Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Kennett writes: Finally, I've noticed the following messages: Dec 11 13:54:50 rabbit /kernel: ad1: UDMA CRC READ ERROR blk# 0 retrying Dec 11 13:54:50 rabbit last message repeated 2 times Dec 11 13:54:50 rabbit /kernel: ad1: UDMA CRC READ ERROR blk# 0

Re: Reasonable decision-making [Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: The ATA driver went golden now, and to make sure nobody is distracted from testing it before 4.0-RELEASE is cut, the wd driver will be removed. It's really that simple. Well, I'm not sure that's really true yet and I would honestly

Re: ATA problem

1999-12-11 Thread Greg Childers
Hi, With a bit of investigating, I've found the problem described in my previous email quoted at the end of this message started with the commits listed below. A kernel built using sources just before these commits works fine, whereas a kernel build just after freezes after the line Mounting

Vibra 16 doesn't recognised anymore

1999-12-11 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Some time ago my soundcard (Vibra 16C), which worked just fine previously, stopped being recognised/attached. Following is relevant pieces of dmesg and pnpinfo: CTL0001: start dependant CTL0001: adding irq mask 0x20 CTL0001: adding dma mask 0x2 CTL0001: adding dma mask 0x20 CTL0001: adding io

The secondary buffer in pcm channel for DSPs with small DMA buffers

1999-12-11 Thread Seigo Tanimura
My CS4614 has got only 4KB of the DMA buffer, frequently failing to play pcm blocks continuously. The following patch adds the secondary pcm channel buffers with the size independent from that of a DSP. The patch works quite well with mpg123 and x11amp. For those who has the similar problem could

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Dieter Rothacker
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:21:25 +0800 (WST), Michael Kennett wrote: Note that wd1 is not present. This caused a mild hickup when rebooting the new kernel, since the new ata controller assigned the labels ad0 and ad1 to the drives. It was not possible to boot into multiuser mode without changing

No Subject

1999-12-11 Thread er787e
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Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Peter Wemm
Dieter Rothacker wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:21:25 +0800 (WST), Michael Kennett wrote: Note that wd1 is not present. This caused a mild hickup when rebooting the new kernel, since the new ata controller assigned the labels ad0 and ad1 to the drives. It was not possible to boot into

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Dieter Rothacker
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:28:42 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: Dieter Rothacker wrote: You should use the kernel option "options ATA_STATIC_ID" for such cases. At least it works for me :-) I think this should only apply to the /dev/wd* compatability devices. ie: use the correct numbering for

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I think the latter. In 'theory' there should be no discernable difference between functionality from a KLD vs. the same functionality compiled directly into the kernel. Only in theory, of course. :) As Andrzej has already pointed out, modules can also be loaded and unloaded, creating a

Re: Vibra 16 doesn't recognised anymore

1999-12-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 11 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Some time ago my soundcard (Vibra 16C), which worked just fine previously, stopped being recognised/attached. Following is relevant pieces of dmesg and pnpinfo: last cvsup: Dec, 9. sbc0: Creative ViBRA16C PnP at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5

Re: Current hangs when dump is run?

1999-12-11 Thread Christian Gusenbauer
Hello! Since Nov 12th, I've been having this problem, too. Is there a solution/workaround available yet? I'm using a SCSI DAT drive and making backups using dump or tar works, but amanda still manages to hang the machine! Many thanks, Christian. AFAIR Taavi Talvik wrote on Sa , 20 Nov 1999:

FYI: Benchmarked ATA driver

1999-12-11 Thread Dieter Rothacker
Hi, here I have my Bonnie++ 0.99d output: machine is a P233MMX, 128MB, Hotrod66 with IBM DJNA-352500. (One slice, one partition UFS) -- Version 0.99d --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine

Re: Audio support [was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: Actually, I'm sad to say that our shiny new sound system does *not* work for some of the most popular audio chipsets on the market today (where the older "luigi" sound system did support them) and this is a matter of significant concern to some folks, myself

make world is failed on pc98

1999-12-11 Thread Takahashi Yoshihiro
The boot2 for pc98 (sys/boot/pc98/boot2) is a.out program. So, several tools for a.out are needed to make boot2. I make the patch to fix this. Is there any problem? --- Makefile.inc1 1999/12/10 16:13:41 1.102 +++ Makefile.inc1 1999/12/11 10:01:21 @@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ USRDIRS=

