Re: Remote serial gdb is broken in -CURRENT.

2000-04-24 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 23 April 2000 at 10:07:38 +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: In the last few days, my remote serial gdb has almost completely stopped working. Previously I had (almost) no trouble at 38400 bps; now I can barely get a response at all at 9600 bps

Remote serial gdb is broken in -CURRENT.

2000-04-23 Thread Greg Lehey
In the last few days, my remote serial gdb has almost completely stopped working. Previously I had (almost) no trouble at 38400 bps; now I can barely get a response at all at 9600 bps. Does anybody have an idea where this could be coming from? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public

Re: Vinum breakage Summary (was Re: Vinum breakage)

2000-04-05 Thread Greg Lehey
to vinum. On saturday it was traced to the raid5 code. Some of the people using vinum, including Greg, are using it under -current. In fact, in view of what we've seen, this affects all recent versions of Vinum, but the problem only shows up with RAID-5 and IDE. * Phk begins

Vinum breakage (was: 2nd call for reviews and tests: buf-bio patch)

2000-04-04 Thread Greg Lehey
. There's some long-standing breakage in Vinum in combination with RAID-5 and ATA/IDE. I'm quite capable of doing this kind of breakage without phk's help. I have now identified the problem, with Matt Dillon's help, and will fix Real Soon Now. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See

Vinum breakage (was: 2nd call for reviews and tests: buf-bio patch)

2000-04-04 Thread Greg Lehey
changes unique to -CURRENT, then 4.0-STABLE wouldn't have been affected. But he didn't, and it was. Brad, You are confused. I have not made one single commit to 4.0-STABLE which even comes close to vinum. The problem in vinum/releng4 is the problem greg has been blaming on CAM since at least

Re: Deadlock with vinum raid5

2000-04-03 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 3 April 2000 at 7:59:48 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Greg Lehey wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a toy i386 system ready and testet on alpha. There may be some differences how data corruptions efects on this platform. I found a potentially serious bug in the RAID

Re: Deadlock with vinum raid5

2000-04-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 2 April 2000 at 22:22:39 +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems Bernd Walter wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 09:39:36PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: I dont think vinum is/was usable under -current at least not the RAID5 stuff, its broken, and some of it is because greg is not up

Re: Deadlock with vinum raid5

2000-04-02 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 2 April 2000 at 17:42:16 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:50:16AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:15:39AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: Greg - I'm using vinums raid5 code since months now for FreeBSDs CVS-Tree on 7x 200M disks - it does

Re: Deadlock with vinum raid5

2000-03-31 Thread Greg Lehey
and bufdaemon in vrlock state; make, ln, syslogd and dhclient in flswait state. I usually don't see such states. Sources from which I built the system are todays, before I set up vinum. Yup, Greg and I know of this problem, it also happens with the wd driver and with CAM, so the problem is probably

Re: Deadlock with vinum raid5

2000-03-31 Thread Greg Lehey
other process nuking data which has since been freed, this will just drive the problem into hiding. The most obvious alternative would be for Vinum to use geteblk() after all and use b_caller1 to point to the rest of the information; but it would still need to be malloced. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL

Re: INVARIANTS doesn't work?

2000-03-24 Thread Greg Lehey
s one is not plural). Is there any good reason why we have two different options if they can only be used together? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
y a mapped existance and the b_pages[] array is not populated. Hmm. I really need to check that I'm not missing something here. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
; normal Vinum I/O goes via launch_requests() (in vinumrequest.c). And it's not just RAID-5 that breaks up a request, it's any access that goes over more than one subdisk (even concatenated plexes in exceptional cases). Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
n the Vinum wishlist, but it comes at the expense of reliability (how long do you wait to cluster? What happens if the system fails in between?). In addition, for Vinum it needs to be done before entering the hardware driver. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers f

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
t, in fact. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: patches for test / review

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
swer would normally be "no". Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Write clustering (was: patches for test / review)

2000-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 23 March 2000 at 17:44:38 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 23), Greg Lehey said: Agreed. This is on the Vinum wishlist, but it comes at the expense of reliability (how long do you wait to cluster? What happens if the system fails in between?). In addition

Re: can't dump vinum volumes after upgrading

2000-03-21 Thread Greg Lehey
say how old your system is. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 3 - 4 when /usr is a vinum volume?

