Linux-Hardware Digest #709
Linux-Hardware Digest #709, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 05:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: Configure Kernal for using Promise 2300+ ("Chris Cantwell")
Re: TV remote for PCTV (H Bohm)
Re: TV remote for PCTV (H Bohm)
Re: TV remote for PCTV (H Bohm)
Re: Linux Driver for Riva TNT 2 (LhD Administrator)
Re: HP and Linux? (aflinsch)
Re: LOGITECH mouseman+ USB ("Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko")
We are sorry to announce this, but Linux is not supported with PCMCIA ("Charles
Schneider")
Red Hat does not recognize IDE drives ("DE")
Trouble with LAN Adapter on Super Socket 7 M/board (TXMelbGuy)
Re: 101 key keyboards (David C.)
Re: We are sorry to announce this, but Linux is not supported with PCMCIA ("Charles
Schneider")
Re: LOGITECH mouseman+
USBhttp://linuxusbguhttp://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/USB-guide-1.0.6/book1.htmlhttp://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/USB-guide-1.0.6/book1.htmlhttp://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/USB-guide-1.0.6/book1.htmlide.sourceforge.net/US
("Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko")
Re: PnP sound card: no sound ... (Edward Lee)
Server Connection through Cablevision Internet? ("Richard Spangenberg")
Re: HP DAT tape drive (David C.)
Two mouses ("Thanh Le Ly")
Re: Help on SCSI controller (David C.)
Re: Modem Drivers (Edward Lee)
Re: Red Hat does not recognize IDE drives (David C.)
FAT32 and LINUX? (Laura Conrad)
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (David C.)
Re: Linux and i820 ("CrazyFrench")
Re: Sound failure (Hans Dumbrajs)
Re: i810 Chipset - Error Installing (D G)
Re: networking two boxen (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Replacing harddrives (Henrik Carlqvist)
From: "Chris Cantwell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Configure Kernal for using Promise 2300+
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:41:22 -0400
I am using a Promise 2300+ VLB controller with a 1GB Western Digital drive
on a Gigabyte 486 board, with good results. I am not using a Linux driver
for this card, so I assume that it is just using the ISA bus. This machine
is setup as a firewall, so performance is not an issue. I would be
interested in finding a Linux driver to try out, though. Seems like the SCO
driver might be a good place to start if you were interested in writing a
Linux driver.
Chris
Roger E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hello
I've worked with Linux before, but am somewhat new to its installation.
I'm
wanting to install RedHat Linux v4.1 on a i486DX2-66 system. The
motherboard BIOS does not support EIDE only IDE (1 channel). I have a
Promise EIDE 2300+ Vesa LB controller card with onboard BIOS
that I'd like to use with my 1.6GB 1GB hard drives. I could not find
info on
this card in the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO file.
Does anyone have any experience in using this card with Linux?
I understand Linux will not work with this card in using its EIDE BIOS
to supercede the IDE BIOS on the motherboard? It includes drivers for
other OS's like DOS, Win95, NT 3.x, OS/2, SCO UNIX 3.2.x and ATT UNIX
SVR 4.0. All are system files, no sources. Would the SCO or ATT drivers
work w/ Linux???
If I do source a driver, the next problem is then how about installing
Linux using this card
with its EIDE BIOS active right from the start in order to complete the
installation on a 1 GB drive?
Neither Promise nor Red Hat have made available a Linux driver for the
Promise EIDE 2300+.
I did get some information from someone on the net. He has the same
concerns I do.
His note is below
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I suspect the answer is "no". The Promise EIDE 2300+ BIOS programs
seem to play a lot of DOS/WINDOWS specific tricks, from my brief
investigations. E.g. the BIOS "grabs" a piece of memory just below
the 640K boundary, then hooks the required BIOS calls to lie to DOS
when it asks about memory so that it looks like only about 638K is
physically present. I am not a Linux Kernel expert, but since a
multitasking kernel like Linux can't rely on the BIOS routines, I
suspect that it would require some major hacking to accommodate tricks
like that. That would be compounded if Promise considered the tricks
"proprietary" and were therefore unwilling to release any documentation
on exactly what that BIOS was doing. (That would take reverse-
engineering the BIOS code on the board, time consuming, and possibly
a violation of the Promise license).