Re: Install of 4.0-19991208-CURRENT

1999-12-11 Thread patrick
On 11 Dec, Michael Kennett wrote: I've just tried installing the last current snapshot (4.0-19991208-CURRENT) onto an IBM laptop (365, type 2625-2E9) with a Xircom networking card (CE3B-100BTX). It failed -- the pccard was not recognized. I mention this because the

Re: ATA problem

1999-12-11 Thread Matthew Thyer
Does your /etc/fstab have character devices listed or block devices ? If it has character devices (aka raw devices), change them to block (remove the 'r' at the front) e.g. change: "/dev/rad0s2a" to "/dev/ad0s2a". It seems to be only necessary for the root filesystem. Some people (like me)

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen McKay writes : 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". First of all, "core" is not really involved in this per se. It might be that these things

Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread joeo
I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. What do these errors indicate? ad5: status=51 error=84

Re: make world is failed on pc98

1999-12-11 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Takahashi Yoshihiro wrote: +.if ${MACHINE} == "pc98" ${OBJFORMAT} == "elf" +USRDIRS+= usr/libexec/aout +.endif I don't think you need to test for OBJFORMAT. Also, include MACHINE_ARCH in case of cross-building. eg: .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "i386" ${MACHINE} == "pc98" +.if ${MACHINE}

ata: lost disk contact errors [was: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 09:31:57PM +0100, Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've connected the disk back to the UDM33 controller and it works fine. Now I get the message twice a day: ata0-master: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done I've

the PnP stuff

1999-12-11 Thread Kenneth Culver
I would like to add an option to revert back to the old behavior of not using the PnP stuff to probe the ISA bus. My reason for this is that my soundcard (SB ViBRA16X) and Modem (Diamond SupraExpress 56i) both were detected and worked fine (the SB with voxware drivers, the modem with the sio

Re: ATA problem

1999-12-11 Thread Greg Childers
Here's my fstab: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad1s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Nate Williams
If half as much energy was spent adding the missing bits of functionality to the new systems as people have been spending complaining it then we'd be there ages ago. Not true. It doesn't take a disk expert to complain about a policy, but it takes one to fix bugs/add features to the

Re: ATA problem

1999-12-11 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Greg Childers writes: Hello, Seems now is the time to raise problems with ATA, so here goes. I have used the ATA driver since its introduction into -current without problem until recently. A kernel from October 5 worked fine. Now, it no longer works using ATA, but works fine

Re: make release broken

1999-12-11 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Oleg Dobrokhotov wrote: Hello ALL, After Making hierarchy, in Installig everything install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/src/include/osreldate.h /usr/SNAP/include install: osreldate.h - no such file or directory... ***Error code 71 Stop in /usr/src/include Error code 1 Fixed. Thanks,

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. What do these errors

Re: SiS ata Driver (was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!)

1999-12-11 Thread Richard Seaman Jr.
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 11:28:20AM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:02:37PM +0100, Soren Schmidt wrote: OK, you asked for it, following is a patch to support the sis 5591 chipset. Remember

Re: FYI: Benchmarked ATA driver

1999-12-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: Hi, here I have my Bonnie++ 0.99d output: machine is a P233MMX, 128MB, Hotrod66 with IBM DJNA-352500. (One slice, one partition UFS) -- Version 0.99d --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite-

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Soren Schmidt writes: It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the partition doesn't show any obvious

Re: Reasonable decision-making [Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 11:20:19PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: my strategy on the whole affair at this point has been to simply make marks on a tally-sheet near my keyboard, While there is now working support for SiS 5591, and thus my initial objection to removal of the wd drivers is now

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 09:00:52AM -0800, Bob Vaughan wrote: Subject: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired! Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:19:43 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE TO="SELF" Maybe we should put a special marker in -currents sendmail and reject all

Re: Route table leaks

1999-12-11 Thread Chad R. Larson
As I recall, Joe Greco wrote: Hell, I've been seeing this for well over a year. The last time I mentioned it, everybody seemed to think I was nuts. :-) FreeBSD 3.0-19981015-BETA #1: Tue Jan 12 03:30:56 CST 1999 routetbl289178 40961K 40961K 40960K 4357410 0

