Linux-Hardware Digest #638, Volume #14 Tue, 17 Apr 01 12:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Bad CRC errors on my hard drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What's wrong with this box on a beowulf-type cluster ? (Luigi Cavallo)
Low power boxen? (Neoklis)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Anthony Hill)
Re: linux and cray j90 (Jagged)
Soundblaster 16 PCI with Mandrake 7.1 (Scott Wilson)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
("Jukka Liimatta")
Re: ATA100 drive with ATA33 controller (Lee DeRaud)
Re: Microsoft gets hard ("David Ehrens")
Re: adaptec differential scsi-controller (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: capacity of exabyte 8200? (hac)
Error with fips ("Francis Noel")
Re: Modem trouble ("LittleFish")
SuSE 7.1: problems with modem ("Markus Kiener")
A linux alternative to Seagate Crystal reports (Dave Seff)
Re: Microsoft gets hard (Chad Everett)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bad CRC errors on my hard drive
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:52:57 GMT
Today when booting into linux, I received BAD CRC errors. What could be causing it?
I am running kernel version 2.4.0-test11. I have included partial listing
of dmesg.
Thanks.
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0:7.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD205BA, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC26400B, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 40088160 sectors (20525 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=784/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: hdb1 hdb2
Adding Swap: 763076k swap-space (priority -1)
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdb: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
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From: Luigi Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: What's wrong with this box on a beowulf-type cluster ?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:24:25 +0200
Hi,
I have a small cluster of 6 AMD boxes, and I run PVM programs on top of
them. One of the boxes is giving me problems, and I don't know what is
wrong. The configuration of all the boxes is:
ASUS A7V MB AMD Duron 1000MHz 128 MB RAM
RH 7.0 Kernel 2.4.3
When I run something on the problematic box, the program simply crashes
after 15-20 mins, and this is what I found at the end of dmesg. All the
boxes have been cloned, and I also tested the HD on a different box, I
changed the ethernet card and the RAM on the box with pieces from
another (working) box of the cluster, but the problem remains the same.
So, I think it should be the CPU or the MB. Anyone out there is able to
understand what's wrong from the messages below ?
TIA
gg
kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:191!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0127abb>]
EFLAGS: 00010086
eax: 00000020 ebx: c1070730 ecx: 00000007 edx: cedc1540
esi: c0254fa0 edi: 00000000 ebp: c1070730 esp: ce735e2c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process adf.exe (pid: 742, stackpage=ce735000)
Stack: c0211105 c0211213 000000bf 0000147c 00000282 00000000 c0254f78
c0254f78
c0255150 00000000 c025514c c0127e24 00000005 00000001 ce877380
cedc1540
ce877380 c2a0dbcc c011e3c7 00000286 00000000 c0254f78 c0254f78
ce877380
Call Trace: [<c0127e24>] [<c011e3c7>] [<c011e450>] [<c011e540>]
[<c011d284>] [<c010eef7>] [<c011852e>]
[<c01183f6>] [<c01185f7>] [<c0115a9c>] [<c01159a7>] [<c01158ad>]
[<c010eda0>] [<c0107074>]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8b 53 04 8b 03 8d 4f 01 89 50 04 89 02 89 ea
kernel BUG at inode.c:378!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c013f475>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 0000001b ebx: c8aa5d80 ecx: 00000001 edx: c0253c88
esi: 0000000d edi: 00017e8e ebp: cfaa5400 esp: ce735edc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process rm (pid: 777, stackpage=ce735000)
Stack: c0213f65 c0213fe5 0000017a cff21a00 0000000d 00017e8e cfaa5400
cff21a00
c014aecf c8aa5d80 00000000 00000006 ce68a640 c8aa5e24 c8aa5d80
c8aa5d80
c02578a0 c8a8e3c0 c8aa5d80 c02578a0 c8a8e3c0 bffff580 c013fd55
c8aa5d80
Call Trace: [<c014aecf>] [<c013fd55>] [<c013e81e>] [<c0138413>]
[<c01384d6>] [<c0106f57>]
Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 0c 8b 83 f0 00 00 00 a9 10 00 00 00 75 1f 68 7c
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:28:35 +0300
From: Neoklis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Neoklis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Low power boxen?
Hi!
I am interested in a small, simple, low-power system on which to run
some software I am writing to do jobs like tracking satellites, receive
weather pictures from met sats, monitor signals from a ham radio station
and the like. I want to run this box on batteries charged by solar power
and on a continuous basis. No hi-power computing is involved and large
memory and disk capacity is not needed, in fact a disk-less box may also
do. The only requirement is at least four rs232 ports to connect it to
external equipment.
Any suggestions welcomed.
My thanks in advance!
