[parisc-linux] RE: question setting up consoles, x and stuff

[parisc-linux] RE: question setting up consoles, x and stuff

[Grant Grundler]

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From: "Sean Anaya" <sanaya@gr.hp.com>
To: "Grant Grundler" <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>
Subject: RE: question setting up consoles, x and stuff 
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:05:09 -0600

Grant,

Here are the numbers I found on the GFX card I'm attempting to use:

A4246A Geo Accelerator

A56200754026     These are the numbers I grabed off the frame buffer
A4246-66002

These two cards are jumpered together. Since I'm not familiar with HP
hardware, I
hope I grabbed the correct part numbers.

Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Grundler [mailto:grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:26 PM
> To: sanaya@gr.hp.com
> Subject: Re: question setting up consoles, x and stuff
>
>
> "Sean Anaya" wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just recently installed hppa debian on a C180XP machine. I'm
> having some
> > trouble getting X setup and wondered i there was someone who
> could spare a
> > little time help me out.
>
> Sean,
> post which type of gfx card you are trying to use and
> the /var/log/XFree86.0.log to the mailing list.
>
> grant


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[parisc-linux] Autoraid supported?

[Derek Engelhaupt]

Hey all,

Basically I have an AutoRAID Model 12 (not a 12H) that I want to use on
my newly installed C180 (finally got it workin). Being an HP-UX man I
was wondering how Debian handles alternate (pv) links?  I'm curious
because the AutoRAID has 2 controllers (only one active at a time) and
I have 2 F/W controller cards installed in the C180 besides the onboard
F/W controller.  I'm just starting to figure out some of the
differences in the file system structure from HP-UX and Linux.  I did
d/l some info from "The Linux Cookbook," but I still have questions. 
Normally on my HP-UX side I would hook up the AutoRAID, do an ioscan
-f, insf -e, and proceed to pvcreate/vgcreate/lvcreate, etc.  Since
there is no ioscan in Linux, how can you do a physical scan of the
hardware? Any hardware diagnostics?  Or if anyone can point me to some
other online resources that might be helpful, that would be great too. 
Thanks....

derek (lost in the Linux world)



P.S. If I start to get annoying with the basic questions about Linux,
you can blame HP for spoon feeding all of us hardware techs. ;)  I'm
just interested in furthering my knowledge of Linux since I don't
really get to fool around with HP-UX since most of the boxes I'm
working on are in a production environment.

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Re: [parisc-linux] Autoraid supported?

[Grant Grundler]

Derek Engelhaupt wrote:
> Being an HP-UX man I was wondering how Debian handles alternate (pv) links?

YMMV. The dual controller FC10 confused the shit out of the
Emulex lpfc driver. lpfc just doesn't know the FC10 might take
5-10 (or more)  seconds to reassign LUNs from one controller
to the other.  I don't expect much better from the SCSI stack
but it will depend on the interface driver.

...
> Normally on my HP-UX side I would hook up the AutoRAID, do an ioscan
> -f, insf -e, and proceed to pvcreate/vgcreate/lvcreate, etc.  Since
> there is no ioscan in Linux, how can you do a physical scan of the
> hardware?

At boot time, such a scan takes place.
You can look in /proc/scsi/scsi to see which SCSI devices have
been discovered.

> Any hardware diagnostics?  Or if anyone can point me to some
> other online resources that might be helpful, that would be great too. 
> Thanks....

See Debian scsitools and scsiadd packages.
Also learn about mounting file systems by label rather than
by device name

grant