Linux-Hardware Digest #617
Linux-Hardware Digest #617, Volume #14 Fri, 13 Apr 01 01:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: BIOS Upgrades (Was: Via + Maxtor + kernel 2.4.3 = crash?) (Harold Stevens
US.972.952.3293)
Re: HPT370 Driver Request (Andrey Vlassov)
Audio with Linux (2.4.2/2.2.16) kernel and Asus AV7133 ("Larry Snyder")
Re: Does Linux suport thermal printer? (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: ide-scsi problem? (Dances With Crows)
Re: CDRW on ATA100 (Dances With Crows)
Re: ** HP Pavilion computers: modem works? ** ("larry")
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) (Peter F. Curran)
Re: SMP motherboard recommendations solicited (Charles E. Hill)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BIOS Upgrades (Was: Via + Maxtor + kernel 2.4.3 = crash?)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:28:02 GMT
In <9b58du$h6c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Ng:
[Snip...]
>Did you try http://www.ping.be/bios/index.html ? Found it using Google a
>while back when upgrading a BIOS.
Thanks for that polite tip; I do not recall this one at all from about two
weeks ago (?) myself. Lotta water under the Google bridge, though.
[Snip...]
>I'd think it's RAM related. Try just running the new sticks alone and see
>if that brings up the kernel panic.
Thanks again and I think my first order of business will be to try out the
slrn "author kill" tip "burk" had in his post as well.
Oh, happy day; possibly two birds with one stone, as it were.
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From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPT370 Driver Request
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 00:29:02 GMT
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Emyr,
yes you right - KT7-RAID has software raid. You and I got one extra chip which do
nothing for hardware RAID.
Andrey
Emyr James wrote:
> Am I understanding this right ? My Raid 0 installation of win2k is actually
> doing it's thang in software not hardware ? Does that mean that the ABIT KT7
> with onboard raid controller is no such thing cause it's all done in software
> anyway ?
> What a fucking con
> (pardon my french...)
>
> Juergen Sauer wrote:
>
> > Emyr James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
> > am Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:05:41 +0100 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
> >
> > > Please can some nice driver guru sort out raid support for an ABIT KT7
> > > RAID mobo (very popular board) ?
> > > Win2K handles it fine, surely it must be possible to get Linux to do it
> > > properly as well...or are there some complications ?
> > > Is there support for this in the pipeline ?
> > > Any news appreciated.
> >
> > Kernel 2.4.x has it in, called there HPT366, runns fine.
> > No Raid functions avaible, because the 'HTP370' does Raid only as
> > shitty Software in Windump ...
> > mfG
> > Jojo
> >
> > --
> > Jürgen Sauer - AutomatiX GmbH, +49-4209-4699, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.automatix.de to Mail me: remove: -not-for-spawm-
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Emyr,
yes you right - KT7-RAID has software raid. You and I got one
extra chip which do nothing for hardware RAID.
Andrey
Emyr James wrote:
Am I understanding this right ? My Raid 0 installation
of win2k is actually
doing it's thang in software not hardware ? Does that mean that the
ABIT KT7
with onboard raid controller is no such thing cause it's all done in
software
anyway ?
What a fucking con
(pardon my french...)
Juergen Sauer wrote:
> Emyr James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
> am Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:05:41 +0100 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
>
> > Please can some nice driver guru sort out raid support for an ABIT
KT7
> > RAID mobo (very popular board) ?
> > Win2K handles it fine, surely it must be possible to get Linux
to do it
> > properly as well...or are there some complications ?
