Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #197
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Wed, 1 Jun 94 07:13:07 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #197, Volume #2                 Wed, 1 Jun 94 07:13:07 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Have you used Octive? (Mario Gutierrez)
  SLIP provider ??          (PAT SHEAFFER)
  retire Linux drive (Donald VuKovic)
  Re: Viruses and Linux (Kevin Marcus)
  Linux on PPC (L. Drew Davis)
  Re: Viruses and Linux (Kevin Marcus)
  [Help] Memory PARITY Error? (Mario Florido)
  Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again) (Byron A Jeff)
  XFree86 question (Maarten Remkes)
  Re: Linux counter: There are 6459 registered Linux users (J.J. Paijmans)
  A few thoughts about the _real_ computer revolution (Charlie Negyesi)
  Re: AHA-1542CF+QUANTUM L525S (Chris Gatcombe)
  Re: XFree86 question (NJ. Bruton)
  Re: FAQ: Boca 16-Port Serial Card (Michael O'Reilly)

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From: mgutierr@mentor.sdsu.edu (Mario Gutierrez)
Subject: Re: Have you used Octive?
Date: 30 May 1994 03:49:29 GMT

Michael P. Jarreau (jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) wrote:
: Hi.  I am looking for a matlab like product for my linux box.  I heard
: octive is the way to go.  Do you have any experience with it?

: Cheers!
: Michael
: jarreau@vuse.vanderbilt.edu

The proper name is Octave.  It's very close to matlab and uses gnuplot to
do plots. I find that many of the routines I wrote for Matlab did not directly
port over to Octave.  But, hopefully this inconsistencies will be fixed with
time. 

---
mario l gutierrez
mgutierr@mentor.sdsu.edu

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Reply-To: pat_sheaffer@labsline.win.net (PAT SHEAFFER)
From: pat_sheaffer@labsline.win.net (PAT SHEAFFER)
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 11:42:00 GMT
Subject: SLIP provider ??         


I know this is not the exact right place to post this, but can anyone give 
me the name of a SLIP provider in the (310) area code?  I am getting charged 
over $100 per month right now, and the long-distance rates are killing me!

Please e-mail replies to:

Pat_Sheaffer@labsline.win.net

THANKS!!!!!!!!THANKS!!!!!!!!THANKS!!!!!!!!THANKS!!!!!!!!THANKS!!!!!!!!


 * PowerEdit 1.0 I tried to drown my problems but they can swim.



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From: dvukovic@csn.org (Donald VuKovic)
Subject: retire Linux drive
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 19:57:15 GMT


I purchased a new larger IDE drive for my Linux system. The old drive I
wish to sell. I've deleted the partition with my Linux ( SLS ) disk and
setup a partition with my DOS fdisk program. Now whenever I try to boot,
LILO is still there and crashes because of no Linux on the disk.

How do I get rid of LILO from my boot track. ( I've tried sys.com but,
LILO's still there??? )

Any help would be wonderful!!!
thanks in advance

donaldV


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From: datadec@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Kevin Marcus)
Subject: Re: Viruses and Linux
Date: 31 May 1994 20:10:04 GMT

In article <2sf9p5INN1gpc@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de>,
Markus Wischerath <mw@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>
>datadec@corsa.ucr.edu (Kevin Marcus) writes:
>> 
>> In article <9C9OB46N@math.fu-berlin.de>,
>> Markus Wischerath <mw@spinfo.Uni-Koeln.DE> wrote:
>> >
>> >ueh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Eric Hausgaard) writes:
>> >> 
>> LILO will be obliterated by a virus like Stoned.  The most usual way for
>
>Sure, but at that point you'll notice that something's wrong. Recently,
>someone had a Stoned.Empire.Monkey.B infection, so that Linux couldn't
>mount /. You know of course that Monkey doesn't save the partition table
>in place, so this a special case, but I don't believe Linux will run
>normally even with the vanilla Stoned active in memory. 

