Linux-Hardware Digest #163
Linux-Hardware Digest #163, Volume #11Thu, 2 Sep 99 08:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Stanislav Kelman)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cheap video card (Roger Traywick)
Re: 3COM Ethernet Card PROBLEM... (Jason Harmon)
Re: Unusable space on 13.6GB hard-disk (Len Brown)
SCSI II LVD Hard Drive ("Sara")
Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP (Yotam Medini)
Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Paul)
Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x? ("Ron")
Is there a Digital Soundcard for Linux? (Stefan Lewandowski)
Re: Promise EIDE 2300+ Setup? ("David J. M. Karlsen")
Dynalink ISPH64 and SuSE Linux 6.1 ("Henrik Stokseth")
Re: help mounting Zip drive ("Henrik Stokseth")
Re: Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP (Kjell Petersen)
Beowulf computer parts - cheap! (M. Oesterwinter)
Re: Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI reset (J.M. van der Kolk)
Re: LCD display (Mark Cooperstein)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stanislav Kelman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.be.advocacy
Subject: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:43:52 -0400
Hello there!
How come Linux lags behind BeOS in hardware support? There are supposedly
tens of thousands of Linux developers who are now backed by a number of
multi-billion companies? Be, Inc., which is a relatively tiny company,
somehow managed to get good "out-of-the-box" support for TNT2, Voodoo3 and
SB Live! way before Linux. I don't even believe that any of the current
major Linux distros support any of the above hardware.
With TNT2 and Voodoo3 being pretty much the most popular chips on modern
home systems (and the only ones offered by, say, Dell or Gateway),
wouldn't you agree that their support should be a high priority? If so,
what is the time frame on this?
Regards,
Stan
P.S. I am not looking to start another OS war. I just want to run some
alternative OS's on the new dual-Celery computer that I am putting
together in the meantime.
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
are the ones who do." --Macintosh ad campaign
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* You can find a crazy person at http://www.LetItBe.org *
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:17:27 GMT
In article 7qhrph$heg$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article 7qgbqv$cec$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I am in the process of configuring and setting up some Linux
servers for my company, [snip]
The question is this... software or hardware based RAID? And what
are the hardware requirements?
I think that setting up software raid in Linux for a company is a
very bad idea at this time. I have done a kernel patch in kernel
2.2.11 to stripe a couple of drives together as an experiment, but
no way would I do this on a machine used for business.
Depending upon how dead in the water your company would be if the
RAID array has problems, I'd recommend finding a company that does
this professionally. You need to decide how fault tolerant the
system needs to be, and provide for a backup mechanism that is fast
enough so that you're not backing up during high-usage times.
I know, this isn't exactly the question that you asked, but I felt
strongly about this and wanted to make sure you had taken these
factors into account. There's just so many factors to take into
account when choosing a RAID+backup solution that I'd personally
stick with proven SCSI hardware, known redundancy, hot-swapping
of bad disks and fast tape backup. You may find that backing up
250Gb of data requires a very expensive tape drive, like digital
linear tape. Scary to get it wrong!
Well I would rather use Linux for our fileserver than Netware or NT.
From what I have read it seems that there are somewhat reliable RAID
drivers for Linux (in 2.2.x at least), reliable enough that many people
seem to be using them and various distributions such as Red Hat
advertise it as one of its key features. But if software RAID support
is not as stable as you seem to be implying then thats something Linux
needs if its going to be considered a legitimate player in the
fileserver arena.
Anyway the 250gb RAID I mentioned was just the scratch/temporary
filesystem, no backups will be kept of that one and if it fails i'll
just rebuild it, no problem really. It will be a RAID0, just striping.
The RAID that needs backups is the main file server, ~50gb, and I'll
be using RAID5 for that one and I will be keeping backups with multiple
tapes on my DDS3 drive just in case of multiple disk failures.
