Linux-Hardware Digest #525, Volume #10 Fri, 18 Jun 99 17:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: BIOS Upgrade Suggestion ("ajr-5")
Re: RAID for Linux / Unix apps (Mike Frisch)
Re: scsi tape backup (David Graham)
Re: Somebody Help! (Mike Frisch)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache (Mike Frisch)
Re: Ghost linux disk/partition (killbill)
Modem blues (Jacques Fortier)
Re: Digital still camera Panasonic NV-DCF1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to access Dos/Windows files under linux? ("Harry Li")
Help please! ppp, iso9660, ZIP ZOOM ("EddieC")
Re: SV: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache (brian kreps)
Re: SCSI CD-Roms - trouble (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Diamond modem compatability. (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Somebody Help! ("Michael Vachon")
OL 1.3 and NEC CDR-260 (David Spigelman)
Re: RAM testing utility (Robert Fenstermacher)
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From: "ajr-5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIOS Upgrade Suggestion
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:21:36 -0700
get a western digital. It has a program that overrides bios settings for
large hard drives. You don't really need it for Linux though, but if you
plan on dual booting you may want to get it anyway. Actually, I would get a
western digital just because their hard drives kick @$$!
Don McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a 486-25 into which I'd like to install a 2.5 gig drive; the
> BIOS, however, will only allow up to like .5 gig drives.
>
> Can anyone suggest a Linux compatible BIOS upgrade solution?
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
>
> Best,
> Don McKeown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: RAID for Linux / Unix apps
Date: 18 Jun 1999 13:21:20 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 04:30:21 GMT, bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>you can't argue that the pci bus bandwidth is still faster than scsi
>channel speeds. and, do they even make ultra2 -> ultra2 raid boxes?
I'm confused... why does the PCI bus enter the picture when the speed of
the SCSI bus is the determining factor in RAID array performance? A
SCSI-SCSI RAID controller makes a bunch of disks look like one to a host
adapter. If the RAID controller has sufficient horsepower, there's no
reason why it'd be slower than something PCI based.
Give me facts and figures... I don't buy your argument.
Mike.
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From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi tape backup
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:02:56 -0400
You need an external tape drive. Same as an internal drive, except it
will have its own little case and power supply, and is designed to
connect to the outside connector on the back of the SCSI card.
As far as linking the computers together via SCSI, naaah. Get 2
ethernet cards and link them that way.
Good luck,
David Graham
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>
> Not to pipe dreams, can I get a tape drive with the connector exposed on the
> back. Then I can run a cable from the controller to the tape drive external
> to the case. this can could be unplugged from tape drive and one from the
> Win-98 computer plugged into the tape drive.
>
> Or even better, just leave them linked together to make a network via SCSI
> bus.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Somebody Help!
Date: 18 Jun 1999 18:00:27 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:06:51 GMT, Michael Vachon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am brand new to linux and I got through the installation and when I boot
>Linux I get to the Bask prompt....but how do I RUN Linux from the prompt??
Sounds like it's already running... you do know what Linux is, right?
(And why is this posted to comp.os.linux.hardware?)
Mike.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: 18 Jun 1999 17:26:10 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:35:10 +0200, Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Everything else works without the LVD-drive. I've tried to remove one SE
>and kept the LVD and the terminated SE but no success. The space between
>devices is about 20 cm. The only thing I've done is to add a LVD drive
>to a working system and now it refuses to work with the LVD.
Are LVD drives even compatible with non-LVD controllers? YOu mentioned
having a 2940UW, not a 2940U2W.
Mike.
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghost linux disk/partition
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:14:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nathaniel eccs) wrote:
> Wow, that's a nifty program Bill!
>
> One problem with my scenario is that I'm concerned abut my mount
> points and lilo configuration after restoring the image to the new
> drive. Am I assuming correctly, that this configuration will need to
> be edited to point to the new SCSI hard drive ? (I have IDE right now)
>
Yes, if the configuration changes all that will need to be fixed after
your restoration. If the system is the same configuration as when it
was backed up, then everything comes back, including any LILO
information, boot sector sillyness, and everything else. If you use dd
(instead of tar, both will work for a linux partition), you will even
get a perfect reproduction of the random values in the unused portions
of your hard drive.
> I do have access to a cd-r, and can use my systems on board SCSI for
> that
Great. If you get cdrecord working, and have Perl on your system,
backburner will do what you need.
>
> Or the FTP option sounds enticing, does the program support restore
> from ftp site?
There is a native mode in backburner to support this for backups. It
handles removable media and ftp the same way, it creates a file as big
as you specify in the place you tell it to put it, then pauses and tells
you to do "something" and tell it when you are done. For removable
media, this means ejecting the current disk and mounting a new one. For
ftp, this would mean ftp-ing the file wherever you want it to go and
then deleting the local copy. You then just hit enter and repeat the
process until done. The restore works the same way, you will need to
manually "change media" via ftp, or whatever is necessary.