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread John Baldwin
On 11-Dec-99 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warner Losh writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : You overlook one simple thing here: If we want the ata driver tested, : we need to make existing kernel configs break, otherwise people : will not

Re: Install of 4.0-19991208-CURRENT

1999-12-11 Thread Michael Kennett
On 11 Dec, Michael Kennett wrote: I've just tried installing the last current snapshot (4.0-19991208-CURRENT) onto an IBM laptop (365, type 2625-2E9) with a Xircom networking card (CE3B-100BTX). It failed -- the pccard was not recognized. I mention this because the

Re: Errors from the ata disk driver

1999-12-11 Thread joeo
Will the backdown to PIO mode be permanent till the next reboot of the machine, or will the driver be able to attempt to return to DMA mode after a timeout period. I'm only seeing these errors under really heavy disk activity (mutlitple nfs readers and writers plus rsync/mirror jobs to the vinum

Re: Audio support [was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
The same thing is about to apply to the woxware sound code, we have a new shiny system that works and is much better designed... Actually, I'm sad to say that our shiny new sound system does *not* work for some of the most popular audio chipsets on the market today (where the older

Re: Audio support [was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Just a question which I'm not sure is soundcard related. My xmms no longer starts up anymore, it just hangs in Poll before it actually puts anything on the display, is that because /dev/dsp isn't working? = | Kenneth Culver

Re: ata: lost disk contact errors [was: Re: HEADSUP: wd driver willbe retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Vallo Kallaste wrote: I'm getting the "lost disk contact" messages every now and then, but only on our mp3 machine with PIIX3 controller and IBM UDMA/66 disk. It's an PPro machine with Intel mobo. Can it be related to newer IBM disks? Depends on what 'now and then' is.

Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ?

1999-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:23:40AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Are you sure? Any a.out binaries for FreeBSD are going to be desgined to work with 3.x or older. Why??? A.out runs just fine on 4.0-R, and had better on 5.0-R. So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is silly. :-) Nope.

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 09:22:55PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: And as for the device renaming, you didn't have to change anything from sd-da. The old device names and nodes were supported in most every way. BUT not any longer. Thus we have no choice but fully make the sd-da change.

Re: Audio support [was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Peter Wemm
Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: The same thing is about to apply to the woxware sound code, we have a new shiny system that works and is much better designed... Actually, I'm sad to say that our shiny new sound system does *not* work for some of the most popular audio chipsets on the

Re: why 'The legacy aout build' was removed from current ?

1999-12-11 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 13:09:02 -0800, "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [Attribution lost.] So producing a.out libraries for CURRENT is silly. :-) Nope. You really need to think about the ISV's. Why do you think Netscape is still a.out? ISV's want to produce one binary that runs

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
"Dieter" == Dieter Rothacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dieter Why would you want to define "correct" numbering the Dieter non-spread-out numbering? Or did I misunderstand you? I Dieter have all my disks as master drives on the channels. Now, Dieter when I hook up another disk

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Adam
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: "Dieter" == Dieter Rothacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dieter Why would you want to define "correct" numbering the Dieter non-spread-out numbering? Or did I misunderstand you? I Dieter have all my disks as master drives on the channels.

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Please, help Sos fix ATA if you know of a problem. Please, help fix PCCARD if you know of a problem. Ok, so now the attitude is I need to spend all my time: 1. Fix ATA to work on my laptop (there are timeout issues) 2. Fix

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
"Adam" == Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam As I understand it, cam or pre-cam or wd or ata it is simply Adam an issue of defaults. If you plan to use disks that die or Adam become removed, simply read LINT on how to wire your disk Adam id's. I understand. The point is:

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
In other words, it's not a problem specific to KLD's .. but it's still a problem :-) Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become aware that the sysctl space has changed? The same holds true for a

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread John Baldwin
On 11-Dec-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: In other words, it's not a problem specific to KLD's .. but it's still a problem :-) Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become aware that the sysctl space

