Linux-Hardware Digest #289
Linux-Hardware Digest #289, Volume #9Thu, 28 Jan 99 08:13:30 EST
Contents:
Re: fdisk partitioning > 8GB drive (Andries Brouwer)
Re: Problems mounting JAZ drive (Andries Brouwer)
Linux on MicroStar 6120 (Yann Muller)
Re: fdisk partitioning > 8GB drive (Andries Brouwer)
Re: Turtle Beach Montego A3D (Dell OEM) (jackle)
FINALLY!! OPTi931 sound card is working!! BUT... ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) ("¨g¤H")
Re: Rack Mount Cases (BL)
Re: IntelliMouse problem with XFree86 (jackle)
Re: LINUX PPP on a SPARC10 (Duncan Simpson)
Don't post in HTML, it's bad manners (Mircea)
Re: linux max RAM is 1GB? (Kristofer Coward)
ESS1689 and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: keyboard auto-repeat rate question (Gary Momarison)
videocard ("Pamateur")
Re: Overclocked Celeran300A and Linux? (Norbert Goebel)
Re: IRQ conflict between Video and Ethernet (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Don't post in HTML, it's bad manners (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: videocard ("Randall E. Williamson")
Newbie Soundblaster Help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Terasound A3D PCI sound in Linux? ("Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wahlstr=F6m?=")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: fdisk partitioning > 8GB drive
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:13:46 GMT
Bryan McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: win98 is loaded and supports my very large disk (~11GB); my bios has LBA
: support. I have been reading the docs & howtos and they indicate that I
: should pass 'linear' to the kernel on boot to make it use logical sector-like
: addressing rather than CHS. I don't see this listed among options
: available to pass to the kernel at boot time. Am I barking up the wrong
: tree? The docs indicate that fdisk can handle disks this large so long
: as the kernel supports the linear disk addressing mode.
: How do I set options at LILO-time to make this happen?
: Is this already happening unbeknownst to me? Kernel logs CHS-style disk
: info on boot, not linear info--at a cursory glance.
You do not mention any problem.
There is no reason to expect any problems - a recent kernel will handle
your disk just fine - there is no need to start doing obscure things.
(i) The kernel always gives a C/H/S at boot time (for IDE disks) - it just
tells you what geometry it will give fdisk and LILO if hey ask for one.
It does not mean that the kernel itself uses CHS addressing.
(It will use LBA whenever that is supported by your disk, i.e., always,
on recent hardware.)
(ii) This `linear' thing is not something for the kernel, but for LILO.
Edit /etc/lilo.conf adding a line
linear
(NOT append="linear" like some people are saying; append is for
giving options to the kernel, this is an option for LILO itself.
Read the LILO documentation, or lilo.conf(5)).
Usually everything works fine both with and without this LILO option.
(iii) The more you worry about these things the less it will work.
For the great majority of people, doing absolutely nothing is the
right way to get things working.
Sometimes people have problems mounting a disk and start fiddling with
geometries, but a mount problem is never a geometry problem.
Look at the kernel boot messages. First there is a section about
what disks are recognized, like
hda: Maxtor 91728D8, 16479MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1020/200/62, DMA
hdb: QUANTUM Bigfoot TX12.0AT, 11497MB w/69kB Cache, CHS=23361/16/63, DMA
...
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 12657717 [6180 MB] [6.2 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17755792 [8669 MB] [8.7 GB]
...
and then a section about what partitions are seen on the disk, like
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 sdb6 >
sdc: sdc1 sdc2 < sdc5 sdc6 sdc7 > sdc3
sdd: sdd1 < sdd5 sdd6 > sdd2 sdd3 sdd4
hda: hda1
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > hdb3 hdb4
hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4
Once the kernel mentions a disk, you know that it has seen this disk.
Once the kernel mentions the partitions, you know that it can read the disk.
Geometry-related problems only occur in relation to other systems
like DOS and Windows (and perhaps the BIOS), and only for LILO and
fdisk, never for the Linux kernel or mount or so.
[And for the gurus a question: What is peculiar in the above kernel messages?
What causes it? Could the kernel have avoided it?]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Problems mounting JAZ drive
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:29:07 GMT
Steven Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I am having problems mounting my J
Linux-Hardware Digest #289
Linux-Hardware Digest #289, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 08:13:26 EDT
Contents:
fasttrak raid controler (Ted)
Re: KDE or Gnome (John Hong)
ISDN (Once more) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: <$500US Linux Box ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Cloning a Linux box (Dirk Traenapp)
Re: accurate timer - HELP! (Robert Kaiser)
Re: Cloning a Linux box (Swietanowski Artur)
ISP MODEM SPEED Q. ("Matt")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Guest)
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (bryan)
From: (Ted)
Subject: fasttrak raid controler
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:01:38 GMT
Reply-To: *paree*@usa.net
Does anybody know if Linux supports this EIDE raid controler?
regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: KDE or Gnome
Date: 21 May 1999 10:08:01 GMT
Dharmesh Patel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm already using KDE but have heard Gnome has some better
: additional features.Can some onr guide me as how I should go about the
: installation .
Gnome is an extension of a (any) window manager for Linux, think
Object Desktop for Windows & OS/2. KDE on the otherhand is basically
like its own enviornment. That's really the only difference. Both are
really good, eitherway.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ISDN (Once more)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:24:14 GMT
Hi people,
Dows anyone knows how to configure an ISDN PCBIT-D card?
If so, I would appreciate some help to install mine.
Thanks
Luis
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: <$500US Linux Box
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:06:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm a poor college student and a linux newbie interested in building a
> machine (w/o monitor) for *less than $500*. I am interested in any
> suggestions anyone would make regarding main boards, processors,
> sound/video/network cards, etc that they have had postive experiences
> with, running linux and XFree86. I am still undecided between a slot 1,
> socket 370, or socket 7 system, and I want to know how safe it is to
> overclock chips like the celeron 300a and the AMD K6-2 266, 300 or 350.
>
> Thanks,
> Omar
>
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I just built a killer (IMHO) Linux box. The motherboard is an FIC 2013,
AMD K6-2/350Mhx CPU, 128Mg RAM and a tower case. I had a svga card, 15"
monitor and a couple 2Gb hard drives on hand but all in all this system
cost about $600 all said. The monitor and video card are capable of
1024x768x16bpp color.
Take a look at CNET or BUYCOMP.COM - you can search out some pretty good
pricing through those sites.
Good luck,
Bill
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From: Dirk Traenapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:35:00 +0200
"Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING" wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, HAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | If you happen to have a bad block, dd will bite you bigtime. Much safer
> | to put the new drive in the system you are cloning, run "badblocks -w
> | /dev/hdx", then partition and create your swap and filesystems. The
> | passthrough mode of cpio works well for duplicating filesystems.
> [...]
> | I did run into a cpio that was really pax - it mangled permissions on
> | symbolic links. Check first.
>
> I've done something like this by booting from a rescue disk type setup
> (actually a scaled down Slackware install onto a Zip disk), mounting
> both partitions, then running 'cp -a /mnt/old /mnt/new' (or similar depending
> on mount point).
>
> What's the big advantage to using cpio?
cp -a doesn't copy SUID and SGID flags! So it's better to use cpio or
tar for cloning!
cu
Dirk Traenapp
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