freefall hangs w/ nfs

1999-10-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
It looks on the face of it that AMD is hanging. Perhaps this is preventing the system from clearing out buffers and causing lockups on other mounts. AMD could also be causing a deadlock to occur in the buffer cache (for the same reason loopback mounts can cause deadlocks).

Re: trek73

1999-10-24 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: I found a copy of the C version of trek73 in my Amiga archives. This is the trek73 originally written in HP-2000 Basic that was rewritten by Dave Pare and Chris Williams in C and seriously enhanced by a bunch of

Re: trek73

1999-10-24 Thread Darryl Okahata
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a copy of the C version of trek73 in my Amiga archives. This is the trek73 originally written in HP-2000 Basic that was rewritten by Dave Pare and Chris Williams in C and seriously enhanced by a bunch of people including me in

Re: trek73

1999-10-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
"Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: I don't think any of the authors would mind if it went into /usr/games, I certainly wouldn't. It would be an old game returning home to the Berkeley world, and I also used to play it a lot on the HP-2000. The 'ol HP 2000 access, now that brings back memories...

Re: trek73

1999-10-24 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I don't want to get nasty here, but was it _really_ necessary to forward the entire, original, humungous mail to add a few lines of commentary to Sorry, but as I already commented to another person, I actually only read the first two paragraphs of Matt's message before replying and didn't even

Re: Mylex 960

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 22 Oct 1999 16:58:48 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.current you wrote: I have just started to play with the Mylex Controler and I get "attempt to write beyond end of drive" When trying to write to the drive. This is the bug that Chris Csanady just uncovered; I've committed his

Strangeness with vinum

1999-10-24 Thread Dennis Glatting
I just want to document some strangeness I see with vinum, in case it has been noticed before but not identified, or someone knows a cure. I have a Dell XPS D333 with two Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapters, one assigned to fast things and the other to slow things, generally. On the slow adapter

Re: AMRD (MegaRAID) BIOS rev another other questions

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:51 AM 10/24/99 , Greg Lehey wrote: cc -O -pipe -g rawio.c -o rawio rawio.c: In function `dochild': rawio.c:496: incompatible types in initialization *** Error code 1 What version of FreeBSD are you running here? FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Oct 24 09:34:47 EDT 1999 ---Mike

Re: Mylex 960

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Smith
I tried the latest this morning, and still the same issue. Oct 24 09:52:08 slag2a /kernel: mlx0: I/O error - attempt to writt to write beyond end of drive Oct 24 09:52:08 slag2a /kernel: mlx0: I/O error - attempt to write beyond end of drive FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Oct 24 09:34:47

Re: Mylex 960

1999-10-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:12 PM 10/24/99 , Mike Smith wrote: I tried the latest this morning, and still the same issue. Oct 24 09:52:08 slag2a /kernel: mlx0: I/O error - attempt to writt to write beyond end of drive Oct 24 09:52:08 slag2a /kernel: mlx0: I/O error - attempt to write beyond end of drive

Info needed re: new userconfig scripting and PnP

1999-10-24 Thread Conrad Sabatier
Someone just mailed me this heads up about my AWE soundcard setup tutorial at http://members.home.net/conrads/awepnp-freebsd.html. As this is the first I've heard about this, I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could fill me in on the details, so I can update the info on my web site. Thanks!

Re: sound etc,

1999-10-24 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 30-Sep-99 Rick Yip wrote: Hi! I have bought the official version of FreeBSD 3.2 and tried to get the sound to work but it doesn't. I tried 4Front's software but that doesn't work either. I get messages that I can't configure /dev/dsp: device is busy all of the time. Somtimes I

Deadlock in nbufkv

1999-10-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
I've recently upgraded a system from 3.2-RELEASE to -CURRENT as of 30-Sept (just before the signal changes). I now find that when I try to do a CVS checkout, the system hangs, with cvs in `nbufkv'. The CVSROOT is on a filesystem with standard 8K/1K blocks. The target FS is 32k/4k. Both FS are

Re: Deadlock in nbufkv

1999-10-24 Thread Matthew Jacob
You know, I noticed this also yesterday, but with a current as of yesterday. It wasn't a complete hang. Eventually it recovered and went into sbwait. The filesystem in question was a 32k/8k fs. I remade the filesystem into 8k/1k, and things went better, but also then went onto other things (the

SCSI CCB timeouts accessing disk

1999-10-24 Thread Peter Jeremy
I've temporarily attached a Seagate ST32151N to a 1542B on a -current system to try and setup the disk for another system. Unfortunately, although the disk reports it is OK, I can't read or write. The relevant probe messages are: Oct 24 15:05:50 /kernel: aha0 at port 0x334-0x337 irq 11 drq 6

Re: trek73

1999-10-24 Thread Darryl Okahata
Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... it looks like the one I have is older. It looks like Jeff had made a huge number of enhancements between 1985 and 1988! Pretty cool, actually, though neither game is multi-player. Well, for multi-player, we had the most fun

Re: Deadlock in nbufkv

1999-10-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I've recently upgraded a system from 3.2-RELEASE to -CURRENT as of :30-Sept (just before the signal changes). I now find that when :I try to do a CVS checkout, the system hangs, with cvs in `nbufkv'. : :The CVSROOT is on a filesystem with standard 8K/1K blocks. The :target FS is 32k/4k. Both

HEADS UP: pccard code committed

1999-10-24 Thread Warner Losh
After talking with Peter Wemm and others at FreeBSD Con, I've reached the point where I can commit the pccard code that supports sio. It also supports ep and should shortly support ed. Card ejection (including suspend) doesn't work, which I'll try to fix at some point, but I might not get

lsof broken

1999-10-24 Thread Chuck Robey
It's broken trying to work with the name cache, and dies because it can't find the name NCACHE. Where is this guy? Chuck Robey| Interests include C programming, Electronics, 213 Lakeside Dr. Apt. T-1 |