Linux-Hardware Digest #616
Linux-Hardware Digest #616, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 20:13:10 EDT Contents: Re: Why am I getting this cdrecord error? (Rich) using firewire with linux (Dan Hitt) Re: SCSI errors, why? (Trevor Jenkins) disk on chip question ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: SMP motherboard recommendations solicited (Cokey de Percin) From: Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Why am I getting this cdrecord error? Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:20:31 GMT A LOT of people are getting this error, and not just on Linux. I'd say there's a problem with cdrecord. I'm using 1.9-3, which is the latest for Linux-Mandrake. I use to have Redhat 6.2 on the same box (same box/hardware) and gtoaster worked. Under Linux-Mandrake 7.2, it doesn't. jtnews wrote: > Anyone have a clue why I'm getting this error? > > cdrw-write-audio: Started Sun Apr 8 09:04:42 EDT 2001 > > > OPTIONS SUMMARY = > Current directory = "/" > audio_directory="./auto/music/cd4/pop" > blank="fast" > dummy="" > log_directory="/auto/cdrw/log" > speed="1" > = END OF OPTIONS SUMMARY = > > + local > audio_cd_dir=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd > + mkdir -p > /auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd + > local mp3_file + local cdr_file + echo 'mp3_file=./auto/music/cd4/pop/The > Corrs - Breathless.mp3' mp3_file=./auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - > Breathless.mp3 ++ basename './auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - > Breathless.mp3' .mp3 + local 'basename=The Corrs - Breathless' > + > cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - Breathless.cdr + echo > 'cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - Breathless.cdr' > cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - Breathless.cdr + mpg123 --cdr - './auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - > Breathless.mp3' High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer > 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael > Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more! THIS SOFTWARE > COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! > Title : Breathless Artist: The Corrs > Album : Year : > Comment: Genre : Unknown > > Directory: ./auto/music/cd4/pop/ > Playing MPEG stream from The Corrs - Breathless.mp3 ... > MPEG 1.0 layer III, 160 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo > > [3:26] Decoding of The Corrs - Breathless.mp3 finished. > + echo 'mp3_file=./auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - Give Me A Reason.mp3' > mp3_file=./auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - Give Me A Reason.mp3 > ++ basename './auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - Give Me A Reason.mp3' .mp3 > + local 'basename=The Corrs - Give Me A Reason' > + > cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - Give Me A Reason.cdr + echo > 'cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - Give Me A Reason.cdr' > cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - Give Me A Reason.cdr + mpg123 --cdr - './auto/music/cd4/pop/The > Corrs - Give Me A Reason.mp3' High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio > Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and > copyrights by Michael Hipp. Uses code from various people. See 'README' > for more! THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN > RISK! > Title : Give Me A ReasonArtist: The Corrs > Album : Year : > Comment: Genre : Unknown > > Directory: ./auto/music/cd4/pop/ > Playing MPEG stream from The Corrs - Give Me A Reason.mp3 ... > MPEG 1.0 layer III, 160 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo > > [3:29] Decoding of The Corrs - Give Me A Reason.mp3 finished. > + echo 'mp3_file=./auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - I Never Loved You > Anyways.mp3' mp3_file=./auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - I Never Loved You > Anyways.mp3 ++ basename './auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - I Never Loved > You Anyways.mp3' .mp3 + local 'basename=The Corrs - I Never Loved You > Anyways' + > cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyways.cdr + echo > 'cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyways.cdr' > cdr_file=/auto/cdrw/log/cdrw-write-audio/./2001-04-08/09-04-41--0400/audio-cd/The > Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyways.cdr + mpg123 --cdr - > './auto/music/cd4/pop/The Corrs - I Never Loved You Anyways.mp3' High > Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3. Version > 0.59r (1999/Jun/15). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Linux-Hardware Digest #615
Linux-Hardware Digest #615, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
ide-scsi problem? (Julian Gough)
Re: BIOS Upgrades (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Re: Need help burning CDs using Linux (Peter Stein)
Re: ISDN router for Linux ("C. Newport")
Re: Abit VH6 II & OnBoard Sound... Help? (Alan Davis)
Motherboard problems (Philip)
Re: BIOS Upgrades (Was: Via + Maxtor + kernel 2.4.3 = crash?) ("Matt Ng")
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) (Ruud van Gaal)
Bass/Treble w/ Soundblaster Live (Alan Davis)
Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2 (Philip)
Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2 (Jan Johansson)
Re: SCSI errors, why? (Trevor Hemsley)
From: Julian Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ide-scsi problem?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:42:53 +0100
I have an ide PlexWriter 8/4/32A which was working flawlessly under
linux for many months via a virtual scsi
device set up by the bootloader etc. etc.. I was able to read and write
CDs and use commands such as
cdrecord,eject,mount etc..
