Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Søren Schmidt writes : Good work, no more stinky delay :-) Thanks!, and I hate delays too :) It works beautifully for me. I can imagine that the people with UDMA drives can't wait for DMA support in it. :-) I've run some tests with Bonnie. Need to still reboot with my old kernel,

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Geoff Rehmet wrote: Søren Schmidt writes : Good work, no more stinky delay :-) Thanks!, and I hate delays too :) It works beautifully for me. I can imagine that the people with UDMA drives can't wait for DMA support in it. :-) Its in the works, together with the tagged

ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: Both bonnie tests were run on a freshly booted machine, P133, 64M RAM, running X and netscape, but only Bonnie active: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block---

Re: ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Geoff Rehmet wrote: Interesting, what flags did you use with the old driver (wd) ?? Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: Both bonnie tests were run on a freshly booted machine, P133, 64M RAM, running X and netscape, but only Bonnie active:

Re: ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: ... -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU ATA64 3237 69.0 2913 14.0 1409 9.4 2951 59.3 3043 11.6 55.9

Re: egcs and gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Thomas Dean wrote: As suspected, eg++ is using libstdc++.a, not libstdc++.so.2, as it should. How does this get fixed? I just noticed that the egcs Makefile has a buried: .if defined(WANT_SHAREDLIBS) CONFIGURE_ARGS+=

Re: lptdriver undefined in kernel compile...

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 01:42:00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: this one I *can't* seem to figure out...looked through GENERIC and swear I've added everything I need: Have you checked src/UPDATING and what it has to say about the nlpt-lpt driver changes? Have you made sure your KERNEL config

ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:19:20 PST, Søren Schmidt wrote: # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) controller ata0 device atadisk0# ATA disks device atapicd0# ATAPI CDROM's device atapist0# ATAPI tapes Hi Soren,

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:19:20 PST, Søren Schmidt wrote: # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) controllerata0 deviceatadisk0# ATA disks deviceatapicd0# ATAPI CDROM's device

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:49:17 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: Yes, they are not used by the new driver, it only needs the above lines in config, depending on how many subdrivers you want of cause. Excellent. :-) The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver,

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Sheldon Hearn wrote: The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and ad1. This is expected behaviour, but it's something for other weenies to watch out for. :-) I warned about that in the

Re: gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
How about getting profiling working for ELF kernels before before completely abandoning a.out? There are patches for that in kern/9413 but I haven't got any feedback on them at all. I did try them, they allow the kernel to compile, but they don't seem to work. In particular, the entries

Re: IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:20:34 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: I sent this in for review a year or so ago, but received no reply. The main points are that it honours ATA timing in atapi_wait() and checks for ARS_BUSY in atapi_wait(). I guess we'll need to wait and see whether this is still an issue

bmake/contrib framework for egcs

1999-03-02 Thread David O'Brien
I've put the bmake contrib framework for EGCS at ftp://ftp.nuxi.com/pub/FreeBSD/egcs (ftp://ftp.nuxi.com/pub/FreeBSD/egcs/cvs is all you really need) This is very rough work, but should help us towards our goal. In there you will find a CVS tree under ``cvs''. This CVS tree corresponds to

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and ad1. This is expected behaviour, but it's something for other weenies to watch out for. :-) This breakage was announced :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
Until you modify the map, an exclusive lock on the map is overkill. Try using read locks. (See vm_map_lookup.) In the meantime, I can't see any reason why mincore acquires an exclusive lock either. (It never modifies the map.) I'm going to remedy that. Doesn't it modify the map indirectly vi

Re: ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread sthaug
Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: Both bonnie tests were run on a freshly booted machine, P133, 64M RAM, running X and netscape, but only Bonnie active: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char-

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:26:50 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: This breakage was announced :-). My only defense is my use of the phrase other weenies in my original mail. ;-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the

anyone knows what does it mean

1999-03-02 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I recently compile the egcs-1.1.1 and the system report to me that the ahc0:A:0 refuses tagged commands performance non-tagged I/O. The transfer speed drop from 20.00M/s to 3.3 M/s. Is there anyone have the same problem ? Cheers Clarence === Part of the dmesg === da0 at ahc0

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Adam McDougall
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:49:17 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: Yes, they are not used by the new driver, it only needs the above lines in config, depending on how many subdrivers you want of cause. Excellent. :-) The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Will the new ATAPI drivers still work with wormcontrol for ATAPI CD Writers? Since it is a WIP, will it support it if it doesn't? Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Alexander Sanda
Dienstag, Dienstag, 02. März 1999, you wrote: DOB Netscape uses a *A.OUT* libg++. We are an *ELF* system now. If you want DOB to run Netscape (also a piece of a.out code) you would install the DOB compat22 distribution bits. Then I probably misinterpreted the term abandon it entirely. DOB

Re: gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Jeremy Lea
Hi, On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 03:25:20PM +0100, Alexander Sanda wrote: Maybe. But what if Netscape decides to make the next fbsd release ELF (and still keeps linking with libg++) ? What about Mozilla ? Is it libg++ - free ? I agree that libg++ is (almost) useless today, but dropping it

gcj (was Re: egcs and gcc)

1999-03-02 Thread Nate Williams
I'm learning here, don't get upset if I'm all wet. Another thing I note is that, unlike all the rest of the snapshots of egcs, the pre-release version (and seemingly only the prerelease version) that the port uses has gcj, the java tool, cut out. That seems kind of a shame, doesn't it?

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Bruce Evans wrote: The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and ad1. This is expected behaviour, but it's something for other weenies to watch out for. :-) This breakage was announced :-).

