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RE: [suse-amd64] SATA dma_timer_expiry problems revisited
by Miller, Daniel J. 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

There is an issue with some ATA drives that involves behavior designed to reduce operating noise. I've not heard of these being an issue in any SATA drives (yet) but you might want to follow up on the possibility. The drives report "unavailable" to the controller and the controller drops them out of the array. The links below offer tools to tune IDE family drives - perhaps if your issue isn't the "acoustic" setting it's something else listed at these links. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Failed after install: Where do I find the utility to disable the acoustic bit for Western Digital, Samsung or Hitachi/IBM ATA drives to keep them from timing out and falling out of the array? Please visit the following links: For Samsung AAM Following screen shows how to use AUTOMATIC ACOUSTIC MANAGEMENT. You can select a proper seek mode among FAST/MIDDLE/QUIET in accordance with user's circumstance. Select the proper AAM by selecting AAM MODE (Quiet/Middle/Fast is changed by pressing Enter Key) and perform PROCESS by pressing Enter Key. DISPLAY CURRENT MODE represents current AAM status. Performance : Fast>Middle>Quiet (Fast is the best) Acoustic Noise: Fast>Middle>Quiet (Fast is the worst) http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm For Western Digital Problem: WD EIDE drives are dropped from an IDE RAID array or system after several days or weeks of error-free operation. Solution: The problem is a result of a feature that reduces idle acoustic noise in desktop drives. This feature may cause a timeout likely (though not exclusively) in an IDE RAID environment. To disable the feature, you can run a simple Western Digital utility to turn off a single bit in the drive's run-time configuration. Disabling of this feature will NOT impact normal system operations. No firmware or hardware changes are required. http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=*_ 5Ivm2h&p_lva=&p_faqid=913&p_created=1047068027&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9ncmlk c29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1hY291c3RpYyZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBl PTQmcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9fmFueX4mcF9wcm9kX2x2bDI9fmFueX4mcF9jYXRfbHZsMT0yNyZw X3NvcnRfYnk9ZGZsdCZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li= For Hitachi/IBM http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm Hope it helps, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Johan Backlund [mailto:jbacklund@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:13 PM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] SATA dma_timer_expiry problems revisited Sorry, for repeating this question - but I need to give it one more chance to get solved before I throw those SATA disks out. Sometimes (usually not that often) when accessing my SATA disks I get this: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt This timeout occurs after some 15 seconds of halted activity on the drive. I have had this problem since day 1. I have lived in hope that kerenl updates would catch this problem but now I am on 2.6.3 and the problem is still there. Can anyone give me a hint on what might be causing this? I mean, could it be hardware failure (cables?), lousy chipset (VIA VT8237), configuration errors, kernel bugs etc.? thanks for listening. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you're looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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SATA dma_timer_expiry problems revisited
by Johan Backlund 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Sorry, for repeating this question - but I need to give it one more chance to get solved before I throw those SATA disks out. Sometimes (usually not that often) when accessing my SATA disks I get this: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 hda: DMA interrupt recovery hda: lost interrupt This timeout occurs after some 15 seconds of halted activity on the drive. I have had this problem since day 1. I have lived in hope that kerenl updates would catch this problem but now I am on 2.6.3 and the problem is still there. Can anyone give me a hint on what might be causing this? I mean, could it be hardware failure (cables?), lousy chipset (VIA VT8237), configuration errors, kernel bugs etc.? thanks for listening. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com

