Linux-Hardware Digest #691, Volume #14 Thu, 26 Apr 01 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: LINUX on Compaq Deskpro XL (Holger Petersen)
new Adaptec AAR-2400 IDE RAID drivers? ("Randall J. Parr")
386 weirdness :( (Chris Howells)
Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I know so
far] (Jeff)
Re: Best RAID controller for Linux (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I know so
far] (Hal Burgiss)
Ultra160 (Piet)
Re: ZIP 250 Parallel probs ("MW")
Re: oldest terminal you have used ("spam this")
Re: Ultra160 ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: new Adaptec AAR-2400 IDE RAID drivers? ("Steve Wolfe")
<no subject> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW? (Jerry Broszkowski)
Re: Manual SCSI Drive spindown (Dan Smith)
Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I know so
far] ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Ultra160 (Jerry Broszkowski)
Modems HELP ("Daniel Moody")
Re: oldest terminal you have used ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: ATA100 drive with ATA33 controller (Eric)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Petersen)
Subject: Re: LINUX on Compaq Deskpro XL
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:49:47 GMT
Ioan Alexandre Romoscanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hello
>Did anyone install Linux (SUSE 6.x for instance) on a Compaq Deskpro XL?
Yes. BUT...
XL-486 or 560?
I had to get:
Softpaq Solution: SP1116
File Name: MOVEPCI.SYS Version 3.0
Title: PCI driver problems with Novell Server & other software
that manages extended memory directly
And install that into a CONFIG.SYS to boot via LOADLIN.EXE.
I have been told that this is not anymore neccessary since some
Kernel-Version, but didn't try, because:
>This PC has a QVision graphic card, and it is officially not supported.
It is; but ONLY in the commercial X-Server variants.
For me, it was cheaper to get a new (and more powerful) PC with XFree
than to buy Accellerated-X :-)
Yours, Holger
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From: "Randall J. Parr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new Adaptec AAR-2400 IDE RAID drivers?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:52:50 -0500
I can buy the new AAR-2400 IDE RAID controller from my distributor but neither
they OR Adaptec have ANY information about available drivers (not even about w2k
drivers).
Any info?
R.Parr
Temporal Arts
608.833.4578
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From: Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 386 weirdness :(
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:56:25 +0100
I'm trying to set up a D-Link DE-220 ISA network card in my old 386, but
am failing miserably...
The card is configured using a DOS based program which can disable PnP,
and manually set interrupts, I/O values, etc.
I set about trying to find a I/O rang IRQ which was free under Linux. I
tried several values in the 220-240 range, and when in Linux, I found
that these all seemed to be in use.
So I went back to the DOS utility, changed it to I/O 200 (I think), and
seem to have totally messed up the system. I now can't get back into the
setup.exe utility -- it complains that the card isn't found, or the base
I/O is in use.
It also seems to have messed up my hard disks -- rather than booting
properly now, the machine simply goes past the POST, and sits beeping
(at a rate of about 1Hz). If I disable the first HD in the BIOS (and
only leave the second one enabled), then it no longer beeps. Is it
possible that I could have somehow managed to mess up that hard disk
(and 80MB Western Digital)? It seems highly unlikely...
While trying to fix the problems with the HD, I have created another
problem -- if the IDE CD-ROM cable is connected to the sound card (as it
usually is), the screen doesn't turn on (it's an on board WD90c1 chip
IIRC).
Needless to say, I'm sure all power cables/IDE connectors are properly
secured.
All of this sounds totally unfeasible to me. Any ideas at all?
Cheers,
--
Chris Howells
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 93699029
Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net
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From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I
know so far]
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:01:07 -0400
1. Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> What kind of chipset is on the motherboard?
