Linux-Hardware Digest #376
Linux-Hardware Digest #376, Volume #13Tue, 8 Aug 00 05:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dual processor board? ("D. Stimits")
How to configure X-server on Inter Chipset? ("Kevin")
Power Saving Problems (Chairman Mao of Technology)
Ignore This:-) 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux (Flotsam)
Re: I think I clobbered my /dev/lpr device :) (Jim Zubb)
Cannon BJC printer (Lake Park)
Soundblaster sound recording... ("Andrew Larcombe")
Soundblaster sound recording... ("Andrew Larcombe")
newbie Xircom PCMCIA card ("Ken Crofts")
Re: Help!!! IDE Tape drive setup. (Tim Moore)
Re: WInmodem-winenulator=solution? (Mimmo, Zanzara Blob)
Re: DEC 21140 Ethernet (Ton Nijkes)
Re: WInmodem-winenulator=solution? (Mimmo, Zanzara Blob)
Re: Help!!! IDE Tape drive setup. (Jef Peeraer)
Re: Whats up with the RIVA TNT? (Staffan Emren)
Re: PCI Voodoo 3 3000 compatibility ("Jake")
Re: PCI128 Driver? (Tino Keitel)
CD Burners to avoid (Ian McLeod)
Re: what is a "segmentation fault"? (James Stafford)
NIC? (Hoang Thinh)
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:09:37 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual processor board?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would be good if someone could look into this. I did a long search
for similar problems, and found that it is a recurring problem for all
i840 SuperMicro boards, not just in linux, but other o/s's as well. In
particular, this one message occurs when logging does not die instantly:
unexpected IRQ vector 217 on CPU#0!
It can also occur on CPU#1, but the 217 is consistent in all cases. This
message has been reported on both IDE-only machines, and SCSI machines.
Failure occurs under either rapid i/o of many small files, or a few
large files, or mount/umount, using any filesystem type or driver. I can
repeat the problem via rapid mount/umount of the cdrom. The filesystem
driver that originates the problem is the first to die, but even if, for
example, the scsi is still alive, it will also die shortly thereafter
(seconds to live)...sync is not possible, even with magic-sysrq.
I have had linux-2.4.0-test5 OOPS on me with this board under the following
circumstances: - using APIC - running fsck on my USB ZIP 250 (ext2
filesystem)
I didn't get anything in the logs, but there was an "Aiiee!! Kernel Panic!"
at line 614 (?) in sched.c that was dumped to the console, and something
about an interrupt being removed??
I had thought that this was USB related, because the USB / SCSI subsystems
seem a bit flaky, but then they ARE resting on a less-than-solid mobo
foundation at the moment ... ;-)
Chris
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Before you buy.
It took about a month of mysterious crashes before I finally had the
unexpected IRQ show up. Running with kernel option "noapic" has shown me
that the AIC7xxx driver is extremely stable. The filesystem access
itself is absurdly fast, although with noapic the machine becomes
unresponsive during this heavy i/o. Even the dual PII450 here will far
outperform the dual 800 for responsiveness (at least with noapic going
on the 800). Both use AIC7xxx. I think you'll find your system will fail
even when using IDE if you rapidly mount and umount.
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:02:52 +0800
From: "Kevin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to configure X-server on Inter Chipset?
Hi,
I just installed OpenLinux 2.3 on my desktop which has an Inter(R)810e
Chipset. The system can't identify this graphic chipset, so the X-window
can't start.
I can't find anything in www.indiaitmarkets.com's product review section
Can anybody help me to settle this urgent problem?
Thanks,
Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chairman Mao of Technology)
Subject: Power Saving Problems
Date: 8 Aug 2000 04:39:04 GMT
We need to look into good power saving strategies, most Linux ports once on
a PDA suck power, but native os dont, this is due to power saving built
into the Software,
We generally, shut down components when not in use, and even turn of or at
least slow down the CPU when no activity is taking place, such as reading
the screen, and then wake up the CPU when an intterupt has been triggered.
