At Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:47:42 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing www.buy.com is really good for, even if you don't buy from them,
is to get pricing information on a general search. You can then use it
to do comparison shopping.
This may be related:
There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember where).
Basically, bcount needs to be a u_long in all cases.
I haven't gotten around, because of the NetMAX for Linux project, to
comitting things like this
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:19:20 -0400, "Mark J. Taylor" wrote:
There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember where).
Basically, bcount needs to be a u_long in all cases.
Que? Are you sure? That means you want to change
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:46:09 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote:
As a result of a discussion between myself, Bruce Evans, and Poul-Henning
Kemp, there now exists a kernel function:
char *devtoname (dev_t dev)
Cool. This can be used to sort out the obscure message you get when you
attempt a
As Matthew Dillon wrote ...
:The device is probably dev=0,1
I'm sorry, I meant 1,0. Also 0,1,0 should work.
Try:
cdrecord dev=1,0 -inq
You should get:
Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: '0,3,0'
In lists.freebsd.current you write:
Does anyone know how to create a bootable CDRom?
mkisofs -b
You just need the image of a bootable floppy. I've made several
homegrown FreeBSD install CDs with boot.flp .
Michael
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: There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
: Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember where).
: Basically, bcount needs to be a u_long in all cases.
:
:Que? Are you sure? That means you want to change struct buf, where
:b_bcount is declared as long, as well?
:
At Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:40:59 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:For backup, I bought DVD-RAM drive for $400.
:5.2GB(double side) media is around $35, you can use them as 2.3GB x 2
:disks.
:
:Enabling raw-write in scsi_cd.c, you can newfs/mount DVD-RAM as UFS.
:Write
Amancio Hasty wrote...
I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide .
What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking
about?
Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so
a program such a cdrecord can attempt to
Amancio Hasty wrote...
Amancio Hasty wrote...
I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide .
What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking
about?
Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so
a program
Kevin S. Brackett writes:
| Oh, well then, :) I'm glad I said something before I actually bought one
| (I saw the atapi RW drives were rather cheap now (~US$125))
I think that most IDE CD-R/CD-RW will just work using Soren's ata driver
in current. I'm doing that on my laptop right now with a
Amancio Hasty wrote...
Amancio Hasty wrote...
I have to agree with Matt on this plus the set of defaults is system wide .
What are you agreeing with him on? Why not quote what you're talking
about?
Is it possible to get a system bus enumeration from the system so
a
Amancio Hasty wrote...
There is a generic SCSI bus enumerator API, and one for PCI as well. There
isn't a generic API to get trees of devices of any type in the system,
though. With new-bus that might be possible, but having done two
enumerator APIs already (I wrote the CAM and PCI
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:04:31 -0700, Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Or if there is a system call or modification to open such that I can issue :
open("pci0:10:0", .)
Don't be silly.
On the kernel side, I hope that the pci code can translate a bus enumeration
to an actual major ,
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
I think that most IDE CD-R/CD-RW will just work using Soren's ata driver
in current. I'm doing that on my laptop right now with a hacked pccard and
hacked ata driver. Also I have an external IDE hard disk as well. I do have
a problem with buffer
[ Amancio's reply moved to the *bottom* where replies belong.. ]
He (and some others on this list) should also learn how to NOT QUOTE THE
ENTIRE MESSAGE. Only the relevant parts should be quoted.
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Matthew Dillon writes:
This is very odd. I use several multi-disk ccd stripes, including one at
BEST across three 18G drives (one 54G partition!). I've never had a
problem.
I believe that at some point in the past 'newfs' and 'fsck' had overflow
problems, but
On 18 Aug 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
(gdb) run
Starting program: /tmp/./sieve
Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
That reminds me. I thought that SIGBUS meant byte-alignment errors.
What does it mean on FreeBSD/x86?
Another possible source for SIGBUS should be generated
Isn't that the drive with the enclosed DVD disk -- kinda like a permanent
caddy? I've avoided the DVD-RAM drives because of that and because the
Type I(double side) is with a permanent caddy, but TypeII(single side)
can be pulled out from the enclosure and supposed to be read by
DVD-ROM
I revised BlueLightning CPU patch because I found that there are
BlueLightning CPUs which do not change undefined flag by dividing 5 by
2 like Intel CPUs. After my obtaining test reports on *both* IBM
BlueLightning CPUs and old Intel 486 CPUs that do not support cpuid
instruction, I'll commit
Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Well, it's also a module, so perhaps we should create the whole subtree
:for modules (as was already discussed several times..)
:
:Andrzej Bialecki
Yes, this is very true. But I think we are fooling ourselves if we
believe linux emulation will not become
Yesterday and today, after a cvsup and kernel build, I get a panic
very early in the boot on my laptop. What's left on the screen is a
general protection fault in kernel mode, and an attempt to trace just
causes another panic. Tomorrow I will put a serial cable on it and
get some details, but
Matthew Dillon writes:
And to head off another question: When you are recording to a CD-RW
you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'.
This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB
you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the
On Wednesday, 18 August 1999 at 9:50:54 -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:19:20 -0400, "Mark J. Taylor" wrote:
There is a long as a parameter to ccdbuffer that needs to be a u_long.
Otherwise, you'll get panics (can't remember
Matthew Dillon writes:
And to head off another question: When you are recording to a CD-RW
you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'.
This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB
you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase
I saw that yesterday, and fixed it by:
cd /usr/src
make includes
cd /sys/i386/conf
config -r CRITTER
cd ../../compile/CRITTER
make depend
make
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Masto writes:
Yesterday and today, after a cvsup and
freshmeat newsletter for Wednesday, August 18th. In
total, 58 articles have been posted and are included in this email.
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On 19-Aug-99 Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Any ideas on who dsubmitted this to freshmeat?
No idea, but submitted FreeBSD 3.2 when it was released..
(Just being a mouthpiece for msmith :)
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