Re: for those following -current

2006-01-14 Thread Joe Szedula
On 1/14/06 9:01 AM, Marc Espie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:16:06PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
 You are advised to wait for a little bit more.
 
 Current source exhibits a few issues that prevent, for instance,
 and XOrg build.
 
 This is getting solved, we'll let you know when things are a bit safer.

okay, this particular issue has been solved.

I just tried:

 # cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc
 # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj
 # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper depend
 # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper
 # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper install

from http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html; and got this:

# make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper
...snip...
rm -f SYSCALLS.c tmp-SYSCALLS.s
sed -e s/TARGET_GETGROUPS_T/gid_t/  
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc/sys-types.h 
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc/sys-protos.h  SYSCALLS.c
./xgcc -B./ -B/usr/amd64-unknown-openbsd3.8/bin/ -isystem 
/usr/amd64-unknown-openbsd3.8/include -isystem 
/usr/amd64-unknown-openbsd3.8/sys-include -DIN_GCC   -W -Wall 
-Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem 
./include -I. -I. -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc/.  -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc/config 
-I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc/../include  -aux-info SYSCALLS.c.X -S -o 
tmp-SYSCALLS.s SYSCALLS.c
SYSCALLS.c:241: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
...snip...
SYSCALLS.c:1593: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
rm -f SYSCALLS.c tmp-SYSCALLS.s
#
Is it safe to go to the install step? If not what's next? I've saved the 
outputs of all the commands from login through cvs steps and all the 
make steps if that is needed.

Joe Szedula
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



cpio/gzip problem or are my tapes too old?

2005-10-07 Thread Joe Szedula
I use a command like:

cpio -o -z -v -F /dev/rst0  in.lst  out.lst

to perform a backup. But when I attempt to index the tape contents using:

cpio -i -t -v -z -F /dev/rst0

I get:

gzip: /dev/stdin: unrecognized file format
cpio: End of archive volume 1 reached
Oct  7 11:50:48 sys /bsd: st0: 10-byte record too big
Oct  7 11:50:48 sys /bsd: st0: 10-byte record too big

ATTENTION! cpio archive volume change required.
Ready for archive volume: 1
Input archive name or . to quit cpio.
Archive name  .
Quitting cpio!
cpio: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.

as the result. I've tried this with a few tapes of varying usage although 
they are all the same age. If I remove -z from the commands the write  
index work no error messages.

I'm running OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50

the st portion of dmesg is:

st0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: ECRIX, VXA-1 V219191B, 0001 SCSI2 
1/sequential removable
st0: density code 0x80, 1024-byte blocks, write-enabled

Any suggestions for solving this problem?

Thanks,

Joe



Re: cpio/gzip problem or are my tapes too old?

2005-10-07 Thread Joe Szedula
On 10/7/05 1:32 PM, Michael Shalayeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 I use a command like:
 
 cpio -o -z -v -F /dev/rst0  in.lst  out.lst
 
 to perform a backup. But when I attempt to index the tape contents using:
 
 cpio -i -t -v -z -F /dev/rst0
 
 I get:
 
 gzip: /dev/stdin: unrecognized file format
 cpio: End of archive volume 1 reached
 Oct  7 11:50:48 sys /bsd: st0: 10-byte record too big
 Oct  7 11:50:48 sys /bsd: st0: 10-byte record too big
 (snip)

you have to pipe it thru dd.
tapes work in blocks. gzip is not exactly like that

I don't understand. How do I do that with cpio? cpio doesn't use stdin or 
stdout (except for lists of files and messages) does it? Doesn't -z on 
the cpio command line mean Compress/Uncompress archive using gzip(1) 
format.


Joe Szedula
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: phonecall with Promise

2005-08-29 Thread Joe Szedula
On 8/29/05 12:09 PM, Bryan Irvine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

Me I'm trying to find out what card I can use under Unix

Sales what flavor

me flavor?  *shudders-knowing-she-is-thinking-linux*  OpenBSD

Sales I don't know I can try transferring you to Support.

me ok

Support hi this is Bob.

me I'm trying to find a compatible card for use in OpenBSD, I have
the ASIC numbers and just need to find out which cards they are on

Support oh we don't support OpenFreeBSD they might have some more
information though on whether they will work.

Me Yes  yes, I HAVE the information on what ASIC's that will work I
just need to get a list of cards that you have that contain these
chipsets.

Support well you might be able to get them to work but we don't 
support freebsd

Me I'm running OpenBSD, and they DO have a list of the chipsets
that will work, I understand that YOU won't support it.  How can I 
get a list of cards and their associated ASICs?

Support oh we don't keep track of that. You might be able to 
contact the vendor of your motherboard

Me I have a tx2200 pci card that won't help.

