the mdk 9.0 install.)
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network until about
55 days ago when I decomissioned my AMD K5-75 (due to the motherboard
flaking out).
Over the past year and a half I have had two ports on my switch go out from
under this card, but the card itself checked out fine.
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Any help would be appreciated.
--Jason Snyder--
Want
and a half I have had two ports on my switch go out from
under this card, but the card itself checked out fine.
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Any help would be appreciated.
--Jason Snyder--
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times.
It also seems that Mozilla is not as efficient at doing DNS lookups as Opera
is or at least Opera is doing more DNS caching than Mozilla is.
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Hi Mark,
I'm currently running a 4 disk RAID 5 on a 3Ware 6800 card under mdk 8.2.
The card uses a combination of hardware, firmware, and software to operate so
it is not a 'true' hardware RAID, but it still works pretty good for many
situations. Here are the pros and cons that I have come
Hi All,
I put mdk 8.2 on my test drive then I decided that I wanted to test out
VMWare. Of course I'd much prefer to test out such things on my test
system. It seems though that VMWare requires certain kernel modules
which are not out and do not compile when it tries to compile them
itself.
Is the installer for mdk 8.2 going to make it easier to set up a software RAID
under Linux? The main thing that steered me away from pure Linux software RAID
after I got past all of the other snags was that I realized maintaining a
bootable software RAID would be too much of a pain in the long
Well does anyone have input on hardware based IDE raid cards under Linux
then? I already mentioned that the performance that I get out of my 3ware
controller isn't all that and I mentioned this along side with my Samba
comment that you all responded to that this was with the same machine using
*Warning - The following may sound inflammatory, but it is meant as
constructive criticism.*
Main Linux box info:
CPU: 800 MHz Athlon (old) SlotA
M/B: ASUS K7A BIOS 1007
RAM: 256 MB PC133 ECC (swap turned off)
Samba (2.2.1a and below):
One thing that I noticed a little while back is that
I delved a little deeper into the problem. I tried the latest xcdroast rpm off
of cooker (xcdroast-0.98-9mdk.i586.rpm). This failed. I went to xcdroast's home
page and flipped through the changelogs. I noticed in a few different places
that the scanbus parser code had been modified. Seeing
For added info when I run `cdrecord -scanbus` this is what I get:
[root@tick RPMS]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) '3ware '
I recently installed a 3ware controller in my system. Seeing that in
order to create a RAID 5 array with this controller you had to wipe out
all drives that are being put into the array and seeing that I have gone
through a number of mdk upgrades without doing a fresh install, I
decided to do a
A few things to consider.
1) I avoid Epox do to major quality control problems that they have had in not
too distant past.
2) Make sure that you are using an 80 conductor cable.
3) For high end Athlon systems make sure that you have a 300W power supply.
It is also a good idea to try to get your
One person that I know is using a USB keyboard and cannot get the
keyboard to work with lilo, though it works well enough to get him into
CMOS and it works once Linux loads its USB drivers. He has an ASUS
A7M266 m/b. Any suggestions on how to make it work with LILO?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible to make these two play friendly with each other?
Progress has been made. I noticed that things work much better when I
change the color depth on the video card to 16 bit.
Now the main issue is that the console intermittently gets whacked out
when I
Is it possible to make these two play friendly with each other?
I have heard a number of stories about Seagate's drives being fast, but having
problems losing sectors outside of this list. It seems that most current hard
drives very rarely loose sectors unless there is a significant defect and the
drive is not going to last much longer. On the other hand I
I have gathered a little more information about more recent Seagates.
One machine that was put together about 4 years ago using over 50 4 Gig
drives lost three in two years. It's successor with half as many much
bigger Seagate drives has been chugging away for the past two years and
has yet to
Quantum and Maxtor are now one, though you can still differentiate which drive
line belongs to who because the line names haven't changed. I hear good things
about both of these lines now, but my memory is still scared by both. Even
though I use IBM drives now, I still remember the stickion
I have seen many of the problems that you have seen. I ran into a similar
problem with my Promise controllers, but I suspect that my problem is
different than yours. In the middle of crash testing, I swapped m/b's in
two of my computers went from having an Ultra100 and Ultra66 Promise
I moved my 800 MHz Athlon slot-1 CPU and ASUS K7V m/b over to my 400 MHz
K6-3 400 MHz and Tyan Trinity S1598 m/b machine that I use for Windows
and Linux experimenting. Under windows after going though a bunch of
detection stuff and haggling with drivers I eventually got everything
going. Under
You are getting confused with something else as mentioned in another
reply. There are a couple of ways to take better advantage of your hard
drive:
1. Use kernel parameters ideX=autotune where X is the ide controller
(0,1,2,3). There are several known bugs in the 2.2.17 kernel, fewer, but
Does anyone know of drivers that will allow a sound device created under
Windows that will talk over a network to a Linux box? Also, does anyone
have any stories on how Windows reacts to have more than one sound
device?
