Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #263
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Tue, 14 Jun 94 08:13:28 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #263, Volume #2                Tue, 14 Jun 94 08:13:28 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Need recommendation for SVGA card (Mihail S. Iotov)
  DevGuide on Linux? (Juan Carlos Perez)
  Pcomm won't compile! (Jonathan E Brickman)
  Dell Dimension XPS P90 and Linux (Juan Carlos Perez)
  X-windows client for Linux... (Brad Block)
  Re: Commercial Soft...for Linux (Michael Will)
  REQUEST: Lynx bins for Linux (TCP/IP) ("V.S.Carpenter")
  Setting up my modem /com ports with linux (Jordi Ferrando)
  Anybody compiled HTK ? (Tilo Schuerer)
  Re: Writing code at run-time (Junaid A. Walker)
  Re: Need recommendation for SVGA card (Jerry Cullingford)
  Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ? (Pim Zandbergen)
  Re: database system for e (Steven Buytaert)
  Re: Need recommendation for SVGA card (Mihail S. Iotov)
  Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) (Shannon Hendrix)
  Suggestions on PCI video cards for XFree? (Ken Mcdonald)
  Xconfig problem on higher resolution than 640x480 (tf49665@delphi.com)
  Cleaning tape drive heads (Van Zandt)
  Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller (Dragon Fly)
  PCMCIA Hardware support (Mike Weavind)

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From: iotov@cco.caltech.edu (Mihail S. Iotov)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: Need recommendation for SVGA card
Date: 14 Jun 1994 02:56:20 GMT

ramos@engr.latech.edu (Alex Ramos) writes:

>Which ISA video card would give me the best quality 1024x768x256
>resolution, under Linux/XFree86, for the least cost?  What is the
>general opinion on the Trident SVGA cards (those you can find with 1M
>for $58.00).

I was shopping recently for a Video card, too and can share my expirience. If
you are looking for an inexpensive card, you don't have much choice. Most local
places sell only the Trident which, according to a quote on the net, is 
"slower than a molases in January." For a bit more (a little below $100) 
I got Cirrus Logic based Genoa card with CLGD5426. Which was 5 times faster
but crashed the server each time I swithced into text mode and other people
complained about that too. As a next step I mail ordered the STB Powergraph, a
S3801 based car for $149 including shipping. Now this is pretty fast and it
works fine. Actually at that point I just wanted it to work. 

The Trident will actually give you the same quallity as any other card but it
is very annoying to have to wait for text to scroll in xterms. I would 
recommend a (generic) S3 card. You already invested probably $1000 in this
system, so why settle for 15 times slower graphics (if that is what you use)
to save $100 ?

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From: juan@fiu.edu (Juan Carlos Perez)
Subject: DevGuide on Linux?
Date: 14 Jun 1994 03:09:32 GMT

I would like to know if there is such a program like the Sun's OpenWindows
Development Guide (DevGuide) for Linux.

                                                        ...Juan...


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From: brickman@world.std.com (Jonathan E Brickman)
Subject: Pcomm won't compile!
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 05:46:25 GMT

Hey, people (again).  This time my problem is with compiling pcomm.
No matter what I do (including -UOLDCURSES in CFLAGS in Makefile), the
macro OLDCURSES seems to be being defined in the preprocessor, which
engages other macros KEY_ON and KEY_OFF etc., which are not compatible
with ncurses.  At least, when I compiled with OLDCURSES set, lots of
other things happened.  Odd.  Especially when ncurses is supposed to
be compatible with old curses versions.  Anybody got any help?  Or
even binaries ( *grin* )?
||Jonathan E. Brickman
brickman@world.std.com


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From: juan@fiu.edu (Juan Carlos Perez)
Subject: Dell Dimension XPS P90 and Linux
Date: 14 Jun 1994 03:18:02 GMT

Has anyone had any kind of experience with the Dell Dimension XPS P90 systems
and the Linux?

I'm planning to the get the 16 MB or RAM, the 1 GB Western Digital Enhanced IDE
hard drive, NEC 3x CD ROM Drive, and the 64-bit #9 PCI 2MB RAM card. Any
comments on wether any of these will cause any problems would greatly be greatly
be appreciated. Thank you...:)


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From: bradb@bronze.coil.com (Brad Block)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: X-windows client for Linux...
Date: 13 Jun 1994 23:49:46 -0400

I am not too familair with X-Windows...So could someone direct me to 
someone who might know of how to explain it to me or of some literature 
to read? 