Support we do support linux

Me I'm just trying to find out what card I need to buy to use these
SATA drives under OpenBSD.  Where can I get information on what card 
I need to buy?

Support Most of those are OEM cards supported by the manufacturer

Me {thinking WTF?  I told him it was a PCI card}  Well what about
this card (reads a PDC nubmer from the openbsd website)

Support (didn't even check) oh that's an OEM card

Me what about this one (reads another)

Support ya those are all OEM cards

Me Fine. thank you.



My first question is this, is everyone at Promise incompetent?  

My second question is, does anyone know what card I can use with 
SATA 150 drives?

I recently asked the same question about the PCI controller cards on 
their web site using their email support and got the same answer:

These chipsets are OEM chipsets which integrated solutions on the
motherboard. These products are supported by the motherboard manufacturer 
including the software and drivers. Promise Technologies does not provide 
support for the OEM chipset
Email Support
Promise Technologies Inc
--
I've sent a follow up question. If I get a better response than last time 
I'll post the answer.

I did find a SATA/150 PCI card having one of the chips listed on the 
pciide man page (a PDC20375). The seller was kind enough to list the 
chipset in the product description.


Joe Szedula
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



ASUS K8S-MX + SATA = problem

2005-08-15 Thread Joe Szedula
Just tried adding a SATA drive to my ASUS K8S-MX system using -current 
(as of August 13th) and got the following message (repeated twice before 
the system hung up) during the boot:

  wd2(pciide1:0:0): timeout
type: ata
c_bcount: 512
c_skip: 0

This is similar to the problem I had when I tried to install OpenBSD 3.7 
amd64 except that time it was for wd0 (an IDE drive) and I also got the 
additional line:

pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21

That time I tried:
  boot -c
UKC change wd
change (y/n) ? y
channel [-1] ? -1
flags [0] ? 0xff0
UKC quit

and was able to install the system. This time it made no difference with 
-current. Is there a solution to this problem (short of not using SATA 
drives or replacing the motherboard)?

Joe

dmesg output (minus the SATA drive info since I can't boot with the SATA 
drive attached) follows:

OpenBSD 3.8-beta (GENERIC) #1: Sun Aug 14 11:59:10 CDT 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 502722560 (490940K)
avail mem = 419856384 (410016K)
using 12324 buffers containing 50479104 bytes (49296K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+, 2029.83 MHz
cpu0: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFL
USH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,NXE,MMXX,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW
cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully 
associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully 
associative
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 SIS 760 PCI rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 SIS 86C202 VGA rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 SIS 6330 VGA rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
SIS 965 PCI rev 0x47 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured
pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 5 SIS 5513 EIDE rev 0x01: 760: DMA, 
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 10
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9736MB, 19941264 sectors
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX3.2A
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 3079MB, 6306048 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd2 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: HDS722512VLAT20
wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 117800MB, 241254720 sectors
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: E-IDE, CD-ROM 52X/AKH, A63 SCSI0 5/cdrom 
removable
wd2(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
cd0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
auich0 at pci0 dev 2 function 7 SIS 7012 AC97 rev 0xa0: irq 10, SiS7012 
AC97
ac97: codec id 0x41445368 (Analog Devices AD1888)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 SIS 5597/5598 USB rev 0x0f: irq 5, 
version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: SIS OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1 at pci0 dev 3 function 1 SIS 5597/5598 USB rev 0x0f: irq 5, 
version 1.0, legacy support
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: SIS OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci2 at pci0 dev 3 function 2 SIS 5597/5598 USB rev 0x0f: irq 3, 
version 1.0, legacy support
usb2 at ohci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: SIS OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 3 SIS 7002 USB rev 0x00: irq 5
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: SIS EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
vendor SIS, unknown product 0x0190 (class network subclass ethernet, 
rev 0x00) at pci0 dev 4 function 0 not configured
pciide1 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 SIS 182 SATA rev 0x01: DMA
pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt
ppb1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 
0x00
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ppb2 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 
0x00
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
dc0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 Lite-On PNIC rev 0x20: irq 10, address 
00:a0:cc:24:be:91
mtdphy0 at dc0 phy 1: MTD972 10/100 PHY, rev. 8
pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 AMD AMD64 HyperTransport rev 0x00
pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 AMD AMD64 Address Map rev 0x00
pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 AMD AMD64 DRAM Cfg rev 0x00
pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 AMD AMD64 Misc Cfg rev 0x00
isa0 at mainbus0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
spkr0 

Re: Using an ASUS K8S-MX a mistake? - update

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Szedula
I've installed the amd64 -current (13 August) on my ASUS K8S-MX system. 
It solved the bus-master DMA error problem as well as the problem with 
the drives (CD  hard disk) on the secondary IDE not being recognized. I 
compiled the kernel and the rest of the system from source just to 
exercise the computer. Using the BIOS settings to overclock the CPU by 
about 10% from 1.8Ghz to 2.0GHz also seems to work ok.