The board will operate as an EIDE controller using just the BIOS in the
machine, IF the BIOS
supports the size drive you have; I originally got the Promise board
simplly to give me the second IDE chain on a machine that had only one
chain. This allowed me to support a CDRom on the second chain; you
could do that without support in the BIOS for the second chain, since
you were only supporting a CD, not a hard
Linux-Hardware Digest #710
Linux-Hardware Digest #710, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 05:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP OfficeJet 45 Freezes... (D G)
Re: CONFIGURING SOUND VIA AC97 (D G)
Re: Modem Drivers (D G)
Re: HP and Linux? (D G)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Rod Smith)
Intel motherboard / Adaptec RAID compatibility ("Xavier GALLEZ")
Re: Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: We are sorry to announce this, but Linux is not supported with PCMCIA (J Bland)
Help! Need driver for Trident Cyberblade /i7 ("Frank A. Gerbode")
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (D G)
Re: Actiontec modems? (jt)
Re: No DRQ after issuing WRITE - meaning ? ("Doug Rohrer")
Re: Help! Need driver for Trident Cyberblade /i7 (Rod Smith)
Re: Samba printing problems (Dave Comer)
Network Card Drivers? (Andrew Daugherity)
Re: Best printer for linux box? ("Larry Ebbitt ")
Re: XF86Config for NeoMagic MagicMedia 256XL+ (Serban-Mihai Popescu)
RH5.2 - i386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (MGatto)
PB with SB live (Olivier)
Re: About Bios Update (Robie Basak)
Internal DSL/56k modem for linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Recommend PCI ATA66 card for Linux v2.2.14+? ("Steve Snyder")
Re: ISDN "NO DIALTONE" (Tim Wyles)
Re: We are sorry to announce this, but Linux is not supported with ("Robert W.
Cunningham")
Re: Internal DSL/56k modem for linux? (Hal Burgiss)
From: D G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP OfficeJet 45 Freezes...
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:35:27 -0700
Kristine Rogers wrote:
The HP OfficeJet 45 Printer/FAX freezes when a LINUX print job is sent
to it with the message on its display saying "Press ENTER to continue
print job". Until someone presses the ENTER key on the front panel, the
thing freezes and NO ONE can print. Anyone know how to fix this? The
printer is also shared with Samba to some Windows machines; these print
without problems.
The system is RedHat 6.1 with the HP connected to a parallel port.
In the CMOS setup I "reserved" IRQ7 as a "Legacy/ISA" to sidestep all
the PnP stuff.
Also, I get a message on the console about a "TRUSTED IRQ". I tried
doing the "tunelp" thing to "trust the IRQ" but then Windows
applications only printed to top 2-inches of the page, then eject it.
Does it print OK when you press the form feed button on the printer (is
there one?)
If so, try setting "Send EOF after job to eject page" in the printing
options with printtool.
If not, you probably need to install the correct driver.
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DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: D G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: CONFIGURING SOUND VIA AC97
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:39:30 -0700
Velanche wrote:
I've read that the latest stable release of ALSA drivers has AC-97
support, but can someone tell me specifically what the things are that I
should watch out for when attempting to get sound to work? I'd
appreciate any assistance. Thanks very much.
Nothing that I have found. Other than clicking noises before and after
sounds play, it works great on my i810 ac97 motherboard.
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DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: D G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem Drivers
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:42:23 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone any linux drivers for a V.90 K56Flex HSP PCI Modem.
If so please contact me
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Find out the manufacturer then check http://www.linmodems.org/
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DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: D G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP and Linux?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:45:49 -0700
Wayne Maeda wrote:
Anyone know if HP Pavilions are capable of running Linux? Do their hardware
(video card, sound card, etc.) need Windows to function properly? I have a
HP 4530 and heard somewhere that HPs were having problems running Linux.
They are not supported under linux. They are difficult to get working,
especially the 4000 series. You'll have better luck with a 6000 or 8000
series.
The business computers have much better linux support, but don't come
with all the multimedia gadgets (which can be added on later anyway).
These are the Brio, Vectra, or Kayak PCs.
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DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:56:56 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article FIYK4.12$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"The Wogster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Hong wrote in
Linux-Hardware Digest #711
Linux-Hardware Digest #711, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:14:29 EDT
Contents:
Using a Psion 5 as a terminal (J T)
Thanks (Will Joyner)
37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5
portable storage
Graphics card driver ("siapa")
sound irq conflict (root)
Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5
Re: logitech itouch internet keyboard/mouse (Robbie Gates)
Re: Recommend PCI ATA66 card for Linux v2.2.14+? ("Bobby Hitt")
Re: networking two boxen (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Graphics card driver (Dances With Crows)
Re: can't get ide-scsi mod to work (Doc Shipley)
Re: can't get ide-scsi mod to work (Steve Martin)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Scott Alfter)
Re: Recommend PCI ATA66 card for Linux v2.2.14+? ("fREDDieV")
How to get Mandrake 7.0 kernel 2.2.13 to recognize tape drive ("fREDDieV")
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? ("fREDDieV")
RedHat Version 6.2 in Singapore ("Mr Jackie Lee Choon Yau")
Re: linux in notebook--modem (Xiaoqiang Su)
Suggestions for Video Card on Linux??? (Joe Perkowski)
Seagate SCSI Drive timeout on a Adaptec 2940 UW ("Reid Sutherland")
Re: Network Card Drivers? ("Dino7")
Re: Logitech mouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: OPL3-SA3 sound chip setup problem. (Don Grafton)
Re: networking two boxen (Michael Meissner)
Re: Help! Need driver for Trident Cyberblade /i7 (Jim Harvey)
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: portable storage (Michael Meissner)
Re: New Athlon 700 Box (Steffen Kluge)
From: J T [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Using a Psion 5 as a terminal
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:01:32 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to set up my system so I can connect my Psion 5 to a serial
port as a text terminal. I have read the how-to an I get as far as a
login prompt on the Psion with the command '/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS1
vt100'. Unfortunately, when I enter my user name and password all I get
is:
login failed - on the Psion and
Apr 18 23:44:33 keri login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM /dev/ttyS1 FOR jrt,
Authentication failure
in /var/log/messages.
