Linux-Misc Digest #738, Volume #24 Wed, 7 Jun 00 09:13:01 EDT
Contents:
gmt time on file creation date (Keith)
Re: Does Linux support Multiprocessors? ("Martin Knoblauch")
Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: File table overflow SOLVED ("Andreas Moroder")
Re: KA7 Linux Lockups (F. Heitkamp)
Re: problem with auth (identd) (Hal Burgiss)
Delaying eth0 initialization ("Hsinko Yu")
Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux (Mark(un-MASKForsyth))
Re: WANTED Epson Printer Driver (Mark(un-MASKForsyth))
Re: help with Tob file restoration (Marc D. Williams)
Re: How to set icons from Enlightenment theme? (Marc D. Williams)
Re: Resetting Video Card from console (Marc D. Williams)
XFree86 4.0 on Inspiron 7500 (The Procrastinator)
doc on linux 200 Mb disk (Martijn Brouwer)
Which printing alternative is better? ("William T. Trotter")
Re: How to create device on diskette? (Sverre Torjussen)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Donal K. Fellows)
remote tape device access (Luke Barber)
Abit-BP6 motherboard ..?? (Ish Rattan)
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From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gmt time on file creation date
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 06:06:59 CDT
Hi!
Info:
# uname -a
Linux blah.edu 2.2.13-0.13smp #1 SMP Tue Jan 11 13:26:01 EST 2000 i686
unknown
# date
Wed Jun 7 05:59:22 CDT 2000
# /sbin/clock -r
Wed Jun 7 05:59:31 2000 -0.317672 seconds
The hardware and software clock agree. However, when I create a new
file it creates it with GMT time (+5 hrs). I have looked at the
/etc/sysconfig/clock UTC and ARC are both false. The zone is US/Central.
I do not know what other files to look at.
Thanks for any pointers,
keith
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From: "Martin Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Does Linux support Multiprocessors?
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:08:59 +0200
"Terrence Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On this note, how can I tell if the SMP support is being used. For NT at
> least, there task-bar shows 2 resource indicators. I am looking for
> something that shows the status of the CPU, "top" cannot tell.
>
> Pardon my novice question.
>
> Terrence
"xosview" will show a separate bar for each available CPU.
Martin
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux
Date: 7 Jun 2000 11:05:25 GMT
Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: relatively small percentage of the entire day's cpu load. Just
: as you mentioned that only a "few dozen" processes are running
: on your machine after Peter said 100, it is the unseen detail
You got me wondering. My box is currently having a sleepy day:
1:03pm up 5 days, 15:04, 0 users, load average: 0.12, 0.20, 0.14
90 processes: 83 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 5 stopped
CPU states: 2.3% user, 1.6% system, 0.0% nice, 96.3% idle
Mem: 128316K av, 115232K used, 13084K free, 25912K shrd, 26440K buff
Swap: 258008K av, 8548K used, 249460K free 39208K cached
: that makes a difference. There are many many processes, running
: under the mantle of a number of different users, that are
: started up and run to completion on a periodic or random basis.
Peter
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From: "Andreas Moroder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: File table overflow SOLVED
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:50:54 +0200
Thank you to Andrew ( = Andreas ) for the answer, but we have found the
solution reading
the documentation in usr/src/linux/Documentation/memory-tuning.txt
We made
cd to /proc/sys/kernel
cat file-nr ( gives the number of open files , 1080 in our case )
cat file-max ( gives the number of maximal open files , 1024 in our case )
nr was bigger than max
now we made
echo 2000 > file-max
and all worked well.
We now must remeber to put this simple echo in a init file or to set it by
hand the next time we boot
( in don't know if we will remmeber becaus uptime gives us "12:47pm up 184
days," )
Andreas Moroder
Andrew Williams schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Someone else had this a few weeks ago and started a discussion in
>news:comp.protocols.smb - maybe you should try and find that.
>
>A question, since I can't remember what the result was: Does this message
come
>from Samba or the Kernel?
>Another Q: What Samba level?
>If it is a kernel message, you could try moving to 2.0.38 - I have used it
>since it came out and it works fine. It is the latest 2.0.xx release.
>
>
>Andreas Moroder wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> every two weeks our linux server 2.0.35 that runs samba gives me the
error
>> message
>>
>> "File table overflow".
>>
>> Can anyone tell me whats wrong and how I can solve this problem.
>>
>> thank you
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> P.S. please e-mail me
>
>--
>Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect, especially on my
> http://home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html
>Simple Samba Solutions web page. ICQ 1722461
>
>
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (F. Heitkamp)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:36:13
Subject: Re: KA7 Linux Lockups
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In message <Aix_4.2764$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "jacques daguerre"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sun, 4 Jun 2000 20:34:54 +0200 writes:
>
>I have experienced similar problems and change my KA7 board 4 times because
>of this.
