Linux-Hardware Digest #165
Linux-Hardware Digest #165, Volume #14 Fri, 12 Jan 01 03:13:05 EST
Contents:
2 Raids on an Escalade 6400 (Torsten Sievers)
Re: Strange lockups and ethernet problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help: SDRAM Memory Problem ("Araz")
Re: msi 694D Pro-AR (JoeCool)
Re: Hardware advice needed (J Wendel)
XFree86 Modelines for HDTV ("Richard A. Bilonick")
Re: Strange lockups and ethernet problems (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Setting Up a Minimal Box to do Firewalling and Routing to Internet ("Keith
Austin")
Re: Linksys Ethernet Card (Marcus Lauer)
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? (bjrosen)
Re: Cheap MB for a Duron processor? (Marcus Lauer)
UDMA/33 on 440FX (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: any portable HDs work with Linux laptops (e.g. PCMCIA or USB) (David Efflandt)
Re: Lexmark Optra E312L + Linux? (Dietrich Timm)
Re: /dev/sequencer ("D. Stimits")
More help ! HP 720C drivers ("Micha")
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? (Xavier ROCHE)
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? (Mogens Kjaer)
Re: Linux on HP Pavilion 8670C (Tarlach)
From: Torsten Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2 Raids on an Escalade 6400
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:06:28 +0100
Hi everybody,
i want to buy an escalade 6400. to set up the following system
RAID 1 with 2*10 gb IBM AND
RAID 0 with 2*45 gb IBM
is it possible to make both raids (at the same time) with just one 6400 ?
and is the disc info for linux and win** compatbile ?
i need to have access to partitions from win** and linux (on both RAIDS)
Thanks for the help
cheers
Torsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange lockups and ethernet problems
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:32:18 GMT
Eric P. McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I figure this is either a defective CPU, shorted motherboard, or
: defective VRM.
: Does anyone have any ideas?
You could swap the CPU's and see if the problem moves to the other
one. That way you'll find out if it's the CPU.
Regards,
Friedhelm
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Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
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phone + fax: +49-40-5236562email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Araz" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help: SDRAM Memory Problem
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:01:57 -0500
I recently bought two brand new SpecTek 168-pin 32-MB
PC-100 SDRAM memories.
I have a Spacewalker mainboard (HOT-557) in my PC,
which is set for a clock speed of 66 MHz and has two
DIMM sockets for 168-pin 3.3V single- or double-side
EDO or fast page SDRAM modules.
When I installed the new memories in my PC, I got
only 8 MB of memory from each stick (a total of
16 MB for both). The mainboard on my PC has an
"Award BIOS" which has a setting option under the
Chipset Features Setup for setting SDRAM
"CAS Lat/RAS-to-CAS." The setting options are
3/3, 3/2, and 2/2. I tried all three. I still
got the same amount of memory.
Why don't I get 64 MB? Can anyone shed some
light on this? How is this possible? The seller
claims the memories are not defective.
Thanks,
Araz
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From: JoeCool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: msi 694D Pro-AR
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:19:20 -0500
I'm having the same problem. disable ACPI and drop MPS to version
1.1. Also, try removing any addin cards temporarily. I beleive this
is a resource conflict, but I can't seem to pin it down.
On 23 Nov 2000 21:32:00 GMT, Neil McFadyen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Has anyone been able to install redhat 7.0
on a msi 694D Pro-AR with 2 cpus
redhat 7 install hangs after detecting disk. I using a ata66 disk
in the primary ide connector
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Wendel)
Subject: Re: Hardware advice needed
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:27:35 GMT
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:19:55 -, "Richard Kimber"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am buying a new system. The possibilities seem to have narrowed down to:
1) PIII 933 with 256MB P133 SDRAM and 815E chipset
and
2) PIII 933 with 256MB P600 RDRAM and 820 chipset
The latter has thermal monitoring, which sounds nice.
I should really appreciate any comments as to which might be the one to go
for, other things being equal.
I should also appreciate any comments on the issue of Adaptec 2940 versus
29160 as the scsi controller
Thanks,
-Richard Kimber
The 820 chipset has been dropped by Intel.
I have 2 Dell systems at work (1) 933 with 815 chipset (2) 750 with
820 chipset. The 750 with rambus memory is faster. The down side is
that the 820 chipset doesn't have good support in Linux. So far, I
don't have AGP support with the 820. Also, I t
Linux-Hardware Digest #165
Linux-Hardware Digest #165, Volume #13Sun, 2 Jul 00 07:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations? ("Mike Smith")
Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations? (taniwha)
Re: Network card ("Johnson Tan")
dual cpu motherboard for Red Hat Linux 6.2 on X86 cpu (chad pauli)
Re: dual cpu motherboard for Red Hat Linux 6.2 on X86 cpu (Hal Burgiss)
Hoorah I found a modem driver. ahhh Crap
Re: MATSHITA LS120 Ver5 (John T Pogue)
Re: dual cpu motherboard for Red Hat Linux 6.2 on X86 cpu (Juergen Pfann)
is a DYSAN tape still a common type? ("Dan Jacobson ¡]¿n¤¦¥§¡^")
RH 6.2 and ultra 66 ("Paul")
Re: dual cpu motherboard for Red Hat Linux 6.2 on X86 cpu (Hal Burgiss)
Re: RH 6.2 and ultra 66 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: dual cpu motherboard for Red Hat Linux 6.2 on X86 cpu (lurker)
Re: Hoorah I found a modem driver. ahhh Crap (Edward Lee)
SBLIVE driver OK, but no sound, CD player OK, MIC OK too, what's the problem ?