Today it spontaneously stopped working. I could not eject by pressing
the button on the drive, the 'eject' command
yields:
[root@stash jgough]# eject
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
as root or as a user. When I try cdrecord it reports that my drive is
not supported:
[root@stash jgough]# cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -checkdrive
Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg
Schilling
scsidev: '1,0,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
Device type: Removable CD-ROM
Version: 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8432T'
Revision : '1.07'
Device seems to be: Generic CD-ROM.
cdrecord: Sorry, no CD/DVD-Recorder or unsupported CD/DVD-Recorder found
on this target.
[root@stash jgough]#
I had experienced this same problem a year ago on a different computer
with a different CD drive, with a different
distribution of linux and a very different kernel etc.. Having beaten
my head against the problem before (I tried all
the obvious things I could think of) I knew that the only way to fix
this was a reboot, so I bit the bullet and rebooted
the machine which gets rebooted about every time there's a power cut or
I need to recompile the kernel.
After the reboot it was working fine again, until I'd written one CD,
and then it went back to the same problem.
This is not a machine that can be rebooted often, so I really need to
fix it this time.
The only other curious thing is that scsi_info reports the wrong SCSI
ID:
[root@stash jgough]# scsi_info /dev/scd0
SCSI_ID="0,0,0"
MODEL="PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T"
FW_REV="1.07"
[root@stash jgough]#
... but then this may be a separate issue.
I would really appreciate any advice or help on tackling this problem.
I've seen this problem reporteed by people all
over the newsgroups because they think its a 'cdrecord' problem, or an
'eject' problem or 'gtoaster' etc. etc. but I
am pretty sure it's a bit more low-level than that.
many thanks
Julian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BIOS Upgrades
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:46:13 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer:
[Snip...]
>Which is it? The procedure I suggested will enable you to find out.
Like I said: I'll do yast in 32 MB standing on my head in Hades first.
Suddenly I don't care anymore about this futile exercise, OK?
[Snip...]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: Need help burning CDs using Linux
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:59:21 + (UTC)
In article ,
Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have Yamaha CRW4416S 4x burner. I installed cdrecord 1.9, mkisofs and a
>couple of different GUI frontends. I am running RedHat 7.
>
>The first time I tried burning a CD, it worked beautifully - just installed
>the above mentioned programs without any hitches and the CD burned without
>issue.
>
>Ever since then, I can't get the burner to work - I think I am getting SCSI
>errors but I am not sure. I haven't changed anything on my system (software
>or hardware) since my first successful burn so I am very confused as to why
>it doesn't work anymore.
>
>I've included a sample of the log file from one of my attempts to burn a CD
>at the end of this email. If anyone is able to give me some ideas where the
>problem may be that would be fantastic. I'm outta ideas for what to check
>next
>
>Thank
Linux-Hardware Digest #614
Linux-Hardware Digest #614, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help Mandrake sound Via driver ("Danny Heijl")
Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux ("Jali")
CDRW on ATA100 (Marc Ulrich)
Re: Support for LCD Monitors? (Lack Mr G M)
Re: BIOS Upgrades ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Support for LCD Monitors? ("Roger Hamlett")
Does Linux suport thermal printer? (Afonso Sam)
Re: make config (Bryan Siemon)
Re: BIOS Upgrades (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Re: Problem with (fixed frequency?) Ikegami ct-20 on pc.. (ks)
Re: tar of dot.files (Travis Casey)
Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) (Mark_Harju)
Re: BIOS Upgrades ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ISDN router for Linux (Steven Wayne)
From: "Danny Heijl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Mandrake sound Via driver
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:14:27 GMT
The ALSA sound drivers ( http://www.alsa-project.org/ ) should work I use
them with success on RH 7.0 with kernel 2.4.2 and the VIA sound chipset. The
only app that does not work with the OSS emulation provided by Alsa is
Realplayer 8.
Danny
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"Adrian Spilca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.1 on an AMD Duron machine with Jetway 663ASpro
> motherboard, Via KT133 chipset.
> There is a sound interface on motherboard, AC97.
> On the manufacturer CD there is some linux support for sound, but only
> for RedHat and Caldera. (I actually tried RedHat 6.1 and the driver
> provided and didn't work on the first try, so I get back to Mandrake).
> There is nothing else new on the manufacturer web site, or maybe I
> didn't find the right one.
>
> Do I have any chance to listen sounds with this hardware / software
> configuration?
