Linux-Hardware Digest #922, Volume #12 Thu, 25 May 00 00:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI controllers (Thomas Zajic)
need help high speed scsi seagate chetah 10000 rpm ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: xf86config (Dances With Crows)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell (Chris Carbaugh)
Trouble with Promise Ultra66 Card (Haden Peterson)
Re: cd witers don't work with kernel 2.2.14 (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Trouble with Promise Ultra66 Card (sturman)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: SCSI/IDE hardware Raid 1 - plaase advise (Lurch)
2 NIC not working together (Santosh Philip)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? (Raymond N Shwake)
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. (Bloody Viking)
Is there a max size for a linux hard drive?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: SCSI controllers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 02:08:42 GMT
On Mon, 22 May 2000 22:43:41 -0100, Tellplace wrote:
> Douglas Fraser wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > And what one card would you avoid at all cost?
>
> [ ... ]
> I have bad experience with Advansys 3940UW where neither
> RH nor Mandrake was able to recognize it under install. It
> could be a single bad board because I never got it to work
> and bought an Adaptec instead.
> [ ... ]
Slackware's advansys.s bootdisk works just fine. Why let the kernel
try to autodetect it if you *know* what kind of card you have? Just
select the correct boot disk and you're set. ;-)
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: need help high speed scsi seagate chetah 10000 rpm
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 02:10:22 GMT
I cannot make linux to use scsi seagate new HD that run 10000 rpm
If anyone can make it to work please help.
Please reply via e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
supat
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: xf86config
Date: 24 May 2000 22:33:49 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 25 May 2000 01:30:22 GMT, jason
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm using Slackware 7.0 at the moment. My video card is S3 Trio64 PCI 764
>and the highest displaying resolution of my monitor is 1280*1024. In
>Win9x, I use 1024*728 cause that's the highest resolution for me to use
>High Color 16-bit. So I tried to set the resolution to 1024*728 for Linux
>with XF86_S3 but it didn't work, although Linux says XF86_S3 supports the
>model of my video card. I can only use the highest resolution (1280*1024)
>with 256 color in Linux. I've tried to use 800*600 with XF86_S3, but it
>didn't work either.
Did you check http://xfree86.org/3.3.5/S3.html for information? I did
that, and saw that there is something to try: Configure the X-server
manually, and don't select the S3 server, but the SVGA server. They say
it has improved support for Trio64 variants, although things might break.
And are you serious about "1024x728" or was that a typo for "1024x768"?
A card with 2M of VRAM should be able to take 1024x768x16bpp. And what
sorts of errors do you get while trying to set up 800x600 resolutions?
Since you're using Slack, I presume you're using XF86Setup, so that's all
right... but to start the X-server in 16-bit mode, you often have to
manually edit /etc/XF86Config and enter the line
DefaultColorDepth 16
right before all the "Subsection "Display" " lines.
>By the way, how can make my Logitech mouse with the
>scrolling middle button to work? Please help!! Thanks!
Go to http://freshmeat.net and search for "imwheel" and follow the
directions. imwheel might not be happy with KDE, though, as it seems KDE
uses the ZAxisMapping events for its own internal purposes, preventing
imwheel from using this. KDE 2.0 will fix this, or so they say. Good
luck...
--
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 \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 02:33:39 GMT
You have a brain dead operating system, not a brain dead printer.
Linux is braindead.
Your printer works fine under Windows...
On Wed, 24 May 2000 05:14:05 GMT, Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>I got a new black and white cartridge for an NEC Superscript 150C today. I
>also bought some (Winblows) cheque-cutting software. So, I installed the
>cheque-cut-ware in Winblows, and started playing with the printer. OK, in
>Winblows it works fine, and it will manufacture cheques. (cut checks)
>
>Next, I played with QBASIC and the printer again works fine.
>
>Now, the fun part. In DOS, I made a test text file (test.txt) and booted
>up Linux. Using good old LPR to print with, I got this output:
>
>Printing the DOS file in Linux, I get this:
>
>
>2
>3
>4
>5
>
>testing printer.
>
>Note that the DOS file has a 1 at the start which was not printed.
>
>When printing with LPR the Linux test.txt file, I get.... THIS!
>
>1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> test of printer.
>
>Obviously I have one brain-dead printer! Even funnier, before I fired up
>that cheque-cut-ware, any attempt to print from Linux just resulted in
>formfeeding a blank page!