("calvix")
56k faxmodem ("dean25")
Re: is a DYSAN tape still a common type? (Doug McIntyre)
Re: is a DYSAN tape still a common type? (B'ichela)
Abit BP6/HPT366/UDMA66/Maxtor 30Gb: hdparm -d1 hangs
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois=20D=E9sarm=E9nien?=)
Abit BP6/HPT366/UDMA66/Maxtor 30Gb: hdparm -d1 hangs
(=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois=20D=E9sarm=E9nien?=)
From: "Mike Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:14:38 GMT
"Jonathan Thornburg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:8jl007$n45$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
In an article whose nested quoting has overflowed my mental stack :(,
someone wrote
On a 100 MHz FSB, for example, each clock pulse travels
about 3 meters -- around ten *feet* -- before the next one comes, or
would
if the transmission line were that long.
Signals in "long-distance" copper wires (ribbon or coaxial cables)
typically travel at anywhere from 0.3 to 0.5 times the speed of light,
depending on the dielectric used.
Yeah, fine. Even so, we're talking about distances over one meter. Last
time I checked, the CPUs on my BP6 are not one meter apart.
--
Mike Smith
There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply *can't* think.
There are another 5% who *can*, and *do*.
The remaining 90% *can* think, but *don't*.
-- R. A. Heinlein
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From: taniwha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations?
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:47:00 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
of light, it still takes electrons time to move. A
CPU which is farther away has to be positioned precisely in order to
make it sync in an integral number of pulses late (e.g., 2 pulses
instead of 2.281 pulses).
Oh - go read the Slot 1 spec in the Intel data book - it's
a synchronous bus - all the CPUS on an SMP backplane are
running on a single clock and clock skew between them
has to be way below 1 clock for it to work.. As someone else
pointed out all you have to worry about is offsets of the clocks
from different clocks coming out of reset at different times
(via the APIC protocol- one gets to be the master). I'd guess that
an OS would do some fancy footwork at boot time getting the CPUs to
agree
on TSC values - they wouldn't have tobe exact just so as you
can get the TSC skew down below the APIC message time (in clocks)
you'd be OK
EV6 (ie Athlon) on the other hand runs source-synchronous individual
CPUs can have arbitrary clock skews WRT each other (but again who cares
if the OS get the TSCs to within something less than the APIC latency)
Paul Campbell
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From: "Johnson Tan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Network card
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:38:16 +0800
dunno how the rest of the guys think about it but I'll like to add "Do NOT
go near a LinkSys Father Ethernet 10/100 Network Card" !!!
Nathan Caswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:8i9mqt$d07$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I use D-Link 530TX+ cards. They are 10/100 and retail for between $15-25.
They are Linux friendly and I've never had a problem with them. Use the
Real-Tek module.
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From: chad pauli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dual cpu motherboard for Red Hat Linux 6.2 on X86 cpu
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 04:17:29 GMT
Hi,
I am thinking of getting a dual cpu motherboard. Any suggestions for
the celleron or amd k6-2 series from Asus, teckram or DFI? any idea if
AMD k6-2 or k6-3 cpus can be in a dual cpu config?
Any one running red hat linux 6.2 in a dual sys
Linux-Hardware Digest #165
Linux-Hardware Digest #165, Volume #11Thu, 2 Sep 99 14:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCI/WIN modems (Rob Clark)
BRIGHTGATE.COM 73064 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 8" floppy (Emil Blaschek)
AudioPCI and Mandrake 6.0 (SamIam)
cdrom-boot problems omnibook 4150 (Simon Oosthoek)
Re: Problem with CD Player in GNOME. (Liguo Song)
Re: raid0 and kernel 2.2.11
Re: WinModems ("Mike Stanton")
Re: 8" floppy (Alex Flinsch)
Re: WinModems ("Michael J. Hennessy")
Re: 3.5 drive turns into 5.25 drive!!! ("B. Allen")
Re: SCSI II LVD Hard Drive ("rkv")
Configuring lm_sensors on a PC with w83781d-isa-0290 on an ASUS P2B-D motherboard
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: BJC-5000 Printer (Mark Bratcher)
i740 : How to be in 800x600? (Lolo)
Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet? (Bryan)
Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet? (Nils Remmers)
Re: Anybody tried Linux on Athlon yet? ("JB")
Re: Laser printer recommend.. (bernward halfkann)
Re: Redhat 6.0 -- No lp device! (Gert van der Knokke)
Subject: Re: PCI/WIN modems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 14:17:36 GMT
In article 7qlrpf$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.
http://www.brightgate.com
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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 omn
