Linux-Hardware Digest #125, Volume #13 Tue, 27 Jun 00 10:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: 61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help! (Alberto BARSELLA)
Re: Microstar versus asus k7v ("ye_olde_jp")
Re: large disks (> 32 GB) (Dances With Crows)
Driver for IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet? (Hexdump)
Re: Panasonic Cr5X CD (Dances With Crows)
Sound Card CS4236B Line Input doesn't work fine (Sergio
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez=20Mu=F1oz?=)
Re: Thoughts on this configuration? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Video card lag (Dances With Crows)
Proliant 3000 and Linux (John Harlow)
Re: phone line network cards supported? ("Larry Gardner")
Re: Driver for IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet? (David Weis)
Re: Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux? (John W Kendrick)
Re: PCI ISDN cards ? ("Sjoerd Venema")
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution ("Douglas W. Martin")
Re: Sohoware Ethernet Card Compatibility w/ RedHat 6.0 (John W Kendrick)
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From: Alberto BARSELLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help!
Date: 27 Jun 2000 13:47:17 +0200
Jonathan McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Get into linux, detected fine. fdisk it to full size(it's for data storage) and
> format using mke2fs. Formated fine.
Did you run a bad blocks check? It will take ages, but it's good to
do at least once on a newly acquired drive.
> Mounting it went fine the first time, used it, benchmarked it, etc. fine. I did
> notice however that the size only ended up being:
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 56450776 5408896 51041880 10% /us1
>
> when the total should be a few gigabytes higher.
Check the reserved block percentage and lower it.
(man tune2fs) I think mke2fs reserves 5% for root, which in a 61Gb is
quite a lot of disk space...
> I rebooted and upon boot it said my /dev/hda1 had errors and forced a check. It
> just went too long, so I killed it.
Weird. Was it unmounted correctly?
(BTW I'm not sure of the max size of a single filesystem, maybe it's
worth checking out).
> Jun 23 20:15:08 kerr kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running
> e2fsck is recommended
> Jun 23 20:15:08 kerr kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)):
> ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free blocks count for group 0, stored = 7691,
> counted = 7704
This is FS errors.
> Before, other errors I got were like:
> Jun 22 21:35:48 kerr kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Jun 22 21:35:48 kerr kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound },
> CHS=65535/12/54, sector=66060026
This is disk error. If they tend to happen always at the same place,
create a mini-partition around those tracks and run badblocks in write
(destructive) mode to see what happens.
Hope this helps,
Alberto
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From: "ye_olde_jp" <ye_olde_jpATyahooDOTcom>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Microstar versus asus k7v
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:00:06 +1000
Or you could go one better and get an Abit KA7-100. Another alternative
would be the MSI K7T Pro. Both of these motherboard are far superior to
anything ASUS can dish out :)
y-o-p
"Mark Faine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8j861n$gg8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a 700Mhz Athlon and I'm looking for a mobo, I have a price on a
> Microstar for $130.00 and the K7V for $165.00. I know the k7v is supposed
> to be better but I'd like to get some suggestions and 2nd opinions. Also
> compatiblitty questions, I'll be running windows 2k and linux mandrake 7.1
?
>
> -Mark
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: large disks (> 32 GB)
Date: 27 Jun 2000 08:23:14 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:02:10 GMT, Espen Sand
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use those new
>large IDE disks (72 gigs) that arrive on the market
>these days? By "use" I mean I want to access the
>whole disk.
>1) Is the BIOS important if I am not going to boot
>from one of those? (I would guess not, but I better
>ask)
>2) What (experimental) linux kernel should I go for?
Kernels before 2.2.14 had problems accessing IDE disks over 32G. These
problems have been fixed. You shouldn't need a development kernel at all.
As for the BIOS, it might be beneficial to set it to "No drive present" on
the interface where you've plugged this monster drive. Older BIOSes will
more than likely barf when they see a drive reporting a 68G capacity[0].
