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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 08:13:07 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #228
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Linux-Development Digest #228, Volume #2 Mon, 26 Sep 94 08:13:07 EDT
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Contents:
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Windows DLL-type linking possible...? (BATES, ROBERT P.)
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HDD Controller Question (Cary B. Abend)
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Re: Warnings with libc 4.5.26. (Bill C. Riemers)
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Re: elf benchmarks (getting closer) (NightHawk)
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Re: 900 MHz CB band??? (Richard Stone)
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Re: Future of linux -- the sequel (Donald Becker)
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Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development (jbarrett@onramp.net)
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Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard? (Vaughan R. Pratt)
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Re: Don't use Linux?! (Andre Schoorl)
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DMA problems on Dell XPS-90 (Steve Kann)
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Re: Missing stdarg.h and (sort of) varargs.h (Eric V. Smith)
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[?] DIP with auto-redial? (John Voth)
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WANTED: Routers and Terminal Servers (Tony Schwartz)
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Re: bind() bug, might have a fix (Neil Charley)
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2nd Attempt: Menus for Dialin Users (Tony Schwartz)
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Re: exabyte 8505 (HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE)
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IRC Server for Linux?? (Bart Kindt)
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Support for third IDE drive using 2nd IDE controller? (David Simmons)
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Re: Linux on CD (Jeff Kesselman)
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Re: CD-ROM gurus: PLEASE ADD PHOTOCD support to Mitsumi (Heiko Schlittermann)
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Bug: telnet to Linux node, sometimes no "login:" prompth (Seppo Kallio)
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From: r1b0804@rigel.tamu.edu (BATES, ROBERT P.)
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Subject: Windows DLL-type linking possible...?
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Date: 23 Sep 94 20:56:00 GMT
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Howdy! I'm currently working on a Windows-based app, and want to try to port
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it to Linux under XF86... However, one of the cornerstones of this project is
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the ability to relink the function libs on the fly, without having to exit and
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restart the application... Is there anything even remotely similar available on
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the Linux or any other Un*x platform?
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Thanks,
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Rob
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Please respoind to rbates@zgs.com
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==============================================================================
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Robert Bates Disclaimer:
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"I make no claims..."
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Texas A & M University r1b0804@sigma.tamu.edu
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==============================================================================
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From: cary@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Cary B. Abend)
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Subject: HDD Controller Question
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 19:45:30 GMT
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I now have four hard drives. Two 212s one 80 and one 540. My current
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system has one of the 212s and the 540, but it would be nice to mount the
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other two drives as well. I just installed the Slackware 2.0
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distribution [kernel 1.1.18] without a problem (all mishaps were my fault
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and correctable.)
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My question: I know that IDE cards that support 4 HDD exist and work
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under DOS (presumably with some kind of BIOS bypass). Will (or which
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of) these cards work with Linux?
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--
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Cary B. Abend "Why does my mouth always taste like old
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cary@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu carpet in the morning?"
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"Unknown. Checking medical database."
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-- Susan Ivanova and the B5 Computer
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"Signs and Portents"
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From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers)
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Subject: Re: Warnings with libc 4.5.26.
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 21:41:54 GMT
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Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael H Price <mhp1@Ra.MsState.Edu> writes:
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Michael> Before I actually install libc-4.5.26, am I supposed to
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Michael> get a million warnings while compiling it or should it
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Michael> compile quietly?
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I don't get a million, but I do get alot. It is scary to think that
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the basic library running everything as so much questionable code.
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The problem I always have, is if I compile libc myself, the gcc
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'-g' option doesn't work. However, when I install the precompiled
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version the '-g' option works fine. There is probably some key
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instruction I'm missing, but what I do is:
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make clean;make depend;make
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This doesn't install anything (probably because I never compile as
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root...) Also, there are no install commands listed in the README
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file. So I just manually copy all the files with:
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su -c 'cp `find . -name lib\*.so.\*` /lib;cp `find . -name lib\*.sa -or
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-name lib\*.a` /usr/lib;ldconfig -v'
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the *.sa *.a files to /usr/lib. There is probably some file critical
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to debugging with a different extention that I'm not copying.
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Bill
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From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk)
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Subject: Re: elf benchmarks (getting closer)
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 00:02:41 -0400
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Dan Connolly (connolly@hal.com) wrote:
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: libc is a fairly important bunch of code to optimize. Perhaps we'll
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: find some 1-liner optimization that will make the vast majority of
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: linux applications run 5% faster -- or an optimization that will make
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: one key application (like gcc) or one key subsystem (like TCP/IP) run
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: 10% faster. Not likely, but worth the effort, if just for the
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: knowledge gained.
