Linux-Hardware Digest #185, Volume #13 Thu, 6 Jul 00 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time? (Ulrich Ringwald)
Re: Mounting an ATAPI CD-RW (Gareth Howell)
Re: S3 Trio3D/2X VGA card in Xwindow (Victor Maijer)
angry floppy driver (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9gory?= Haik)
Re: What modem ("Gijs Calis")
Re: Creative AudioPCI 128 - no MIDI (Rafal Wysocki)
Re: scsi tape drive locks up system ("Gene Heskett")
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (Steve Martin)
Re: kenwood 72x cd-rom on linux? (Dances With Crows)
reluctant floppy drive (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9gory?= Haik)
drucken von LINUX über winnt ("Nils Strobl")
trouble with RH 6.1 and AHA 2940 SCSI
Re: IRQ timeouts on IDE - please help! (cmd640b) (SysCrash)
Re: Linux CAM (Mark Gimelfarb)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (Carlos)
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From: Ulrich Ringwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:22:56 +0200
an easy and goor way is to modify /etc/rc.2/rc.local.
Ad the propoer hdparm command as you like and make it permanent.
Reffer to the man pages to see more details.
Most importatnt is to make resistent against reset.
B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
>
> hdparm works fine after I'm booted. I've tried adding
> append="ide0=dma" to lilo.conf, running lilo and then rebooting. It
> doesn't seem to work. I'm beginning to suspect that there is something
> about the Win4Lin kernal that I'm using that is causing the problem.
>
> Josh
>
> J Bland wrote:
> >
> > >Hmmm... I may be wrong, but i believe you can turn DMA on with hdparm,
> > >and a switch... just do a:
> > >
> > >man hdparm
> > >
> > >and it will list all the options. But be careful, it can mess up your
> > >drive if you go overboard.
> >
> > hdparm is useful for a booted system. What he wanted was dma turning on at
> > boottime. You can only really do that with a properly configured kernel or
> > passing a hardware parameter to LILO.
> >
> > hdparm is a useful tool for finding out if you can *get* dma working etc in
> > the first place of course ;)
> >
> > Frinky
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From: Gareth Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mounting an ATAPI CD-RW
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:57:20 +0200
Hi !
Thanks for the help guys, it had something to do with the new
kernel (2.4 test 2), I recompiled with test 1 and everything worked
fine.
You were right about sr0, but it does it automatically when I try and
use scd0
Thanks
Gareth
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From: Victor Maijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Trio3D/2X VGA card in Xwindow
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:33:50 +0200
Hi,
You can get info of your X with something like this:
XF86_SVGA -showconfig
SVGA server is the right one for this card (when you have 3.3.6). I have the
same card (running RedHat 6.2) and it works fine.
It's difficult to understand what happens with your X. How did you setup your
XF86Config and what kind of hardware do you have?
Victor
"K. M. Lau" wrote:
> Hi Julian:
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I think Slackware 7.0 should have version 3.3.6 of the X server.( How can I
> know what X sever version I got ?)
>
> But It is not work with my card.
>
> When I try to setup xf86config, I did the following things:
>
> 1. Since I do not know what card should I selected for , I picked the
> XF86_SVGA for my card.
>
> 2. when I start X windows, the Xwindows screen come up then hanged the
> system.
> The keyboard and mouse is not function and I have to do a hardware reset .
>
> Now I got reply that S3 trio3d/2X will be only supported on Xwindows 4.0. So
> , I am
> so upset on it. I am not a Linux expert. It may be difficult to me to
> reinstall Xwindows 4.0 on my Slackware 7.0.
>
> Unless I buy another one but I am not prefered to do it.
>
> K. M. Lau
>
> Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "K. M. Lau" wrote:
> >
> > > Dear All:
> > >
> > > I am running slackware 7.0 with kenel 2.2.13.
> > >
> > > I could not config Xwindow to work with my display card: S3 Trio3D/2X.
> > >
> > > Does anybody konw the solution to wrok around with the S3 Trio3D/2X VGA
> card
> > > in Xwindow ?
> > >
> > > Hope to have any reply soon.
> > >
> > > K. M. Lau
> >
> > Hello
> > I am running this card with linux mandrake 7.1 The X windows
> works
> > fine. I did have a large square white cursor, but setting the SW_Cursor
> to ON
> > got rid of that. Does slackware 7.0 have version 3.3.6 of the X server?
> That
> > what I have in my box.
> >
> > Xfree86 4.0.0 is meant to be good in providing support for this particular
> > video card.
> >
> > What exactly is the problem?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Julian
> >
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9gory?= Haik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: angry floppy driver
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:49:56 +0200
Hi all,
My two kernels (both 2.2.16 and 2.4.0test3) dislike my floppy drive.
It looks like it's a misconfiguration, since windows is succesful in
probing the fd.
motherboard : abit ZM6.
Ever seen this at boot time ? :
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.4.0-test3
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is
1.44M
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
fd(2,0)
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel:
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: floppy driver state
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: -------------------
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: now=1296 last interrupt=959 diff=337 last
called handler=ce84f088
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: timeout_message=floppy start
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: last output bytes:
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 1a 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 3 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: c1 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 10 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 7 80 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 8 81 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 4 80 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: e6 80 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace last message repeated 2 times
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 1 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 2 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 12 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 1b 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: ff 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: last result at 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: last redo_fd_request at 957
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 78
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: status=50
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: fdc_busy=1
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: DEVICE_INTR=ce84e150
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: fd_timer.function=ce84e0b8
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: cont=ce8571ac
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: CURRENT=cb857ec0
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: command_status=-1
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel:
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00
(floppy), sector 0
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From: "Gijs Calis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What modem
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:48:29 +0200
"jkauffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Having spent several hourse unsuccessfully trying to get
> linux (Mandrake 7.1) to recognise mt modem, I had a poke
> around in the supplied documentation and have reached the
> conclusion that it is one of the so called 'winmodems'. My
> question is can anybody recommend a reasonably cheap modem
> that is compatible with linux. Also, how can I tell if a
> modem will be compatible? Will any Hayes compatible modem
> do?
>
> Comments appreciated
>
>
> * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find
related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is
Beautiful
I'm currrently about to try and install my PCI-modem. Having read the HOWTO
referred to below, I have come to the conclusion that it might be a better
idea to buy a ISA-modem (cheap, uses less CPU-resources (good!) cause they
are much easier to install under Linux. I'm going to rip my old ISA V90
modem out of my 486 on the attic.
Have a look over here:
everything you need to know.
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Modem-
HOWTO.html
A complete list of up-to-date HOWTO's:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto
good luck!
Gijs
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From: Rafal Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative AudioPCI 128 - no MIDI
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:55:01 +0200
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Daniil Kolpakov wrote:
> lobotomy wrote:
> >
> > The AudioPCI/SB64/SB128 do not have a real hardware MIDI synth. Under
> > windows, the drivers use a software synth with patch set in system
>
> Yes it does, however MIDI works also under DOS (and midi sounds little
> worse). If you know exactly that SB PCI has no synth than let it be so,
> but it seems to me it HAS hardware synth but has no onboard memory for
> patches itself (is a guess).
Actually, there are SB 128 cards with additional DSP used for playing MIDI
but they need software as well as sound patches. On Linux you can play
MIDI files on such a card with kmidi (a part of KDE), AFAIR. You can
configure kmidi so that MIDI files are always played by the second DSP
chip and the first chip is availble for normal operations.
Regards
Rafael
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Date: 6 Jul 2000 7:28:50 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi tape drive locks up system
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Nicolas Bock;
NB> We are running RH6.2 with a 2.2.16 kernel on an intel with one
NB> scsi adapter, adaptec 29160, two harddisks and a tape drive
NB> (Seagate Scorpion
NB> 40). We dumped two filesystems on one tape with
NB> dump -0 -a -f /dev/nst0 /
NB> dump -0 -a -f /dev/nst0 /home
NB> which seemed to work fine. A subsequent
NB> mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
NB> mt -f /dev/st0 status
NB> worked as well. Then we wanted to add another dump to the end of
NB> the tape and did a
NB> mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2
NB> which resulted in some error and completely hung up the system.
NB> The error looked something like as if the system tried to access
NB> the two harddisks but couldn't and timed out repeatedly. We
NB> weren't able to do anything and had to manually power cycle the
NB> system. Does anybody know what the problem could be? Is there a
NB> way to avoid these lock ups and get the system back to life? We
NB> are certain that termination is ok, the scsi ids are: 0 and 10
NB> for the harddisks and 6 for the tape.
NB> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
This sounds as if the tape drive doesn't 'disconnect' while doing such
an operation, thereby locking the bus until its completed. I've had
problems with an old QIC tape when trying to do a backup and such to a
scsi drive on the same interface. It makes me want to put the tape
drive on its own interface card. I have no idea why the tape folks are
so reticent about adding such functionality to their products.