2000-03-20 Thread Greg Lehey
where /usr is a vinum volume? Any tips, tricks or ideas (apart from moving /usr to a non-vinum volume and install onto that one). I'd have to find out what went wrong first. It looks as if it should have worked modulo the problems installing the klds. Greg -- When replying to this message

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-16 Thread Greg Lehey
are a cause of the problem, or just a facilitator, but it would be interesting to see what happens if you turn them off. Note also that there are some bogons in your config, to judge by the vinum startup messages. I'll analyse this in a day or two when I (hopefully) have more time. Greg -- Finger

ATA still panics during boot on P66

2000-03-13 Thread Greg Childers
0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 1.0 on pci0 atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported panic: resource_list_alloc: resource entry is busy Everything works fine, however, when I move the drives to the secondary IDE channel on the ISA bus. Any ideas? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Panic mounting root from today's kernel

2000-03-12 Thread Greg Lehey
down from ddb: bremfree+0x5d getnewbuf+0x1ca geteblk+0x1f dsinit+0x1b dsopen+0xde spec_open+0xfd ffs_mountfs+0x1cf ffs_mount+0x7c vfs_mountroot_try+0x13d Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe:

Re: vinum: CDEV_MAJOR undeclared

2000-03-06 Thread Greg Lehey
the history file. This replaces an older attempt to silence vinum(8) when started in single-user mode. Add entries for vinum_raid[45]. Replace the preprocessor variable name CDEV_MAJOR with VINUM_CDEV_MAJOR. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address

Re: Please review: fdisk -e - -I

2000-03-02 Thread Greg Lehey
in the man page. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: FWIW: More questionable softupdates+vinum benchmarks

2000-02-17 Thread Greg Lehey
), recompile the kld and try again please? Previously, I had limited the number of transactions to 10, but I've just completed a make world here, and the drives had up to 400 outstanding transactions each, so there's quite a possibility the limitation is causing performance problems. Greg -- Finger

ES1371 problems..

2000-02-10 Thread Greg Rumple
if anyone has any ideas, please shoot them to me. Otherwise I will continue my quest to figure out why this is broke. Greg -- Greg Rumple [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Problems with current and sio?

2000-02-06 Thread Greg Rumple
and it worked great. No errors or anything. Unfortunately I can't leave my laptop as my gateway (nice $6k paper weight). Thanks. Greg -- Greg Rumple [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Serious problems installing -CURRENT (was: UPDATING)

2000-02-01 Thread Greg Lehey
a message that this last is related to POSIX threads, but I haven't had any confirmation, and that should be mentioned somewhere UPDATING. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Solved: Serious problems installing -CURRENT (was: UPDATING)

2000-02-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 2 February 2000 at 9:37:44 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 1 February 2000 at 16:08:44 +0100, Eric Jacoboni wrote: Max Khon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: actually instructions are wrong. you can't build xinstall before `make buildworld' now with old libc. I have to do

Re: mail.freebsd.org's host id changed

2000-02-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 1 February 2000 at 18:49:22 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: Did someone do something to mail.freebsd.org, my ssh is telling me it's hostid has been changed. Right, hub had disk problems, so jmb moved mail to builder. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See

Re: identcpu.c change causes panic - not identcpu.c?

2000-01-30 Thread Greg Childers
, but if more info is needed, just tell me what to do and I can help tomorrow evening (EST). Greg Yes, when I back out this revision ( nothing else) I can boot fine :-) Hmm, I cannot know why you got panic On your CPU (P54C: 586-class CPU), the part which I changed is not executed. I have

Re: PAIN

2000-01-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 29 January 2000 at 20:48:29 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lehey writes: : I did a make world on my PDP-11 yesterday. It took less than a day. : But that's 2.11BSD. Turns out that 12MB + 30MB of swap isn't enough to build world. I ran out of swap

Re: 4.0 CODE FREEZE WILL BEGIN IN FIVE (5) DAYS

2000-01-25 Thread Greg Childers
in subr_disk.c etc, and get rid of the last biots of softc arrays in the drivers, the only one left is atadevices which cannot easily go away (yet). Use our own malloc names, its a lot easier to track memory usage this way. General cleanup overall. Hope this helps! Greg

Re: 4.0 CODE FREEZE WILL BEGIN IN FIVE (5) DAYS

2000-01-24 Thread Greg Childers
is the temporary fix I'm using. I do miracles on a daily basis :), but for the pricetag on the work for FreeBSD, well, cant wonders do ?? -Søren :) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

at driver problems (was: 4.0 CODE FREEZE WILL BEGIN IN FIVE (5) DAYS)