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I don't have the resources to futher fine tune libc and gcc. People
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who have faster machines/big HDs should give it a try.
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NH
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From: rstone@infi.net (Richard Stone)
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Subject: Re: 900 MHz CB band???
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 04:36:36 GMT
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Jay Ashworth (jra@zeus.IntNet.net) wrote:
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: >The RatShack FM walkie talkies are 900mhz, as is the new spread spectrum
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: >hand-held fone from Uniden... there are also some paging freqs up in that
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: >area... but like the WaveLan.... nothing real powerful or long range..
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: Forgive me, but _which_ Radio Shack HT's are those? I assume you mean the
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: "business band" radios, made (I think) by Uniden. They live on
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: "transient" frequencies in the 150MHz business radio band. There are no
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: transient freq at 900, as far as I know.
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Not CB, per se, but the 900MHz freq. is available for unlicensed consumer
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use for short-range spread-spectrum tx/rx. The "latest" cordless phones are
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one consumer application. More details? Write the FCC.
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--
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Richard S. Stone Network Engineer
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The Engineering Design Group
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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" "If it *is* broke, pay us to fix it!"
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2-FOR-1 DEAL: "We'll break it for you and then fix it; for one low price!"
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rstone@edgp.com rstone@infi.net
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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/* disclaimer.h */
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printf("The opinions expressed above are my own, and do not necessarily
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represent those of the Engineering Design Group or its affiliates.\n")
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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From: becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Donald Becker)
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Subject: Re: Future of linux -- the sequel
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Date: 21 Sep 1994 23:20:51 -0400
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In article <35mrbo$a6@pandora.las-vegas.nv.us>,
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Eric J. Schwertfeger <eric@pandora.Las-Vegas.NV.US> wrote:
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>No, there's DD0-DD15, 16 bits. The reason IDE is slower is because without
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>ATA-2 DMA Mode (preferably multiword mode 2), the CPU has to do the
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>transfers itself, whereas most SCSI disks do busmastering. The ATA-2 draft
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>spec (which is already being used) has transfer rates up to 13M/Sec, which
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>puts it between Fast SCSI II and Fast/Wide SCSI II. I'm seriously
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>considering getting a busmastering IDE controller just to write DMA drivers
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>for linux on it :-)
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The ATA-2 interface designs I've seen don't use anything nearly as
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complicated as a busmaster interface. They basically add two gates to
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the bus driver enables and connect the DREQ and DACK (DMA request and grant)
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lines to the bus. The data transfer can then be done by the DMA controller
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(which is hopefully faster on modern machines than the abysmal PC/AT
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implementation).
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Is anyone familiar with a different type of ATA-2 controller implementation?
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This type of slave DMA transfer only really increases performance when
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multiple sector mode is used. 512 byte sector transfers are below
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break-even for setting up the DMA controller and taking an interrupt, but a
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4K or 8K slave DMA transfer is a significant win. The tradeoff of the IDE
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interface vs. SCSI then becomes the lower IDE setup cost vs. the ability to
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chain SCSI commands and the the related ability to disconnect. And with
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only two devices per low-cost controller, doing disconnects on IDE doesn't
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make sense.
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A final note: programmed-I/O is *not* evil. It primes the cache with
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soon-to-be-used data and avoids coherency problems and interrupt overhead.
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Nor is the ISA bus evil. It's very inexpensive, and has enough bandwidth for
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most I/O devices. It's only when you combine the ISA bus and heavy-duty
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programmed-I/O that a fast processor wastes most of its cycles waiting on
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the bus.
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--
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Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
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Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
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301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
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From: jbarrett@onramp.net
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Subject: Re: [STATUS] Linus Floppy Driver Development
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 00:53:17 PDT
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<niemidc@clark.net> writes:
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>
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> The basic problem is that the floppy drive in no way notifies the
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> rest of the system when a disk has been inserted. This means that
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> the floppy drive must be polled periodically so as to notice when
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> a disk appears. This is not impossible, as a test already exists
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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> David C. Niemi (SLMA, Herndon, Virginia, USA) niemidc@clark.net
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> Know the difference between the color of the wine and the color of
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> the glass. (Jalaluddin Rumi)
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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Since when does the drive not notify the system of a disk change....
