Re: giving up on 1 buffers error messsage

2005-02-25 Thread Andriy Tkachuk
It is interesting why threre is no answer for this question so long time, regardless that it was posted 2 times :) For me it is also interesting to get the answer for this question since from time to time i also confused by such msgs on shutdown. syncing disks... 54 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Re: Driver Update Disk discussion

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2005-Feb-24 17:59:19 -0700, Scott Long wrote: - kernel option support. How do we support vendor modules in a kernel that might be compiled with PAE (rather common these days), SMP, MAC, etc. The loader and /boot infrastructure has no concept of this. It's highly important, though.

iSCSI initiator driver beta version, testers wanted

2005-02-25 Thread Danny Braniss
hi, drop me a line if you are willing/interested in trying out the iSCSI initiator driver. Also if you are willing to just look at it and provide some feedback. So far I have tested it against: NetAPP, Intransa and Linux, so if you have other targets it would help. BTW, I've been using 5.3

Re: gcc question

2005-02-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-02-25 11:34, Kathy Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:57, Kathy Quinlan wrote: ATM it is written in codevisionAVR which is where the function is called, so I guess for now I will just break the AVR support;) Ahh.. So.. are you talking about

Install Free BSD without floppy, without bootable CD-ROM-drive, without boot from LAN etc.

2005-02-25 Thread Юрий
Hello hackers, I wrote to @questions, but as result, I have advised to address the help to you. Sorry, if I spend your time I have notebook IP-120MHz without FDD He is NOT BOOT from CD. How can i install FreeBSD on it? Hardvare configuration: Compaq 5280 Intel Pentium 120MHz 80Mb RAM 4,3 Gb

Re: giving up on 1 buffers error messsage

2005-02-25 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luís
Although I am not exactly an expert on the field, I'll try to explain. The disk write procedures should wait for the disk to be ready, and this involves (soft)interrupts. When rebooting, the system can only wait for the device drivers to empty the write buffers, since it is not in interrupt

Re: sched_4bsd.c Quantum change

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Kjeldergaard
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:49:59 -0800, Ashwin Chandra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question for you hackers! If i wanted to change the scheduler to have a certain marked bad process have a higher time quantum than everyone elses (because it is behaving bad, high mem usage and context

Re: smartmontools vs HP Smart Array 642 controller

2005-02-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 03:24:17PM -0600 I heard the voice of Chris Dillon, and lo! it spake thus: Your problem with smartmontools doesn't seem to be limited to the Smart Array 642, I just tried it on a DL380 G3 with the Smart Array 5i+ and got the same error you did. It appears to be a

RE: Sharing data between user space and kernel

2005-02-25 Thread Aziz KEZZOU
sleeping(). What you probably want to do is actually allocate wired kernel pages and export them to userspace. Take a look at the GEOM gstat(8) implementation, which does exactly that. However, you have to make sure that if you ever decide to reuse that kernel memory for something else (i.e.,