Linux-Hardware Digest #832, Volume #12 Wed, 10 May 00 00:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Broken HPT366? ("TomG")
tape device error (Serpent Addiction)
HP CDWriter+ 7200i (Ross Vandegrift)
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Alex Lam)
dds-1 VS dds-3 ("Daniel Gélinas")
S3 Trio 3D/2X bombs on Red Hat 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quick Script help! (root)
Re: Linux on Inspiron (Thomas Gagne)
Re: S3 Trio 3D/2X bombs on Red Hat 6.1 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Really Inexpensive Array of Disks (Dave Lers)
Q&A from this NG 10 May ("K.Tsakaloglou")
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From: "TomG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Broken HPT366?
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 21:11:56 -0400
I doubt you broke your chip. can you enter the HPT bios screen via the
Control H command? if so, can you then make the HPT bios see any drives? I
don't know what the newest bios is for your board but many people have had
trouble with the 1.21 version of HPT bios. I don't know if there is a way
for you to get to 1.22 HPT bios or not but if you can, try that as well.
"Jamie Guinan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I suspect I have a broken HPT366 chip or motherboard, but I wanted
> to see if anyone else had similar problems.
>
> I have an Abit BP-6, dual celeron 466's (not overclocked),
> with the HPT 366 chip on-board. The chip reads,
>
> HighPoint JAPAN
> HPT366
> 9920 L010
>
> (incidentally, I noticed on http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt366.htm
> that some chips seem to have newer "lot" numbers).
>
> And I have three hard drives:
> QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A
> Maxtor 52049U4 (x2)
>
> I've tried various combinations of the Quantum and the Maxtors
> on the two HPT IDE channels, and in every case, devices on the
> first HPT IDE channel are not recognized by the BIOS, nor by
> Linux 2.3.99pre6 (probably as a consequence of the BIOS not
> initializing them). For example, with the Quatum on the plain
> IDE channel and one Maxtor on each HPT channel, Linux reports
> the following (my comments in []'s),
>
> HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> [^^^ bad]
> HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
> HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
> [^^^ good]
>
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdg: Maxtor 52049U4, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> [ide2 (first HPT channel) not reported!]
> ide3 at 0xb800-0xb807,0xbc02 on irq 11
> hda: 25429824 sectors (13020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1582/255/63,
> UDMA(33)
> hdg: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63,
> UDMA(66)
>
> The second channel works fine, with any of the individual drives,
> or with two drives on the same channel (master/slave). I want
> to take advantage of software RAID-0, and my impression is
> that one-drive-per-channel is they way to go.
>
> I tried three different UDMA/66 cables (80 wires, blue end on
> the mobo), with no difference.
>
> I upgraded my flash with BP6_NJ.BIN (1.21 I believe), so I get
> the Blue HPT bios screen, but devices on the first HPT channel
> are still not being detected.
>
> So my questions are:
> Is there anything I can do to get drives deteced on the first
> HPT channel?
> Am I missing something?
> Do you think my HPT366 is broken?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Jamie
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From: Serpent Addiction <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tape device error
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 01:11:16 GMT
Hi all.
I've had a scsi dat tape device in operation
for a number of months, but recently it
suffers from the following symptom:
Cannot open /dev/st0: Operation not supported by device
I've run a tape cleaner through the drive, checked
for status LEDs, checked permissions on the device
file, and re-ran mknod (in case st0 was corrupted).
All to no avail. I believe the drive is a Seagate.
Any suggestions? TIA
-Jeff
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From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP CDWriter+ 7200i
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 21:41:20 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone,
My friend gave me his old HP CDWriter 7200i a few weeks ago when
he bought a new drive, and in all of my five years of Linux experience I
have never seen a device that *refused* to work in Linux so adamantly.
Allow me to relate my story...
My machine is an AMD K6-2 450 with 192M of RAM. The 7200 is hooked up as
the secondary master, with a Creative Labs 52Xmx CDROM drive as the slave.
The drive is firmware version 3.01 and I am using cdrecord 1.8.1. I have
the scsi, ide-scsi, scsi generic, scsi cdrom (with vendor
specific extensions enabled) all compiled as modules with scsi logging
facility and verbose error reporting enabled. IDE/ATAPI CDROM and SCSI
emulation support are also compiled as modules.
Loading the scsi emulation related modules allows me to mount either CD
drive as /dev/scd[01]. Alternatively, loading the ATAPI related modules,
I can mount them as /dev/hd[cd]. I can freely switch between access
modes by switching modules, no problem. The problems arise with cdrecord.