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one of the big features of the 1.2 and 1.44 drives is the "DISK CHANGE LINE"
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that tells you if a floppy has been changed since the drive was last selected!
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About the only use of this line that I've ever seen is in FastBack for DOS...
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so that FastBack can start immediatly writing to a disk as soon as it has been
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inserted... I have no idea what port or bit this line is visible on... but it
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is available somewhere out there is I/O land......
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I think that an auto-mounter option would be a good idea for those of us who
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have to build turnkey systems to be used by the unix-illiterate... It would
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sure save some of the bogus code I've had to write to test if a floppy is
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inserted, formatted, etc.
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It might not be a bad idea if the automounter did not interfere with the usual
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device nodes for the floppies... so you could still TAR/CPIO/Etc. to an auto-
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mounted device??
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Or you could (Deity of your choice forgive) go as far as MS Windows and pop up
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a window asking if you want to format a floppy if the auto-mounter cannot
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detect the filesystem type when you first attempt to access the device...
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Naaaaa... then the automounter would have to be aware of which user/console
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made the request to access the device...
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Over the edge again
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John Barrett
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From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Linux on Pentium P90 PCI---which motherboard?
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 21:15:37 GMT
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If Linux runs on your Pentium P90 PCI, or you know of a working such,
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I'd appreciate knowing what motherboard did the trick.
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--
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Vaughan Pratt http://boole.stanford.edu/boole.html
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From: aschoorl@uglz.UVic.CA (Andre Schoorl)
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Subject: Re: Don't use Linux?!
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 21:25:42 GMT
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David Holland <dholland@husc7.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>Michael Schumacher (hightec@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de) wrote:
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>
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> > : 3. The kernel versions change faster than the speed of light. If you
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> > : ask for a "stable" version, you'll be teached that there are two
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> > : versions: 1.0 (production) and 1.1 (hacker's paradise).
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At least they ARE being developed, DOS, Windows, etc... sure doesn't
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change much very fast. Plus Linux is free. :^)
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>Updating the kernel takes maybe half an hour to unpack and configure,
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>and maybe another half hour (on a decently fast machine) unattended to
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>compile.
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Yikes! Answering all the questions to make config and doing a make dep
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takes maybe 10 min, and my machine takes 12 min to compile the kernel.
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I only have a DX2 66. I wonder how the Pentium fairs.
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(btw I'm running kernel 1.1.50)
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>Furthermore, keeping 100 machines up to date is a lot easier with Unix
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>than with DOS - there are tools for it.
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Definitely. Normally PCs are horrible at networking compared to Unix
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(in this case Linux). Granted, Unix is harder to use for the general
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user, but still.
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--
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Andre Schoorl <aschoorl@engr.uvic.ca> PGP key available via finger/keyserver
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C.Eng Student, U.Vic, Canada. -> LINUX! <- http://www-engr.uvic.ca/~aschoorl
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From: stevek@panix.com (Steve Kann)
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Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
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Subject: DMA problems on Dell XPS-90
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 02:56:19 -0400
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I have been having problems with the DMA system on DELL XPS-90 machines.
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I run Linux on them, 1 of them is a "server" of sorts, the other 20
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serve as dual-purpose Xterminals/Dos workstations.
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I am no DMA expert, but I have been getting errors from the two main DMA
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devices on the systems: namely the floppy driver, and the lance ethernet
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driver (I have AT-1500's). The errors are not very descriptive, (the
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floppy driver says "Dma Error?", while the lance driver reports "Bus
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Master Arbitration Problem". The errors seem to be a temporary
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unavailability of the DMA controller. This doesn't seem to have a great
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affect on the floppy, (since it goes so slow, I'd imagine, it has plenty
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of time to retry the DMA transfer), but it often causes the lance driver
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to get a FIFO error, because it cannot keep it's buffers filled while
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performing a transmit.
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I have not spoken to anyone at DELL yet, but I just wanted to see if
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anyone else has had similar problems with these machines. They all pass
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Dell's Diags, but I don't think that really means all that much.
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Also, I have two other types of machine that are configured similarly
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(same ethernet card, same kernel floppy/lance drivers), and they all do
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not give these errors (Dell 486D50, Dell Omniplex P90).
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Anyone else having these problems? Anyone have a similar setup, and NOT
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having these problems?
