Linux-Hardware Digest #412
Linux-Hardware Digest #412, Volume #14 Wed, 28 Feb 01 00:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Booting Raid 1 or 5 ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: difficulty mounting ATAPI zip (Alex Miron)
Copy Playstation 1 games in Linux? (Walter Francis)
Initio's lack of Windows 2000 support (Tim Buck)
Re: Epson question (Gary I Kahn)
Re: Initio's lack of Windows 2000 support (Dave Uhring)
Resolved AWE32 problem ("pa")
Re: Copy Playstation 1 games in Linux? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Voodoo3, OpenGL and Half-Life (Marcus Lauer)
Re: VIA IDE problems (was Re: Need LOTS of disks: Promise ATA RAID??) (hac)
Re: IRQ Line Assign (Michael Mueller)
Re: Booting Raid 1 or 5 ("Leo")
Re: Need LOTS of disks: Promise ATA RAID?? (Wine Development)
From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Booting Raid 1 or 5
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 00:37:21 GMT
julius wrote in message ...
>
>Hi,
>
>On a system with hardware RAID level 5, booting Linux on RAID devices, if
>one drive fails, does the system boot, before replacing the drive? (not
>hotswap)
Normally, yes.
>And if instead of RAID level 5 we have a level 1 (mirroring)? Does the
>system boot if one drive fails, before replacing the drive?
Normally, yes.
>Does the rebuild, after replacing a drive, allows booting the system w/o
>problems? In both levels?
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From: Alex Miron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: difficulty mounting ATAPI zip
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:56:37 -0500
Hi,
I had the same problem, turns out I have to say
mount /dev/hdd4 /zip
instead of just /dev/hdd. I found that by launching YaST (the SuSE config
tool) and going to the partitioning section, where it showed the hdd4.
Mine is a Zip250, but I suppose something similar would work for you.
Alex
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, mougs wrote:
> I've had no luck mounting my Zip100 under RH6 with kernel 2.2.14-5.0.
> At start up it says that my Iomega Zip is linked to /dev/hdd.
> I make a directory /mnt/zip.
> When I enter:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /zip
>
> I get:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
>or too many mounted file systems
>
> I've tried this with couple of PC100 disks with no success. I've read all
> the how-to's and can't get beyond this point.
>
> Any thought on what I could be doing wrong?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
>
>
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: rec.games.video.sony-playstation
Subject: Copy Playstation 1 games in Linux?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:00:08 GMT
I've searched and searched, but I can not figure out how to copy
Playstation disks in Linux. I have modified my playstation so I can
copy all 16 games I own and play the backups (i was given the modchip,
wouldn't have bothered otherwise..)
I don't have the time to play lots of games, so pirating isn't the
issue, I'd just like to copy my own games. I've had a few (mostly ones
I loan out :( that won't play correctly anymore.
Thanks for any help! Or a suggestion on where to put this, I'm not sure
of the best place.. :(
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: Tim Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.win2000.hardware
Subject: Initio's lack of Windows 2000 support
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:26:24 GMT
I sent this to Initio a few minutes ago. I thought some of you might be
interested in it.
= begin rant =
I just found out the hard way that you do not support your INI-9100UW
SCSI adapter under Windows 2000. I am dumbfounded by your decision to
not support this product under Windows 2000.
For a company who appears to pride themselves on their cross-platform
support, who provides drivers for their hardware for (most) Windows
platforms, Linux, BSD, MacOS, UnixWare, and Solaris, the reasoning
behind this decision to abandon the 9100UW is unfathomable.
I understand and agree that you should not be producing the 9100UW
anymore -- Ultra 2 SCSI, LVD, and all the other latest buzzwords make
Ultra Wide SCSI obsolete now. I have no problem with that; I do have a
problem with you forcing your customers to discard perfectly good,
functioning hardware, simply because they wish to upgrade their
operating system. You're the only company I've seen do this; for
example, I have yet to find a network card for which there
Linux-Hardware Digest #412
Linux-Hardware Digest #412, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
HP Netserver LHII ("Clive Munday")
SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D (David Shochat)
Re: Partition Size Advice ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Defrag in Linux? (J Bland)
Sony SDT-5000 Tape Drive on Redhat 6.1 (Shyam Govardhan)
Re: promise fast trak 66 and suse-linux - followup ("Neil Golstein")
Re: K6-2 vs Duron - a server platform ("B")
Re: Dual processor board? (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Linux on AMD (sideband)
Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D (Robert Hampf)
Re: mother boards needed (L S)
Re: HELP: Sound on VIA ("Frederik Tilkin")
Whoopee ("Neil Golstein")
From: "Clive Munday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Netserver LHII
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:18:55 +0800
Can anybody tell me if they have succesfully installed and run Linux on
these machines. I have two:
PII 266, 256Mb RAM, HPRaid adapter 3X9GB SCSI disks
Twin PII266, all as above
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From: David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:38:34 GMT
My computer supposedly has the subject sound card. When I try to run
sndconfig, it thinks I have an Ensoniq ES1371. The sound sample test
fails. Does anyone know what I can do to get this working?
