ata - disk contact lost....

1999-10-21 Thread Dave J. Boers
I've been having strange problems with the ata drivers (again). At seemingly random moments "disk contact" seems to be lost. I've been seeing these messages before a few weeks ago. The problem is *not* there if I use the wd drivers. Also the problem seems only to appear after a few days of

RE: ata - disk contact lost....

1999-10-21 Thread Erik H. Bakke
On 21-Oct-99 Dave J. Boers wrote: I've been having strange problems with the ata drivers (again). At seemingly random moments "disk contact" seems to be lost. I've been seeing these messages before a few weeks ago. The problem is *not* there if I use the wd drivers. Also the problem seems

Re: New CVSup mirror sites

1999-10-21 Thread Mark Huizer
One common misconception is that cvsup(N+1).FreeBSD.org is somehow less up-to-date than or not as good as cvsup(N).FreeBSD.org. That's not the case at all -- the numbers mean nothing. For example, all 7 of the US mirror sites get their updates hourly from the same master site. (So do

Re: 4.0-19991012-CURRENT

1999-10-21 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Brett White wrote: Has anyone tried using the 4.0-19991012-CURRENT snapshot? It's ok here on a K6 and on a dual Pentium III, but it won't even boot on a notebook with a Mobile Celeron processor. LLaP bero To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Small HEADS UP!

1999-10-21 Thread Julian Elischer
i.e. only for those with small heads.. I just checked in a relatively large set of new files and a few patches. The are the 'Netgraph' link layer networking infrastructure. They SHOULDN'T cause problems if not compiled in, but As I write a "make world" is proceding but has not finished

Re: Small HEADS UP!

1999-10-21 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: i.e. only for those with small heads.. I just checked in a relatively large set of new files and a few patches. The are the 'Netgraph' link layer networking infrastructure. They SHOULDN'T cause problems if not compiled in, but As I write

hooray! aic driver works!

1999-10-21 Thread Ilya Naumov
i have just tried the latest version of aic cam driver by Luoqi, and it seems that all significant problems were solved. aic0 at port 0x340-0x35f irq 9 on isa0 ... Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle (probe0:aic0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:aic0:0:0:0): UNIT

Re: New CVSup mirror sites

1999-10-21 Thread Roelof Osinga
Mark Huizer wrote: Huh what? I have some trouble building the www site but I will work on that after my holiday. But the mirror is update every four hours at the moment. Should it be every hour? No problem with me Why not? I don't think it is that big a drain. Once it's up to date it's up

Re: aic driver camified

1999-10-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Luoqi Chen wrote: I compiled a kernel for -stable, but was unable to boot from it. Does anyone know if there is any incompatibility between the -current boot loader and a -stable kernel? AFAIK, there is no difference between them (the loaders :). Try from boot2. -- Daniel C. Sobral

Re: aic driver camified

1999-10-21 Thread Luoqi Chen
Luoqi Chen wrote: I compiled a kernel for -stable, but was unable to boot from it. Does anyone know if there is any incompatibility between the -current boot loader and a -stable kernel? AFAIK, there is no difference between them (the loaders :). Try from boot2. It was not the

Make world this morning

1999-10-21 Thread Edwin Culp
I just saw my log file from this mornings make world. ed cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc/include -D__DBINTERFACE_PRIVATE -DPOSIX_MISTAKE -I/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/locale -DBROKEN_DES -DYP -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -c /usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/gen/getcwd.c -o

Re: Make world this morning

1999-10-21 Thread Julian Elischer
re-sup On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Edwin Culp wrote: I just saw my log file from this mornings make world. ed cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc/include -D__DBINTERFACE_PRIVATE -DPOSIX_MISTAKE -I/usr/src/lib/libc/../libc/locale -DBROKEN_DES -DYP