I have modified the 'login.access' to include the line '+:jrt:LOCAL'.
Is there any other files I need to modify? Or is there someway I can
get 'agetty' to report what it recieves??
Any help appeciated, Jay
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From: Will Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Thanks
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:24:31 -0400
Well guys,
Thanks for all that replied to my posts giving me advice on how to fix
my computer. I did what you suggested and after tweakign with some
settings I got the best performance that I can hope for...for now.
There is hardly any static noticible when i play my mp3s, and now my
computer can shut down without locking up.
I am a newbie so I may be asking more questions in the future. So
thanks ahead of time
Will Joyner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:32:31 -0700
Hi. I just got an IBM Deskstar 37GP (37.5 GB drive), installed in into my
linux box and (ta-da) it's only weighing in at about 3 GB!
with 'df' i see:
=
/dev/hdc1 348042313 3300383 0% /hdc1
=
with 'fdisk' i see:
=
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 7144 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 7144 3600544+ 83 Linux
=
I read the Large-Disk-HOWTO and saw that there might be a kernel problem
so I've upgraded. I'm currently running 2.3.99-pre5 but the drive still
doesn't show up as a 37.5 GB drive?
what can I do?
Any help will be greatly appreciated
-- Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: portable storage
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:30:03 GMT
I need to have some kind of storage mean,that is an external drive I can
use to copy and browse files. It can be a CD-RW or an Orb, or something
else.
Does anyone know what kind of drive I should buy - I'm using a laptop, and
no scsi!
Thank You
L.G.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "siapa" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Graphics card driver
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:49:18 +0800
Anyone knows where to get driver for Creative Riva TNT2 Ultra graphics card
driver for redhat linux6.1 ? Tenkiu..
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From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sound irq conflict
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:58:47 -0600
on bootup it skips loading my sound card because of an irq conflict. the
settings in modules.conf say it should
Linux-Hardware Digest #712
Linux-Hardware Digest #712, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:14:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Michael Meissner)
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (Michael Meissner)
Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (Steffen Kluge)
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Steffen Kluge)
Re: RedHat Version 6.2 in Singapore (Jughead)
modem with 2.3.99-pre5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Seagate SCSI Drive timeout on a Adaptec 2940 UW (John Schamus)
Re: RedHat Version 6.2 in Singapore ("Nobody")
Comp.os.linux.hardware QA 19 Apr ("K.Tsakaloglou")
Re: linux mpeg2 player using SBLive! digital-out ??? ("Dan")
Okipage 10e (Andrew Jorgensen)
Re: new monitor (Donovan Rebbechi)
Maxtor 20G Promise Ultra33 Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Suggestions for Video Card on Linux??? ("Weiting Cao")
Re: modem with 2.3.99-pre5 ("Weiting Cao")
Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!)
Riva TNT2 display card (kmchan)
Re: We are sorry to announce this, but Linux is not supported with PCMCIA ("Charles
Schneider")
Re: Riva TNT2 display card (ajn)
Re: Controling computer with Remote. ("Tjr")
Re: Riva TNT2 display card (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro)
Kernel messages (Alex wells)
LIRC and SFH 5110-36 Wont work? (System V)
Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Thomas J. Canich")
Re: Fast hardware please! (Derek Cahill)
MOD magneto optical disc drives... (Stefan Zachow)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Graham Murray)
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Jerry Natowitz)
Re: Two mouses (John Hunter)
Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
From: Michael Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Apr 2000 23:21:27 -0400
MGatto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is everyone here getting for $hdparm -t
speeds? I'm especially interested in those w/ ultra DMA or SCSI
controllers cards. I have a promise U66 w/ maxtor's latest and
greatest, and am still only getting on avg. 15 MB/sec. (half of what
winbench reports for windoze!)
Let's see, for my Quantum Atlas 10K 9WLS (this is a 10,000rpm ultra2 drive), I
get 23.88 MB/sec. For my 2 IBM 10K drives I get 18.93 MB/sec and 19.28 MB/sec,
with lesser amounts for the older disks.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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Subject: Re: FAT32 and LINUX?
From: Michael Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Apr 2000 23:28:58 -0400
D G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Laura Conrad wrote:
When I started using LINUX in 1977, I was told that if I wanted to use
linux and windows partitions on the same drive, I should use FAT16 for
the windows partitions, rather than FAT32. Is this still true?
Not unless you want to run windows 3.1.
Or if you want to run Windows NT 4.0 (which didn't get the FAT32 support).