>
> It can span to multiple cd's if the total system is > 650 mb?
Yes, that is the primary reason for it's existence. It will also allow
compression of the stream... I put a 1.6 gig partition on a single CDR
with room to spare.
Another bonus is that the resulting media from a CDR can be read by any
CD drive. It is easy to back a system up across a network (using pipes
and rsh) to the machine that has the CDR drive. Once you do this, any
CDRom (not CDRecordable or rewritable) can restore the data.
>
> thanks for your time!
Enjoy! I hope it is usefull.
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it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
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From: Jacques Fortier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem blues
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:45:23 -0700
I have a Lucent Venus Voice 56K modem which is giving me intermittent
problems. Sometimes when I try to dial out, the modem simply does not
respond to the init string (or any other command), causing chat or
minicom to hang. I get the same problem in both windows and linux, so I
don't think it's a software problem (but maybe firmware?). I usually
have to power down the computer (reset btn and nerve pinch don't work)
and power it up again to get the modem working again. Sometimes, in
Windows, if I have connected, hung up, and tried to reconnect, the modem
will fail. Then, I sometimes have luck shutting down the dialer program
and restarting it.
I got the modem rather cheaply off of a friend who is now in
cable-modem heaven, and since I'm on a small budget replacing it is not
a good answer. My friend never had this type of problem, so I'm hoping
there's something an easy to fix problem with my computer.
Here are my specs:
The modem uses a Lucent chipset, but is actually made by Askey, which
is some Taiwanese company. I have not upgraded it to V.90 because Askey
will only provide the upgrade program for Win98 (I have 3.1). The modem
is ISA, and uses PnP. It's detected every time I boot.
My machine is sort of old - it's a 133mhz intel from around '96
BIOS is Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, with Award's PnP extension v1.0a
Motherboard - TR5510 AIO v2.4, which includes the UMC 8669 PnP Super AT
IO chipset if that means anything.
RH Linux 5.1, but I don't think it matters.
Thanx in advance,
Jacques Fortier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Digital still camera Panasonic NV-DCF1
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:30:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How can I use my digital still camera Panasonic NV-DCF1 under Linux ?
>
> Thank you,
You can always try it with the gPHoto software (www.gphoto.org)
It is more than likely compatible with one of the supported cameras.
Scott Fritzinger
scottf(at)unr(dot)edu
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From: "Harry Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to access Dos/Windows files under linux?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:36:11 -0400
Hi:
This is a practical problem for me, because I happened to
bought a "win-modem" that cannot work under linux, that means
I cannot connect my computer to internet with linux, sigh.
But my computer is running dual-os: one is windows 98 and another
is Redhat 5.2, can I copy files from windows file system to
linux?
Thanks a lot!
Harry Li
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From: "EddieC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help please! ppp, iso9660, ZIP ZOOM
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:44:12 -0500
Please help me. I have been having some problems with Linux. They are, in no
real order:
1)ppp support is not in the kernal
2)iso9660 support is not in the kernal
3)can't find Zip Zoom card
I was told to download and recompile the kernal but I have problems with
that, I need ppp support to download the source. I could download w/ win and
burn it to a cd but I can't get iso9660 support without recompiling which
needs the source. Even if I was to be able to get the kernal, my hard drive
is full and so I would need to do the work on the ZIP disk, which is SCSI
and I have a ZIP ZOOM card.
If you would like to help at all, please just reply and help with any of
those problems. Here is a little info about my system.
166mhz pentium, 48mb ram, 260 mb hd, redhat 5.2
1)ppp support, my kernal does not have it complied into it, is there any
work around, I am not afraid to reinstall. external modem on com2.
2)iso9660 support, my kernal does not have it compiled in, I installed linux
from a cd so the drive does work but I can't access the cd after it is
installed
3)ZIP ZOOM, ZIP 100 drive connected, IRQ12, IO=0140
-015F (I really only need to know how to tell it to manually use the ada152x
scsi driver), then I need to know how to mount the drive on SCSI ID 5.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. After I learn this stuff, I should be
able to really learn Linux, just the way I am, help me for a while, then I
got the rest myself. Thank you.
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From: brian kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SV: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:16:32 GMT
In article <oGua3.327$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"AN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Nils Remmers wrote:
> > >
> > > > So I did and now comes the promblems. I can't do anything with
the
> drive
> > > > except talk to its firmware. I've tried Adaptec SCSI benchmark
program
> > > > in Win95 but it reports sense error 0xBh and in Linux I receive
> data-in
> > > > sync problems and when it tries to reset the SCSI bus the system
> > > > freezes. The strange thing is that I can low format the drive
and
> verify
> > > > the surface in the adapter bios but I can't create a partition
on the
> > > > drive in either DOS, WIN95 or Linux. Has anyone any clue what
might be
> > > > wrong? Can it be the cable? It's a SE cable with 5 connectors.