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-SteveK
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--
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- Steve
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stevek@cooper.edu
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stevek@midnite.roslyn.ny.us
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From: esmith@access4.digex.net (Eric V. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Missing stdarg.h and (sort of) varargs.h
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Date: 25 Sep 1994 21:28:42 -0400
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In article <Cwp389.M8t@news.cern.ch>, Dan Pop <danpop@cernapo.cern.ch> wrote:
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>Mistery! /usr/include/stdarg.h does not exist, but gcc doesn't complain.
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>Have I just discovered a gcc bug?
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I know this is off topic and doesn't belong here, but...
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As those who hang out in comp.std.c would tell you, this is acceptable
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behavior. ANSI C doesn't require that standared include files be
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in actual files. They could just tell the compiler "hey, you can
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now use the stdarg stuff."
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Eric.
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From: jdv@ee.ualberta.ca (John Voth)
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Subject: [?] DIP with auto-redial?
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 06:01:30 GMT
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Greetings Linux Community:
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I am in search of a DIP or DIP-alike program that has auto redial
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functions built into it.
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I am in constant competition with others trying to connect to my
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university and the DIP I have now just flops at a busy signal.
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Any ideas?
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John
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--
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________________________________________________________
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| John D. Voth | Computer Engineering |
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| jdv@ee.ualberta.ca | University of Alberta |
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| voth@cs.ualberta.ca | Alberta, Canada |
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From: tony@teleport.com (Tony Schwartz)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: WANTED: Routers and Terminal Servers
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 20:56:29
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I have cash and a need for some routers and Terminal Servers. If you have any
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extras around that you want to part with, please email me with descriptions
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and pricing.
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Thanks in advance.
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Tony Schwartz
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Portland, OR
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tony@teleport.com
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(Not related to teleport.com, just a client)
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From: N.Charley-CSSE93@cs.bham.ac.uk (Neil Charley)
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Subject: Re: bind() bug, might have a fix
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 03:39:01 GMT
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(I originally posted this to comp.os.linux.admin yesterday, someone
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suggested I post it here too, followups to both groups from THIS article)
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Whilst testing out my talker code I happened upon a rather nasty bug
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in Linux, I certainly hope it isn't meant to be a feature!
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Basically for non-systems ports, ANY user can at ANY time bind() any
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port number, if a process already 'owns' the port, even if the process
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is owned by root! This means that if you run some sort of server,
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someone else can come along and run a program to bind() the port, and
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any new connections go to it. With the help of a friend I managed to
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track down where the bind() for AF_INET sockets is actually done, and
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worked out a fix. It seems to work fine, got it running on test atm.
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The code now allows uid 0 to always grab a port as before, and any
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other user to grab non-system (>= 1024) ports if and only if there
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isn't a running process that is bound to that port. I'm using the
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->dead data member to test if there is an 'alive' process attached to
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the port, is this correct?
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I have a diff patch against the sources for 1.1.51, but have been
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unable to find who is the best person to send this to for it to be
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checked and maybe made official, any offers?
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-Neil
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From: tony@teleport.com (Tony Schwartz)
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Subject: 2nd Attempt: Menus for Dialin Users
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 22:50:42
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Please direct me to menus for Dialin users.
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Tony Schwartz
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From: HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE
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Subject: Re: exabyte 8505
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Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 10:01:00 +0200
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dford@trc.amoco.com meinte am 21.09.94
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zum Thema "exabyte 8505":
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> Does linux support Exabyte 8505 tape drives, if not, is anybody working
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> drivers for the 8505. Also, is there a Fortran compiler for linux yet or F2C
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> available.
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A general answer :
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Linux supports all types of SCSI-streamers. This includes
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- QIC 60/150/525/... [QIC-80/QIC-117 are floppy-streamers and not SCSI]
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- Exabyte 8200/8500/...
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- HP-DAT / Wang-DAT
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SCSI-streamers are sequential-access-devices and the scsi-commands are
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equal for all streamers. So .... no problem !
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>
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> David A. Ford
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> dford@trc.amoco.com
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Ciao
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Higgins
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--
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You can escape the gates of hell, say DOG and WINDOG,
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USE LINUX :-) !
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## CrossPoint v3.0 ##
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From: bart@dunedin.es.co.nz (Bart Kindt)
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Subject: IRC Server for Linux??
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 02:30:06 GMT
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Hi. Is there a IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Server available for Linux?
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Any replies by E-Mail please...
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Thanks,
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====================================================================================
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Bart Kindt (ZL4FOX) System Operator, Efficient Software NZ LTD, Dunedin, New Zealand
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====================================================================================
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From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons)
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Subject: Support for third IDE drive using 2nd IDE controller?
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 07:02:54 GMT
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Reply-To: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu
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Is there any possible way to support more than two IDE hard drives
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in Linux? I want to use the second IDE controller in a Gateway
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machine (it's ISA, the first one is a PCI) to put a third drive on.
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The bios recognizes the third drive properly...
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Thanks for any info.
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David
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--
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David Simmons, System Administrator simmons@ee.msstate.edu
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Mississippi State University Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Visit my home page! http://www.ee.msstate.edu/~simmons
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Linux on CD
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 04:38:34 GMT
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In article <CwDx2M.ww@cs.bsu.edu>, <fagarcia@cs.bsu.edu> wrote:
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>I was having a chat with someone over the net and we came to this..
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>What if Linux came fully implemented (X & all the disk sets) on a CD and
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>all you would have to do is boot off the CD rom and have the
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>settings/option files (ie ~/.seyon inittab & the rc scrips) in your HD.
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>
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>I mean, this would save a lot of diskspace ;)
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>
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>just a vague thought.
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>
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>-Frank
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>
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No offense, but you're either not up on the true speed of CD-ROM drives
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or you don't realize how often UNIX hits the media.
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You can do this with a number of commerical releases of Linux, including
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the Yygdrasil release, but in practice running UNIX off of a 300kb/sec
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device is painful and running X off of such a device is glacial.
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Its alright as a way to look at UNIX, maybe, for a brief period, but
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TOTALLY unstatisfactory for doing real work.
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Sorry.
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Jeff Kesselman
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)
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Subject: Re: CD-ROM gurus: PLEASE ADD PHOTOCD support to Mitsumi
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 06:59:04 GMT
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In article <35a9cp$ig3@rutcor.rutgers.edu>,
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Tamas Badics <badics@rutcor.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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>Dear CD-ROM Gurus,
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>
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>Would some of you consider writing this minor improvement for the Mitsumi
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>driver mcd.c?
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I'm trying to write a new Mitsumi driver. But I've never handled
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Photo-CD nor I have such a CD.
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If you could be patient ... If it's time for me to think about
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Photo-CD-Support I'll ask about some hints. At first the
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functionality of the `old' (unifix) driver should be done.
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-- heiko
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From: kallio@tukki.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Bug: telnet to Linux node, sometimes no "login:" prompth
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Date: 26 Sep 1994 08:25:09 GMT
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Could someone help!
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I have strange problems in my Linux box. It sometimes hangs all
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new incomming telnet users. The Linux system is somehow responding to
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telnet: it is opening the window on NCSA Telnet but does not write the
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"login:" prompth.
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In log files start to repeat these errors:
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/usr/adm/syslog:
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for telnet): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for smtp): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for telnet): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for smtp): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for telnet): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for smtp): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for telnet): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for smtp): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for telnet): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for smtp): Try again
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Sep 26 10:02:27 silmu inetd[39]: accept (for telnet): Try again
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/usr/adm/messages:
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Sep 26 10:02:25 silmu kernel: sock_socket: no more sockets
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Sep 26 10:02:25 silmu kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Sep 26 10:02:25 silmu last message repeated 13 times
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Sep 26 10:02:25 silmu kernel: NET: sock_accept:
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no more <6>Sep 26 10:02:25 kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Sep 26 10:02:26 silmu kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Sep 26 10:02:26 silmu last message repeated 14 times
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Sep 26 10:02:28 silmu in.telnetd[9188]: connect from haigha.pccc.jyu.fi
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Sep 26 10:02:26 silmu kernel: NET: sock_accept:
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no <6>Sep 26 10:02:26 kernel: NET: sock_accept: no more sockets
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Kernel version is 1.1.49
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I can sometimes get this jam by running netstat -i -c on two terminals
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at same time but not every time.
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HW: 66MHz 486, one 2GB scsi aha-disk, 32M RAM, 2500 user accounts (!)
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less than 10 users at this time.
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Seppo Kallio
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kallio@jyu.fi
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** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
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The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
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to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
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Internet: Linux-Development-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
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You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.development) via:
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Internet: Linux-Development@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
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Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
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nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux
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tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
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sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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End of Linux-Development Digest
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