Comtrol Rocketport driver is severely hosed under 6.x-STABLE

2006-09-07 Thread Karl Denninger
! Thanks in advance -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://genesis3.blogspot.com

Re: Comtrol Rocketport driver is severely hosed under 6.x-STABLE

2006-09-07 Thread Karl Denninger
. GEOM_MIRROR: Device b500: provider ad4s1 activated. GEOM_MIRROR: Device b500: provider mirror/b500 launched. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/b500a em0: link state changed to UP -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.net

ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-09 Thread Karl Denninger
GMIRROR changes in the commitlogs since 9/1, and it claims to be (mostly) cosmetic. Obviously not! -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-09 Thread Karl Denninger
taken to actually test the change and detect this once it was put in? All of 30 seconds? -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-09 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 04:04:40PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Karl Denninger wrote: Yeah, -STABLE is what you should run if you want stable code, right? C'mon guys. This sort of thing belies a total lack of concern when changes are MFC'd into production branches

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Karl Denninger
with gives you no other real option than to run the -STABLE track. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:21:33PM +, Patrick J Okui wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Karl Denninger wrote: Once the -RELEASE branch is taken, code updates there STOP. I take it you haven't read the text in the handbook that has been linked to by a few posters. You can track changes

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:36:31PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 01:13:31PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:21:33PM +, Patrick J Okui wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Karl Denninger wrote: Once the -RELEASE branch is taken, code updates

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 10:15:20PM +0300, Reko Turja wrote: From: Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 9:39 PM Yes it is, in the general case; in any event if you track RELENG_6_1 you will get no bug fixes in general - security

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-10 Thread Karl Denninger
! Eh? T? As in Tag, which is the syntax that acutally shows up in the CVS directory under the source tree. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-12 Thread Karl Denninger
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:06:15AM +0200, Bj?rn K?nig wrote: Karl Denninger schrieb: This is not cool folks. I think you misunderstood what -STABLE means. (Or maybe I do?) -STABLE is still a development branch without guarantee of a stable and working operating system. -STABLE

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-12 Thread Karl Denninger
some inappropriate comments - not change functionality in a way that could potentially cause this sort of breakage! -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! - back to Pawel

2006-09-13 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:46:05PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:38:13PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: This is not cool folks. I'm really sorry for the breakage. I'm trying to treat -STABLE very gently, unfortunately this time I made a mistake. (elided

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-09-30 Thread Karl Denninger
to a uniprocessor or SMP kernel - it is reliably hosed in both cases. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about

Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Denninger
hundreds of deployed instances, and it is in no way obsolete or something I intend to stop supporting. I know serial I/O is passe for many, but some of us have applications that actually require it, and can't rationally be moved to anything else due to external hardware considerations. -- -- Karl

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:08:22PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:19:25AM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Hi folks; Ok, one of my pet peeves is coming around to bite me again. {snip} I know serial I/O is passe for many, but some of us have applications

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: On 10/5/06, Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I know serial I/O is passe for many, but some of us have applications that actually require it, and can't rationally be moved to anything else due to external hardware

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 04:04:47PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:21:44PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: FreeBSD's USB support has always been somewhat deficient. For example, apcupsd can't talk to their UPSs over the USB bus, even though the software itself knows

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:22:09AM +0300, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: Hello! On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Karl Denninger wrote: The problem that is nailing me particularly hard right now is the second one - I have embedded control systems that I speak to over a RS-232 interface (the devices

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Karl Denninger
What's your config like? I hooked the USB back up and it identified, but when I told it to use USB and specified the device, it panics (the software, not the machine) with a complaint about not being able to talk to the UPS. Works perfectly on a serial port... -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 01:10:37AM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: So. I have an application that requires six serial ports, and would like ten. 5.x FreeBSD versions are being EOL'd per the announcement, forcing me to move to 6.x. The Comtrol driver for the Smart

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:25:31PM +0100, Andrew Gordon wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:04:41PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: I have used USB-to-serial converters with no problem. All the control signals (at least the ones my applications need

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:27:21PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:53 PM 10/6/2006, Karl Denninger wrote: Now, where the problem comes in is that THIS line doesn't reference an attached port. That sucks, but might not be hard to fix: If there is just one USB *serial* device

Re: Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

2006-10-06 Thread Karl Denninger
I have a commercial spam-blocking tool that runs on FreeBSD which can do this (along with interdicting all your spam for you.) Its not freeware tho - its a product. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-07 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:45:38AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think there may be another option. Here's the boot message, with just USB related things: usb0: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-08 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 04:14:44PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uh, if you unplug a working serial device's USB cable, you've got bigger problems :) So you think? USB is hotplug, and it doesn't have to be a port in use that you're unplugging. I