Indeed; I have seen this happen.  If you also have DOS on the machine, you
are in for a rude awakening.

>> Most viruses will execute without problem under the dos emulator to some
>> extent.  I've had a few occasional ones lock up the whole computer, and a
>> few others just thrash about and eventually quit the emulator.
>Ok, non-resident ones will probably work. 

It doesn't matter.  I have had overwriters, resident appenders, non-resident 
appenders, resident size stealth, etc. viruses work fine undert he emulator.
Matter of fact, I would recommend created an hdimage and using it to run
viruses if you are planning on doing testing.  You can readonly certain
devices or completely hide them from the emulator. 

>> On what basis do you claim that F-Prot is the best scanner?  
>
>Simple: run it on the 40hex collection (still availabale by ftp, I think),
>manipulate an infected pklited file slightly (you know exactly what I mean,
>I think) etc. and take a look at the results. Also, I've never seen F-Prot 
>botch a repair attempt, but I've seen other programs (namely Scan and MSAV) 
>happily zap hard disks when trying to repair Form or Tequila. No further 
>comments necessary, I believe. 

This is absurd beyond belief.  The 40hex viruses represent less than 1% of
all known viruses, and probably only about 5% of the viruses that are in the
wild and have caused infections somewhere.  Once again, I concurr that 
F-prot has very good identification, and it also has very good repairs.  

Scan has been garbage for years, and I suspect, after looking at "scan200",
it will remain garbage.  MSAV appeared to have been a quick fix for Microsloth,
who, of course, isn't known for high quality software in the first place.

>> There is not such thing as a "BEST" scanner.  There *IS* such thing as a
>
>*sigh* But there is such a thing as a scanner with a very high detection 
>rate and best identification, easy to use for beginners and free for 
>individual use. 

Indeed.  F-prot is mostly as easy to use as the other free products.  
Don't even try to claim that it is more easy to use than others because
it has the same options with the exception of a dorky front-end that does
nothing to help the average user that doesn't know what they're doing, when
compared with other anti-virus products.

F-prot does have good (*NOT the best*.  See Dr. Solomon's AVTK) identification,
but its heuristics have much to be desired (see: TBScan), and it's "integrity"
check lacks strongly.  (see: Integrity Master or Untouchable)

>> best selling scanner, or even a "better" defense against viruses.  Oh,
>> you must be talkign about the integrity checker that it has, right? Er...
>
>Duh... The shareware version of F-Prot doesn't even have an integrity 
>checker.

My point exactly.

>> Try somethign else, like Norton Anti-Virus 3.0 for a better all-round
>> general protection.  Plus, when something goes wrong, you have someone
>> you can call up that will take care of you.
>
>Well, as for that matter, Frisk is the only antivirus head developer who 
>is present on the net, not only in comp.virus, but also in various MS-DOS
>groups. 

1) Do you need to waste the time of a head antivirus developer in order to
get something accomplished?
2) mail: symantec.com is on the net and it is possible to email their 
product manager. (I'm not posting the addr, but if you want it, I will email
it to you)
3) There exists a mcafee.com on the net, though I don't know if you can
talk to anyone other than their ignorant technical support individual, Aryeh
Goretsky
4) I know that Tarkan Yetier is on the Net (VDS Advance Research group), though
I don't know his address, though I can find it.
5) David Chess, from IBM anti-virus is on the net, and well known.
6) Roger Riorden is on the net.

The list goes on and on!!!  There are *MANY* more who I didn't mention. Please
do us all a favor and quiet your ignorant little mouth before you make
yourself look like a bigger fool than you already have.  To help freshen
you up, try ftp to corsa.ucr.edu and grab some of the back issues of
virus-l.  That goes for the rest of you reading this thread -- and then
you can judge for yoruself.


