Re: Desired behaviour of ifconfig -alias

2007-02-12 Thread J. T. Farmer
Oliver Fromme wrote: In the case of adding something, what should be added if nothing is specified? Should the tool invent an arbitrary IP address and add it? Now that would be nonsensical. But when removing something without specifying which one, it makes some sense to simply remove the

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-12 Thread J. T. Farmer
Greg Barniskis wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: and every time someone comes in the lists to complain about something being broken in -RELEASE, the advice is to go to and track -STABLE! Maybe splitting hairs, but advising a user with a problem to try using the -STABLE code that exists at the time

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread J. T. Farmer
Volker wrote: This should be documented somewhere clearly then, as my understanding was that -STABLE meant that anything MFCd back to it *was* tested and deemed stable ... and yes, I do run stable, and yes, I do expect to hit the occasional 'oopses', but blantant and obvious bugs due to

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Released

2006-05-11 Thread J. T. farmer
Mike Jakubik wrote: Jonathan Noack wrote: The *entire* errata page was from 6.0; it was a mistake. This wasn't some put on the rose-colored classes and gloss over major issues thing. It was a long release cycle and something was forgotten. C'est la vie. It's always a good idea to check the

Re: Hosts/dns contention in FBSD 5.4

2005-10-05 Thread J. T. Farmer
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:06 am, Jeremy Bogan wrote: You could try running a caching DNS server locally, DjbDNS is simple to setup and get going. Yes, I have thought that maybe a local simple caching dns server would help; and if I can't otherwise fix the problem I'll give

Re: Problem booting FBSD 5.4-stable..

2005-10-01 Thread J. T. Farmer
Subhro wrote: Sebastian Holmqvist sat at his 'puter and typed on 10/1/2005 17:45: Running the latest BIOS version yes. Also running Fail safe options with the exception on that I've but the cdrom on first boot device. The cable setup is IDE1 - HD0 (M) - Cdrom (S). So yes, they're on the same

Re: HP DL140 and ata0-slave: FAILURE-ATA_IDENTIFY timed out.

2005-09-23 Thread J. T. Farmer
Scot Hetzel wrote: The ATA driver was changed in 5.x, and then again in 6-CURRENT. If you want to run 5.x on that system, your going to need to install FBSD 4.11 first, then do a source upgrade to 5.x. But you'll also need to replace the 5.x ATAng driver with the 6.x ATA-Mk III driver.

Re: file -i (mime type) has bug ?

2005-09-08 Thread J. T. Farmer
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 08), Andriy Gapon said: on 08.09.2005 19:29 Dan Nelson said the following: -i uses the magic.mime file instead of the standard magic file, and there are no entries for RISC executables in there. Oh I see, completely different

Re: SiI 3114 woes

2005-09-08 Thread J. T. Farmer
Jon Dama wrote: Yes, but only in a configuration =3GB. But I thought those problems were ironed out? I've been looking to switch that machine back to FreeBSD/amd64 but haven't had a chance yet. Would love to know if there are issues ahead. -Jon On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Mars G. Miro wrote: Yo

Re: Sysinstall automatic filesystem size generation.

2005-08-29 Thread J. T. Farmer
Chuck Swiger wrote: Matthias Buelow wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: PS: Haven't we had this conversation before? Yes, indeed, and I don't want to reopen that issue since that would lead to no new insights (and since I don't have the time atm. to contribute anything I couldn't provide any

Re: ICH6 ID'd correctly now, but breaks in 5.4-STABLE?

2005-08-27 Thread J. T. Farmer
Karl Pielorz wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 5.4-R onto my Dell laptop, and it worked fine. I then updated to 5.4-STABLE (as of 26/08/05) - and it broke... Specifically, with the new sources it fails to mount the root files system - and instead displays: Mounting root from

Re: ICH6 ID'd correctly now, but breaks in 5.4-STABLE?