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:29:43PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 16:21, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:08:22PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:19:25AM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Hi folks; Ok, one of my pet

Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing

2005-06-28 Thread Karl Denninger
) -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://homecuda.com Emerald Coast: Buy / sell homes, cars

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
. This is a major sore spot, and is not a trivial issue by any means. Disk I/O is arguably THE major thing that must work right for any operating system to be usable. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
sure WHAT codeset I can CVSUP and test to have a decent shot at getting a FULLY working ATA/gmirror implementation. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
and copies EVERYTHING. There are other options but you need to be more specific as to what you mean by similar. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:51:13PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 03:26 PM 21/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path backwards

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
shell script. Used this all the time to push new OS versions out to the cluster (a couple of dozen machines) when I was done testing them as well as adding new machines to the existing cluster as demand warranted. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:12:47PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:26 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Ok, Robert, but then here's the question How come the ATA code which was very stable in 4.x was screwed with in a production release, breaking it, with no path

Re: Machine Replication

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
Yep. Pretty much what I used to do with my ISP. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:45:03AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: ATA-NG (Soren's new code) is not (from what I understand) in the 5.x codebase. One bone of contention is that apparently it IS in -HEAD, but there are no plans to MFC it to 5.x

Re: Quality of FreeBSD

2005-07-21 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:38:40AM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: If Soren BELIEVES (2) is the case, I'll test against -BETA1, IF I can have confirmation that -BETA1 has the ATA-NG code in it. Its trivially easy for me to reproduce this problem

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-22 Thread Karl Denninger
WORSE than 5.3-RELEASE in that it appears not only to detach the disk, but then to go on to whine mightily about other things (I have no idea whether I've taken a data corruption hit at this point or not.) That didn't take long to verify -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:40:09PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: It is definitely NOT fixed in 6.0-BETA1 Within SECONDS of starting a buildworld after the provider rebuild completed, I got this... GEOM_MIRROR: Device boot: provider ad4s1 detected. GEOM_MIRROR: Device boot: rebuilding

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 07:53:00PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:53:57PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: [...] Note carefully from this that there is NO ERROR INDICATION AS TO WHY THE DISK DETACHED! At least with the 5.x problems you'd SEE an error before it went

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
- but as soon as I stick a THIRD disk on via the PCI bus on that card and do a make buildworld (on 5.4), BOOM! Pretty clearly, this is not a disk problem - it is some kind of (timing?) issue with the SII chipset on the PCI bus and FreeBSD's support for it. PR being filed now. -- -- Karl Denninger

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
which just happens to be the chipset that is on basically ALL the plain-jane PCI SATA cards out there, no matter who makes them. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 05:43:34AM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:01:36PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Done. Note that the Bustek and Adaptec cards which exhibit the problem BOTH identify the same (on two different machines) as SII 3112 boards, and BOTH fail

Re: make -j as a stress test

2005-07-23 Thread Karl Denninger
That's encouraging... -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://homecuda.com

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-24 Thread Karl Denninger
Those cards all have (and appear to require) PCI-64 (double-connector) bus plug-ins. For those of us with single PCI bus slots (e.g. those of us who don't have Opterons), that simply won't work unless I'm missing something. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-24 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 03:04:09PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: PR being filed now. When you've filed the PR and get a PR# receipt back, please forward me the PR# receipt. FYI, your spam filter thinks every message I send you as spam. It's

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-24 Thread Karl Denninger
issue with serializing I/O between the two channels which would imply that it could be fixed (since it apparently was once before.) -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-24 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:58:20PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:00:55PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: Should not there be an EXPLICIT note in the release notes for hardware that this chipset WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY? It does seem to work for many users, or there would

Re: make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

2005-07-24 Thread Karl Denninger
was incorrect. It still fails - just takes longer (and more load). -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING

3ware controller for SATA works - solves problem with SII chipset

2005-07-28 Thread Karl Denninger
. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://homecuda.com Emerald Coast: Buy / sell

Re: 3ware controller for SATA works - solves problem with SII chipset

2005-07-28 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 11:22 AM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Got a 3Ware controller. 6.0-Beta1 is now stable with gmirror. Just curious, why use gmirror with a 3ware ? Why not just use the native RAID features of the card ? They work very

New question - hot plug support on TWE driver / 3ware board

2005-07-28 Thread Karl Denninger
and in the man pages, and found nothing thus far. Or is hot plug/unplug simply not supported with this board/driver set? Thanks. Running: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #11: Fri Apr 8 09:48:24 CDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KSD-SMP -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet

Re: New question - hot plug support on TWE driver / 3ware board

2005-07-28 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:31:40PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:19 PM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Is there a control program for the twe driver devices, and/or an option somewhere I'm missing? I've looked around and in the man pages, and found nothing thus far. Or is hot plug/unplug