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Eclipse SDK-3.0M7
by Stanimir Arnaudov 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Hello, I'm trying to run Eclipse on SuSE 9.0 for AMD64. The x86_64 installation is working realtively fine ( I still don't have hardware acceleration for Asus 9600XT and the SyncMaster959NF is not recognized). Yast2 says everything installed is up-to-date. This is what I did with the (still unfulfilled) hope of starting Eclipse: 1) Installed 64-bit Blackdown-1.4.2 j2sdk in /usr/local/. I used the profile.local file as advised by SuSe to add the sdk to the PATH and also added conf files in /etc/java. $ java -version java version "1.4.2-rc1" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.4.2-rc1) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build Blackdown-1.4.2-rc1, mixed mode) 2) Downloaded eclipse-SDK-3.0M7-linux-motif.zip in /opt $ cd /opt $ chmod 777 eclipse-SDK-3.0M7-linux-motif.zip $ unzip eclipse-SDK-3.0M7-linux-motif.zip $ cd eclipse $ /.eclipse the result was a terminal full of errors, so I Googled. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2003-Dec/0086.html removed the errros in the terminal. But then after seeing the splashscreen I got the error box "problems at startup". The .log file read: !SESSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Mar 05, 2004 19:14:28.561 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.motif_3.0.0/os/linux/x86/libswt-motif-3038.so: /opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.motif_3.0.0/os/linux/x86/libswt-motif-3038.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1560) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1469) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:788) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:834) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:100) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.motif.OS.<clinit>(OS.java:20) at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.<clinit>(Device.java:89) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:279) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:41) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:257) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:104) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:279) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:742) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:581) so I checked if the file was there and it WAS there: r166022:/opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.motif_3.0.0/os/linux/x86 # l total 480 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 304 2004-02-13 02:26 ./ drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 72 2004-02-13 02:26 ../ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2297 2004-02-13 02:26 libswt-awt-motif-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15008 2004-02-13 02:26 libswt-gnome-motif-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5289 2004-02-13 02:26 libswt-gtk-motif-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21763 2004-02-13 02:26 libswt-kde-motif-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 382789 2004-02-13 02:26 libswt-motif-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51776 2004-02-13 02:26 libswt-mozilla-motif-3038.so* ... another 6 or so hours of Googling and experimenting with things like: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.motif_3.0.0/os/linux/x86/ from: http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=bifv3g%2… and nothing wokrked. I also tried to install the GTK version - the result was equally disastrous: !SESSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.launcher 4 0 Mar 05, 2004 19:32:42.808 !MESSAGE Exception launching the Eclipse Platform: !STACK java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.gtk_3.0.0/os/linux/x86/libswt-pi-gtk-3038.so: /opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.gtk_3.0.0/os/linux/x86/libswt-pi-gtk-3038.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1560) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1469) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:788) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:834) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:100) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.<clinit>(OS.java:19) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:112) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:279) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:149) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:41) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:257) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:104) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:279) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:742) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:581) libswt-pi-gtk-3038.so is of course there where it should be: r166022:/opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.gtk_3.0.0/os/linux/x86 # l total 564 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 296 2004-02-13 02:27 ./ drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 72 2004-02-13 02:27 ../ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43319 2004-02-13 02:27 libswt-atk-gtk-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6583 2004-02-13 02:27 libswt-awt-gtk-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14103 2004-02-13 02:27 libswt-gnome-gtk-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 190447 2004-02-13 02:27 libswt-gtk-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51776 2004-02-13 02:27 libswt-mozilla-gtk-3038.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 259184 2004-02-13 02:27 libswt-pi-gtk-3038.so* Does somebody have a clue how I can get Eclipse working ? Thanks in advance, Stanimir

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Re: [suse-amd64] Acer 1501 LMI (XP 3000+ 64bit) - WLAN-Karte intern
by Tim Oliver Wagner 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Am Fr, 2004-03-05 um 18.36 schrieb Wigbert Lindenbauer: > Tim Oliver Wagner schrieb: > Hallo Tim Oliver, > > kannst du genauere Angaben zum WLAN-Chip machen ? > Ist es eine MINI-PCI mit 11 Mbit/s oder 54Mbits/s ? 18: PCI 0a.0: 0280 Network controller [Created at pci.65] Unique ID: bSAa.LIipijzeIt6 Hardware Class: network Model: "Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4320 "BCM94306 802.11g" SubVendor: pci 0x185f SubDevice: pci 0x1220 Revision: 0x03 Memory Range: 0xd0000000-??? (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 11 (82341866 events) Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Ist also eine 54 MBit Wireless Karte ... ich hoffe mir kann jemand kurz beschreiben wie ich die ans Laufen bekomme. Bzw einen Link mit einem HOWTO wäre prima. :-) > > Bei 54Mbits/s mußt Du mittels "ndiswrapper" den WINDOWS-NDIS-Treiber nutzen. > Ob das auch bei 64bit-Linux läuft, kann ich dir nicht sagen. > Über ndiswrapper findest du per google einige Hinweise in der > Linux-Laptop-Liste. Wie geht das unter 32 Bit? Kann mir jemand den Titel des Threads verraten? Ich habe ihn leider nicht finden können :-( > Nutzt du Suse-Linux9 als 64bit oder die normale 32bit Version ? die 64Bit Version ... > Hat das Notebook eine richtige Mobile AMD64 ?? Hmmm, wenn ich das wüsste ... ich denke nicht ... cat /proc/cpuinfo liefer: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 797.759 cache size : 1024 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow bogomips : 1569.22 TLB size : 1088 4K pages clflush size : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp > Läuft Xfree86 ohne Probleme mit 1400*1024 ? Habe mich noch nicht an 3d ran gemacht aber jetzt läuft es schon weit 15 Stunden problemlos ... > Wie laut ist der Lüfter des Notebooks ? Ab und an geht der mal los ... aber nicht so häufig ... > Hat das Netzteil noch einen extra Lüfter ? nö > Wird das DVD-Brenner-Laufwerk unter Linux unterstützt ? sobald ich etwas gebrannt habe sage ich Dir/Euch bescheid ... > MfG > Wigbert