As a note, there is a mail archive for linux kernel
Linux-Hardware Digest #165
Linux-Hardware Digest #165, Volume #11Thu, 2 Sep 99 14:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCI/WIN modems (Rob Clark)
BRIGHTGATE.COM 73064 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 8" floppy (Emil Blaschek)
AudioPCI and Mandrake 6.0 (SamIam)
cdrom-boot problems omnibook 4150 (Simon Oosthoek)
Re: Problem with CD Player in GNOME. (Liguo Song)
Re: raid0 and kernel 2.2.11
Re: WinModems ("Mike Stanton")
Re: 8" floppy (Alex Flinsch)
Re: WinModems ("Michael J. Hennessy")
Re: 3.5 drive turns into 5.25 drive!!! ("B. Allen")
Re: SCSI II LVD Hard Drive ("rkv")
Configuring lm_sensors on a PC with w83781d-isa-0290 on an ASUS P2B-D motherboard
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: BJC-5000 Printer (Mark Bratcher)
i740 : How to be in 800x600? (Lolo)
Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet? (Bryan)
Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet? (Nils Remmers)
Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet? ("JB")
Re: Laser printer recommend.. (bernward halfkann)
Re: Redhat 6.0 -- No lp device! (Gert van der Knokke)
Subject: Re: PCI/WIN modems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 14:17:36 GMT
In article 7qlrpf$dca$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for a new modem for my Linux box. I have looked at two pci
cards. One is Creative Modem Blaster, the other is US Robotics (2884
?). The sales person tells me that these are not winmodems (software).
I checked creative's site, and the card requires Windoz. Is it only for
the supplied voice software? Or . I couldn't find the 2884 at
Robotics (3com) site. Any info.
Be prepared to be very sceptical about PCI modems--- very few are not
software modems of some kind. USR 2884 is not a familiar number, but
3Com has a pair of new PCI modems that _may_ work with Linux.
Please check the list at:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
The Creative Modem Blasters are mostly in the GX5 section. The 3Com/USR
modems are mostly in the 4X2 and CJE sections.
Good luck,
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: BRIGHTGATE.COM 73064
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 05:29:27 -0600
Brightgate Metasearch is the newest meta-search site on the net. It
searches over 18 (most used) search engines on the Internet, well above
the average of all other metasearch sites. There is also an option to
submit a url to 30+ search engines. Of course, do not forget the MP3 and
Files search options, if you are looking for that special MP3 or file then
chances are you will find it with Brightgate Metasearch.
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From: Emil Blaschek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 8" floppy
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:21:58 +0200
joe santapau schrieb:
anyone ever get an 8" floppy to work under linux ?
i would like to make some image files from some old data.
A 8" Floppy is a very proprietary thing.
Problem a) these drives often use 110V 60Hz AC
this can be bad for your Helth and the one of your computer.
Problem b) Data were recorded with 1MHz like a 5.25" Drive
(used on old IBM XT )
Problem c) Be aware of the fact ,
that there were a lot of additional Parameters
like Hard-Sectored, Flippy usage and CSD Recording ( Apple 2 )
So if you have to have the Hardware,
or exactly know wich Hardware it was,
you have a chance to read the data on the 8" Disk.
Problem d) If you know this, you must know the format,
that was used.
Sides : 1 or 2
Tracks 35, 40, 80
Sectors 1,4,7,9,11,13
Sector Length 128 256 512 1024 2048 Byte
If this can be analyzed with the current Hardware, I dont know.
Problem e) You have to know the operating system
the Organisation of data on the sectors were very
different.
eg. CPM OS9 TRS-DOS PRO-DOS FS1 aso.
good luck.
