Re: reading raw data from a CD-R with damaged table of contents

2004-01-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kevin Serwick wrote: Hi all, I added some files to a multisession CD-R with the burncd command. It appeared to work fine, but when I read the disk, the new files didn't show up. So I did the burncd fixate command - bad idea! Now nothing shows up! (burncd's no Nero Burning Rom!

Re: 5.1 - 5.2 upgrade, Promise FastTrak device /dev/ar0 missing?

2003-12-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: I have a Promise FastTrak SATA150 controller with two 120 GB drives that are mirrored. Using 5.1-RELEASE-p10 with sources from Nov 3. I tried to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2-RC today and the new kernel couldn't mount my root partition (/dev/ar0s1a) after doing

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Duncan Barclay wrote: I had a spare minute earlier today, this should do the trick (and is part of a larger patch due soon), please test and let me know... Index: ata-dma.c === RCS file:

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Duncan Barclay wrote: [ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ] Thanks Soren, this seems to work. There is a load of chat about incorrect cable types, but the drives are nice and fast according to a simple dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k ... Okies, the cable mumble is a feature of

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Duncan Barclay wrote: Hi Soren and all, Having just got a nice new motherboard, a PATA drive and a bunch of SATA disks I discover that my homework wasn't too good. -stable isn't detecting the VIA-8237 controller, and in particuluar it is not finding the SATA disks. I can hack

Re: geom_mirror implementation

2003-11-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Lukas Ertl wrote: If there's a good reason ccd(4) is harder to fix than geom_mirror, then you might want to talk to phk about rewriting geom_ccd based on geom_mirror. I believe scottl and phk have plans to fix raidframe, though, which would address a lot of the present

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2003-10-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: I'm looking to replace an aging fileserver with an Asus A7V600 board. Presently it appears FreeBSD does not support the serial ATA interface on the south bridge. As this appears to be the first Via serial ATA controller, am I safe in assuming this will not be

Re: raid (atacontrol) problems

2003-09-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Igor Tseglevsky wrote: [ Charset KOI8-R unsupported, converting... ] Strange problems with RAID. If disks are located on different controllers after rebooting one of disks disappears. Disks on one controller coexist in RAID normally. Is that Promise controller a fasttrak ie with a

Re: Does anyone work on making ATA moduler?

2003-09-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Takanori Watanabe wrote: Hi,There is a problem when PCMCIA related stuff is used as module, ATA CF is not recognized. This is because PCMCIA atachment is not compiled when pccard(4) is not compiled in. To fix it, we have to supply PCMCIA attachment in any form. One way is to

Re: prospects for DMA support for SiS962(L) Southbridge?

2003-09-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Rich Morin wrote: With FreeBSD 4.9 on the horizon, I thought I might bring this up again... There is no time for this on 4.9 (at least if it should be done properly. 5.1 has support for all SiS chipsets... At 10:01 AM -0700 6/17/03, Rich Morin wrote: I recently upgraded my

Re: A new sort utility

2003-09-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Tim Robbins wrote: Comments/patches are welcome. As the History suggestion of the manual page suggests, my plan is to get this in to FreeBSD 6, along with replacements for some other GNU tools. I have a diff(1) replacement (with sdiff support) in the works, among other things. Go for

Re: Serial ATA 4.8 Installation -help

2003-09-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems florian mettetal wrote: Now, I am at the Select Drives (Second screen) which menas that 5.1 does see my promise SATA raid controller. Now... I have 3 selections to use for drives, ad4, ad6, ar0 First, I have 2 drives, and one is just a mirror of the other. my presumption is to

Re: Serial ATA 4.8 Installation -help

2003-09-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems florian mettetal wrote: Greetings, I have built a brand new system founded on an Asus P4PE motherboard, and using the FastTrack raid function I have turned my two Maxtor 80GB Serial ATA (now reffered to as SATA) hard drives into a Mirror raid. Proceeding to start the installation

Re: wd ata

2001-03-29 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems BSD Blood wrote: Hello. I'm using FreeBSD 4.1. My kernel contains the ata driver for the IDE controllers. I understand that the ata driver has replaced the wd driver. My question is:- 1. Are there any / Do I need to use certain flags to enable LBA, DMA, etc. features like

Re: crash dump speed up patch.