>
> steve
The motherboard is an ASUS CUV4X-D Dual Pentiums III ATX. I've check out
the ASUS homepage and this is what they have to say about this chipset:
>FC-PGA Dual Slot Series (5 PCI, 4GB DIMM)
>ASUS CUV4X-DLS is based on VIAŽ 694XDP AGPset that supports dual FC-PGA,
>4GB SDRAM, IntelŽ 82559 LAN and LSIŽ Ultra160 SCSI. Also Without LAN &
>SCSI.
In otherwords the CUV4X-D used the VIA 694XDP chipset.
2. Hal Burgiss wrote:
> What do you mean boot kernel? The one you install with? This is the one
> installed by the installer for me:
>
> [hal@feenix hal]$ uname -a
> Linux feenix 2.4.2-2smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 20:21:34 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
>
> It's on the CD. Have you tried that? If that does not work, then there
> is a problem ;) If it does work, your hand make config is fubar.
I've installed the failsafe image ie:
[gardiner@shalom /gardiner]# uname -a
Linux shalom.irus.2.4.2-2 #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
And the SMP image is the 2.4.2-2smp image, and that is the one I can't get
working. Yes I've tried it to no avail which is why I'm writing here as
per the last segment I belive it has something to do with VIA chipset
giving problems.
3. Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> Do you have CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM set to 4GB? I think that with >1GB RAM
> then you need it. It's the High Memory support option under Processor
> Type and Features selection in menuconfig.
Well, good question. I don't think this is a memory problem. I think its
an IRQ assignment problem. Apparently, or according to
/usr/src/linux-2.4.2/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt the IOO-APIC is an
enhanced interrupt controller and if you read the crash sequence I provided
in the original post
[my post]
>ENABLING IO_APIC IRQs
>...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
>Synchronizing Arb IDs
>..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
This is where its crashing. But I will confirm High Memory support is not
an issue before exploring further.
> > And yet I get the following boot sequences messages prior to the "crash"
I found your sequence useful - it provides much more context.
> Is this an i840 motherboard?
No - see above where I posted the details.
4. SilentNight wrote:
> In RH 7.0, there is an option as smp at boot.
>
> In RH 7.1, I do not see it any more. Re-installaing smp from cd, but it
> says already installed.
> Not clear if RH runs as smp automatically or not, in my case.
Yes, but that doesn't mean my hardware likes RH's default SMP image which
is the problem I'm having.
Also if you check out
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/changes/2.4.html#2_4_3
They basically note:
-undo some VIA PCI fuxups - conflicting behavior
which seems related to the problems I'm having above.
Tomorrow I'm going to further search the web for light were there is now
none.
Cheers
Jeff
=========================
Jeff Gardiner
System Administrator
The John. P. Robarts Research Institute
Second Law of Blissful Ignorance --
-- Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid
Subject: Re: Best RAID controller for Linux
Date: 26 Apr 2001 21:52:11 GMT
Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Au contrair, mon freir. : )
> 64-bit PCI cards will work in 32-bit slots. I've used both 64-bit RAID
> and gigabit ethernet controllers in 32-bit slots when I needed to, they work
> great. I'm not 100% positive, but I'm fairly sure that it's part of the
> spec that 64-bit cards must also work in 32-bit mode.
Ah, ha. Excellent. I knew that some would, but I didn't know that it
(probably) was part of the 64-bit spec. Thanks!
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I
know so far]
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Apr 2001 18:02:30 -0400
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:01:07 -0400, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Do you have CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM set to 4GB? I think that with >1GB RAM
>> then you need it. It's the High Memory support option under Processor
>> Type and Features selection in menuconfig.
>
>Well, good question. I don't think this is a memory problem. I think its
>an IRQ assignment problem. Apparently, or according to
>/usr/src/linux-2.4.2/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt the IOO-APIC is an
>enhanced interrupt controller and if you read the crash sequence I provided
>in the original post
>
>[my post]
>>ENABLING IO_APIC IRQs
>>...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
>>Synchronizing Arb IDs
>>..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
Try booting:
linux noapic
Who knows...maybe it works. This puts all IRQs back on one CPU. I do
this anyway, since early SMP kernels were more stable on my board (BP6)
with this option, and there is no detectable downside. At least for me.