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Cisco VPN-Client
by Tim Oliver Wagner 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Hi, ich habe die Kernel-Sourcen installiert, make cloneconfig und make dep ausgeführt. Dachte dann wären die nötigen sourcen installiert. Leider kommt es immernoch zu einem Fehler beim installieren des Cisco Clients. Kann mir da jemand helfen? Unten kommt der output. tia OLI linux:/usr/src/external/WirelessAndCiscoVPN/VPN_Clients/linux/vpnclient # ./vpn_install Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.0.3 (B) Linux Installer Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. By installing this product you agree that you have read the license.txt file (The VPN Client license) and will comply with its terms. Directory where binaries will be installed [/usr/local/bin] Automatically start the VPN service at boot time [yes] In order to build the VPN kernel module, you must have the kernel headers for the version of the kernel you are running. For RedHat 6.x users these files are installed in /usr/src/linux by default For RedHat 7.x users these files are installed in /usr/src/linux-2.4 by default For Suse 7.3 users these files are installed in /usr/src/linux-2.4.10.SuSE by default Directory containing linux kernel source code [/lib/modules/2.4.21-193-default/build] * Binaries will be installed in "/usr/local/bin". * Modules will be installed in "/lib/modules/2.4.21-193-default/CiscoVPN". * The VPN service will be started AUTOMATICALLY at boot time. * Kernel source from "/lib/modules/2.4.21-193-default/build" will be used to build the module. Is the above correct [y] Making module In file included from Cniapi.h:15, from linuxcniapi.c:24: GenDefs.h:101:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit In file included from Cniapi.h:15, from linuxcniapi.c:24: GenDefs.h:102: error: parse error before "intptr_t" GenDefs.h:102: Warnung: data definition has no type or storage class GenDefs.h:111:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit In file included from Cniapi.h:15, from interceptor.c:30: GenDefs.h:101:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit In file included from Cniapi.h:15, from interceptor.c:30: GenDefs.h:102: error: parse error before "intptr_t" GenDefs.h:102: Warnung: data definition has no type or storage class GenDefs.h:111:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit In file included from IPSecDrvOS_linux.c:20: GenDefs.h:101:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit In file included from IPSecDrvOS_linux.c:20: GenDefs.h:102: error: parse error before "intptr_t" GenDefs.h:102: Warnung: data definition has no type or storage class GenDefs.h:111:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit In file included from Cniapi.h:15, from frag.c:16: GenDefs.h:101:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit In file included from Cniapi.h:15, from frag.c:16: GenDefs.h:102: error: parse error before "intptr_t" GenDefs.h:102: Warnung: data definition has no type or storage class GenDefs.h:111:2: Warnung: #warning 64 bit ld: cannot open frag.o: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden Failed to make module "cisco_ipsec". linux:/usr/src/external/WirelessAndCiscoVPN/VPN_Clients/linux/vpnclient #

