Re: Using packed structs to gain cheap SMP primatives

2000-03-29 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Major # please :)

2000-03-28 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Is there spinlocks/semaphores available for drivers?

2000-03-27 Thread Mike Smith
, not that you would never be able to support shared interrupts. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-24 Thread Mike Smith
controller to lock up with the latest patch. Previously, with that patch installed, I must not have been able to tickle the bug just right, and I believe that Mike based his decision to make that mod based on my lack of a lockup, which always happened quickly. That's what made me think that we'd

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
According to Mike Smith: Try putting just "set autoboot_delay=0" in /boot/loader.rc and see if that gives you a prompt. In loader.conf you mean ? loader.rc is supposed to contain Forth... I wrote the damn thing. I meant loader.rc. You're welcome to make the appropria

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand spankin new. I'd recommend updating sysinstall first, if that doesn't work, LL the drives. Wrong solution. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
the disks up by hand, which is much faster. Or even try Warner's 'diskprep' tool. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
Is not sysinstall built and installed with a typical make buildworld/installworld? As I told you in my original reply, _NO_. Anyways, I rebuilt it and it works now. Sysinstall was the culprit. "I told you so". -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smi

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
oller down, which may mask the 'real' bug. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
arity data, the buffer's physical addresses aren't filled in. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe:

Re: [Q]4.0-Release file system

2000-03-23 Thread Mike Smith
. Thank you in advance, Vladislav To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL

Re: ARP issues (Arcnet)

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Nowlin
still works, and I fire it up every so often to play around with... 68000, 1.5MB RAM, 35MB HD, 5 serial ports. Runs UUCP with the best of 'em...) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD random I/O performance issues

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
. What makes no sense is that it should be perfectly ok to _read_ this information back. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL

Re: /boot/loader is making my VAIO reboot

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
/loader.rc and see if that gives you a prompt. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Not actually (Was Re: crash in atkbd_isa_intr() )

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
125 This is just you breaking into the debugger, followed by what looks like a 'panic' command. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL

Re: Not actually (Was Re: crash in atkbd_isa_intr() )

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
there, then it was running in userspace and you might want to try the 'ps' command. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mylex Support

2000-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
for the very old adapters. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
At 7:25 PM -0800 2000/3/20, Mike Smith wrote: Not that I consider this particuarly optimal; busy-waiting for the controller is a terrible waste of the host CPU. A better solution would probably defer the command and try again a short time later, but let's see if this works first

Re: Mylex Support

2000-03-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
into the BIOS, a DOS boot disk is enough. Make a couple to gaurd against bad floppies and you should be fine. ---Mike Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
that's the case, try cutting the initial value of i down to 10,000 and insert a DELAY(100) in the "did not get mailbox" case. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate yo

Re: I/O clustering, Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: AMI MegaRAID lockup? not accepting commands.

2000-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
cuarly optimal; busy-waiting for the controller is a terrible waste of the host CPU. A better solution would probably defer the command and try again a short time later, but let's see if this works first. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn

Re: I/O clustering, Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Mike Smith
the case at this point. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-15 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith writes: fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU overhead. Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in the driver architecture nor

Re: microuptime() still going backwards (long)

2000-03-14 Thread Mike Smith
with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL

4.0R ?

2000-03-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
I do follow current, but I must be blind if I missed it. What is the latest date for 4.0R ? Will there be instead another Release Candidate and more testing ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa

Re: calcru / microuptime problem

2000-03-13 Thread Mike Smith
Any suggestions? Remove the flags on the apm device and update to at least the 1011 BIOS. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROT

Re: calcru / microuptime problem

2000-03-13 Thread Mike Smith
isable APM in your bios and remove apm from your config. This isn't the fix for this problem, and especially not on this board. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for

Re: Mylex Support

2000-03-11 Thread Mike Smith
. Lawrence To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'l

Re: single user mode problem

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
. Regardless, this is typically syptomatic of either a very old /boot/loader, non-use of the loader eg. through a /boot.config file, or an error in the entry for / in /etc/fstab. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself

Re: ida driver in -current and eisa bus attachment

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
not returning email or phone calls. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RAID 5 Failure dumps all terminals

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
age, which will make this very standard part of your system's configuration somewhat clearer. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.

Re: Mylex Support

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
And if it is just me, anyone got any ideas? I have been pestering Mike Smith about this for ages, and have probably driven him mad! More or less. As I've said - I have no idea what's going on for you at the moment; everything here "just works" like it should. -- \\ Give a man a fi

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
they can't be probed, and no, if you think about it for a minute, what you're proposing is entirely nonsensical. Note also that the probe-for-keyboard feature is only used on the installation media; it's not the default for system behaviour (yet). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
At 05:06 PM 3/10/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Note also that the probe-for-keyboard feature is only used on the installation media; it's not the default for system behaviour (yet). Hopefully that "yet" will be "never" so one can boot sans keyboard and later hook one u

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
, make sure it's plugged in. We don't have a diagnostic for when you forget eg. to install your disk drive either... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.

Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

2000-03-10 Thread Mike Smith
the 'extended keyboard' flag. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: The pw command

2000-03-09 Thread Mike Heffner
from the world readable /etc/pwd.db. It doesn't open master.passwd, (well at least when run as a non-superuser). IMO, that information is not something that needs to be secured. / * Mike Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * Fredericksburg, VA -- ICQ# 882073

4.0-20000308-CURRENT crypto

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
I tried an FTP SNAP install this morning, and all the crypto libs from current were unavailable. I switched over to the debug console, but there was no additional info. The files seem to be on the ftp site just fine. Is this a known issue ? ---Mike

Re: 4.0-20000308-CURRENT crypto

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
._ instead of _e.g_ ? Also, does the ISO image have the same issue ? ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator,[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 4.0-20000308-CURRENT crypto

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
, So I take it that the 0308 SNAP on current.freebsd.org still has this bug ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator,[EMAIL

Re: Make world error.....

2000-03-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
problems since. ---Mike Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: things I noticed w/ 4.0

2000-03-03 Thread Mike Smith
). ... module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, c0246c6c, 0) error 6 Sounds like the VESA BIOS initialisation failed; either the card doesn't have a VESA BIOS, or there are no supported modes. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself

Re: things I noticed w/ 4.0

2000-03-01 Thread Mike Smith
bug report. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: boot problem with Mylex DAC960

2000-03-01 Thread Mike Smith
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:26:35AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: I've got a server, tyan 1832DL with 2 CPU onborad, Mylex DAC960 and 3*9G IBM SCSI Disk. I build a RAID-0 Disk by Mylex dos utility, I like to install FreeBSD 4.0-current, but I cannot boot FreeBSD by floppy image 4.0

make world problems at vm/vnode_pager.h - vm/vnode_pager.ph

2000-02-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
A recently cvsup'd current that I had been doing make worlds on for the past few weeks without issue. Is there something different that needs to be done ? . . . Skipping directory `ufs/ufs' vm/pmap.h - vm/pmap.ph vm/swap_pager.h - vm/swap_pager.ph vm/vm.h - vm/vm.ph vm/vm_extern.h -

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
. the card is still unstable. That more or less confirms what I thought. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:22 PM 2/24/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 10:func 1 scsi1 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xd0002000, IRQ: 12 megaraid: [GH6D:1.43] detected 1 logical drives scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA

anon FTP setup on Feb 23 SNAP

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
The first time I thought I made a typo, but the second time through it happened again. It seems that even if you choose NO to setup anon FTP, it still gets setup. Anyone else notice this ? This was through the standard installation. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader.

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
that sysctl possibility. Oops. I meant sysinit, not sysctl. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send

Re: anon FTP setup on Feb 23 SNAP

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
nt believe I didnt read the damn prompt. Its a good thing I didnt have a dialog box ask me today, "Destory the Hard drive ? Yes/No" ;-) One of those days... ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Problems with -current snapshot of 02242000

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
, 256MB memory, some Matrox Millinium PCI card, Intel fxp, Mylex AcceleRaid 250 controller. Any ideas ? Mike ? This is a weird one; I've seen it a couple of times now. Try hitting Esc or Enter _once_ on the vty with the "probing devices" message. It almost looks like something's losing t

cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common load_elf.c module.c (fwd)

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
by: msmith Approved by: jkh Revision ChangesPath 1.13 +9 -40 src/sys/boot/common/load_elf.c 1.13 +75 -71src/sys/boot/common/module.c --- End of Forwarded Message -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader.

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
no problem if loading modules from /boot/loader.conf with a kernel suped and built on Feb. 17th with today's buildworld. Mike Smith wrote: it does : I've tried loading miibus alone : works fine loading miibus, then if_xl : loops in loading miibus Ok. We know that hurts, don't

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:26 AM 2/24/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes with Redhat LINUX. I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but it crashes hard when you write to the partition. I am going to try and reflash the card

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:26 AM 2/24/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: OK, on the PERC2/SC and LINUX with the firmware from Dell (3.00), it pukes with Redhat LINUX. I am able to talk to the card, fdisk and newfs it, but it crashes hard when you write to the partition. I am going to try and reflash the card

Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader.

2000-02-24 Thread Mike Smith
It seems Mike Smith wrote: Forgive me if I'm beating a dead horse... I'm still having the following problem if I load any modules from /boot/loader.conf: I've reproduced this here, and narrowed it down to Soren's ATA megacommit on the 18th. Unfortunately, the newbus patches

Re: Panic #3 (ffs) (MegaRAID)

2000-02-23 Thread Mike Smith
on these problems. I'm also in need of a more or less permanent loan of a 434 or 438 (preferably) controller as all I have right now are 418/428/466 and Karsten's been reporting issues with all of the 438's firmware. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should

Re: Panic #3 (ffs) (MegaRAID)

2000-02-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
places in CTRL-M on these systems prior to these changes. Until I flashed it to this new rev, I was seeing this behaviour. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:19 PM 2/22/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: On 18 Feb 2000 17:39:19 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: Hmm. I did some testing, and I can lock both the G6HC and G6HD firmware up within a few minutes. The Dell 3.00 firmware remains stable under the same load (20

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
a firmware lockup - the SCSI bus is hung and usually the PCI bus as well. I am going to test the card in another older MB to see if its some strange interaction. What MB chipset are you using to test with ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sentex Communications Corp

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Smith
a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader.