I'm still not able to use the built-in ethernet. The dmesg shows:

vendor SIS, unknown product 0x0190 (class network subclass ethernet, 
rev 0x00) at pci0 dev 4 function 0 not configured

From the motherboard user guide this is:

SIS 191/190 MAC+ Realtek RTL8201CL 10/100 LAN PHY

The dmesg shows these unknown items:

ppb1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 
0x00
ppb2 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 
0x00
lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: unknown winbond chip ID 0x88

I decided to try another ethernet board I had:

dc0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 Lite-On PNIC rev 0x20: irq 10, address 
00:a0:cc:24:be:91

During the boot process I get this message:

dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state

repeated twice, after the starting network line. The network seems to 
work just fine. What does this indicate? Since it only appears during 
boot is it something I can just ignore?

Does this:

SIS 182 SATA rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured

just mean there were no SATA drives connected? Will SATA drives work when 
connected to this motherboard?

The complete dmesg output follows this message.

Joe
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OpenBSD 3.8-beta (GENERIC) #0: Sat Aug 13 07:51:35 CDT 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 502722560 (490940K)
avail mem = 419856384 (410016K)
using 12324 buffers containing 50479104 bytes (49296K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+, 2029.82 MHz
cpu0: 
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFL
USH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,NXE,MMXX,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW
cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 
64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully 
associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully 
associative
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 SIS 760 PCI rev 0x03
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 SIS 86C202 VGA rev 0x00
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 SIS 6330 VGA rev 0x00
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
SIS 965 PCI rev 0x47 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured
pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 5 SIS 5513 EIDE rev 0x01: 760: DMA, 
channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 10
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9736MB, 19941264 sectors
wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX3.2A
wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 3079MB, 6306048 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4
wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
wd2 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: HDS722512VLAT20
wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 117800MB, 241254720 sectors
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: E-IDE, CD-ROM 52X/AKH, A63 SCSI0 5/cdrom 
removable
wd2(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
cd0(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
auich0 at pci0 dev 2 function 7 SIS 7012 AC97 rev 0xa0: irq 10, SiS7012 
AC97
ac97: codec id 0x41445368 (Analog Devices AD1888)
ac97: codec features headphone, 20 bit DAC, No 3D Stereo
audio0 at auich0
ohci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 SIS 5597/5598 USB rev 0x0f: irq 5, 
version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: SIS OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1 at pci0 dev 3 function 1 SIS 5597/5598 USB rev 0x0f: irq 5, 
version 1.0, legacy support
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: SIS OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci2 at pci0 dev 3 function 2 SIS 5597/5598 USB rev 0x0f: irq 3, 
version 1.0, legacy support
usb2 at ohci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: SIS OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 3 function 3 SIS 7002 USB rev 0x00: irq 5
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: SIS EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
vendor SIS, unknown product 0x0190 (class network subclass ethernet, 
rev 0x00) at pci0 dev 4 function 0 not configured
SIS 182 SATA rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured
ppb1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 
0x00
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ppb2 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 

Re: Using an ASUS K8S-MX a mistake? - update

2005-08-14 Thread Joe Szedula
On 8/14/05 10:29 AM, Jonathan Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 Does this:
 
 SIS 182 SATA rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured
 
 just mean there were no SATA drives connected? Will SATA drives work when 
 connected to this motherboard?

No this means no driver has claimed that device.
Try this diff

Index: pciide.c
[snip]

dmesg now reports:

pciide1 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 SIS 182 SATA rev 0x01: DMA
pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt

Does this look like what your expected?
If it is, now I need a SATA drive.

Joe



Using an ASUS K8S-MX a mistake?

2005-07-31 Thread Joe Szedula
I was trying to build a OpenBSD file server using an old 5U computer I 
was given. I purchased:
- ASUS K8S-MX
- AMD Athlon 64 Processor 2800+
- 512MB of RAM
I was going to use a couple of older drives (10GB  3GB) I had around to 
build a working system and then add larger disk drives for the file 
server volumes. I picked the ASUS K8S-MX primarily because it's small 
size and everything I needed was on the motherboard (ethernet, video, 
SATA).

My problems began when booting from the OpenBSD 3.7 amd64 CD. I got the 
following error:

wd0 (pciide0:0:0): timeout
   type: ata
   c_bcount: 512
   c_skip: 0
   pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21

I found this page:
  http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=postid=167639
that gave the config commands to permit booting.

