BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I second that!

Re: ppp phone dial is broken

1999-12-22 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Christopher Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: With latest ppp I hear no phone numbers dial sounds at the stage: Phase: Phone: N ppp does _nothing_ until timeout occurse, then redial happens with the same unsuccessful result. I'm seeing the exact

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Alex Zepeda wrote: Perhaps blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives that don't report an ATA version, as the ata (and wd) driver works flawlessly in UDMA33 mode with my setup: Hmm, thats an idea... ata-pci0: Intel PIIX4 ATA controller at device 7.1 on pci0 ata-pci0: Busmastering DMA

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Pim van Grol wrote: For your information: I encountered the same problem on a MVP3 board (Epox ep-mvp3g-m) with via vt82c596, which worked well untill 13-12-99. Matrox HD. Are you sure you mean 596 ?? that is NOT supported (yet). Correctly interpreted as doing UDMA33. From

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:00 PM +1300 1999/12/22, Joe Abley wrote: Sorry if this is stating the obvious, but I've seen more than one clueful person bitten by this: hard-wire your duplex setting on your machine and also on the switch If you check http://www.backplane.com/diablo/hard.html and scroll

indirection in bus space

1999-12-22 Thread KATO Takenori
I'm planning to commit the bus space code(*) supporting indirection into current for PC-98. As far as I know, only PC-98 needs indirection. So, it will be enabled only when the `PC98' is defined to avoid performance loss on IBM-PCs. (*)The code is submitted by Takahashi-san [EMAIL PROTECTED].

Re: python tests

1999-12-22 Thread Daniel Eischen
It seem this is relevant. Here is the output of "python test_select.py": Traceback (innermost last): File "test_select.py", line 63, in ? test() File "test_select.py", line 47, in test rfd, wfd, xfd = select.select([p], [], [], tout) select.error: (4, 'Interrupted system

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Nick Hibma
If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting people know this is intentional? i.e., ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode. ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX. Let's not go the Linux way and make the

Re: End of sound file repeating was Re: mic cannot be deactivated

1999-12-22 Thread Nick Hibma
Yes, I've heard that as well, the repeating, but not consistent. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it loops forever (with my limited patience). Nick Cameron, Thanks for fixing the regenerative feedback problem between the mic and the speakers. My ESS1869 is now

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nick Hibma wrote: If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting people know this is intentional? i.e., ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode. ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX. Let's not

Userland PPP doesn't parse ppp.conf correctly

1999-12-22 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
I cvsupped 24 hours ago, and I just re-cvsupped and there were no changes to any ppp sources... The dial string is not being parsed correctly set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" The \\d and the \\T are not being parsed.

linux-netscape-4.7 OK?

1999-12-22 Thread F. Heinrichmeyer
today i had no luck with linux-netscape-4.7 from the ports. It dumps core with bus error. -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Nick Hibma
Mentioning it in the manpage should be sufficient I guess. Blacklisting devices sounds like a good idea if tey fail to work correctly in many cases. The problem being how to get a list that is "good enough" for the majority of cases. I'd like to see it the other way around: Make sure

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nick Hibma wrote: Mentioning it in the manpage should be sufficient I guess. Blacklisting devices sounds like a good idea if tey fail to work correctly in many cases. The problem being how to get a list that is "good enough" for the majority of cases. I'd like to see

Re: BP6 (Was Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66)

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Thyer
I know your talking SMP but thought you'd like to know some temps for UP systems as well... I have a Celeron 300a that I overclock to 464 MHz (100 MHz FSB + extra turbo frequency boost) running at 2.1 v and it runs at about 30 degrees celcius when idle and at 52 degrees when running setiathome

Re: linux-netscape-4.7 OK?