See I want to have it so that people can dial into my Linux box and 
initiate and X-Windows session that is picked up buy their box and mine - 
I mean that the connection between the two would be PPP and the X would 
be there as a "shell" over the connection instead of the regular old 
crummy PC and Mac TCP/IP programs...

If you have any help/info at all, please E-Mail me!

- Thanks very much in advance!


-- 
----|Brad Block|----                            ----|Sysoop: Wave 2 BBS|----
     AKA: MaKi                                          614\766-1258
                                                    bradb@bronze.coil.com


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From: michaelw@desaster.student.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: Commercial Soft...for Linux
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 11:45:05 GMT

arc@thunder.indstate.edu (Arc Wave) writes:
>       First off can any company write software for the Linux platform?
Yes. Many ppl do. Take a look at CRISP, Smalltalk/X, OI/uib (while the latter
happens to be free for Linux and does cost $$$$ for sun/hp/etc), I think
we should make a list of available commercial software for linux!

>       Second, if so what tools are available?
many beyond my time to enumerate. 

>       Thirdly, is there a fee or agreements to that of gcc?
Take a look at the GPL.

>       Our company is wanting to write software for Linux (due note this is
>       not ISU related (above organization)) and sell it (low cost).
That is great :-)

Cheers, Michael Will
-- 
   In my experience, and there are some social psychology studies
to support me, in real life, smart people make just about as many
        really dumb decisions as dumb people, they just make them
                                for more sophisticated reasons...

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From: CARPENTERV@vmsa.csd.mu.edu ("V.S.Carpenter")
Subject: REQUEST: Lynx bins for Linux (TCP/IP)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 22:48:11 -0500 (CDT)


Hi.. I don't have enough room on my Linux box for the D series disks and so I
need someone's help.

I need the binaries for Lynx, the VT100 compatible browser for the WWW.  Any
comments, pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Vinny

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From: jferrand@ccg.upv.es (Jordi Ferrando)
Subject: Setting up my modem /com ports with linux
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 03:15:40 GMT

Hello all.
I am using linux for 2 months, and i have
beenmbkm
greatfyully surpriaesed about ut
ves
I am having problems - i don't know- how to configure the com ports in the
occ pc so that they accept data fromt other terminals.
I have a modem in com3 (/dev/modem, and a com port in com2, com1 is for the 
mouse).
I would like to connect withg the modedm to another unicx machiune, and
transfer files front the thwo machimes.
-excuse me for the text, i am having problems in deleting the characters-

bye, jferrand@depime.etsii.upv.es


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From: tilo@cs.tu-berlin.de (Tilo Schuerer)
Subject: Anybody compiled HTK ?
Date: 14 Jun 1994 09:10:53 GMT

Is there anybody out there who compiled the HTK-Toolkit
from Entropics (originally from Cambridge) sucessfully under 
LINUX? We are going to buy the toolkit and want to use it
under LINUX too.....

Ok, all answers are wellcome, if there is enough interest
I will sumarize on the net.

Thanks in Advance,

Tilo Schuerer



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From: junaid@barney.eng.monash.edu.au (Junaid A. Walker)
Crossposted-To: rec.games.programmer,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing code at run-time
Date: 14 Jun 1994 06:00:50 GMT

Tristan Tarrant (tristant@cogs.susx.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hey, did you know that Junaid A. Walker (junaid@barney.eng.monash.edu.au) said:

: : There's quite a bit of interest to this so far, just to reply to my own
: : posting and add a little clarity;


: : ***MSDOS real mode:
: :     Trivial, all segments are executable.  But as you would expect a bit
: :     cludgy because all functions must be <64K.  Probably along the 
: :     lines of;

: :     void far (*fn_ptr)(void);
: :     int zero=0;     /*force huge ptr normalization, watch out for*/
: :             /*optimizer tho*/

: :     fn_ptr=(char huge *)farmalloc(FUNC_SIZE) + zero;
: :             /*alloc required space and normalize ptr to get full*/
: :             /*64K addressability*/

: :     fn_ptr+=0x0004; /*lets dword align for 486's by rounding up */
: :             /*to next dword*/
: :     fn_ptr&=0xfffc; /*now round down by truncating last 2 bits*/

: :     /*now load assembler opcodes beginning at fn_ptr - dont forget retf*/
: :     
: :     /*now load registers with function paras eg _AX=50; ...*/
: :     /*OR set up the stack and push args*/

: :     (*fn_ptr)();    /*call the function*/

: What if it's on the heap in DPMI ?

