On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Dan Feldman wrote:
> Sorry to continue more OT stuff, but:
>
> What FC host adapters are working well in FreeBSD?
>
> I just found an Adaptec model used for very cheap. It's actually possible
> that Fiber Channel could be cheaper than Ultra160 if you build your own
> encl
The JMR 4-bay is about as cheap as you'll find as far as I know. The 2K$ plus
is for the 10 slot. There might be something cheaper at
http://www.scsistuff.com.
Yes. Pricey. The only other thing is to find (and I don't know a source) of
paddlebard adapters with the 40-pin SCA connector, a +5/+12
Tim wrote:
>
> Is there a point of contact at Intel that we could all send e-mail to or
> even send a formal letter? I am sure my buying 50 or so boards a year
> isn't going to make a dent at Intel's bottom line, but considering how
> their stock is doing lately and if we all contribute...
Crai
Jordan DeLong wrote:
> I was thinking of just getting a sintable array and making a few simple
> functions, so the whole of libm doesn't need to be statically linked into the
> module (from my understanding, once loaded, this module wont ever get paged out,
> and thus it'd be _bad_ for it to be bi
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Michael Lucas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint
> here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has
> convinced me to ask.
>
> In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the
> Handbook) that c
> Out of idle curiousity, has the NIH syndrome died down enough that it might
> hypothetically be possible for the three major *BSD camps to cooperate on this
> kind of thing?
No, I'm afraid it hasn't.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunate
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Smith writes:
>The FreeBSD project already has a BSD/OS source distribution, however the
>required information is NOT THERE. Ok?
Okay. I just figured I'd ask, since it's information I have.
Hmm.
Out of idle curiousity, has the NIH syndrome died down enoug
> Okay, maybe I'm missing something...
>
> 1. Has anyone tried one of these new Intel parts with BSD/OS?
> 2. Do any of the people involved with this have source licenses to BSD/OS?
>
> I am quite sure BSDi hasn't been swamped with "help, my Intel card isn't
> working" requests. I'm also quit
Okay, maybe I'm missing something...
1. Has anyone tried one of these new Intel parts with BSD/OS?
2. Do any of the people involved with this have source licenses to BSD/OS?
I am quite sure BSDi hasn't been swamped with "help, my Intel card isn't
working" requests. I'm also quite sure that th
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jonathan
Lemon writes:
: You can't find the answers to any of these in the datasheets. The
: datasheets may provide a tiny bit of information, and hint at how things
: actually operate, but there is not sufficient information to develop a
: driver from them.
Their
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Lucas writes:
: Is the Handbook correct, or are unified diffs preferred? I'll be
: happy to fix my article and submit a PR to correct the Handbook if
: this is the case.
diff -c or diff -u is 1000% better than palin diff. That's what is
ment by "context" i
Sorry to continue more OT stuff, but:
What FC host adapters are working well in FreeBSD?
I just found an Adaptec model used for very cheap. It's actually possible
that Fiber Channel could be cheaper than Ultra160 if you build your own
enclosure with Cinonic cards, buy clearance 1 GHz drives, and
www.cinonic.com, I think.
- dan feldman
student, garfield high school, seattle
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David Miller wrote:
> Apologies for the off topic nature of the question...
>
> I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of
> places. megahaus.com has 36 GB IBM FC drives fo
Apologies for the off topic nature of the question...
I see FC drives for sale unbelievably cheap in a number of
places. megahaus.com has 36 GB IBM FC drives for $219, pricewatch has 9
GB and 18 GB drives from seagate and IBM for under $100.
The issue, of course, is that one needs a low cost en
Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jordan Hubbard writes:
> > Both context and unidiffs show surrounding context, it's simply the
> > meta-data format which changes. [...]
> I repeat, with added emphasis: [...]
You're both either slightly off, or not e
Richard Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Rafael Tonin wrote:
> > Anyone knows how to get this card to work?
> Go into your BIOS config and turn off the option
> for "PLUG & PLAY OS". It should be with the PCI menu.