-- 
  --=> Kevin Marcus:   datadec@ucrengr.ucr.edu,  tck@bend.ucsd.edu
  "ciafn  syoo,u  yroeua da rteh icso?o l ." <- Email for solution. 
  Computer  Science  Dept.,  University of California,  Riverside.
  .oOo.oOo.           T H I E V E S     S U C K          .oOo.oOo.

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From: drewd@cc.gatech.edu (L. Drew Davis)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.powerpc
Subject: Linux on PPC
Date: 31 May 1994 16:23:29 -0400


bpine@harp.aix.calpoly.edu (Piner) writes:

>From what I was told, Linux is already ported to the Amiga.  Linux is
>currently being ported to the Power Mac.  And after the PReP-compatible
>machines are available, Linux is already planned to be ported to that
>platform as well.

>Oh, if anyone knows whether Linux is Sys V, BSD or whatever, that would be
>nice to know.

   Perhaps the kind folks over at comp.os.linux.* can help you there.

   Accordingly, I've cross-posted to there.  Then, on my second attempt,
I've appended a rather long-winded bit of text after completly exhausting
my point, as my site admin has evidentally recently "improved" my news to
the point where I'm not allowed to simply redirect the message to an
appropriate group without having to waste everyone's bandwidth by adding a
lot of "new" text that's completely irrelevant to the point at hand. 
Perhaps now, my news software will think that there are enough insightful
"new" lines to allow my post passage into the great wide world, especially
when it's combined with the destruction of context that might have been
helpful in following the conversation over in the linux groups.  Good
thing we have these helpful watchdogs to avoid wasting everyone's time,
eh?  As we all know, usefulness is directly proportional to kilobytes
posted, rather than points made, information transmitted, and goals
achieved. 


-- 
==============
L. Drew Davis                        Internet: drewd@cc.gatech.edu
You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment.

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From: datadec@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Kevin Marcus)
Subject: Re: Viruses and Linux
Date: 31 May 1994 20:13:58 GMT

In article <jdlCqny4o.y0@netcom.com>, James D. Levine <jdl@netcom.com> wrote:
>Has anybody heard of instances of a virus activated under MS-DOS chomping on
>a Linux (or other non-DOS) partition?  Currently I don't run any 
>public-domain software under DOS, just on the outside chance.  

While the closest thing to this tht I have heard of is related to infections
like the aformentioned Monkey virus, it is still *QUITE* possible for a 
virus to obliterate data on a Linux (or other OS partition).

Take for example, a system where there is a Michelangelo infection (since
this is a commonly heard of virus, it will be good in example).  The computer
has one hard drive, with both a linux, dos, nt, and os/2 partition.  The
computer boots up on the 6th.  Suddenly, no more data on hard drive.  Most
"DOS" viruses that are MBR infectors *MUST* use BIOS calls since DOS hasn't
been loaded up already.  The BIOS also allows access to anywhere on the
disk, so a small code segemnt with, say, itnerrup 13h, function 3, could
quickly destroy anything you might have, anywhere on the hard drive.



-- 
  --=> Kevin Marcus:   datadec@ucrengr.ucr.edu,  tck@bend.ucsd.edu
  "ciafn  syoo,u  yroeua da rteh icso?o l ." <- Email for solution. 
  Computer  Science  Dept.,  University of California,  Riverside.
  .oOo.oOo.           T H I E V E S     S U C K          .oOo.oOo.

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From: pbv@oat.ncc.up.pt (Mario Florido)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: [Help] Memory PARITY Error?
Date: 31 May 1994 11:06:40 GMT

  Hi, I've got a "mostly-Linux" system for the past months
(no flames, please!) but I've also got a Windows partition
and I've noticed a strange problem occasionaly occuring:
when I run Windows, I sometimes get a "Memory parity error"
message and the system hangs. It occurs "out-of-the-blue"
when (say) I just clicked a button, or closed a window
(point is: it doesn't occur in the middle of an intensive
computation).
  The strange bit is that I NEVER got any such (or other)
errors running Linux, X-Windows, etc., not even if I 
recompile the kernel and run and X session at the same
time (which IS memory-demmanding).