Does any one know any where that is focusing on this area. especially
within Linux.
Regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Flotsam)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.periphs.pcmcia,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Ignore This:-) 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 05:39:17 GMT
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:46:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you download the pcmcia source files and recompile it in your machine?
etc...
Good Luck!
Shao
Nice of you to try to
Linux-Hardware Digest #377
Linux-Hardware Digest #377, Volume #13Tue, 8 Aug 00 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Deutschers: Was fuer ein Modem haben Sie? (Karen Heiby)
Rechten vraagje over getty/mgetty/uugetty --- BELANGRIJK !!! ("Jan Stolk")
IDE tape drive setup (Jef Peeraer)
Re: What distribution to install ? (James Stafford)
Question for RIGHTS on getty/mgetty/uugetty --- IMPORTANT !!! ("Jan Stolk")
Re: 45GB harddisk with old BIOS??!! ("K. Posern")
Re: 45GB harddisk with old BIOS??!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hard Drive Errors (Nicholas Wolverson)
USB scanner for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[Q] VOIP on Linux (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah)
Re: 45GB harddisk with old BIOS??!! (Jon Larsson)
Strange problems with Promise Ultra100 (Jon Larsson)
Re: Cannon BJC printer (Romek Pitera)
problems with a 30GB hard disk (under Suse6.4) (Torsten Metzner)
Re: How to Install a SCSI Card (Guy Maskall)
Re: Problems with SCSI card (RH 6.2) (Guy Maskall)
From: Karen Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Deutschers: Was fuer ein Modem haben Sie?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:59:15 GMT
Hallo, ich brauche ein neues Modem. Koennen Sie ein Modem empfehlen? Ich
brauche 56K v90, ISA (internal).
Ich habe jetzt, nur eine *sehr* langsame Verbindung hier in Deutschland mit
meinem Amerikanischen Modem, und Internet Suchen sind sehr schwer.
Es würde einfacher sein, wenn Sie ein gerade vorschlagen konnten.
Vielen Dank,
Karen Heiby
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Before you buy.
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From: "Jan Stolk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Rechten vraagje over getty/mgetty/uugetty --- BELANGRIJK !!!
Date: 8 Aug 2000 08:55:37 GMT
Ik heb een situatie dat 2 (RedHat) linux servers met elkaar moeten bellen.
Laten we zeggen server A en server B. Dit t.b.v. van een UUCP sessie.
Alle UUCP zaken zijn in orde. Als vanaf server A via UUCP bestanden naar
server B gekopieerd wordt dan werkt dit feilloos. Het maakt niet uit hoe
vaak dit gebeurd.
Echter... en nu komt mijn eigenlijke probleem: Als server B heeft ingebeld
op server A dan worden de rechten van mijn modem device "/dev/ttyS2" terug
gezet naar: "crwx--", de owner wordt "root" en de group "tty".
Het is natuurlijk duidelijk dat de getty/mgetty/uugetty op device
/dev/ttyS2 de rechten terugzet op het moment dat de inbelsessie vanaf de
andere kant wordt beeindigd. Er wordt dan een nieuwe getty/mgetty/uugetty
voor dit device gestart die deze rechten zet.
Met andere woorden alleen de root heeft nog rechten te bellen met dit
device. Mijn UUCP sessie naar server B gaan nu niet meer goed vanwege deze
rechten. Zet ik handmatig de rechten op "crwx--", owner "uucp" dan
werkt het weer.
Hoe kan ik regelen dat deze rechten automatisch op bijvoorbeeld owner
"uucp" of crwxrwxrwx gezet ?
Is dit een instelling bij getty/mgetty/uugetty ?
Dank u.