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and ad1. This is expected behaviour, but it's something for other weenies to watch out for. :-) This breakage was announced :-). Besides, it is not even a

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:53:37 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and ad1. [...] Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) All I'm

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:41:46PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: Doesn't it modify the map indirectly vi subyte()? I think it wants to prevent modifications, but this is impossible. Bear with me, I'll have to split some hairs... We're only interested in whether mincore directly changes the

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 199903021646.daa26...@godzilla.zeta.org.au, Bruce Evans writes: The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and ad1. This is expected behaviour, but it's something for other weenies to watch

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
This breakage was announced :-). Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) It is breakage, and should be fixed. It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks sequentially, irespective of how much other gunk (Ie: CD, Tape) is present on the

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 199903021812.faa32...@godzilla.zeta.org.au, Bruce Evans writes: This breakage was announced :-). Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) It is breakage, and should be fixed. It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks sequentially, irespective of how much other gunk (Ie: CD, Tape) is present on the busses. Linux doesn't. Linux isn't everybody else. Neither is { everybody else } - { linux }. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Brian Somers
[.] I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news are very welcome. [.] Looks good on my laptop ! ad0: FUJITSU MHC2040AT/0819 ATA-3 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 3909MB (8007552 sectors), 7944 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue acd0:

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Will the new ATAPI drivers still work with wormcontrol for ATAPI CD Writers? Since it is a WIP, will it support it if it doesn't? It should, but i just found out that it somehow fails, I'm bughunting... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Heads up: Linux Thread port changes.

1999-03-02 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
A number of people have downloaded the linux threads port located at http://lt.tar.com . It has been updated today, with minor bug fixes, and a change to make it compatible with kernel patches committed yesterday to both -current and -stable. While I haven't actually tested it, I would expect

compiler egcs 1.1.1 error

1999-03-02 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I tried to compile the egcs 1.1.1 yesterday and encountered the following error. Can anyone show me hoe to solve it. Thanks. Clarence === Error === === Generating temporary packing list ln -f /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/egcc ln -f /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/eg++ /bin/mv

fdimage.exe

1999-03-02 Thread Wim en Debby
Hi to all, Can anyone tell me where l can find this fdimage.exe on the ftp-server? I looked in the tools/ directory but l didnt find it. Please a detailed address:-) Thanks, Wim Vermeyen wim.verme...@advalvas.be To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: fdimage.exe

1999-03-02 Thread Robert Nordier
[Moved to -questions] Wim en Debby wrote: Can anyone tell me where l can find this fdimage.exe on the ftp-server? I looked in the tools/ directory but l didnt find it. Please a detailed address:-) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe There's an out-of-date version at some

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:41:46PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: Doesn't it modify the map indirectly vi subyte()? I think it wants to prevent modifications, but this is impossible. Bear with me, I'll have to split some hairs... We're only

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software -

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:16:50PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: Where exactly does thrd_sleep come in, since that's where the program locks up now? Can't be killed, of course... The lock manager isn't bright enough to detect that the process already holds a read lock when it attempts to get

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:16:50PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: Where exactly does thrd_sleep come in, since that's where the program locks up now? Can't be killed, of course... The lock manager isn't bright enough to detect that the process

ATAPI Drive Naming System

1999-03-02 Thread IdiotSwitch Editor
Remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence in which they are found (as under the SCSI system), not in absolute positions as they were with the old system. For example, if you had wd0 and wd2 but no wd1, you'll now have wd0 and wd1. Watch out for

New driver and ATAPI DMA?

1999-03-02 Thread Lee Cremeans
Will this new ATA driver finally support DMA correctly on ATAPI devices (as opposed to pure ATA disk devices)? This is a feature that could really come in handy for me (as well as a reason to migrate back to -current from 3.1 :) --

Re: egcs and gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: That was put in extremely recently. The reason it doesn't build a shared library by default is to avoid potential conflict with the system libstdc++. If you enable it, the port will install the shared lib in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/.../libstdc++.so. You

cvsup.ca.freebsd.org available again.

1999-03-02 Thread Dan - Sr. Admin
Greetings, Just a quick note to let everyone know that cvsup.ca.freebsd.org is available again. Regards, -- Dan Moschuk (tfreak...@globalserve.net) Senior Systems/Network Administrator Globalserve Communications Inc., a Primus Canada Company The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends,

Re: compiler egcs 1.1.1 error

1999-03-02 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 05:39:04AM +0800, Chan Yiu Wah wrote: Hello, I tried to compile the egcs 1.1.1 yesterday and encountered the following error. Can anyone show me hoe to solve it. Thanks. Clarence JFYI, the port is now at: egcs-1.1.2-pre2 Maybe upgrading the port might help. It

Re: New driver and ATAPI DMA?

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Lee Cremeans wrote: Will this new ATA driver finally support DMA correctly on ATAPI devices (as opposed to pure ATA disk devices)? This is a feature that could really come in handy for me (as well as a reason to migrate back to -current from 3.1 :) Its on my list of wanted items, so

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) I'll think about it, but lots of things has higher

Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow

1999-03-02 Thread Thomas Dean
I am running smp, 4.0-current, as of Mon Feb 15 03:34:29 PST 1999. Printing is very slow. I have a HP LaserJet III attached to lpt0. Printing in the pcl, text, mode is slower than I expect. Printing in the postscipt mode is extremely slow. A 30K postscript file has been OVER 5 minutes and is

RE: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) I'll think about it, but lots of things has higher priority... -Søren