--
Regards My Ham Radio callsign: 5B4AZ
My website (with some Linux software):
Neoklis http://leonardo.spidernet.net/Copernicus/22420/
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From: Anthony Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:44:11 GMT
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 06:30:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the
Unsightly One) wrote:
>Anthony Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Well, if you get either a cable modem or DSL
>
>Neither is available here. I have my choice of dialup
>PPP or sneaker net. And I'm glad I have the former
>choice, because I remember being stuck with the latter.
Ugg, I pity you and your neighbors! After nearly 4 years of
high-speed internet connection, there ain't no way in hell I'm going
back now! :>
>It's so much more interesting to actually see the real
>thing happen. (That's assuming the subject matter
>of the presentation has any potential to be interesting
>at all; if it's a presentation on accounting, nothing
>will make it interesting.)
Unfortunately most of the presentations I do aren't likely to be too
interesting either. For the last one that I did I was mostly talking
about software modules and modeling a circuit using PSpice :>
=======================
Tony Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jagged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux and cray j90
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:50:48 +0200
high all,
well, it really sounds cool. but:
how to pick it up? Well, okay, with some assistence and a rented truck...
yeah, possible. According to the 32 CPUs, it must be the J932, right?
it's successor, the T932 and even the T916, has a water cooling option.
Attention! this can not easily be switched off. chances are high that it
is water cooled, cos if it were not, the current owner would rather sell
it to some start up company that needs computing power but can not afford
a new system. Just water cooled machines are not that resellable... and
even if it is air cooled... where do you wanna place it? next to your
fridge? or is it a replacement for your oven? I don't know for sure, but
it rather seems unreasonable for a private man to install equipment like
that.
a former employer of myself offered a stardent visualization server to
me... for free... well, i was young and enthusiastic... to be serious: i
asked for it. It was about the same size and weight as the J90, and it
included 3 true color terminal consoles, each with 21" monitor... I was
really tempted by that stuff, but i didn't take it then... cos it's
really not very reasonable... and guess what happens when you want to
give it away later, cos it costs too much for current, and again current
for air conditioning... And the noise around...
my tip: better think about it again... i can do without the stardent, and
these days i have some good time with my SGI Indy and Indigo2, which are
as powerful as the old stardent, but take less place and current. just
wait a couple of years, and you'll find a deskside or even desktop system
with the power of the J90. even though it were cool, don't make yourself
unlucky...
best regards,
Jagged
Dieter Eckhardt wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i can get a cray j90 supercomputer more or less for free. all i have
> to do is to pick it up. its no OS included in the deal and i'm afraid
> i cant pay for a licensed version of unicos which goes for about $8k
>
> is anyone having experihences with cray supercomputers here and if
> there are any alternatives to unicos? the system has 32 cpus and
> something like 4 or 8 gb ram (megawords).
>
> the greatest i can imagine is to run linux on this system, but i'm
> afraid it wont work.
>
> happy about all answers. please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> cheers
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From: Scott Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster 16 PCI with Mandrake 7.1
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:06:34 +0100
Hello,
I am having problems setting up a Soundblaster 16 PCI with Mandrake
7.1. I believe I am using kernel v 2.2.15, and when I run sndconfig,
the sound card that is detected is es1371. The sndconfig program then
attempts to play back a wave file, but what actually happens is it plays
back, waits for a bit, and the repeats the playback. It seems to be
stuck in a loop of some kind. Also, I have tried to use DrakConfig
hardware detection to detect the sound card ,but this says that there is
no soundcard there. Any suggestions about what I am doing wrong?
Cheers,
Scott
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From: "Jukka Liimatta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill
them up?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:38:29 +0300
> Hashed indexes (they can search millions of items in a heartbeat if well
> used). Or balanced trees (though you need to do rebalancing, which comes
More data still means more likehood of having a hash collision. It's much
more relevant what happens on collisions- this is going to access HD for
sure, which will end up with "order of magnitude" slower search.
I'm curious how you can claim the amount of data is irrelevant to the
runtime.
--j
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From: Lee DeRaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA100 drive with ATA33 controller
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:09:27 GMT
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:09:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J.
Montessi) wrote:
>Mike Castle wrote:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Personally I like IBM
>>
>> IBM - good drives
>>
>>> and Western Digital 7200rpm drives.
>>
>> WD - drives of death
>>
>> mrc
>
>Religion :-) I've been using WD's for years. They made a bad batch a
>year or so ago but recalled them all.
Amen, brother. WD has a bad drive about as often as Quantum has a
*good* drive, i.e. almost never.
YMMV :-)
Lee
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From: "David Ehrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:56:26 GMT
"JS PL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
...
> Since you actually are or "were" classified as a Microsoft Business
Partner,
> I can safely assume that your now "extinct" like the other 32,000 that
he
> claims are now extinct, since all business partners of Microsoft are
> supposedly EXTINCT? Or could it be that there are really NO business
Jeez. You've really got to cut back on your coffee! What I was saying is
that Microsoft's claims of x zillion business partners really don't mean
much since many, like me, found the programs to be worthless. I'm sure
there are many out there that did not bail (as we did). I was not
talking about extinction and, if you reread what I wrote, I doubt you
will even find the word there.
