Linux-Hardware Digest #876, Volume #13 Sat, 11 Nov 00 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
Help! Mandrake 7.2 setup hang ("Jeepster")
Re: Adaptec 2940UW and Mandrake 7.1 & 7.2 - nothing but problems!! (Robert Fox)
Re: OLD monitor. Help ? (DualIP)
Re: Cant assign IRQ to 3c905B on an ASUS A7V, 2.2.16/17! (M. Buchenrieder)
Newbie problem with scanner install ("Anton Vorster")
Re: Need driver for "SIS 6326 AGP" video card ("Dave Stanton")
How to set up my Voodoo 3 3000 (Sven Jacobs)
Mindbender for the experts: DTC3181E in PNP mode. ("Tim v. Wegberg")
Re: OLD monitor. Help ? (Jonas Alver)
Re: OLD monitor. Help ? ("Sander Cornelissen")
Connect Tech Intellicon-8 ISA Drivers?!?!?! (Douglas E. Mitton)
Re: ADSL via serial ports (baulv)
Re: L2 cache? on Pentium 3 ("Tom Brinkman")
Re: CPU Temperature question (DualIP)
LM-Sensors and M599LMR Mother Board??? (Douglas E. Mitton)
Re: LM-Sensors and M599LMR Mother Board??? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ADSL via serial ports (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Need driver for "SIS 6326 AGP" video card (bullwinkle)
Soundblaster Live driver for Redhat 6.2 (Wiz-Medic)
Re: SUSE and netgear (Juergen Korn)
Re: Soundblaster Live driver for Redhat 6.2 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?= Skadsem)
Re: IDE vs SCSI ZIP drives (Ken Luke)
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From: "Jeepster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Mandrake 7.2 setup hang
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:21:56 -0000
HELP: Mandrake 7.2 install hang on install after
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on IRQ 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on IRQ 15
on the first set up screen after boot up.it simply stops the install.
Can anyone help?
7.1 installed ok before....
cheers
Jeepster
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From: Robert Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW and Mandrake 7.1 & 7.2 - nothing but problems!!
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:44:48 +0100
Adaptec startup says all is OK - The IBM drive shows 40 MB transfer, the
Plextor CD-ROM shows 20 MB & the Yamaha CDRW shows ASYN.
I will try it without the CDRW - but I would prefer to keep that working
if possible (would be a same if I couldn't keep the burner online!)
Physical config is as follows:
IBM DNES-309170W 9G SCSI attached on the 68 pin Wide bus cable (SCSI ID
0)
Plextor CD-ROM PX-32TS attached on the 50 pin normal SCSI bus (SCSI ID
3)
YAMAHA CRW4260 attached on the same 50 pin cable as the Plextor on the
end (with termination set) and SCSI ID 5
I'm not sure where you see that the system is reporting the Plextor
drive as a CDR - but it is NOT a burner, only a reader!!
Hope this helps a bit more . . .
> What does the Adaptec startup say? Does it see all devices without
> problem? This appears to happen when you access the CD, have you tried it
> without the CDRW attached?? You did not mention what you physical config
> was? Do you have two CDRWs like the driver scan is trying to say?? It
> seems like it finds an IBM disk on lun 0, a Plextor CDR on lun 3, and a
> Yamaha CDRW on lun 5. Is that your config?
>
> --
> Mike Mattix
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: OLD monitor. Help ?
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 07:09:39 GMT
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:02:01 GMT, Jonas Alver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Greetings all!
>I recently got an old monitor, hoping to put it to use on a server. When
>trying to put it to use I discovered it not being a vga....
>Got a new vga->ega cable, but still no luck. Then it is probably a
>cga-monitor, but can I use that with a vga-card ?
>
>The monitor is an old AT from '86.Any tips on how (if?) I can get it
>working would be greatly appreciated.
>
You can use the old AT86's display card in the new server in text
mode....
Hope the server still got ISA slot
DualIP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Cant assign IRQ to 3c905B on an ASUS A7V, 2.2.16/17!
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 08:03:57 GMT
mitch on VID4-3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Carson,
> I am building 4 systems with the ASUS P3V4X motherboards. I am also
>having troubles with the "0" interupt on my 3Com cards, (I tried 3C900,
>3C905tx, and 3C905btx).
[...]
A quick glance at www.deja.com would have given you the answer
to this - which is setting PNP-OS to NO in the system's CMOS.
Michael
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From: "Anton Vorster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie problem with scanner install
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:10:36 +0200
I'm an absolute newbie, managed to install Mandrake 7.2 a few days ago, but
can't get my Mustek MFC-600S scanner to work.
I've downloaded and installed Sane, but when I type the command to get the
list of available devices, nothing comes up.