        There is no 'DPMI' services when the CPU is in real mode, so any
pre-allocated DPMI memory is inaccessible (well via kosher methods..).
But what happens when in PM?  - Dont think DPMI has the segment GDTs
set up to allow data to be executed.  So no go.  VCPI you can tweak the
GDTs all you want.

        Comments?

        Junaid



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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (Jerry Cullingford)
Subject: Re: Need recommendation for SVGA card
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 09:27:28 GMT

In article <2tj68k$g47@gap.cco.caltech.edu> iotov@cco.caltech.edu (Mihail S. Iotov) writes:
>ramos@engr.latech.edu (Alex Ramos) writes:
>
>>Which ISA video card would give me the best quality 1024x768x256
>>resolution, under Linux/XFree86, for the least cost?

>I would 
>recommend a (generic) S3 card. You already invested probably $1000 in this
>system, so why settle for 15 times slower graphics (if that is what you use)
>to save $100 ?

But remember that XFree86 (2.0, anyway) seems to trash the normal, non-X
text display; it's not a major problem, since you can save/restore the
fonts around an X session, but it does mean that switching to non-X
virtual terminals during an X session doesn't work (or at least I haven't
found a fix yet).

Motherboards are pretty cheap too, so you might consider switching to a
VLB one.

-- 
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| Jerry Cullingford  #include <std.disclaimer> +44 442 230000 x3875|   ,-|--
| jc@crosfield.co.uk jc@selune.demon.co.uk  jerry@shell.portal.com |   \_|__
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Subject: Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 09:55:29 GMT

After the Adaptec AHA-1742 EISA SCSI host adapter went out of production,
I tried my luck with a couple of BusLogic 747S cards. They were to
run with ISC Unix 4.0. At that time, the AHA-2742 driver was not there yet.

Although the cards seemed to work fine, the machine would lock
up when multiple SCSI drives are accessed simultaneously.
This could happen when accessing both tape and disk simultaneously,
but would almost happen immediately when accessing two disks.
When that happens, all processes seem to keep running, until
they access the disk.

I have tried all sorts of hardware. Different disks (old SCSI-1's
and all sorts of new ones), different tape drives (Exabyte 8mm,
HP DAT, Sankyo QIC-150), different systems (Intel 403E, Intel XPRESS)
with no difference. I had three BusLogic cards to test.
At the time, I was unable to test any other OS than ISC.

I have tried to disable sync negotiation, EISA burst cycles, and
FAST SCSI with no difference. I used native mode (using the ISC "bl"
driver), and Adaptec compatibility mode (using the "aha1540" driver)
with no difference.

Replacing the BusLogic with an Adaptec (1542 or 1742)
would *always* fix the problem.

The problem is that our BusLogic dealer says "the cards work
just fine with SCO and Netware, it must be your ISC driver"
and our ISC dealer claims I've got a hardware problem, as the card
fails with two different ISC drivers.

To help me out of this situation, I would like to know of anyone
using the 747S with multiple drives

        1) Which OS are you running
        2) Are you using native or aha1540 drivers
        3) What is the firmware revision of your card
        4) What SCSI drives are you using
        5) What kind of system/motherboard are you using

The firmware on my cards is revision 1.37.

Any other information leading to a solution to this problem
would be welcome too.

Thanks.
-- 
E-mail : Pim Zandbergen <pim@cti-software.nl>
S-mail : Laan Copes van Cattenburch 70, 2585 GD The Hague, The Netherlands
Phone  : +31 70 3542302
Fax    : +31 70 3512837

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From: buytaert@imec.be (Steven Buytaert)
Subject: Re: database system for e
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 09:46:07 GMT

Dennis Heltzel (dheltzel@crl.com) wrote:
: Ditto! I've heard a lot of talk about "killer apps" needed to make a new 
: OS successful. I think a good database would be a great starting point!

: I've been trying many different programs, like metalbase, ingres, etc. 
: None are easy to use in a "Alpha 4" sense. (I hate alpha 4, but it is *easy*)

: Perhaps a team of programmers could work on this, I know I'd be willing 
: to help! Any interest?


