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

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

2000-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
e controller to lock up completely (I had to power-cycle it to get it to come back). I 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 lear

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

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

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

2000-02-17 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. > >

Re: sysinstall of 20000214 snap hangs

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
any devices in the kernel config that aren't actually present in your system (eg. second IDE channel, random ethernet interfaces especially). -- \\ 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

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

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
rom them however saying > not to use the AMI version with OEM cards. Should I try it anyways ? This isn't a BIOS issue, as far as I can tell. -- \\ 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] \\ a

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
tle time to burn... -- \\ 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 &quo

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

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
#x27;probed' the BIOS unit, everything else should work correctly. If you decide to take this on, please let me know how you go. Thanks! -- \\ 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'

Re: Thinkpad won't boot ISO image

2000-02-16 Thread Mike Smith
lem with the Thinkpad BIOS is where it puts the emulated floppy image's disk number - it's not in the 'normal' place, and I don't exactly know how to deal with it cleanly. If someone were to lend me a thinkpad or look at this it would be easy to fix. -- \\ Give a man a fish,

Re: Mylex Support

2000-02-10 Thread Mike Smith
issues with it. The Mylex 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 \\ Tel

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

Re: kldloaded driver not called at load time

2000-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
ed around. Basically we need a way of sorting the ISA bus children in a more sophisticated fashion that the isa_probe_children code currently does. -- \\ 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 h

Re: kldloaded driver not called at load time

2000-01-31 Thread Mike Smith
d once it owns your device. It's a(nother) bug in the ISA bus code. 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 Unsu

Re: Keyboard problem (was: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT)

2000-01-28 Thread Mike Smith
Just in case you hadn't picked it up yet; at least some of the systems that see the keyboard problems see them _before_ the kernel is loaded. -- \\ 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

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
ell BPF in the kernel in time for 3.2. Now that it's in GENERIC, we can run the DHCP client after installation. -- \\ 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: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
s a misconfiguration, and not a useful one at that. The only argument for having a dysfunctional hostname of the variety you describe is vanity, which is not a valid engineering constraint. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to f

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
that the dhclient-script is looking for it in the wrong place. The last snap I installed was around the 25th and it still failed to pick up the hostname. -- \\ 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]

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 04:20:54PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Actually, the problem here is that our dhclient doesn't pick the hostname > > up the first time around. If it's set in an existing lease that is just > > confirmed, it works, but if you&#

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
oesn't fill in the hostname field because the crunched binary is missing the hostname(1) command. If we were to add that, it's just possible that we'd get hostnames working too. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn h

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
I could remove this assumption in > sysinstall in good conscience. Personally I'd prefer to just fix the DHCP client so that it correctly sets the hostname as obtained from the server... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: > : It doesn't do anything to the keyboard, it just calls the BIOS to find > : out whether keys have been pressed. > > I've been seeing the hit twice fast problem for months. It's always been a problem;

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
esn't do anything to the keyboard, it just calls the BIOS to find out whether keys have been pressed. -- \\ 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: My ATAPI CD not come ready

2000-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
MA2 mode on PIIX4 chip > > But when we try to talk to it it fails... > > > Any ideas? > > I'll try to come up with a patch that solves this... > > -Søren > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current&quo

Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi

2000-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
t. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: int10?

2000-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: problems with mylex raid scsi

2000-01-21 Thread Mike Smith
OS bug, but hard to tell without eax System halted- should have register dump, see above If you can offer some more details, I can work on trying to reproduce the problem. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMA

Re: Problems with PCMCIA Cards

2000-01-19 Thread Mike Smith
out this. At least it knows it only to a point. It knows > which IRQs are in use, but it doesn't know if the pcic (or cardbus > bridge in compat mode) can route to a given free irq. It can make a pretty good guess though; certainly good enough in most cases. -- \\ Give a man a fish,

Re: boot messages for pci devices...

2000-01-19 Thread Mike Smith
single line should be suffient. The IRQ number is actually pretty redundant 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 PRO

Re: New softupdates panic

2000-01-17 Thread Mike Smith
e interrupt-allocation related). -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: PNPBIOS + Dell PowerEdge = panic()

2000-01-17 Thread Mike Smith
generic_alloc_resource+0x2d > BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE(c147b180,c1483b80,3,c02f8cdc,10) at BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE+0x43 > resource_list_alloc(c147c5c4,c147b000,c1483b80,3,c02f8cdc) at >resource_list_alloc+0x69 > pci_alloc_resource(c147b000,c1483b80,3,c02f8cdc,10) at pci_alloc_resource+0x38 > BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE(c147b000,c1483b80,3,c02f8cdc,10) at BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE+0x43 > bus_generic_alloc_resource(c147dc00,c1483b80,3,c02f8cdc,10) at >bus_generic_alloc_resource+0x2d > BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE(c147dc00,c1483b80,3,c02f8cdc,10) at BUS_ALLOC_RESOURCE+0x43 > resource_list_alloc(c147c5c0,c1483f80,c1483b80,3,c02f8cdc,10,,1,2) at >resource_list_alloc+0xf1 > isa_probe_children(c1483f80) at isa_probe_children+0x186 > configure(0,2f6c00,30,0,c011c4d6) at configure+0x41 > mi_startup(c02f8fb4,0,0,a04,0) at mi_startup+0x70 > begin() at begin+0x4b > db> panic > panic: from debugger > mp_lock = 0003; cpuid = 0; lapic.id = 0100 > Uptime: 0s > amr0: flushing cache... > > - End forwarded message - > > > 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'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: New softupdates panic

2000-01-17 Thread Mike Smith
t the > panic reproducable then I can reproduce it on my test box and handle > all the crash dump nicities to hand over to Kirk. I've just built a kernel current as of a few minutes ago, and it's entirely reproducible. What can I do for you now? -- \\ Give a man a fis

New softupdates panic

2000-01-14 Thread Mike Smith
() spec_stratety() bwrite() vop_stdbwrite() vop_defaultop() vfs_bio_awrite() spec_fsync() sched_sync() fork_trampoline() -- \\ 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 lif

Re: NEC ohci

2000-01-14 Thread Mike Smith
th "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'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ** HEADS UP ** chown&chgrp moved again

2000-01-12 Thread Mike Smith
make installworld" from the abovementioned buildworld. The mknod that is then used to build device nodes is the one inside the chroot area. -- \\ 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

Re: ** HEADS UP ** chown&chgrp moved again

2000-01-12 Thread Mike Smith
elevant world to have been completed before starting. As long as 'make buildworld' for -current works on -stable, the release will work. -- \\ 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&

Re: Adaptec AAC-364 RAID controller support

2000-01-07 Thread Mike Smith
vendors? I've typically had the best results with a friendly contact inside the organisation; once you have someone that actually knows how the organisation works you have a chance of tracking down the relevant people to get the information you need. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed

3c589d problem

2000-01-07 Thread Mike Smith
e 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: IPv6 (Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Smith
assistance, the very least you can do is avoid being actively destructive. Take a few moments to think about what it is that you and we want to achieve, and how best to get there. And take a hint; insulting us is not how to go about it. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Re: IPv6 (Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Smith
er work to do in order to avoid being randomly flamed by someone else like yourself. > Nobody is trying to insult anyone here. Quit taking things personal. Just > because people are lurking doesn't mean they're not paying attention. In your case, you're not lurking and

Re: IPv6 (Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Smith
eady. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Smith
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" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Smith
; history speaks for itself as to the results. -- \\ 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: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Smith
an OS > than Solaris is, when it comes to completeness. I'd love to have Sun's resources, not to mention their mechanisms for motivating their developers. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [

Re: Boot serial console all blanks

2000-01-06 Thread Mike Smith
s. Nope. In your case, you're using a 'classic' boot2, correct? I'd be wondering if it wasn't a BIOS issue, since both boot2 and the loader use the BIOS for serial output. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn ho

Re: Proposal: Removing doscmd from the source tree...

2000-01-04 Thread Mike Smith
a single other event that would have broken doscmd's binary compatibility. -- \\ 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: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE hardware specs, advice/experience requested

2000-01-02 Thread Mike Smith
ces; I would be choosing based on price and performance in your application. -- \\ 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: ida driver in -current and eisa bus attachment

1999-12-31 Thread Mike Smith
n Compaq systems, which makes things very difficult. If someone has a complete system featuring one or more of these controllers (a mixed PCI/EISA system would be best), there are several people that could put it to good use. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Te

Re: gcc compiler problem part deux

1999-12-29 Thread Mike Smith
new feature of /usr/libexec/cpp : -- \\ 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 PROT

Re: gcc compiler problem part deux

1999-12-29 Thread Mike Smith
st for FreeBSD it adds a > -D__FreeBSD__ > > I presumed that the latest /usr/libexec/cpp behavior is also going to > break other package. Again for me is not a problem because > after a few hours I managed to circumvent the new /usr/libexec/cpp > feature. > > -- > &

Re: Installation bug (4.0-19991227-CURRENT)

1999-12-27 Thread Mike Smith
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'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: OSS and -current

1999-12-26 Thread Mike Smith
on helping the OSS folks get their code up to speed for 4.x. In the meantime, however, people on the 4.x branch are going to have to live without OSS. -- \\ 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] \\

Re: can't get vmware to run ( on -current )

1999-12-25 Thread Mike Smith
lain quickly like you and crabby people like me colliding over the period in which rapid changes are being made. I'm sure there'd be more of these exchanges otherwise. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himsel

Re: can't get vmware to run ( on -current )

1999-12-25 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:11:06PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Check the console; you have a mismatch somewhere inbetween the vmmon > > module and the Linux module, or between the vmmon module and your kernel. > > Well, I think I had an outdated vmware port. > I

Re: can't get vmware to run ( on -current )

1999-12-25 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 01:11:06PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Hi ! > > > > > > Some time ago I fetched your vmware port from internet. > > > I moved to -current because staroffice5 there is able to run > > > with a SMP kernel. > &

Re: can't get vmware to run ( on -current )

1999-12-25 Thread Mike Smith
program start: > > kldload: can't load /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/modules/vmmon.ko: Exec format error Check the console; you have a mismatch somewhere inbetween the vmmon module and the Linux module, or between the vmmon module and your kernel. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him fo

Re: pcm/sbc and Avance Logic ALS-120

1999-12-25 Thread Mike Smith
> On Dec 24, Mike Smith wrote: > > > On Dec 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On -CURRENT: Fri Dec 24 08:38:50 EST 1999, > > > > I'm getting the following when I enabled pcm and sbc in the kernel: > > > > > > > > unknown0:

Re: pcm/sbc and Avance Logic ALS-120

1999-12-24 Thread Mike Smith
_attach: sbc1 attach returned 6 That was silly. The -00 device is a soundblaster, but the -01 device certainly isn't. 8) > unknown6: at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0 That's probably the joystick port (you can check that by adding the joy0 driver). > unknown7: at port 0x330-0x331

Re: is this really a bad disklabel?

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
atever), you get boot0 off the second disk, but it can't load anything from there. This is, again, consistent with having the MBR on the second disk really badly screwed up. You may want to add some more diagnostics to the loader to see why it's unhappy with the MBR. -- \\ Give a man a

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
g on integrating a new version of Ficl which is meant to be 64-bit clean. > 5. Except for "/boot/defaults/loader.conf", are any of the installed > scripts architecture-specific? There is some screen-handling code that is specific to the cursor-addressable syscons emulation in the i38

Re: fsck not cleaning on first try

1999-12-20 Thread Mike Smith
if (mp->mnt_flag & MNT_FORCE) { printf( -- \\ 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 PROTECTE

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > > On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > On any sort of -current system, the loader ignores this and uses the > > contents of /etc/fstab instead. > > which /etc/fstab? our systems always have 2 root partitions :-) Unless overridden, the one on t

Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
... and yes I did (before doing the 'fdisk') a nice little > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad0 count=1 > > Do you have any further hints? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=16 disklabel -rwB ad0 auto works. At some point you deviated from this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and yo

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
e it works with 'wd', and the 'ad' driver registers a 'wd' device as well, the actual options for dysfunction are pretty small. If and when more information is forthcoming, a diagnosis will be trivial. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike S

Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-18 Thread Mike Smith
s > da0) complained about 'no space left on device'. Yes, ... I did the > disklabel -W ad0 ... You forgot to overwrite the beginning of the disk. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PRO

Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-18 Thread Mike Smith
g fxp, and this comes as a bit of a surprise. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: AMI MegaRAID datapoint.

1999-12-17 Thread Mike Smith
rently-shipping RAID controllers (and I expect we'll support the 2000 and 3000 when they finally arrive). -- \\ 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: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-17 Thread Mike Smith
traffic. Do you have any profiling results that point the finger more directly at anything? -- \\ 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. \\ [E

Re: AMI MegaRAID datapoint.

1999-12-17 Thread Mike Smith
> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The AMI MegaRAID 1400 delivers between 16.5 and 19 M/s (the 19M/s > >> value is somewhat contrived --- using 8 bonnies in parrallel and > >> then summing their results

Re: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-17 Thread Mike Smith
don't think that stuff is being handed off to a softnet handler), blowing out the numbers a bit. -- \\ 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: Serious server-side NFS problem

1999-12-16 Thread Mike Smith
account for time slept is the "correct" behaviour given the way the kernel currently thinks about things, where "correct" is defined as "most survivable". -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish h

Re: AMI MegaRAID datapoint.

1999-12-16 Thread Mike Smith
, however, if there are any planned or > in-the-works utility programs for the amr device. In particular, a > program to print the state of the array would be useful. I'm currently waiting on AMI for more documentation, at which point there will indeed be more monitoring and control fa

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Mike Smith
eal" :) > > With due attention paid to realities I offer the following two code > names for your consideration: > > "freon" > and/or: > "flourocarbons" "Plastic Bag" "Driftnet" "TWA800" (Ok, it was a bit fa

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-15 Thread Mike Smith
Apple route (announce, tshirts, then code). -- \\ 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 problems.

1999-12-15 Thread Mike Smith
| > |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | > |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | > =GLO > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sh(1) broken caching [was: Re: Broken sh(1)?]

1999-12-15 Thread Mike Smith
> builtin echo > > /usr/bin/which > > % PATH=/foo:/bar:/bin ls > > This line does *not* change $PATH for the next lines. > > > > > % hash -v > > builtin hash > > builtin echo > > /usr/bin/which > > /usr/sbin/ls > > ^^^^ Caching

Re: sysinstall: is it really at the end of its lifecycle?

1999-12-14 Thread Mike Smith
flash. The latter is an unfortunate necessity if we are to avoid looking hopelessly outdated. -- \\ 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. \\ [EM

Re: rtc0

1999-12-13 Thread Mike Smith
== > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: ATA weird message?

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
using these short timeouts for I/O transaction completion? Much pain some time back established that we need at least 30 seconds for some drives doing internal error recovery, and as long as the drive is returning something sensible (ie. still busy), we should give it at least that long. -- \\

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
going to be to stick with 'wd' until you get yourself a less-broken disk, or manage to analyse the problem in greater depth. The latter would be greatly assisted if you were able to dig into the 'ad' code a little and see what, if anything, is actually failing. -- \\ Give

Re: Among the ATA casualties...

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
edge the chipset is the Western Digital 8110. > I can supply any other information required, of course. > > -Adam Wight > > boot -v output using the wd driver follows: That's not very helpful; we know it works. How about some information on the problem? -- \\ Give a man a

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
them by name. Once devfs is a reality, we'll be able to do just this. Until then, the problem's not really as bad as you make it out to be. -- \\ 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

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
ing to scare folks so much. -- \\ 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: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
e). -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: make world is failed on pc98

1999-12-11 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
em is actually related to the RZ1000 part itself, or whether it's actually a manifestation of the "system goes nowhere at startup" problem that other people are seeing (seems to be related to interrupt handling by the 'ata' driver). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
> On Friday, 10th December 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > >The same mentality that made the CAM cutover a "debacle" is making the > >ata cutover a "debacle". > > This "mentality" might be an unavoidable part of human nature. I found

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
e. Ther -- \\ 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 "unsubscri

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
r a "debacle". Fortunately, the CAM folks persisted despite the criticism, and I'm glad to see that Soren is taking the same stance. -- \\ 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

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Mike Smith
more foresight and commitment to actually doing something though, and given the popularity of graffiti and mindless vandalism these days perhaps that's just par for the course. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himsel

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
f that's caused any consternation. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
der just uses the BIOS; you can't blame it. 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: sen

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
it doesn't give a damn what they are. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message

Re: MCA support

1999-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
at least get the kernel and mfsroot loaded before MCA becomes an issue at all. -- \\ 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: boot stops after "Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a"

1999-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > It's difficult to mount your root if there's no disk in the drive. Er, 'ad0' != 'acd0'. -- \\ 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

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
> On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 10:56:24AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > You shouldn't remove a function until it has been properly replaced. > > > A very simple concept some people seem to have trouble grasping. > > > > Actually, that's not at all correct.

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-08 Thread Mike Smith
still fall down" or "here are patches to them to replace this functionality". Think about the longer-term goals here folks. -- \\ 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

Re: AWE64 problems

1999-12-07 Thread Mike Smith
mura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > -- > Charles Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No quot

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