GNU Mach: IDE disk drives with unusual C/H/S

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! GNU Mach mis-detected a 64 GB LBA-capable IDE disk drive. As elaborated in the patch: »The ATA spec tells large drives to return C/H/S = 16383/16/63 independent of their size. Some drives can be jumpered to use 15 heads instead of 16.« My hd2 claimed 15 heads even without any (visible)

Re: GNU Mach: IDE disk drives with unusual C/H/S

2012-11-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Thomas Schwinge tho...@codesourcery.com writes: […] Does anyone spot any problems, or does this need more testing, or is it OK to commit right away? I see none (but then, I'm not really a Mach or ATA expert), apart from a few style and formatting issues. […] +if

Re: GNU Mach: IDE disk drives with unusual C/H/S

2012-11-27 Thread Richard Braun
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:36:24PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Thomas Schwinge tho...@codesourcery.com writes: […] Does anyone spot any problems, or does this need more testing, or is it OK to commit right away? I see none (but then, I'm not really a Mach or ATA expert),

Re: GNU Mach: IDE disk drives with unusual C/H/S

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi Ivan! On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:36:24 +0700, Ivan Shmakov oneing...@gmail.com wrote: Thomas Schwinge tho...@codesourcery.com writes: […] Does anyone spot any problems, or does this need more testing, or is it OK to commit right away? I see none (but then, I'm not really a

Re: GNU Mach: IDE disk drives with unusual C/H/S

2012-11-27 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Thomas Schwinge tho...@codesourcery.com writes: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:36:24 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] Here, a diff line could've been saved by adding an opening { to the if above. (IOW, no need to drop the C grouping construct from here.) Generally you're right with your

Re: Public Hurd box down for a few days

2012-11-27 Thread Richard Braun
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:03:04PM +0100, Richard Braun wrote: The public Hurd box darnassus.sceen.net suffered a problem (due to human error when updating kernel/libc/hurd servers), which caused a fatal corruption of the root file system. The machine needs to be completely reinstalled, and

Re: Interface for SCSI transactions ?

2012-11-27 Thread Svante Signell
Hi Thomas, Time to nag you again:) I assume you are a GNU fan (as I am). How much effort is needed, do you think, to get CD/DVD/RW/RW capabilities for GNU/Hurd. Maybe I can try to help you, but my knowledge is still very limited, but improving. Thanks! On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 12:12 +0200, Thomas

hurd with libpthread

2012-11-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, At last that work is out! I've pushed the patchqueue from Richard to upstreams, built test debian packages on deb http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/tmp ./ I hope to have not forgotten anything for the dependencies: the new hurd depends on the new libc0.3, and breaks the old

Re: hurd with libpthread

2012-11-27 Thread Barry deFreese
w000t!! Finally, nice job folks!! (Sorry to have disappeared again... :-() Barry On 11/27/2012 9:54 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, At last that work is out! I've pushed the patchqueue from Richard to upstreams, built test debian packages on deb

Re: Interface for SCSI transactions ?

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Time to nag you again:) I can stand that. :) I assume you are a GNU fan I am a GNU maintainer. Not that this would involve much of a carreer or promotion, but nevertheless i maintain GNU xorriso. How much effort is needed, do you think, to get CD/DVD/RW/RW capabilities for GNU/Hurd.