No, turn "PLUG & PLAY OS" *on* and add 'options PNPBIOS'
On 10-Mar-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> The handbook is wrong. Unidiffs are a far more advanced lifeform
> than context diffs. :)
>
> - Jordan
As phk explained, a unified diff is a context diff. :)
If many changed lines are interleaved with unchanged lines, I find that a
context diff is far easi
On 18 Jan 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Fun Things To Do With Disks #9,187:
>
> Take a powered-up disk out of a hot-swap storage array and experiment
> with the gyro effect while the disk spins down in your hands. Higher
> RPMs give better results; try one of the 'cudas from that E10K in the
> >> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up.
> >> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to
> >> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle.
> >>
> >> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather
> >> than by polling?
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:21:59PM +0300, Dmitrij Sivacenko wrote:
>
> WB> Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not
> WB> overclocking are you?
>
> WB> There are no problems with K6-2 & FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400
> WB> very successfully (now have an Athlon box).
>
> WB
>> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up.
>> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to
>> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle.
>>
>> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather
>> than by polling?
>
>If there
> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up.
> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to
> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle.
>
> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather
> than by polling?
If there was, I w
At 03:42 PM 03/10/2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up.
> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to
> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle.
>
>Any chance this can be done through an async event
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jordan Hubbard writes:
>> Unified diffs are also context diffs.
>>
>> Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context
>> around the changed lines, unlike normal diffs.
>
>Erm, no. :)
>
>Both context and unidiffs show surrounding context, it's
My point of (failed) contact last April was a Gary @ 503 264 7243
(I was informed by Theo that he was "Intel's 'Open Source' representative)
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
> Unified diffs are also context diffs.
>
> Context diffs are named such because they contain undisturbed context
> around the changed lines, unlike normal diffs.
Erm, no. :)
Both context and unidiffs show surrounding context, it's simply the
meta-data format which changes. In the case of unid
At 03:37 PM 03/10/2001, Tim wrote:
>Is there a point of contact at Intel that we could all send e-mail to or
>even send a formal letter? I am sure my buying 50 or so boards a year
>isn't going to make a dent at Intel's bottom line, but considering how
>their stock is doing lately and if we all co
>Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up.
>An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to
>be shifted over to the next link in the bundle.
Any chance this can be done through an async event rather
than by polling?
--
Justin
To Unsubscribe: s
Is there a point of contact at Intel that we could all send e-mail to or
even send a formal letter? I am sure my buying 50 or so boards a year
isn't going to make a dent at Intel's bottom line, but considering how
their stock is doing lately and if we all contribute...
Thanks,
Tim
To Unsubscri
Hello Wilko,
Saturday, March 10, 2001, 7:14:08 PM, you wrote:
WB> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:43:00PM +0300, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
WB> Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not
WB> overclocking are you?
WB> There are no problems with K6-2 & FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400
At 01:49 PM 03/10/2001, Romain Kang wrote:
>As a newcomer to this, I'm a little confused. There's a slew
>of datasheets at Intel's web site
> http://www.intel.com/design/network/datashts/index.htm
>that don't seem to require NDA. (Just this week, I used the
>82559 docs to implement a pol
The handbook is wrong. Unidiffs are a far more advanced lifeform
than context diffs. :)
- Jordan
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
>
>The tulip cards can be quirky, if nothing else. I used to like the VIA Rhine
>cards, because they were cheap, and I had no problems with them... until
>suddenly they started crashing at 100Mbps. I don't know why; I ran some of
>them under very heavy loads at 100Mbps. I can't tell whether it
At 01:11 AM 03/10/2001, Bill Paul wrote:
> >
> > I think its been mentioned several times in this and other threads that
> > intel has a driver for LINUX that is effective documentation on the board,
> > and the code is public (although you may have to stick an intel copyright
> > in the code also
Michael Lucas wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint
> here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has
> convinced me to ask.