Jan Stolk
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From: Jef Peeraer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IDE tape drive setup
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 09:13:58 GMT
I have a HP colorado 20 GB interbal IDE. I tried to set it up with SCSI
emulation, but it didn.t work. Now I saw someone just setting it up as a
ide-tape drive ( standard kernel ). At a certain point I've got this
ide-tape drive error :
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive
hdc: MATSHITA CR-583, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, 19574MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 8X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09
ide-tape: hdd - ht0: HP COLORADO 20GB rev 4.01
ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1a, key = 4, asc = 40, ascq = a0
ide-tape: Can't get tape parameters - assuming some default values
ide-tape: hdd - ht0: 450KBps, 6*26kB buffer, 4394kB pipeline, 110ms
tDSC, DMA
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xd400, IRQ 11,
00:10:b5:07:44:2d.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda5 hda6 hda7
Jef
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From: James Stafford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What distribution to install ?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 09:18:33 GMT
Yeah, right All you had to do was, at the LILO prompt, type 'linux
single'
When it booted, it would have dropped you to single user mode.
You could have then fsck'ed and mounted the filesystems, then used the
passwd program to your heart's content, changing the password.
Then
Linux-Hardware Digest #378
Linux-Hardware Digest #378, Volume #13Tue, 8 Aug 00 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
USB printer for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it (Guy Maskall)
Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't (Guy Maskall)
Re: HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it (Lieven Willems)
Re: How do I power down monitor when logged out? RH6.2 (Guy Maskall)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working (Ramin Sina)
Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" (aflinsch)
Need Ideas For An ISA NIC ("Rick Bestany")
Re: problems with a 30GB hard disk (under Suse6.4) (Jon Larsson)
Printing to an HP4050N (Don Farland)
Re: Printing to an HP4050N (Matt Gessner)
Re: Whats up with the RIVA TNT? ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: IDE/ATA66 patches / which? / how to install? (A transfinite number of monkeys)
Re: Slow MO Drive (Tino Keitel)
Re: More on DEC 21140 Problems (James Lothian)
"Turbo" and X-windows. (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: problems with a 30GB hard disk (under Suse6.4) (Torsten Metzner)
AOpen MX59 Pro II Audio Drivers Help ("stan")
Re: Need Ideas For An ISA NIC (Dances With Crows)
Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get? (Ray Tayek)
Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get? (Ray Tayek)
Re: Slow MO Drive (Georg Acher)
kensington mouse-in-a-box recommendation (Jo Schambach)
Promise FastTrack66 IDE Raid Controller ("MAC")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USB printer for Linux?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:57:19 GMT
hi
what USB printers are supported by Linux? any recommendations?
martin
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From: Guy Maskall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:10:05 +0100
"Alastair (LiQUiDx) Tse" wrote:
danny-mio wrote:
I have a scanner HP scanject 5p and I don't know how to use it on Linux,
it's comunicating with my pc by the card included with the scanner (SCSI i
suppose).
I'd appretiate any hint
Try using SANE - http://www.mostang.com/sane/
I've got my HP 5P to work, but only from 1.01. Doesn't seem to work
under 1.02 (?).
But thats fine :)
You should need a driver for the card. A lot of the cards bundled with scanners
are barely scsi-standard compliant. If you can find a driver for it and it
works then great, but you may be needing to buy a 'proper'scsi card.
Guy
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From: Guy Maskall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 13:19:29 +0100
Tito wrote:
Thanks for your help, but even running as root won't solve the problem. I
think I'm gonna give up and just wait for another version of xsane to come
out or somethingoh well. Thanks anyway
"Alastair (LiQUiDx) Tse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I've got a HP Scanner 5P - I've only recently (2 days ago) got it to
work.
Emm, 2 things i found caused me alot of distress :
1. Sane 1.0.2 didn't see mto fit well for me - it would comsume 100% CPU
and randomly hardlock my computer if i tried to use
scanimage/xscanimage/xsane. Maybe something to do with th new XF4.0.1 or
something ?? So I'm using Sane 1.0.1
2. Run XSane in root.
I know it gives you a warning, but thats the only way i got it to work,
because basically it needs accesss to /dev/sg2 (in my case, may be
sg0~5). Unless u wanna change the permissions on the scsi device, your
user won't be able to detect it .
hope it helps,
alastair.
