New info from Compaq regarding IDA RAID controllers
(Note: Every user of IDA controllers on FreeBSD please read :) ) Hi, I would have released this info 2 weeks ago, but my laptop with all my personal info and mails were stolen from me, and as you know, real men do do backup - until now! :) I had a talk with the Danish Compaq Storage representative, after complaining about the lack of support for configuring Smart-2 controllers in non-Compaq equipment. He told me that the reason for this is, that Compaq politics doesn´t allow for sale of Compaq RAID storage for use in non-Compaq systems. He also told me, that he was a firm believer that this would change within 6 months (according to things he heard internally), thereby solving our problem with configuring the controllers. Now as you will find on my website, older controller can be configured in non-Compaq systems (link below). Now I´ve been encouraging people to submit their systems to me, so that I can publish them on my website, and thereby show my Compaq friends that we really like their hardware :) Because of the loss of my laptop I´ve lost all mails from you guys running the hardware out there, before I had time to update the website. Please, if you run a FreeBSD system on a Compaq RAID controller, fill out the form on http://seeberg.dk/freebsd/idaraid I then promise that I will set the time off, that it takes to test 4.0 on my RAID controller, and update the website with all the new features implemented in BSD 4.0R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: ida driver in -current and eisa bus attachment
Work on this driver is stalled owing to the fact that nobody that can and wants to work on it has access to the Compaq hardware required. You can't use these controllers except in Compaq systems, which makes things very difficult. that's true :-( Again I would like to point out, that only the newest controllers, 3200 and up is difficult getting to work in non-Compaq systems: http://seeberg.dk/freebsd/idaraid To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RC3-ISO doesn´t recognize Thinkpad 600E CD-ROM Drive
Hi, when booting off the RC3 ISO, I the the error: Can´t work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: The ISO only found my floppy as disk0 and my FAT partition as disk1. Not the CD-ROM drive it booted off. It works just fine when booting off the floppies. But if the RC3-ISO CD is in the Cd-ROM while booting off the disks I still get the above error, although everything works fine, because I boot off the floppies. It´s like the bootloader cannot recognize the CD-ROM drive, but the GENERIC can. I have a IBM Thinkpad 600E, with the DVD drive. /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RC3: APM on IBM Thinkpad 600E (2645,5A0)
Hi, I just installed RC3, and I have the same problem as on RC2, when I run "zzz" my machine turns off the monitor, stops the disk, etc etc. Actually is does everything it´s supposed to, except go to stand-by mode (give the beep and turn off). So when i press any key, the machine wakes up again?? Is this a know problem? All I did was to add apm_enable="YES" to rc.conf and remove the diskable in the KERNEL line, my dmesg looks like this: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-2307-CURRENT #2: Wed Mar 8 20:07:09 CET 2000 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/SOS Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (363.96-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x66a Stepping = 10 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV, PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR real memory = 200278016 (195584K bytes) avail memory = 190607360 (186140K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0367000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface apm0: APM BIOS on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 pcib0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV SVGA controller at 0.0 irq 11 pcic-pci0: TI PCI-1251 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x50102000-0x50102fff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 pcic-pci1: TI PCI-1251 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x50101000-0x50101fff irq 11 at device 2.1 on pci0 csa0: Crystal Semiconductor CS4610/4611 Audio accelerator mem 0x5000-0x500f,0x5010-0x50100fff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0 pcm0: CS461x PCM Audio on csa0 pcm0: ac97 codec reports dac not ready isab0: Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller port 0xfcf0-0xfcff at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller at 7.2 irq 11 chip1: Intel 82371AB Power management controller port 0xefa0-0xefaf at device 7.3 on pci0 fdc0: NEC 72065B or clone at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5" drive on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard irq 1 on atkbdc0 psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model MouseMan+, device ID 0 vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 sc0: System console on isa0 sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200 pcic: management irq 10 pcic0: Intel i82365 at port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd irq 10 on isa0 pccard0: PC Card bus -- kludge version on pcic0 pccard1: PC Card bus -- kludge version on pcic0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range pccard: card inserted, slot 1 ata1-slave: ata_command: timeout waiting for intr ata1-slave: identify failed ad0: 6149MB HITACHI_DK228A-65B [13328/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 acd0: DVD-ROM TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2102 at ata1-master using PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a ep0: 3Com Etherlink III 3C589 at port 0x240-0x24f irq 3 slot 1 on pccard1 ep0: Ethernet address 00:a0:24:60:02:36 ep0: supplying EUI64: 00:a0:24:ff:fe:60:02:36 ep0: unload stray irq 3 pccard: card disabled, slot 1 resumed from suspended mode (slept 00:00:10) pccard: card inserted, slot 1 ata0: resetting devices .. done ata1: resetting devices .. done ep0: 3Com Etherlink III 3C589 at port 0x240-0x24f irq 3 slot 1 on pccard1 ep0: Ethernet address 00:a0:24:60:02:36 ep0: starting DAD for fe80:0009::02a0:24ff:fe60:0236 ep0: DAD complete for fe80:0009::02a0:24ff:fe60:0236 - no duplicates found /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RC3: No support for 3C589B/C (ep0) during install?