Re: New question - hot plug support on TWE driver / 3ware board

2005-07-28 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:31:40PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:19 PM 28/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Is there a control program for the twe driver devices, and/or an option somewhere I'm missing? I've looked around

Re: New question - hot plug support on TWE driver / 3ware board

2005-07-28 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:03:04PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:45:57PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:42:50PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:31:40PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:19 PM 28/07/2005, Karl

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-09 Thread Karl Denninger
. Same disks, same system, same load, no problems. Smartmontools declared all my disks as perfectly healthy in my case, and has for several others as well YMMV. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:46:18AM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: SII chipsets were ok in 4.x, but the newer ATA code broke badly with them. I've had a PR open on this since February, and many others have reported similar issues. The problems still exist in the 6.x-BETA

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:15:50AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 10:46 PM 09/08/2005, Matthias Buelow wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: SII chipsets were ok in 4.x, but the newer ATA code broke badly with them. I've had a PR open on this since February, and many others have reported similar

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:51:03AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:31 AM 10/08/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Also, I've yet to see a developer commit on the list that they WILL fix it if such a controller board is forthcoming (and will return the board when they're done) - I've got two

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:24:01PM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote: On 10/08/2005, at 17:44, Scot Hetzel wrote: On 8/10/05, Karl Denninger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:51:03AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:31 AM 10/08/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Also, I've yet

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Denninger
24th. Again, happy to give you SSH access to THIS SPECIFIC MACHINE if it will work towards getting this resolved. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:46:04AM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote: On 10/08/2005, at 22:51, Karl Denninger wrote: This is the subject of the PR I filed back in February. Again, if you want either a controller shipped to you OR access to a development machine (e.g. ssh in and play) which has

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=11441599

2005-08-10 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:47:38PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:46:04AM +0200, S?ren Schmidt wrote: [ ... ] I've already gone WAY out of my way to try to support the sii3112, and I'm not inclined to waste more of my precious spare time

BTW (SiI chipsets, SATA, explosions) - CURRENT also blows up

2005-08-11 Thread Karl Denninger
from either the console or the debugger (e.g. panic from the debugger fails) - it just freezes, requiring a power cycle. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request)LBA=11441599

2005-08-11 Thread Karl Denninger
not supported on FreeBSD. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://genesis3.blogspot.comMusings

Re: ad10: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retryingrequest)LBA=11441599

2005-08-11 Thread Karl Denninger
version 5.33 and it works. You might want to upgrade to 5.33. Also, the 'N' is not the unit #, but the port (drive) #. Ah. old version, got it. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links

Re: Network performance 6.0 with netperf

2005-10-20 Thread Karl Denninger
supply becomes a $200 one once the warranty ends - good for them, not good for you. Other than that, I've been pretty happy with their stuff. Sure beats a lot of other PC vendors out there in terms of reliability, heat management, BIOS updates, etc. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet

Re: Running large DB's on FreeBSD

2006-10-31 Thread Karl Denninger
, as performance will be much better. I would not use mysql for this - but that's my personal preference coming through here. I believe Postgresql has far better data integrity in a corporate-style environment. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2007-03-04 Thread Karl Denninger
Is there any intent to backport that into -STABLE? How ugly would that be to do? -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED

Re: Can't get sound to work!

2007-03-05 Thread Karl Denninger
Tried to apply that, and got a mess. Did you put that on RELENG_6 cleanly? It drops a bunch of files in the top level SRC directory (NOT under /sys!) if applied against /usr/src; it appears to apply cleanly but a kernel build subsequent to that fails. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SMP doesn't work without ACPI?

2007-03-07 Thread Karl Denninger
, etc. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://genesis3.blogspot.comMusings Of A Sentient

Re: 5.x concerns

2005-02-06 Thread Karl Denninger
it in a compat directory, then add that to the ldconfig set. I am still running a whole host of application binaries (indeed, probably 80% of them) on 4.x code. No problems so far. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy

Lock/reboot, no dump (ugh)

2005-02-08 Thread Karl Denninger
if that helps, in an attempt to figure out where its getting pissed off. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about

WRITE errors on SATA controllers

2005-02-17 Thread Karl Denninger
drama - but once they activate, then the problems begin anew. This occurs on both an Adaptec and Bustek SATA adapters. Ideas? Should I send-pr this one? -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links

Re: UPDATE2: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test!