--
Hal B
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From: Piet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ultra160
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:23:58 GMT
Hi
I keep hearing that hard disks are the slowest components of a computer.
About two years back, I read a very small article in a magazine about
Ultra160. I believe they called it SCSI2 or something like that, it was
supposed to double as fast as a SCSI interface.
The article also claimed Ultra160 was compatible with Linux.
I'm wanting to hook myself up with a new desktop. Considering I have an
IDE interface now, if I can believe this article Ultra160 would be a major
performance boost.
Can anyone confirm this? Is there anyone here who has Ultra160 running
under Linux, and wouldn't mind sharing his experiences with me?
Thanks in advance for any feedback
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From: "MW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP 250 Parallel probs
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:07:08 +1000
Sorry should have read MAKE XCONFIG....
--
Mal Wilson
IT Services
Griffith University - Gold Coast
55528961
"Joshua Baker-LePain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9c93ku$bmh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> MW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This has probably been asked a 100 times before but I'm
> > having problems getting RH6.2 to see a Zip 250 hanging off
> > a parallel port. Kern 2.2.14 is supposed to handle ZIPs on the
> > pport and Xconfigurator has setting for them but every time
>
> Xconfigurator is for configuring... X.
>
> > I check and even recompile I get a message about the kernel
> > not seeing it as a block device and suggesting it as an insmod
> > driver.
>
> > As you can tell I'm new to Linux and am probably overlooking
> > something painfully obvious.
>
> /sbin/modprobe imm
>
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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From: "spam this" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oldest terminal you have used
Date: 26 Apr 2001 18:24:08 -0400
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> fwiw i've used an ADM3A.
c. 1978. First CRT terminal I ever used
> i have a DEC VT320 here at home.
c. 1990
--
Joel Gallun
Compaq support team @ America Online
http://www.tux.org/~joel
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra160
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:26:51 -0600
> I keep hearing that hard disks are the slowest components of a computer.
> About two years back, I read a very small article in a magazine about
> Ultra160. I believe they called it SCSI2 or something like that, it was
> supposed to double as fast as a SCSI interface.
> The article also claimed Ultra160 was compatible with Linux.
> I'm wanting to hook myself up with a new desktop. Considering I have an
> IDE interface now, if I can believe this article Ultra160 would be a major
> performance boost.
> Can anyone confirm this? Is there anyone here who has Ultra160 running
> under Linux, and wouldn't mind sharing his experiences with me?
Yes, you can find U160 SCSI controllers that work under Linux. However,
it only provides a theoretical bus throughput of 160 megabytes/second.
Realisitcally, you'll still be limitted to the speed of the drive in a
single-drive situation, or the speed of the drives in a RAID array. Even
using ultra-wide SCSI 2, offering 80 MB/second, you've still got more than
enough bandwidth for a single drive.
steve
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new Adaptec AAR-2400 IDE RAID drivers?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:29:23 -0600
> I can buy the new AAR-2400 IDE RAID controller from my distributor but
neither
> they OR Adaptec have ANY information about available drivers (not even
about w2k
> drivers).
>
> Any info?
Adaptec is iffy on drivers. Some products have drivers written by third
parties, some parts they won't disclose the information. I've used Mylex
cards with success, although installing to their newest models can be
interesting - RedHat 6.2 and 7.0 both have older drivers which won't
recognize newer Mylex cards. I imagine that RH 7.1, with a 2.4 kernel,
should be able to handle them.
steve
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From: Jerry Broszkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for SCSI CD-RW?
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:42:57 GMT
Jose Luis Marin wrote:
> I'm looking for a reasonably priced CD-RW unit to run under
> Linux, with a scsi Adaptec 2940 UWPro. But I'd like it to
> be good at ripping cd audio too. Are Yamaha or Plextor the
> only sure bets?