I just installed RC3 on my laptop, and I wasn´t able to use my 3Com PCMCIA 3C589C card during install?? Hmm this couldn´t be true, so I tried booting the floppies again, and this I actually read the text, and it really doesn´t make much sense :) *headlinePlease select IRQs that can be used by PC-cards/headline *Please specify an IRQs that CANNOT be used by PC-card for example, if you have a *soundcard that can't be probed by this installation floppy and it uses IRQ 10, you *have to choose "Option 1" or "Option 2" at this menu. * *Default IRQ 10, 11 *Option 1 IRQ 5, 11 (ex. soundcard on IRQ 10) *Option 2 IRQ 11 (ex. something on IRQ 5 and 10) Is it just me, or does the headline and description say the exact opposite of each other? Now, I got my card working by choosing Option 1, but Im not really sure why, as you can see below, my card uses IRQ 3 for some odd reason. Why doesn´t my PCMCIA card automatically use a higher free IRQ? (IRQ 3 is used by my serial ports AFAIK) IRQ 3 isn´t even mentioned in the Options above (only 5, 10 and 11) *This is how it shows itself after install, when enabling PCCARD: *ep0: 3Com Etherlink III 3C589 at port 0x240-0x24f irq 3 slot 1 on pccard1 *ep0: Ethernet address 00:a0:24:60:02:36 *ep0: supplying EUI64: 00:a0:24:ff:fe:60:02:36 *ep0: unload *stray irq 3 What is EUI64 BTW? And BTW; what does this mean? (DAD???): *ep0: starting DAD for fe80:0009::02a0:24ff:fe60:0236 *ep0: DAD complete for fe80:0009::02a0:24ff:fe60:0236 - no duplicates found /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Things to consider in CURRENT
I did this via /stand/sysinstall - Configure packages from the RELENG-4 server, on a brand new installed 4.0-2208-CURRENT - Original Message - From: "Garance A Drosihn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Morten Seeberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 7:20 PM Subject: Re: Things to consider in CURRENT At 4:47 PM +0100 2/21/00, Morten Seeberg wrote: Hi, I just installed: FreeBSD fw.home 4.0-2208-CURRENT and have a few comments: It seems that BASH in 4.x needs Combat 3.x, but why cant BASH work this out for it self? One day when installing BSD without X (which automatically installs Combat 3.x) I couldnt start it without. How did you do the install? Did you do an "install from scratch", or did you build over a system you already had running a previous release of freebsd? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Things to consider in CURRENT
Hi, I just installed: FreeBSD fw.home 4.0-2208-CURRENT and have a few comments: It seems that BASH in 4.x needs Combat 3.x, but why cant BASH work this out for it self? One day when installing BSD without X (which automatically installs Combat 3.x) I couldnt start it without. Shouldnt config pick up errors when making a new kernel? If I fx forget to remove an SCSI controller, but removes all SCSI peripheral lines, then the make fails, which is naturally, but shouldnt config catch that error? The same thing happens if you mark out device miibus, and compiles one of the cards that need it into the kernel. These things might be logically to some, but new users just might fall into this trap. /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
0208-CURRENT and CD-Changer
I have a Teac 6 CD changer (acd0: CDROM with 6 CD changer CD-C68E at ata1-master using PIO4), which works just fine in 3.x except for the usual error message when the CD-ROM drive is empty and I start up /stand/sysinstall), but in subj. when starting /stand/sysinstall (this also happens when installing), it takes a LNG time to start, and these are some of the errors that appear: lqk x Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...Jan 3 00:03: 42 fw /kernel: acd5: Unknown CMD (0xa6) - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=24 ascq=00 error=0 4 Jan 3 00:03:42 fw /kernel: acd5: Unknown CMD (0xa6) - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=24 as cq=00 error=04 Jan 3 00:04:42 fw /kernel: acd5: Unknown CMD (0xa6) - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=24 as cq=00 error=04 Jan 3 00:04:42 fw /kernel: acd5: Unknown CMD (0xa6) - ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=24 as cq=00 error=04 /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
