Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305

2009-05-22 Thread nocturnal
Ok so i'm hearing a lot of unsupported here. I just wanted to mention that when it boots up from the CD it shows boot devices: fd0 so it seems like only floppy is recognized. This could be because this DVD-drive is kinda glitchy, FreeBSD had issues with it too when i installed it but i just kept

Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305

2009-05-22 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
How about disk storage ... HS21 have internal SAS controller that is unsopported by Plan9. I'll just have to get my hands on one of those floppy disks i keep hearing so much about from my grandfather. ;) -- С наилучшими пожеланиями Жилкин Сергей With best regards Zhilkin Sergey

Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305

2009-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
Ok so i'm hearing a lot of unsupported here. I just wanted to mention that when it boots up from the CD it shows boot devices: fd0 so it seems like only floppy is recognized. This could be because this DVD-drive is kinda glitchy, FreeBSD had issues with it too when i installed it but i just

Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305

2009-05-22 Thread Sergey Zhilkin
2009/5/20 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net Hi ! It seems that Plan9 boot loader doesn't support modern hardware from IBM :( May be someone from IBM can help :) P.S.: I have some IBM HS21 servers and I wish to use Plan9 on them. 2009/5/19 nocturnal sweh...@gmail.com pci

Re: [9fans] MIPS - P9P acme seems OK

2009-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri May 22 10:29:54 EDT 2009, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: Is it unreasonable for me to rejoice that P9P compiles without (much) trouble on the Yeeloong (Orchid) Notebook from Lemote? I started acme and superficial use suggests that it will work on this particular MIPS architecture without

Re: [9fans] No Boot from installCD on IBM xserver 305

2009-05-22 Thread blstuart
Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge 04:00.0 0200: 14e4:16ac (rev 12) Broadcom Corporation 05:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c3) Broadcom / ServerWorks BCM5715 Broadcom dual gigabit, pci bridge Broadcom GigE - these are a problem, as I understand it

Re: [9fans] MIPS - P9P acme seems OK

2009-05-22 Thread lucio
in favor of gcc over against what? p9p always uses gcc. In favour of GCC. It promises portability and in this case, at least, it delivers. This is mips-l, but I note that it is not the 64-bit model ;-( I must look into that. ++L

[9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello when I try '9fs sources' I get a timeout establishing connection... (all day today) I guess it's not my problem, or is it? Thanks Ruda (why does this happen SO OFTEN?)

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: (why does this happen SO OFTEN?) warning: complaining about something you get for free is counter-productive. Unless, of course, you are also offering to help in some way. ron

Re: [9fans] aux/acidleak pool pathology

2009-05-22 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:13 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: unfortunately, i think this will just encourage users to aim for 10 messages in their inbox. Have you ever pointed an IMAP client at “[Gmail]/All Mail” and asked it to download all headers? —Joel

Re: [9fans] aux/acidleak pool pathology

2009-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri May 22 12:54:27 EDT 2009, joelcsalo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:13 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: unfortunately, i think this will just encourage users to aim for 10 messages in their inbox. Have you ever pointed an IMAP client at

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: (why does this happen SO OFTEN?) warning: complaining about something you get for free is counter-productive. Unless, of course, you are also offering to help in some way. ron there's web-only access at

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Rudolf Sykora
(why does this happen SO OFTEN?) warning: complaining about something you get for free is counter-productive. Unless, of course, you are also offering to help in some way. ron well, maybe. Maybe not. In order I be of any help I need to know why the hell this happens, first. I know next to

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread dave . l
You may think it's a question of money (you mentioned it is for free). It's not. There are many projects out, totally for free, but reliable. When I do something it must be reliable, or it's worth criticizing. Firstly if sources goes down, no-one dies so it's not a big deal. Secondly, given

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Uriel
Warning, posting gratuitous obnoxious condescending comments is counter-productive. Complaining about things on the other hand, it is helpful, specially when certain people insist in being in denial of certain problems. Also note that many people have offered to help, and help is clearly not

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Okay Noah, you've been tee'd up. See how easy that was? -Eric Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Uriel urie...@gmail.com wrote: Warning, posting gratuitous obnoxious condescending comments is counter-productive. Complaining about things on the other hand, it is helpful,

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread ron minnich
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: In order I be of any help I need to know why the hell this happens, first. I know next to nothing about how the whole system of sources works, still I can help if I know how. But I do not remember anybody saying:

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
The reality is that the sources outages rarely cause any _real_ problems. I wasn't able to access it few days ago, and instead of bothering geoff or jim, I just waited few hours. The server came up and I got what I needed. Lucho On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Uriel urie...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Rudolf Sykora
While not having direct knowledge of what caused the current outage, I can say that such outages are rarely caused by Plan 9 or the hardware on which its running. Ok. So what caused the other outrages in the recent past? (I may give at least one other date, on which I even asked the same

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: While not having direct knowledge of what caused the current outage, I can say that such outages are rarely caused by Plan 9 or the hardware on which its running. Ok. So what caused the other outrages in the recent

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
sources.lsub.org is avaiable just by using 9fs. But it's probably better to wait for the real thing. There are also several other mirrors IIRC that have been posted to this list. On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:06 PM,

[9fans] cdfs(4) multi-track DVDs

2009-05-22 Thread Anthony Sorace
cdfs(4) contains a paragraph in BUGS that reads: Closing a just-written DVD-R track can take minutes while the drive burns the unused part of the track reservation (for the whole disc). Thus only a single DVD-R track can be written on a DVD-R disc; use

Re: [9fans] sources down?

2009-05-22 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 23-May-09, at 1:54 AM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: sources.lsub.org is avaiable just by using 9fs. But it's probably better to wait for the real thing. There are also several other mirrors IIRC that have been posted to this list. % 9fs kix.in /n/sources -- Anant