>
> thanx,
> Adrian
>
>
>
>
--
From: "Jali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:15:10 +0100
Sorry for the multiple posting of the mesage. It seemed I had a little
loop inside PAN.
regards, Alex
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW on ATA100
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:59:52 -0400
I was informed in an earlier message that putting a CDRW on my Promise
Ultra ATA 100 card would degrade the performance of my hdd. Is this the
case even if my HDD is on primary Promise controller and the CDRW is on
the secondary Promise controller?
I don't want to change b/c putting the CDRW on the onboard controller
funks out the hdx letters (hda is no longer hda) giving me a real
headache for trying to get the system to boot.
Well, if I have to change, what do I need to inform Lilo of? Currently:
On board primary = nothing.
On board secondary = master = cdrom
slave = Zip 250
Promise primary = master = HDD (which I think is only using 66Mhz
instead of 100. That's another question.)
slave = none.
Promise secondary = master = none
slave = HP 7200 CDRW.
How can I move things around to keep the Promise primary hda? Or, what
should I do to inform linux to look elsewhere for the root fs?
Thanks,
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lack Mr G M)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Support for LCD Monitors?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:15:40 BST
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
|>
|> > The Radeon VE supports DVI flat panels with the vesa framebuffer support, but
|> > there is no X support at the present time.
I must be missing something. Isn't a flat panel monitor just a
another display? So if you configure XFree86 with the horizontal and
vertical referesh rates isn't that sufficient?
That's all I did with an IBM flat-panel for XFree86 v4.0.1.
--
= Gordon Lack === [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message *may* reflect my personal opinion. It is *not* intended
to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BIOS Upgrades
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:31:29 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In <9b4io8$96n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Hahn:
>>gross. flash an updated bios or turn off "optimum" settings in bios.
> On this topic, I need pointers on BIOS upgrades, especially where to find
They're on your mobos manufacturers pages. Nowhere else!
> Just added a 32 MB stick for a total of 64 MB as required by yast2 ("old"
> yast needs less apparently) for a SuSE 7.1 install I've started.
> Rebooting resulted in a kernel panic which I almost expected on these old
> BIOS versions (Award 4.51PG i430VX) from reading threads I found. Figured
No .. there's no re
Linux-Hardware Digest #613
Linux-Hardware Digest #613, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 14:13:11 EDT Contents: Re: linux installation on acer travelmate 345t (R-R-B) Re: SCSI errors, why? (Trevor Jenkins) Re: Looking for (Andrey Vlassov) Re: Superblock (Andrey Vlassov) Re: IDE->SCSI for CDR on offboard IDE controller (Andrey Vlassov) Re: CUV4X-D, io-apic problem (VIA chipset) (Andrey Vlassov) Re: ** HP Pavilion computers: modem works? ** (aflinsch) From: R-R-B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: linux installation on acer travelmate 345t Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:10:32 GMT ks wrote: > > is it possible to install linux on that notebook? > Any reference document in the web? I installed quasi/successful a travelmate 201T (suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.0-4GB) but had some problem with lucent modem and ali sound, both should work with appropriate drivers, but i don't messed around very much with 'em. -- Saluti..Gr"usse..Salutations..Regards..Saludos.. Rag.Roberto Basville http://basrob.firenze.net/ -- From: Trevor Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SCSI errors, why? Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:14:06 + Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:39:07 +, Trevor Jenkins > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Since connecting a Jaz and Zip drive on my workstation's SCSI bus I've > > >been seeing odd behaviour from the (SCSI) CD-ROM. Prior to introducing > > >these new devices I didn't have a problem using the CD-ROM . > > > > Do you have good termination at both ends of the SCSI bus? ... > > Terminated this problem. :-) You were correct. Bus termination was all > over the place. Seems I spoke too soon. Although the SCSI bus is now usable I'm still seeing errros reported when I try to use some CDs. Similar messages to those I mentioned before. Although I don't think that the bus length is too great some of the cables are long. >From what I can see the Jaz and Zip drives are unaffected by these problems. Regards, Trevor British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! -- <>< Re: deemed! -- From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware Subject: Re: Looking for Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:20:47 GMT Hi Chris, not too much help but try contact next guy he had some experience with this Tape Library Garry D. Robbins From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David x76353/RDCS/8-23-KP) I have been using the Networker product from Legato for about 3 years now. It is in use on several of our