2001-03-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Gersh wrote: Ive writen a quick patch for dev/ata/ata-disk.c:addump under 4.0-stable (03/26/01) which is considerbally faster. I did dumps on a SMP system with 512 megs of ram. Old: 201 seconds. New: 59 seconds. What I could gather from talking to people over irc/email

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Quinot wrote: Le 2001-03-21, Mike Smith crivait : Has anyone implemented/thought of implementing: - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; Yes. It's not a lot of work. Ah, interesting! Do you know if any source code is publicly available? What do you want it for

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Quinot wrote: Le 2001-03-21, Soren Schmidt crivait : - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; What do you want it for actually ? It is a possible solution for me to be able to use cdparanoia and cdrdao with my ATAPI CD drive. An alternative solution would

Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device

2001-03-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Warner Losh wrote: In message 8773.984501263@critter Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : We should then fix the rest of the system to deal with disks that : disappear without notice. : : That was the point yes :-) Cool. When this happens, the forgetful ata flash ejectors of the world

Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device

2001-03-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Soren Schmidt writes: : This all needed the patch to subr_disk.c that I made earlier today, : but now we can actually do it, however some of the cleanup action : should be done by the higher levels and not by the device driver

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Bill Paul wrote: "But Bill, you work for BSDi now. Can't they get you manuals?" Working for BSDi is irrelevant: I can't sign any NDAs if I want to release driver source, and I do want to release the source. And there isn't a designated person at BSDi that I can turn to to help turn

Re: ata-disk ioctl and atactl patch

2001-02-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Scott Renfro wrote: As I promised on -mobile earlier this week, I've cleaned up my patches to port the {Net,Open}BSD atactl utility, including a simplistic ata-disk ioctl. They apply cleanly against this afternoon's -stable (including Soren's latest commit bringing -stable up to

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Wilko Bulte wrote: Hi I'm looking for ideas on the following: I just added a CF-ata adapter to my system (see http://www.tapr.org). This works just fine, as long as the card is in the socket during boot. For obvious reasons this is not always the case. If it was not seen during

Re: IDE CDRW

2001-01-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Eugene M. Kim wrote: One more similar question: Does/will FreeBSD support ATAPI CD-R(W) drives in disk-at-once mode, perhaps using burncd(1)? I wanted to burn some audio CDs in that manner but burncd on 4-stable didn't support DAO writing. I'm working on it, but currently I have

Re: Mounting a CDROM in freeBSD 4.2

2001-01-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems gerald stoller wrote: Please send the response directly back to me, in addition to sending it to hackers , as the volume of mail to hackers is so great that I could very easily miss the response if it were only sent there. I just installed freeBSD 4.2 and found

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: Does anyone know how to reprobe the ATAPI bus, e.g. for a cd rom drive in a laptop that wasn't present during boot? Yes :) Most of the code is already in the ATA driver, but the ioctl's and the atacontrol program is still only here in my lab due to lack of

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: He only gets paid if it conforms to style(9) Heh :b. Just forget about it then, and be patient :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Shoecraft wrote: There are a number of reasons why a manufacturer can not/will not release source code for a driver. A few that come to mind are: a) A device driver is a reflection of the hardware. Manufacturers in highly competitive markets could

Re: HDD crashes, S.M.A.R.T and relocation tables.

2000-11-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Lev Serebryakov wrote: I see god solution: monitor HDD health by downloading relocation table and S.M.A.R.T. information from it daily (in cron job). When script detect, that relocation table is near to be full or here is 1000 new relocations in one day, it sends mail to

Re: STABLE ATAPI CD-ROM

2000-11-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dimitar V. Peikov wrote: Yesterday, I've CVSuped -STABLE and UPGRADE using information in /usr/src/UPDATING from 4.1.1-STABLE. Re-cvsup, this has been fixed... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Smart And Friendly Burner?

2000-11-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Daryl Chance wrote: Hi, Anyone else have a smart and friendly cd burner? When I boot I get this: /kernel: acd0: CDROM ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX at ata1-master using UDMA33 /kernel: ata1-slave: timeout waiting for command=ef s=00 e=00 /kernel: ata1-slave: timeout waiting for

Re: CD ROM

2000-11-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Katya.Hazelden wrote: I've got a problem with my CD ROM. The drawer keeps sliding open every time I try to put a CD into it, it just won't stay shut. Have you got any ideas? Your drive is broken, or something is obstructing the drawer... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Volker Stolz wrote: The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board should be a couple of years old, it's for regular Pentium-I).