Presumably Windows 2000 supports Fat32.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5
Date: 19 Apr 2000 03:20:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read the Large-Disk-HOWTO and saw that there might be a kernel problem
so I've upgraded. I'm currently running 2.3.99-pre5 but the drive still
doesn't show up as a 37.5 GB drive?
Just a wild guess (I haven't had the chance to use disks larger
than 8GB myself): did you upgrade df and fdisk, too?
Do "df --version" and "fdisk -v" and check in the
Large-Disk-HOWTO whether you've got what's required.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
Date: 19 Apr 2000 03:27:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article n78L4.48507$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
fREDDieV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I first enabled udma66 in kernel 2.2.13, I ran hdparm 4 times and got
an avg. transfer speed of 20.8mb/sec. Subsequent testing showed the speed as
high as 24.0mb/sec.
Hmm, this is what I'm getting with an Ultra-33 drive (Seagate
8GB, kernel 2.2.14). Are you sure you're running Ultra-66? Maybe
it's all but hype and no disk can actually deliver (yet) what
Ultra-66 promises? Did you try testing in single-user mode?
Cheers
Steffen.
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Steffen Kluge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: Jughead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
Linux-Hardware Digest #713
Linux-Hardware Digest #713, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:14:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!) (hac)
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F8yer?= Kristiansen)
sg device, cdrecorder and scanner (Jimmy D Smith)
Parport backpack CDRW install (Kevin Krause)
Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!) (Steffen Kluge)
Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape (Adam Finkelstein)
Re: sg device, cdrecorder and scanner (Slawomir Siwek)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Rod Smith)
Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Mark H. Wood")
Re: Suggestions for Video Card on Linux??? (julien mills)
Gnome device mount UGH! (Mark Bratcher)
Re: new monitor (julien mills)
Trouble with XF86Config offtime and ViewSonic monitor (Mark Bratcher)
Re: MOD magneto optical disc drives... (Eric)
44M Syquest on pentium system. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux sucks ("D.W.")
fibre drives for linux?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? ("fREDDieV")
Problems with ATAPI CD-R/RW (LG CED-8080B) (Knobi himself)
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (Michael Kelly)
Amount of Memory ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sound cfg. in Kde ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Amount of Memory (Kjartan Reynir Hauksson)
Re: Best printer for linux box? ("The Wogster")
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? ("The Wogster")
From: Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
Date: 19 Apr 2000 08:34:56 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge) writes:
In article n78L4.48507$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
fREDDieV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I first enabled udma66 in kernel 2.2.13, I ran hdparm 4 times and got
an avg. transfer speed of 20.8mb/sec. Subsequent testing showed the speed as
high as 24.0mb/sec.
Hmm, this is what I'm getting with an Ultra-33 drive (Seagate
8GB, kernel 2.2.14). Are you sure you're running Ultra-66? Maybe
it's all but hype and no disk can actually deliver (yet) what
Ultra-66 promises?
no hard disk can deliver data faster than about 30MB/sec. ata-66 is
all about room for expansion. iirc ata-66 has a mode to fire multiple
commands and wait for reply so that putting two disks on one channel
may not be so bad in the future (once hard disks, and ata controllers
and their drivers catch up).
scsi has had 40MB/sec for a long time now and recently gotten 80 and
160MB/sec extensions. this isn't because any single drive can exceed
40MB/sec (let alone 160MB/sec), but if you've got a bank of 6 drives
you can be bus constrained.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: hac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 37.5 GB drive and kernel 2.3.99-pre5 (solved!)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:51:41 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
anyway, I just tried cfdisk instead of fdisk and low and behold the drive
shows up will all the cylinders!
after a (not so) quick 'mkfs /dev/hdc1' the drive now shows up with 'df'
as:
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/dev/hdc1 3484635913 33014812 0% /hdc1
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so, for the record (perhaps this should be in the HOWTO) use cfdisk
instead of fdisk for more than 65535 cylinders!
The BUGS section of the fdisk man page already says that you should use
cfdisk in preference to fdisk.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F8yer?= Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:02:24 +0200
Jerry Natowitz wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Michael Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MGatto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is everyone here getting for $hdparm -t
speeds? I'm especially interested in those w/ ultra DMA or SCSI
controllers cards. I have a promise U66 w/ maxtor's latest and
greatest, and am still only getting on avg. 15 MB/sec. (half of what
winbench reports for windoze!)
Let's see, for my Quantum Atlas 10K 9WLS (this is a 10,000rpm ultra2 drive), I
get 23.88 MB/sec. For my 2 IBM 10K drives I get 18.93 MB/sec and 19.28 MB/sec,
with lesser amounts for the older disks.
I get 22.22 MB/sec for my 20GB IBM drive (7200 RPM), and 13.01 MB/sec for
my 13GB Western Digital (5400 RPM). Both support UDMA66, but the transfer
rate doesn't change.
hdparm -t measures how fast data can be read of the disk, and not how
fast cached data can be transferred.