  Dennis,

  I have asked this question (a cry for help) to make an ODBMS
  for Linux that blows the socks of any commercial sh*t they 
  try to trow at you, with a card saying "client/server" hanging
  on the side. No go... :-(

  So since you retriggered my interest, I'll try it again:

  ********************************************************
  If there are any people, interested in developing a
  ODBMS with (real) client/server behaviour, that is
  easy for a programmer, portable and starts from the
  Texas persistent object store, LET HIM CONTACT ME AT
  ME HOME ADDRESS (yes I'm shouting :-) People that 
  want to help should have some knowledge already 
  about schema evolution, client-server systems,
  database systems, ...
  If enough people bite, I'll try to setup some
  sort of coordination...
  Let's see what happens now...
  ********************************************************

  Stef

--
Steven Buytaert 

WORK buytaert@imec.be
HOME buytaert@innet.be

        'Imagination is more important than knowledge.'
                        (A. Einstein)

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From: iotov@cco.caltech.edu (Mihail S. Iotov)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: Need recommendation for SVGA card
Date: 14 Jun 1994 10:06:16 GMT

jc@crosfield.co.uk (Jerry Cullingford) writes:

>But remember that XFree86 (2.0, anyway) seems to trash the normal, non-X
>text display; it's not a major problem, since you can save/restore the
>fonts around an X session, but it does mean that switching to non-X
>virtual terminals during an X session doesn't work (or at least I haven't
>found a fix yet).

That happens in XFree86 2.1, too, but 2.1.1 fixes the problem. 
One reason to avoid VLB card is that many people complain of of random
freezing. 

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix)
Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 01:40:01 GMT

Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote:
: >Then you can use $HOME/.dir_colors to override the file in /etc.

: Ah, so you get a new home with each terminal?

No, but dir_colors is set on a terminal type basis.  On or off depending
on what type.  Further selection can be done in your init files to do
some simple regexp search/replace on .dir_colors to get whatever you
want.

-- 
csh
===========================================================================
shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (UUCP)     | Amd486/40 Linux system
shendrix@pcs.cnu.edu (Internet)          | Christopher Newport University

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From: mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca (Ken Mcdonald)
Subject: Suggestions on PCI video cards for XFree?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 10:01:38 GMT


Well, after looking through the XFree-HOWTO and various other Linux docs,
I am thoroughly confused.  As a longtime Mac user, I value reliability and
simplicity, and so am looking for suggestions on PCI video cards which work
well and reliably with Windows and (more importantly) XFree under Linux.

For those who are engaged in the same process I am (shopping for a PC on
which to run Linux), I'll drop (what may be) a helpful hint in the form
of the systems I finally decided to look at.

        1) Tagram Thunderbolt XR-100, pg. 117 of the June _Computer Shopper_.
        Well-priced dx4/100, usees Tseng video chip set on board (so should
        be compatible, I believe--anyone care to comment?), and Opti chip
        set for basic motherboard functions.  (Also on-board IO and IDE.
        It's a VLBus machine.)

        2) The Maximus _Mega PCI_ system, pg. 260 of the June _Comp. Shop._
        dx4/100 version seems slightly better priced than (1) in addition
        to offering PCI, BUT comes standard with a Diamond video card, which
        as I understand it, is a definite no-no in Linux land.  Hence the
        question.  Don't really have any other details, am going to call
        them tomorrow.  Anyone know what motherboard this is based on?

All in all, I really wish Linus had been a Mac fan.  Sigh.  All comments
welcome.

Yours,
Ken McDonald
mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca


P.S. is the July _Computer Shopper_ out anywhere yet?

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From: tf49665@delphi.com
Subject: Xconfig problem on higher resolution than 640x480
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 01:10:28 -0500

   After many hours of tingering with different X servers, I finally got 
a stable X display using XF86_VGA16 under 640x480 mode with 25 Mhz.                 
Everthing is fine. But when I step it up to 800x600, I got a lime 
green root background instead of a gray background.                                         
   I tried using XF86_VGA256 server under 640x480,    
800x600, and 1024x768, but all three modes give me the same lime green 
root background, white window background, and lime green foreground. 
I can't see what I was typing under this color scheme. 
I tried XF86_Mono with the same green color.  The only mode
that worked is VGA16 (see below Xconfig and probe file).  Is it because         
the VGA16 uses a generic chipset (VT number 7) whereas the rest of the 
servers use the NCR77C22E driver?  

  My configuration is a NCR77C22E graphics chip, Viewsonics 6E 
monitor, mousesystem serial mouse, a 486/33 MHz with 8M running under 
Linux Slackware 1.0.