When I try to record a CD or blank a CDRW, it always fails with a SCSI bus
error. The error almost always come at the very beginning of the burn
process and looks like this:
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Blanking PMA, TOC, pregap
cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: A1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 40 41 20 00 00 80
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x20 Qual 0x00 (invalid command operation code) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) error refers to data part, bit ptr 0 (not
valid) field ptr 0
cmd finished after 21.756s timeout 9600s
cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
I unfortunately, know nothing of SCSI systems and have no clue what to try
to fix this. Any hints?
Thanks,
Ross Vandegrift
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alex Lam <"here,there"@everywhere.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 19:10:35 -0700
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]Ok, here's my game plan. Install Win '95. Install Linux using a boot
> ]diskette. After Linux is installed, download the new LILO and install it
> ](somehow). Does that sound good? My prob is a bit different than that at
> ]the start of this thread. I have not installed Linux yet, but I wish to,
> ]but beyond the 1024 limit. Will a boot disk allow me to do that? What is
> ]on the boot disk?
>
> If you have not yet installed Win, then why don't you partition your
> drive so that there is a 5MB partition below the 1024 limit onto which
> you will put
> /boot
> That way you do not have to worry!
>
-snipped-
the newest and latest lilo supports up to 3Tb. No more 1024
cylinder limit.
Alex Lam.
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From: "Daniel Gélinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dds-1 VS dds-3
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:28:41 GMT
I have write a lot of cassettes backup with a 2Gb SCSI
tape backup in dds-1 format, no datcompression.
Now I have a new SCSI 24Gb tape backup dds-3 with
datcompression. I can't read the old cassettes on my new tape backup!
Please help me.
Thank you
Daniel Gelinas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: S3 Trio 3D/2X bombs on Red Hat 6.1
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:18:06 GMT
I guess I have a newbie question, though I have been playing at this OS
since Red Hat 3.1. We recently upgraded my machine at work with an AMD
K6-2 450 MHz processor, 128 Megs of RAM, and a generic AGP video board
with the S3 TRIO 3D/2X chipset and 8 Megs of video ram on board.
Since the upgrade I have been trying to install Red Hat 6.1. The OS
installs but I can't get the X server to work. Autoprobing doesn't
find the card when I install using the GUI Setup. The configurations I
tried were GNOME Workstation, and custom. I had marginally better luck
using the text installation. At least then I could indicate the video
card I have installed after autoprobe failed to find it. I have tried
running the Xconfigurator after install and it keeps reporting that
there is a problem with the X server. I did a little troubleshooting
(a little is all I am capable of) and got the below readout when I
input the X -probeonly command:
==============================================================
XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
Release Date: August 23 1999
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer
than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Linux 2.2.5-22smp i686 [ELF]
Configured drivers:
SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0):
NV1, STG2000, RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2, RIVA ULTRA TNT2,
RIVA VANTA, RIVA ULTRA VANTA, RIVA INTEGRATED, ET4000, ET4000W32,
ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p,
ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b, ET4000W32p_rev_c,
ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10,
wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, ati, sis86c201,
sis86c202,
sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597, sis5598, sis6326,
sis530,
sis620, tvga8200lx, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl,
tvga8900d, tvga9000, tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr,
tgui9400cxi,
tgui9420, tgui9420dgi, tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320,
tgui9660,
tgui9680, tgui9682, tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388,
cyber9397, cyber9520, cyber9525, 3dimage975, 3dimage985,
cyber9397dvd,
blade3d, cyberblade, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426,
clgd5428,
clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480,
clgd5462,
clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235,
clgd7541,
clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22,
ncr77c22e,
cpq_avga, mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200,
mgag100, mgag400, oti067, oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101,
ali2228,
ali2301, ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420,
cl6440,
video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek,
s3_savage, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090,
NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530,
ct65535,
ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct65555,
ct68554, ct69000, ct64200, ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2100, V2200,
p9100, spc8110, i740, i740_pci, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, generic
(using VT number 7)
XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) XKB: keycodes: "xfree86"
(**) XKB: types: "default"
(**) XKB: compat: "default"
(**) XKB: symbols: "us(pc101)"
(**) XKB: geometry: "pc"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) XKB: model: "pc101"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, buttons: 3
(**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms)
(**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "My Video Card"
(**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Samsung SyncMaster 3"
(--) SVGA: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 35.16 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x400" needs hsync freq of 37.86 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x480" needs hsync freq of 36.46 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 37.88 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x480" needs hsync freq of 43.27 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 43.92 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 48.08 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 48.36 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x480" needs hsync freq of 53.01 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 53.51 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 55.84 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 56.48 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 51.02 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "800x600" needs hsync freq of 64.02 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 62.50 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 62.42 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 64.25 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1024x768" needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1152x864" needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "512x384" needs hsync freq of 34.38 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "320x240" needs hsync freq of 39.38 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "400x300" needs hsync freq of 35.16 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "400x300" needs hsync freq of 37.88 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "400x300" needs hsync freq of 48.08 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 35.16 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 37.80 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 39.56 kHz. Deleted.