My scanner wasn't connected when I installed Linux, and during the install I
said that I don't have any SCSI devices. Does this mean I'll have to
recompile the kernel? If so, how do I do it?
Many thanks
Anton
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need driver for "SIS 6326 AGP" video card
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:38:24 -0000
"Darwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just got a computer and wiped everything out and reinstalled the
> Operating System.
> I do not have a driver for the "SIS 6326 AGP" video card and the company
> that made it is not on the web. I think they went out of business.
> Can anyone point me to a driver for this card?
>
> Please email me if you can help!
>
> Thanks
>
> Darwin
Go to my site www.klatu.fsnet.co.uk and you will find XF86Config files for
the SiS6326. Heed the warnings on the site !!.
Cheers
Dave
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From: Sven Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: How to set up my Voodoo 3 3000
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:42:31 +0100
I am trying to set up my 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP under Linux (SuSE Linux 7.0
Professional). I followed these intructions:
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/hoe_voodoo_3d.html
All packages are installed, the variable is set, the user has been added to
group "video". Everytime I run Quake 3 I only see some strange lines on the
screen but I hear the sound of the game, so the game is running. If I quit
Q3 my whole Linux freezes. test3Dfx, testGlide2x as well as testGlide3x
produce segmentation faults. I am using XFree86 4 with kernel 2.2.16. I've
heared of DRI drivers but I would need to install kernel 2.4.x and well, I
better go with 2.2.16 at the moment ...
Can anyone please help me?
Thanks!
--
Sven Jacobs
"Open Minds. Open Sources. Open Future."
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:28:30 +0100
From: "Tim v. Wegberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Mindbender for the experts: DTC3181E in PNP mode.
Hi all,
Linux is totally new to me, i run redhat 7 for a week now and i managed
to get most things to work ok, except the following:
I have a DTC3181E card that came with my Artec Viewstation AT6 scanner,
i also have a zipdrive hooked up to it because it destabilized my
Adaptec 2940AU's scsi bus. I managed to get The Dreaded Zipdrive working
in PNR mode by installing the card using the modprobe g_NCR5380
ncr_addr=0x280 dtc_3181E=1 command, but it was horribly slow, copying a
megabyte took about a minute, and mysteriously processor usage stayed
low too.
I decided to try to use the card in PNP mode, becuase then the BIOS
would assign it an IRQ and DMA channel to speed up transfer and make my
mouse pointer react normal again. However pnpdump doesn't recognize the
card, and modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x280 ncr_irq=11 dtc_3181e=1 fails
(i know from a bios message at boot that the irq is 11, no conflicts
here).
I'm probably doing something wrong but i really have no idea what.
Another problem is that i can't get The Dreaded Zipdrive to automount
properly, i experimented with auto.master and auto.zip0 but so far
without succes, mounting and unmounting normally with the correct
settings in fstab works ok but is very inconvenient.
Can anybody please tell me how to get this setup working ok?
TIA,
Tim
P.S.
I'm sorry to say but everything works OK with win98
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From: Jonas Alver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OLD monitor. Help ?
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:34:52 GMT
DualIP wrote:
>
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:02:01 GMT, Jonas Alver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First, thanx for answering!
However, I've only got the monitor.
Is that it then ? Anyone else who see a solution ?
sincerly
J.Alver
> >Greetings all!
> >I recently got an old monitor, hoping to put it to use on a server. When
> >trying to put it to use I discovered it not being a vga....
> >Got a new vga->ega cable, but still no luck. Then it is probably a
> >cga-monitor, but can I use that with a vga-card ?
> >
> >The monitor is an old AT from '86.Any tips on how (if?) I can get it
> >working would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> You can use the old AT86's display card in the new server in text
> mode....
>
> Hope the server still got ISA slot
>
> DualIP
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From: "Sander Cornelissen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OLD monitor. Help ?
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:27:11 +0100
Hello I hope I can help you
I have a CGA monitor too. You must have a CGA card. It won't work on a VGA
card.
"Jonas Alver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Greetings all!
> I recently got an old monitor, hoping to put it to use on a server. When
> trying to put it to use I discovered it not being a vga....
> Got a new vga->ega cable, but still no luck. Then it is probably a
> cga-monitor, but can I use that with a vga-card ?
>
> The monitor is an old AT from '86.Any tips on how (if?) I can get it
> working would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Happy computing !
>
> J.Alver
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Connect Tech Intellicon-8 ISA Drivers?!?!?!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 14:48:43 GMT
[I'm re-posting this as it didn't seem to propagate anywhere last
time!]
Hello All;
I have acquired a Connect Tech ISA Intellicon-8 multiport serial card.
It was being used in an older Redhat linux server. The machines were
re-deployed and I wasn't able to get the original drivers off of the
machine.