  My system is: a 486DX33 with 8Mb RAM, BusLogic SCSI controller,
  a Segate SCSI disk + a Fujitsu SCSI disk, an ET4000 video board
  (unknown manufacturer).

  My question is, then :-

  1) Has anyone experienced such problems with MS-Windows?

  2) Could it be a "parity error" in the VIDEO Ram?
     Perhaps the windows driver uses the video in a 
     different manner from X.

  3) Could it be a software error? --- i.e., in the
     windows ET4000 video driver.

Any help appreciated,

--
Pedro Vasconcelos                      email: pbv@ncc.up.pt 
Centro de Informatica da Universidade do Porto
PORTO - PORTUGAL
===========================================================
Q:  Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
A:  All my autopsies have been performed on dead people.

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From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
Subject: Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again)
Date: 31 May 1994 21:46:45 -0400

In article <Cqn9LD.Luy@news.cis.umn.edu>,
Shawn T. Amundson <sta@whale.micro.umn.edu> wrote:
>Byron A Jeff (byron@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
>: In article <2scudj$2e8c@ns2.cc.lehigh.edu>,
>: DAVID L. JOHNSON <dlj0@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:
>: >In article <2sbcgs$g03@virgo.cc.gatech.edu>, byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>: >>In article <1994May28.080358.19377@softwks.osgo.ks.he.schule.de>,
>: >>Klaus Fueller <klausf@softwks.osgo.ks.he.schule.de> wrote:
>: >>[ Let's use EZ! Some points deleted.]
>: >>2) Because it requires a minimum of 4.5 Meg of Andrew to run.
>: >>
>: >Do you think any full-featured WYSIWYG wordprocessor can get by with less?
>: >Looked at WP lately?
>
>: I have. A full release of WP 6.0 for windows takes about 30 Meg. It's
>
>Ughh.  But it CAN run an a simple monochrome monitor...
>Actually, shouldn't we compare it to WP 6.0 for DOS?  We're not writing
>LWPS in a graphical interface (like X-Windows), but on top of a text
>environment. 
>
>The WP 6.0 for DOS can be installed with as little? as 7 MB, and for
>a complete installation, it only? takes 16MB.  Still, Ughh.

All true. I have a WP 5.1 running under DOSEMU. To be honest it's quite
functional but is has small unexplainable glitches that would mean death
of shown to a novice user. Admittedly it works fine on the console. However
on a telnet session or a xterm or a terminal login, the title screen doesn't
show (even though the cursor jumps from place to place) and shifted function
keys are not available (meaning no printouts unless the keys are remapped).
It's not completely clean because of the emulation. So despite the size
issue, I think there are other reasons to have a native text-mode WP for
Linux.

>
><Much stuff deleted>
>
>: In fact EZ will help LWPS because it obviates the need to write an X based
>: WYSIWYG WP. All that will be necessary is to have a conversion tool between
>: the file formats of the two tools. Then we'll be covering all the bases.
>
>: Let's plan on working together, not against one another.
>
>I agree.

Thanks.

>
>I'm sure that EZ is a fine tool.  Why debate that?  From everything that
>I have read about the LWPS project, there are no plans as of yet to even
>think of LWPS for X.  'nough of that.

Thanks again. An X based LPWS would be biting off more than we can handle.
It would take a long time to get something functional running. Unless 
someone knows of a TCL/TK based editor that we can start with?

>
>I think that it is important to make use of the function keys early on in
>the project...  For the novice, function keys are easy to remember.
>I suggest using using the function keys similar to how WP 6.0 uses them.