The benefit of UDMA 66 in current systems is very modest, because
current controllers are limitid to one UDMA 66 device per controller.
The point of higher bandwidth is that the controller would be able to
saturate more devices, but because of the one device restriction on UDMA
66, performance are dominated by the
Linux-Hardware Digest #714
Linux-Hardware Digest #714, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:14:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape (Leonard Evens)
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD-ROM not usable ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (D G)
Printer ("Ian")
Onboard Audio in Linux (C.A.M.)
Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Marius Andra")
HP7200e soft ("Marius Andra")
Re: HP7200e soft (Dances With Crows)
Re: I am a reseller and need help (Nikola D Krgovic)
Re: driver ata66 ("John McCubbin")
Re: Onboard Audio in Linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: Recommend PCI ATA66 card for Linux v2.2.14+? ("Bobby Hitt")
hd? ("Robert L.")
Re: Modem speed low: Olitec Self Memory 56K/V90 (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: scsi, eth0 irq conflict (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Intel EtherExpress causing networkload? (Henrik Carlqvist)
a modem that works (dgarbarino)
Re: Kernel messages (David Weis)
Re: Web Camera ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best printer for linux box? (John Hong)
Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Luke Olbrish")
Re: sound irq conflict (Michael J Porter)
Netscape Crashing Problems (Will Joyner)
SCSI problem w/ CD-ROM CD-RW ("Xavier Neys")
SMP linux (Carl)
newbie: turning off modem sound (Neil Blue)
Re: newbie: turning off modem sound
Re: IBM thinkpad 1421 (David Tan)
Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (Robie Basak)
Digital Video w/Linux ("Dheera Venkatraman")
Matrox Rainbow Runner under Linux??? (Dave Smith)
Tyan Tiger MB? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:24:13 -0500
Adam Finkelstein wrote:
Hello.
I have an ide Colorado TR5 tape that I can happily back up one partition
and restore it using:
/sbin/dump 0af /dev/ht0 /dev/hda1
On sun boxes I use a dump script to dump multiple partitions to 4mm tape
using a shell script. I have to define block size density and length for
the dump to be restorable.
I wrote the following (commented lines) and cannot restore a specific
partition using:
/sbin/restore -s 2 -if /dev/ht0
#!/bin/bash
#
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2
#/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2
/sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3
mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind
mt -f /dev/ht0 offline
I thought maybe I'd need to provide (like the 4mm tape on sun boxes here)
block size (64) but I cannot figure out the density and length of TR5
Travan tape. Does anyone know what they are, and if provided as arguments
to the above /sbin/dump in the above script, will they allow multiple dumps
per tape and then restore specific partitions using the -s argument in
restore.
Thanks in advance, and upcoming too.
Adam
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Adam Finkelstein
SOTAS, Inc.
301-258-8873 ext. 265 301-258-0059 (fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I haven't studied your specific question, but let me raise
another point. I have the same drive, but I use tar to backup.
I've found the mt command cannot place me at the appropriate
tape archive for recovering something if I put multiple archives
on the same tape. (The same thing happens on a Travan SCSI
tape drive we had.) But if I do an
mt -f /dev/nht0 weof
between the archives, then I can position the tape using twice
the requisite number of skips.
Have you checked if the same thing happens for you?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:04:30 GMT
According to Martin Høyer Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The benefit of UDMA 66 in current systems is very modest, because
current controllers are limitid to one UDMA 66 device per controller.
Does this mean one *active* UDMA-66 device or one UDMA-66 device
period? Are you allowed one UDMA-66 and one UDMA-33 device?
I haven't bothered to take the plunge to UDMA-66 quite yet...
Regardless of these restrictions, I would *never* put more than one
device on an IDE controller if speed were an issue, especially since
IDE controllers are so cheap (even the UDMA-66s nowdays)
The point of higher bandwidth is that the controller would be able to
saturate more devices, but because of the one device restriction on UDMA
66, performance are dominated by the slower device-interfaces.
Not entirely true. 7200 and 10K RPM drives will show better
throughput on UDMA-66 vs. UDMA-33 controllers in a single drive per
controller situation. (or so I have read in several places.)
SCSI beats the crap out of IDE if disks 2 (maybe even 1)
A Ferrari will beat the crap out of a Hyundai, so what? There is no
Linux-Hardware Digest #716
Linux-Hardware Digest #716, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:14:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Suggestions for Video Card on Linux??? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Problem with Ne2K PCI Card. ("Michael H. Collins")
IT Professionals wanted for survey panel (Lester Greenberg)
NIC problem? (bbyeung)
Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (Doc Shipley)
configuring ZyXel ISDN TA Plus on Linux M/c ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IRQ Assignment (TeraPico ExaAtto)
Re: LOGITECH mouseman+ USB ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Advansys ASB-3940U2W SCSI adapter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ECRIX 66GB Tape Drive (Rico Tudor)
Any Compaq Professional Workstation That Runs Linux? ("CHANGE username to westes")
Re: can't get ide-scsi mod to work ("andy")
PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: can't get ide-scsi mod to work (ajn)
Tomahawk Micropolis 4.3gb SCSI drive ,need info (h0l0gRaM)
Re: LIRC and SFH 5110-36 Wont work? (Christoph Bartelmus)
Suse Linux and BP6 mobo (root)
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx (Cedric Ware)
Re: Any Compaq Professional Workstation That Runs Linux? ("Martin Knoblauch")
Efficient SpeedStream 3060 drivers (Ronnie Corny)
setting up /dev/video (Amit Chaffee)
via onboard sound and redhat6.0 (Martin Petz)
Multiple Ultra66 controllers (Peter Bruelemans)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Video Card on Linux???