2000-01-24 Thread Greg Lehey
the dmesg in the previous message. I've seen this, too. I haven't reported it because I wasn't 100% sure that the wd driver wasn't lying, and I haven't had time to check it. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-22 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 11:11:40 -0800, John Polstra wrote: Can you make cvsup accept multiple servers to try in it's configuration file? I'll add that to the to-do list. When you get the appropriate tuit, you might also consider checking which of the list is most accessible. Greg

Re: 3C589 problems (was: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-18 Thread Greg Lehey
k for other people tends to point away from the cards and towards some common factor, such as your laptop. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: New kernel no longer boots on one of my machines... ata, other problems

2000-01-09 Thread Greg Childers
Pentium 66 system, I'm seeing the same problems followed by the message microuptime() went backwards (1.4342530 - 1,047990) Thanks for investigating this! Greg At 08:22 PM 1/9/00 +0100, Hans Ottevangerne_anchors wrote: As already reported yesterday, I have similar problems, and I have been doing

RAID benchmarks (was: Adaptec AAC-364 RAID controller support)

2000-01-09 Thread Greg Lehey
as soon as you introduce more than one client process. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ATA lost contact

2000-01-09 Thread Greg Lehey
? If so, it should work with the at driver as well. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: So, tell me again why we can't read audio CDs in SCSI drives?

2000-01-09 Thread Greg Lehey
drive, but I didn't think of that until I had rebooted. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

3C589 problems (was: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-09 Thread Greg Lehey
have been discussing on -mobile. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: make world broken

1999-12-29 Thread Greg Lehey
12 This looks like you've updated your source tree and have not built a new kernel. Try the new kernel first, then the buildworld. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: -current buildworld dies, retch.

1999-12-29 Thread Greg Lehey
/usr/src/usr.sbin/ifmcstat/ifmcstat.c: In function `main': /usr/src/usr.sbin/ifmcstat/ifmcstat.c:109: storage size of `arpcom' isn't known I think for this one you need to find who broke it and make him unbreak it. You may supply a pointy hat. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public

Re: ``how to'' for Vinum and mirroring after the volume was created?

1999-12-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 26 December 1999 at 19:03:27 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: Hi Greg, I've got a question or two about vinum, and how to work it. I'm trying to upgrade the storage on my home computer, and while I was transitioning my old disks out, I only managed to get one of the new ones online

Re: ``how to'' for Vinum and mirroring after the volume was created?

1999-12-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 26 December 1999 at 20:54:17 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: Greg Lehey wrote in message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Did you forget the 'setupstate' keyword? How would that apply? The 2nd disk was not consistant as it was added after the data was copied onto the first and the old disks

Re: ``how to'' for Vinum and mirroring after the volume was created?

1999-12-26 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 26 December 1999 at 21:24:15 -0500, Gary Palmer wrote: Greg Lehey wrote in message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It occurs to me that it is, in fact, correct to read from a volume being revived. The data is consistent up to the point where the revive has progressed, so the system can

DLTs, disconnection and hangs--solved (was: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.)

1999-12-21 Thread Greg Lehey
that the system was able to run without adequate swap without showing anything worse than poor performance. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.

1999-12-20 Thread Greg Lehey
performing a backup on a DLT drive, and apart from that very little disk I/O). Any other ideas? It seems to me as if the whole system freezes (keystrokes don't echo, for example), so possibly something is going into splhigh for too long. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See

Re: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.

1999-12-20 Thread Greg Lehey
? It seems to me as if the whole system freezes :(keystrokes don't echo, for example), so possibly something is going :into splhigh for too long. : :Greg No, this is very odd. Certainly reading from disk should not cause any blockages. But DLT SCSI -- there are lots of possiblities

Re: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.

1999-12-18 Thread Greg Lehey
don't have much evidence. I'm running a SiS 5591 :chipset. Has anybody else seen something like this? : :Greg It's possible that the blockages you are seeing are due to the ATA driver, but it's also possible that they are due to a bug in the buffer cache flushing code which

Fallback to PIO (was: Errors from the ata disk driver)

1999-12-14 Thread Greg Lehey
bad cableing etc etc... Wouldn't it be possible to find some way to manually reenable DMA? Having to reboot seems rather hard. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: vinum start needs block device

