Linux-Hardware Digest #832
Linux-Hardware Digest #832, Volume #14 Sun, 27 May 01 20:13:04 EDT Contents: Re: home web/file server specs? (Trevor Hemsley) Re: Trying to add RAM to my old Pentium 133MHz machine (Ender) Re: ZIP drive (Marcus) Re: Back up in Linux (Les Mikesell) Re: Trying to add RAM to my old Pentium 133MHz machine (Marcus) Promise Fastrak Driver Port (Stuart Cianos) Re: Resize the swap file? (C McPherson) Re: VIA Apollo Southbridge again (C McPherson) Re: compaq prosignia 300 network-card problems with tlan.o (Michael F.) Re: Back up in Linux (The Ghost In The Machine) Re: IRQ change (Dances With Crows) Re: Is Dell workstation GX150 supported by RH 7.0 ? (Dances With Crows) Re: how to set console colors (Dances With Crows) Re: TDK 12/10/32 CD-Rewriter and Mandrake Linux 8.0 (Dances With Crows) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley) Subject: Re: home web/file server specs? Date: 27 May 2001 20:35:28 GMT On Sun, 27 May 2001 20:09:52, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is SCSI a must for even a low traffic web page, or will IDE RAID do? I was thinking of two 75GB IBM Deskstars with a promise fastrak pci Raid controller doing raid 0. Given that the SCSI drives that I have in that machine are ancient (Seagate ST32550W and HP C2490) and outperformed by a factor of about 400% by modern IDE drives, I suspect that you could easily use IDE. I doubt if you need RAID. -- Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Ender [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt Subject: Re: Trying to add RAM to my old Pentium 133MHz machine Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 20:41:44 GMT You have the wrong ram if you have PC-133, thats SDRAM and a system as old as yours would use either EDO or maybe FPM...if you go into the bios setup it probably tells you if your using EDO or FPM, whichever it is get more of the same, some boards can use either but you don't want to mix itEDO is most common -- Ender Rajesh Radhakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I tried to add to my Pentium 133Mhz machine from 48MB an another PNY 128MB RAM which used the PC133 RAM type which connected to the SIMM connector(i think). I was told by CompUSA that the memory can't be installed as it didn't interface to my 66MHz Bus. Any suggestions on what I should check system parameters I need to be aware of on my system before buying the memory and what type of memory I could buy from the internet. Thanks Rajesh -- From: Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ZIP drive Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 14:11:46 -0700 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ferrante wrote: Hi! I owe an Iomega paralell port 100Mb ZIP drive and I've got some problems accessing from Mandrake 8. I've compiled my kernel with SCSI support (disk and generic, as modules), the Iomega paralell port drive (old) and paralell port support (IEEE 1284 mode). When I try to mount it I get a 'I can't find the device' error. I've tried with the Iomega tool iw and I get a similar error, but the drive keeps mounted! I mean, I can eject the disk (I can't access to their content anyway). I have a HP Deskjet printer connected through the drive, and it works. Any idea? Best regards Ferrante I think the info in the Mini-HOWTO is a bit old. Zip drives are considered to be ide-floppy drives in the 2.4 kernel. I have one, and it works fine even though there's no SCSI support in my kernel (not even modules). Is your kernel compiled with Parallel port IDE device support (under Block devices) and Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support (under IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices, which is in the IDE et al. submenu)? Marcus -- From: Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.windows.x.kde,tw.bbs.comp.linux Subject: Re: Back up in Linux Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 21:07:31 GMT Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Aaron R. Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jerry Wong wrote: I used to backup the windows by Ghost software. In linux, can the command tar be used like Ghost. I means to backup the whole Linux system by tar it and restore it when necessary. I have windows98 and two Linux system in my PC (Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0), so I can tar one of them when running the other. Is it possible? Please give me some advice. tar is okay for groups of files, but NOT good for the entire system. learn to use dump, and/or BRU or Arkeia. dump is not a sufficient solution either. linus had a few comments about this on linux-kernel about a month ago. it seems that the only way to get a clean snapshot of the disk
Linux-Hardware Digest #832
Linux-Hardware Digest #832, Volume #12 Wed, 10 May 00 00:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Broken HPT366? ("TomG")
tape device error (Serpent Addiction)
HP CDWriter+ 7200i (Ross Vandegrift)
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Alex Lam)
dds-1 VS dds-3 ("Daniel Gélinas")
S3 Trio 3D/2X bombs on Red Hat 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quick Script help! (root)
Re: Linux on Inspiron (Thomas Gagne)
Re: S3 Trio 3D/2X bombs on Red Hat 6.1 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Really Inexpensive Array of Disks (Dave Lers)
QA from this NG 10 May ("K.Tsakaloglou")
From: "TomG" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Broken HPT366?