First for permissions:
you might like to create a link /dev/scanner that points to /dev/sg2. You can
create a group, e.g. 'scanner' and change the group ownership of the device
to that group. Then you can give whichever users membership of that group,
that should allow them access.
I might be wrong on this one but
isn't xsane the backend to xscanimage? In other words, xscanimage is the
piece of software you 'see' and interact with. To put it this way, if
xscanimage allows you to scan and preview etc in X, then what would xsane do?
I recal that the response to your trying to run 'xsane' yourself is that same
that I got when trying to do the same thing. I believe that xsane is actually
working fine (hence xscanimage works).
Regards, Guy.
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From: Lieven Willems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:13:26 +0200
The card included with the scanner is based on the sym53c416 chip.
If you can't get it working, mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
danny-mio wrote:
I have a scanner HP scanject 5p and I don't know how to use it on Linux,
it's comunicating with my pc by the card included with the scanner (SCSI i
suppose).
I'd appretiate any hint
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From: Guy Maskall [EMAIL
Linux-Hardware Digest #379
Linux-Hardware Digest #379, Volume #13Tue, 8 Aug 00 13:13:08 EDT Contents: Re: "Turbo" and X-windows. Fibre Channel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Need Ideas For An ISA NIC (mst) Re: Slow MO Drive (Tino Keitel) Re: SoundMAX AC97 built on Motherboard (Marc Waeckerlin) Re: AC 97 on ASUS K7V-T (Marc Waeckerlin) Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get? (Hal Burgiss) Re: Soundblaster sound recording... (Andrey Vlasov) Re: How to configure X-server on Inter Chipset? (Andrey Vlasov) Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Andrey Vlasov) Re: linux and i810 (Andrey Vlasov) Canon BJC 2100 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scsi mystery (Esa Tikka) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "Turbo" and X-windows. Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:12:50 -0400 Doesn't the manual say that this is for their "testing" purposes ? When a system is certified "reliable" at say 100 mhz, then there is room to go +/- either way, . Turbo over clocks the MB. Unless your memory is up to it, don't do it. And also check out the PCI and the isa clock dividers etc. Altering this will give you enough of a change to brag about, but not at all noticeable. Unless of course, your system hangs!Windows benchmarks show a few "points" of change, but it's not worth the risk . Some pci devices react rather badly to overclocked pci busses, so be careful. i have heard that overclocking resulted in trashed filesystems, but your mileage may vary. X Windows may or may not work depending on how the VC handles out of spec environs. My only experience with odd stuff like this was on a comp.with a vl bus, that kept seg faulting because it was over clocked. Also win95 's explorer would crash as soon as it loaded . Unlike when I went around messing with the system, I hope you have a backup :) Stanislaw Flatto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi Linux users! Was browsing through Award BIOS setup on motherboard that I intended to buy when I came to "Ctrl+Alt+ +/-" as a way to change the "Turbo" status. OK I know this from past, but to find it on mobo which boasts 112M bus clock was a little odd. Anyway, how would this affect the changing of resolution in X-windows and what will respond to it - mobo speed or screen or both? Thanks for answers... -- Stanislaw on Slak 7.1 Registered on Linux counter No.162760. Even put Ulladulla on their database. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fibre Channel Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:16:18 GMT Who knows why HP fibre channel network adapter is not supported in LINUX? I need drivers for it... I don't find them. Help me!!! -- From: mst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need Ideas For An ISA NIC Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:22:51 -0400 Rick Bestany wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to set up an older PC as a firewall. The motherboard has only ISA slots and all of my spare cards are PCI. Can anyone recommend a good ISA card that I can use. preferably a 10/100 MB type. Get a 3c509 or a SMC 8416T (aka EtherEZ). MST -- From: Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Slow MO Drive Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:38:08 +0200 Georg Acher wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | If nobody has the same problem, can at least somebody whose drive runs | at full speed mail me his/hers configuration? Thanks. FUJITSU Model: M2513E on Adaptec AIC-7880U/Symbios810/860, from 2.2.x to 2.4.0, (Pentium/PentiumII/Alpha/K7): No problems. With non-limdow disks about 800kb/s write, 2000kb/s read. Maybe you are experiencing a weird termination problem... I don't think so, because it works much faster with the same system and settings and WindowsNT/95/98. -- From: Marc Waeckerlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SoundMAX AC97 built on Motherboard Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:36:35 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Doyle wrote: www.alsa-project.org has the driver that you will need the driver you will be using is the intel8x0 it works like a charm just no midi or if you want the commercial soloution http://www.opensound.com Why isn't MIDI supported? Is there a MIDI driver in the queue? Does the commercial driver support MIDI? Regards Marc -- From: Marc Waeckerlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AC 97 on ASUS K7V-T Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:39:19 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Kakareka wrote: I have a Asus K7V with AC97 and got it working with the alsa drivers, Does it work with no limits (does MIDI work)? Are there any restrictrions in using Alsa instead of kernel modules? Regards Marc -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) Subject: Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux-Hardware Digest #380
Linux-Hardware Digest #380, Volume #13Tue, 8 Aug 00 15:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: best distro for old machine (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: scsi mystery (David C.)