>
>I guess I'll have to play around with C like how I once played around with
>a Commodore's BASIC to hack a printer, like to find the graphics character
>whereby the next byte is printed as binary with the ons and offs to make
>graphics.
>
>What does DOS use as a newline? Certainly not what UNIX uses as a newline
>character in the original binary. I guess since I don't have money to
>blow, I'll have to make this near-paperweight of a printer work.
>
>Don't you just love brain-dead printers?
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From: Chris Carbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:28:56 -0400
Whatever you smoke before you write this, please let me know!
"BEN BulleT." wrote:
>
> I say that language is toxic to the container it is in but mathmatics is
> universal. Well, this is nothing new under the Sun to the world of
> physics. I can hold my own in a stupidity contest but I am not ambitious
> to make it my vocation. (I have three words in my vocabulary: scissors,
> paper, and rock. A 'device' by definition has only 3 of the 5 senses
> that humans have. Ergo, I am a VAN ECK 'device'.) Physics really has
> sunk to these depths. Jewish physicists claim that the names of the
> heros of the Torah are encrypted in the Old Testament and they would
> claim that the first statement of this essay supports their assumption.
> Frankly, I'm looking for an out if the only options I have are to best
> the remainder of physics in a stupidity contest. I am very close to an
> out and I can only hope that this may be one of my last postings. Don't
> be stupid, you kids out there. Physics is exactly the way it has
> presented itself to me. Physics is just one big, colossal, gigantic,
> immense stupidity contest. Yes, and uh, Marilyn vos Savant, I want you
> to write me a 25 page essay on all the subtle nuances of scissors,
> paper, rock and submit it to me via e-mail at my convenience. Now, you
> know, previously I have shown contempt for Richard Smalley and I would
> like you to know that it really isn't like what you think. If you think
> about it, Richard Smalley is just a dumb-ass chemist and... he would not
> disagree with me on that score and that just pisses me off, don't you
> know. He knows the ambiance of physics within academia and he is
> probably thinking,'I told you so.' at what I am only recently
> discovering. People like Richard Smalley win the Nobel Prize and they
> think that it gives them the licence to do nothing constructive with the
> remainder of their lives. Well, I totally agree, I certainly feel the
> same way and I've never won the Nobel Prize. I have concern for a
> physicist named Stephan Hawkins because he is an invalid and lacks the
> nimbility to express his views in a timely manner... I may return to
> physics someday but only if Stephan Hawkins contacts me to invite me
> into his circle. (Ask him how he likes it in soft pillow hell.)
>
> --
> Kevin B. Murphy, Homo(nid) sapien superior,
> Also, I have postings as author:[EMAIL PROTECTED],I was kicked off of
> the science
> groups apparently because network managers are way smarter then any
> physicist ever
> born.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Haden Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Trouble with Promise Ultra66 Card
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 02:51:45 GMT
I am trying to install Red Hat 6.0 on a new Dell Pentium III that has a
Promise Ultra66 (UDMA) card installed. I found a driver on the Promise
site and have followed their directions for installing using their boot
image, but on my machine it just hangs.
Here's what I get:
Ultra66 Linux Loadable Module
PDC 20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS Settings:hde:pio,hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS Settings:hde:pio,hdf:pio
hde: Quantum Fireballp LM30.0 ATA Disk Drive
ide2 at 0x1080-0x1087,0x1076 on irq 10
Hoping that someone out there might have gone through this or has a
suggestion.
Thanks.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cd witers don't work with kernel 2.2.14
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:49:21 -0400
Manuel Miranda wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I have TDK velocd writer and i use with RH 6.1 kernel 2.2.12 but i update
> to RH 6.2 kernel 2.2.14, and the velocd don't work more.
> I reinstall RH 6.1 and velocd work, i install Mandrake 7.0 kernel 2.2.14
> and velocd don't work, i supuse that the problem is the kernel 2.2.14 i
> tried use kernel 2.2.15 but velocd don't work.
I have an HP 9200i CD-RW and kernel 2.2.14. It works fine with cdrecord.
What software are you using to write the CD? If it's cdrecord, then you
have to make sure you have SCSI emulation set up in the kernel for an
IDE interface. (Of course, I'm assuming your CD-RW is IDE, but you
didn't mention what it is.)
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: sturman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Trouble with Promise Ultra66 Card
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:02:29 -0500
Haden Peterson wrote:
> I am trying to install Red Hat 6.0 on a new Dell Pentium III that has a
> Promise Ultra66 (UDMA) card installed. I found a driver on the Promise
> site and have followed their directions for installing using their boot
> image, but on my machine it just hangs.