I'm trying to avoid the function keys altogether frankly. The reason being
is that it's impossible to gurantee function keys on all possible interfaces.
We'll have to keep thinking about the least common denominator and make sure
there is a consistent interface across all the possible interfaces. 
These are the interfaces I see in order of importance:
1) Popup menus + mouse. (Linux console)
2) Popup menus + keyboard (ctrl and ESC keys only - usuable everywhere)
3) Keyboard shortcut + function keys (no popup menus)

The last needs to have a dual key interface for the function key capable
interfaces and the non function key capable ones (Something the ^F + number 
to represent a function key).

I've experienced too many failures with terminal and telnet interfaces
because the application (like WP) assumed there were function keys available.

>
>What is dialog, by the way?  By using this, will we obtain the pull-down
>menu's like WP has?

dialog is an application that will put up all types of user interface tools
(yesno, text, menus, checklist, etc.) on the screen from a shell program.
It functions on both Linux consoles and terminals (I haven't yet tested it
with Xwindows). With it we can get a form of popup menus.

>
>Can someone give a quick explaination of Quikscript too?  A file 
>format?    

Quikscript is an interesting program. Essentially it's a text formatter much
like TeX and nroff. However instead of being a separate program that processes
input text QuikScript is written entirely in PostScript! It has several
features I like:

1) Since PostScript + GhostScript will likely be used as a display format
   anyway, QuikScript doesn't add an additional layer of application between
   The WP and the printer. Just send QS + the document to be formatted and 
   the PostScript interpreter will format the document.
2) QuickScript has very precise layout features including precise font and
   size selection, horizontal and verticle placement, and paragraph 
   manipulation.
3) QuikScript uses text only tags, so QuikScript files can be mailed or
   posted unchanged. The unique use of the % character to delimit tags
   makes it easy to filter for searching and spell checking.
4) QuikScript allows for the inclusion of graphics images.
5) QuikScript allows for the inclusion of any PostScript code. In fact the
   package comes with several files that allow such changes as Landscape,
   folded flyer format, and quite a few others.
6) QuikScript is small. 600 lines of PostScript code.
7) QuikScript is flexible enough to allow for changing any default action
   such as page numbering and headers and footers.

The entire users manual is written in QuikScript. It's an amazing example
of what the tool can do.

However the problem is that it's a text layout language that would quickly
overwhelm a novice user. LWPS will act as a pseudo WYSIWYG (using colors
on text with attributes) that insulates the user from the QuikScript tags.

The basic game plan on the board is to instrument JOE with mouse support
(from the selection code), menu support (from the dialog code), and QS
support (so that it can read, manipulate, and write QS tagged text). Then
connect it for preview and printing using GhostScript (unless of course 
a PostScript printer is available).

By integrating existing pieces instead of writing from scratch, I'm hoping
that a first version of LWPS can be pieced together in a reasonable amount
of time. 

We're always looking for volunteers BTW.

Thanks,

BAJ
-- 
---
Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel - And Using Linux!
Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332   Internet: byron@cc.gatech.edu

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From: remkes@dynamo.geof.ruu.nl (Maarten Remkes)
Subject: XFree86 question
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 09:45:32 GMT

Using X, one can shell to a virtual console using CRTL-ALT-F1, ..-F2,
etcetera. 
But how does one get back into X????

Sorry if this is a FAQ but I couldnt find the answer anywhere.

Maarten

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From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans)
Subject: Re: Linux counter: There are 6459 registered Linux users
Date: 1 Jun 1994 09:29:31 GMT

In article <2sgmil$rug@aun.uninett.no> Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no writes:
>This is the monthly report from the Linux Usage Counter.
...
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>Status of the Linux counter, as of Wed Jun  1 00:02:50 MET DST 1994
>
>There are 6459 registered Linux users
>

Just a thought: couldn't you attach a histogram or something to indicate
the rate of growth or something?