2005-02-21 Thread Karl Denninger
taking write errors, but not the onboard motherboard controllers on two systems I have here. The PCI cards, however, do it reliably. These boards worked well under 4.x, and so for me anyway 5.x is a step backward in this regard. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids

Caution - possible system instability on attempted fix for WRITE_ERROR problem (see enclosed)

2005-03-06 Thread Karl Denninger
from trying the same thing... -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://www.spamcuda.net

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-29 Thread Karl Denninger
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: 1.42: When resubmitting a timed out request, reset donecount. 1.41: Reset timeout when we are back from interrupt. 1.40: Correct logical error, result was that retries wasn't

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-29 Thread Karl Denninger
machine into a configuration that will make looking into this further possible - in the meantime until its sorted out you might want to think about rolling back this one for RELENG_5. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-29 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:50:31AM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: 245a252 request-donecount = 0; Without the last delta the requeue doesn't happen at all. So you're saying that this change: 1.42: When resubmitting a timed out

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Jim Trigg wrote: On Wed, March 30, 2005 12:43 am, Karl Denninger said: Here's the diff and some thoughts [snip, including first diff] 241,243c244,249 /* if reinit succeeded and retries still permit, reinject request

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE - UPDATE

2005-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:43:18PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: Here's the diff and some thoughts Fs:/usr/src/sys/dev/ata cvs diff -r 1.32.2.5 ata-queue.c Index: ata-queue.c === RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/dev/ata/ata

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE - UPDATE

2005-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
Nevermind on my update - somehow cvs got the wrong tag (5.3-RELEASE) on my sandbox build. Doing it again :) -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE - UPDATE (real this time)

2005-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
will not have a final determination on this until late tomorrow, but at first blush pulling the first delta appears to fix the stability issue. Further update tomorrow as soon as I have it -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.net

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
as good as what's in there now. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://www.spamcuda.net

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE - UPDATE (real this time)

2005-03-31 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Removing the FIRST delta, which is: 218a219,221 if (!dumping) callout_reset(request-callout, request-timeout * hz, (timeout_t

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current5.4-PRERELEASE - UPDATE (real this time)

2005-03-31 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:19:13PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: What do you expect the patch to do, given that removing the delta appears to fix the instability problem? I expect the patch to properly stop the callout. Ok, so the implication

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem withcurrent5.4-PRERELEASE - UPDATE (real this time)

2005-03-31 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 02:16:11PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Would you prefer me to validate that path before or after I attempt to validate that removing the first delta fixes the crashes on my production machine? (Reason for the question

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current5.4-PRERELEASE - UPDATE (real this time) #2

2005-04-01 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Removing the FIRST delta, which is: 218a219,221 if (!dumping) callout_reset(request-callout, request-timeout * hz, (timeout_t

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE - FURTHER UPDATE

2005-04-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:06:08AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: Removing the FIRST delta, which is: 218a219,221 if (!dumping) callout_reset(request-callout

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE - FURTHER UPDATE

2005-04-05 Thread Karl Denninger
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:25:04PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: This patch appears to be safe. I have about 2 hours on the production machine right now post-rebuild (which had to complete first) with the added callout_drain in, have taken two DMA WRITE retries, and have not yet seen any

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current5.4-PRERELEASE - APPEARS FIXED

2005-04-10 Thread Karl Denninger
It appears that this commit is good. Testing has been limited so far, but I've been unable to get it to misbehave. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http

Re: UPDATE: ATA mkIII official patches for releng_5

2005-04-13 Thread Karl Denninger
Is there any plan to MFC this? -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://www.spamcuda.net

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Karl Denninger
work on the 5.x branch - there's nothing magical that's changed enough to cause trouble with it that I can see. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-19 Thread Karl Denninger
way. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://www.spamcuda.net SPAM FREE mailboxes

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-22 Thread Karl Denninger
and time wasted. Neither should be considered accepted - to anyone. Most colo providers are worthless in this regard. They just don't get it. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything

Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE

2005-03-30 Thread Karl Denninger
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:06:11AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:50:31AM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Karl Denninger wrote: 245a252 request-donecount = 0; Without the last delta the requeue doesn't happen at all. So

Re: Uprading to 5.X from 4.X

2005-04-25 Thread Karl Denninger
the original disk and all your data. I've used this method before myself; it requires care to make sure you put the right filesystem in the right place, but its not difficult. It is, in fact, how I upgraded from 4.x to 5.x myself a few months ago. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Karl Denninger
a serial consolve with FreeBSD, though I see the phrase crop up a lot. -pcf. How do you get to the KVM access? If you have to tell someone to do a thing, its worthless. If you can directly get to the KVM (remotely), e.g. via some application - then its ok. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-03 Thread Karl Denninger
entries from single user mode) brought online as a single device. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-03 Thread Karl Denninger
the time required to restore. The high-capacity tape makers are no longer necessarily the option of choice for this necessary function. -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do

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