>
> Here's what I get:
>
> Ultra66 Linux Loadable Module
> PDC 20262: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS Settings:hde:pio,hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS Settings:hde:pio,hdf:pio
> hde: Quantum Fireballp LM30.0 ATA Disk Drive
> ide2 at 0x1080-0x1087,0x1076 on irq 10
>
> Hoping that someone out there might have gone through this or has a
> suggestion.
> Thanks.
I don't know anything about their drivers but check www.linuxdoc.org for
the Mini-Howto that talks about this card.
st
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Date: 24 May 2000 22:01:10 -0500
In article <Ei_W4.34$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.advocacy Paul Voller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[about staircase and X]
>
>Thanks. I was simply trying to make it print plaintext, the thing I use
>the most. I succeeded after the clues were provided, i.e. "\r\n" in a C
>programme.
>
>: Hope this helps! And good luck in getting it to print Postscript :-)
>
>Now, that's a challenge! This printer is pretty flaky. It waits in a
>standby state until used, and it creates another challenge for me to
>solve. :) When "woken up" this printer ignores the whole first line to be
>printed. Maybe a line of a few blanks for the first print will suffice.
>But this means finding a way to let Linux know it's in standby.
Most printers can't print on the page margins - you need about a
half inch of space there.
>Once you do that with the printer, you then have to create the Postscript
>to Brain-Dead_Printer driver.
That's known as ghostscript, and is probably included with your
Linux distribution. RedHat gives you a nice fill-out-the-form
setup. With other systems you may have to glue the filter
commands into the printcap file yourself.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: SCSI/IDE hardware Raid 1 - plaase advise
From: Lurch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 20:03:38 -0700
I have seen a dramatic reduction of CPU utilisation using the
Fastrak controller on DOS, WIN31, Win9x, WinNT & Beos on my
DESKTOP WORKSTAION. Linux is the ONLY OS i have found that
requiers a special driver.
I would not ever entertain IDE RAID for a Server for the obvious
reasons, but, if like me you have noticed that modern desktop
OS's are getting very disk intensive then striping across two
fast ide drives is very effective at speeding things up. (Also
makes video editing possible if not spectacular, for us poor
people who can't afford the Rolls Royce solution to everything!)
The issue of driver availability & quality pertains to SCSI just
as much as any other device. At least due to Linux's server
origins it has some generic SCSI support out of the box.
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From: Santosh Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 NIC not working together
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 03:13:21 GMT
I need any assistance in getting my 2 NIC cards working. individually i
can get them working in the 6.2 linux box but together i can't figure
out what to do.
both are ISA , one is 3com etherlink III, the other is a generic ne2000.
individually i can get the 3com card working by useing 3c509
and the ne2000 i run by insmod 8390 then insmod ne.
i noticed on individual use both used the same irq and base address so
in an attempt to make them use different values i did the following
(which didn't do anything)
i've tried doing something like.... pnpdump > isapnp.conf and then
editing the isapnp.conf to force different values which didn't work
cause whatever values i changed to in the file, on bootup the card
always said
io=300 and irq = 10 after typing ifconfig.
can anyone please suggest something, as i have run out of ideas.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 03:31:26 GMT
On Thu, 25 May 2000 02:33:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>You have a brain dead operating system, not a brain dead printer.
>
>Linux is braindead.
>
>
>Your printer works fine under Windows...
No, the printer is acting as if DOS is the only OS on the
face of the planet. It is not. It would have the same
problem with a machine that's even 'superior' by your
own standards (if you were sincere about them): the Macintosh.
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 24 May 2000 05:14:05 GMT, Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>
>>I got a new black and white cartridge for an NEC Superscript 150C today. I
>>also bought some (Winblows) cheque-cutting software. So, I installed the
>>cheque-cut-ware in Winblows, and started playing with the printer. OK, in
>>Winblows it works fine, and it will manufacture cheques. (cut checks)
>>
>>Next, I played with QBASIC and the printer again works fine.
>>
>>Now, the fun part. In DOS, I made a test text file (test.txt) and booted
>>up Linux. Using good old LPR to print with, I got this output:
>>
>>Printing the DOS file in Linux, I get this:
>>
>>
>>2
>>3
>>4
>>5
>>
>>testing printer.
>>
>>Note that the DOS file has a 1 at the start which was not printed.
>>
>>When printing with LPR the Linux test.txt file, I get.... THIS!
>>
>>1
>> 2
>> 3
>> 4
>> 5
>> test of printer.