>I was leaving my system on during the night and in the morning it was
>locked, only way out being the power switch.
>I have changed several setups even compiled a newer kernel, installed the
>latest version of gnome 1.2, enable the VIA chip C586 in the kernel, disble
>APM modules, etc.. all of this without success. I have a board that seems
>to work now. I have read something on the KA7 FAQ that suggested to
>increase the I/O voltage from 3.3v to 3.5V, I beleive this could help but
>couldn't really demonstrate it. I love this KA7 board but I very much doubt
>the quality of the VIA chipset...
>
I am starting to wonder too. Having to slow RAM speed to 100 is bad
enough, though still could be the RAM stick. Now, I have to push the
reset half a dozen times to get the computer to boot. Once I even
got the ROM password prompt, and I don't even have the password
enabled. Needless to say that scared the crap out of me. Now I'm
afraid to turn the system off, incase it will not boot. What do
you think this problem could be?
Fred
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: problem with auth (identd)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:48:03 GMT
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 09:17:09 GMT, A.Helleboid
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On a Redhat 6.2
>Every 10 minutes I get a message in /var/log/messages :
>saule inetd : auth/tcp : bind : adress already use
You have more than one identd running. One from inetd, and one
standalone starting from /etc/rc.d. ??? Is mail polled every 10 minutes?
--
Hal B
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From: "Hsinko Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Delaying eth0 initialization
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:12:13 +0800
Hello all,
I think i did buy a bad card, Dlink DFE-530TX(PCI).
Anyone having it may now know what i say. I have tried
many solutions from the internet, but they all don't work
to me. Until now, i get the following message while booting,
Bringing up interface eth0
Delaying eth0 initialization.....[FAIL]
I just can't stand it anymore.
Please those who have the experience setting it up help me.
Thanks in advance.
ps. I use Redhat6.0 and via-rhine driver.
Hsinko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark(un-MASK)Forsyth)
Subject: Re: Serious fragmentation under Linux
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:15:26 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:01:41 -0400, Art S. Kagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[INCREDIBLE amounts of deletia]
An interesting side effect of the inbuilt "fragmentation resistance"
of modern file systems is that you can't see performance degradation
coming. In the 'old' days (20years ago) you'd mentally keep track of
which disks are really volatile and watch 'em. When things started to
get 'messy' you'd schedule a weekend to do a backup and restore defrag.
Now that we have smart disk firmware, smart write back caching algorithms,
even smarter read ahead and downright clever file systems things seem
to be fine and then all of a sudden they aren't...:( ie. You don't see
it coming. No worries though. About the only thing that'll ever get to
thepoint of a REAL VISIBLE performance problem is a 'just exactly the
right size' spool partition for a FULL NNTP feed. Even then it takes
months. Even then I just blow it away and resync...:)
>
>There are several reasons why file fragmentation is less of a problem under
>Linux ext2fs and other UNIX filesystems than it was under DOS (and windoze
>IS better about this than DOS for similar reasons). Let me try to explain.
>On a FAT partition each file is represented by a linked list of block
>pointers in the FAT and a fragmented file can mean jumping around the FAT
>table and around the disk quite a bit. Because native DOS does not cache,
>smartdisk asside, and because DOS is single user, and so is Windoze, there
>is a big impact on system performance if the drive heads have to be moved
>about alot.
>
>On the other hand Linux and other UNIX filesystems represent a file with
>an inode which, unless the file is very large, contains pointers to
>contiguous blocks of disk assigned to the file/inode. All of the blocks
>pointed to by each inode entry, the 8K referred to, are contiguous. Now
>any file larger than 8K will have multiple entries to other contiguous
>groups of blocks and each entire group is read into the system cache in
>one operation using read-ahead. Dances explains how Linux tries to keep
>each group contiguous with the last group in a file or at least close.
>This sometimes helps by reducing head movement, however, since Linux is
>a multi-user operating system, head position after a read is mostly
>irrelevant as other tasks and users will also be reading and writing that
>drive and the buffer cache will be flushing older data out also moving the
>drives' heads. This is why one does not notice as quickly any performance
>impact from 'fragmented' files. The normal head movement that is part of
>a multi-tasking multi-user system masks most performance impact and the
>intelligent cacheing and inode design improve performance by normally
>fetching the next block from disk to the cache before it is called for
>so that applications do not notice any slowdown. Intelligent controllers
>and disks (which mitigate for Windoze also somewhat), elevator sorting of
>requests, out-of-order retrieval, etc all go to make fragmentation of all
>but the worst kind irrelevant.
