Linux-Hardware Digest #801
Linux-Hardware Digest #801, Volume #10 Tue, 20 Jul 99 06:13:23 EDT
Contents:
Re: Epox kp6-bs or abit BP6 ? (manu)
Re: Where should I buy PC *parts* onine? (gus)
Re: 3com / US robotics 56K (gATHIS)
Re: dds-1 tape drive question ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Hardware foir Oracle/Linux box? (Chris Mauritz)
Re: Dual P3 locking up (Jonathan Toomim)
[REPOST] Lost harddisk (Gerhard Moench)
Re: Linux IRQ oops (HoKuo Chan)
Re: [REPOST] Lost harddisk (Oliver Bedford)
Re: DSL and Linux ("Chris")
Re: Sony SDT-2000 Can't mount KDE's tape backup. ("Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"")
compaq monitor V50 (Peter De Zutter)
Re: Lost harddisk! (Oliver Bedford)
Re: Exabyte NS-8 hardware compression? ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
Re: Building a Linux Box - comments? (Roy Grimm)
administration ("newsline")
Re: compaq monitor V50 (Anita Lewis)
From: manu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,nl.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Epox kp6-bs or abit BP6 ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 08:26:19 +0100
Paul Heldens a écrit :
manu wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
the next generation of PIII will be socket 370 based. up to you now, but
you really
should take the abit. it rocks !
now for the Athlon compatibility, forget that. you'll never have the
good chipset
to manage it. and an adaptator would be so slow you'd lose the Athlon
advantages...
At 600 It runs at 3*200Mhz Fsb and outperforms a dual P3 500 in Q3aTest
(v1.06.)
This thingie is gonna rock HARD !
yes, but on its OWN motherboard, it's to say an AMD proprietary chipset.
NOT a single i440BX !!!
and you should note that the tests were run under 98' for the Athlon and
under
NT 4.0 for the dual P3 500... and Q3A under NT is sooo fucking slow
!...
really, I think this Abit with a dual Celeron is the good choice. now
it's up to you..
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From: gus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where should I buy PC *parts* onine?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 08:33:20 +0100
I am very partial to Simply Computers, also Dan, and perhaps others like
PCDirect.
Simply can be found at www.simply.co.uk. Dan at www.dan.co.uk
YOu are in the UK, right?
gus
P.S. Sometimes get irritated by people who think the internet is a US
only phenomenon. :-(
P.P.S cc'd to author
Neville wrote:
Ok, I'm doing the whole build-your-own-linux box thing for the first
time.
I think I have a good handle on what I need to get, but I have no clue
where to buy. I've checked shopper.com and pricewatch for the lowest
priced places, but I'd prefer to buy everything (mobo, cpu, memory, HD,
case, etc.) from one place at a reasonable price.
Any recommendations of online places for PARTS? I especially would like
some good names of places for ECC memory that also sell other computer
parts like mobo's and cpu's.
Thanks,
- Neville
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From: gATHIS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 3com / US robotics 56K
Date: 20 Jul 1999 06:31:07 GMT
k96rk01 wrote:
I'm trying to find a 56K modem that will work under linux. I checked the
"Linux modems list," aka "Winmodems are not modems," and discovered that
the
3com / USRobotics Sportster 56K, model 1785, allegedly works fine.
The problem is that I can't find any of these being sold anywhere. The
closest model number I can find is 1787, and I can't find any technical
details that tell if this one would probably be compatible, too. I'm
curious
if anyone else out there has had any success with this model.
Also, if you know of another 56K modem that works well with linux, I
wouldn't
mind hearing about that, either.
thanks in advance for any advice,
rob kent
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I got the same problem (which modem to buy) - now I have USR 56k external
faxmodem and it works great!
If you wan't or have any problems I can send you my mini-HOWTO file about
configuring modem and PPP connection onRedhat. Just mail me.
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Date: 17 Jul 99 11:01:39 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dds-1 tape drive question
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Robert Hunter;
That drive *I think* has the ability to do hardware compression, and if
so, its turned on/off with a dipswitch setting on the drive itself, or
possibly by one of the jumpers next to the addressing jumpers on the
back of
Linux-Hardware Digest #802
Linux-Hardware Digest #802, Volume #10 Tue, 20 Jul 99 11:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Motherboards with serial console BIOS? (S Telford)
Re: Windrover Notebooks running Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to read/write/format MS-DOS floppy disks??? (Werner Jansen)
Re: SB16 VibraX (Greg H)
SCSI ZIP 100 Mount/Unmount Problems? (Phillip McGregor)
No MOUSE in 2.2.7 (Dennis Perisa)
Re: Exabyte NS-8 hardware compression? (Rohan Oberoi)
Re: Who makes good AMD boxes? (John Doe)
Re: MSI 5169 and K6-2/450 (Scott Marlowe)
Re: administration (Lew Pitcher)
Re: SCSI ZIP 100 Mount/Unmount Problems? ("Peter Masters")
Re: SIS 6215c Help!! (Jeff McWilliams)
Re: SANE works again with my Agfa Snapscan!! (Harald Arnesen)
Re: Windrover Notebooks running Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI CD Changers? (Dirk Aust)
Re: HELP! Printer (stylus 640) not working ? (Nikodem Kuznik)
Diamond SupraExpress 56i v.90 (Roy Grimm)
Re: recovery nightmare, corrupt part'n table/MBR (Norman Levin)
Re: Driving HP Scanjet using ADAPTEC 2930 on HP 8160. Help no scsi (Matt Biermann)
Re: HP false advertising (Norman Dulaney)
PCMCIA configuration problems (tpage)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S Telford)
Subject: Motherboards with serial console BIOS?
Date: 20 Jul 1999 10:02:58 GMT
Apparently, Phoenix and Award do BIOSes with support for a serial-line
console instead of a VGA framebuffer. Does anybody know which, if any,
currently-shipping 440BX motherboards (preferably single-processor)
come with one of these BIOSes?
Thanks in advance...
--
Scott Telford
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre"Every worthwhile creation is at
University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK. once an act of love, and an act
[EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 131 650 5978 of violence." - G. Pascal Zachary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windrover Notebooks running Linux?
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:27:05 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Winrover...the name is so offensive I'd pass on it. I recently
bought a Fujitsu e340 from pcconnections.com for ~$1600 and am
very happy with it.
-ckm
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 12:15:55 +0200
From: Werner Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to read/write/format MS-DOS floppy disks???
GUAY Dominic wrote:
Hi.
I need to access, format, read and write MS-DOS format disks under Linux.
Does any of you know of a way to get this to work??
thanks,
D
--
look at the mtools:
mformat, mdir, mcopy, mdel
HIH
CU
Werner
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From: Greg H [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB16 VibraX
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 10:56:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Chris Gushue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a SB Vibra16C, and I used to get DMA errors with it, using 2.2.x
and the version of OSS that was out around the same time as 2.2.0 came
out. Recently I gave the card another try, using 2.2.10 and OSS 3.9.2o
Everything works now, so I'm not sure if it was a combination of the
kernel and oss I was using, or because my card just decided to work again!
I didn't change anything else, so check your kernel and oss versions, that
might make some difference...
I don't know what the Vibra 16 C is like, but the Vibra 16 X (Waveffects)
card has two 8-bit DMA channels instead of one 8-bit and one 16-bit channels.
In Windoze, 16-bit sound is produced by two cycles through the 8-bit DMA
channel. This presents a problem in Linux since there's no native driver
to do this that I know of. However, I have gotten the card to work with
the latest versions of isapnptools and sndconfig in Red Hat 6.0. Go figure.
I at least feel a little better that I didn't thrown my money down the drain
when I mistakingly bought this card :-)
Greg H.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip McGregor)
Subject: SCSI ZIP 100 Mount/Unmount Problems?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 04:18:26 GMT
Hi,
I have managed to edit my /etc/fstab file to mount my ZIP 100
(external SCSI) ... which it does quite nicely on startup.
However, when I try to unmount it as user I get the message ...
umount: only root can unmount /dev/sda4 from mnt/zip
I can go into root and unmount it, but if I want to then mount it
again, I get ...
umount: only root can unmount /dev/sda4 from mnt/zip
once I go back to user.
I've tried everything I can think of in the way of settings that can
be changed, but I cannot figure exactly what I need to do to
mount/unmount from user.
Any suggestions? I'm sure its something blindingly obvious, but I've
only had Linux (Mandrake 6.0 Venus distribution) up and running for a
week, and I have no previous Linux or Unix experience (Apple II, Mac,
Amiga, Windows experience, yep ... Unix/Linux, no sigh)
Any help gratefully accepted!
Phil
Phillip
Linux-Hardware Digest #803
Linux-Hardware Digest #803, Volume #10 Tue, 20 Jul 99 15:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3com / US robotics 56K (Davis Eric)
NEC SuperScript 1800 w/PostScript level 2 (Carlos Wexler)
Re: linux on a gateway solo 2500se? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP false advertising ("David J. Topper")
Re: HP false advertising ("David J. Topper")
Resetting the SCSI bus (Dave Ulrick)
Re: Does anybody know if Creative Labs 2xAGP 3D Graphics Blaster Riva (Jeffrey Chok)
New hot linux books at DISCOUNT ("Order SQL - books! (discount price!)")
pcmcia recommendations (Walter Dean)
Re: LS-120? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Epson Stylus Colour 440 (Dale Pontius)
Re: Zip, Jazz, and Orbs. (benjamin j snyder)
Re: X on Compaq Laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Printer error in RH5.2 (Canon BJC-4100) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux and midi on a notebook (The Mitochondrion)
Re: [Q] 440BX/GX/LX and others (EKK)
Re: MSI 5169 and K6-2/450 (Greg Leblanc)
Re: Cant get Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI to work (Sinner from the Prairy)
Mount 2nd CDROM (Dan Anderson)
Re: Looking for good *sounding* sound card (EKK)
US Robotics Modem ? ("Vikram")
pb whith GPM and MC (chausson aux pommes)
Re: Mount 2nd CDROM (EKK)
Re: Windrover Notebooks running Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Will a modem on a USB port work with Linux? (Greg Leblanc)
Re: Mount 2nd CDROM (Greg Leblanc)
Anyone Get The CMI8330 Working ? ("Allix")
From: Davis Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 3com / US robotics 56K
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:44:40 GMT
Hi,
Try Jaton Communicator II. It is terrific in my Linux box. I use RHL 6.0
and Win95. It can be found and used in both OS.
Good luck,
Davis
In article 7n153b$ci4$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
gATHIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
k96rk01 wrote:
I'm trying to find a 56K modem that will work under linux. I
checked the
"Linux modems list," aka "Winmodems are not modems," and discovered
that
the
3com / USRobotics Sportster 56K, model 1785, allegedly works fine.
The problem is that I can't find any of these being sold anywhere.
The
closest model number I can find is 1787, and I can't find any
technical
details that tell if this one would probably be compatible, too.
I'm
curious
if anyone else out there has had any success with this model.
Also, if you know of another 56K modem that works well with linux, I
wouldn't
mind hearing about that, either.
thanks in advance for any advice,
rob kent
---== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network
==--
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Own
I got the same problem (which modem to buy) - now I have USR 56k
external
faxmodem and it works great!
If you wan't or have any problems I can send you my mini-HOWTO file
about
configuring modem and PPP connection onRedhat. Just mail me.
-- Posted via SearchLinux --
http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Wexler)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: NEC SuperScript 1800 w/PostScript level 2
Date: 20 Jul 1999 14:35:20 GMT
Hi everyone!
I am looking to buy a postscript laser printer and found a printer with
very nice specifications for a nice price:
NEC SuperScript 1800 (about $770 at PCConnection)
1200dpi (not that I can see the difference w/r/t 600...)
17 ppm (manufacturer's claims...)
PCL5/6 and PostScript Level 2 (additional ~$110)
Duplex (nice feature! lets save some trees...)
Claims to be compatible with Windoze/DOS and Mac (with the PS kit and an
optional mac interface)
Will it work with Linux? It should, right? After all it is PostScript...
But will I know the escape sequences to make it print either in duplex or
simplex mode?
How reliable are NEC printers? (I was going to get an HP 2100 w/PS for
about the same price, but no duplexing)
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Carlos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux on a gateway solo 2500se?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:42:01 GMT
I was hoping to do the same on a Solo 9100. Have
you had any
Linux-Hardware Digest #804
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