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Acer 1501 LMI (XP 3000+ 64bit) - WLAN-Karte intern
by Tim Oliver Wagner 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Hi, seit gestern habe ich diesen Laptop. Hat den vielleicht jemand und weiss wie man die Sachen ans laufen bekommt. Im Moment versuche ich die Wlan-Karte ans laufen zu bekommen: Wie bekomme ich eine Wirelesskarte die nicht eine PCMCIA-Karte ist ans laufen? Wie bekomme ich raus welche Kernelmodule geladen werden müssen? Ich hoffe es kann mir jemand helfen tia OLI

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AW: AW: AW: [suse-amd64] opteron based clusters: any technical fe edba cks?
by Khamenia, Valery 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

> Neither OpenMOSIX nor OpenSSI are normally used for HPC clusters > because they scale not very well to a high number of nodes > and have too high overhead. > Especially SSI is more aimed at the HA space, which > has completely differnet requirements. Three things are quite clear: 1. there shoul be *some* overhead in SSI. Do you have any good links concerning this overhead and what is the progress with this overhead problem? 2. handmade parallelisation should always show better performance. Here the situation is quite similar to "assembler<->high level language". Indeed, one could easy agree that high level language bring *some* overhead. However majority of programmers do not use assembler for general purpose programming anymore. So, it would be interesting to know at which time-point are currently the "high-level-parallelisation tools" like OpenSSI and OpenMosix. 3. shared memory is a problem, of course, but not all projects use the shared memory. (e.g. my software is potentially good for process migration because of no shared memory usage) Thank you for your remark.

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missing kernel source
by Hugo Kohmann 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Hi, I just did a online update of my SuSe 9.0 professional - X86_64. Everything worked fine, except for upgrading the kernel source - that was not found on any of the listed servers. We need the kernel source for compiling our drivers. When will this be available ?. Dolphin has just made a press release about our new SCI_SOCKET software for X86_64 ( and X86 ). With SCI_SOCKET, applications using standard sockets can send data to another machine in appr 2.27us. Most of the testing has been done using SuSe 9.0 professional - X86_64. More about this can be found at http://www.dolphinics.com/news/2004/2_25.html Best regards Hugo ========================================================================================= Hugo Kohmann | Dolphin Interconnect Solutions AS | E-mail: P.O. Box 150 Oppsal | hugo(a)dolphinics.com N-0619 Oslo, Norway | Web: Tel:+47 23 16 71 73 | http://www.dolphinics.com Fax:+47 23 16 71 80 | Visiting Address: Olaf Helsets vei 6 |

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AW: AW: [suse-amd64] opteron based clusters: any technical feedba cks?
by Khamenia, Valery 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Hi Juan, > Take a look: > http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21799.html hm, after reading e.g. this: "We started working with AMD before there was [an Opteron] chip," he said. "We were the only operating system at [the chip's] launch -- of any type -- available on 64-bit." I should probably have keep fighting with installing OpenSSI and OpenMosix on SuSE9... Well, wouldn't it be unlogical to propose both to the SuSE and AMD guys to make some *minimal* efforts to help OpenSSI and OpenMosix groups to saddle the AMD64/SuSE9 couple? I mean, look, to put things simplistic: Q: What is the best theoretical solution for clustering with transparent/implicit parallelism? A: AMD64 + SUSE9 + OpenMOSIX/OpenSSI. Q: Does this theoretical solution work? A: Not really, more practical is ia32 + RedHat/Debian + OpenMOSIX/OpenSSI bahh... If they could help to do this, they could boost their sales with slogan: "the best cluster is SSI-cluster, the best SSI-cluster is AMD64 + SUSE9 + OpenMOSIX/OpenSSI!" :) -- Valery

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SLES 8 update problems
by Robert_Thilsted＠ord.uscourts.gov 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Hi, I have a dual Opteron 246, 8 gig, arima MB, lsi Megaraid dual channel scsi, system with no end of problems getting stable. SLES 8 install goes fine, online update via YAST2 goes smoothly. Then it will not boot. Kernel panic because it can not see the disk, thus cannot get to init. GRUB installed everywhere, no help. LILO used instead of GRUB, no help. Worked with SuSE support through everything they could suggest, no fix. Reinstall of SLES with ext2 instead of Reiserfs, no help. Flashed the BIOS up to the latest, blew away the LSI bios, and then could not boot even to a DOS diskette. Awaiting new LSI card. Anybody seeing similar behavior out there? Anybody done the on-line update with SLES successfully? Any tips much appreciated. Bob Thilsted

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