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 21:11:56 -0400
I doubt you broke your chip. can you enter the HPT bios screen via the
Control H command? if so, can you then make the HPT bios see any drives? I
don't know what the newest bios is for your board but many people have had
trouble with the 1.21 version of HPT bios. I don't know if there is a way
for you to get to 1.22 HPT bios or not but if you can, try that as well.
"Jamie Guinan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I suspect I have a broken HPT366 chip or motherboard, but I wanted
to see if anyone else had similar problems.
I have an Abit BP-6, dual celeron 466's (not overclocked),
with the HPT 366 chip on-board. The chip reads,
HighPoint JAPAN
HPT366
9920 L010
(incidentally, I noticed on http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt366.htm
that some chips seem to have newer "lot" numbers).
And I have three hard drives:
QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A
Maxtor 52049U4 (x2)
I've tried various combinations of the Quantum and the Maxtors
on the two HPT IDE channels, and in every case, devices on the
first HPT IDE channel are not recognized by the BIOS, nor by
Linux 2.3.99pre6 (probably as a consequence of the BIOS not
initializing them). For example, with the Quatum on the plain
IDE channel and one Maxtor on each HPT channel, Linux reports
the following (my comments in []'s),
HPT366: onboard version of chipset, pin1=1 pin2=2
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
[^^^ bad]
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
[^^^ good]
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR13.0A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdg: Maxtor 52049U4, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[ide2 (first HPT channel) not reported!]
ide3 at 0xb800-0xb807,0xbc02 on irq 11
hda: 25429824 sectors (13020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1582/255/63,
UDMA(33)
hdg: 40020624 sectors (20491 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=39703/16/63,
UDMA(66)
The second channel works fine, with any of the individual drives,
or with two drives on the same channel (master/slave). I want
to take advantage of software RAID-0, and my impression is
that one-drive-per-channel is they way to go.
I tried three different UDMA/66 cables (80 wires, blue end on
the mobo), with no difference.
I upgraded my flash with BP6_NJ.BIN (1.21 I believe), so I get
the Blue HPT bios screen, but devices on the first HPT channel
are still not being detected.
So my questions are:
Is there anything I can do to get drives deteced on the first
HPT channel?
Am I missing something?
Do you think my HPT366 is broken?
Thanks in advance,
-Jamie
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From: Serpent Addiction [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: tape device error
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 01:11:16 GMT
Hi all.
I've had a scsi dat tape device in operation
for a number of months, but recently it
suffers from the following symptom:
Cannot open /dev/st0: Operation not supported by device
I've run a tape cleaner through the drive, checked
for status LEDs, checked permissions on the device
file, and re-ran mknod (in case st0 was corrupted).
All to no avail. I believe the drive is a Seagate.
Any suggestions? TIA
-Jeff
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From: Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP CDWriter+ 7200i
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 21:41:20 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone,
My friend gave me his old HP CDWriter 7200i a few weeks ago when
he bought a new drive, and in all of my five years of Linux experience I
have never seen a device that *refused* to work in Linux so adamantly.
Allow me to relate my story...