Re: Promise FastTrack66 IDE Raid Controller (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Cannot install ISA Network Card (sideband)
alternating between networking settings (Peter Bismuti)
Re: lilo not overwriting MBR (Peter Bismuti)
Re: joystick support in RH6.2 (Jim McDonald)
Re: Canon BJC 2100 (Gunter Windau)
Re: Can Redhat 6.2 run on Umsdos filesystems(FAT32)?Answer to my E-mail PLEASE.
(MPeh)
Old Cpu ("Nemo")
Re: problems with a 30GB hard disk (under Suse6.4) (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Old Cpu (Dances With Crows)
Re: Promise FastTrack66 IDE Raid Controller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: joystick support in RH6.2 (Dances With Crows)
Re: alternating between networking settings (Dances With Crows)
HP Jet Direct 500 Print Server and Red Hat Linux 6.2 ("webguardian")
Re: what is a "segmentation fault"? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: best distro for old machine
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 17:26:22 +0200
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In article 8m9aqu$p8b$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Guillaume" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
i have a 486 DX (33MHz) with 8Mo RAM 230Mo HD and two 3com 3c509b cards in.
I plane to configure it as a router (maybe firewalled), so i'm looking for a
the good linux (or BSD) distribution.
I think the potential problem are:
3com 3c509b driver
203 Mo of HD
my knowledge about linux is limited to Redhat like distribution...
Does anyone have some advice?
You should have a look at Debian.
Cheers
Uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: scsi mystery
Date: 08 Aug 2000 13:16:29 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Esa Tikka) writes:
I have a strange problem with my Adaptec 2940U2W and an old IBM AS400
drive 0664N1H (1.9GB wide). No other scsi devices are attached to my
system (don't have the money yet g). The drive is plugged to the second
last connector on the cable and an active terminator is in the last
(looking from the adapter). There is no termination in the drive. Adapter
termination has been set to automatic.
Drive id is 2 and adapter id 7.
Turn off automatic termination. It sometimes guesses wrong. Instead,
manually set it. Since you have only one drive attached, the card
should be terminating the entire bus.
Check the cable length. With a single Fast/Wide device, you should be
able to use a cable that is up to 6m long. But if the drive isn't fully
compliant to the spec, you may have to use something shorter.
Since the device is old, it may not be properly negotatng the bus
speed. Try using the SCSISelect utility to force the bus to a slower
speed when talking to device ID 2. I'd pick the slowest (10M/s) speed
(which will really be 20M/s if the device has a wide interface.)
(scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter found at PCI 0/6/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 392 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.31/3.2.4
Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: IBMAS400 Model: 0664N1H Rev: 5 58
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 3933040 [1920 MB] [1.9
GB]
sda: sda1 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8
The device says it's SCSI-2 compliant, which is a good sign.
My guess is that it's either cable length or termination.