Got that?
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adaptec differential scsi-controller
Date: 17 Apr 2001 14:06:37 GMT
pbh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have an IBM 3590 tape-drive on an Adaptec diff. scsi-controller (2944).
> It works a treat apart from ONE problem, I just can't toggle
> compression.
> The data I am recording compress poorly, so I really w-a-n-t compression
> off. Anyone out there who can help me??
I have no experience with that unit, but for my AIT-1 drive, compression
is handled via:
mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 1 (turns it on)
mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 0 (turns it off)
There's no visible state change reflected in 'mt status', or really any
indication that it worked. *However*, throughput when writing compressible
data just about doubles with compression turned on as above, so it *is*
working.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: capacity of exabyte 8200?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:12:15 GMT
Lupei Zhu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have an Exabyte 8200 tape drive, connected to a PC running Linux
> RH7.0 and Solaris 2.6. Under solaris, it can hold up to 2.3G. but when I
> try to dump a 1.7G file system using this:
> dump -0 -f /dev/st0 /
> I got a message saying the dump is estimated to be on 40 volumes
> (tapes) and I was soon prompted to put the second tape. I tried
> /dev/nst0, /dev/st0a, ..., no luck. Can anyone tell me what I need to
> do?
>
Make sure that the block size is set to 0 (variable length), using
mt. You can loose HUGE amounts of space to inter-block gaps. If "mt
setblk 0" doesn't work, then you need a different mt. Look for
"mt-st".
You want to use the largest blocks possible, which also means
increasing the default Linux buffer size from 32k to at least 64k.
Read /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.st and change ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS
in st_options.h. Or use a kernel parameter like "st=64". I haven't
verified the latter, so I may have garbled the syntax.
In variable block mode, the size of the block written to the tape is
the size of the block written by the application. I don't use dump,
and don't know if there's an option for that. With tar, use the
Solaris default blocking factor of 127. For example, "tar cvbf 127
/dev/st0 /home". The "b" parameter is the number of 512 byte blocks.
I have gotten 2.3GB using tar, so dump should be able to do it.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Francis Noel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error with fips
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:17:48 -0400
Fips error: "last cylinder is not
free ... hidden file like image.idx or mirorsav.fill
I am run on windows ME and y have system restore activate.
What is image.idx or mirorsav.fil ?
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From: "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:19:31 +1000
use modemtool just go to run in GNOME and type modemtool
it will help you setup your modem.
littlefish
"Krstanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9beqeg$8er$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have Rockvell 56k ISA modem.It works on IRQ#3 and COM2 port under Win Me
> and DOS,but will not work under Red Hat 7
> Help me to configure it.Without the modem Linux is not so useful,in my
> opinion :)
> Thanx!
>
>
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From: "Markus Kiener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 7.1: problems with modem
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:49:21 +0200
Hello!
Since I have installed SuSE 7.1 I have two problems which are not serious
but annoying.
I used wvdial to install the modem connection to my provider, my modem is an
Elsa 56k.
1. If I start Linux and try to connect to my provider I get the message:
"modem does not respond"
in the protocol. When I switch the modem on and off before I try to
connect everything works fine.
Why is the modem not initialized correctly? Has anyone an idea where I
could look for the reason?
2. When I am in the net and I do not send or receive data for longer than
some minutes the connection
breaks. There is not timeout installed in my wvdial.conf.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance!
Markus
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From: Dave Seff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A linux alternative to Seagate Crystal reports
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:22:41 -0400
Fellow Linux users, I am looking for a Linux alternative to Seagate Crystal
Reports. Does anybody know of a similar project (either Open source or not,
it does not matter.) I need to get rid of these NT boxes they are driving
me batty. -Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Everett)
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Apr 2001 10:13:04 -0500
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:56:26 GMT, David Ehrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"JS PL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>...
>> Since you actually are or "were" classified as a Microsoft Business
>Partner,
>> I can safely assume that your now "extinct" like the other 32,000 that
>he
>> claims are now extinct, since all business partners of Microsoft are
>> supposedly EXTINCT? Or could it be that there are really NO business
>
>Jeez. You've really got to cut back on your coffee! What I was saying is
>that Microsoft's claims of x zillion business partners really don't mean
>much since many, like me, found the programs to be worthless. I'm sure
>there are many out there that did not bail (as we did). I was not
>talking about extinction and, if you reread what I wrote, I doubt you
>will even find the word there.
>
>Got that?
>
Don't be too hard on JS PL. He tends to make really stupid statements
that show his poor judgement and lack of maturity. He has a real tendency
to call names and say bad words too. This has caused him to get passed up
by people who are choosing who to do business with.
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