> > > >
> > > The cable must not be longer than 1.5 meters. Might it be that
yours is
> > > longer ???
> > > Min space between 2 devices is 10cm. Try connecting the se-devices
> > > directly to the internal connector with a flat cable (just for
testing)
> > > does it work ?
> >
> > Everything else works without the LVD-drive. I've tried to remove
one SE
> > and kept the LVD and the terminated SE but no success. The space
IBM 9ES (LVD model) does not have onboard termination - according to
IBM's specs you'll need active termination.
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/ddrs/ddrsjum.htm
between
> > devices is about 20 cm. The only thing I've done is to add a LVD
drive
> > to a working system and now it refuses to work with the LVD.
> >
> Have yuo tried to force the drive to SE by jumpering it?
>
> Asbjørn
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: SCSI CD-Roms - trouble
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:37:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (PhilD) writes:
>Hello everyone,
>I am having a bear of a time with my SCSI CD-Roms (along will all my
>other win tweaked hardware) I have a Teac 32x and a Yamaha 400t cd-r
>on an Adaptec 2940UW controler. It has no problems seeing them. At
>least on the startup I see it find them and configure them to sr0 and
>sr1. However, when my RH6 system is loaded and logged into, I can not
>find a /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 to mount. Why is this?
Because /dev/sr* is the raw device. You can't mount it. Use the
correct /dev/scd* devices instead.
>Also, do you have
>to have media in the drive to mount?
Yes. After all, that's the reason for mounting it into the directory
tree.
>Isn't this a pain in X when you
>have to mount every time you want to get something from a disk or CD?
>(If you can't tell, I am new at this) I can mount my IDE 4x cdrom
>which is helpful! Any help would be great!!
If you do often have to change media, search for the automount daemon
on the net.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Diamond modem compatability.
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:34:51 GMT
Darren Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am looking at getting a new 56K modem, and from what I can see the
>Diamond SupraExpress 56 ones look quite good. I would like to hear from
>anyone who has got any experience/problems etc. with any of the
>56, 56 Pro, or 56 Memory modems by Diamond (internal or external).
>I run Redhat 5.2, but will be moving to RH6 (probably) soon.
The external ones should be fine. There are internal non-winmodem
ones as well.
>BTW Does anyone know if it is possible to get an external WinModem?
[...]
Avoid RPI and USB modems (at this time) .
Michael
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From: "Michael Vachon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Somebody Help!
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:31:17 GMT
I have run Xconfigurator...but here is where I encouneter the real problem.
I have a Silicon Graphichs Digital Flat Panel LCD Monitor and a Number Nine
Revolution IVFP Graphics card with 32MB RAM, I think it has a
"ticket-to-ride" chipset....Neither of these is recognized my XConfigurator.
Whe I try various settings It says "there was an error with your
configuration, do you want to go back?"
I have tried several different settings...if someone could be of some help
to me I would really appreciate it...I am dying to get Linux up and
runing...
Sincerely,
MV
Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Michael Vachon wrote:
>
> > I am brand new to linux and I got through the installation and when I
boot
> > Linux I get to the Bask prompt....but how do I RUN Linux from the
prompt??
>
> It sounds like you haven't run Xconfigurator yet. Type Xconfigurator at
the
> prompt, and go through the video installation process. When you finish,
it
> should let you run the Xserver, where you'll get to the graphical
interface.
>
>
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From: David Spigelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OL 1.3 and NEC CDR-260
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:24:27 -0400
I need either a kernel driver or parameters for an NEC CDR-260 CDROM
drive. It's an old 2x IDE drive. Any suggestions? TIA!
-- DS
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From: Robert Fenstermacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM testing utility
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:49:18 -0600
Brian-
Check out memtest-86
this isn't the main link for it, but here's a mirror site:
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/linux/sunsite/system/hardware/memtest86-1.4a.tar.gz
basically, you create a boot floppy with the memtest program on it, boot
your machine and test away...
Good luck
Robert
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Conversion Specialists, Inc.
Denver, CO
http://conversion-specialists.com
Brian McGroarty wrote:
>
> I've got 512 megs and I'm starting to suspect one of my DIMMs may
> be bad.
>
> RedHat runs well until you open a dozen large programs.
>
> Debian gets confused about its freeblocks on a freshly formatted
> partition mid way through installation.
>
> Windows crashes after opening six or seven browser windows.
>
> The startup RAM test reports no errors, but I suspect a realistically
> thorough test would need at least a 1 and a 0 pass for each bit position
> on the bus to check for crosses, not just sticky bits.
>
> Is there a package which will perform a good, thorough test?
>
> --
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