Cheers, Gene
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 08:12:22 -0400
Steve Martin wrote:
> However, with all real-world CD drives, the bottleneck in accessing
> data is the data of the drive itself,
^^^^
Oops, meant to say "the *speed* of the drive". Sorry.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: kenwood 72x cd-rom on linux?
Date: 06 Jul 2000 08:19:07 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:04:25 GMT, Daniel Bacchetti
<<ZbW85.34644$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>Will the new Kenwood 72x cd-rom work on linux?
Theoretically, any IDE CD-ROM will work with Linux. There were problems
with Acer 50x drives a while back, but those were fixed. If you're
thinking about getting a "72x" drive, don't even bother. CD-ROMs faster
than 24x are incredibly loud, spin down too quickly, and rarely if ever
get anywhere near their maximum transfer rate.
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\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9gory?= Haik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: reluctant floppy drive
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 15:24:04 +0200
Hi all,
My two kernels (both 2.2.16 and 2.4.0test3) dislike my floppy drive.
It looks like it's a misconfiguration, since windows is succesful in
probing the fd.
motherboard : abit ZM6. Please ask for any other valuable info.
Ever seen this at boot time ? :
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.4.0-test3
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is
1.44M
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
fd(2,0)
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel:
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: floppy driver state
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: -------------------
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: now=1296 last interrupt=959 diff=337 last
called handler=ce84f088
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: timeout_message=floppy start
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: last output bytes:
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 1a 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 3 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: c1 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 10 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 7 80 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 8 81 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 4 80 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: e6 80 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 0 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace last message repeated 2 times
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 1 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 2 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 12 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 1b 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: ff 90 995
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: last result at 959
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: last redo_fd_request at 957
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: 78
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: status=50
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: fdc_busy=1
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: DEVICE_INTR=ce84e150
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: fd_timer.function=ce84e0b8
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: cont=ce8571ac
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: CURRENT=cb857ec0
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: command_status=-1
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel:
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: floppy0: floppy timeout called
Jul 6 11:26:43 Palace kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00
(floppy), sector 0
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From: "Nils Strobl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: drucken von LINUX über winnt
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:32:48 +0100
Mit Enthusiasmus habe ich mir Caldera Linux aufgespielt. Lief einwandfrei.
Der Linuxrechner läuft in einem WinNT-Netzwerk SP4/6. Der Drucker (HP-Laser
6L) ist an einem WinNT-Rechner angeschlossen. Mit Webmin habe ich versucht
diesen Drucker anzusprechen. Er druckt aber nur unsinniges Zeug ohne
Zeilenumbruch. Im Internet finde ich zur Einrichtung eines Netzwerkdruckers
sehr viel Information mit der ich nichts anfangen kann. Es wird immer sehr
viel vorausgesetzt. Wie und womit schreibe ich z.B. Scripte?? Wer mag mir
helfen?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trouble with RH 6.1 and AHA 2940 SCSI
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:30:04 GMT
How can I get RH 6.1 to see my 2940 scsi card. The kernel was compiled with
scsi support. How do I implement the correct driver? I am a semi-newbie, so
a specific reply would be greatly appreciated.
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Subject: Re: IRQ timeouts on IDE - please help! (cmd640b)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SysCrash)
Date: 7 Jul 2000 00:27:31 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>The CMD640 chipset has a bug that may cause filesystem corruption when
>used in certain ways - take a look at
>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt. I think there's also some info on
>it in the hdparm man page ("man hdparm").
Thanks for referring me to those - ide.txt was informative on the matter
:-)
>Seems your kernel is already configured to handle the bug, but make sure
>your kenel has enabled the CMD640 bug fix under Block devices.
Probably a dumb question, but how do I do that?
TIA
~Crash
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From: Mark Gimelfarb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux CAM
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 09:35:02 -0500
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: 6 Jul 2000 10:00:11 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think it would sure make life a lot
>> easier for the average Linux user if distributions just used ide-scsi,
>> and left ide-cd to people that wanted to configure it themselves.
>
>It would surely make life easier for us who have IDE CD burners, but it
>might be a bit of a pain for those with SCSI drives. I've no experience
>using a computer with IDE and SCSI drives, and I don't know how well
>a "real" SCSI driver would coexist with SCSI emulation.
My system has 2 scsi HD's, and ide CDROM and CDRW using the ide-scsi
trick. Works flawlessly but was a pain to configure the first time
(probably would take less than 5' now...). No problem with mixed ide and
scsi systems.
Carlos
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