You also ought to make sure the floppies can get through a complete
format before dd'ing the images over them.
This was it! I went through 8 floppies before I found a decent pair,
these 3.5" things s*ck.
Thanks,
Marc.
--
Marc van
* Marc van Kempen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 00:58] wrote:
You also ought to make sure the floppies can get through a complete
format before dd'ing the images over them.
This was it! I went through 8 floppies before I found a decent pair,
these 3.5" things s*ck.
Another fun one is
:I have two patches up for test at http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc
:
:I'm looking for reviews and tests, in particular vinum testing
:would be nice since Grog is quasi-offline at the moment.
:
:Poul-Henning
:
:2317 BWRITE-STRATEGY.patch
:
:This patch is machine generated except for the
My latest world breakage involves makeinfo on gdb.info. I tried to dig
through the makefile maze to try and get just that bit not to build and
I can't sort it out. Error message below.
Doug
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"While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems,
it would be easier
Kirk and I have already mapped out a plan to drastically update
the buffer cache API which will encapsulate much of the state within
the buffer cache module.
Sounds good. Combined with my stackable BIO plans that sounds like
a really great win for FreeBSD.
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Hi David,
Now, a week after the discussion, what do you think about my proposal
of the "g77" link under /usr/bin? IMHO, the following facts are all good
reasons for creating the link:
- the output of "f77 -V", "f77 --version", "man f77", and "info g77";
- our Fortran compiler _is_ GNU
-On [2319 21:00], Poul-Henning Kamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wemm writes
:
If you are using old drivers that haven't been newbusified yet, you will
need to add 'options COMPAT_OLDPCI' and/or 'options COMPAT_OLDISA' to your
kernel configs and regenerate.
I have found that in Single Unix Specification 2 in waitpid() function
there are allowed options not only WNOHANG and WUNTRACED as is in FreeBSD,
but furthermore option WCONTINUED (Unixware and Solaris both know about
this option and FreeBSD and possible Linux don't).
The next problem is in
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:48:02AM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:
Now, a week after the discussion, what do you think about my proposal
of the "g77" link under /usr/bin?
What part about "NO" was unclear?
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Adherance to standards is always a goal for FreeBSD.
If you wish to try implement this change, then your patches would make a
good starting point for people to look and discuss.
(I say this because technically those parts of the kernel are not that
complex, but what is harder is finding people
My pcmcia modem seems to show up as sio4 which does not exist on my system.
It is a:
pcmcia maker modem 56k v.90 datafax modem
does any have the settings for this modem
i use a sony vaio PCG_V505VE
tim ryder
please cc me on this because i am not on the list
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Also how do i compile sio4 into my kernel
tim ryder
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From: Tim Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 11:12 AM
Subject: PCMCIA Maker Modem
My pcmcia modem seems to show up as sio4 which does not exist on my
you don't
it IS sio4
you need to make /dev/ entried for sio4
and they should work. sio4 has been created in the kernel dynamically by
the pcmcia code.
you can also look at the pccard.conf file in /etc
and rename it to make sio2 if you want.
however in that case you'd have to make sure that sio2
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Chris Piazza wrote:
If I use telnet or ssh (there might be more programs,
but I have only noticed these two so far), and supply a hostname to it,
my machine is constantly requesting records, and finally after
75 seconds it requests and receives an A record from
:
:
:Kirk and I have already mapped out a plan to drastically update
:the buffer cache API which will encapsulate much of the state within
:the buffer cache module.
:
:Sounds good. Combined with my stackable BIO plans that sounds like
:a really great win for FreeBSD.
:
:--
David O'Brien wrote:
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:48:02AM +0100, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:
Now, a week after the discussion, what do you think about my proposal
of the "g77" link under /usr/bin?
What part about "NO" was unclear?
Hey, OK, don't get upset! :-) You are the maintainer, so you
I'm curious to see if anyone is like-minded with me that syslogd_flags in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf should be "-ss" instead of "". I reasoned that it
should be, considering:
1. Most people don't direct syslogs at other machines in my experience.
2. Someone could conceivably DOS a machine by
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon writes:
I think so. I can give -current a quick synopsis of the plan but I've
probably forgotten some of the bits (note: the points below are not
in any particular order):
Thanks for the sketch. It sounds really good.
Is it your
| | I would love to help out, but I don't know where to start, and I have no
| | kernel programming experience. There are reference drivers available for
| | linux via http://opensource.creative.com or http://www.alsa-project.org
| | (my preference).
|
| One is on the way...