Thanks.
-- David
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: 13 Aug 2000 11:32:49 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: writes
:>> 6.4GB Hd...
:>> /usr = 5GB
:>> /root = 500MB
:>> /home = 500MB
:>> /swap = 127MB
: Apart from weight of tradition, why do usr, root and home have to be
: different partitions ?
So that /usr can be read-only and /home can be read-write. (I assume he
means / istead of /root). So that everytime you mess up your home
partition you don't also mess up your /. And vice versa. So that you
can comfortably clone your OS without also cloning your own files. And
vice versa. So you can upgrade or multi-install in functional units.
Etc. Etc.
He forgot to list /var as a separate partition. That's quite important.
I really hate runaway log files growing to swamp / or /home.
If you really don't know this and you aren't just trolling, go check
out the Partition-HOWTO.
There are some legitimate reasons for making a one partition system.
They boil down to "the owner is an idiot and/or doesn't care about
preserving and maintaining his system, so he might as well do the
laziest thing available, as he'll throw it all away tomorrow anyhow".
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Defrag in Linux?
Date: 13 Aug 2000 12:04:24 GMT
>Thank you all for answering my 8 questions in one. Just out of curiosity, how
>is it that defragmentation is almost never goes over 8%?
Because ext2fs does that, it trys to keep files contiguous if it has the
space to do so.
>Back to performance, here is the output of my free:
>
>[root@localhost /root]# free
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
>Mem: 62992 61528 1464 60664 1532 26340
>-/+ buffers/cache: 33656 29336
>Swap: 313228 4632 308596
>
>Wow! I didn't realize that much ram was used! I thought I had 64megs of ram
>62.992 is close enough for me. If I bought 64 more megs of ram, do you guys
>think that my performance would increase significantly? thanks!
A small part of your ram is taken up by the kernel, so having slightly less
than 64MB is normal.
Linux always uses pretty much all your RAM all the time. Any RAM that isn't
used by applications is used for buffering and disc caching. This improves
your system performance somewhat, but if you need the ram for apps linux
automatically decreases the cache size. You're not hitting swap very much so
I don't think you're particularly running out of RAM.
You may have a crashed app (likely Netscape) chugging away in the
background. If you do 'uptime' it will show the uptime and load averages. If
this >1 it's likely you have a hung process or two.
Otherwise I can't see any real reason for performance dropping. But another
64MB always makes things smoother ;).
Frinky
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From: Shyam Govardhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Sony SDT-5000 Tape Drive on Redhat 6.1
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:03:42 GMT
Hi there,
I just bought a second-hand Sony SCSI Tape Dr
Linux-Hardware Digest #412
Linux-Hardware Digest #412, Volume #12Mon, 6 Mar 00 11:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: how to active my sound card? (Frank Swasey)
Re: Hardware Switch To Completely Disconnect From Ethernet (Geno Valicenti)
Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please (J Bland)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Rod Smith)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Rod Smith)
Re: adding a scsi controller ("Ron S")
Re: Linux hardware problem detector (Matthew)
Re: best graphics card? (Dirk Mueller)
Re: best graphics card? (Dan Law)
Re: CHALLENGE: Port Linux to a Mountain Dew can! (Lew Pitcher)
Re: SoundBlaster Awe64 PCI? ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: Sound on ThinkPad 600E with Red Hat 6.1 (Matt Hawkins)
Re: SCSI devices on one bus (Rafal Wysocki)
Ultra160 SCSI cards (Rafal Wysocki)
AGP + Linux = ? (anthony)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Swasey)
Subject: Re: how to active my sound card?
Date: 6 Mar 2000 13:23:21 GMT
In article <89nalg$n1i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lu Bingwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a newbie to linux. I am using Creative PCI64 sound card in win98. Now I
> installed RH6.1 to my computer (coexist with win98 on the same machine).
> However, there is no sound. Anyone knows how to active my sound card?
Unless you have recompiled your kernel after the RH6.1 install, you will
most likely be able to run "sndconfig" as root and it will set it all up
for you.
Good Luck
--
Frank Swasey
Systems Programmer
University of Vermont
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From: Geno Valicenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware Switch To Completely Disconnect From Ethernet
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:37:04 GMT
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mike wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know if it is possible to put simple hardware
> switch in an ethernet cable, for example 10 Base T twisted pair,
> so as to completely disconnect a computer from the local network.