1999-12-22 Thread Charles Anderson
Try installing linux-base 6.1 from www.freebsd.org/~marcel -Charlie On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 01:59:39PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: today i had no luck with linux-netscape-4.7 from the ports. It dumps core with bus error. -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
Nick Hibma wrote: If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting people know this is intentional? i.e., ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode. ad0: To force DMA for this drive (at your own risk) set flags 0xXX. Let's not go the

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Darryl Okahata
Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems Nick Hibma wrote: If you end up doing this, can you have the driver print a line letting people know this is intentional? i.e., ad0: DMA disabled: This drive does not properly support DMA mode. ad0: To force DMA for this drive

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: clueful person bitten by this: : :hard-wire your duplex setting on your machine and also on the switch : : If you check http://www.backplane.com/diablo/hard.html and :scroll down to the "Network:" section (from the looks of things, :written sometime back in 1997 or perhaps 1998),

General ata grousing

1999-12-22 Thread Bill Paul
In an earlier post on -hackers, I mentioned that attempting to kldload the usb.ko module after the kernel had booted would panic the system. So far I've managed to track this problem all the way down down to sys/i386/isa/intr_machdep.c:add_intrdesc(). The system crashes when the uhci_pci module

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Dec 12, 1999 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I finally tracked it down. The loss is occuring in the link between two of my switches. The link goes across my apartment - about 60 feet of Cat-5 cable. That should be well within spec (you are supposed to be able

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

1999-12-22 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 09:37:55AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 21 December 1999 at 10:07:28 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:08:27PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: It's possible you might be on to something. I've been running iostat at 1 second intervals, and

Re: General ata grousing

1999-12-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Bill Paul wrote: [snip snap] I don't want to sound like an ungrateful wretch, unduly criticizing someone else's code, especially at so late a date, but there are some other things that just seem like they really shouldn't be there: We've got used to it, on with matters... -

Re: General ata grousing

1999-12-22 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:59:30 +0100 (CET), Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you looked at the code, you would see that the ata driver only uses this ugly method when we are dealing with the standard primary secondary controller which are bound to specific addresses and interrupts.

Re: General ata grousing

1999-12-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Garrett Wollman wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:59:30 +0100 (CET), Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you looked at the code, you would see that the ata driver only uses this ugly method when we are dealing with the standard primary secondary controller which are bound to

Re: ppp phone dial is broken

1999-12-22 Thread Brian Somers
With latest ppp I hear no phone numbers dial sounds at the stage: Phase: Phone: N ppp does _nothing_ until timeout occurse, then redial happens with the same unsuccessful result. Erk! Fixed now. Thanks for the report. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE

Toshiba 2100CDS ata hangs and internal modem

1999-12-22 Thread Eric J. Haug
Hi All, This laptop has a couple of problems with FreeBSD-CURRENT of about 1999/12/22 12:00 UTC. The system hangs with the disk drive light on. The output of boot -vc captured from the serial port follows. current of about 1999/12/11 works in PIO mode. The machine has a built-in modem that

Re: Toshiba 2100CDS ata hangs and internal modem

1999-12-22 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Eric J. Haug wrote: Hi All, This laptop has a couple of problems with FreeBSD-CURRENT of about 1999/12/22 12:00 UTC. The system hangs with the disk drive light on. The output of boot -vc captured from the serial port follows. current of about 1999/12/11 works in PIO

Re: fsck not cleaning on first try

1999-12-22 Thread David Malone
I think I have a partial explaination of the fsck not working on the first try, and a reboot fixing it. I've been using Soren's new driver for some time, and did a MAKEDEV after the block device changes, but I found that it I booted with a dirty root filesystem then fsck would fix the problem,

Re: Userland PPP doesn't parse ppp.conf correctly

1999-12-22 Thread Brian Somers
I cvsupped 24 hours ago, and I just re-cvsupped and there were no changes to any ppp sources... The dial string is not being parsed correctly set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT" The \\d and the \\T are not being

Re: Userland PPP doesn't parse ppp.conf correctly

1999-12-22 Thread Andrew Kenneth Milton
+[ Brian Somers ]- | | | Fixed now - my apologies. Not a problem, that's why it's -current. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew Milton The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | ACN: 082