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board should be a couple of years old, it's for regular

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Volker Stolz wrote: Am 02. Nov 2000 um 17:15 MET schrieb Soren Schmidt: ... the "new and improved" ATA driver states the fact that this chip is broken and can corrupt your data, end of story. Nope, I didn't find any references on this controller. The ATA dri

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems John Summerfield wrote: It seems Volker Stolz wrote: The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board should be a couple

Re: DMA/66 not available for secondary IDE bus?

2000-10-29 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Brian McGovern wrote: This may be intentional, but I've noticed that if you have a non-UDMA66 device on the primary IDE bus, FreeBSD 4.x does not allow you to have UDMA66 on the secondary bus. Say what ? there is NO such limitation in the ATA driver What chipset are we talking

Re: IDE Questions

2000-10-28 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chris Csanady wrote: Is there anyone successfully using an IBM 75GXP with an Abit KT7-Raid motherboard? I am using stable from a couple days ago, and am having some problems getting it to work. I use 4 on a Abit KA7-100 with RAID0 with no problems... When I attach the disk to the

Re: burncd utility for atapi burners

2000-10-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: I would like to communicate the proposed changes to the author but I did not find his address. Could somebody provide his email to me? [ ... ] This is going to be a problem in getting your changes accepted: +/*- + * t.h. changes copyright (c) 2000

Re: Getting data from the ATAPI-CD driver

2000-09-24 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: As detailed in my previous post to this list, the way Linux's AudioFS does this doesn't work for FreeBSD (using IOCTL's). So, Soren Schmidt's advice was to directly get data from the atapi_cd driver. Doing some research, I see two ways to do this: 1) Using

Re: Promise FasTrack66 IDE RAID controller

2000-09-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Spyros Melissovas wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is any kind of support for the Promise FasTrack66 IDE RAID controller We support it already as a normail ATA controller... AFAIK the controller needs a driver which will use the made-up disk geometry instead of the

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thierry Herbelot wrote: Soren Schmidt wrote: From the README: ATA-tagged-queueing-diff-0908: Add support for ATA channels with both a master and a slave, even combos where only on of them supports tagged queuing should work now. Also only switch on tagged queuing

Re: Promise PDC20265

2000-09-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: Hello, I have Asus A7V motherboard that has integrated UDMA100-controller PDC20265 made by Promise and Maxtor 54098H8 hard disk. When plugged to the UDMA66-controller the Maxtor works properly, boots and is fast. But when plugged to the PDC20265 BIOS

Tagged queuing for ATA drives, patches up for testing

2000-08-31 Thread Soren Schmidt
Hi! I've put the latest patches for tagged queueing on ATA disks up for ftp on: ftp://freebsd.dk/pub/ATA/ATA-tagged-queueing-diff-0831.gz This is a snapshot from one of my working tree's and other minor fixes are also included, but thats another story... From the README: Experimental

Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine

2000-08-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Parag Patel wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:57:48 EDT, Robert Sexton wrote: Can IDE drives release the bus during seeks? Historically thats been the big advantage of SCSI: Two IDE drives are no faster than one IDE drive, while SCSI scales in performance. How about a single IDE

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: | Here's another idea, the ata driver can read/write 2352 sector size | blocks directly, no need to use that ugly ioctl. You just have to | set the right blocksize, I could provide you with a function for | that, no more ioctl mess ;) That would be

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: I can't think of any way of accomplishing this without either: 1) Combining the code for AudioFS and CD9660, as both require access to the mounted device, and hacking them to respect each other, or 2) Hacking the ATAPI-CD and SCSI-CD

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: that way you could mount each track with whatever fs it supported. Same thing as I proposed, I guess. Am I right in thinking that a cdrom can have at most one data track? In that case, I'd suggest assighing that track a standard device node. That way I

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Tony Finch wrote: Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: Am I right in thinking that a cdrom can have at most one data track? In that case, I'd suggest assighing that track a standard device node. That way I could just mount the data track

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: | Ahem, maybe its time I chime in here. | Luigi and I once had an idea of having each track on a CD represented | by a device node, ie track0 = /dev/acd0t1 track1 = /dev/acd0t2 etc etc, | that way you could mount each track with whatever fs it supported. |