servers. We backup over 250 workstations nightly to two SPARC20's each connected to a EXA-BYTE EXB480 jukebox. We also have several DLT-4000 jukeboxes running on other servers. On one of the DLT-4000 servers we backup over 40Gbytes to two DLT's in about 4-5hr. Using only 1 tape in each jukebox. I have not had much success using the Soltice Backup product that SUN bundles with the SOlaris nowdays. It is not configurable enough to allow for use on more than a single NFS server machine, it allows only single client usage. http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1996-12/msg00107.html and check next pdf file - there is some reference for IBM tape library which emulates EXB480. http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/tape/pubs/7334sog.pdf Andrey Chris Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > We've inheritted an EXB480 tape library. That's the good news. > The bad news is we have no operations manual for it and don't know > how to work the console keypad. We're using software called mover > to move tapes around. It works fine on other libraries but on the > EXB480 it tries to do an inventory search each time we ask for a move. > Obviously we'de like to turn this behavior off. > > Where to find an operations manual or a PDF or an ASCII version > or just plain HELP from someone who has one would really be > appreciated. > > Thanks. > > --- > Chris Johnson |Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Administrator |Web: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~johnson > NMR Center |Voice:617.724.2369 > Mass. General Hospital |FAX: 617.726.7422 > 149 (2301) 13th Street |Survival, all by it self, isn't worth it. > Charlestown, MA., 02129 USA | Me > --- -- -- From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Superblock Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:27:27 GMT Hi Aalderd, when you create filesystem in the HDD it will write many superblocks. But during
Linux-Hardware Digest #612
Linux-Hardware Digest #612, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: HPT370 Driver Request (Emyr James)
Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2 (Magnus)
BIOS Upgrades (Was: Via + Maxtor + kernel 2.4.3 = crash?) (Harold Stevens
US.972.952.3293)
Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX5-1 Motherboard w/AC97 Sound (Peter Christy)
Re: Support for LCD Monitors? (Michael Meissner)
Re: linux driver for Canon S400 (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: Epson Stylus 777, problems printing (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: Best RAID controller for Linux (Joshua Baker-LePain)
sis900 on silver book PC (Allen Ahoffman)
Re: linux driver for Canon S400 (Andrey Vlassov)
From: Emyr James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPT370 Driver Request
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:20:14 +0100
Am I understanding this right ? My Raid 0 installation of win2k is actually
doing it's thang in software not hardware ? Does that mean that the ABIT KT7
with onboard raid controller is no such thing cause it's all done in software
anyway ?
What a fucking con
(pardon my french...)
Juergen Sauer wrote:
> Emyr James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
> am Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:05:41 +0100 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
>
> > Please can some nice driver guru sort out raid support for an ABIT KT7
> > RAID mobo (very popular board) ?
> > Win2K handles it fine, surely it must be possible to get Linux to do it
> > properly as well...or are there some complications ?
> > Is there support for this in the pipeline ?
> > Any news appreciated.
>
> Kernel 2.4.x has it in, called there HPT366, runns fine.
> No Raid functions avaible, because the 'HTP370' does Raid only as
> shitty Software in Windump ...
> mfG
> Jojo
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magnus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2
Date: 12 Apr 2001 16:29:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, P Ashton wrote:
> I am have having numerous problems using linux (Redhat 7.0) on my k6-2
> based machine. Are there any known problems with K6-2s and what are the
> fixes?
No answer to the problem, but I just want to let you know that I run RedHat 7
on my k6-2 without any problems at all.
--
Mvh Magnus Lundin
www.algonet.se/~elp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: BIOS Upgrades (Was: Via + Maxtor + kernel 2.4.3 = crash?)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:40:20 GMT
In <9b4io8$96n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Hahn:
[Snip...]
>gross. flash an updated bios or turn off "optimum" settings in bios.
On this topic, I need pointers on BIOS upgrades, especially where to find
them, as I haven't had any luck at all with Google to date.
Just added a 32 MB stick for a total of 64 MB as required by yast2 ("old"
yast needs less apparently) for a SuSE 7.1 install I've started.
Rebooting resulted in a kernel panic which I almost expected on these old
BIOS versions (Award 4.51PG i430VX) from reading threads I found. Figured
redoing LILO with the append="mem=64M" thingy was the ticket but a kernel
panic still resulted. OK, threads mentioned this may be a BIOS limit with
such old ones, so upgrade the BIOS. Simple. Not. After mergers and such I
could hardly find working vendor sites, and email totally ignored.