Has anyone had any experience with these cards and know where I can
get the drivers for them. I have searched the manufacturers site but
there are no Linux drivers for this particular vintage of product.
The recent kernel tree doesn't seem to list these cards in particular
but I would be happy to be proven wrong.
I am planning to use it under a recent Slackware installation.
Any any all help or pointers would be appreciated.
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From: baulv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ADSL via serial ports
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:57:52 -0500
ken pile wrote:
> I am about to have ADSL installed via HomeChoice ( UK ISP ). They will
> be connecting their service to my PC via the COM ports. Does anyone have
> any experience of setting this up for Linux ( SuSE 7.0 ). Of course the
> system will come with some lovely CD's for Windoze, and SuSE can't give
> any advice for this kind of connection, although they recommend looking
> at PPPoE, which I presume wont work on a serial port.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ken Pile
Serial? You gotta be kidding, use a NIC. "Serial" is the anathema of speed.
USB is flaky but should be reasonable.
A regular Ethernet card will be A LOT faster. Get an PCI ethernet card.
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From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: L2 cache? on Pentium 3
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:12:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott Prigan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just noticed that various things indicate missing/not found
> for my L2 cache on p3 450?!
???? if 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' shows cache size 512k, your L2
is enabled
The system doesn't seem to be taking a
> hit, though? Any ideas as to how to know for sure if I have a
> processor problem? .. any good diagnostic etc
'memtest86' lets you toggle L2 on/off which effects memory speed
(look in upper left corner). Should be in the 115 to 120 mb/sec
range with L2 enabled. You might also try different L2 latencies if
your bios lets you change. I run my p3-450 (oc'd to 608) at L2 = 3
instead of the default L2 = 8.
With L2 disabled a p3-600 will perform about the same as a 386sx.
My 450-SL35D will take my motherboard's highest fsb and run reliably at
698mhz, but only with L2 off. What a dog ;0
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: CPU Temperature question
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:19:00 GMT
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:55:42 -0700, Vladimir Florinski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That's not the reason. The difference in CPU temperature between idle and 100%
>load cannot be that high (17 deg C).
My P100 runs with just a huge heat sink , no fan.
Booted to Linux it stays perfectly cool.
Booted to DOS it becomes too hot to touch.
Although my finger isn't the best thermal sensor , I guess the
difference here is even more th 17deg.
DualIP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Subject: LM-Sensors and M599LMR Mother Board???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 15:47:22 GMT
Has any one had any successful experience with this mother board and
LM-Sensors?
The last version I tried was Sensors V1.2 and I get indeterminate
results ... that is to say inaccurate. I usually get the following
display:
Mitton<P4>dmitton:~$ sensors
lm78-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
Algorithm: ISA algorithm
VCore 1: +2.86 V (min = +2.52 V, max = +3.08 V)
VCore 2: +2.83 V (min = +2.52 V, max = +3.08 V)
+3.3V: +3.40 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V)
+5V: +3.96 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V) ALARM
+12V: +13.83 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.11 V)
fan2: 5192 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
temp: +127 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C)
vid: +3.50 V
The +5V reading is out to lunch, the temp looks scary and I get random
ALARMs temp without the value actually changing.
Any comments, suggestions, pointers are welcome and thanks in advance!
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LM-Sensors and M599LMR Mother Board???
Date: 11 Nov 2000 16:27:59 GMT
Douglas E. Mitton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Has any one had any successful experience with this mother board and
: LM-Sensors?
You can change the weightings for the calculations. And the wiring
diagram may be different.
I know. I had to reverse engineer the QDI B1 wiring and weighting
(I think I'm quoted in the lmsensors docs, anyway). It's quite easy
to do with a few experiments if you can change voltages from the bios.
You can probably guess the exact wiring and weightings. In my
case, I was able to put quite precise questions to the QDI people
too, and got precise responses in return, confirming the deduced
arrangement.
: The last version I tried was Sensors V1.2 and I get indeterminate
: results ... that is to say inaccurate. I usually get the following
: display:
: Mitton<P4>dmitton:~$ sensors
: lm78-isa-0290
: Adapter: ISA adapter
: Algorithm: ISA algorithm
: VCore 1: +2.86 V (min = +2.52 V, max = +3.08 V)
: VCore 2: +2.83 V (min = +2.52 V, max = +3.08 V)
Those two voltages are way high for a modern CPU. I would
have expected 2.0V or less. A PII should be at 2.05V.
What have you defined as the calculations and weightings?
What is your cpu? And most importnat, what does the bios say?
: +3.3V: +3.40 V (min = +2.97 V, max = +3.63 V)
Surprisingly high.
: +5V: +3.96 V (min = +4.50 V, max = +5.48 V) ALARM
Way out.
: +12V: +13.83 V (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.11 V)
OK, but there's a slight bias evident..