>>
>>Obviously I have one brain-dead printer! Even funnier, before I fired up
>>that cheque-cut-ware, any attempt to print from Linux just resulted in
>>formfeeding a blank page!
>>
>>I guess I'll have to play around with C like how I once played around with
>>a Commodore's BASIC to hack a printer, like to find the graphics character
>>whereby the next byte is printed as binary with the ons and offs to make
>>graphics.
>>
>>What does DOS use as a newline? Certainly not what UNIX uses as a newline
>>character in the original binary. I guess since I don't have money to
>>blow, I'll have to make this near-paperweight of a printer work.
>>
>>Don't you just love brain-dead printers?
>
--
In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond N Shwake)
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 03:20:29 GMT
Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I think HP deskjet 970cxi is perhaps the one you want. It supports PCL
>printer language.
>Furthermore it meets #1 (#2) #3 #4 #6
>#2: there are standard color printer drivers for the HP DJ (color)
>series but unfortunately no specialized driver for the DJ970cxi.
While the 970cxi might be a fine printer in some environments
(I don't know this unit), the original poster requires support for Linux.
While some apps will work fine with a generic PCL printer, others (like
Netscape) output in Postscript, so one either needs a printer supporting
native Postscript or a utility like ghostscript that can translate that
output into PS.
It's for that reason I replaced my old LaserJet II with a 4 MV,
which supports real PCL and PS2 and - most recently - added a Lexmark
Optra Color 40 for those color prints. The latter cost me $99 from buy.com,
but they're sold out. You can try egghead.com, which also had a few.
If it's a low-cost monochrome laser you see, Lexmark's newest
312 looks real interesting for $399 - including Postscript emulation. And
if you really want color and duplex, Tektronix Phaser 850 (replacing the
840 we have in the office) is quite nice, but it'll cost $2,500 or so.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>>
>> Can somebody recommend a printer?
>>
>> My Epson Action Laser 1400 is driving me nuts, because the sheet
>> feeder constantly pulls in two sheets and jams. I want to replace
>> it with a new/used printer, but have no idea which one avoids that
>> problem.
>>
>> Here are my priorities, in order:
>>
>> Required:
>>
>> 1. GOOD non-jamming sheet feeder which accepts ordinary paper
>>
>> 2. Runs perfectly under Linux (possibly with some fiddling)
>>
>> Optional:
>>
>> 3. Color
>>
>> 4. Two-sided printing
>>
>> 5. Cheap
>>
>> 6. Fast
>>
>> Any recommendations? I'm considering a refurbished Epson Color Stylus
>> 440, because it satisfies #2, #3 and #5; does it satisfy #1? Is there
>> a printer which satisfies all six conditions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Len.
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>--
>Regards,
>Carsten
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From: Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 04:05:56 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: If using redhat, us the printtool and click on the staircase button
: for your printer.
Others mentioned that too. :)
: or you can cat any unix text file through the following perl bit and
: print the result which will have cr/lf instead of lf
: #!/usr/bin/perl
: # The above line should really have the whole path to perl
: # This script must be executable: chmod 755 filter
: while(<STDIN>){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";};
: # You might also want to end with a form feed: print "\f";
: #end
Pipe your file into this gem:
cat > /tmp/file
perl -pi.bak -e 's/\n:/\r\n:/g' /tmp/file
lpr /tmp/file
rm /tmp/file
Use as a shell script. The perl adds the \r to the \n and puts it in /tmp
to be printed up. This gem came from my email filter bot where a similar
shell script disables MIME. The original MIME-disabler is:
cat > /home2/shoga/nospam/bot/mime
perl -pi.bak -e 's/MIME-Version:/X-PadVersion:/g' /home2/shoga/nospam/bot/mime
perl -pi.bak -e 's/Mime-Version:/X-PadVersion:/g' /home2/shoga/nospam/bot/mime
perl -pi.bak -e 's/Content-/X-Padcon/g' /home2/shoga/nospam/bot/mime
cat /home2/shoga/nospam/bot/mime >>/home2/shoga/nospam/mail
cat /dev/null > /home2/shoga/nospam/bot/mime.bak
cat /dev/null > /home2/shoga/nospam/bot/mime
--
CAUTION: Email Spam Killer in use. Leave this line in your reply! 152680
First Law of Economics: You can't sell product to people without money.
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Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there a max size for a linux hard drive?
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:08:30 -0500
I was looking at a 35 or 45 gig HD. Are their any watch outs by getting
something this size?
THanks
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