Re: /boot/loader fails to reset AMD K6-II FPU

1999-12-22 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: [...] When I reboot the system from the /boot/loader command line (with `reboot'), the system is being resetted, the kernel loads and starts, and when the FPU is being initialized the kernel traps. [...] Works fine on my Asus

Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD

1999-12-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sean-Paul Rees wrote in list.freebsd-stable: Is there a MMX enabled setiathome for us with non-3DNow! enhanced processors? No, MMX is completely useless for this kind of stuff, because MMX does not support floating point operations. Sorry. However, I modified the FFT algorithm to optimize

Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD

1999-12-22 Thread Sean-Paul Rees
Oliver Fromme wrote: Sean-Paul Rees wrote in list.freebsd-stable: Is there a MMX enabled setiathome for us with non-3DNow! enhanced processors? No, MMX is completely useless for this kind of stuff, because MMX does not support floating point operations. Sorry. However, I modified

Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD

1999-12-22 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:26:32PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: Wilko Bulte wrote in list.freebsd-stable: On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:36:31PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: About 50%, that is, about 4.5 hours (instead of 9) on average per work unit, on an Athlon-500. And I did only

Re: /boot/loader fails to reset AMD K6-II FPU

1999-12-22 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:27:41PM +0100, Bjoern Fischer wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: [...] When I reboot the system from the /boot/loader command line (with `reboot'), the system is being resetted, the kernel loads and starts, and when the FPU

Re: /boot/loader fails to reset AMD K6-II FPU

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
I believe I've already replied to this; it does indeed appear to be a BIOS bug. The 'reboot' loader command simply re-invokes the bootstrap interrupt, it doesn't attempt a complete system restart. It seems that some BIOSsen don't deal with this very well. this may be a BIOS/Mainboard

Re: Mylex RAID controller driver update

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: The third update to the Mylex PCI:SCSI RAID controller driver for FreeBSD-3.x-STABLE is now available at http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/mylex/mlx-stable-991221.tar.gz According to the README: Copy the files mlx.c, mlxvar.h,

Re: Re[4]: SOFTUPDATES

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ben WIlliams wrote: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 So that's a "Yes you need [br]oot fixit"? (I actually tried it with wd0s1a too and got the same effect.) I'll just take my disks next time I go up to see the

FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD )

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
Does FeeBSD/Alpha run reliably on an AXPpci33 with Quantum Fireball (SCSI)? Yes; we do test installs onto one (although I think it has a 2GB Empire in it at the moment, the furball was too small). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should

/bin/test broken ?

1999-12-22 Thread Vlad Skvortsov
Seems like /bin/test is broken after cvsup on Dec 16: $ /bin/test 1 -ne 0 ] [: ]: unexpected operator -- Vlad Skvortsov, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the

Re: /bin/test broken ?

1999-12-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 1999-Dec-23 12:09:49 +1100, Vlad Skvortsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like /bin/test is broken after cvsup on Dec 16: $ /bin/test 1 -ne 0 ] [: ]: unexpected operator What behaviour were you expecting? That command should have been expressed as either: $

Re: ntpd coring again

1999-12-22 Thread Randy Bush
Can you please download the latest (4.0.98h, as I recall) NTP code from either: http://www.ntp.org or ftp://ftp.udel.edu/pub/ntp/testing/ run: % configure % make # ntpd/ntpd (assuming ntpd is not currently running) did all that, or the equivalent (ran it

Re: SOFTUPDATES

1999-12-22 Thread Dan O'Connor
Did ``boot -s'' and ran tunefs but got an error: Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: # pwd / # tunefs -n enable /usr tunefs: soft updates set tunefs: /dev/rda1s1e: reload: Invalid argument What caused this? There's no reference in the manpage. I've seen it on some IDE drives,