Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-29 Thread Adrian Penisoara
Hi, On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I'd suggest trying a 3.3-stable snapshot, just as soon as I can get those rolling off of releng3.freebsd.org again. If it still occurs, we're now at least debugging the latest and greatest. Isn't -STABLE tracking OK ? Unfortunately I

Re: problems with adaptec 2940 cards on 3.3-STABLE

1999-09-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:11 PM -0400 1999/9/28, Alok K. Dhir wrote: I'd suspect the external SCSI cable if disconnecting it (and presumably enabling termination on the card) fixed the problem... I wouldn't rule out cables just because you have 2 machines with the same hardware... I wouldn't be

Re: Problem adding aic driver to kernel

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Lowkrantz, Goran" wrote: What does the following text in the release notes mean in the current context? [snipp] The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem: [snipp] I would interpret this as I can

Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD

1999-09-29 Thread Matt Behrens
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Ed Watkeys wrote: : Reading through the mkisofs man page, it that that the ISO image : should contain all of the information necessary to make this CD-R : bootable. Has anyone actually booted off of a CD-R that they've burnt : from the September 17, 1999, image? The disc

Re: Problem adding aic driver to kernel

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Lowkrantz, Goran" wrote: Just as a note, there is not a word in the release notes that the old SCSI and the CAM SCSI can't exist at the same time on the same machine. If CAM is the only SCSI subsystem that can live on a 3.x system, I would say that all the cards that use a driver not

symlink with mode

1999-09-29 Thread G.P.
Hi! What peculiar feature is it, that symlinks have modes !=0777 depending on the umask when they have been created? # umask 0777 # ln -fs xx yy # ls -l yy l- 1 pruess sophie 2 Sep 29 13:54 yy@ - xx # umask # ln -fs xx yy # ls -l yy lrwxrwxrwx 1 pruess sophie 2 Sep 29 13:55

Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD

1999-09-29 Thread Ed Watkeys
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: All bootable Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD CDs use the El Torrito boot hack to accomplish their purpose. It's the -b flag to mkisofs. Yes. However, it seems to have problems with ATAPI CDROM drives (where it works fine with SCSI) and we're still

Re: problems with adaptec 2940 cards on 3.3-STABLE

1999-09-29 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Brad Knowles wrote: At 10:11 PM -0400 1999/9/28, Alok K. Dhir wrote: I'd suspect the external SCSI cable if disconnecting it (and presumably enabling termination on the card) fixed the problem... I wouldn't rule out cables just because you have 2 machines with

Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD

1999-09-29 Thread Jim King
At 08:59 AM 9/29/1999 -0400, Ed Watkeys wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: All bootable Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD CDs use the El Torrito boot hack to accomplish their purpose. It's the -b flag to mkisofs. Yes. However, it seems to have problems with ATAPI CDROM drives

Re: vinum experiences (not as documented, at least).

1999-09-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:49 AM -0400 1999/9/29, David Gilbert wrote: Well... firstly, the design of the system was to put everything (even swap) on the RAID drive. The root is outside, of course... and this took some doing, but that's how the system is currently configured. I'm not confident that dumping to

Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Ed Watkeys wrote: The information on burning CDs under FreeBSD is very spotty. I've been to the freebsd.org site, dejanews, and altavista, only to scrape together fragments of info. I'd be happy to collect and organize this information if people out there have it. The following was posted

Re: Cdrecord problems to record 1 CD

1999-09-29 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Michael Robinson wrote: Eliezer Rodriguez Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ I take this opportunity to say that the choice of downloading the first CD out of the 4 CDs set is very welcome for all of us uncapable of purchasing our own copies due to

Re: vinum experiences (not as documented, at least).

1999-09-29 Thread David Gilbert
"Brad" == Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad Perhaps others have had problems, but I haven't. What Brad problems have you had in this area? Well... firstly, the design of the system was to put everything (even swap) on the RAID drive. The root is outside, of course... and this