>
>Art S. Kagel
--
Mark F...
unMASK for e-mail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark(un-MASK)Forsyth)
Subject: Re: WANTED Epson Printer Driver
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:25:41 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:57:38 +0200, Beno�t Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Edwin Johnson wrote:
>
>> That driver is included in the later versions of ghostscript. I have ver 5.1
>> on my computer and it as well as to other resolutions are on there. If your
>> version of ghostscript doesn't have the drivers, you probably should upgrade
>> for you can print with 360x, 720x, and 1440x resolutions.
>>
>> On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:39:51 +0200, Beno�t Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> >Greetings,
>> >
>> >I am looking for the 'stc600p.upp' driver, for my Epson Stylus Color 640
>> >printer. Please could someone tell me where to find it ?
>
>Sorry. Actually, I have the driver (well hidden ;) in
>/usr/share/ghostscript/5.10). How should I configure ghostscript (or apsfilter
>?) to use it ?
>
gs @stc600p.upp -r1440 -sOutputFile=\|lpr -sPAPERSIZE=a4 file_name -c quit
should just about do it.
>
>--
>
>Beno�t Smith
>Just a Rhyme Without a Reason
>
>
>
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Mark F...
unMASK for e-mail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,fa.linux.tape
Subject: Re: help with Tob file restoration
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:27:08 GMT
On Tue, 30 May 2000 19:39:15 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Please help!
>
>I am having trouble restoring a directory from tape with Tob. I have
>been using it for awhile and have restored files, but never a complete
>directory.
>
>I use:
>
>tob -restore /where/the/file/is/file.txt
>
>to restore a file, but when I run
>
>tob -restore /where/the/file/is/
>
>no worky. it just spins through the whole 20GB tape and then I find
>out 30 minutes later that nothing was restored.
>
Try it with quotes. Something like this should work.
tob -restore '/where/the/file/is/*'
It's best to use the quotes even when restoring single files in
case a certain character in the file name gets expanded.
For instance just a couple of days ago I tried to restore some older
files. glib-1.2.6.tar.gz was fine but nothing happened when trying to
restore gtk+-1.2.6.tar.gz. The plus (+) was the problem.
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: How to set icons from Enlightenment theme?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:27:09 GMT
On 31 May 2000 09:56:16 GMT, Andrew Purugganan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well I managed to put the eMac.etheme in the right spot so that it
>appears when I select 'Run enlightenment configuration tool'. It seems I
>have almost everything but the icons that appear in the screenshot on
>Ethemes.org. I picked the 'quick' d/load hyperlink for 0.15.
>ARe the icons a separate package in an Enlightenment theme file? Or do I
>have to grab them myself somehow?
There should be a README in the eMac.etheme file. I have all of my
ethemes unpacked anyway but in your case, once the theme is running
I assume it's temporarily unpacked in ~/.enlightenment/themes/emac/
or somewhere. While in E check out that README, if possible, for
tips on using that theme.
>BTW, I have GNOME+E running, at least until I figure out how to get rid
>if GNOME :-)
Check your .xinitrc or .xsession file, comment out the line with
exec gnome-session
and put in
enlightenment (or exec enlightenment)
That might work.
>jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Normally when people do the above it's because they've munged their
From: address to reduce spam but they want other folks to get the
correct address if they need to reply via mail.
In your case your correct address _is_ in your From header anyway. :-)
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: Resetting Video Card from console
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:27:10 GMT
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 22:35:34 -0500, John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Every once in a while running DOSEMU from the console, a DOS VGA program
>will take liberties with my video card. When I exit DOSEMU my console
>screen is gone, replaced by colored blocks where the text should be. I
>can startx and DOS-In-A-BOX looks fine. Exiting X, the console is
>still messed. The only way to reset my video to normal seems to be
>shutting down and restarting. There must be another way to reset the
>video. Is there????
>
Check out the man page for savetextmode or textmode (same page).
Savetextmode will save textmode and font info so if something screws up
on the console you can type `textmode' to restore everything.
I didn't know about textmode but I did have a script to do the same
thing that I called `restore'. In it I have the following:
restoretextmode -r /etc/vga/textregs
restorefont -r /etc/vga/fontdata
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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From: The Procrastinator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFree86 4.0 on Inspiron 7500
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:28:51 +0100
I have recently acquired a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop.
The model is 7500YT with a 15.4 in lcd screen.
The Video card is an ATI Rage Mobility 8Mb
I use SuSE 6.2 on my machine at home.
I have installed SuSE 6.2 on the laptop and see that there are problems
in using XFree86 on it.