> If this could work reliably, it would be a secure way to prevent
> unauthorized hacking of a system.
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. I am concerned that the switch could cause some type
> of imbalance in the signal maybe creating internal reflections
> or noise or general impedance mismatch in the system that
> would interfere with the connection.
Why not remove the cable from the NIC?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please
Date: 6 Mar 2000 14:27:44 GMT
>Bruce McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I thought I'd throw out a request for opinions about which of these
>> types of hard drives were thought best by Linux users before I go and
>> put a machine together for myself. Any takers?
>
My personal preference is to have a main hard disc on scsi, doesn't have to
be too big but for those things that are loaded often or are going to have lots
of disc access, as well as things like CDRs etc, then for bulk harddisc
storage, fast CD ROMS, DVD etc, get IDE. You get the best of both worlds.
If you can afford it scsi is nice, but you don't have to base your whole
system round it and for a normal everyday box IDE is quite adequate.
Maybe if more people used scsi the price would drop a bit.
JB
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:32:54 GMT
In article <89vaog$j0k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article ,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) wrote:
>
>> Version 4.0 added the ability to move, resize, copy, and create ext2fs
>> partitions. Version 5.0 hasn't really added anything to that set of
>> operations, AFAIK.
>
> It added conversion from primary to logical and vice versa, I think.
Yes, although that's not an ext2fs-specific feature.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
Linux-Hardware Digest #412
Linux-Hardware Digest #412, Volume #10Fri, 4 Jun 99 19:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Xfree86 and KDE (Chris Lee)
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (Bryan Scott)
Re: SB 64 PnP PCI (Spiros Ioannou)
Re: TEKRAM 310 (Michael Meissner)
Re: There is an updated version of SCSI Howto? (Mircea)
Re: wintv - bttv (Tom Poe)
Re: Problem with Iomega ZIP. (Roger Atkinson)
Re: SoundBlaster 16/PCI (Matthew Pound)
Re: MCA and Linux ?!? (Matthew Pound)
Re: "Kernel size too large" (Michael Meissner)
Tyan S1837UANG Mother Board ("LeRoy D. Cressy")
Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems (CB)
Re: bzImage vs modules. (Swietanowski Artur)
Re: AZT3000,AZT2320 sound pnp (Ning Ma)
Re: Is the 3c509 really that much better than ne2000 clone? ("Tony Platt")
From: Chris Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Xfree86 and KDE
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:30:40 -0700
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Raul wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> Greetings, I am a rookie user to Linux. I had recently installed RH5.2 in my
> computer.
> I know that there are some configurations had to be set in order to make the
> hardwares support the Xwindow and the name of it is Xfree86. But my problem
> is I don't know what to do to make it work with my computer and how to set
> them up.
> ALso, I have another problem is that I don't know how install the KDE in
> Linux, can anyone give me an advice pls?
> Looking forwward to replys! Thx for help.
How did your setup go? Did the Xconfigurator utility run correctly? If you want
to set up XFree86, run the command (as root)
root@localhost /root# Xconfigurator
and it will ask you a few questions about what kind of video card you have,
what type of monitor you have, and also what resolutions you want to run in. If
you'd like some more help with your setup, then we (in the newsgroups) will
need some more information- what kind of video card do you have? How much video
RAM? How good is your monitor? Once you can tell us this, we will be able to
help you out much more. As for KDE, don't install it until you have a perfectly
working X-Windows environment. I can help you out with that if you can tell me
which version of RedHat 5.2 you bought (there are several versions, from
RedHat, from Macmillan Publishing, from online websites... Did you get the
Official RedHat 5.2 in the blue box?) Thanks, and I'll be waiting for your
reply so I can help.
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Raul wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
Greetings, I am a rookie user to Linux. I had recently installed RH5.2
in my
computer.
I know that there are some configurations had to be set in order to
make the
hardwares support the Xwindow and the name of it is Xfree86. But my
problem
is I don't know what to do to make it work with my computer and how
to set
them up.
ALso, I have another problem is that I don't know how install the KDE
in
Linux, can anyone give me an advice pls?
Looking forwward to replys! Thx for help.
How did your setup go? Did the Xconfigurator utility run correctly? If
you want to set up XFree86, run the command (as root)
root@localhost /root# Xconfigurator
and it will ask you a few questions about what kind of video card you
have, what type of monitor you have, and also what resolutions you want
to run in. If you'd like some more help with your setup, then we (in the
newsgroups) will need some more information- what kind of video card do
you have? How much video RAM? How good is your monitor? Once you can tell
us this, we will be able to help you out much more. As for KDE, don't install
it until you have a perfectly working X-Windows environment. I can help
you out with that if you can tell me which version of RedHat 5.2 you bought
(there are several versions, from RedHat, from Macmillan Publishing, from
online websites... Did you get the Official RedHat 5.2 in the blue box?)
Thanks, and I'll be waiting for your reply so I can help.
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:38:08 -0600
From: Bryan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how's this for a cheap webserver?
Lyn A Headley wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I'm putting together an experimental webserver on a shoestring
> budget. I just want to be sure it will work with linux (and solaris
> for intel, if anyone has comments about that). This is my first time
> building a machine from components, so I'm probably remarkably
> clueless about some things. I have indicated my insecurities beneath
> each component. I'd be much obliged i
Linux-Hardware Digest #412
Linux-Hardware Digest #412, Volume #9Fri, 12 Feb 99 05:13:27 EST
Contents:
PS/2 Mouse not working. HELP (Aaron Mitchell)
Decent case? (j)
ide/atapi cd burner (Hashi)
Re: Printer Problem (Adam Juda)
Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed (Jason Kane)
SOUND: Yamaha YMF715E-S (on motherboard) (Tony Christie)
Re: Windows & Linux File Transfer ? (Klaus-Guenter Leiss)
Re: HP Scanjet 5100C (Roundeye)
Re: printing probs on Kernel2.2 (Michael Meissner)
weird hard drive problems (Juergen Fiedler)
Re: mouseman+ 4th button ("Ulrich Günther")
AST PowerExec Laptop w/Linux? (John P. Raynor)
Re: Problems with soundcard es1371 (Mircea)
RH 5.1 and UDMA problem ("Paul Wilson")
Sparq 1.0 GB as backup drive (James)
Linux on a 586 PCI card in a PowerMac? (Thorolf Weisshuhn)
Re: 2 Graphic Card (Mathias Nickl)
Linux -Thinkpad 600 with 3Com 3ccfem556b Multifunction PCMCIA Card ("Roy Chiam")
linux network printing (Bernard van Biljon)
linux can't mount root fs (Frank Berwanger)
MODEM: how do I monitor PPP speeds? (Tony Christie)
From: Aaron Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.answer,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: PS/2 Mouse not working. HELP
Date: 12 Feb 1999 06:05:52 GMT
I am running slackware 3.6 on a Laptop computer. When I was using the
old 2.0.35 kernel my mouse worked perfectly with the psaux module. I
recently upgraded the the 2.2.1 kernel and now my mouse does not work.
The new kernel uses built in ps/2 support. I have checked to make sure
that it is enabled. I have compiled the kernel and installed it. All
of the other features, ie. cdrom, networking, modem, sound all work
perfectly. I just can not run X (because of no mouse) and I can not use
the mouse in the shell. Whenever GPM is run I get the mesg that the
device /dev/mouse is not found. or I try the /dev/psaux and still get
that it is not found. I do not know what else to do. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Aaron
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:52:33 -0700
From: j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Decent case?
I am all set to build a linux box from scratch with a asus at
motherboard and an amd k2. All i need is a good case to put all of the
hardware in.
I know that I can buy a $25.00 special from one of the local computer
stores but I want a GOOD case so i can use soft boot options on the
motherboard.
Any stores online or otherwise?
any info is appreciated.
feel free to e-mail me.
j.
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From: Hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ide/atapi cd burner
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:23:52 +
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi,
haven't had much success in getting it recognized under RH5.2 2.0.36 -
i thought i had compiled my kernel correctly but since XCdRoast can't
find the drive i guess not.
i'd be grateful for any pointers and tips,
thanks,
Hashi.
ps
* though i would assume it wouldn't matter the drive is a Philips 3610
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From: Adam Juda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Problem
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:21:05 -0500
Well, I finally figured out the problem. All I had to do was turn OFF
plug and play compatibility though the computer's BIOS, and everything
was good from therein.
--Adam
Adam Juda wrote:
>
> I have an Epson Color Stylus 600. I am able to print to it (lpt1)
> from both Windows95 and directly to the printer port from within an
> ms-dos box. However, I am unable to print directly to it through
> Linux. I have tried with both Slackware 3.6 and Redhat 5.2 but neither
> one has allowed me to print. Are there any ideas about how to fix my
> printer at all?
> Below is what I typed to try to send a message to the printer, maybe I
> just made a Really dumb mistake?
>
> ~# echo "hello, world" > /dev/lp0
> ~# echo "hello, world" > /dev/lp1
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>
> --Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Kane)
Subject: Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:37:29 GMT
>Anthony Warren wrote:
>> I have two hard drives under one IDE controller. Windows is on the
>> Master controller with Linux on the Slave drive. My CD ROM is the on
>> the Master of my other controller . Windows tells me that there are
>> conflicts (but not very specifcally) with the controllers and my CD
>> ROM has been erased from ex
