Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
So, back to this issue. I've finally figured out how to make a bootable iso ( for future search in the archives: /n/sources/contrib/maht/rc/mkiso , /sys/lib/dist/pc/mkfile , and http://maht0x0r.blogspot.com/2007/11/roll-your-own-plan9-iso.html were pretty much the only useful docs I could find on

Re: [9fans] LSI Logic 53C1030 SCSI

2008-04-29 Thread dave . l
after that, there was no question that i would take all the SCSI drives for recycling. the SATA drives are much, much faster that the `fastest' of the old SCSI drives. ... and less likely to die. How old are those drives? My very vague rule of thumb is that the bathtub failure curve for

Re: [9fans] LSI Logic 53C1030 SCSI

2008-04-29 Thread Charles Forsyth
How old are those drives? My very vague rule of thumb is that the bathtub failure curve for most moving computer machinery rises steeply after at most about 5 years, so if they're already a few years old ... they varied: typically 7 or 8, some 10 to 15

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread erik quanstrom
Heh, you got me there. It's just that I was too lazy to rewrite all the stuff by hand. I only compared what was on the screen to that previous message and when I saw the value were the same I pasted again the old message. But I had indeed noticed that line was absent. So yeah, with the old

Re: [9fans] plan 9 on an IBM eserver 325

2008-04-29 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
pc=0x3 On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, you got me there. It's just that I was too lazy to rewrite all the stuff by hand. I only compared what was on the screen to that previous message and when I saw the value were the same I pasted again the

[9fans] upas/ned question

2008-04-29 Thread erik quanstrom
in nedmail.c:/^folder, there is an attempt to use /mail/box/$user/f to store files saved with the f cmd, though this isn't documented in the man page. is this an something ancient and long-forgotten? where does this come from? - erik