ATA DMA corruption on 5.5-beta4

2006-05-13 Thread Phil Kernick
I have been having repeated filesystem corruption issues on 5.4 and 5.5-beta4. The problems only occur on disks connected to the VIA 82C596B UDMA66 controller. There have been no problems at all with the HighPoint controller. The problems only occur under heavy load with lots of reads and

Re: Boot loader cant identify ntfs?

2005-05-20 Thread Phil Kernick
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005 19:19:59 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would probably be possible to pad the available space with other common partition types. My proposal is this; don't change anything in the FreeBSD bootloader. People who want a fancier / more

Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

2005-01-29 Thread Phil Kernick
Anton Berezin wrote: Unless I hear too many cries don't do that (with justification), I plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing

Re: pw and adduser different checks ?

2004-11-10 Thread Phil Kernick
/usr/sbin/pw useradd -ntest [EMAIL PROTECTED] -d/home/test -g1000 -s/bin/sh -u1000 pw: invalid character `@' at position 4 in gecos field Who is right of both the program ? :-) IMHO I find usefull to have the @ in the gecos field because it is an easy way to associate login - email

Sound keeps dying

2004-10-31 Thread Phil Kernick
Running 4-STABLE. Sound on my system works after boot, but then later stops. Here's what I see in /var/log/messages... Oct 30 17:11:19 catbert /kernel: pcm0: AudioPCI ES1371-A port 0xe400-0xe43f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 Oct 30 17:11:19 catbert /kernel: pcm0: TriTech TR28023 AC97 Codec Oct

Re: Spinlock problem in 5.3-Beta

2004-09-15 Thread Phil Kernick
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Re: lnc problem with 4.9 as guest in VMWare

2004-04-14 Thread Phil Kernick
I have a WinXP Pro machine running VMWare 4.5.1 with a FreeBSD 4.9 virtual machine and it works just fine. lnc0 works exactly as expected. Do have something similar to this in /etc/rc.conf? network_interfaces=lo0 lnc0 ifconfig_lnc0=DHCP Phil. André wrote: I've gotten a P4 1.5Ghz with Win

Should bad hardware cause a kernel panic?

2004-01-08 Thread Phil Kernick
an error and not a panic, especially if the problem is detected during initialisation of the bus. Phil. -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ROTFL Enterprises Mobile: 041 61 ROTFL \_.-*_/ v Humourist, satirist, and probably

Re: hints on KVM switches w/ X

2003-06-02 Thread Phil Kernick
Has anyone got hints on using KVM switches with XFree86? I've found that I need to do this: device psm0at atkbdc? irq 12 flags 0x0100 Note the flags. Without it, my mouse gets very out of sync with a KVM switch. Phil. ___ [EMAIL

Re: backups of SUPERBLOCK

2002-11-09 Thread Phil Kernick
line that you used when you originally created the volume. From the newfs(8) manpage: -N Cause the file system parameters to be printed out without really creating the file system. Phil. -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mergemaster [was: Re: Ifconfig config of gif tunnels]

2002-10-15 Thread Phil Kernick
during mergemaster whether I should update them or not. Phil. -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ROTFL Enterprises Mobile: 041 61 ROTFL \_.-*_/ v Humourist, satirist, and probably a few more 'ists to boot

Re: Compiling a New Kernel

2002-10-11 Thread Phil Kernick
, then there is always the possibility that with the new kernel and the old world I may not be able to mount the volume. So I always shutdown but *not* reboot before doing the installworld. Phil. -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ROTFL Enterprises

Re: How now, BSD crow?

2002-10-10 Thread Phil Kernick
installworld? Phil. -- _-_|\ Phil Kernick E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ ROTFL Enterprises Mobile: 041 61 ROTFL \_.-*_/ v Humourist, satirist, and probably a few more 'ists to boot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problems with mysql-server port

2002-09-05 Thread Phil Kernick
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