Linux-Hardware Digest #626, Volume #12 Thu, 6 Apr 00 08:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: REAL hardware issues for the GURU's out there !!! ("silkythreads")
Canon BJC-2000 (Toby Chamberlain)
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: HP Cd Writer Under Linux (Parminder Lehal)
Re: Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ? ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Extra strings for printer (Frank Stratmann)
Re: Adding a second harddrive (Frank Stratmann)
Re: Parallel port does not detect printer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Parallel port does not detect printer (Frank Stratmann)
help burning CD's (Rich Mesek)
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From: "silkythreads" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: REAL hardware issues for the GURU's out there !!!
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:15:28 GMT
If I attempt to boot from my harddrive, I get "LI" and it halts.
If I attempt to boot from LoadLin unders W98, I get the error
I explained before.
My SCSI is set up correctly. C/H/S in the SCSI BIOS. But,
if you can think of anything in the SCSI BIOS I should change,
I'm listening. BTW, I do have the SCSI BIOS set up to boot
from this device, sda.
"silkythreads" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:2KQG4.30142$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> HELP HELP HELP... I've read all the HOWTOS and POSTINGS
> I could find, I cannot solve this problem and will not
> willingly resign myself to booting from a floppy disk forever!!!
>
> This is long; so please bear with me, the answers I get may help
> alot of us who are not so well versed in the hardware and software
> aspects of Mandrake Linux.
>
> I want LINUX on sda and to have the kernel and such all on sda.
> "And such" to reside in the MBR of sda. "Not on hda or anywhere else"
>
> I currently have Air (7.02) installed on sda using the whole drive.
> I told lilo to install into /boot (sda1) and root is (sda5)
>
> My REAL FIRST concern is running "lilo" at bootup and it finding
> sda1 (/boot) and sda5 (/) and of course, hda (W98). This drive
> (sda) is not mapped in such a way that lilo can find it. I even
> tried to run loadlin from windows and all seemed okay UNTIL....
> this error popped up :
>
> request_module [block-major-8] rootFS not mounted
> cannot open root device 08:05
> KERNEL PANIC: VFS Unable to mount rootFS on 08:05
>
> Now, I'm not in the know on these things but...
> I think 05 is the partition where root resides
> and the only place I can find that "8" is the "offset"
> for my SCSI harddrive - sda. (Whatever "offset" is ??
> like a device name ??)
>
> (( And why is Mandrake's vmlinuz /kernel not the 1mb size that most
> other linux versions are ??? ))
>
> Before anybody yells too loud, my BIOS says it can boot SCSI
> but lilo keeps refusing to cooperate.
>
> AND...I have 2 drives on ide1 getting mapped twice; first as hdc & hdd
> and then as sdb & sr1 but fstab/mtab and the /dev links are never updated.
> So the drives never work. BUT ... that later..........
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> I have the following hardware configuration :
>
> Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk
> Detected 601377016 Hz Pentium-III processor.
> Memory: 256MB RAM ****(LINUX only see's 64MB when booting from floppy)
> Pentium-III serial number disabled.
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> hda: Maxtor 91360D8, ATA DISK drive 12970MB
> hdb: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F, 32X DVD-ROM drive
> hdc: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
> (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS Rev: 1.02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A [4134 MB] [4.1 GB]
> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> Creative SBLive! detected
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xd400, 00:A0:CC:57:0D:AD, IRQ 10.
> eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:3E:24:6F, IRQ 11.
>
> So, I have 3 cdroms (scsi-cdrom,DVD,CDRW), 1 floppy, 1 LS-120, 1 scsi hd,
> 1 ide hd, 1 SBLive, 2 128MB 168pin DIMM chips, and 1 600MHZ PIII cpu.
>
> and (just to get it all listed) 1 Canon MultiPASS C3500
> printer/scanner/fax/copier,
> 1 4port USB HUB and 1 AcerPRISA USB scanner, and running a cable modem.
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> This is my "WISH" lilo.conf but it's never been used because I haven't
> been able to boot from the harddrive and don't know if any errors exist
> in this ..... BUT my boot floppy; needless to say, WORKS.
>
> boot = /dev/sda1
> delay = 50
> timeout = 20
> prompt
> message = /boot/message
> default = linux
> vga = normal
> root = /dev/sda5
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = linux
> append = "mem=256M hdd=ide-scsi"
> initrd = /boot/initrd.img
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = W98
> table=/dev/hda
> map-drive=0x80
> to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81
> to=0x80
> other = /dev/fd0
> label = floppy
> unsafe
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> This is my fstab (and it has some problems with my cdroms and LS120
> but I'll work on those later ! hda, sda and floppy drives work)
>
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 2
> /dev/sda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/sda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda9 /usr/src ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda10 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda11 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda12 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda13 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/DOS_hda5 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/DOS_hda6 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /mnt/DOS_hda7 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hda8 /mnt/DOS_hda8 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /dev/hda9 /mnt/DOS_hda9 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom3 /mnt/cdrom3 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom3 0 0
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> This is my conf.modules (Do I need pcmcia stuff installed ??)
>
> pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
> alias eth0 tulip
> alias eth1 tulip
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 ide-scsi
> alias sound emu10k1
> post-install supermount modprobe scsi_hostadapter ; modprobe
> scsi_hostadapter1
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> This is my HWCONF (My printer and USB devices are missing !!)
>
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge"
> vendorId: 8086
> deviceId: 7190
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge"
> vendorId: 8086
> deviceId: 7191
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: unknown
> desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ISA"
> vendorId: 8086
> deviceId: 7110
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: unknown
> desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 IDE"
> vendorId: 8086
> deviceId: 7111
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: usb-uhci
> desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 USB"
> vendorId: 8086
> deviceId: 7112
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: unknown
> desc: "Intel Corporation|82371AB PIIX4 ACPI"
> vendorId: 8086
> deviceId: 7113
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: unknown
> desc: "Creative Labs|SB Live! (joystick)"
> vendorId: 1102
> deviceId: 7002
> -
> class: OTHER
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: unknown
> desc: "Sigma Designs, Inc.|REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD Decoder"
> vendorId: 1105
> deviceId: 8300
> -
> class: NETWORK
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: tulip
> desc: "Lite-On|LNE100TX"
> vendorId: 11ad
> deviceId: 0002
> -
> class: NETWORK
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: tulip
> desc: "Lite-On|LNE100TX"
> vendorId: 11ad
> deviceId: 0002
> -
> class: SCSI
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: aic7xxx
> desc: "Adaptec|AIC-7881U"
> vendorId: 9004
> deviceId: 8178
> -
> class: VIDEO
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: Card:RIVA TNT2
> desc: "Nvidia Corporation|Riva TNT2"
> vendorId: 10de
> deviceId: 0028
> -
> class: AUDIO
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: emu10k1
> desc: "Creative Labs|SB Live! (audio)"
> vendorId: 1102
> deviceId: 0002
> -
> class: MOUSE
> bus: PSAUX
> detached: 0
> device: psaux
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Generic PS/2 Mouse"
> -
> class: CDROM
> bus: IDE
> detached: 0
> device: hdb
> driver: ignore
> desc: "SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F"
> -
> class: CDROM
> bus: IDE
> detached: 0
> device: hdd
> driver: ignore
> desc: "HP CD-Writer+ 7200"
> -
> class: CDROM
> bus: SCSI
> detached: 0
> device: scd0
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Plextor CD-ROM PX-32TS"
> host: 0
> id: 5
> channel: 0
> lun: 0
> -
> class: CDROM
> bus: SCSI
> detached: 0
> device: scd1
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Hp CD-Writer+ 7200"
> host: 1
> id: 1
> channel: 0
> lun: 0
> -
> class: FLOPPY
> bus: IDE
> detached: 0
> device: hdc
> driver: ignore
> desc: "LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy"
> -
> class: HD
> bus: IDE
> detached: 0
> device: hda
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Maxtor 91360D8"
> physical: 26353/16/63
> logical: 1653/255/63
> -
> class: HD
> bus: SCSI
> detached: 0
> device: sda
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Ibm DCAS-34330W"
> host: 0
> id: 6
> channel: 0
> lun: 0
> -
> class: HD
> bus: SCSI
> detached: 0
> device: sdb
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Mitbishi LS-120 COSM 05"
> host: 1
> id: 0
> channel: 0
> lun: 0
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> This is the output from dmesg when I boot from my floppy.
> There are some errors and error messages in this.
>
> Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000
> relocating initrd image:
> initrd_start:0xc0faa000 initrd_end:0xc0fff939
> mem_start:0xc026d000 mem_end:0xc40f0000
> initrd_size:0x00055939 dest:0xc409a000
> Detected 601377016 Hz processor.
> ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 599.65 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 63632k/66496k available (1092k kernel code, 416k reserved, 948k
> data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
> Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> Pentium-III serial number disabled.