Date: 20 Apr 2000 00:19:40 -0400
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:14:41 GMT, Christopher Browne wrote:
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when julien mills would say:
For primarily 2D graphics, I think I'd bias towards ATI. It's
cheaper, and seems quite good for 2D. If I planned to do some 3D
stuff, I think I'd look at the Voodoo.
Another option if you only care about 2D is a slightly older Matrox
( Millenium II or G200 ) which you should be able to pick up for
pocket change.
--
Donovan
--
From: "Michael H. Collins" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Problem with Ne2K PCI Card.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:20:26 GMT
Nope, its "ne2k-pci"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try to use "ne2kpci.o" to solve your problem.
Martin Werner escribió:
Hi!
i have a big problem with my Ne2k PCI Card. it works fine with Windows...
But in Linux I have problems. I am using SuSE 6.1 Kernel 2.35
Trying the PCI only Ne2K driver without any parameters failed. Trying the
ISA/PCI driver without params failed. Then I tried to configure it as good
as I could, still using the ISA/PCI Ne2k (ne.c) driver. I supplied the
following options:
io= 0xE000 irq=0xB
That infos are correct (Windows runs with that setup and the packet driver
reports the same information) It is the only Network card in the system. I
´read the howtos and tried anything, that sounded interesting to me.
But it didn't work anyway.
is it possible to load the packet driver and to let Linux work through that?
I have SCO drivers (for 4.x and 5.x) on the driver disc. Can I use them?
If yes, how do I???
thanks
M. Werner
--
Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com
The Ultimate WM http://www.xfce.org
Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org
Need a Real Texas Radio Fix?http://www.texasrebelradio.com
--
From: Lester Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IT Professionals wanted for survey panel
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:32:12 GMT
Answers Research, Inc. , a market research firm serving the IT
industry, is actively seeking IT professionals to join its exclusive
survey panel. As a panelist, you will be invited to participate in a
variety of surveys, the vast majority of which are web based.
For your participation in our studies, it is very common to offer
cash incentives as well as being entered into sweepstakes for cash
prizes or computer hardware.
If you work for a company and play a role in the decision making
process for computer hardware, you are a perfect candidate for our
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For more information on Answers Research, please go to:
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From: bbyeung [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NIC problem?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:30:09 GMT
My Linux mail server stop responding when I ping it once in a while. When
I check the screen of the Linux server, I got this message: eth0:transmit
timed out, tx_status 00 status e000
Flags;bus-master 1, full 1; dirty 2157 current 2173
Down list vs. 00250128
Could someone
Linux-Hardware Digest #717
Linux-Hardware Digest #717, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: newbie: turning off modem sound (Neil Blue)
help w/on board video card please! (yosh-puppy)
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx (Blitter)
Tape backup Python SCSI question (Blitter)
("Marius Andra")
Re: Tomahawk Micropolis 4.3gb SCSI drive ,need info (Keith)
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
BE6 ("T.Iskantharajah")
Re: Suse Linux and BP6 mobo (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Best printer for linux box? ("The Wogster")
voodoo 2000 video card problem (Parminder Lehal)
low nbench values with Athlon600 (Konstantin Malakhanov)
Re: Tomahawk Micropolis 4.3gb SCSI drive ,need info (h0l0gRaM)
Re: sblive + audiopci (Andy Ford)
Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 "PnP" (Andy Ford)
Ethernet stops responding out of the blue. (Reid Sutherland)
Re: LOGITECH mouseman+ USB ("Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko")
My Voodoo card switch to 8 bit??? ("Eric ")
Subject: Re: newbie: turning off modem sound
From: Neil Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:18:45 -0700
Hi ,
I have tried to put atm0 after the ATZ command in the init
string, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Should I put
it somewhere else?
Cheers
Neil
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From: yosh-puppy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help w/on board video card please!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:40:08 -0700
When I try to install rhat 6.2 on my new computer w/ an on board video
card (listed as intel 810 chipset in windows), it detects the video card
as PCI entry intel corp 810. However, when I proceed to enter my
monitor's info(in which case my monitor isn't listed) and when it tries
to test the configuration, it says there is an error and I should try
configuring my video card manually. I kept going back and trying to do
that, but nothing works...I already had Linux before on the same
monitor, but dif. video card, so the problem must be my video card
right? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blitter)
Subject: Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:38:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Apr 2000 08:20:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cedric Ware) wrote:
Im trying to install Slackware Linux on a
PowerEdge 2400
When i use the cdrom or a bootdisk i keep getting
SCSI-timeout errors.
Does that PowerEdge have more than one CPU, and are you trying to boot
a SMP-enabled kernel, version 2.2.13 or 2.2.14?
Does any1 know why these errors occur, and how i
can solve this problem?
I think the Dell PowerEdge 2400 has its own chipset, which causes problems
with SMP on those versions of the Linux kernel (and some versions of FreeBSD
as well). I've been working with one, and the three ways of booting it were
to use only one CPU, or to downgrade the kernel to 2.2.12 (but the eepro100
driver had problems), or to upgrade it to at least 2.2.15pre7.
2.2.15, which should be out any day now, will fix the problem.
Hope this helps,
Cedric.
We have same machine and had 2.2.13-0.13smp kernel linux redhat6.1
pre-installed. Runs perfectly with two processors.
Sorry, I'm not able to help with the scsi errors, did you check
hardware, perhaps install windows nt4 to check that ?
Greetings !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blitter)
Subject: Tape backup Python SCSI question
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:07:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
apparantly I can't seem to get functioning our Python 12GB scsi tape
drive.
I do the following :
[root@callisto blitter]# mkdir test
[root@callisto blitter]# touch test/test
[root@callisto blitter]# tar cvfW /dev/st0 test/
test/
test/test
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Too many errors, quitting
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
An excerpt of the output of dmesg was told me st0 was the device :
...
(scsi1:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 7350
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
...
st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max
Linux-Hardware Digest #718
Linux-Hardware Digest #718, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Kenshington VideoCAM? (Young4ert)
Re: Fast hardware please! ("Dr. Christian Simmendinger")
Re: Ethernet stops responding out of the blue. (LhD Administrator)
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx (LhD Administrator)
Re: NIC problem? (LhD Administrator)
Re: Advansys ASB-3940U2W SCSI adapter (LhD Administrator)
Re: Suse Linux and BP6 mobo (LhD Administrator)
Re: Onboard Audio in Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: help w/on board video card please! (LhD Administrator)
Re: Multiple Ultra66 controllers (LhD Administrator)
Re: Efficient SpeedStream 3060 drivers (Rod Smith)
joystick port on SoundBlaster 16 PCI ("Michael W. Davis")
CANOn LBP 660 (DARU Bertrand)
Re: DSL - Cisco 605 (Greg Wimpey)
Re: newbie: turning off modem sound
frame buffer ("James Pritts")
Re: PnP sound card: no sound ... (H Bohm)
Re: PnP sound card: no sound ... (H Bohm)
External CDROM (Scott Zielinski)
Re: Network Card Drivers? (Andrew Daugherity)
problem occured while mounting floppy drive ("Assad Montasser")
SCSI controler and ide-scsi emulation ("Jacques PELET")
Re: problem occured while mounting floppy drive (Tony Curtis)
NOO!!! Bastards! (Magnus Svensson)
Re: problem occured while mounting floppy drive (Dances With Crows)
Re: No Sound in Quake2 for Linux (Henrik Carlqvist)
block_number - sector number ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best printer for linux box? (D G)
From: Young4ert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kenshington VideoCAM?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:58:32 -0400
Can anyone please tell me if the Kenshington VideoCAM USB is supported
under Linux?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
--
From: "Dr. Christian Simmendinger" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Fast hardware please!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:24:41 +0200
leo wrote:
Greetings all!
I am in the process of trying to figure out what hardware I should buy to
obtain the highest performance/price ratio I can for a Linux based system.
This is needed to run single-threaded, floating-point and memory
intensive jobs, the kind of work that doesn't really gain much from
clustering. We DO want some level of SMP, however, in order to allow
more than one person to run jobs on the system without affecting the
overall performance too much.
floating + memory intensive jobs - UP2000 / DS 20
Stream reports ~1250/1350 on the UP2000/DS20 against a ~400 of Xeon.
Specfp reports ~4 times the performance of Xeon -
- per cpu
Christian
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From: LhD Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ethernet stops responding out of the blue.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:09:26 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Reid Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm more less thinking this is a hardware related issue or maybe a
driver issue, I recently bumped my system up to 100mbit, that may be
doing it too.
Is this a genuine tulip or a clone? You may want to get the latest or
even the manufacturer-hacked driver in the latter case. Also, there are
some debugging options and media-select options that may be helpful. I
don't remember them off the top of my head, check out Donald Becker's
page. (If you don't have it handy, just search www.linhardware.com
for "tulip", it'll come up under resources).
--
LhD Administrator
Linux Hardware Database
http://www.linhardware.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: LhD Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:12:35 GMT
In article 8dmpgo$56a$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i also tried to boot with the aaic7xxx=no_reset parameter . . . but,
that didnt help either . . . =[
This may sound silly, but it is possible to get burned by this -- you
are *sure* that all the termination, cabling and drive parameters are
OK? Sometimes when the termination isn't right you can go through an
entire low-level format and verify in Adaptec's BIOS, but Linux will
still refuse to boot up with timeout errors.
--
LhD Administrator
Linux Hardware Database
http://www.linhardware.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: LhD Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NIC problem?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:19:02 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
bbyeung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone translate the message for me? I'm using a 3com 3c905-
tx NIC.
The card is getting wedged. What's the driver version you are using?
What version of the card?
Also check this out:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=3c905
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LhD Administrator
Linux Hardware Database
http://www.linhardware.com
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Before you buy.
Linux-Hardware Digest #720
Linux-Hardware Digest #720, Volume #12 Fri, 21 Apr 00 01:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: SB Live (Laura Conrad)
Re: Best printer for linux box? (Grant Taylor)
External Modem Troubles ("Nick Gushlow")
HELP:sound card (suse dist.) (Serial # 19781010)
block_number -- sector number ("Gabriel Benhanokh")
Re: SCSI controler and ide-scsi emulation ("internet.usinet.rfjones")
Newbie motherboard question (The Rack)
Re: BE6 (Chuan-kai Lin)
megaraid as a module, HOW? (Michael Way)
Mandrake-support for ESS AudioDrive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on Inspiron ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCSI bus resets (laserdude)
Printer, HP DeskJet 930C ("Johansen, Harald")
Re: sg device, cdrecorder and scanner (Jimmy D Smith)
Re: Ethernet stops responding out of the blue. (B'ichela)
memory on the video card. ("Robert L.")
Re: Linux Sewrial mouse not working (Howard Coles Jr.)
Re: memory on the video card. (Dances With Crows)
Re: Adaptec 19160 Ultra 160 (G Gaines)
Compact Flash Reader (Buzz)
Re: Adaptec 39160 Controller (G Gaines)
starting directly in Xwindows (yosh-puppy)
Re: Linux on Inspiron (Adrian)
Re: starting directly in Xwindows (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: SB Live
From: Laura Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Apr 2000 18:09:53 -0400
"Michael" == Michael W Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael elinux.com says that Red Hat 6.2 supports Sound Blaster
Michael Live. Mandrake Linux 7.0x may with Lothar configurator.
I have Mandrake 7.0 and an SBLive, and sndconfig worked fine, with no
switches. That is, as well as it used to work with my AWE-64.
Playing works fine, but MIDI doesn't. So I use timidity instead of
playmidi. I haven't tried recording yet.
--
Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
--
From: Grant Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:15:40 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond N Shwake) writes:
If I worked for Lexmark I'd take offense at this comment. It's true
that the consumer Lexmark printers are intended for the Windows
market, but the same can be said for HP, Epson and Canon. On the
other hand, the Optra series, given their on-board PCL and PS
processors, are OS-agnostic. Their Markvision print management
software runs on a slew of Unix and Linux platforms, not just
Windows.
Yes, this is all true. The original poster is right to be suspicious
of Lexmark, though; while the Optra line is the most Linux-compatible
line of printers around, the Color Jetprinter line is the most
Linux-INcompatible around. It's rather unusual for a company to so
completely `suck' and `rule' at the same time ;)
If anyone's out to buy a Linux inkjet, the Lexmark Optra 40 really is
the best thing going at the moment. It prints like a last-generation
4 or 6 color inkjet (which is to say rather well on half-decent paper,
and not bad for photos on glossy stock with the photo cartridge) abeit
at the usual HP/Lexmark "integrated cartridge" prices.
Once the Optra 40s run out, I'll have to reassess the situation. I'm
thinking some of the Epsons will be good except for the fixed heads;
several of the current models print very well with the gimp-print
Ghostscript printer driver. HP and Canon, meanwhile, are busily
producing ever more undocumented printers.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picantedotcom - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
--
From: "Nick Gushlow" nick.gushlow(@)usa.net
Subject: External Modem Troubles
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:19:11 +0100
Can anybody help?
I just bought a nice new Zoltrix Rainbow 56k Blue Fighter external modem to
replace my internal modem. I am under the impression that external modems
WILL work with linux, however I have a problem that I cannot specify as a
Linux problem or a Hardware problem.
I can dial into my ISP (freenetname) using minicom and get a login prompt.
Once I log in
a get a load of garbage on screen (which according to the manuals I've read
indicates a good connection), and then I get NO CARRIER and the connection
drops.
Why? What have I done wrong?
I am running Mandrake 7, and it's a fresh install (only did it on the
weekend).
The modem works fine on my Windoze 2000 box.
Could the modem still be windoze only? All error correction etc. is
hardware based so I assume not, but I could be wrong.
Any help would be appreciated. If it's not a good modem to be using I need
to take it back to the shop soon!
Thanks,
Nick Gushlow
Email: nick.gushlow(@)usa.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Serial # 19781010)
Subject: HELP:sound card (suse dist.)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr
