knows if it's possible
- to change the format of the header page? Which file do I have to
chanege?
- to print out header page before the print job?
Thanks a lot to all for their great work!
Best regards
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From: GarbMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: plip
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:38:19 -0600
Maignan wrote:
>
> I had plip working fine between a laptop (Slackware;kernel 2.2.6)
> and another PC (Redhat5;kernel 2.0.34).
> I made a new kernel on the PC;plip does not work anymore.
> When loading Linux "connot locate modules net-pf-4 and net-pf-5"
> When insmod plip,plip module does not resolve a number of
> adresses and does not load.
> Help!
> Thank you
>
> Georges Maignan
>
> --
> G.Maignan
For the net-pf-[45] problem, you can add the following lines to your
/etc/conf.modules
alias net-pf-4 off
alias net-pf-5 off
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt for a little more info on
it.
As for the plip module, just a stab, but do you have the modules (or
in-kernel support) for the parallel port going? If you do a 'depmod -a'
and then 'modprobe plip', does it still fail to load?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Learning Linux
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 00 08:34:45 GMT
In article <8aotqr$8ht$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Can someone tell me where to go to learn about Linux/Unix, either
>through books, or on the net(preferably free) even tutorials/courses.
>Would like to understand stand such things as Kernels, how to set up a
>server etc. Have only ever operated in a windows or macintosh
>environment, but would like to try Linux. Please help!!
If you are entirely new to Linux, but have some computer knowledge, I would
highly recommend 'Running Linux' published by O'Reilly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink it?
Date: 16 Mar 2000 08:38:22 GMT
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:16:03 +0100,
Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>jauming wrote:
>>
>> which filesystem for linux will clean file's content before unlink it?
>> thanks in advanced!:)
>
>AFAIK none,
>use wipe and a script.
>
If you set the 's' attribute with the chattr command on a file its is
supposed to whipe out the contents before deleting.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: agp device and memory handling
Date: 16 Mar 2000 09:17:04 GMT
Under 2.3.x, when agp device is loaded, the kernel issues several
messages such as:
memory : cbc6ca20
What dose this mean, bad thing ?
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From: "gongtow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Old dos game for Linux
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:34:42 +0800
Hello,
I want to play some old dos game on Linux.
What package could help?
or Where can I find help?
Thanks in advance
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From: Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing linux partition
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:30:58 +0000
> > >I have a problem with my linux partition. I have a 6 GB drive that has
> > >a 3GB primary partition and a 3GB extended partition. On the extended
> > >partition which I created with fdisk (dos) I made a partition of about
> > >1.2 Gb on which I tried to install Corel Linux.
> >
> > You installed past the 1024 cylinder limit: it was doomed anyway.
>
> But as cathyy pointed out, you probably went beyond the
> 1024 cylinder limit so you wouldn't have been able to boot
> from the hard disk. You probably would have been able to
> boot from a floppy though.
I have a 6Gb drive with the last 2Gb as linux partitions and a LILO boot
works fine, but then my drive lists less than 1024 cylinders. However, I
have heard that Ranish Partition Manager can boot beyond the magic 1024
boundary, by re-writing the MBR each time you boot to make the system
think ANY partition is bootable. Even 2nd hard drives, etc.
Jeez I should work as a PR for Ranish :-)
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From: Kira Smyllie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: Free JDBC Driver
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:35:13 GMT
> Does anybody know where I could download a free jdbc driver for oracle
> and/or mssql server for free. I'm using jdk1.2.2.
Hi Leo
Try the FreeTDS JDBC driver from www.freetds.org - it worked ok or me
with SQL Server 7.0 and jdk1.2.2.
As for Oracle, they provide their own JDBC drivers.
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From: Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unkillable linux box
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:47:11 +0000
Maybe the drive itself is jumpered as B, in which case switch it around.
Or there's a boot manager on the system which ignores BIOS settings; try
typing A at bootup to force a boot from that drive (some old boot managers
and antivirus used to do that as a virus protection, disabling any boot
attempt from A drive)
> Possibly the floppy is set as B? Did you try that in BIOS?
> >I've set the BIOS to boot to the A: drive, rebooted with a
> >bootable DOS disk (to trash the partitions with) and watched as Linux
> >cheerfully booted from the hard drive. How can I kill this Linux off so I
> >can get on with my fiendish plan to create a better Linux box?
> >
> >cathyy
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sleddog)
Subject: What are frame errors?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:20:25 GMT
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:1B:35:91:4E
inet addr:192.168.2.6 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:477228 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:95
TX packets:342964 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:3192 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x340
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx P-t-P:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6419 errors:54 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:54
TX packets:6405 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
eth0 is a coax connection to an NT4 workstation (Novell NE2000 card in the
Linux machine, 3com Etherlink 16 in the NT4 machine).
ppp0 is of course a dialup connection to my ISP, via an external USR
Sportster 33.6 modem.
What are the 'frame' errors? Is it something I should be concerned about,
and if so how do I correct it?
Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter pilsl)
Subject: urgent: /dev/st0 readonly !!
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:23:18 GMT
our backupsolution is based on a 10GB HP-SureStore T20
where we tar all our data each night (tar cpf /dev/st0
/data) on periodically changing tapes (one monday-tape, one
tuesday-tape, ....)
Since a short time I frequently (but in no visible pattern)
get the following error:
tar: Cannot open /dev/st0: Read-only file system
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
the error is not related with a specific tape, so whats
going on here ?
I just load the module for the adapter and then I have
/dev/st0. I dont mount any filesystem for this tape, I dont
configure the tape in any way, so where is the problem ??
thanks
peter
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From: dEUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unix commands
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:23:12 +0100
Hi,
Who has a large list of all the unix commands with their options?
Can you send me a list or a URL where i can find them
dEUS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Loukidels)
Subject: Re: Help with Linux advocacy
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:00:21 GMT
Remember, I am going to use the 486s not to run Netscape and SO 5.1
directly but as X-terminals (ie Netscape and SO 5.1 would actually run
on the kick-ass machine/server). Would the 486 still be too slow?
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:47:08 GMT, Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A 486 machine won't be suitable for running Netscape and
>StarOffice... (it would be slow).
>Buy a cheap but reliable Pentium-class PC with at least 64 MB RAM,
>but this machine will be some kind of server, so you'll need 128 MB
>or more...
>One machine cannot cost more than 1500 US$.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Loukidels)
Subject: Re: Old dos game for Linux
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:00:22 GMT
You want to use the dosemu package. There is a HOWTO on dosemu --
check the Linux documentation project for the latest version (the
latest I've seen is kind of old). I believe there is a website as
well: try a search for "dosemu" on google.
I've never used the package, but I've read that it works pretty well
now (it'll run WordPerfect 5.1 for example). If you try it, maybe you
can report back on how it went.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:34:42 +0800, gongtow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I want to play some old dos game on Linux.
>What package could help?
>or Where can I find help?
>
>Thanks in advance
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