Re: mount_mfs panics (Was: ``65536-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer'')

1999-05-20 Thread Jos Backus
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 10:16:52PM -0500, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > >> Well, I'll recheck mine... > > It'd be interesting to see if you (and others) can reproduce this too. Fwiw, my home system (and that of a few others' as well) has been fixed by Luoqi's commit to kern_conf.c on the 18th. Cheers

USB home page update

1999-05-20 Thread Nick Hibma
I've added two new sections to the USB home pages. http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/usb.pl One is the section on the project status. The most significant change is that it is an included document I can edit at home and upload once in a while. Much easier. The second thing is more down t

UPDATE8: : ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-05-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
Eigth update to the new ATA/ATAPI driver: Fixed problems: LS120/ZIP drives still currupted data. Reworked once again, buffered I/O is just ignoring any sizehints it is given :( Now the atapifd driver splits up requests for devices that has limitted transfer si

mmap() on raw devices

1999-05-20 Thread Matt Hamilton
Dear All, I am trying to mmap a raw device (/dev/rda0) yet mmap() keeps returning EINVAL. From what I have read on the list archives, mmap() should be able to map a character device (just not a block device), am I missing something here? I have tried this on 3.1-STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT, but no lu

Re: mount_mfs panics

1999-05-20 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 19 May 1999 22:16:52 EST, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > Using a May 17 15:00 CDT -current, I also have gotten a panic mounting > MFS. The line from fstab is: > > /dev/da0s2b /tmpmfs rw 0 0 Fixed on Tuesday, a little after 1 o'clock in the afternoon

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:37:51PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: >The big problem is that the silo overflows continue after I have >returned the pointer to the mouse (with "xsetpointer pointer"). > >This should close the joystick device shouldn't it ? No. I've had a look through some of the XInput

Re: UPDATE8: : ATA/ATAPI driver new version available.

1999-05-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Soren Schmidt wrote: > ISA only configs fails on boot with interrupt timeouts. > The new-bus integration introduced a bug where the softc ptr > was lost during the probe. Thank you, now it finaly works on my laptop (ISA only config)! Sincerely, Maxim ? ? To Unsubscribe: s

Plip almost unusable :(

1999-05-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Is anybody have experience with plip usage on -current? For me it seems broken - generally it works, but when I trying to make more or less massive transfer (1-2 MB is sufficient for most cases) any of two system dying in panic. Also "ping -f -s 8000 "  kills remote or local host in several second

Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
"Carlos C. Tapang" wrote: > Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my > system are running Windows and don't want to have to reformat or repartition > their hard disk. So I am stuck with the DOS file system. I think the best > solution is to have my users use a FreeB

Re: mmap() on raw devices

1999-05-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matt Hamilton wrote... > Dear All, > > I am trying to mmap a raw device (/dev/rda0) yet mmap() keeps returning > EINVAL. From what I have read on the list archives, mmap() should be able > to map a character device (just not a block device), am I missing > something here? > > I have tried this o

Problem with ATA/ATAPI driver new version (update8)

1999-05-20 Thread Valentin Shopov
I just tried the new ATA driver on my old ISA only notebook. After correct recognition of the hard disk: ad0: invalid primary partition table: no magic error 22: panic:. what does that mean? Thanx, Val _ Do You Yahoo!? Free i

Re: Problem with ATA/ATAPI driver new version (update8)

1999-05-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Valentin Shopov wrote: > I just tried the new ATA driver on my old ISA only > notebook. > After correct recognition of the hard disk: > > > ad0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > error 22: panic:. Hmm, sounds like it has trouble talking to the disk, try changeing the

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
> David Dawes writes: > IMHO the problem is in the joystick driver and in your assumptions. By > configuring the joystick in your Xserver config file, you're giving the > server exclusive use of the device for the lifetime of the X server > process. Implementing more agressive closing mi

Re: Problem with ATA/ATAPI driver new version (update8)

1999-05-20 Thread Valentin Shopov
--- Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Valentin Shopov wrote: > > I just tried the new ATA driver on my old ISA only > > notebook. > > After correct recognition of the hard disk: > > > > > > ad0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > > error 22: panic:. > > Hmm, sounds like it has

Re: Problem with ATA/ATAPI driver new version (update8)

1999-05-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Valentin Shopov wrote: > > > > Hmm, sounds like it has trouble talking to the disk, > > try changeing the > > two #if 0's in ata-disk.c so that it uses 16 bit > > transfers.. > > If that fails, try to make it only use singlesector > > transfers, quite > > a lot older disks messes up there

priorities

1999-05-20 Thread Nick Hibma
You set a 'low' priority for the ide match as -100. I suggest we use a much lower value for that: -1. With USB we have 15 levels already, spaced ten apart (welcome back BASIC :) makes 150. Has anyone come up with a decent set of levels yet, or is the best bet still Mike's example (can; #def

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-20 Thread Anthony Kimball
The problem which remains unsolved is how to boot FreeBSD from DOS/Windows without the ability to use a boot floppy or boot CD. Perhaps a DOS/Windows utility which installs boot blocks? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the mes

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Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-20 Thread Carlos C. Tapang
Maxim writes, >Correct me if I'm wrong, but loader is unable to directly load kernel from >non-FreeBSD partition (DOS in your case), so problem is slightly more >complicated but I though your can take PicoBSD (FreeBSD on floppy) and tweak it >to match your needs. > I have tried booting /boot/loader

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-20 Thread Carlos C. Tapang
Anthony writes, > >The problem which remains unsolved is how to boot FreeBSD from >DOS/Windows without the ability to use a boot floppy or boot CD. > >Perhaps a DOS/Windows utility which installs boot blocks? > Such a utility may be useful in most cases, but I do not want to have to mess around wit

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-20 Thread David E. Cross
Lets also consider the case of a root partition exists on a device which the BIOS does not support, but DOS and FreeBSD do. A good example of this may be a SCSI controller without a BIOS, or maybe a network style load. A person could have just the kernel on the DOS parition, or have the driver for

Re: Plip almost unusable :(

1999-05-20 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 20 May 1999 at 16:54:37 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Is anybody have experience with plip usage on -current? For me it seems > broken - generally it works, but when I trying to make more or less > massive transfer (1-2 MB is sufficient for most cases) any of two system > > dying in pa

Re: MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

1999-05-20 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
> > > > Do we have MTRR support for the AMD K6-2, and how's it done (e.g., if I > > want > > to allow mtrr support for my Voodoo Banshee) > > It's being worked on. The K6 is a problematic device, as it only > supports two memory ranges, as opposed to the eight the P6 does. > OK - give me a

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:23:49PM +0200, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: >> David Dawes writes: > > > IMHO the problem is in the joystick driver and in your assumptions. By > > configuring the joystick in your Xserver config file, you're giving the > > server exclusive use of the device for the life

Re: Plip almost unusable :(

1999-05-20 Thread Bruce Evans
>Is anybody have experience with plip usage on -current? For me it seems >broken - generally it works, but when I trying to make more or less >massive transfer (1-2 MB is sufficient for most cases) any of two system > >dying in panic. Also "ping -f -s 8000 "š kills remote or >local host in several

Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-20 Thread Bruce Evans
>> I'm not sure why it happens like this; try putting a DELAY() just >> before we actually set the root device and see if you can put it off. > >Why not just spl() protect that printf call so that its output is >dumped contiguously into the console buffer? This would just move the race. It is pr