DOS may not be able to use the drive, but so what? Also, fdisk may have
problems with the drive since the number of cylinders will be huge. Try
cfdisk.
[0] In Marketing-speak, 72G = 72*1000*1000 bytes, not 72*1024*1024 bytes.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hexdump)
Subject: Driver for IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet?
Date: 27 Jun 2000 12:37:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All,
I recently aquired an old IBM PS/2 (9557) which contains an equally old
nic., an IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet. I was wondering if anyone out
there knew if there is a linux driver that can be used with this card.
More curious than anything else, but any help would be greatly
appreciated.
--
Hexdump
Holder of 3 Just for the Flipping Hell of it points
Registered Linux User # 168737, http://counter.li.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Panasonic Cr5X CD
Date: 27 Jun 2000 08:39:32 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:30:15 GMT, Mike Nevin
<<bKY55.2478$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Anyone know whether you can run a panasonic interface CD on Linux (Definite
>7) If so how? It runs from an Aztech Souncard interface.
Probably. The module you'll need is under "Non-ATAPI, Non-SCSI CD-ROMs"
when you "make menuconfig". Since you didn't give the exact make and
model of the CD or the sound card, I can't tell you the exact option
you'll need, but you'll probably recognize it when you see it.
If you're asking whether you can install Linux on a computer that only has
that particular CD-ROM drive available, that's also possible. You'll have
to boot from a boot/install floppy (all major distros provide these) and
select your particular CD-ROM drive from a list of drives before beginning
the install process (under "Non-SCSI, Non-IDE CD-ROMs" again.)
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: Sergio =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez=20Mu=F1oz?=
Subject: Sound Card CS4236B Line Input doesn't work fine
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:43:55 GMT
Hello. I have compiled ALSA (version 0.5.7, 0.5.8 and 0.5.8b). I have a
sound card CS4236B (Cristal Sound). It sounds fine (I can hear music, I
can speak using MIC input, etc). But I have a problem. Line volume
capability seems to be broken. I move volume line control but it doesn't
work. I think it could be an ALSA driver problem, but I don't know if it
could be a sound card (hardware) problem.
If anyone has an idea to fix this problem, please help me.
Thanks
Sergio
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Thoughts on this configuration?
Date: 27 Jun 2000 08:18:20 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
> > Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > the problem with tape is that
> > > 1) they are *way* too small compared to todays 20GB hard disks. (this
> > > is shared by CD-R)
>
> > Not really.
>
> For the cost, yeah.
>
> > Travan NS-20 drives hold 10G uncompressed.
> > DDS-3 DAT holds 12G uncompressed
> > DDS-4 DAT holds 20G uncompressed.
> > Ecrix makes a 33G (uncompressed) drive.
> > OnStream makes drives that hold 15G and 25G uncompressed.
>
> Unless my memory is totally failing me, a 4/8GB Travan (slow) was
> about $350 (for SCSI). Considering that 4GB backs up 66% of my
> smallest hard drive, 13% of my largest, and 9% of the total, that is
> totally unsatisfactory. Doing a full backup would require 11 tapes
> and several days.
>
> Tapes also cost in the neighborhood of $20-$30, again, unless I've
> been smoking some strong crack.
>
> > There are also larger capacity drives based on 8mm and DLT mechanisms.
> > There are also changers which can auto-load multiple tapes, if your
> > bacup size gets to be really huge.
>
> Yeah, I'm in the mood to spend over $10,000. On a device which, in
> all probability, I will never need.
>
> You can have "Told you so!" rights the next time I frag my system -
> the clock is ticking, I'd say it'll be about two weeks - but until
> then, I'll spend my money on things I'll use.
the only thing that is cheap enough and has enough capacity to backup
today's gargantuan hard disks is .... more hard disks!
which brings me to my favorite cheap and dirty backup method.
1) rescue one obsolete box from the dumpster. a 486 or early pentium
should do. one with pci slots would be nice, but don't bother
being choosy.