Cam's boredom
:Thanks for the sketch. It sounds really good.
:
:Is it your intention that drivers which cannot work from the b_pages[]
:array will call to map them into VM, or will a flag on the driver/dev_t/
:whatever tell the generic code that it should be mapped before calling
:the driver ?
:
:What about
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On Saturday, 18 March 2000 at 3:34:38 +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
Hi!
Please don't send messages one line per paragraph. It's a pain to
reformat.
I'm having troubles updating a FreeBSD 3-stable system to current,
* Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 10:01] wrote:
:
:
:Kirk and I have already mapped out a plan to drastically update
:the buffer cache API which will encapsulate much of the state within
:the buffer cache module.
:
:Sounds good. Combined with my stackable BIO plans
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
I already addressed that in new-bus and there is some discussion and
finding out the best way to do a higher level wrapping for a lot of
newbus' stuff.
Is there? Where? I don't recall seeing that in any of the newbus mailing
lists I (used to) subscribe
Don Lewis writes:
} * Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000317 17:55] wrote:
} This bug has been around since at least 2.2.6 and is still present
} in RELENG_3, RELENG_4, and -current.
}
}http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8324
}
} Is anyone planning to tackle it? What
Garrett Wollman writes:
When the program is run, if you ping the IP address from the
local machine, it sees packets. However, if you ping it from
a remote machine, it doesn't see packets.
The ICMP never passes certain packets up to raw listeners. These
include ECHO REQUEST, TIMESTAMP
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:36:22 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I think so. I can give -current a quick synopsis of the plan but I've
probably forgotten some of the bits (note: the points below are not
in any particular order):
Cool! Sounds like you've really
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon writes:
Well, let me tell you what the fuzzy goal is first and then maybe we
can work backwards.
Eventually all physical I/O needs a physical address. The quickest
way to get to a physical address is to be given an array of
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the drivers were
taught how to traverse the linked list in the buf struct rather
than just notice "a big buffer" we could avoid a lot of page
twiddling and also allow for massive IO
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the drivers were
taught how to traverse the linked list in the buf struct rather
than just notice "a big buffer" we could
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 11:33:24AM -0600, Visigoth wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Chris Piazza wrote:
If I use telnet or ssh (there might be more programs,
but I have only noticed these two so far), and supply a hostname to it,
my machine is constantly requesting records, and
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:03:07 -0800 (PST), Archie Cobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
[Quoting my original description of icmp_input()'s behavior:]
The ICMP never passes certain packets up to raw listeners. These
include ECHO REQUEST, TIMESTAMP REQUEST, and SUBNET MASK REQUEST
packets -- but not
Greg Lehey wrote:
Following the instructions in UPDATING, when rebooting to single
user mode, vinum wouldn't work since the kernel module was out of
date - no surprise.
Hmm. After updating, you should have had new klds as well. But
that's probably not your fault. Could you enter a
Nick Johnson wrote:
I'm curious to see if anyone is like-minded with me that syslogd_flags in
/etc/defaults/rc.conf should be "-ss" instead of "". I reasoned that it
should be, considering:
1. Most people don't direct syslogs at other machines in my experience.
While I am one
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 12:03] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:02:21 -0800
Chris Piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
According to Mr. Stevens (Unix Network Programing Vol 1
chapt 9.4) this option, or having the env. variable RES_OPTIONS=inet6 set
will cause the behavior you are describing...
It's a behavior of gethostbyname().
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
Before we redesign the clustering, I would like to know if we
actually have any recent benchmarks which prove that clustering
is overall beneficial ?
Yes it is really benificial.
I would like to see some numbers if you have them.
Hello,
i've tried to build XFree86 4.0 on my 5.0-CURRENT and 4.0-RELEASE box, and encountered
a problem.
"make all" finishes successfully, but "make install" fails with the
following error message:
making all in programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/bsd...
rm -f bsd_mouse.o
cc -c -O -pipe
I think the biggest win in regards to being able to arbitrarily stack
devices is to NOT attempt to forward struct buf's between devices when
non-trivial manipulation is required, and instead to make struct buf's
cheap enough that a device can simply allocate a new one and copy the
I can varify this on 4.0-STABLE as of March 19, ports cvsup the same time.
I had a look at it, and though I'm not much of a programmer, I cant see
where the parse error is.. maybe I'm blind.
Matt
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!Powered by
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian
Elischer writes:
: you can also look at the pccard.conf file in /etc
: and rename it to make sio2 if you want.
That isn't guaranteed to work. Like you note later in your note, if
sio2 is already in the kernel, you won't be able to attach it on
pccard.
The
:
:* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 12:03] wrote:
: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
: * Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote:
: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
:
: Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea,
In the last episode (Mar 20), Poul-Henning Kamp said:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote:
Before we redesign the clustering, I would like to know if we
actually have any recent benchmarks which prove that
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon writes:
I think the biggest win in regards to being able to arbitrarily stack
devices is to NOT attempt to forward struct buf's between devices when
non-trivial manipulation is required, and instead to make struct buf's
cheap enough
We have a system with a new AMI card in it controlling a pair
of shelves from Dell (fbsd dated: 4.0-2313-SNAP).
The relevant dmesg output is below: (complete dmesg at end)
amr0: AMI MegaRAID mem 0xf6c0-0xf6ff irq 14 at device 10.1 on pci2
amr0: firmware 1.01 bios 1p00
Hi.
Hi,
This is kind of weird, so I want to see if anyone else has noticed
this or has a solution to it.
If I use telnet or ssh (there might be more programs,
but I have only noticed these two so far), and supply a hostname to it,
my machine is constantly requesting records, and
:
:I agree that it is obvious for NFS, but I don't see it as being
:obvious at all for (modern) disks, so for that case I would like
:to see numbers.
:
:If running without clustering is just as fast for modern disks,
:I think the clustering needs rethought.
:
: Depends on the type of disk drive
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
Yowch, please wrap lines at 70 characters. :)
Oops! Sorry about that. I had fiddled with the settings for a
specific purpose, and forgot to set them back. :-/
Read the loader page carefully and you should be able to boot 3.x
kernels with 3.x modules and 4.0 modules
On Monday, March 20, 2000, Jason wrote:
Should /etc/rc.firewall be changed to read:
# Suck in the configuration variables.
if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
fi
if [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/rc.conf
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
: make buildworld
: make buildkernel
: make installkernel
: MAKEDEV
: reboot single user
: make -DNOINFO installworld
: make installworld
:
: As you see, the new klds don't get installed in the presently documented
: procedure. I have read
The controller is new. Dell calls it a Perc2/dc and it has 128Meg
of memory installed in it. I'm not sitting infront of the
machine right now. More detailed information is available
when the machines is booted and you enter the bios setup
on the adapter card.
Ok. From some rumours
:
:In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Dillon writes:
:
:Well, let me tell you what the fuzzy goal is first and then maybe we
:can work backwards.
:
:Eventually all physical I/O needs a physical address. The quickest
:way to get to a physical address is to be given an array of
| http://www.freebsd.org/~cg/current.diff.gz contains a partial emu10k1
| driver (minus recording) which is need of debugging. Give it a try!
|
| How current is this? Will it work against 4.0-STABLE?
I haven't tested it, but I believe so.
--
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"Waste not
* Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 14:18] wrote:
:lock on the bp. With a shared lock you are allowed to issue READ
:I/O but you are not allowed to modify the contents of the buffer.
:With an exclusive lock you are allowed to issue both READ and WRITE
:I/O and you
In message 007001bf9287$13b78de0$[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Tim Ryder" writes:
: My pcmcia modem seems to show up as sio4 which does not exist on my system.
You have two choices.
First, is to cd /dev and do a
MAKEDEV ttyd4 cua4
which will make it possible to use the modem as /dev/ttyd4 and
: lock on the bp. With a shared lock you are allowed to issue READ
: I/O but you are not allowed to modify the contents of the buffer.
: With an exclusive lock you are allowed to issue both READ and WRITE
: I/O and you can modify the contents of the buffer.
:
:
Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
: make buildworld
: make buildkernel
: make installkernel
: MAKEDEV
: reboot single user
: make -DNOINFO installworld
: make installworld
:
: As you see, the new klds don't get installed in the presently
Alfred Perlstein wrote:
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the drivers were
taught how to traverse the linked list in the buf struct rather
than just
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palle Girgensohn writes:
: It in docs/17518 now.
Thanks!
Warner
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Help!
I am trying to use more than 4 gif devices for ipv6.
i have set the appropiate values in config.h but still
only can configure gif0 - gif3.
Any help appreciated.
Please respond OFF-List !
Jan
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Head of International Peering Department
Gigabell AG
David O'Brien wrote/schrieb (Saturday, March 18, 2000):
| On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 03:18:45AM +0100, Thomas Köllmann wrote:
| | Perhaps this is a bit off topic, but can the pentium optimisations be
| | used for AMD K6 processors?
|
| I did a `make world' yesterday with
| CFLAGS=
Just as a perhaps interesting aside on this topic; it'd be quite
neat for controllers that understand scatter/gather to be able to
simply suck N regions of buffer cache which were due for committing
directly into an S/G list...
(wishlist item, I guess 8)
--
\\ Give a man a fish, and you
In my 4.0 cvsupped from 3/20 /etc/rc.firewall says this:
# Suck in the configuration variables.
if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/rc.conf
fi
which would be fine, but
In my 4.0 cvsupped from 3/20 /etc/rc.firewall says this:
# Suck in the configuration variables.
if [ -r /etc/defaults/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/defaults/rc.conf
elif [ -r /etc/rc.conf ]; then
. /etc/rc.conf
fi
which would be fine, but
Committing a 64k block would require 8 times the overhead of bundling
up the RPC as well as transmission and reply, it may be possible
to pipeline these commits because you don't really need to wait
for one to complete before issueing another request, but it's still
8x the amount of traffic.
I
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
* Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000320 11:45] wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the drivers were
taught how to traverse the linked list in the buf
On 20-Mar-00 Dan Moschuk wrote:
| How current is this? Will it work against 4.0-STABLE?
I haven't tested it, but I believe so.
I applied the patch to a machine which is *just* pre 4/5 split and it patched
fine.
I used it to get my ALS120 to work.
---
Daniel O'Connor software and network
Hi,
The controller is new. Dell calls it a Perc2/dc and it has 128Meg
of memory installed in it. I'm not sitting infront of the
machine right now. More detailed information is available
when the machines is booted and you enter the bios setup
on the adapter card.
We have a system with a
Greg Lehey wrote:
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On Saturday, 18 March 2000 at 3:34:38 +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
Hi!
Please don't send messages one line per paragraph. It's a pain to
reformat.
Yeah, I had had fiddled with the setting for a
A couple of clarifications on the last message:
Thus, when you see it printed as 0, somewhere between the test and the
printf the controller has updated the flag and indicated it's busy.
That should of course be "not busy".
I'd be guessing that the current loop (100k iterations) is
I agree that it is obvious for NFS, but I don't see it as being
obvious at all for (modern) disks, so for that case I would like
to see numbers.
If running without clustering is just as fast for modern disks,
I think the clustering needs rethought.
I think it should be pretty obvious,
Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows.
/boot.config: -P
Keyboard: yes
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/56256kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7
Joe Abley wrote:
Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows.
/boot.config: -P
Keyboard: yes
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 639kB/56256kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386
After upgrading from 4.0-current (09.03) to 5.0-current(16.03,17.03) i've
got subj. Machine panics and reboots. And i was not always near
it. Finally i traced it:
Fatal 12 trap: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address = 0x8
fault code = supervisor read, page not
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:52:18AM +0100, Thierry.herbelot wrote:
Joe Abley wrote:
Problem report booting 4.0-RELEASE follows.
I had the exact same error message trying to boot from a floppy where I
had tried to dd the full boot.flp (2,8 Megs is just too much for a
normal floppy),
I have a followup fsck listing related to the above issue.
Basically, it only seems to happen with my cvsup area(s). I don't know
why this is, but cvsup craps out with 'can't create directory' and I find
that a directory is now a file, with heaps of errors on the disk.
I have attached a
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:21:52PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred Perlstein writes:
Keeping the currect cluster code is a bad idea, if the drivers were
taught how to traverse the linked list in the buf struct rather
than just notice "a big buffer" we
Hm. But I'd think that even with modern drives a smaller number of bigger
I/Os is preferable over lots of very small I/Os.
Not necessarily. It depends upon overhead costs per-i/o. With larger I/Os, you
do pay in interference costs (you can't transfer data for request N because
the 256Kbytes
I have a BookPC with a built in Davi Comm 10/100 ethernet card.
I am always getting
/kernel: dc0: watchdog timeout
every few minutes..
Can thease errors be stopped?
Thank you for any reply
RP
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* Where did the compat3x install files go in the latest 4.0-STABLE
* snapshot? They seem to be missing.
That was actually a 3.4-STABLE snapshot that ended up in a directory
with a wrong name. Jordan fixed it (and deleted the offending
Where did the compat3x install files go in the latest 4.0-STABLE
snapshot? They seem to be missing.
Tom Veldhouse
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