2*35 Track 5 Sectors 2048 Byte
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From: SamIam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AudioPCI and Mandrake 6.0
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:17:58 -0500
Hello everybody,
I'm having a problem trying to get my AudioPCI card to work with
Mandrake 6.0. I had it working with OpenLinux 2.2 fine. Here's what
I've tried. I ran sndconfig after I first installed Mandrake 6 and it
autodetected my AudioPCI card. But when it tried to play a sample it
came back with some kind of sox error. I read in Dejanews to update the
sox RPM. So I did that by using the Mandrake update tool but now I get
a different sox error. Now here's the funny thing. I'm now able to
play the CD as a user or root but I only get system sounds as root. I
try to click on the box to enable system sounds as user and it won't let
me. Are there any Mandrake or Redhat 6.0 users that have experienced
this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Sam
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From: Simon Oosthoek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cdrom-boot problems omnibook 4150
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 11:45:21 +0200
Hi
I'm trying to boot from a linux
Linux-Hardware Digest #167
Linux-Hardware Digest #167, Volume #11Thu, 2 Sep 99 20:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: DMA support (MBr)
Re: RH 6.0 on a Dell Poweredge 4300? possible? (Chris Salin)
Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Paul)
[HELP] cdrecord vs cdrdao vs Nero CD Burner [Windoze App] + Acer-6206A (Young4ert)
Re: Any support for 8-bit ISA sound cards under linux-AXP/alpha
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP Pavilion ( 8570C to be precise ) (Ian Mac Lure)
Linux on eOne ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Xircom PE3 ("Neil C. Dean")
Buslogic 958 SCSI and UW devices (Dan Geist)
Re: DMA support (Thomas Kaemer)
Re: What is a good graphics card? (Bruce Stephens)
Re: IBM PS/1 Install (Chris Mahmood)
HP office jet 630 printer in linux? (Y Chen)
Re: History (Phil Hunt)
Re: DMA support (Torleiv Flatebo Ringer)
Adaptec scsi ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Notebook vendor support for Linux? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Dual Pentium II shows as Dual Celeron... (Greg Leblanc)
Re: X proggies don't connect to server...! (Spike!)
Re: how to get diamond SupraExpress 56e 33K (MBr)
From: MBr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DMA support
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:05:34 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I would like to get DMA / UltraDMA to work...but just standard transfer
works
IMOHO the problem is that the kernel doesn't support my chipset...
Do newer kernels work with my motherboard? or did I do something wrong?
Any input regarding this matter is highly appreciated.
My system:
Asus PA-B mainboard (uses the ALI Aladdin V chipset)
AMD K6-2 333Mhz
QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A (supports at least DMA)
dmesg prints out :
Linux version 2.2.5-15 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Apr 19 22:21:09
EDT 1999
Detected 332760776 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 663.55 BogoMIPS
663.55 BogoMips, are you overclocking? (120 x 5,5?, 120Mhz motherboard
speed often means 40Mhz PCI speed, a big nono for DMA) Be aware that if
your PCI bus runs speed in excess over 33,3Mhz, DMA transfers often fail to
work,
due to fact that the PCI bus is operating out of specs...
Memory: 63080k/65472k available (996k kernel code, 412k reserved, 924k
data, 60k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 00
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
snip
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
DID=5229
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
These settings report, that you've disabled (U)DMA in the BIOS, is that
correct?
If not, just run hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdX, where X is the drive to set DMA
on...
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FX322M, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, 6149MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
hdb: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
snip
/proc/pci delivers:
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 4).
Vendor id=10b9. Device id=1541.
Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe000].
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
PCI bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 4).
Vendor id=10b9. Device id=5243.
Slow devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64.
Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
Bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 0).