: fan2: 5192 RPM (min = 3000 RPM, div = 2)
: temp: +127 C (limit = +60 C, hysteresis = +50 C)
Ignore that.
: vid: +3.50 V
: The +5V reading is out to lunch, the temp looks scary and I get random
: ALARMs temp without the value actually changing.
Talk to the lm_sensors people.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ADSL via serial ports
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:23:57 GMT
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 09:57:52 -0500, baulv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Serial? You gotta be kidding, use a NIC. "Serial" is the anathema of
>speed. USB is flaky but should be reasonable. A regular Ethernet card
>will be A LOT faster. Get an PCI ethernet card.
I don't think for that curious ISP, there is any other option. It is how
their modem is designed.
--
Hal B
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need driver for "SIS 6326 AGP" video card
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:30:06 -0000
Darwin wrote:
>
> I just got a computer and wiped everything out and reinstalled the
> Operating System.
> I do not have a driver for the "SIS 6326 AGP" video card and the company
> that made it is not on the web. I think they went out of business.
> Can anyone point me to a driver for this card?
>
> Please email me if you can help!
>
> Thanks
>
> Darwin
>
See http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/SiS.html. Options "no_accel" and
"no_bitblt" would be the options I would add to the "Device" section
of the XF86Config file first.
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From: Wiz-Medic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster Live driver for Redhat 6.2
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:30:06 -0000
hey all,
I justplaced Redhat Linux 6.2 on my VMware. Is there a driver for my
Soundblaster live sound card? I tried SB.com and they only have it for
windows OS. Any help would be grateful.....Wiz-Medic
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From: Juergen Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SUSE and netgear
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 18:42:52 +0100
gar wrote:
>
> Trying to run suse7.0 and use a netgear fa311 nic....how do I get it to
> run...have tried all the stuff from netgear...they assume that I am running
> RedHat and nothing seems to work. I am new to Linux and just would like to
> get my dsl up and going so that I can get rid of Windows..
> Please reply to my email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks, Gar
compile the source of the netgaer-driver. (make all)
copy the modul fa311.o to modules /lib/modules/2.2.16/net
setup your network with yast
(not yast2, it is not recognizing the card)
you can not select fa311, put an other one as device (tulip)
exit yast (it runs the suseconfig)
edit the /etc/modules.conf
look for eth0
change the line to
alias eth0 fa311.o
run depmod -a
init 1
init 2
(or reboot)
well, mine is working now.
i have a fa310tx and a fa311 running.
yast2 is just recognizing the fa311
and does not offer me to setup a second device
that is why i used yast
i tried something else too:
i put the source to the kernel source
edited the make files and now i can
select it from the kernel-config
it is working now too after recompiling the kernel
BTW the kernel 2.4 has a driver for this card too
it is the natisemi.o
koerni
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8ystein?= Skadsem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Live driver for Redhat 6.2
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:50:00 GMT
Wiz-Medic wrote:
> hey all,
>
> I justplaced Redhat Linux 6.2 on my VMware. Is there a driver for my
> Soundblaster live sound card? I tried SB.com and they only have it for
> windows OS. Any help would be grateful.....Wiz-Medic
well, try opensource.creative.com. (But afaik rh6.2 ships with drivers
for this card compiled in in their kernel, so you shouldn't need any
drivers from creative at all)
--
Øystein Skadsem
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From: Ken Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI ZIP drives
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:10:16 -0800
I have an IDE Zip @ work and a SCSI Zip @ home, no problems transferring
zippies between. I fdisk'd the zippy & formatted it as ext2 (IIRC) then
just mount the 4th partition, no problems.
HTH
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 3 Nov 2000 23:08:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> Im having a problem that SOMEONE must have seen before.
>>
>> If I check the size of a Zip Cartridge (copy /dev/zero to it with dd)
>> I find the cartridge is 16k if it is mounted in a SCSI drive than if
>> mounted in a IDE drive.
>>
>> No probem you say.
>>
>> Well, the real problem is that a ZIP cartridge partitioned/formtted on
>> the IDE ZIP drive is not readable on the SCSI ZIP drive. Seems the
>> extra
>> 16k appears at the beginning of the SCSI cartridge (as far as that drive
>> is concerned) and as such you dont see the MBR wriiten by one by the
>> other.
>>
>> Does this sound familiar to ANYONE?
>> ANYONE else have problems transfering cartridges between ZIP drives on
>> the IDE and SCSI?
>>
>> [ As long as a cartridge is ONLY used by IDE or SCSI drives you will
>> never
>> see this problem]
>
>As I understand it, scsi formatting isn't even portable between
>different scsi controllers, much less scsi <--> ide. When my scsi
>controller dies, either I find another of that controller, or I
>reformat with completely new controller.
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