Linux-Hardware Digest #230
Linux-Hardware Digest #230, Volume #13 Fri, 14 Jul 00 00:13:10 EDT
Contents:
AHA 1542 (Max TenEyck Woodbury)
Zoltrix Cobra 56 Any drivers yet? None @ site. Hammer time. (Slarty
Bartfast)
Re: Athlon Motherboards (Marshall Blythe)
Tekram SCSI controller and bootable cdrom (Garv Austin)
Re: AHA 1542 ("Gene Heskett")
Coppermine and Motherboard requirements ("Kevin Casey")
Re: Tekram SCSI controller and bootable cdrom (Craig McCluskey)
Re: AHA 1542 (Thomas Gagne)
Re: eth1 fails on boot!! (Donald Becker)
Linux Portable Device (Chairman Mao of Technology)
Re: RH 6.2 IDE Tape Drive (Juergen Pfann)
Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard (Lou Grinzo)
Re: Trouble with cdrecord..: Additional info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is this a good machine for the money? (David Steuber)
From: Max TenEyck Woodbury [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AHA 1542
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:56:23 -0400
For reasons beyond my immediate control, I need to get linux
to use a AHA 1542 SCSI card and I am missing something so
that I can't access it.
The device is working properly - I can access the attached
drive from MSDOS without problems. The card has io=0x330,
irg=11, dma=5. PNP for the irq and dma have been set for
legacy ISA.
There is a linux driver for this card - aha1542 - but it
doesn't get loaded automatically. What should I do to get
it loaded?
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From: Slarty Bartfast [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Zoltrix Cobra 56 Any drivers yet? None @ site. Hammer time.
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:13:05 -0400
I'm loosing my mind over these damn WinModems.
If anyone has the specs, I'll try and build the installation source myself.
Or if anyone is already doing it, and needs help, I'd be happy to throw my
$0.02.
Maybe the hammer is not a bad idea
Thanks, lates
Slarty Bartfast (Glacier Specialist)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marshall Blythe)
Subject: Re: Athlon Motherboards
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:23:16 GMT
I'm using an Abit KA7 and it works fantastically!
Ditto that here.
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From: Garv Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tekram SCSI controller and bootable cdrom
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:35:26 -0700
I have an HP SCSI 9200 cd-rw. It came with an Adaptec 2906 SCSI
controller,
which does not appear to support bootable cdrom.
My AMI bios does support bootable cdrom and scsi (and the kitchen sink,
I believe). It booted fine when I used sense and had an IDE cdrom.
My Linux friends are not fond of Adaptec (their language reminds me of
winmodems
and companies in the Northwest).
Anyway, since I decided I had too much pocket money and went scsi, I am
looking
at Tekram cards, which the Linux gurus praise.
Here's the take:
Tekram DC-395U 50 pin (matches my cd-rw) at a reasonable price.
Will this card boot my cd-rw?
Tekram DC-390F Ultra (next step up?)
or the (drum roll, please):
Tekram DC-390U2W (built-in blender) which should boot my old Toyota
pickup.
Most comments and other suggestions appreciated.
cheers and beers
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Date: 13 Jul 2000 20:22:35 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AHA 1542
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Max TenEyck;
MTW For reasons beyond my immediate control, I need to get linux
MTW to use a AHA 1542 SCSI card and I am missing something so
MTW that I can't access it.
MTW The device is working properly - I can access the attached
MTW drive from MSDOS without problems. The card has io=0x330,
MTW irg=11, dma=5. PNP for the irq and dma have been set for
MTW legacy ISA.
MTW There is a linux driver for this card - aha1542 - but it
MTW doesn't get loaded automatically. What should I do to get
MTW it loaded?
Put it, and its options in conf.modules. Or, better yet, build it into
your kernel. But I had lots of trouble with 0x330 as address, and
finally recompiled it with a defaultr 0x230 adress, at which point all
my troubles went away. Nothing was using 0x330, but it flat didn't
work on a tyan trinity mobo.
Cheers, Gene
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Linux-Hardware Digest #230
Linux-Hardware Digest #230, Volume #11 Sat, 11 Sep 99 14:13:35 EDT
Contents:
VIA VT82C570 and Busmastering under Linux (Helmut Holle)
Scsi troubles (Robert Sheskin)
Re: stability problems with my system (Mindlink)
Re: Voodoo 2000 PCI card HELP!!! (Mindlink)
Re: UDMA66 HD ("Phillip")
Re: ABIT HotRod 66 IDE card ("Phillip")
SOUND on NeoMagic 2200 (Thomas Neurauter)
Re: help with modem installation (M.C.)
Re: ESS SOLO-1 (Jorge Sanz)
Creative sound PCI ? (Igor)
Re: Hard drive partitions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to use a graphic tablet (f1ayr)
Re: Cobalt Qube2 reboot question... (Henrik Carlqvist)
Memory Upgrade IRQ Timeout (DBob)
help with configuration - dual celeron (BP)
Re: HELP!! Thinkpad 560z timing problem with Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 PCMCIA card
("Xyloplax")
Re: Problem With TNT2 Video Card Please Help ("Wally ][Equinox][")
Help- netwoking card configuration ("Xiaozhou Qiu")
sound problems!! ("exploser")
xf86config ("Lohengrin")
Re: Logitech cordless mouse ("Glasgow")
Re: Hard drive partitions ("Scott Simpson")
From: Helmut Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: VIA VT82C570 and Busmastering under Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:03:19 +0200
Hallo,
i have an old FIC PA2000 Mainboard with a VIA VT82C570 Chipset. Does
someone have experience with HD-Busmastering on this chipsets. Is it
possible to activate it under Linux?
Thanks for help,
Helmut Holle
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From: Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Scsi troubles
Date: 11 Sep 1999 08:17:02 -0500
I am going crazy trying to get my scsi (sym53c416) card to work. I
have looked at the man page a million and one times and also a web
site dedicated to the card and tried to follow all suggestions and
still come up flustered. I have tried insmod and modprobe, without
extra parameters I get device or resource busy. As the page suggested
I tried to add io and irq to the command (modprobe sym53c416 io=0x200
irq=4) and get invalid parameter. Someone in the know please lend a
typing finger or two.
Thanks.
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Robert Sheskin
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Replace "nospam" with "tidalwave" for email
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AIM RobertLS
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From: Mindlink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: stability problems with my system
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:48:53 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This looks a lot like a thermal failure problem. It could be that the
CPUs are being badly cooled. Try using some decent thermoconductive gel
(like Radio Shack's) and a pair of good heat sinks with fans on your
CPUs.
The reason that winzip sets it off (if I am correct) is that the math
ops needed to unzip a file are enough to elevate the core temperature to
the point where the core ceases to work properly. Linux is a lot less
forgiving than windows on CPU errors, so it will tend to fail even on
lower loads. The reason disabling the cache fixes the problem is that
the CPU is getting instructions slowly enough to operate without a
temperature rise.
If I am wrong on this diagnosis, let me know, but these are my
suspicions. If all else fails, lowering the core voltage a couple of
points might help, but IMHO temperature problems are best solved with
better cooling.
MindLink.
Gary Bankston wrote:
I've got a question about trouble that I'm having with my system. The
system is very unstable and locks up, hangs or even reboots itself. It
uses a supermicro S2DG2 dual processor mother board and pentium II xeon
400Mhz processors. The system dual boots linux and NT and the problem
affects both operating systems. I've tried everthing in order to track
the problem down.
Finally, the one thing that I've found that makes the problem go away is
disabling the cache on the processor. Of course the system runs dog slow
and it does no good to buy a xeon if you have to dsable it's cache. But,
this is the only thing that makes the system stable.
Now here's the question - Does anyone know whether this means that,
without a doubt, the problem is in the processor (or the processor
module at least)? Is it possible that the problem could still be on the
mother board or in the bios?
Remember, xeons have the cache built onto the cpu module. Also, if the
problem is undoubtedly with the cpu, that would mean that I've recieved
2 flawed cpus.
I would just like an unbiassed opion here before I go back to supermicro
with the results. Further info on my system and the tests I've done is
below.
System Description:
mother board: SuperMicro S2DG2
bios: AMIbios
processor: Pentium II xeon 400Mhz 512k cache
memory: 128MB PC100 ECC registered
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Linux-Hardware Digest #230
Linux-Hardware Digest #230, Volume #10 Fri, 14 May 99 00:14:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Chris
Campbell")
Re: SCSI Problem (Mykool)
Re: SUN Keyboard - PC (Frank Hahn)
Re: Gnome Help ! (Related Question) (Antaine)
mouse, gpm and X ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: "Drive Size To Big" When Installing RedHat 5.2 (Brandon)
Re: Need specs for older monitor (Sam Goldwasser)
Re: TNT + QUAKE3 + LINUX = NOPE
Re: Onstream Tape Drives (Frank Hahn)
Re: QIC Tape Drives (Frank Miles)
Re: Which cards support TV out?
Re: Video ("sven the hairy")
Question: Dell Inspiron 7000 w/ 3com 10/100 56K Combo Card? (simonson)
Re: dump and tape capacity ("parkercj")
Re: PCI modems in linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI Rage Fury ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sony DDU-220E (Len Huppe)
Re: Viper 330 - What's better for XF86? (Jimmie Mayfield)
From: "Chris Campbell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:05:57 -0400
Sure. And then we'd have the Packard Bell of all OS's ;c)
Chris
Tempman1 wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I agree that all OSes are somewhat idiotic. Almost everything is built by
one one
vendor sent to the customer as a giant piece of code.
I would be nice if an OS could be broken into several major components that
follow the specifications. Each component could then be developed by a
different
company. Finally, all the components could be stitched together to form an
OS.
This is the way hardware is built. Why not software too?
Tempman1
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From: Mykool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:14:04 -0400
Mykool wrote:
To everyone who has offered help and advice, I thank you. My problems
have been solved. After two weeks of cussing, working, thinking, and
bleeding (you don't really work on a computer unless you bleed :)), I
got my scanner working. I changed some of my configuration around and
bingo it worked. I've heard that Umax scanners don't work on the
2940U2W, but thankfully mine is working fine. Once again, thanks for
the help and advice.
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Michael Barnhill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
ICQ 13526262
At the suggestion of someone, here is how I "fixed" the problem I had.
Hope this will help someone in the future.
I got a converter to give me an external connector for the 50-pin
connector on the card (Adaptec 2940U2W). The converter is connected
inside the SCSI physical chain, so I took the terminator off of the
scanner (Umax 1220S). In the SCSI configuration, I set the transfer
rate to 10 mb/s and disabled wide negotiation. The scanner was
detected.
In windows, you must install the VistaScan software before you install
EZ-SCSI. When you install EZ-SCSI, do not install the scanner module.
I haven't tried scanning with SANE yet because I do all of my scanning
and printing from Windows. Maybe one day I'll take some time and learn
how to use SANE :)
I hope this can help someone in the future.
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Michael Barnhill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
ICQ 13526262
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: SUN Keyboard - PC
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:14:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 May 1999 00:41:00 GMT, erich not devnull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Daniel Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] verily spake, saying:
does someone know how to connect a SUN Keyboard to a LINUX-ix86 System?
The only solution I've seen is to use a very expensive multimachine
switch thingie that can take SUN keyboard input.
But if you find something reasonably priced ($100USD or less) let me know.
Somebody just asked this question in one of the Sun hardware
newsgroups earlier. If you search http://www.dejanews.com
for my email address, you should find out more information that
I posted earlier.
A cable company, http://www.ultraspec.com offers a small unit
for connecting Sun type 5C keyboards to a PC. It costs US 130.00.
I believe Sun or Sun Express offers something also.
There may be others.
Another option is to see if Sun makes a keyboard for use with a
PC directly.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antaine)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Gnome Help ! (Related Question)
Date: 11 May 1999 19:35:07 GMT
David Tabachnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Antaine wrote:
#!/bin/bash
gnome-session
I have that in my .xinitrc in the root directory and