2005-08-27 Thread J. T. Farmer
Vlad GALU wrote: On 8/27/05, J. T. Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] It did the job for me. jhb commited the patch a couple of weeks after I submitted the PR. Don't blame either him or me for things going downhill, I assume that there were at least a few people running with similar

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread J. T. Farmer
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:31 AM 10/08/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Also, I've yet to see a developer commit on the list that they WILL fix it if such a controller board is forthcoming (and will return the board when they're done) - I've got two of these cards here (choose between Adaptec and

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread J. T. Farmer
Scot Hetzel wrote: On 8/10/05, Søren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I came in late in this, I need to know what kind of controller we are talking about, and if the problem is still present in 6.0. I plan to backport ATA from 6.0 to 5-stable when it has settled, so 6.0 is the one

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread J. T. Farmer
Chuck Swiger wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:46:04AM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote: [ ... ] I've already gone WAY out of my way to try to support the sii3112, and I'm not inclined to waste more of my precious spare time on it. However, if it really is that

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread J. T. Farmer
Karl Denninger wrote: From the online man page for ata.4, which is EXPLICITLY referenced as THE authoritative list of which disk controllers it supports: The currently supported ATA/SATA controller chips are: Acard: ATP850P, ATP860A, ATP860R, ATP865A, ATP865R ALI:

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-09 Thread J. T. Farmer
Chuck Swiger wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: [ ... ] One of my SATA disks, the SAMSUNG SP2004C seems to show errors during operation (and also showd under 5.4-RELEASE-p3). Sometimes I get this error: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599 while the machine still

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 Available

2005-08-06 Thread J. T. Farmer
Kevin Oberman wrote: I would suggest that it would have been better to post to current as 6.0 is not yet stable and most of the people who deal with problems are much more likely to see problems reported there. Ok, so I'm a bit confused. The answer given for the the DMA_WRITE and DMA_READ

Re: TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimization

2005-07-28 Thread J. T. Farmer
Andre Oppermann wrote: First I want to thank everyone for their great support and numerous donations to the TCP/IP Cleanup and Optimization[1]! The full funding target has been reached today. I want thank especially the many individuals who have contributed a significant amount of money

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-25 Thread J. T. Farmer
J. Porter Clark wrote: The ATA (definitely not SATA) controller on my Dell Latitude C840 laptop has READ_DMA, WRITE_DMA problems, maybe 2-3 times a day unless I turn off DMA. It hangs for 3-4 seconds, logs errors, then proceeds. It isn't heavily loaded. I tried using Soren's ATA mkIII

Re: ATA Woes.

2005-07-19 Thread J. T. Farmer
Tony Byrne wrote: Hello Wilko, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 7:35:40 PM, you wrote: WB On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:22:01AM -0700, Jon Simola wrote.. What I've recently learned the hard way is that desktop drives have no place in a server. I've now failed 4 of 10 SATA drives (Maxtor and WD) in

Re: ATA HDD installer issue

2005-07-08 Thread J. T. Farmer
Kevin Oberman wrote: Don't forget that any modern BIOS and HD will be using LBA, not CHS, for addressing the disk and disks have not had the same number of sectors per track on all cylinders for a long time, so the numbers are bogus in any case. CHS does not allow properly addressing any modern

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-17 Thread J. T. Farmer
Uzi wrote: [...] super-smack select-key 5.4-RELEASE ~20,000 queries/second 6.0-CURRENT ~24,000 queries/second CentOS w/async ~36,000 queries/second CentOS w/sync ~26,000 queries/second super-smack update-select 5.4-RELEASE

Re: filesystems not properly unmounted

2005-06-02 Thread J. T. Farmer
yuval levy wrote: --- Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Yuval Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0647 15:47]: Is it possible to fix this issue? from the description it seems to me that the issue got worse since freebsd 5.3 (assuming Maxi's root partition is ufs2).

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-17 Thread J. T. Farmer
Jim Thompson wrote: On May 16, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Chris wrote: Bill Paul wrote: Ok everyone, PAY ATTENTION! Drop whatevery your doing for the next five minutes and READ THIS!! You see that header on this e-mail? You see the From: line? Go and read it to yourself. Read the name. Say it to yourself,

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-16 Thread J. T. Farmer
Bill Paul wrote: Ok everyone, PAY ATTENTION! Drop whatevery your doing for the next five minutes and READ THIS!! Someone needs to drop back on their caffeine dosage... Seriously, if that is the worse thing that you have to deal with, then I really don't care if you drop me on your personal do not

Re: Panic after plugging in an mp3 usb player, 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-23 Thread J. T. Farmer
Radek Kozlowski wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 03:28:06PM +0100, Marwan Burelle wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:48:37PM +0100, Radek Kozlowski wrote: My 5.4-PRERELEASE/i386 as of today panics almost immediately after plugging in an mp3 usb player (Qware BeatZkey! Pro 512MB). I don't have