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Smith
get burn trying to load things which won't work (no code change : just a word of caution) Actually, I think that turning off dependancy handling in the loader is the right way to do it. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish

Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader.

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Smith
for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Crashing netscape?

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Nowlin
y're doing something funny with memory pointers. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader.

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Smith
it shouldn't happen (I haven't tested this). We tried to get some code to fix this into 4.x, but were thwarted by the freeze. Other modules should, however, work fine. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL

Re: After last ATAPI update system doesn't boot if modules loaded by /boot/loader.

2000-02-21 Thread Mike Smith
it shouldn't happen (I haven't tested this). it does : I've tried loading miibus alone : works fine loading miibus, then if_xl : loops in loading miibus Ok. We know that hurts, don't do that. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn

RE: openssl in -current

2000-02-19 Thread Mike Nowlin
The whole RSA scheme is bogus, because anyone in the world can get an implementation of RSA, so its widely accesible, so why all this RSAREF/non-RSAREF mumbo-jumbo? Because US patent law is pretty dumb :) --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-18 Thread Mike Smith
). I'm fairly sure it's a firmware lockup - the SCSI bus is hung and usually the PCI bus as well. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL

Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
wouldn't say you have a firmware issue there yet, but it's not looking very good. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

BIOS and PERC 2/SC (was Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) )

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:04 PM 2/16/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. I don't think

MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
I am not quite sure yet how best to optimze for that. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sentex

Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
referring to the "controller wedged" message? If so, can you increase the 1 on line 1129 of sys/dev/amr/amr.c to 10 and try again? I'm fairly sure that this is just my sloppy programming giving you a bad time; I need a better timeout for this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
On 17-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote: On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote: This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use

Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:59 AM 2/17/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: OK, I seem to have my 466 (aka Perc 2/SC) working somewhat as expected once I flashed to BIOS to the latest rev from AMI. However, I can now more reliably wedge the controller where as with the 428 this would only happen on occasion. When

Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
At 11:59 AM 2/17/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: OK, I seem to have my 466 (aka Perc 2/SC) working somewhat as expected once I flashed to BIOS to the latest rev from AMI. However, I can now more reliably wedge the controller where as with the 428 this would only happen on occasion

Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:19 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hmm. I flashed my PERC 2 up to the latest AMI firmware, and with about a dozen bonnie processes running it took about 30 seconds for the controller to lock up completely (I had to power-cycle it to get it to come back). Is this a purely amr box

Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
At 04:19 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hmm. I flashed my PERC 2 up to the latest AMI firmware, and with about a dozen bonnie processes running it took about 30 seconds for the controller to lock up completely (I had to power-cycle it to get it to come back). Is this a purely amr

Re: MegaRAID 428 vs 466 and a way to wedge the controller

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:50 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: At 04:19 PM 2/17/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hmm. I flashed my PERC 2 up to the latest AMI firmware, and with about a dozen bonnie processes running it took about 30 seconds for the controller to lock up completely (I had to power-cycle

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration

Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
version with OEM cards. Should I try it anyways ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sentex Communications

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
On 16-Feb-00 Mike Smith wrote: This is a problem with the thinkpad BIOS that I have not had the time to be able to track down. It would *appear* to be that the BIOS does not do int 13 handling on boot cdroms, and the boot/loader makes much use of that for loading the kernel

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: sysinstall of 20000214 snap hangs

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Hi, I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the controller swapped. I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration

Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466)

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:04 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16 16+0 records in 16+0 records out 8192 bytes transferred in 0.006427 secs (1274613 bytes/sec) newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto newmail# disklabel -e amrd0 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO

Re: ATA Drivers and Kernel Panic during INSTALL

2000-02-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
a power search with the forms *freebsd* and the keywords cmd ata ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sentex

Re: Mylex Support

2000-02-10 Thread Mike Smith
ex controller family is supported in the release candidate, yes. I could'nt see any mention of it in the hardware.txt for the release candidate. I'm working on that today. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,

Re: GNATS???

2000-02-09 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, Does anyone could clarify approximate date when the GNATS is expected to be fixed? The current target is late thursday PST, depending on a couple of factors. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself

Re: make buildworld works... make installworld fails!

2000-02-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
text file. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administrator,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sentex Communications

RE: UPDAIING vs Reality...

2000-02-02 Thread Mike Heffner
into /usr/src and do an installworld. / * Mike Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * Fredericksburg, VA * * ICQ# 882073 * * Sent at: 02-Feb-2000 -- 09:48:42 EST

Re: kldloaded driver not called at load time

2000-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Make world problems

2000-02-01 Thread Mike Bristow
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Re: kldloaded driver not called at load time

2000-01-31 Thread Mike Smith
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