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: I think I've finally figured out why AudioFS isn't working (aside from an endianess error in v0.1), but I can't think of a solution. The problem I've found is as follows: The code in atapi-cd.c (from Soren's ATA driver) assumes the passed buffer (in the

Re: EIDE Problems - fsbn read error

2000-08-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Lew payne wrote: One of our new FreeBSD 3.5-REL systems is periodically locking up, due to an apparent disk error. These are brand-new IBM 7200 RPM 60 GB ATA/66 EIDE drives, in a ccd configuration as follows: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on

Re: ATA100-7200rpm vs 10k-rpm SCSI for build box

2000-08-01 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Stromberg wrote: $--- 128M PC133 RAM $150 Asus A7V (w/ Promise ATA100 controller) $297 AMD Athlon 850 (still waiting for than price drop) $63 Tekram 390F UW-SCSI Controller (Symbios) $132 4.5G 1RPM Seagate Cheetah or $97 IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA-100 7200RPM 15G

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Coleman Kane wrote: Hello, is anyone currently working on code to implement the UDF filesystem? For those not familiar with it, it is the filesystem that DVDs use. I'd like to look into getting the support under FreeBSD, since the players already seem to work. If no one is working on

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: I am working on UDF support. I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner. I will eventually turn this into a (readonly)

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: Not sure what the right thing to do here is, or even if it's a real problem, but: I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put all the data that newfs write out on

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: I have many of them up and running under 4.0, but they will only function as normal IDE controllers, not "RAID". As to teh BIOS issue, make a stripe, then make your partition that you're using not stomp on the end of the drive, and it won't overwrite that

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: It seems Mike Smith wrote: Does anyone KNOW of these working under the new drivers? What about setup? I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic after that period. The hardware

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: Does anyone KNOW of these working under the new drivers? What about setup? They are supported by the ATA driver, setup as usual, ie none they just work... I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the

Re: Promise Fasttrack RAID controller

2000-06-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: Does anyone KNOW of these working under the new drivers? What about setup? I've seen plenty about people failing (in 98-99) to get tehm going but the archives are silent on the topic after that period. The hardware support lists don't mention them either.

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nicole Harrington. wrote: On 08-Jun-00 Wilko Bulte wrote: I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from. Thks

Re: ACE wrappers woes on 4.x-stable (pthreads)

2000-06-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Max Khon wrote: hi, there! On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Russell L. Carter wrote: |can someone take a look at this? |seems that it's a flaw in 4.x pthreads implementation |under RELENG_3 everything works fine, haven't tried this on -current |i'm totally lost at this point

Re: 40gig IDE drives?

2000-06-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: Yeah, that was my though. I left sectors free at the front, but that wasn't it. It uses the last sectors IIRC its been some time since I looked at it.. Soren was looking at seeing if there was some way to read the promise label/record keeping, and turn

Re: ioctl for reading raw ATAPI CDDA data

2000-05-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Brad Jones wrote: I'm trying to rip CDDA from an ATAPI cdrom device. So first I tried using cdd from /usr/ports. No dice, the resulting file is static. Next I searched for an alternative and found daex. Since I'm running FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE the kernel mods the author describes

Re: NEC 260 CDROM detection under FreeBSD 4.0-RELESE/STABLE

2000-04-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Alexey N. Dokuchaev wrote: Hello! I've been using FreeBSD 3.4 for quite a while, and my CDROM, being quite old and weird (NEC 260 model) was detected by both BIOS and FreeBSD. Judging on the output it seems the NEC is one of the old devices that doesn't say its a CDROM... Try this

Re: vinum raid5 panics

2000-04-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chad David wrote: I just put together a 5 disk raid5 system using vinum on 4.0 from last Wed., and I am experiencing random panics. I can force the panic by working on the filesystem, but sometimes just having it mounted kills the machine. I compiled a debug kernel, and got a

Re: PC Keyboard Scancodes

2000-04-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Anatoly Vorobey wrote: Of course, with all those new keys on all those keyboards, we should perhaps think about whether to add all of them as new keycodes, and if so, in which order, etc. I've no idea if FreeBSD's concept of 'keycode' (i.e. key number independent of keyboard model)

Re: hard drive problems

2000-03-28 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Yeske wrote: ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 3500173 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 3500173 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 3499709 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 3499709 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 3499709 retrying ad0: UDMA ICRC READ