This is a point of dimishing returns for me, so any tips welcomed. Even a
"you can't get there from here" if the BIOS is too old; I'll just save us
all some time, and go back to yast instead of yast2, if it's moot.
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gigabyte GA-7ZX5-1 Motherboard w/AC97 Sound
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:40:52 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JNJ wrote:
> Am running the above with RedHat 7, but cannot get the sound to work for
> the
> life of me. Anyone else worked with these and been able to get the sound
> running? Any other known issues between these motherboards and RedHat 7?
>
> James
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
I've got the GA-7ZM, and you need the Alsa drivers to get it to work! I'm
using the 0.9.0beta3 drivers which seem to give the best results. I had no
success at all with the kernel drivers, though some people have managed to
get them working.
There is quite a good "howto" on the linuxnewbie site (www.linuxnewbie.org)
about getting AC97 sound working.
--
Pete
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Linux-Hardware Digest #611
Linux-Hardware Digest #611, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: "SiS 6326" with XFree 4.0.3 ("LittleFish")
Re: G450 TV-Out under Linux (David Balazic)
Re: G450 TV-Out under Linux (Dirk Traenapp)
Re: beeps (SammyTheSnake)
Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2 (P Ashton)
Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2 ("Aalderd Bouwman")
keyboard locks (Dd)
Re: Best RAID controller for Linux (Hubba Bubba)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Peter da Silva)
Looking for (Chris Johnson)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Marcelo Rodrigues)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (bill davidsen)
Re: ** HP Pavilion computers: modem works? ** (Tim)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
("Dave")
Re: Intellimouse jumps to the upper left corner (SammyTheSnake)
Re: Distorted sound output, what's wrong? (SammyTheSnake)
IDE->SCSI for CDR on offboard IDE controller (Marc Ulrich)
Re: Via + Maxtor + kernel 2.4.3 = crash? (Mark Hahn)
From: "LittleFish"
Subject: Re: "SiS 6326" with XFree 4.0.3
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:44:50 +1000
Yep I can help you there just turn the Accelleration off.
# No_Accell or something like that just uncomment it and you will never
look back. Don't change anything else otherwise it will make it very hard to
get your system going!
Littlefish
"Raoul Markus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9asqib$pqa$01$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I just happened to install XFree 4.0.3 (yeah, on a SuSE 7.0) since there
> where lots of improvements for SiS driver announced at xfree86.org...
> well, it's gotten really faster, I admit but now I have ugly color
> efects, e.g. the bars of my kde-windows have strange colors, sometimes
> strange rectangles are left halve filled with contents which belong
> elsewhere
>
> . this seems only to happen with certain fillments or movements of
> bitmaps: e. g. the nice window-bars of kde2... plain color fills are ok.
> and so are movements of these areas.
>
> does anyone have hints? some fine XF86Config lines to tune the behavior?
>
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Raoul
>
>
--
From: David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: G450 TV-Out under Linux
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:10:15 +0200
"David E. Fox" wrote:
>
> David Maslen wrote:
>
> > I purchased a G450 recently. I was interested in the TV-Out feature,
> > and was hoping to use both my PAL Television set and 17" monitor with
> > Xfree86. I now discover this feature is unsupported.
>
> I bought a G450 a few weeks ago as well. The card did come with this funny-
> looking cable that has a VGA card connector and two other rca/din-type
> cables coming out of it. I presume that's supposed to go to the TV.
>
> What do you mean by "unsupported"? Does that mean that "it doesn't work" as
> if the card isn't supposed to do TV Out (for me, that wasn't needed, and I
> didn't really see much hype claiming that as one of the features) or simply
> that it's not officially supported by Matrox on Linux/XFree?
The hardware has the feature of TV-out , but it can not be used in Linux,
due to missing support for it in the current linux drivers. ( which
is due to missing documentation )
--
David Balazic
==
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From: Dirk Traenapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: G450 TV-Out under Linux
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:28:55 +0200
David Balazic wrote:
> "David E. Fox" wrote:
> >
> > David Maslen wrote:
> >
> > > I purchased a G450 recently. I was interested in the TV-Out feature,
> > > and was hoping to use both my PAL Television set and 17" monitor with
> > > Xfree86. I now discover this feature is unsupported.