2) equip it with a network card.
3) put in a giant IDE drive (optimize cost and capacity not speed).
now, just rsync to your primary machine over the lan every once in a
while. turn off the backup queen when you're not backing up. it can
be done for under $300.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Video card lag
Date: 27 Jun 2000 08:49:27 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:58:52 -0700, Dragonia Radar Freedom, C.S.
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I've got Linux Mandrake 7.1. My video card is an Asus v3800 TNT2 Deluxe
>with 32 meg RAM. I've tried both the Riva TNT2 and nVidia TNT2 drivers
>and both present me with the same problem.
>My video card is snail-slow when doing anything complex like openGL.
Sounds to me like you're using Mesa instead of the 3D hardware
acceleration. This is the default, because not everyone has a nifty 3D
card and few cards have 3D Linux support as of yet.
Anyway, when you say "drivers" up there, did you mean "the standard
X-Servers that come with Xfree86", or "nVidia's binary-only beta-quality
accelerated X servers"? At the moment, the best advice I can give you is
to install Xfree86 4.0 and grab nVidia's evil binary-only 3D-acceleration
extensions. They're on nVidia's website somewhere. Xfree86 4.0 can be
downloaded in source form from http://xfree86.org/ but it's about 60M
worth of source. Mandrake may have RPMs for X 4.0 available--use those if
you can.
Good luck; I tried this 6 months ago and discovered that I could run
Quake3 and only Quake3--anything else that tried to use OpenGL caused X to
die messily.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: John Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proliant 3000 and Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:36:51 GMT
There are some pretty good deals on Compaq Proliant 3000's out there
right now and I was thinking of getting one. They have SMP
motherboards, hot swappable drives, dual scsi-3, etc..
I usually use clones, so I have some concerns.
I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has one running
Linux. Any significant install/operational issues? Do you have to use
Compaq drives? Is the CPU a standard P-II, or does it have to also come
from Compaq.
Thanks for the help
john
--
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United Systems Inc.
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From: "Larry Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: phone line network cards supported?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:20:28 GMT
I have the Diamond HPA 2.0 (10 MBPS card) and have been unable to find Linux
support for this card.
I emailed Diamond and got the usual "We don't support
blah.....blah.....blah...... I am keeping on eye out for one at
linhardware.com
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I just moved houses, and can't get the network cable between 2 of my
> computers. I was in the store browsing, and saw a couple of different
> brands of NICs that use the phone line vice 10BaseT or RJ45 to
> interconnect the cards. Before I buy, I want to know if they're
> supported under Linux. Two of the specific brands I saw were:
>
> 3Com HomeConnect home network phoneline kit (based on 3c410 chip)
> and
> Diamond MM HomeFree Phoneline 10MB PCI (based on BCM4210 chip)
>
> Anyone got any experience with either of these?
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert A. Yetman)
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From: David Weis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:27:18 -0500
> I recently aquired an old IBM PS/2 (9557) which contains an equally old
> nic., an IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet. I was wondering if anyone out
> there knew if there is a linux driver that can be used with this card.
> More curious than anything else, but any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
Take a look at http://www.dgmicro.com/ for a pointer to the driver.
david
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When they took the Fifth Amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
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Now they've taken the First Amendment and I can't say anything.
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From: John W Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:30:27 -0500
well if you give you particular distrobution you want to use and the video
card we could be more specific. The general answer is yes, you can yse
linnux. At the very least youll be fine in text mode. My video card is not
supported either, but the ocmputer runs fine, even in Xwindows. I cnat get
the 3d acceleration to work on it, even though ive tried several supposed
drivers for that.
But he final answer is yes, you can use it. :)
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My video card is not supported by Linux... does this mean I can't run
> Linux with this video card?
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
>
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From: "Sjoerd Venema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI ISDN cards ?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:43:19 +0200
Hi,
"Alastair Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:8j8bmu$bao$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm currently setting up a dual boot system. As my current ISDN adaptor is
a
> Draytek USB model, I am now looking for an internal solution.
>
> Easily available locally are :
>
> Fritzcard PCI
> ASUS PCI
> Eicon DIVA PCI
> (Also possibly the ELSA PCI offering).
My expierences with Fritzcard and Eicon are that they are easy to configure.
Never tried ASUS.
Sjoerd
>
> Can anyone recommend the 'best' of these ? I believe all are supported
> through HiSax for Linux. (I will be using it with Corel Linux 1.1 and Red
> Hat 6.2 ... plus other Linux dists).
>
>
>
>
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From: "Douglas W. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:01:31 GMT
Hello All:
<If you don't want me to post stuff like this here, just say so
- my intention is to inform, not just to make a sale for my company.>
I just wanted to provide another option. Arista corporation
(aristaipc.com) has a few 1U and 2U rackmount designs,
most of which use dual-voltage power supplies (safety-
certified 110/220V). (I confess to being an employee,
although not a salesman <contrary to appearances>)
Arista sells components, partial systems, complete systems,
and even systems with OS installed (Linux: R.hat,Suse are
most common; FreeBSD; Solaris; or that windows stuff).
Arista is also working on integrating Sun Microsystems
hardware into a 1U system. They also sell internationally.
I think you will find with a little research that there are many
other companies that sell rack mountable 1U systems as well,
but be prepared to pay a bit more for a 1U system than a
desktop - nobody's chassis (pl?) are exactly what would be
called cheap. Also, for most 1U designs you can forget
about the slot1/slotA CPU's. PGA 370 abd AMD's
equivalent are normally the only option.
Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am looking to tack together a couple of servers in a rack-mounted
> > solution - because physical room is a factor I can't really go for full
> > sized servers.
> > Can anyone point me towards a site that sells the racks/cases/server
> > components in kit form?
>
> 1U servers are a bit hard to get this side of the atlantic - they're
> easily available the other side. It's partly because of different
> power supplies - the ones used in US 1U servers would not pass safety
> this side even if they would handle the voltage.
>
> IBM will sell you a 230 volt 1U server but the prices are
> fierce. Cobalt will too, but they don't quote prices and I think
> they're expensive as well. 2U boxes are easier to find and 4U boxes
> you can get more or less anywhere.
>
> Cobalt at <URL:http://emea.cobalt.com/products/raq/index.html>
> VA Linux at <URL:http://www.valinux.com/products/1000ts.html> but I
> don't think it does 230 volts.
>
> I'm pretty sure there's a market for someone to produce a UK spec 1U
> box at a reasonable (say, sub UKP1,000) price.
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
>
> Due to financial constraints, the light at the end of the tunnel
> has been switched off.
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From: John W Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sohoware Ethernet Card Compatibility w/ RedHat 6.0
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:32:49 -0500
I have a sohoware ethernet card. i think its the same one, but Im at work
and ant check. If it is, there is a module you can download from teh
support and downloads section on sohoware.com. This worked perfectly for
me the first time. I cant get it to work now, but I attribute that to my
other big computer problems :)
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, foobar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering whether anyone had any trouble having compatibility problems
> with any of their Sohoware brand ethernet cards with their Linux systems.
>
> Specs:
> Name: Sohoware Fast Auto 10/100 PCI Fast Ethernet Card
> External DSL modem: Fugitsu Speedport
> ISP protocol: TCP/IP only (GTE, PCMagic)
> Linux default driver: tulip <--does this generic driver do the job?
>
> Win9.8 works fine with it, but Linux6.0 seems to have problems, notably:
> 1. "ping <static IP>" is good; "ping <gateway>" is bad
> 2. card LCD lit under Win98; card LCD not lit under Linux6.0
> 3. "control-panel" indicates "active" for eth0
> 4. no other obvious errors regarding software setup, thereby my concluding
> it
> must be a driver problem
>
> HeeELLLPPPP!!!!!!!!! (with note of hysteric desperation)
>
>
>
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