(--) SVGA: Mode "480x300" needs hsync freq of 48.00 kHz. Deleted.
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
(--) SVGA: PCI: S3 Trio3D/2X rev 2, Memory @ 0xd8000000
(--) SVGA: S3V: Trio3D/2X rev 2, Linear FB @ 0xd8000000
(--) SVGA: Detected S3 Trio3D/2X
(--) SVGA: using driver for chipset "s3_virge"
(--) SVGA: videoram: 0k
(--) SVGA: Ramdac speed: 170 MHz
(--) SVGA: Detected current MCLK value of 100.227 MHz
(--) SVGA: chipset: s3_virge
(--) SVGA: videoram: 0k
(**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666
(--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 170.000 MHz
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x400" requires -640 of videoram, only -1024 is
available
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x480" requires -640 of videoram, only -1024 is
available
(--) SVGA: Mode "640x480" requires -640 of videoram, only -1024 is
available
(--) SVGA: Mode "512x384" requires -512 of videoram, only -1024 is
available
(--) SVGA: Mode "320x200" requires -320 of videoram, only -1024 is
available
(--) SVGA: Mode "320x240" requires -320 of videoram, only -1024 is
available
(--) SVGA: There is no mode definition named "800x600"
Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages
S3VGEReset called from s3v_driver.c line 291
==============================================================
It seems to be telling me that there is no RAM on the video card. I
told the Xconfigurator that there was 8 Megs there. What am I doing
wrong, or better yet, what can I do to remedy this problem? Any help
would be appreciated.
radarray
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Quick Script help!
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:02:56 -0500
I just need a little help on writing a quick easy little script.
I am trying to get a ./whatiwantfile file to work from a script. I need
to do this because I cannot execute the application file directly. I
want to link to the script from my desktop or KDE Button.
I did this once before but had to reformat my HD and lost the script.
I tried to edit an already existing script to do what I want. I typed
in the commands and saved the file and then tried to link to it, but
I kept getting "cannot open /etc/???/???" It worked before but I don't
know what I have done different this time.
Here is an example of what I did:
#! /bin/sh
cd /etc/Rollemup
./Rollemup
this is what I typed and it worked the first time. I am trying to get
Rollemup Pinball to play. I saved the file as "rollem"
Harry Thompson
Biloxi MS
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From: Thomas Gagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.laptop,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux on Inspiron
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 23:06:00 -0400
My brother got the 7500 (bigger heavier) and I got the 5000 (slimmer, not as
heavy). We're both tickled. I move mine around alot and take it with me most
places in case I have a quiet moment of inspiration. He doesn't plan to take
his as many places.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: S3 Trio 3D/2X bombs on Red Hat 6.1
Date: 09 May 2000 23:38:40 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 May 2000 02:18:06 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8fagsi$lsk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I guess I have a newbie question, though I have been playing at this OS
>since Red Hat 3.1. We recently upgraded my machine at work with an AMD
>K6-2 450 MHz processor, 128 Megs of RAM, and a generic AGP video board
>with the S3 TRIO 3D/2X chipset and 8 Megs of video ram on board.
[massive snip]
Those things are a royal pain in the arse. Xfree 3.3.6 has better luck
with them, and 4.0 might be even better. Check out the guides to
upgrading your X:
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html (official)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html (unofficial)
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/S3V3.html (some info about the specific
card you have)
I believe RedHat has prebuilt RPMs mucking around somewhere if you want to
try 4.0, too. Good luck, HTH.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Dave Lers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really Inexpensive Array of Disks
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 03:47:39 GMT
On Tue, 02 May 2000 19:01:23 +0200, Markus Kossmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>However there are the IDE_RAID Controllers from 3ware ( www.3ware.com )
>which are supported by a linux driver.
I haven't found any discussions/comments/articles on this one. All
I've found so far is this post (via deja), the site info is pretty
minimalist. There's a lot more written on the Raid 1 IDE DupliDisk
(http://www.arcoide.com/)
--
Dave Lers
http://www.BaywoodDesign.com/
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q&A from this NG 10 May
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:51:42 +0300
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