Vendor id=10b9. Device id=7101.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Acer Labs M1533 Aladdin IV (rev 195).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
snip
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
IDE interface: Acer Labs M5229 TXpro (rev 193).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
and hdparm tells:
/dev/hda:
Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, FwRev=A0A.0400, SerialNo=27683203
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs }
RawCHS=13328/15/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=784/255/63, CurSects=789577920, LBA=yes,
Linux-Hardware Digest #169
Linux-Hardware Digest #169, Volume #11Fri, 3 Sep 99 01:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Please help! UPS (dbp)
Re: Xircom PE3 (Rob Clark)
Re: Need Help with Sony CDU-31A CD-ROM (Greg Leblanc)
Inkjet Printer Recommendation (Michael J Campbell)
Re: Linux on eOne ("Andrew Chan")
Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Richard Steiner)
Re: midi for ES1868 (SB driver) (Michel Catudal)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. (Greg Leblanc)
Linux 2.2.10 doesn't recognize 64 MB memory (Herman Chen)
Re: Token Ring 16/4 Speed Problem (Holger Marzen)
3DFX Voodoo3 3000 supported? (f5alcon)
Re: Getting the Ethernet ID from directly from the network card. (Nicholas Dronen)
video card problems ("Alexander Mundy")
Re: IBM PS/1 Install (Fred Scott Thompson)
Re: Linux 2.2.10 doesn't recognize 64 MB memory ("diener")
Re: HP Pavilion ( 8570C to be precise ) (Alex Flinsch)
Re: RFI - Analog Modem Channel Bonding ("Daniel O'Neil")
newbie - compaq presario 1690 x not running ("Igor Fedulov")
Any got a Compaq Proliant 3000R working? ("Tim Gaastra")
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 13:07:51 +0800
From: dbp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please help! UPS
May you tell me which UPS is suitable to use with Linux? The UPS How-To
just
tell ... tons of hacking ... which I do not understand! Thx!
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Please reply me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], thank you.
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Subject: Re: Xircom PE3
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 02:04:04 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Neil C. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone got one of these things (Xircom PE3)
I picked one up from a boot fair, no leads or docs, but rumour has it I
may be able to get it going!
Any ideas/help would be cool!
[Parallel port 10BT Ethernet adapter]
Well, no support in Linux, I'm afraid-- which is too bad since it's a neat
little toy. Mine can be powered off a PS/2 port or an AC adapter, which I
can't locate.
The driver disk ought to be available at Xircom's web site; contact me if
you can't find them.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Greg Leblanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need Help with Sony CDU-31A CD-ROM
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 02:31:14 GMT
In article 7ql6h0$uci$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been trying to get my Linux box working with the Sony CDU-31A
CD-ROM for the longest time. It's in in an old 486 that I got passed
off to me. I have tried everything that I could think of to configure
it. There is stuff on the Web, but nothing has worked as of yet.
Woohoo! I've got one of these in my 486 here, and I did get it working
at one point. Always glad to see people using these machines.
I am using the boot disk to setup Linux through the Local CD-ROM. I
have tried using the "Autoprobe" in Red Hat Linux 5.2 and it could
find
it. I tried using the 0x300 as the I/O base address and IRQ 0, but
that
hasn't worked either.
Well, I'm pretty darn sure that the IRQ isn't 0, since there is no IRQ
0. If you're trying to use that a a parameter to get it to probe for
the card, don't bother, those cards don't probe. You'll need to find
out what the IRQ of your CD controller card is. Mine is on a sound card
that's a SoundBlaster clone, and it used IRQ 5 and IO 0x330 for the CD
interface. I think I got RedHat 5.2 on that system, although it might
have been 5.1. It definately wasn't 6.0, since this was a while ago.
The proprietary card is not made by Sony, but by some other company
which makes my situation more complicated.
I don't remember if Sony made any cards to control these drives, the
only ones that I've seen have been by other manufacturers.
If anyone out there can help me, I would deeply appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
-- Andrew
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From: Michael J Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Inkjet Printer Recommendation
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:07:09 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all-
Can anyone recommend a good inkjet printer to use with Red Hat Linux 6.0
that is fairly straightforward to setup and that will print in color -
I mainly print from Wordperfect 8.0, Acrobat Reader, Ghostscript, and
Netscape.
Also, is it better to use a Postscript printer with linux ? If so, does
anyone have any recommendations for an inkjet one of these?
Thanks for your help -
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From: "Andrew Chan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on eOne
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:09:47 +0900
Hi Kelvin,
1) X Windows won't work on the ATI Rage XL 3D AGP video card. Can't
find the right modeline and/or frequency.
Have you tried