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread John Robert LoVerso
other than walking the sysctl tree regularly looking for changes Use a similar hack: map the sysctl tree to the filesystem (ala kernfs) and then stat the directory nodes. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Perhaps a modtime on the sysctl tree as a gross hack? Inside of sysctl() and the SYSCTL() macros you would update the time every time a write was made, no de added, node removed, etc. However, it is a gross hack. You're right, it would be a gross hack. :) Also, I can see where it would be

Re: Vibra 16 doesn't recognised anymore

1999-12-11 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Alexander Leidinger wrote: On 11 Dec, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Some time ago my soundcard (Vibra 16C), which worked just fine previously, stopped being recognised/attached. Following is relevant pieces of dmesg and pnpinfo: last cvsup: Dec, 9. sbc0: Creative ViBRA16C PnP at port

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Peter Wemm
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: "Adam" == Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam As I understand it, cam or pre-cam or wd or ata it is simply Adam an issue of defaults. If you plan to use disks that die or Adam become removed, simply read LINT on how to wire your disk Adam id's.

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
... The scsi system has always been dynamic with a wiring *option* right from as far back as 2.0. CAM didn't change this. as far back as 386BSD and the patchkit. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

make world broken by choose-temp.c

1999-12-11 Thread Adam Wight
=== cc cc -O -pipe -m486 -DFREEBSD_NATIVE -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DDEFAULT_TARGET_VERSION=\"2.95.2\" -DDEFAULT_TARGET_MACHINE=\"i386-unknown-freebsd\" -I/usr/obj/usr2/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc/../cc_tools -I/usr2/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc/../cc_tools

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Nick Hilliard
phk wrote: This is *CURRENT* remember ? We want this transistion done and tested before current becomes 4.0-RELEASE. The time is NOW! Not quite: this is -current, 4 days before a functionality freeze and potentially less than one month before 4.0-RELEASE. Replacing critical parts of the

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:00:03 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become aware that the sysctl space has changed? It's listening on a kernel

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 02:48:12PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: "Dieter" == Dieter Rothacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dieter Why would you want to define "correct" numbering the Dieter non-spread-out numbering? Or did I misunderstand you? I Dieter have all my disks as

trying to become current

1999-12-11 Thread Tim Preece
Hello, I am trying to get to current from 3.3-Release and I have just sent a message to questions concerning this, however I have just seen a message from Adam Wight make world broken by choose-temp.c and this is my problem Please how do I get around this ps sorry if this is the

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Re: Audio support [was Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!]

1999-12-11 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Here is a patch for my modem: --- sio.c.orig Sat Dec 11 19:51:29 1999 +++ sio.c Sat Dec 11 19:51:20 1999 @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ {0x31307256, NULL}, /* USR3031 */ {0x8020b04e, NULL}, /* SUP2080 */ {0x8024b04e,

two more 3.3-4.0 snafus

1999-12-11 Thread Adam Wight
1) The runtime-info.h target in gnu/lib/libobjc/Makefile calls `{CC} --print-prog-name=cc1obj` -print-obj-runtime-info, which uses an absolute path and calls the 3.3 version of cc1obj. This, of course, breaks the make. I don't know the proper fix, but building and installing cc1obj by hand is a

RE: trying to become current

1999-12-11 Thread Will Andrews
On 12-Dec-99 Tim Preece wrote: Hello, I am trying to get to current from 3.3-Release and I have just sent a message to questions concerning this, however I have just seen a message from Adam Wight make world broken by choose-temp.c and this is my problem Please how do I

rtc0

1999-12-11 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
I don't know if anyone else was having this problem, and I don't know that this is a proper fix, but here goes: For some reason rtc0 was not working, and I think it's because this variable was not initialized, here is the patch: --- clock.c.origSat Dec 11 19:58:15 1999 +++ clock.c

Re: rtc0

1999-12-11 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
Oops, try this patch instead, again, it's done wrong, but I couldn't figure out why statclock_disable was getting a value, and I don't have time to figure it out. --- clock.c.origSat Dec 11 19:58:15 1999 +++ clock.c Sat Dec 11 20:15:01 1999 @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ int

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: In other words, it's not a problem specific to KLD's .. but it's still a problem :-) Which raises an important issue - other than walking the sysctl tree regularly looking for changes, how does such an application become aware that the sysctl space has