  My Xconfig file :

#-------------------------  Xconfig -------------------------------------
RGBPath         "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

Keyboard
  AutoRepeat 500 5

LeftAlt         Meta
RightAlt        ModeShift
ScrollLock      ModeLock

#Microsoft      "/dev/mouse"
MouseSystems   "/dev/ttyS0"
#
# The graphics drivers
#
vga16
  Virtual       800 600 
  ViewPort      0 0
  Modes         "640x480" "800x600"
#Grayscale
#Staticcolor
#Pseudocolor
#Truecolor
#Directcolor
Displaysize    1024 768
#Screenno       0
# Clocks  25.40  28.32  40.10  65.40  45.10  50.10   0.00  75.40
# Clocks  25 28 32 36 40 45 47 48 95 94 91 82 80 89 94 95
#
ModeDB
# clock  horzontal timing      vertical timing
 "640x480"   25     640  672  768  800    480  490  492  525
 "800x600"   40     800  840  968 1056    600  601  605  628
#"1024x768"  65.1  1024 1024 1168 1256    768  768  774  812
==================  end of Xconfig ================================

  I link VGA16 to X and startx. 

> cd /usr/X11/bin
> rm X
> ln -s XF86_VGA16 X
> startx

  My probe data :
========================  X =probeonly ================================
XFree86 Version 2.1 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Operating System: Linux 
Configured drivers:
  VGA16: server for 4-bit colour VGA (Patchlevel 0):
      et4000, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga9000,
      generic
(using VT number 7)

Xconfig: /usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) Mouse: type: MouseSystems, device: /dev/ttyS0, baudrate: 1200
(**) FontPath set to "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
(--) VGA16: chipset:  generic
(--) VGA16: videoram: 256k (using 256k)
(--) VGA16: clocks:  26.00  28.32  40.10  65.20
(--) VGA16: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90MHz
(**) VGA16: Mode "640x480": mode clock =  25.000, clock used =  26.000
(**) VGA16: Mode "800x600": mode clock =  40.000, clock used =  40.100
(**) VGA16: Virtual resolution set to 800x600
======================== End of X =probeonly =============================================


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From: jrv@truth.mitre.org (Van Zandt)
Subject: Cleaning tape drive heads
Date: 14 Jun 1994 11:36:27 GMT

rexx@netcom.com (Rick Narron) writes:
> 
>One more thing to try is to clean the tape drive recording/playback
>head with a Q-tip and some 90% Isopropyl Alchohol (head cleaning
>solution for ordinary cassette tape recorders).

The book for my Colorado Memories Jumbo 250 tells me to use _foam type_
swabs to clean the head on the drive.  Q-tips, like all the others I can
find around here, use cotton.  Any idea where foam ones can be had?
Are cotton ones okay?

                               - Jim Van Zandt <jrv@mitre.org>


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From: sviznyuk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dragon Fly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller
Date: 14 Jun 1994 05:37:53 GMT

In article <1994Jun14.015427.5458@brtph560.bnr.ca>,
Pat O'Shaughnessey P855 <shags@brtph896.bnr.ca> wrote:
>in article <2tito8$ed7@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>>
>>In article <CrD13M.3Bp@boulder.parcplace.com>,
>>
>>It's allready in the SCSI HOWTO, under the Common Problems subsection
>>of section 3.12 (Ultrastor 14f, 24f, and 34f) - 
>>
>>2.  Using an Ultrastor at address 0x330 may cause the system to hang
>>        when the sound drivers are autoprobing.
>>
>>        Please use a different address.
>>
>>3.  Various other drivers do unsafe probes at various addresses, if you
>>        are having problems with detection or the system is hanging at 
>>        boot time, please try a different address.
>>
>>        0x340 is recommended as an address that is known to work.
>
>Has anyone had the problem that I described in an earlier post?  (sorry to
>keep posting the query)?  Now that my 34F recognizes the drives, (after
>moving the address to 0x340), it still hangs during the boot sequence, and
>displays the following:
>
>scsi0: reseting for 2nd half of retries.
>US14F: reset: called
>
>I haven't seen this problem described anywhere.

I had exactly this problem. It appeared once then another
then another until I couldn't boot Linux at all.
The problem was .. CPU cooling fan. It stuck, after
6 months of non-stop work, warming up itself and helping
to barbeque my CPU. After I replaced it with a new one
(wow, "assembled in USA" !!!), the problem disappeared
whatsoever.
Hope it helps,
Serge

P.S. Did anybody try scrambled eggs on CPU-powered stove ?

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From: ceemjw@cee.hw.ac.uk (Mike Weavind)
Subject: PCMCIA Hardware support
Reply-To: ceemjw@cee.hw.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 11:26:44 GMT

I am about to get a portable PC and was wondering what support there is for
PCMCIA devices, ie Modems, Hardisks and particulary network cards.


--
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ceemjw@cee.hw.ac.uk:

   'Real Programmers don't write documentation.' -- Ancient Proverb

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