> >
> > I bought a G450 a few weeks ago as well. The card did come with this funny-
> > looking cable that has a VGA card connector and two other rca/din-type
> > cables coming out of it. I presume that's supposed to go to the TV.
> >
> > What do you mean by "unsupported"? Does that mean that "it doesn't work" as
> > if the card isn't supposed to do TV Out (for me, that wasn't needed, and I
> > didn't really see much hype claiming that as one of the features) or simply
> > that it's not officially supported by Matrox on Linux/XFree?
>
> The hardware has the feature of TV-out , but it can not be used in Linux,
> due to missing support for it in the current linux drivers. ( which
> is due to missing documentation )
Hmmm, what about the driver from MATROX? Works fine for me and supports
TV-out, Dualhead, etc...
cu
Dirk Traenapp
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Linux-Hardware Digest #610
Linux-Hardware Digest #610, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
CUV4X-D, io-apic problem (VIA chipset) (Pietro)
Driver for DP83815 for SuSE 6.4 with kernel 2.2.14 ("Aalderd Bouwman")
Re: Driver for DP83815 for SuSE 6.4 with kernel 2.2.14 ("Aalderd Bouwman")
Superblock ("Aalderd Bouwman")
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Slash)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Roeland van Ochten)
Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HEL !!! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Christian Garms)
Re: Micron Netframe MV 5000 with AMI Megaraid problems (shane)
Re: Question: Anyone got ide2 *and* ide3 working on Promise ata100? (Roeland van
Ochten)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(Slash)
Re: sys 6326 video driver ("LittleFish")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pietro)
Subject: CUV4X-D, io-apic problem (VIA chipset)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:23:10 +0200
Hi everybody,
I've recently bought a CUV4X-D motherbord equipped with a VIA82C694XDP
chipset. I have problems with io-apic. In particular I have a RLT network
adapter and a sound card absolutely not listed in my /proc/interrupts.
I've tried both 2.4.3 and the last AC path (-ac3).
The problems is obviously with the io-apic since if I boot the system with
"noapic" option it doesn't hang, but I'm still unable to address correctly
my adapter. With 2.4.3-a3 and without kernel option I receive this message:
"probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a
motherboard." and I can't boot.
With plain 2.4.3 I can boot but the irq redirection map is still broken.
I also receive this msg during boot:"unexpected IO-APIC, please mail ..."
does nobody know if there is a patch for this problem ?
TIA,
pietro
this is my /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 28428 77928 IO-APIC-level timer
1:102200IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 0IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 6 1IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
14:602309IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 5 1IO-APIC-edge ide1
18: 0 0 IO-APIC-level usb-uhci, usb-uhci
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 5144 5169
ERR: 0
and this is my log booting with plain 2.4.3:
Linux version 2.4.3 (root@pulp) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(Debian release)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 12 08:19:28 CEST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 000a (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 1fffc000 - 1000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 1000 - 2000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved)
Scan SMP from c000 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes.
Scan SMP from c00f for 65536 bytes.
found SMP MP-table at 000f5460
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126972 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM0 Product ID: PROD APIC at: 0xFEE0
Processor #3 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Floating point unit present.
Machine Exception supported.
64 bit compare & exchange supported.
Internal APIC present.
SEP present.
MTRR present.
PGE present.
MCA present.
CMOV present.
PAT present.
PSE present.
MMX present.
FXSR present.
XMM present.
Bootup CPU
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Floating point unit present.
Machine Exception supported.
64 bit compare & exchange supported.
Internal APIC present.
SEP present.
MTRR present.
PGE present.
MCA present.
CMOV present.
PAT present.
PSE present.
MMX present.
FXSR present.
XMM present.
Bus #0 is PCI
Bus #1 is PCI
Bus #2 is ISA
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC0.
Int: type 3, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 00
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 01, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 01
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 02
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 03, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 03
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 04, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 04
Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 06, APIC
Linux-Hardware Digest #609
Linux-Hardware Digest #609, Volume #14 Thu, 12 Apr 01 04:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help, Need a SCSI expert Urgently (jazbo)
I need an xf86config file for an Armada 1596DMT (Patrick Cronin)
Re: I need an xf86config file for an Armada 1596DMT (Patrick Cronin)
Re: IRQ modem problem: pci PnP (not winmodem) ("Ron Freidel")
Re: "SiS 6326" with XFree 4.0.3 ("" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Re: beeps (W. B.)