Re: ATA problems with changer code

2000-03-24 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Daniel C. Sobral wrote: You are too late, I have committed a fix for that already :) With the latest ata, I get instant panic whenever I call /stand/sysinstall. It seems acdopen() is trying to read the contents of cdp-changer_info, but that pointer is NULL. -Søren To Unsubscribe:

Re: Big ATA problems

2000-03-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Alexander Langer wrote: Thus spake Brian Fundakowski Feldman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You don't have any modules preloaded in /boot/loader.conf, do you? That's That's right. I think I lost track here, do you still have problems with the latest ata in 4.0 or -current ??? -Søren

Re: Big ATA problems

2000-03-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Alexander Langer wrote: Thus spake Soren Schmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You don't have any modules preloaded in /boot/loader.conf, do you? That's That's right. I think I lost track here, do you still have problems with the latest ata in 4.0 or -current ??? Not me, but I

Re: ATA-disk question

2000-03-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sitaram Iyer wrote: (kernel 4.0-2208-CURRENT) I have a question about adstrategy() in ata-disk.c: it says bufqdisksort() -- which appends to the drive queue using CSCAN, and immediately, without a check for adp-active, there is ad_start() -- which removes it

Re: Onstream?

2000-03-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Jacob writes: : I gave up on supporting it- too much work for too little gain, IMO. The same thing happened on the IDE side of things. Even with Soren's hacks, I never could get it to work well. It worked as well as one

Re: DeCSS

2000-03-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Kennaway writes: : You know, I half want to add a note in the release notes that "FreeBSD 4.0 : now ships with DeCSS included", but that might be a bit political :-) It would be political. All things are. What could they do

Re: DeCSS

2000-03-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He, I have the bits ported here since november'99, I'll gladly offer them for inclusion on the CD's :) -Søren drwx-- 2 sos wheel 512 Jan 5 08:06 DVD Well, I believe you, I just can't get to it :) Actually, opendvd.org still links

Re: DeCSS

2000-02-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sergey Babkin wrote: I can't help keeping wondering if this MAA is missing the point completely: why would someone need the decryption to make a _copy_ ? A copy is a copy and it appears to me that the encrypted bits written on the disk surface could be copied just exactly as well

Re: PCI IDE Controller (HPT-366) supported?

2000-02-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kris Kirby wrote: Is anyone actively working on a driver for the High Point Technologies PCI disk controller (HPT-366)? I have a machine I can test on, and would be willing to assist. I'm tired of telling people that my motherboard has four IDE ports, but I can't use more than two

Re: T1 / E1 PCI card for FreeBSD?

2000-02-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Len Conrad wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tells me their P1200 E1 card, with FreeBSD drive, can't work in channelized mode (like the etinc cards can't). Their LMC150xM cards can do channelized, but don't have a FreeBSD driver, but their FreeBSD guy is looking at it. Any hacker care

Re: UDF

2000-01-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Brian Beattie wrote: I have been looking at UDF ( the filesystem used on CD-RW and DVD's ). I was wondering if anybody was working on it. I'm thinking about trying to implement it for CD-RW's and would like to avoid duplication of effort and the anoyance of getting half way through

Re: soundcards needed to further newpcm development

1999-12-31 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Bill Swingle wrote: Below is a list of chipsets that we're still lacking. If you have any cards that have these chips on them, and would like to see support for them added or improved please consider sending them to us. Due to the sheer number of cards we'll be handling and the

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nick Hibma wrote: ata_command: timeout waiting for interrupt ^^^ Thats an aritifact from the ATAPI probes, it should be of no harm... In that case, is there some way of getting rid of the message? Erhm well, I said harmless, but it indicates there is a problem with

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Ames wrote: Both reports "dont care" fields in the ata conformance field thereby being set as ATA-0 disks. Since I've put in test to only enable WDMA2 on at least ATA-2 disks and only enable UDMA2 on at least ATA-3 disks, well your disks are not even tried. You can

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Ames wrote: Hrm... no question that the ATA driver is better today, but its still not reporting DMA on my Quantum bigfoot drive (which should support DMA: http://www.quantum.com/products/archive/bigfoot_cy/bigfoot_cy_features.htm) The Maxtor is pretty old (But its been

Re: ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Ames wrote: I've put them in recently to try to avoid runniing DMA on known problematic HW, but they will also reject some good ones regrettably... Hrm... any chance of making that a config option? People should be allowed to hurt themselves if they want :) Or maybe in

Re: ATAPI tape drive (wst0) problem.