-- David
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From: Markus Kossmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Promise FastTrack66 IDE Raid Controller
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:38:10 +0200
MAC wrote:
We are building an ftp server, does anyone know if this particular
controller works with RH6.2? I went to redhat.com's website for info,
however
was unsuccessful with this. NE nfo is greatly apprecciated.
There is no support for that controller yet. I've seen one posting ,
where someone has reported , that he did get a alpha version of a driver
by mailing the Promise support.
If you need a supported IDE Raid now, try 3ware (www.3ware.com) The
driver is in standard kernel since 2.2.15 ( in the SCSI section ;):
--
Markus Kossmann
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From: sideband [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cannot install ISA Network Card
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000
Linux-Hardware Digest #381
Linux-Hardware Digest #381, Volume #13Tue, 8 Aug 00 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: dump and hardware compression (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't (Guy Maskall)
Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't ("Tito")
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (emiel)
idebus speed (emiel)
Re: Need Ideas For An ISA NIC (Craig McCluskey)
Re: Printing to an HP4050N (Craig McCluskey)
Re: USB scanner for Linux? (Wolfgang Fritz)
Re: "Turbo" and X-windows. (Internet Support Pete)
Re: USB printer for Linux? (Internet Support Pete)
HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility ("Stefan Viljoen")
Undesired video behavior ("wm")
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Dances With Crows)
From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: dump and hardware compression
Date: 8 Aug 2000 19:15:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me whether the Dump command supports
the hardware compression on my HP C1554A Dat tape drive?
I don't think I'm getting anywhere near the 24gb that I
should be able to get onto these DDS3 tapes. Any info
would be greatly appreciated! RH Linux6.2
*sigh* RTFM. But, let me spell some stuff out
1) the dump command does not handle compression. The state of the
tape drive is controlled by the 'mt' command. For example:
mt -f /dev/nst0 status
gets the status of the drive. In there will be the density code -- 0x25
is the correct code for DDS3. If that current status does not show that,
you can set the density by:
mt -f /dev/nst0 setdensity 0x25
This *is* explained in the mt man page, which is what I pointed you at
before. This info is also available via a quick (took me 5 minutes) search
on www.deja.com.
2) 24GB is an *estimate*, and an optimistic one at that. Your tapes have a
native capacity of 12GB, and the 24GB number is based on 2:1 compression.
If you are backing up a lot of already compressed or binary files,
you're not going to get anywhere near 2:1 compression.
3) What makes you think you're not getting enough capacity? Are the backups
hitting eot before you expect them to? Or are the estimates off? If it's
the estimates, what dump command are you using? Some of those paramerters
tell dump how big of a tape to expect, and it bases the estimates in those.
4) dump as shipped with RH6.2 is buggy. Download the latest version (0.4b18)
from:
http://dump.sourceforge.net/
This includes a -a option which tells dump to write until it hits eot,
omitting tape length estimates. You'll have to read the man page to
see what other options are available.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Guy Maskall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 20:32:15 +0100
I may have misread your original post.
What can you actually do and can't do? What hardware and kernel do you
have?
You should have a /home/name/.sane directory, does deleting it help?
Guy
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From: "Tito" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:39:57 -0400
Thanks for your help,
I am using RedHat 6.2, so I guess it's one of the latest kernel versions.
I'm using an HP Scanner on an Advansys card which is being recognized by the
kernel, and, xscanimage works fine. XSane is another frontend to sane. I
tried deleting .sane but that didn't work. Someone told me I should debug
it and run some export commands but I don't really know how to do this.
-Tito
"Guy Maskall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I may have misread your original post.
What can you actually do and can't do? What hardware and kernel do you
have?
You should have a /home/name/.sane directory, does deleting it help?
Guy
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From: emiel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:43:15 +0200
IDE has always been somewhat slower. And the smaller the density, the
slower the average. 3 GB versus 20 GB on the same access time would
probably give dramatically better results...cluster size is important.
But if you want something really fast, get the ultra 160 with a 64 bit
PCI...it exceeds expectations, and the drives themselves aren't that
much different in price from older scsi technology (yes, this far
exceeds the price of IDE, it also vastly outperforms it).