Re: SMP motherboard recommendations solicited (jurriaan kalkman)
Re: Sound cards for RH 7 ?? (Tom Roberts)
PCMCIA 3.1.25 vs memory_cs vs Kernel 2.4.3 (Konstantinos Agouros)
today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up? (Dan
Jacobson)
Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HEL !!! (James Richard
Tyrer)
ISDN router for Linux ("John Stolz")
Re: ATA100 drive with ATA33 controller ("arthur")
Re: ISDN router for Linux (John Winters)
Re: Linux modems ("arthur")
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? (Chris Elvidge)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
("Rob Turk")
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
("Shaun")
From: jazbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, Need a SCSI expert Urgently
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:45:17 -0400
>
Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
> On 11-Apr-01 jazbo wrote:
> > Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since I don't have a Ricoh drive myself I can't compare direcrtly the behaviour.
> My plextor Reader as well as my Teac Burner both spin the CD right after
insertion.
> The plex40TS will spin the motor for a second to test if a cd is there. The Teac
> doesn'T seem to do that (or I can't here it with the fans in the case beeing not
> exactly silent).
>
> > I just tried to see what the drive does by itself without the OS trying
> > to mount it:
> > Put in a known good iso9660 cdrom disc.
> > Drive LED is red for almost a second after tray door closes.
> > Then it turns green.
> > No spin up sound. About 15 seconds later the LED turns red for a couple
> > of seconds.
> > Then it's back to green and it stays green for maybe ten seconds, then
> > it turns red for a second.
> > It goes through a couple more cycles of being green and then showing a
> > red LED for a couple of seconds.
> > Then it starts flashing green and red very rapidly. There's never been a
> > sound of the drive spinning up.
>
> Sound like a drive problem to me.
>
> > This is definitely a defective drive, then?
>
> I would think so -- but I've not *that* much experience with realy bad drives
(i.e.
> none, all mine are still working). Bad hardrives would be a different matter --
> there I do have some first hand experience :-/
>
> But the drive certainly behaves strange -- if listening carefully does not start
> the motor at inserting a CD or at reading something I would call it dead.
>
> You could test you SCSI bus though -- if I understood correctly you have a
scanner
> on the same bus. Does that work?
>
Yes, it is a Umax Astra 1220S, one of those with a 25 pin connector that goes to
the
external 50 pin port of the Advansys.
The scanner works - I have its passive terminator placed on its SCSI chain port.
I just tried removing the scanner from the scsi1 bus to see if it made any
difference
- I get the same behavior from the Ricoh cdrw as before.
Also I left a cdrom in it across a cold boot, and the bootup nearly halted in the
Advansys scsi initialisation stage: it recognized the RIcoh CDRW and then just sat
there for 30 seconds. It usually pauses slightly longer after recognizing the cdrw
than after recognizing the scanner, but this time it looked like it wouldn't
proceed
at all.
I don't think there should be a fundamental incompatibility between the CDRW and
the
Advansys SCSI.
I bought the same model of Ricoh (MP 7060S) CDRW for my nephew's PC in which I
also
put an Advansys SCSI card and same Umax scsi scanner - the only difference is that
the
SCSI card he has is one notch up in the Advansys line of that time. It's an Ultra,
mine is a Fast. The Ricoh is only a Fast 8Mb/sec cdrw. Although I haven't setup
his
cdrw to work in Linux yet, the whole assemblage works together in Windows. I
assume (a
high probability) compatibility between Advansys and the Ricoh that is present
with
the Ultra card would carry over to the Fast as well.
Also, I am pretty sure that when you insert a cdrom into the Ricoh it immediately
gives it a quick spin with a loud whisshhing noise. I've yet to hear that from my
7060S.
>
> And another thing would be to talk to the cd burner without using the CD --
like:
> cdrecord -prcap
>
> maybe try:
> cdrecord -eject
> cdrecord -load
>
> or even:
> cdrecord -atip (which will try to read the informations of a blank)
> with a dead drive motor this should fail where the others should work as long as
> the electro