>
> In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the
> Handbook) that context diffs were th
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you
write:
>As a newcomer to this, I'm a little confused. There's a slew
>of datasheets at Intel's web site
> http://www.intel.com/design/network/datashts/index.htm
>that don't seem to require NDA. (Just this week, I used the
>82559 docs to implement a polle
> >permission.
>
> Nope. The last communication I had with Intel was around last May.
> Initially, the Field Engineer indicated that Intel wanted to get a
> copy of my driver in order to clean it up and put it on Intel's website.
>
> I provided Intel with the driver, and they passed it to thei
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you
write:
>\- Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated on
>/- [Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:49:12AM -0800]:
>
>> I have the NDA'ed docs for the Intel gig and fxp cards. After Intel's
>> spectacular efforts to bury Johnathan Lemon's driver for their gig card
>> (that ou
* Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010310 10:37] wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Lucas writes:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint
> >here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has
> >convinced me to ask.
> >
>
As a newcomer to this, I'm a little confused. There's a slew
of datasheets at Intel's web site
http://www.intel.com/design/network/datashts/index.htm
that don't seem to require NDA. (Just this week, I used the
82559 docs to implement a polled version of if_fxp).
If the components in qu
I need not remind you that file systems front-ending onto random protocols
are a bad idea for a huge number of reasons :-).
That said, you might take a look at Intermezzo, which someone has already
refered to indirectly in response to your e-mail -- Intermezzo is a file
system for Linux (based o
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Lucas writes:
>Hello,
>
>I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint
>here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has
>convinced me to ask.
>
>In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the
>Handbook) that
From: "Avery Fay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting started (hacking that is)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:02:49 -0500
> I am interested in contributing code to the FreeBSD project, specifically
> the kernel but I am not opposed to helping out with user applications if
> they are in dire need of i
Hello,
I'm afraid I might be walking up to a bikeshed with a can of paint
here, but the flood of email in the last twenty-four hours has
convinced me to ask.
In an article O'Reilly published yesterday, I stated (per the
Handbook) that context diffs were the correct way to submit patches
with PRs
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chen Zhao writes:
>What is the next most (unofficially of course :) recommended NIC
>in terms of driver stability, card reliability and performance,
>and driver efficiency (low overhead, etc.), ignoring for the moment
>actual NIC price, and just judging from a techn
On Mar 10, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to
> have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have
> this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs
> works by handing off everything to a userland daemo
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:43:00PM +0300, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
Smells like dodgy hardware, especially memory. You are not
overclocking are you?
There are no problems with K6-2 & FreeBSD, I ran it on a K6-2 @400
very successfully (now have an Athlon box).
Wilko
> Hello!
>
> I use recent F
\- Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated on
/- [Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:49:12AM -0800]:
> I have the NDA'ed docs for the Intel gig and fxp cards. After Intel's
> spectacular efforts to bury Johnathan Lemon's driver for their gig card
> (that outperformed the Intel Linux driver by something
Hello!
I use recent FreeBSD-4-STABLE.
When I changed my processor from Intel Pentium 200 MMX to AMD K6-2 500,
I can neither recompile operating system nor compile other programs.
>From kernel compilation:
cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-prototyp
Chen Zhao wrote:
> \- Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated on
> /-[Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:02:22PM -0800]:
> >
> > NDA's in this particular space serve a limited set of purposes:
> >
> > - They constitute engineering damage control; witness Realtek's
> >unhappiness at Bill's honest c
I don't have a link handy, but if you search for it, I'm sure it's out
there. Linux had something like this called PerlFS which was much more
generic. The general gist of it was you could use it to make fs's of
things like http and ftp. It was extendable (I think) so you could make
your own fs han
A few of us were talking on IRC tonight about how cool it would be to
have an httpfs filesystem -- then it occurred to me we almost have
this already, in the form of the (under-utilised) portalfs. Portalfs
works by handing off everything to a userland daemon which handles the
actual transaction r
52 matches
Mail list logo