But shouldn't udma/66 give a throughput of 66 MB/s (in theory) ?
When I do "hdparm -t" I get about 13 MB/s, which doesn't even come close
to 66MB/s ! But when i do "hdparm -T" I get about 60 MB/s, which looks
great, but since this involves cache readings it isn't really a fair
test.
My system is a p3-600 with 20gb maxtor drive (5400 rpm) running Suse
Linux-Hardware Digest #383
Linux-Hardware Digest #383, Volume #13Tue, 8 Aug 00 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
HP Colorado 5GB Parport drive (Pete)
Re: HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Old Cpu ("Greg H.")
Re: Undesired video behavior (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: USB printer for Linux? (Andrey Vlasov)
X running out of memory?? -- GeForce, XFree 4.01, NV 0.94 driver (Allen Bierbaum)
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working (Peter Teuben)
Re: "Turbo" and X-windows. (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility (David C.)
After Action report: LILO freezing at LI (George/USA)
Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" (Glitch)
Re: IDE tape drive setup (Tim Moore)
Re: How do I power down monitor when logged out? RH6.2 (Tim Moore)
Re: PCMCIA modem trouble!! (Bob Martin)
Re: Are all external modems linux compatible? (Bob Martin)
Re: Linux on AMD (shook)
Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux ("Antony Lee")
From: Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP Colorado 5GB Parport drive
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:51:32 -0400
My Colorado 5GB parallel port drive is giving me grief.. has anyone set
one up under linux before?
-pete
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From: Andrey Vlasov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:18:30 -0700
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Hi Stefan,
it should works at least according specification for HP drives. DDS3 should
support DDS2/DDS1 tapes. It recognize tapes through holes in the bottom part
of the tape and switch in according mode. In DDS1 mode - you can read tapes
but not to write. Sometimes this can stop to work but it happen only if one of
the drive misadjusted at hardware level and it require hadware repair. You can
met problem on software level like diffrent block size but you can easy fix it
by pointing which block size on the tape. You should use same software for
reading as was used for writing and in this case you should not have a
problem. Most problems happen by software incompatibility or hardware fault
like heads have diffrent angle at write and read. But in last case send you
new drive to manufacture for replacement. You can dig out all this information
from HP website, just check for description on your DDS-3 drive.
Andrey
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
Hi!
Excuse me, this may be a bit OT:
Are HP DDS3 4mm DAT tapes downward compatible with HP DD2 - written 4mm DAT
tapes?
I have a situation at work were we are upgrading servers (SCO Unix) to
DDS3-using primaries, with a planned weekly switchon of "retired" DDS2
equipped servers and a load-to-synchronize on the old systems.
All this falls apart if the DDS2 drives on the old systems cannot read the
DDS3 written 4mm tapes originating on the new systems.
Anybody encountered this before? Can a HP DDS3 read a HP DDS2 written tape?
Thanks!
Stefan Viljoen
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Hi Stefan,
pit should works at least according specification for HP drives. DDS3
should support DDS2/DDS1 tapes. It recognize tapes through holes in the
bottom part of the tape and switch in according mode. In DDS1 mode - you
can read tapes but not to write. Sometimes this can stop to work but it
happen only if one of the drive misadjusted at hardware level and it require
hadware repair. You can met problem on software level like diffrent block
size but you can easy fix it by pointing which block size on the tape.
You should use same software for reading as was used for writing and in
this case you should not have a problem. Most problems happen by software
incompatibility or hardware fault like heads have diffrent angle at write
and read. But in last case send you new drive to manufacture for replacement.