>
I've had two Yamaha burners die on me in the last 6 months,
one SCSI at home, one IDE at work. I'm now using Plextors.
The Plextors are burning both audio and data perfectly.
<JMHO>
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Manual SCSI Drive spindown
Date: 26 Apr 2001 18:29:20 -0400
Yeah, I know they don't do it on their own...
Cute on the power thing... :)
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I
know so far]
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:34:38 -0600
> > What kind of chipset is on the motherboard?
> >
> > steve
>
> The motherboard is an ASUS CUV4X-D Dual Pentiums III ATX. I've check out
> the ASUS homepage and this is what they have to say about this chipset:
Interesting. I just built a few machines with those boards, and I know
that they work with 2.4 kernels. They do mention something about an "unkown
apic" or the like, but they do work, and I haven't had to use the "noapic"
option on them.
You do have two processors in it, correct? (I'm assuming that you do.)
One other "gotcha" that I ran into was that I disabled the LPT port in the
BIOS, so one of the ethernet cards that I use (Intel 100's) was being
assigned that IRQ - but the LPT port was still responding to it, keeping
that particular card (of the three in the machine) from working. I enabled
the LPT port in the BIOS again, the card got a different IRQ, and everything
worked. That was verified on two seperate machines.
If you have the LPT port disabled, enable it. If it still doesn't work,
let me know, and I'll provide you with a copy of the .config that has worked
on my machines with those motherboards.
steve
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From: Jerry Broszkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra160
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:51:26 GMT
Piet wrote:
> I keep hearing that hard disks are the slowest components of a computer.
> About two years back, I read a very small article in a magazine about
> Ultra160. I believe they called it SCSI2 or something like that, it was
> supposed to double as fast as a SCSI interface.
> The article also claimed Ultra160 was compatible with Linux.
> I'm wanting to hook myself up with a new desktop. Considering I have an
> IDE interface now, if I can believe this article Ultra160 would be a major
> performance boost.
> Can anyone confirm this? Is there anyone here who has Ultra160 running
> under Linux, and wouldn't mind sharing his experiences with me?
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback
I believe that until 15,000rpm drives become cheap, you're not going
to get much performance gain from anything above ATA-66. Under SCSI2
with a Buslogic BT-958 and a Seagate Barracuda (7200 rpm) I was getting
around 10MB/s (measured with hdparm). With an HPT-366 (ATA-66) and an
IBM Deskstar, I get close to 30MB/s (again measured with hdparm).
Of course, I could be completely out to lunch. :-(
--
Take Care,
..jb
// Jerry Broszkowski // (403)245-5131 // [EMAIL PROTECTED] //
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From: "Daniel Moody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modems HELP
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:40:38 +1000
I have a Netcomm Mega-i-modem 56 (external, Serial on COM1 or in linux terms
dev/ttyS0)
i boought this modem cause i had a winmodem and i wanted to use Linux and
now i have this modem i till cant use net.
when i try to connect it says Sorry cant find modem (or something like that)
Im using Mandrake 7.2
Please help
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oldest terminal you have used
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:01:59 -0500
I remember them - and the VT100!
--
Brett I. Holcomb
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AKA Grunt<><
"spam this" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > fwiw i've used an ADM3A.
>
> c. 1978. First CRT terminal I ever used
>
> > i have a DEC VT320 here at home.
>
> c. 1990
>
> --
> Joel Gallun
> Compaq support team @ America Online
> http://www.tux.org/~joel
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: ATA100 drive with ATA33 controller
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:06:15 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
x-no-archive: yes
I'm using an ATA100 drive under similar circumstances. Most vendors,
IBM and WD to name a couple, have a utility which you should use to set
the DMA mode of the drive if necessary. Some folks have reported
running into problems when using an ATA66 drive on an ATA33 port for
example. Check the specs on the drive. It may autosense the max speed
of the motherboard's port and adjust the burst rate accordingly or it
may not. My IBM drive required me to use their utility.
Eric
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