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536)
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
> hda: Maxtor 91360D8, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-606F, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdc: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: Maxtor 91360D8, 12970MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1653/255/63
> hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 1325.499 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 1386.840 MB/sec
> 8regs : 1078.230 MB/sec
> 32regs : 566.547 MB/sec
> using fastest function: p5_mmx (1386.840 MB/sec)
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 15/0
> (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
> (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
> (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
> (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
> (scsi0) during machine bootup.
> (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO)
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 413 instructions downloaded
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.21/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
> scsi : 1 host.
> (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS Rev: 1.02
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1
GB]
> sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 sda13 >
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> change_root: old root has d_count=1
> Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
> Adding Swap: 257000k swap-space (priority -1)
> Creative SBLive! detected
> hdc:<3>ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0)
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
> unable to read partition table
> scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 2 hosts.
> Vendor: MITBISHI Model: LS-120 COSM 05 Rev: 0512
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 246528 [120 MB] [0.1 GB]
> sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
> sdb:SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000000
> [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:10: sense key Illegal Request
> Additional sense indicates Invalid command operation code
> scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
> unable to read partition table
> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xd400, 00:A0:CC:57:0D:AD, IRQ 10.
> eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
> eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:3E:24:6F, IRQ 11.
> eth1: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
>
> ********************************************************************
>
> Thanks a million for any assistance I can get to resolve these issues
> and the few more to come in the future !!!!
> --
> Donna Williams
> Software Test Engineer
> General Dynamics
>
>
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From: Toby Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Canon BJC-2000
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:16:08 GMT
Hi,
Anyone got a Canon BJC-2000 to work on Linux?? It seems to be all set
up right.. (there's a "kernel: parport0 : Printer, Canon BJC-2000SP"
line in the syslog), but echo "TEST" >/dev/lp0 does absolutely
nothing.....
Thanks
Toby
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:24:51 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams) writes:
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:46:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan
> Panteltje) wrote:
>
> > >Jan Panteltje wrote in message
> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >>No this is not correct, on a serial channel (with a small (usually) FIFO),
> > >>there are many interrupts per second.
> > >
> > >Up to ~15000 times per second, and service delay of slighly over 1ms is
> > >acceptable (buffer is 16 bytes long). In properly written PC software
> > >nothing should lock the interrupts for longer than 1ms. Current CPUs could
> > >execute over 100000 instructions during that time.
> > >
> > The way it works in Linux, is that the interrupt handler puts some bytes in the
> > 'flip' buffer (sorry thats what it is called), see /usr/src/linux/kernel/
> > then do a grep flip
> >
> > This buffer is rather small (and bound by a 1024 byte page size).
> > Now the scheduler comes around, every once in a while, to copy the 'flip'
> > buffer to wherever (see kernel sources again).
> > If time is to long, characters (bytes) are lost.
>
> It is hard to believe that Linux is dumber than DOS.
it is hard to believe.
linux dumber than MS-DOS? MS-DOS doesn't even *have* a software
fifo. your software doesn't read aux before next char comes in?
good-bye char. (well now that uart has a small fifo it's no longer as
bad.)
at a job, i wrote a buffering driver for dos back in 1990 and
it works the same way as the linux method. your interrupt handler
dumps the incomming char(s) in a buffer. when buffer gets nearly
full, you apply handshake (drop RTS or send ^S) to the serial port.
when buffer gets drained raise RTS or send ^Q.
it's up the application (or kernel) to read from the serial port
buffer. part of the serial driver i wrote were a few function to read
from the irq-handler's buffer.
> ...dumber
> than Win95, ...dumber than...
win95 might have buffered serial. it won't be better than linux'
method.
> ..and I was about to move to Linux. I guess the time isn't
> right.
>
> I haven't seen an underrun in *years* (make that at least ten).
neither have i, and i use linux.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HP Cd Writer Under Linux
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:17:21 -0400
I'm looking for drivers for my HP-CDRW 7200e (External). Can
any body, please, guide me in right direction?
Thanks.
P.S. Lehal
Phil wrote:
>
> Has anyone tried to use an HP-CDRW 8200i under linux? is there drivers for
> it? and if so, what cd-creation software do you use?
>
> Phil
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 04:53:54 -0700
I have RedHat 6.1 sparc installed on a sparc 10 - just wanted to add a small
note about setting things up.
When you set up your NFS/FTP server (if you don't do a CD install).. make
sure the 'RedHat' directory is 'visible' to the install.