1999-12-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Alexander Prohorenko wrote: Hello, I've got some problem and I need your help to solve it. uname -mrs FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 dmesg output: wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): SuperStation-Int/1.06, removable, accel, iordy Hmm, I've gotten a failure report on one of these before, I'm

Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format?

1999-12-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Karl Denninger wrote: Hi folks, Well, I'm in for it now ;-) I'm going to have to start supporting ATAPI tape drives on FreeBSD for some business associates - they're too cheap to go SCSI. Some of these (if not all) require formatting, right? This leads to the obvious

Re: why FFS is THAT slower than EXT2 ?

1999-10-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Ilia Chipitsine wrote: FreeBSD-3.3 + softupdates + "# tunefs -o time" + "flags 0xb0ffb0ff" (kernel was compiled with "-O2") Hmm, if you didn't do a "tunefs -n enable" you are not using softupdates and there is your reason why FreeBSD is slower.. -Søren To Unsubscribe:

Re: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem...

1999-10-01 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Stefan Lindgren wrote: Thanks for the help Soren, The disk is a Seagate Medalist 6.2 GB UDMA But now I have tested all PIO modes(0 - 4 and auto) and disabled udma. It still doesn't work. I get different results when I change PIO. Once I got some message like: Page fault: Couldn't

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Christopher Masto wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 09:27:37AM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with to handle modern HW, and to deal with all the possible block formats thats possible on a CD nowadays. It will probably

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Nick Hibma wrote: And, oh while you are at it, why not create a CAM SIM that makes IDE available through CAM. That would save me a lot of work :-) Its not on my current TODO list, I want all the lowlevel things done first. If somebody writes the support I'll consider putting it in,

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Paulo Fragoso wrote: Hi, I'm using one atapi-cdrw (CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E/1.36) and works fine but I don't know change speed to 4x, now I'm burning at double speed (I'm spending 37min to burn one full cd). I've got other unit (YAMAHA-SCSI) which spends 17min for a full cd but

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 22-Sep-99 Soren Schmidt wrote: Are there any way to make wormcontrol burns cds at 4x speed? Not directly, but your driver _should_ use the max speed as default. You could ad a command to force the drive to max speed in the driver though

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Luigi Rizzo wrote: Anyhow, I have some changes to the worm stuff, it needs to be dealt with to handle modern HW, and to deal with all the possible block formats thats possible on a CD nowadays. It will probably mean the death of the worm stuff as is now, but I'm the last user

Re: wormcontrol write speed

1999-09-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Paulo Fragoso wrote: I'm using one atapi-cdrw (CREATIVE CD-RW RW4224E/1.36) and works fine but I don't know change speed to 4x, now I'm burning at double speed (I'm spending 37min to burn one full cd). I've got other unit (YAMAHA-SCSI) which spends 17min for a full cd but

Re: Help - Fasttrak eide raid host adapter and FreeBSD

1999-09-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Richard Uren wrote: Ward, I purchased one last week - A FastTrak66 (which is perhaps not the 'FastTrack' you mentioned. Its detects as a 'PCI - Mass Storage Controller' (in the Bios startup) and unless there is some 'emulate an IDE drive' mode that I missed it won't work.

Re: Moving bt848 driver to /sys/dev/bktr

1999-09-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Roger Hardiman wrote: Hi, I want to move the Bt848 driver to /sys/dev/bktr So, does anyone see any problems with this? Nope, go for it I'd say, and could we then have some of all the version text and stuff put away too, thats why we have CVS :) -Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd)

1999-09-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Krinsky wrote: Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm. Well, it's brand-new, and I didn't get it at a garage

Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd)

1999-09-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Krinsky wrote: Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm. Well, it's brand-new, and I didn't get it at a garage sale.

Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd)

1999-09-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Krinsky wrote: I posted this to -hardware a few days ago and haven't gotten much in the way of feedback; since it sounds to me like a driver bug this seems like an appropriate forum too. Is anyone here using -any- ATAPI drive for backup? Yup, I use one: ast0: CONNER

Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD

1999-08-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Gary Jennejohn wrote: Mark Huizer writes: Hi there, I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly that

Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD

1999-08-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Gary Jennejohn wrote: Mark Huizer writes: Hi there, I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly that seems

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