I was successful in booting from the CD but I was unable to install from 
the CD (it wasn't found). I installed the drives as follows:
- Primary IDE master: 10GB drive
- Primary IDE slave: 3GB drive
- Secondary IDE master: CD drive
The secondary IDE slave and 2 SATA slots were left for future server 
volumes.

I set up a ftp server on another system but was unable to access the 
server. The network didn't work. I installed an ethernet card (D-Link 
Systems 530TX+) and then managed to install OpenBSD. I made the required 
config changes to /bsd so that the system would boot without the 
above bus-master DMA error

The boot message shows the disks: fd0, hd0+, hd1+

While the drives on the Primary IDE are recognized, the CD drive on the 
Secondary IDE is not. The floppy drive in not recognized either. I've 
tried 6 of the 8 USB ports and they recognized when I plug in and remove 
a USB device (a mouse). The complete dmesg output can be found at:
   http://www.mindspring.com/~szedula/dmesg.boot.txt
But I found these unknown messages in the dmesg output:

vendor SIS, unknown product 0x0965 (class bridge subclass ISA, rev 
0x47) at pci0 dev 2 function 0 not configured
vendor SIS, unknown product 0x0190 (class network subclass ethernet, 
rev 0x00) at pci0 dev 4 function 0 not configured
vendor SIS, unknown product 0x0182 (class mass storage subclass RAID, 
rev 0x01) at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured
ppb1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 
0x00
ppb2 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 vendor SIS, unknown product 0x000a rev 
0x00
lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: unknown winbond chip ID 0x88

I installed another drive at the Secondary IDE slave. Tried installing a 
trial version of Windows XP64 (to make sure the hardware was working and 
update the BIOS). I found out I had to move the new drive to the Primary 
IDE Master for Windows to work. After doing that and installing Windows 
I found out Windows didn't have drivers for:
- Silicon Integrated Systems Corp
  SiS190 100/10 Ethernet Device
  PCI bus 0, device 4, function 0
- Silicon Integrated Systems Corp
  SiS 182 RAID Controler
  PCI bus 0, device 5, function 0
- Analog Devices, Inc.
  Sound, video and game controllers
  PCI bus 0, device 2, function 7
The ASUS web site had beta drivers which I installed in order to get the 
above descriptions. The BIOS and drivers were found on the ASUS web page:
  http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?Type=Allmodel=K8S-MX

Unless someone has any words of wisdom for fixing my problems with the 
ASUS K8S-MX (like 3.7 -current works) it looks like I've managed to get 
an unworkable motherboard. Anyone have any recommendations for solutions? 
Replacement motherboards? Will OpenBSD 3.8 support this motherboard?


Joe Szedula
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: USB2 status?

2005-07-12 Thread Joe Szedula
On 7/11/05 9:57 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:

I'm considering implementing a disk based backup system using USB2 
hot-swap bays. 

* Do others have such a system in use? And how is it working out?

* Has anyone done throughput measurements? How close to the 480Mbds 
theory is practice?

* Are there specific hardware choices that I should make? 
Specifically for PCI-USB adapters as I'll be purchasing a dedicated 
card.

* Are hot-swap bays supported in any form? Of course with the usual 
unmount caveat ;-)

My backup system is:
- an external USB 2/Firewire drive with 120GB removable trays
- VXA-1 SCSI tape drive
I use the disk drive for weekly full backups and the tape drive for 
nightly incremental backups. I added the disk backup when the data no 
longer fit on the tapes.

Until you asked I hadn't bothered to figure out the through put because 
the backup was completed in about an hour. I'm only getting about 3.3 
MB/sec or 25.5 Mbps a far cry from the theoretical 400 Mbps with the 
built-in USB2.

My mount sequence is:
1. install drive tray in unpowered external enclosure
2. turn on power switch
3. turn tray key to on
4. enter mount command to mount drive
Unmount sequence reverses above steps.

the dmesg outputs for my backup hardware are:

ahc1 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 Adaptec AHA-29160 U160 rev 0x02: irq 10
scsibus0 at ahc1: 16 targets
st0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: ECRIX, VXA-1 V219191B, 0001 SCSI2 
1/sequential removable
st0: density code 0x80, 1024-byte blocks, write-enabled

umass0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
umass0: JNC Incorporated USB2.0 Storage Devic?, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus2 at umass0: 2 targets
sd0 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0: HDS72251, 2VLAT20, 0 0 SCSI0 0/direct 
fixed
sd0: 117800MB, 117800 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 241254720 sec 
total

uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x80: irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x80: irq 10
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x80: irq 5
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 3 VIA VT6202 USB rev 0x82: irq 12
ehci0: EHCI version 1.0
ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2
usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: VIA EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: single transaction translator
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered