Re: CVSUP ?

1999-10-23 Thread Mike Smith
l room), there's not going to be any more updates. -- \\ 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: trek73

1999-10-23 Thread Mike Smith
mber? 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] with "unsubscr

Re: Mylex 960

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Smith
27;e' partition correctly. Try newfs'ing the 'c' partition instead. It'd also help to see the boot messages from the driver and the disklabel, since it looks like the controller and the disklabel disagree about the size of the drive. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you

Re: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
trivial fix, though, since he > broke it :-). > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "uns

Heads up: GENERIC broken (mfs)

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
he interim. -- \\ 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-

Re: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
> : .. Mike Smith writes .. > :I got dragged away yesterday before I could fix this properly; it > :actually requires a bit more finessing due to the way MFS creates a > :root-private instance of itself when it nominates itself as root. I > :don't want to commit a half-bak

Re: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
ly done by netboot; putting bootp into the kernel was _always_ the wrong idea. -- \\ 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 PROTECT

diskless boot roadmap (was:L Re: GENERIC build broken )

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
're almost there. -- \\ 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

probe code (was Re: diskless boot roadmap)

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
eed 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: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
ore confusing option. - it's redundant. The code for performing the actual NFS root mount is tiny compared to the bootp and ifconfig 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

Re: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
behaving that way, you might want to double-check your assumptions before going off. It's a little more overhead, but it can save on the repercussions later. Regards, -- \\ 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: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
l > supports. > > netboot doesn't work with a single one of my machines. > > -Matt > -- \\ 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: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
ocating this, you should understand. -- \\ 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 PR

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_conf.c src/sys/ufs/mfs mfs_vfsops.c

1999-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
ompiled. > > Revision ChangesPath > 1.35 +11 -9 src/sys/kern/vfs_conf.c > 1.78 +31 -15src/sys/ufs/mfs/mfs_vfsops.c > > > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\

Re: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
boot vector chain and the PnP device option ROM interface to your reading list. I note that you haven't even looked at PXE yet. -- \\ 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: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
the boot order of eg. plug-in SCSI adapters there is no point in you buying plug-in SCSI adapters. So what have you been using for the last thirteen years? -- \\ 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: GENERIC build broken

1999-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
se it was in the way. There will be a new automated search process that will work properly. BOOTP in the kernel will go _when_there_is_an_acceptable_alternative_. Yes, progress means losing the crap. How much more like a shark would you look like if you didn't lose your baby teeth? -- \\

Network booting, I'm off to work (was Re: GENERIC build broken)

1999-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
all the smoke), and I've had an open call for participants and contributors for months (almost no respondents) to both do the grunt work and help drive the bus. Thanks for following this, and I hope to have something to show for it fairly soon. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_conf.c

1999-11-03 Thread Mike Smith
be a > need for supporting the very old and rare soundcard etc. drives for this > application they can be trivially added. > > Revision ChangesPath > 1.36 +25 -1 src/sys/kern/vfs_conf.c > > > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Smith
t(s). Any other alternative involves interrupt delivery to user-space, which is just not practical. -- \\ 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: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Smith
You shouldn't be trying to do this because it just can't be done right. -- \\ 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 PROTE

Re: Network booting, I'm off to work (was Re: GENERIC build broken)

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Smith
HCP client and a tiny script to find your installation server's shared volume. You could use the PicoBSD tools to build this very easily. Those are what I'd consider to be the two cleanest and easiest approaches in your particular situation. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him

Re: Old KLD bug..

1999-11-06 Thread Mike Smith
ut this to give her something to work on. 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] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: doscmd broken on current?

1999-11-07 Thread Mike Smith
y first vm86 instruction, so I guess something > isn't setup correctly to enter vm86 mode via the sigreturn(): I bet that someone got smart and disallowed PSL_VM in eflags on a return to user-mode. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn

Re: stuck with ~year old current

1999-11-07 Thread Mike Smith
s of the kernel changed. Anything postdating that is basically equi-functional. -- \\ 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: Dr Neuhaus niccy go not recognized

1999-11-07 Thread Mike Smith
t architecture as there was on the old one. Sitting on your hands and whining about there being no 2m-long shelf of ring-bound manuals isn't an excuse for not getting on and doing things like they ought to be done. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-11-12 Thread Mike Smith
tware combination to achieve the desired goal. The point I was trying to make was that in the _general_ case, this can't be done with software alone. You require the cooperation of hardware that just can't be obtained from your average PC. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed hi

Re: Make World dies.......

1999-11-13 Thread Mike Smith
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: Root mount failed:22 ???

1999-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
to mount that's failing, but I don't recall that in your output. -- \\ 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: Root mount failed:22 ???

1999-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
da devices change? The diagnostic is relatively harmless, but it suggests that /etc/fstab is wrong. -- \\ 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: NewATA on ISA and PCI

1999-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
responsible This is -current. If the message is "changing root device to..." you are out of date and must update before we can help you. The root mount code has changed quite a lot just recently, and debugging the 'old' code isn't practical anymore. -- \\ Give a m

Re: Mount before SCSI comes up ? (was Re: Root mount failed:22 ???)

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
> On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 02:52:13PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The diagnostic is relatively harmless, but it suggests that /etc/fstab > > > > is wrong. > > > > > > Here is fstab line, please point what is wrong? > > > /dev/da0

Re: Root mount failed:22 ???

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
. It _shouldn't_ be normal, provided that your /etc/fstab refers to the correct device. -- \\ 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: Root mount failed:22 ???

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
tc/fstab and set vfs.root.mountfrom. Thus the kernel can't use it to find the root filesystem. I should probably emit a diagnostic to the effect that it wasn't set, since in many cases to come that will be fatal for the boot process. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a da

Re: NewATA on ISA and PCI

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
etc/fstab (this is an enhancement designed to make life easier when /etc/fstab is not quite right, eg. when the kernel has had to guess about the root filesystem, or when it's been moved maually). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn ho

Re: dd and gzip'd files

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
ies is 512 bytes, as it is for almost any device. conv=osync is correct if you insist on using the raw device. Note that the optimal block size for 1.44MB floppies is 9k (one track). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish hims

Re: a bad sysinstall/useredit problem

1999-11-21 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: Root mount failed:22 ???

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:51:59AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > You're not using the loader, so nothing gets to read /etc/fstab and set > > vfs.root.mountfrom. Thus the kernel can't use it to find the root > > filesystem. I should probably emit a diagnostic to

Re: installing onto ami mega raid.

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
ll needs the patch you supplied; apart from that I'm not aware of anything else. I haven't, obviously, had time to work on this yet. A better diagnostic from you above would save me at least one release build... -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike

Re: ps on 4.0-current

1999-11-23 Thread Mike Smith
nd leaving things they way 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: Boot error

1999-11-26 Thread Mike Smith
ardware to solve your own problems, so you're going to have to help us out here. -- \\ 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: State of Alpha support and Oracle.

1999-11-27 Thread Mike Smith
spent > on x86? Not under Oracle at the low end, no. If all you want is an oracle-like database however, I would recommend that you look at Linter (www.relcom.ru, IIRC). OCI-compatible, and much, much cheaper. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Te

Re: Odd panic

1999-11-27 Thread Mike Smith
ave received a more civilised failure than the one you did. 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 Unsubsc

Re: Boot error

1999-11-28 Thread Mike Smith
Sorrry about the way I typed before...I actually talk like that (or worse) > half the time, and I have to remember when to talk/type normally. This still doesn't answer the second half of the question. It used to work, then it stopped. What did you change? > Doug > > - Or

Re: loader.conf, ordering of loading of modules

1999-11-28 Thread Mike Smith
e ordering? They should be loaded and linked long before the probes start... -- \\ 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: loader.conf, ordering of loading of modules

1999-11-28 Thread Mike Smith
around this. If they're that tightly bound together, anything else will be a grubby hack. > Nick > > On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > Is it possible to change the order in which modules are loaded in > > > loader.conf? I

Re: loader.conf, ordering of loading of modules

1999-11-28 Thread Mike Smith
odule Makefile: > KMODDEPS=usb The loader's handling of dependancies stated like this is broken, unfortunately. -- \\ 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 li

Re: State of Alpha support and Oracle.

1999-11-29 Thread Mike Smith
ganisation (about 100 developers), and they have a sales/support branch in the USA, so I'm fairly comfortable with their level of commitment. It's hard to give any sort of certain answer, of course. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he s

Re: New vfs_conf.c panic

1999-11-29 Thread Mike Smith
ng Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe fr

No Subject

1999-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
card0: on pcic0 > pccard1: on pcic0 > > Thanks for the work being done. > > Nick > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] USB project > http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
ild? I got the impression from Doug that this is required... -- \\ 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: modules building...

1999-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
> I tried to rebuild the linux kernel module, but it doesn't work: This is -current. You need to stay up to date. -- \\ 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 f

Re: modules building...

1999-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
That's not what I said. > I just cvsupped about 2 hours ago... > > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I tried to rebuild the linux kernel module, but it doesn't work: > > > > This is -current. You need to stay up to date. > > &

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-12-01 Thread Mike Smith
n that fight. Not to say we shouldn't try, but people should always hold foremost in their minds the fact that there is no complete solution for this, and the return on investment diminishes rapidly. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \

Re: your mail

1999-12-01 Thread Mike Smith
the card's interrupt handler. Stick a printf or two in there and see for yourself. -- \\ 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

AMI MegaRAID driver compatibility update

1999-12-01 Thread Mike Smith
ve 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

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-12-01 Thread Mike Smith
> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 09:05:38AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: > > : The only "right" solution is for us to mandate that people down cards > > : before ejecting them. ... > I would like to see that

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-12-02 Thread Mike Smith
ead.) > > I had the same thought, but w/o a signal or other out of band error > communication, I'm not sure how to implement this. You can't without a race. You'd have to poll the hardware before and after every I/O operation to ensure that it was still there. Yick. -- \\

Re: FOLLOWUP: Re: HEADS-UP: bdevs have been assimilated.

1999-12-02 Thread Mike Smith
kage. With < 2 > weeks to feature freeze for 4.0 it is very hard for some of us who attempt > to make sure things we deliver actually work on both platforms if the > second platform is broken. I'm plenty pissed off, but, c'est la vie... So we should, like, feature freeze

Re: FA410TXC support in -current

1999-12-03 Thread Mike Smith
upported, right? Yes. Note that you need to be up-to-date with the pccard.conf entry; until a few weeks ago it was a cut-and-paste from PAO that didn't work. You're reading this courtesy of one, so I know it's working. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mi

Mounting one FS on more than one system

1999-12-04 Thread Mike Smith
ved, everything else is (relatively!) straightforward... -- \\ 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 ma

Re: Intel 810?

1999-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
we'll get one into the lab. -- \\ 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: Intel 810?

1999-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
IBM have a dual P-III based 1U system as well. 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 t

Re: mount(2) broken?

1999-12-06 Thread Mike Smith
with soft-updates however. Me too. I just manifested this after a particularly nasty crash this evening (about 500 outstanding buffers), but softupdates weren't active. (It's too easy to kill the system with them enabled; there's a whole realm of exploration still untouched there

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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
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: 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!

1999-12-10 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
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
> 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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: rtc0

1999-12-13 Thread Mike Smith
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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: 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: AMI MEGARAID problems.

1999-12-15 Thread Mike Smith
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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
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

1999-12-18 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: 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: 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?

1999-12-19 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

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