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4. Hardware Configuration

This document uses methodologies that I have developed over the years. Some of these docs have saved my butt on several occasions (documenting things like Drive partition maps, I/O and IRQ maps). This may seem like a pain in the butt to do initially but when you need them..

YOU NEED THEM!

4.1 - Distribution:

- Mandrake 7.0 w/ all available patches

4.2 - Kernel

v2.2.25

4.3 Hardware Used:

    - Intel Pentium 200Mhz / 128MB EDO RAM

    - Intel TC430HX motherboard (cannot tune IRQ use)
         - Serial port #1: COM1 - IRQ 4
         - Serial port #2: COM2 - IRQ 3
         - LPT1                 - IRQ 7
         - IDE 0                (disabled)
         - IDE 1                - IRQ 15

    - Network:
         Eth0: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 Dual port (PCI) - port #1 (IRQ  11) 
               - cable modem side

         Eth1: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 Dual port (PCI) - port #2 (IRQ  14) 
               - Int LAN

    - Video:
         Matrox Millennium II (4MB) - (PCI)

    - Sound:
         Built-in Windows Sound System (IO:530h, IRQ: 9, L-DMA: 0, H-DMA: 1, 
               MPU: 330h, MPU IRQ: -1


    - Controllers:
         - Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller (PCI) - IRQ: 10
               - Used for SCSI disks (ext. cabling to RAID enclosure)

         - Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller (PCI)  - IRQ: 14
               - Used for CDROMs and Tape drives (int. & ext. cabling)

    - I/O Adapter - (ISA)
         (2) port serial / (1) parallel 
         - COM3 - IRQ 4
         - COM4 - IRQ 3
         - LPT2 - IRQ 5


    - Storage Devices:
                                == In the primary system case ==

                - HDC:   Maxtor DiamondMax+    10.0GB (UDMA)[512k][LBA] [
                - HDD:   IBM 120GB HD

                - SR0-6: Nakamichi 7-CD 2x changer (ID: 4)
                - SR7:   Philips CM4xx 4x CDROM    (ID: 5)
                - ST0:   HP T4000 TR4 Tape drive   (ID: 6) [dead?]

                == In the secondary RAID enclosure ==
                
                - SDA:  Seagate ST39173N 9GB (20Mb/s) (ID: 0) - Primary HD
                - SDB:  Seagate ST39173N 9GB (20Mb/s) (ID: 1) -          
                - SDC:  IBM DNES-309170  9GB (20Mb/s) (ID: 2) -
                - SDD:  Seagate ST39173N 9GB (20Mb/s) (ID: 3) - dd backup of SDA
       

                        - I/O:(See docs on IRQTUNE to better understand why these
                                 are like this.  It makes a difference!)

                                ttyS0: COM1 - APC SmartUPS UPS
                                ttyS1: COM2 - N/A
                                ttyS3: COM3 - USR Courier v.Everything
                                ttyS2: COM4 - 

                                LPT1:  Hp LaserJet-IIp  (UNIX & Samba share)
                                LPT2:  Canon S800       (UNIX & Samba share)



------ I/O Maps and "Expert" fdisk partition tables -----
                                
IRQ Map:

         0: timer                 (system)
         1: keyboard          (system)
         2: Cascade               (system)
         3: COM2-N/A          (Motheboard) & COM4-                         
         4: COM1-APC Smartups (Motherboard & COM3-US Robotics modem
         5: Sound             (Motherboard)
         6: Floppy            (system)
         7: LPT1-printer      (motherboard)
         8: Clock             (system)
         9: Cascade                       
        10: Adaptec 2940U     (PCI)
        11: Compaq Ethernet#1 (PCI)
        12: PS/2 mouse        (motherboard)
        13: Math coprocessor
        14: Adaptec 2940UW    (PCI)
        15: IDE1              (motherboard)

I/O Port MAP:

        170-1F7h:       IDE1
        1F0-1F7h:       IDE0
        200-207h:       (not used) usually Joystick
        278-27Fh:       LPT1
        2E8-2EFh:       COM4
        2F8-2FFh:       COM2
        330-331h:       Windows Sound Systye Pro MPU-401
        376-376h:       IDE1
        378-37Fh:       LPT1
        3E8-3EFh:       COM3
        3F0-3F5h:       Floppy drive
        3F6-3F6h:       IDE0
        530-533h:   Windows Sound System
        
        E800h:  AHA2940U
        EC80h:  AHA2940U
        FCE0:   TLAN #1
        FCF0:   TLAN #2
        E400h:  System BIOS
        E800h:  Systen BIOS
        F000h:  System BIOS

DMA Map:

        0 - Windows Sound System
        1 - Windows Sound System
        2 - Alternative Floppy DMA 
        3 - Floppy DMA
        4 - Casecade
        5 - None
        6 - None


-----
All hard Drive partition tables
-----


/dev/hdc (normal mode printout - expert truncates)
==================================================
Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19390 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1            1        1    19390  9772528+  83  Linux native
==================================================


/dev/sda (expert mode printout)
==================================================
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl   Start    Size ID
 1 80   1   1    0 254  63    6      63  112392 06
 2 00   0   1    7 254  63 1023  11245517655435 05
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 5 00   1   1    7 254  63  261      63 4096512 83
 6 00   1   1  262 254  63  294      63  530082 82
 7 00   1   1  295 254  63 1023      6312289662 83
 8 00 254  63 1023 254  63 1023      63  738927 83
==================================================


/dev/sdb (expert mode printout)
==================================================
Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl   Start    Size ID
 1 00   1   1    0 254  63 1023      6317767827 83
 2 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
==================================================


/dev/sdc (expert mode printout)
==================================================
Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1115 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl   Start    Size ID
 1 00   1   1    0 254  63 1023      6317912412 83
 2 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
==================================================


/dev/sdd (expert mode printout)
==================================================
Disk /dev/sdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl   Start    Size ID
 1 80   1   1    0 254  63    6      63  112392 06
 2 00   0   1    7 254  63 1023  11245517655435 05
 3 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0       0       0 00
 5 00   1   1    7 254  63  261      63 4096512 83
 6 00   1   1  262 254  63  294      63  530082 82
 7 00   1   1  295 254  63 1023      6312289662 83
 8 00 254  63 1023 254  63 1023      63  738927 83
==================================================

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