Paai.
-- 
Copyright Hans Paijmans 1994. Niets hierboven mag geheel of
gedeeltelijk worden geciteerd buiten de nieuwsgroep(en) waar het
oorspronkelijk is geplaatst.  Nothing of the above may be cited
outside the newsgroups in which the message originally was posted.

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From: chx@ktud.elte.hu (Charlie Negyesi)
Crossposted-To: alt.amateur-comp,alt.computer.consultants,alt.flame,alt.msdos.programmer,alt.pud,alt.sources,comp.os.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.programming,comp.specification,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.hp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.windows.misc,misc.misc,news.newusers.questions,sci.comp-aided
Subject: A few thoughts about the _real_ computer revolution
Date: 1 Jun 1994 04:17:40 -0500

                    Is this really a computer revolution??

         (This is going to be the biggest flamewar you've ever seen!)

      "Computer revolution", this is a most widely used phrase. But is
this really a revolution? When you sit in front of a computer, what can
you see? A Login: to indicate Unix developed in 1970. Or a graphical
enviroment which was ready at Xerox PARC on the Alto in 1971. The
only thing changed that _you_ can sit in front of a computer. But when
these things were developed only the so-called gurus used computers.
They had the knowledge that if I do this, the computer will do exactly
this-and-that. But nowadays the typical user doesn't have this knowledge!
      The problem comes when you buy a new software. Of course a
user-friendly one. And you get some manuals bigger than the Guiness
Records Book ;-( This is user-friendly??? When _you_ should learn what
can you do and how could you do that with this program?? When you
should buy upgrades and learn more and more? You should learn a new
language as well - the language with files, directories, printers, etc. For
eg. when you'd like to change a font you should have the knowledge
what does Times Roman mean and so on. Of course this kind of software
is a big business of everyone in the computer business: developers make
much money from writing newer and newer (bugus) softwares. The
programs are getting fatter, slower, etc. so you should buy an array of
new hardware. New hardware? I'm typing this on a QWERTY layout
keyboard, which is - I think - more than a hundred years old. Is this a
revolution? O.K., there are alternatives, but these alternatives are only
trials. (Back to the thousand-year-old pen, this is a _big_ change, isn't
it?) So hardware is only smaller, faster, etc. but not _really_ new. There
are a lot of newsgroups around the theme that I have this software, I'd
like to do that, how could it be done? These questions should not appear!
IMHO the _real_ revolution would be if _you_ could say: I'd like to do
this and I'd like to do this in _my_ way. I think the hardware is now big
enough to put really user-friendly softwares on the market: when the
software is like a raw material and it gets formed under _your_ hand.
This won't be AI (Artifical Intelligence) 'cos it has a big, but limited
knowledge and you define how you could use this knowledge. And this
won't be programming, at least as it is used nowadays. Something like
that: there are some very flexible softwares with a lot of self-explaining
inner functions and you could arrange every function on any key. But
these programs have a very limited knowledge, and you should use keys!
There could be much more events then keypresses, for eg. some special
move of the mouse, etc. etc. Of course my thinking is limited as well ;-)
so I cannot describe all possibilites. This is unnecessary, it would kill the
idea: it would describe only x number of people's demand, but what
about the others? It is the users who should have a chance to define: if
I'm doing this the program should do that.

About myself: 
I'm a 19 year old student, I'm making programs as well as using other's.
I'd like to hear about your opinion! Preferably in E-Mail, 'cos I've posted
this to _many_ newsgroups.

Disclaimer: 

Everything appears in this article is _my_ own opinion. It has nothing to do
with our university or anyone else! And sorry for my poor English :-(

                                                             CHX@KTUD.ELTE.HU
                                                             Charlie Negyesi  

Ps. The time of teaching a software won't be lost - the time you spent to learn
the new softwares could be spend on to teach programs how would _you_ like to
do this-and-that.