Re: make world is failed on pc98

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
The boot2 for pc98 (sys/boot/pc98/boot2) is a.out program. So, several tools for a.out are needed to make boot2. I make the patch to fix this. Is there any problem? Only in the longer term, I think. How hard would it be to port the 'new' i386 boot2? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
I think this should only apply to the /dev/wd* compatability devices. ie: use the correct numbering for new installs onto ad*, but still support the old spread-out naming for wd*. This used to be more important as it required fiddling with $root_disk_unit, but the new mountroot code has

Re: trying to become current

1999-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
I am trying to get to current from 3.3-Release and I have just sent a Right now one needs to be at the latest 3-STABLE to make the jump to 4-CURRENT. Please let us know if you have a problem once you've updated to 3-STABLE. -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Jaye Mathisen
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Or worse, on a file server where you lose a low-numbered disk, not only does that one go away, but everything higher numbered loses as well. This "feature" does nothing other than introduce a gratuitous Amen to this. If the default kernel or

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
"Dieter" == Dieter Rothacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dieter Why would you want to define "correct" numbering the Dieter non-spread-out numbering? Or did I misunderstand you? I Dieter have all my disks as master drives on the channels. Now, Dieter when I hook up another

ppp over pty: trying to detect CD

1999-12-11 Thread Jon Hamilton
Running -current from this afternoon, I am having a strange symptom with ppp over a pty; ppp does not detect that the pty does not support carrier, and will cycle once per second waiting for CD to appear. Putting ``set cd off'' in my ppp.conf for that target fixed the problem, but I thought I'd

Re: The secondary buffer in pcm channel for DSPs with small DMA buffers

1999-12-11 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:55:38 +0900, Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Seigo My CS4614 has got only 4KB of the DMA buffer, frequently failing to Seigo play pcm blocks continuously. The following patch adds the secondary Seigo pcm channel buffers with the size independent from that of a

Re: make world is failed on pc98

1999-12-11 Thread Takahashi Yoshihiro
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcel Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than that: Go ahead! Thank you for many comments. BTW: Is there a special reason to have boot2 in aout? Because nobody transplant from the i386 boot2 :-). FreeBSD(98) porting team is always suffering from a

vinum start needs block device

1999-12-11 Thread FUJISHIMA Satsuki
Hi Greg, Since the recent block device vanishment, MAKEDEV all and my vinum volumes have failed to start. # ls -l da[01]s1h crw-r- 1 root operator 13, 0x00020007 Dec 12 22:56 da0s1h crw-r- 1 root operator 13, 0x0002000f Dec 12 22:56 da1s1h # vinum start ** no drives found: No

Re: vinum start needs block device

1999-12-11 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Since the recent block device vanishment, MAKEDEV all and my vinum volumes have failed to start. Please read /usr/src/UPDATING if you're going to track -current these days. The reason for this is clearly documented at the top of that file and won't be a problem in -release since the correct

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Linux have basically done this in their procfs. On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Use a similar hack: map the sysctl tree to the filesystem (ala kernfs) and then stat the directory nodes. AAIEE! sysctlfs!! :-) It's an interesting idea and I'm not sure why it also

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "David O'Brien" writes: : On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 09:22:55PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: : And as for the device renaming, you didn't have to change anything from : sd-da. The old device names and nodes were supported in most every way. : : BUT not any longer.

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "David O'Brien" writes: : 2. Fix PCCARD on my laptop so I can suspend What's the current issue? I have 0 problems suspending/resuming. I'd like to know what is still broken, if anything, with the latest -current. : OR, I can work on the compiler and close my open

Re: rtc0

1999-12-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth Wayne Culver writes: : For some reason rtc0 was not working, and I think it's because this : variable was not initialized, here is the patch: : -int statclock_disable; : +int statclock_disable = 0; There is no difference between these two statements (well,

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : This is the usual poorly thought out argument, which fails to note that : when you lose a disk you're already screwed due by /etc/fstab and the : need to hard-mount local filesystems. No. You aren't screwed. I have a system that needs /,

Re: Modules and sysctl tree

1999-12-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: Linux have basically done this in their procfs. If we're looking for a gross hack, we need look no further :-) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message