Re: SMP

1999-12-22 Thread Emre
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 12:50:24PM +, George Cox wrote: Right. Get yourself cvsup-bin-16.0 from a FreeBSD ftp site (it's in the cvsup directory). Install that and read the manpages, just to get a flavour of how it works. Next, look at the files in /usr/share/examples/cvsup --

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread B. Scott Michel
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Jonathan Lemon wrote: On Dec 12, 1999 at 11:37:42AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I had a Netgear FS509 switch here that would eat packets transmitted through the GigE port under certain conditions. Netgear shipped me a new one, and I've been happy with it, until the

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :There's some oddities in the 3.3 and 3.4 kernels as well -- I've actually :nailed down the plexicity and speed on both the Accellar and my humble PC, :and yet, I'm looking at weird TCP lockups from time to time. : :Mostly seems to be related to NFSv3, but will also happen when doing :cvsup.

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread Julian Elischer
make sure you test odd packet lengths. (as in "not even") there are occasional bugs that turn up with that sort of thing. On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: I am clueless as to what is going on. It seems to only happen with TCP connections. I wrote a UDP-based packet loss

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :make sure you test odd packet lengths. (as in "not even") :there are occasional bugs that turn up with that sort of thing. Yup. Way ahead of you. Hmm. usleep() seems to have a high granularity - only about 150 Hz. How annoying! I've put the linktest program up on my web

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Dec-23 15:12:53 +1100, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, while its running in the background I am *still* getting TCP stutters and tcpdump still shows one machine sending a packet that the other machine never gets! I have no friggin clue as to why TCP packets

new linktest program avail (was Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents)

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
A new version of linktest is up, much enhanced: * fixes cpu use problems due to calling random() too much * fixes usleep (we now use a pipe and select()) This version can really stuff the network. http://www.backplane.com/FreeSrc/linktest-1.1.c Running the

Re: fsck not cleaning on first try

1999-12-22 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, David Malone wrote: The problem seems to be that I'm listing the "/dev/wd1s1a" devices in fstab instead of "/dev/ad1s1a", and fsck doesn't recognise that they are the same thing, and so doesn't spot that it needs to set the hotroot flag. I'm not sure if this is purely

Woa! May have found something - 'rl' driver and small packets (was Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents)

1999-12-22 Thread Matthew Dillon
I'm adding Bill Paul to the list specifically. Hmm. Now this is odd! I think I may have found something! All of my 'rl' driver cards fail this test: apollo# linktest -m 0.1:0.2 -s 16 -f16 lander lander# linktest -m 0.1:0.2 -s 16 -f16 apollo They get about

Re: Woa! May have found something - 'rl' driver and small packets (was Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents)

1999-12-22 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: I'm adding Bill Paul to the list specifically. Hmm. Now this is odd! I think I may have found something! All of my 'rl' driver cards fail this test: Oh sure. Bet the

Re: Woa! May have found something - 'rl' driver and small packets (was Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents)

1999-12-22 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On Dec 12, 1999 at 01:41:04AM -0500, Bill Paul wrote: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: I'm adding Bill Paul to the list specifically. Hmm. Now this is odd! I think I may have found something! All

Re: Woa! May have found something - 'rl' driver and small packets (was Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents)

1999-12-22 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon had to walk into mine and say: (taking this off -current) apollo# linktest -s 51 -f1 lander 1-51 byte payload - errors lander# linktest -s 51 -f1 apollo apollo# linktest -s 52 -f1 lander

fsck successfull on checking root-fs but OS still can't mount it

1999-12-22 Thread Andreas Klemm
Hi ! I'm seeing strange behaviour of fsck in -current. FreeBSD titan.klemm.gtn.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Dec 22 07:07:11 CET 1999 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/TITAN i386 SCSI bus hang, so I had to reboot. fsck checked every filesystem. But then mount was unable to mount

Re: fsck not cleaning on first try

1999-12-22 Thread Andreas Klemm
I have the problem on my system using pure scsi disks. My fstab entry: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/da0s2b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/da1s1b noneswapsw 0 0