1999-12-14 Thread Greg Lehey
: this fixes some recent problems (Hi Greg!) that I've been having. Really? I thought they were more serious. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
RENT users, people who are traumatized enough already. A warning from config(8) would serve a similar purpose. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
e any bugs you find fixed before 4.0-RELEASE. Again, it's not the bugs I'm worried about. Anyway, the 'else' part must read: and if not, it will go into -RELEASE buggy. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe:

Wiring drive IDs (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
ocate your partitions. But in the meantime, it's nice to know that you can add a primary slave without your fstab falling apart. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
n't you save time and leave wd in the tree. Comment it out of GENERIC, leave a comment explaining what it's for and that it will go away as soon as ata has the complete functionality. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Un

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
surprisingly one-sided view of things. There are people out there who are going to suffer because of short-term decisions which aren't really necessary right now. Amongst others, they're the people who are paying your salary. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete heade

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
users. They wouldn't know how to extract the driver from the CVS tree and build it. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
way to find that out for sure before 4.0 is to push the issue *now*. Agreed. I'm not saying "don't make it the default", I'm saying "leave an escape path". Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe:

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
e to expect. You're talking about different people here. Understand that the users of -CURRENT are numbered in the hundreds; the users of -RELEASE are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
als are only distantly related to the Danes :-) Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 17:11:53 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Lehey writes: We're getting off track again: the real issue is that you shouldn't completely replace old drivers with new, better written, less buggy drivers which have significantly

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 23:32:27 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: [missing attribution to Greg Childers [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Except that ATA currently does not work on my system. So I assume I'm not the only one. Actually, to quote from your original message: According to technical product

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
inea-pig for FreeBSD developers, so shut up and test. To which the answer is what I said above: today's -CURRENT is next month's -RELEASE. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "un

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 0:02:47 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: -On [19991209 16:03], Greg Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wednesday, 8 December 1999 at 20:23:24 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: This is -CURRENT. It pains me to say it, but anyone trying

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Lehey
? Who has a Cyrix chip? Until we find somebody with hardware, inclination and ability, it's going to be difficult to replace the wd driver. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-13 Thread Greg Childers
At 07:40 AM 12/14/99 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Greg Lehey wrote: On Friday, 10 December 1999 at 23:32:27 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: [missing attribution to Greg Childers [EMAIL PROTECTED]] Except that ATA currently does not work on my system. So I assume I'm not the only one

vinum start needs block device

1999-12-12 Thread Greg Lehey
I'm on the road now, and writing mail is like pulling teeth. phk supplied the correct patch. phk, could you commit it, please? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ATA problem

1999-12-11 Thread Greg Childers
root from ufs:wd0s1a Hope this helps. If you need any more info, just ask. Greg sos 1999/10/09 12:57:15 PDT Modified files: sys/dev/ata ata-all.c ata-all.h ata-disk.c ata-disk.h ata-dma.c atapi-all.c atapi-all.h

Re: ATA problem

1999-12-11 Thread Greg Childers
aying that it should be possible to use only raw devices throughout the system. This worked for a while but then other changes made it unable to boot. On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Greg Childers wrote: Hi, With a bit of investigating, I've found the problem described in my previous email

Lost PCMCIA sio (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-10 Thread Greg Lehey
allocation failed for CIRRUS LOGIC 56K MODEM(CL-MD56XX): Device not configured This happened some time towards the end of last month. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Greg Childers
. Otherwise, my machine is unusable. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=761360+0+current/freebsd-current Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Fallback paths (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Lehey
may never be, but it may become rather uncomfortable to linger on it longer than you absolutely need to. Would you care to expand on that statement? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Lehey
functionality. If it weren't for that, I'd agree with you. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Continuity (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Lehey
ather than getting on-board and helping with the new code directly impedes the resolution of these problems. I don't think this is an accurate view of the objections. Again, I say, think of what we're trying to achieve here. One thing, I hope, is continuity. I don't see this helping. Greg

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Lehey
this message. mine is a LinkSys 10/100 PCMCIA card. what do you have? What version of -CURRENT are you using? Mine is a PCMPC200, and I haven't been able to get it to work for 6 weeks. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Lehey
old driver. At the moment, we seem to be trying to do (3) before (2). No question of hours/day or anything else. Instead of complaining, help the project, when have you last closed a PR ?? It's been a while. The day has only so many hours. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key Se

Progress or procedure? (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Lehey
it (functionality permitting) for 4.1. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Breaking DMA support for multiple chipsets? (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-09 Thread Greg Lehey
there first, I'll look at this next week. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: boot stops after Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a

1999-12-08 Thread Greg Lehey
uffer, PIO acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA acd0: Audio: play, 256 volume levels acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a It's difficult to mount your root if there's no disk in the drive. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTE

ATA problem

1999-12-08 Thread Greg Childers
, is a PCTech RZ1000 on the PCI local bus. The secondary IDE interface is a SMC 37C665 I/O controller on the ISA bus. Below is the relevant sections of a verbose dmesg. If there's any additional info I can provide to help diagnose thisproblem, please ask. Thanks, Greg ata-pci0: Unknown PCI IDE

Re: Samba Performance

1999-12-07 Thread Greg Lewis
look at the Changelog for 2.0.6 you'll see that MSG_WAITALL was removed specifically because of the performance problems under FreeBSD it caused. -- Greg Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre

Re: semi-HEADS-UP (dumpon now wants raw disk device)

1999-12-02 Thread Greg Lehey
doing a 'make world' won't do this; indeed, make world doesn't even install the new ./MAKEDEV. What steps do you use to keep your device nodes up to date? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Re: HEADS-UP: bdevs have been assimilated.

1999-12-02 Thread Greg Lehey
the fixit floppy/CD-ROM? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE MAILING LIST

1999-12-01 Thread Greg Lehey
owser running, check out http://www.lemis.com/email.html, which will tell you how to write more legible mail, and http://www.lemis.com/questions.html, which will give you other tips about how to send mail to the FreeBSD mailing lists. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

Problems with ATA

1999-12-01 Thread Greg Childers
the processes, never showing cpu usage, c. Switching to the wd drivers fixes everything. Below is the dmesg from the kernel with ATA. The previous working kernel was compiled from Oct. 5 sources. Just ask for any other info you need. Thanks, Greg Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright

Re: repeatable crash in -current (softupdates, NFS)

1999-11-29 Thread Greg Lehey
m bug"? Not based on the (non-existent) evidence you've supplied. Where does it crash? [BTW: the server hasn't crashed, it's only the FreeBSD client that crashes] Do you mean the client process or the client operating system? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See comple

Re: ps on 4.0-current

1999-11-23 Thread Greg Lehey
Is+0:00.00 (getty) Have you rebuilt world? It looks fine here with a kernel supped this morning and built 20 minutes ago. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: bdevsw ??

1999-11-17 Thread Greg Lehey
disappeared from FreeBSD-current Block devices are going away. and what I should use for the block device switch. Probably nothing. It depends on what you want a block device switch for. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers

Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver

1999-11-16 Thread Greg Lehey
actually show me a tape drive where what I propose really doesn't work? I think this question is the wrong way round. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver

1999-11-16 Thread Greg Lehey
going to know where to stop? Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ps -e

1999-11-16 Thread Greg Lehey
depending on this non-feature. Better for it to just go away. Looks like another case for a config knob. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver- Okay, Okay, you win....

1999-11-16 Thread Greg Lehey
, we should continue to discuss the matter. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: A call to squease more bytes from `boot2'

1999-11-15 Thread Greg Lehey
to hackers to squeeze another 100 bytes out. It would be preferable to use the ``egcs'' port as the compiler, but I presume using the current system compiler would be OK too. I've just been doing some work in this area. I'll take a look. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See

Re: sio working

1999-11-08 Thread Greg Lehey
On Saturday, 6 November 1999 at 10:49:26 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lehey writes: : Nov 5 17:15:19 mojave /kernel: sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 Unless you are running pccardd, you won't see the pccard devices show up. The probe

Re: /usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd ?

1999-11-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 31 October 1999 at 16:24:19 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: According to Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami: let her commit things. Ok, not without me watching over her shoulder Experience shows that even this is not enough to prevent accidents (Hi Greg!). :-) I've never let my

Re: lsof + namecache

1999-10-29 Thread Greg Lehey
. fstat(1). It doesn't quite have the functionality. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: AMRD (MegaRAID) BIOS rev another other questions

1999-10-29 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 26 October 1999 at 11:26:47 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:58:11AM -0600, Greg Lehey wrote: Indeed. It's quite easy to put all cylinder groups on a single spindle; I've seen reports of up to 80% degradation under these circumstances. Where sequential

Re: mount_nfs hanging in sbwait

1999-10-27 Thread Greg Lehey
! I've attached my kernel config file and dmesg.boot file. Is midget dual-hosted? There's a problem there: you play Russian Roulette chosing the IP address you mount from, but the reply always comes from the local net. See kern/9612 for more details. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP

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