You can dig out all this information from HP website, just check for description
on your DDS-3 drive.
pAndrey
pStefan Viljoen wrote:
blockquote TYPE=CITEHi!
pExcuse me, this may be a bit OT:
pAre HP DDS3 4mm DAT tapes downward compatible with HP DD2 - written
4mm DAT
brtapes?
pI have a situation at work were we are upgrading servers (SCO Unix)
to
brDDS3-using primaries, with a planned weekly switchon of "retired" DDS2
brequipped servers and a load-to-synchronize on the old systems.
pAll this falls apart if the DDS2 drives on the old systems cannot read
the
brDDS3 written 4mm tapes originating on the new systems.
pAnybody encountered this before? Can a HP DDS3 read a HP DDS2 written
tape?
pThanks!
pStefan Viljoen
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Linux-Hardware Digest #384
Linux-Hardware Digest #384, Volume #13Wed, 9 Aug 00 00:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: scsi errors - pls help find hardware or software cause? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Voodoo3 AGP won't run in XFree 4.n.n ("Bill Katzenmeyer")
Using Promise Technology's Bios upgrade and ATA-66 boards with Linux (mike)
Creative labs sound card (daemar)
Re: Hard Drive Errors ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Date: 8 Aug 2000 22:21:16 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: scsi errors - pls help find hardware or software cause?
Unrot13 this;
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Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Bakki Kudva;
BK It started some time back with this error at the login prompt.
BK manx login: SCSI0 Tagged Queing now active for Target 2.
BK Recently the machine would randomly lock up which I thought
BK initially was the jdk in Netscape. Then I got ..
BK SCSI host0 abort (pid 368471) timed out.
BK Resetting Buslogic BT958 due to target1
BK SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
BK Now after a couple of false starts and aborted fsck with...
BK Kernel Panic: SCSI_free: Trying to free unused memory
BK in Interrupt handler - not syncing.
BK and so the machine now doesn't boot and the primary partition is
BK probably hosed due to all kinds of bad inodes by now.
BK Can some one shed some light on this and help me diagnosed this
BK to determine if this has an origin in bad hardware or is it a
BK case of corrupted software.
BK Also any pointers to SCSI diagnostic utilities to
BK test/troubleshoot the SCSI bus will also be greatly appreciated.
Thats a bummer for sure. And it has the waddle and quack of a
termination problem.
To start the troubleshooting, I'd very carefully verify that there are
only 2 terminations on the bus, one at each end. A foot of cable laying
out past the last connected and terminated device is an open invite for
problems. If thats the case, either turn the last drives terminations
off and put a passive on the end of the cable, or move the end of the
cable to the drive, leaving the plug it was plugged into free, which
won't hurt a thing.
Term power ideally should be furnished only by the controller, so verify
that it is supplying term power. The drive may be too, and if its handy
to do so, I'd shut it off on the drive.
Then, while the system is quiet, measure the voltage on as many data
lines as you can probe with a needle into the connector holes of the
connector removed from the drive before you powered up. Here it gets
sticky, but generally speaking, and idle data line on a scsi bus needs
to be sitting someplace near (+ or - 0.2 volts) 2.8 volts. Also you
should find on the termpower pin, about 4.7 or slightly more, up to 5.0
even. Needless to say, use a decent digital meter, not some 9 dollar
mechanics model as it will load the circuit up and give false, lower
than normal, readings.
Once all thats checked and found ok, then I'd suspect a hosed drive. If
you found something wrong and fixed it, the drive will probably be
recoverable. I hope you have a recent backup as you may have to do a
mke2fs on it and start over...
Good luck!
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Bill Katzenmeyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
3dfx.glide.linux,apana.lists.os.linux.x11,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix,linux.dev.x11,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Voodoo3 AGP won't run in XFree 4.n.n
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:56:05 -0500
I have a Voodoo3 1000 and I have had the same problem with Mandrake
7.1..if you find out anything, holler at me
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Thanks Stefan... I'll give this a whirl and report back!
Mark Tigwell
Hmm - have your tried forcing a higher color depth (say 24 bit)? It
seems
that X has trouble with bit depths other than this, at least on some
models
of video cards... I forced mine into 24 bit display and it is the only
bit
depth that works - 640x480x8 as you mentioned does NOT work for me. Only
24
bit.
Stefan Viljoen
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From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Using Promise Technology's Bios upgrade and ATA-66 boards with Linux
Date: Tue,