My machine is an AMD K6-2 450 with 192M of RAM. The 7200 is hooked up as
the secondary master, wi
Linux-Hardware Digest #832
Linux-Hardware Digest #832, Volume #10 Fri, 23 Jul 99 15:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Network module missing symbols ("Dennis McEnaney")
Re: No UDMA on ASUS P5A-B (Peter Stein)
Re: Linux Hardware Driver for HP7550a plotter?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice on accessing CD-ROM changer disks from Samba?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cheap personal laser for Linux (David Bremner)
Re: 2.2 and Proliant 2500 scsi nondetect ("Tony Platt")
Re: NCR 53C710 Fast SCSI-2 Controller ("Tony Platt")
[Q] How to get taper-6.9a to recognize tapes 2G. ("John W. Rose")
Re: CD-rom changer ("Tony Platt")
Re: RH/Mandrake6.0,Compaq Proliant 1000, RAID problem ("Tony Platt")
Re: DAT tape device on Mylex DAC960 PCI card ("Tony Platt")
Re: Which one Laptop is 100% with Linux?
Problems with SIS 5513 IDE controller and Redhat ("Trigger")
Re: Diamond SupraExpress 56i v.90 (Roy Grimm)
Re: Why Build Box?
Re: Tape Backup Questions ("John W. Rose")
Re: AOpen ALN325 PCI Ethernet Card (Gary "The Stalker" Anderson)
CM8338 Soundcard (Sumit)
Re: Help: Booting up problem. (Matt Pharr)
Re: Yamaha DS-XG card (Tung-Sheng Lin)
Matrox Millenium G 200 SD 16 MD ("Lars Amsel")
From: "Dennis McEnaney" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network module missing symbols
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:09:00 +0100
Dear Sir/Madam
I have installed Slackware v3, RedHat 5.0, SUSE 5, RedHat 5.1 and 4
instances of RedHat 5.2 but I only get the problem with RedHat 5.1/5.2. I
am currently using RedHat 5.2.
When ever I try to load any of the network card modules, I always get
missing symbols. In the case where I am using ne2k-pci.o (NE2000 PCI) I try
to insert the 8390.o module first but symbols are always missing. I one
managed to fix the problem with RedHat 5.1 but I wasn't 100% sure at the
time how and I don't quite remember anyway. I think it was a combination of
rebuilding the kernel, adding missing module files, using netcfg to from
XWindows to get things to work first and then manually loading modules from
the shell prompt.
One of the symbols was "netif_*". I noticed (by using ksyms -a) on RedHat 5
that the one and only "netif_*" symbol seemed to belong to the kernel itself
and not one of the loaded modules. Does "netif_*" modules refer to the
network card itself? Is it a case that the 5.2 builds I have are missing
files? Does 5.2 not support (even in some compatible/emulation form) both a
3COM Ethernet XL Combo 10 MB NIC and a RealTek RTL 8029 NIC? None of what I
thought tried before seemed to work. It seems that when I installed RedHat
5.1 a lot of module files were missing; when I installed RedHat 5.2 most
modules weren't been loaded but I then discovered that there was no
modules.dep file installed/generated.
If I try to ifup the NICs I'm told "Delayed eth0 initialization". If I run
modprobe -c I'm told "alias eth0 off" although I've tried to overide this in
the /etc/conf.modules. I've tried supplying the IO addresses and the IRQs
which were present in the PCI file in /proc. According to netcfg I've
assigned the NICs IP addresses and any necessary parameters. Is it a case
I'm using the wrong net modules (tulip.o and ne2k-pci.o/ne.o)?
As you can see I have an inkling of an idea regarding loading modules and
getting NICs working but I completely baffled and would very much appreciate
any help you can provide me with (since I've had no luck with any
Inet/Linux-Web-site search engines).
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully (desperate!)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: No UDMA on ASUS P5A-B
Date: 23 Jul 1999 15:45:55 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ben Twijnstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I can't seem to get UDMA to work on my Asus P5A-B MB. I'm running Linux
2.2.10. I've tried Linux 2.3.7 to no avail. Is there anyone who can show
me a patch in the ALI driver or something?
Thanks in advance,
Ben Twynstra
www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
The patch at this site will give you DMA. It supposedly provides UDMA as
well, but extensive testing with my P5A-B shows that it simply will not
work. I've given details to the authors, but never received a positive
response and as far as I can tell no updates that address this problem
have been made to the driver. The good news is that DMA does work reliably
and that is significantly better than PIO.
