[9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Adams
Hi folks: I've installed Plan 9 on another of my systems and so far so good. This configuration is an all-in-one fossil+venti system. Nothing has been extended beyond the default ISO. After I installed and rebooted I noticed that the hard drive light came on and stayed on. It's been on for

Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Simon
It will take a very long time, espicially if your IDE controller is not known or it is and DMA is known to be problematic. I suggest you resign yourself to leaving the machine on for many hours, and then, when it stops rattling its disks, you shut it down (using the fshalt command). -Steve

Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jan 26 15:22:22 EST 2010, st...@quintile.net wrote: It will take a very long time, espicially if your IDE controller is not known or it is and DMA is known to be problematic. the output of sossd (/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/sossd) is useful if you suspect a problem. i'll have a look if

Re: [9fans] How long should it take fossil to dump to venti (1st time around)

2010-01-26 Thread Matt Adams
It will take a very long time, espicially if your IDE controller is not known or it is and DMA is known to be problematic. Thanks, Steve. The disks finally quieted down early this afternoon. I just didn't expect it to take that long. Matt