I have two linux boxes sharing a APC 650VA back UPS that are networked
together. One is an old AT based K5 75MHz that spends its days pushing
and mangling packets and dolling out IP addresses. The other is an ATX
based Althon system with an ASUS K7V m/b. Communication with the UPSes
is good
The purpose of this e-mail is to see if someone knows about known
problems that may be the cause of my problems so that I don't have to
waste reams of paper trying to track down the problem.
Not that long ago I managed to pick up a used (~100,000 pages printed)
HP LaserJet 4si. For the price
One event that for some reason I didn't associate with the NIC before was a
problem that I stumbled across with mdk 7.1. What happened is that I tried to
get an IBM-DTLA-307045 to work with optimized settings with a BE6-II m/b. When
I put the optimized configs inside of rc.local the machine
Has anybody built a boot/kickstart disk based on the 2.4.1 kernel or
higher? So far I have been able to achieve a simple kickstart disk
based on 2.4.1 w/o LILO, but I haven't been successful with LILO. I am
using http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html as a
reference for
My brother has a 3c905B and I have a 3c905C. We are both using the
3C59x driver that mdk 7.2 auto selects and neither of us have had any
problems in 100baseTX full duplex mode under mdk 7.2.
My brother did once have a problem with very slow x-fer rates under an
earlier version of Mandrake when
I have been playing around in this arena a little and collecting data on
my equipment.
I started off in the Ultra66 world with a Promise Ultra66 controller an
IBM-DTLA-307010, and an IBM-DTLA-307045 on an old P133 w/ Mandrake 7.0.
After drive optimizations I was able to get ~12 MB/s off of the
I have done some more experimenting with a 2.4.0 kernel that I hacked together a
little while back a couple of days after 2.4.0 was released. (I have all of the
drives set to autotune with this 2.4.0 kernel.) I found that when I ran
'badblocks -wv /dev/md0' on a three disk IDE raid device it
I am sending this again seeing that my last post never showed up on the
list.
My efforts to set up a software raid in my "spare" time has progressed a
little from last time around, but it seems that I have run into a rather
significant snag.
I am basing my attempt to build a root software raid
Addressed to Civileme:
Once I looked at what you posted in your article, re-read some of the hdparm info page,
and did some experimentation I became somewhat confused.
Here is the except out of the info page:
-i Display the identification info that was obtained
from
I was able to pull the 2.4.0 kernel off of the main site
(www.kernel.org), patch it, and get it to run (sort of) on my system.
Here is what I have gained by doing this so far:
1. On kernel 2.2.17 (the one that came with 7.2) I could not get ide3
to work on neither a Promise Ultra66 nor a
There are are a number of options. The one that I am experimenting with
at the moment is FreeSWAN (www.freeswan.org). FreeSWAN is a free
implementation of IPSec which as far as I know of is the most secure
protocol out there.
Does anyone know which softwares exists on linux so a linux box can
I put a Sound Blaster Live! in my main Linux box running mdk 7.2 and it was auto
detected and configured at boot. The sound that I get out of it is perfect and I
can even get multiple programs to use the card at the same time.
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Hi Mandrakers,
I noticed that X seems to be slowly growing in memory usage though my
usage of X hasn't changed much. I have a habit of leaving my dedicated
Linux box in X for months at a time with 8 virtual terminals and I
typically have 12 to 25 windows / terminals open at once. I don't have
exact numbers,
On my brother's machine it loaded the SMP kernel even though he has one processor
in his dual processor board.
Stephen Boulet wrote:
If you have one processor, I don't know whether smp is installed by default.
You can always compile and install your own kernel. See the documentation for
If I read the docs correctly, then in order to set a drive to Utra66 mode you
need to put in "-X68" not "-X66". The command you gave is supposed to set the
drive to Utra33 mode.
Dovydas Kulvinskas wrote:
Gary Morgan wrote:
kernel 2.4.0 does but its only in testing phase right now
try
I thought that I selected drive optimization when I installed the system, but
when I went back and checked, that didn't seem to be the case. I put in the
command hdparm -u1 -m16 -c1 -d1 /dev/hda and hdparm -u1 -c1 -d1 /dev/hdc in on
the prompt, ran a few simple tests and added that to my
Normally you shouldn't have a problem. Seeing that the Celeron has a 66 MHz
FSB (front side bus) you need to make sure that you have a m/b chip set that
can handle 100 MHz. (Quite abundant at the time that the Celeron 300A was a
hot item.)
For some reason my brother had lots of problems when
I used to have a K6-233. It seemed like from the info that I gathered on it I
found that it was a rather hot running CPU and was not easily overclockable.
To think about it on my system I had enough trouble getting the system to be
stable with the heat sink and fan combo that the store I bought
I don't know if this relates to your problems, but I did see a couple of corky
things when I installed mdk 7.1 on my Athlon 800 (older Slot-A with K7V m/b).
What I saw was that my /root/.vimrc file and my /etc/rc.d/rc.local files got
corrupted. I don't know why this happened, but I was able to
I am running a two year old EEPro100 card in one of my Linux boxes running mdk
7.1 and operation has been flawless. Two years ago I had a problem where I
would get transceiver lockup errors clogging stout full of messages
intermittently, but that went away a couple of upgrades ago (around the
When a system starts up, it goes through the boot sequence encoded in
ROM. At the end of this sequence it reads off of the first specified
boot device that it finds for further instructions. If it hits a drive
with LILO or GRUB on it, then you get the Linux prompt. If you select
Linux or have
I have the exact same drive running on my Mandrake 7.1 system. In fact I even
had it running on a Pentium 133 for a little while before I had the money
together to upgrade the rest of my system.
I have tried the drive both with the controller you are using (built into an
ABIT BE6-II) and with a
I've run some not too scientific hard drive performance tests on my 800
MHz Athlon (slot-A) and the results seemed pretty good, but not quite
what I hoped for.
Here is the system set up: Athlon 800 MHz CPU, one 256 MB stick of NEC
PC133 RAM, ASUS K7V m/b (it has an Ultra66 controller built into
As far as I know of that's not the problem. The problem is with chipset
compatibility.
Steve Browne wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:51:40 -0400, you wrote:
I had __already__ gone thru a large batch of Google
output based exactly on the criteria suggested.
I found some reference to a patch,
I'm not sure if this pertains to your problems, but I did run into a problem when I
upped a firewall
from 7.0 to 7.1. The problem that I had was that I couldn't get mdk 7.1 to dhcp its
address on
eth1. Seeing that eth0 seemed to be working properly, I switched eth0 and eth1 in the
I used to use Afterstep as a window manager back in the days when I was
running 20 Meg on a 486 DX2 66 MHz. It may have grown since then, but I bet
that it has a lot smaller foot print then KDE or GNOME. There are a number of
low memory window managers out there. I would say just look for
Recompile the kernel. When running your config of choice you should see an
option for high memory systems.
There are a number of possible causes depending where exactly the hang is
occurring.
One thing to consider is IDE addressing limitations. The most recent of
problems has been the 32G limit (16 heads * 63 sector/track * 65536
cylinders * 512 bytes/sector I believe). Neither the Promise Ultra66
Promise does support the Linux community. Linux ATA/100 support was
announced on /. just after 7.1 was released or at least just around the
same time. This means that the Mandrake folks probably didn't get a
chance to incorporate it into the stock 7.1 distro. Try installing mdk
7.1 on a lesser
Which cable modem provider do you have and in what part of the country?
Do they require you to use DHCP or do they allow you to have a fixed IP
address? Do you have more than one NIC? (If so which ethernet adapter
is it assigned to?) What brand and model are your NIC(s)? Is it a one
way or
I have two machines running Mandrake (7.1 and 6.1) attached to an APC
Back-UPS 650. Before the system drive (recently) crashed on the machine
running Mandrake 7.1 I got APC's simple signaling daemon (ssd) to work,
but I had problems getting any other daemons to talk to the UPS over the
serial
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