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Hardware Driver for HP7550a plotter?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 17:47:49 +0059
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I am looking for a Linux Hardware Driver (printer server) for a
: HP7550a plotter. I have searched the HP site f
Linux-Hardware Digest #832
Linux-Hardware Digest #832, Volume #9Thu, 25 Mar 99 12:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: disk dma problems... (Tim Moore)
Re: Gateway Performance 400 and Linux? ("Curt")
SCSI tape backup read error... ("Denis Ricard")
ATI Xpert LCD (Reiner Elmers)
Re: Multi-channel soundcard for Linux ("Marc Lindahl/Sonorus")
Re: RS 232 -- RJ45 ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
tape device ("Dmitry Melekhov")
Re: S3 Virge/GX2 problem ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Re: RS 232 -- RJ45 ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP 2100 and ghostscript (wizard)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Bill Anderson)
Re: linux, isdn modprobe (Levin Jungermann)
Re: Adaptec AIC - 7890 ("Dan")
Re: S3 Virge/GX2 problem (Joachim Thiemann)
RealPort Cardbus ethernet 10/100+modem 56 on a TP 770E ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:19:39 -0800
From: Tim Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: disk dma problems...
hdparm -i /dev/xxx -v gives current settings.
Tim Moore wrote:
using "hdparm -d1 ..." brings the same "error" information (hdparm 3.5)
Try hdparm -v /dev/xxx which tells what the drive says it can do.
# hdparm -v /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Model=IBM-DHEA-36481, FwRev=HP6OA20C, SerialNo=SG0SG0K4
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs }
RawCHS=12592/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=28
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=472kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=12592/16/63, CurSects=12692736, LBA=yes, LBAsects=12692736
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: sword0 sword1 sword2 mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
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From: "Curt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Gateway Performance 400 and Linux?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:57:37 -0500
Well I'm jealous. Nice system.
This HOWTO might be useful:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk.html
Partition magic should work ok, I don't know about fips.
RH5.2 should be fine. I'd check the Xfree pages to be sure the X-indows
supports
your graphics adaptor. http://www.xfree86.org/
I've had no luck and very little experience getting sound to work under
linux.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
7ddij9$g2k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I'm considering purchasing a Gateway Performance 400 PC and would really
like
to run Linux on it in addition to Win98. Here are the specs:
Intel 400MHz Pentium II Processor with 512k Cache
64MB 100MHZ SDRAM
16MB 3DFx Voodoo Banshee AGP Graphics Accelerator
13GB 5400RPM Ultra ATA hard drive
13Xmin/32Xmax. ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive
Integrated Sound Blaster AudioPCI 64D Boston Acoustics BA635 Speakers
w/Subwoofer
I'll be providing my own 17" monitor and 56k USR modem (not winmodem). I
would like to partition the last 5GB on the hard drive for Linux and keep
the
first 8GB for Win98. Will this work? Will I need something like partition
magic or will fips work? What distro of Linux would work best if Linux
will
work at all? I use RH 5.2 at work and am most familiar with that distro
but
would be willing to consider another.
Thanks for any help,
Alaraph
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From: "Denis Ricard" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI tape backup read error...
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:55:37 -0500
Hi,I'm presently setting up a new server with Redhat Linux 5.2 and doing
level 0 dumps on tape with an HP DAT8 with dds-1 tapes (2gb-4gb compressed).
The dump and restore works fine on the machine.
Then i put the tape on another server which has an hp surestore 2000 tape
and it is unable to read the tape.Both tapes need to be compatible! Is there
any way we can verify the setting for a tape ex:blocks, compression, etc...
I think the HP DAT8 uses compression by default and that is why I can't read
the tape from hp 2000!
I would appreciate technical advice on this matter!
Thanks!
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From: Reiner Elmers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATI Xpert LCD
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:06:09 +0100
Has anyone ever tried to get a LCD/TFT-Monitor work with
Linux with a digital connection to the video card ATI Xpert LCD?
This video card is not listed at xfree86.org, but maybe only
due to the fact that no one tried it out?!
Reiner
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Schaltungstechnik, TU Braunschweig
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From: "Marc Lindahl/Sonorus" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: rec.audi