In other words... if you had /pub/RedHat/...... you would want to specify
/pub as the location of the install files. Adjust your NFS exports/FTP
directories accordingly.
btw... I have done both NFS and FTP installs on sparc LX and sparc 10
without any problem.
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ch338$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <8ch5op$17ku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mathias Fryksten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have found an old SparcStation IPX and would like to install linux on
it.
> >Is this possible, and if how do I do it ?. Does any1 got a howto for this
?
>
> You could just get RH6.2 for SPARC and install it. That's what
> I'm doing to an IPC right now. Either get a CDROM or download
> the stuff. There will be a number of floppy images in the images
> directory. Get boot32.img, put it on a floppy and boot the IPX
> from it. The usual RedHat installer will come up.
>
> Good luck
> Steffen.
>
> --
> Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Fujitsu Australia Ltd
> Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
> --
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From: Frank Stratmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extra strings for printer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:49:26 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> gtaylors printer database tells me I can use 600x600 on my printer (BROTHER HL-1240)
> by sending a PJL Statement:
> <ESC>%-12345X@PJL SET RESOLUTION=600
>
> I set up the printer with printtool using the Laserjet 4/5/6 driver, works great at
>300x300.
>
> Anybody got any hints on how to send a PJL Statement?
I do so too, but printtool gives me the choice of selecting either
300x300 or 600x600
I am using Laserjet 4/5/6 non Postscript.
Within printtool select your printer, press "edit", and then press
"select" next to input filter. Within this dialog I can setup the
filters behaviour.
I am using RedHat 6.1 including the RPM updates from their server.
I hope this will also work for you
Frank Stratmann
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From: Frank Stratmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding a second harddrive
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:56:48 +0200
Dominik schrieb:
>
> Hi All.
>
> I'm running RH6.0 with 9.1 UW SCSI Harddrive. I am adding another
> harddrive that's IDE.
>
> How is this done with fdisk?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Dominik
>
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The only difference between SCSI and IDE drives is the device in /dev
for SCSI drives you normaly use i.e. /dev/sda for first SCSI disk
Use /dev/hda for the first IDE drive (primary master) instead and it
schould work.
bye
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parallel port does not detect printer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:57:15 +0000
I have a options parport_pc io=0x378 dma=1 irq=3 in my conf.modules, this may help
(with your settings of course).
Check your /proc/parport directory too, it should have a 0/ directory if the port was
found.
This directory should have files that tell you about what was found.
cat /proc/parport/0/hardware gives me :
base: 0x378
irq: 3
dam: 1
modes: SPP,PS2
cat /proc/parport/0/autoprobe should give you printer info.
Between these two you should be able to figure out if your problem is the port or
the printer|cable
"Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Parallel port is not been detected in RH6.1, what can i do to resolve this
> problem, what I've done so far is created a line in the /ect/conf.modules
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc. this has made no difference to the
> printtool util.
>
> what is needed to get the parallel port to be recognized
>
> thanks in advanced
>
>
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From: Frank Stratmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel port does not detect printer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 14:05:44 +0200
Russell schrieb:
>
> Parallel port is not been detected in RH6.1, what can i do to resolve this
> problem, what I've done so far is created a line in the /ect/conf.modules
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc. this has made no difference to the
> printtool util.
>
> what is needed to get the parallel port to be recognized
>
> thanks in advanced
I had the same problems after installing Kernel 2.2.14
By default the option "PC Style Hardware" within "general Setup" was
deactivated. This is needed to detect PC Style ParPorts.
The configuration I use and which is working is:
within "General Setup"
- "Parallel Port support" compiled into kernel (may also work as module)
- "PC Style Hardware" compiled into kernel (may...)
within "Character devices"
- "Paralel printer support" as module
- "IE... Status readback" yes
My conf.modules looks like:
...
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=auto
...
I hope this will help you
Frank
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From: Rich Mesek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help burning CD's
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:05:53 -0400
I'm stumped. I am unable to burn CD's in Linux even though I can burn
them in Windows with my SCSI Philips CDD2600 CDwriter. I've recompiled
my kernel 2.2.13 with SCSI support built in, loaded the sg0 and loop
modules, read all the How-tos and FAQ's, and searched the newsgroups. My
CDR can read and play CD's in Linux and even burned a CD once but aside
from the one time, whenever I try to burn a CD, Linux freezes and I have
to reboot.
How does the CDwriter which is assigned to /dev/scd0 use /dev/sg0 to
write CD's? Is there something I need to do with sg0 beside loading it
as a module? Can anyone help, please.
Rich
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