On the linux laptop webpages
*"http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/"*
I found these links
*"http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/"*
*"http://jimf.ne.mediaone.net/~jimf/linux/inspiron7500.html"*
*"http://aries17.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg/brick/"*
*"http://www.coralys.com/linux/dell7500.shtml"*
These people have managed to get X working with 3.3.6 of XFree86 using
the Mach64 server or a patched version of it.
Several of them recommend that I append a vga=791 or 792 or 794 or 795 to
my /etc/lilo.conf file and rerun /sbin/lilo
When I do that I just get the BSN "Black Screen of Nothingness"
I have also looked at the rpms for RedHat 6.0 on the Dell ftp site.
I have upgraded my desktop to XFree86 4.0 using the rpm from SuSE
and that works well.
I could not get XFree86 4.0 to work on the laptop.
I am going to download XFree86 3.3.6 and attempt to get things going again.
Has anyone suceeded with XFree86 4.0 with this type of setup?
Adrian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martijn Brouwer)
Subject: doc on linux 200 Mb disk
Date: 7 Jun 2000 12:42:09 GMT
Hello,
Some time ago I read a document on Linux on a system with only 200 Mb
diskspace. This system include X and gcc. The trick was compression of
data, that where decompressed on the fly when they were needed. I want to
apply this trick on my /usr/doc dir, but can't find the article.
Does anybody know the article and it's location?
Thanks,
Martijn
_________________________________________________________
Martijn Brouwer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove the capital letters S P A M from my adress
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From: "William T. Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Which printing alternative is better?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:42:27 GMT
I am moving to a new office and will have two
machines, one will be a Windows 2000 box
and the other a Linux box, most likely RedHat 6.2.
Both machines have their own ethernet connections
and individual IP addresses. But I only have
one printer and that will be connected to the
parallel port of one of the two machines.
Both machines will be running continuously.
To which machine should the printer be connected -
in the sense that using the second machine with
the same printer is easiest?
Tom Trotter
==================================================================
William T. Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] (480) 965 - 0401
==================================================================
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From: Sverre Torjussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to create device on diskette?
Date: 07 Jun 2000 14:44:32 +0200
This method works - give up mknod - still curious to find out how to
proceed with the mknod way (if anyone knows...)
#Insert boot diskette (write protected)
[root@wst_pc /root]# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy;
[root@wst_pc /root]# dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/root/floppy.img
# Insert a new floppy
[root@wst_pc /root]# umount /mnt/floppy/; mount -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy;
[root@wst_pc /root]# dd if=/root/floppy.img of=/dev/fd0
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out
[root@wst_pc /root]# ls -l /mnt/floppy/
total 0
[root@wst_pc /root]# umount /mnt/floppy/; mount -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy;
[root@wst_pc /root]# ls -l /mnt/floppy/
total 627
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 5 17:04 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 5 17:04 dev
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 5 17:04 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 May 5 17:04 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622249 Mar 8 03:12 vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
# write protect new boot diskette
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 7 Jun 2000 12:35:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Personally, I use source control for practically everything I do. If for
>> no other reason, because when I'm finished a set of changes, I can
>> compare them to the previous version and make sure I didn't leave in any
>> debugging code, etc.
>
> It's easy to do that using a file comparison utility. :-)
Yeah. And CVS uses one internally for doing the comparisons. It also
looks after the whole business of keeping loads of previous versions
of files around in a way that lets you keep track of what changes were
made, when and by whom. Sure, it's all stuff you can do by hand, but
it is *so* much more convenient when automated...
Donal.
--
Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- I may seem more arrogant, but I think that's just because you didn't
realize how arrogant I was before. :^)
-- Jeffrey Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Luke Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remote tape device access
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:04:07 GMT
Linux experts :
Could you help me resolve the problem I'm having accessing a
remote tape device?
I can execute other remote commands, using remote login, but when
using tape device, I get the following error message. This problem
has appeared since upgrading to Slackware 7. Previous versions
had no such problems.
-- error message --
sh: No address associated with name
tar: Cannot open [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/tape: Input/output error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
-- end error message --
Please mail any response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=== L. Cameron Barber ===================================
--[ Computer Technician, Brock University ]--
--[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--[ www.ed.brocku.ca/~luke ]--
====================================================/LcB=
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From: Ish Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit-BP6 motherboard ..??
Date: 7 Jun 2000 09:09:10 -0500
Hello,
I am interested in knowing about the stability of ABIT-BP6
dual socket-370 motherboard under Linux. What is the highest
spped Celerons that the board can handle? Also, a reliable
vendor address will be helpful.
- ishwar
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