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From: cpg@jet.uk (Chris Gatcombe)
Subject: Re: AHA-1542CF+QUANTUM L525S
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 09:51:24 GMT

In <CqorrJ.BM9@wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com> zeller@zot.iipo.gtegsc.com (Craig Zeller) writes:


>Wei-Jou Chen (jou@pdlc.ep.nctu.edu.tw) wrote:

>:    How to let AHA-1542CF + QUANTUM L525S work ? I always got the following
>: warn message.

>: -------------------------------------
>:  SCSI ID#0   QUANTUM L525S   ( after a while it shows) Device connect
>: but not ready
>:  BIOS not INSTALL!  NO INT 13h device
>: -------------------------------------
>: How to solve it ? I have no manual of QUANTUM disk.

>Many of the newer generation of SCSI drives have a jumper which enables
>(disables) spindle motor spinup on power-on. In large arrays of drives,
>such as in a RAID, motors are spun-up sequentially; staggered so as not
>to overload the power supply. Check to see that the spinup-on-power jumper
>is configured properly for your drive.

If the original poster doesn't have any documentation, this might be
difficult! Try getting in touch with Quantum and getting hold of any
technical documentation. I just installed this weekend an IBM drive and
Adaptec controller, and looking through the Adaptec SCSI-select on-board
setup utility there is a feature for turning on (or off) the 'send unit
startup' command. I think, that on my IBM drive this was set on by
default, and on the Adaptec it was set off by default.
On my machine I can easily hear the IBM drive spin up just after the
Adaptec message appears.

Chris.
-- 
Dr. Chris Gatcombe, Tessella Support Services plc (gatc@tessella.co.uk),
BSI/TickIT certification to BS5750/ISO9001/EN29001 (January 1993).
Contractor at: JET Joint European Undertaking (cpg@jet.uk).
"Don't let the Sun go down on me" - Elton John.
"Its the wrong trousers Gromit, and they've gone wrong!"
- Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not 
  be construed as an official comment from the JET project.

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From: ccnjb@sun.cse.bris.ac.uk (NJ. Bruton)
Subject: Re: XFree86 question
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 10:34:24 GMT

Maarten Remkes (remkes@dynamo.geof.ruu.nl) wrote:
: Using X, one can shell to a virtual console using CRTL-ALT-F1, ..-F2,
: etcetera. 
: But how does one get back into X????

: Sorry if this is a FAQ but I couldnt find the answer anywhere.

: Maarten

ALT-F7

Nick

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From: michael@iinet.com.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: FAQ: Boca 16-Port Serial Card
Date: 1 Jun 1994 18:39:37 +0800

David H Dennis (dhd@netcom.com) wrote:
[....]
: RECOMPILING THE KERNEL

In theory , you shouldn't need to do any of this. Look up and use the
setserial program. I have 2 (different) 8 port cards in machines here,
and neither need kernel patches, it's simply a matter of doing
        setserial /dev/tty16 port 0x100 autoconfig auto_irq
repeat for 17-23 and bingo. it works. I added these commands to
rc.local, and waved goodbye to kernel patches.

: LINUX BUG?  Bizarre problem with 'who' and getname()

Ok. THIS is a good one, and one I found and 'fixed'.
Warning: this is all from vague memory. haven't looked at this in 4
months. Take with several large pinches of salt.

The problem is that various programs try to track down the user by 
        1) finding the 'id' of the tty
        2) looking up that id in the /etc/utmp file.

Problems:
        the id of the tty is generated by finding the name (i.e.
/dev/ttyS16) and droping the /dev/tty, leaving 'S16'. The bad bit if
that only 2 characters are reserved in the utmp struct for the id. So
the id that actually gets stored in utmp is 'S1'. Thus, when you use
who, lots of ttys match 'S1'.

How to fix:
        the easiest way, and what I did, is use /dev/tty16 instead of
/dev/ttyS16. This drops back to a 2 character id, and matches the id's
in /etc/inittab. All works charmingly. And who, w, ps etc work of out
the box now.
-- 
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