Re: Make world this morning

1999-10-21 Thread Edwin Culp
I'm in the process, thank you. ed Julian Elischer wrote: re-sup On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Edwin Culp wrote: I just saw my log file from this mornings make world. ed cc -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/usr/src/lib/libc/include -D__DBINTERFACE_PRIVATE -DPOSIX_MISTAKE

Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
A friend just passed this along: http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Coa6pWbKbyte0mtu Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit support for Linux. Source code too (non-GPL'ed very much like a BSD-ish license). I don't have the technicals to understand how hard it would be to port, but the code is there

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
Odd you should mention this. I have two cards and a plea from a customer to port it... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

ed0 problems for PCI

1999-10-21 Thread Peter S. Housel
I've been having problems with -current not recognizing my RealTek 8029-based PCI Ethernet card. It worked fine in my previous machine running -current from July, but neither the late September snapshot that I installed on the new machine nor the cvsup version from about a week ago can configure

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Reynolds~ had to walk into mine and say: A friend just passed this along: http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Coa6pWbKbyte0mtu Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit support for Linux. Source code too (non-GPL'ed very

latest kernel doesn't compile.

1999-10-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
I just cvsupped 5 minutes ago, and tried to rebuild my kernel, when this happened: culverk:/usr/src/sys/compile/MYKERNEL# make depend cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Thursday, October 21, Bill Paul wrote: ] Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Reynolds~ had to walk into mine and say: Just in case anyone is wondering, I refuse to create BSD drivers based soley on information from Linux drivers. I don't want any damn

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Thursday, October 21, Matthew Jacob wrote: ] Big company. Usual story. Lighten up. 'zactly ... we plebes here in the trenches do as much as we can to get the "suits" to support FreeBSD and Linux (they usually opt for the latter based solely on how many articles they read about Linux

snapshots.....

1999-10-21 Thread william woods
Where is the best place to get -current snapshots from? I am running 4.0-19990915-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-19990915-CURRENT #0: Mon Oct 18 19:00:56 PDT 1999 and was wondering to get the latest snaps William --BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT d++ s+:+ a C+++ UB+++ P+ L++ E- W++ N+ o+

Why I hate RealTek ethernet cards

1999-10-21 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Perth
After much to-ing fro-ing ealier this year, I ended up using a Realtek on an otherwise respectable machine. For the most part it seemed alright. Then just before I went on an extended overseas trip 7 weeks ago, it started doing odd things. Small transfers worked OK, but larger ones just

Re: snapshots.....

1999-10-21 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, william woods wrote: Where is the best place to get -current snapshots from? I am running 4.0-19990915-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-19990915-CURRENT #0: Mon Oct 18 19:00:56 PDT 1999 and was wondering to get the latest snaps ftp://current.freebsd.org or see "Staying Current

Re: snapshots.....

1999-10-21 Thread william woods
Ahh...that is the X86 -current, not the Alpha current...how often are alpha -currents made? On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you wrote: current.freebsd.org Pull down the file ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/19991012.tar (or something similar) It is a tar file (created on

Re: ed0 problems for PCI

1999-10-21 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Peter S. Housel wrote: I've been having problems with -current not recognizing my RealTek 8029-based PCI Ethernet card. It worked fine in my previous machine running -current from July, but neither the late September snapshot that I installed on the new machine nor the

sys/socket.h broken..

1999-10-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Lines 131-134 read - #define pseudo_AF_HDRCMPLT 31 /* Used by BPF to not rewrite headers #define AF_NETGRAPH 32 /* Netgraph sockets */ * in interface output routine */ Which doesn't

RE: sys/socket.h broken..

1999-10-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hmm.. well it looks fixed now :) I think I had an old patch which was being screwy. (and wpaul fixed sys/socket.h) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."

Re: AMRD (MegaRAID) BIOS rev another other questions

1999-10-21 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:33 PM -0400 1999/10/20, Mike Tancsa wrote: I have been playing for now with RAID 0 to get a sense of various performance settings, which can dramatically effect bonnie and iozone results. e.g. Write Back vs write through and stripe size. The eventual purpose will be for a SQUID server