Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-15 Thread Jonathan Smith
an online discussion one night Jon Smith On 16 Jun 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Date: 16 Jun 2001 03:16:48 +0200 > From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > John Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Smith
n Womack Jon C.: [Microsoft] pops up all over the place Jon S.: Like a Virus -- From an online discussion one night Jon Smith On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, John Hay wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:50:33 +0200 (SAT) > From: John Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jonathan

UDMA interfering with install

2001-06-11 Thread Jonathan Smith
Unfortunately, the UDMA chipset on my ASUS P5A doesn't work well with Western Vegetable drives So, I need to forcibly sysctl it into pio mode. Is there *any* way to do this from sysinstall on the 5.0-200105250-CURRENT (or later snap on current.freebsd.org) floppy bootup? Thanks j. -

Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now

2000-07-06 Thread Jonathan Smith
Quickie question: By implementing the 'start' and 'stop' in the local scripts, how much should one _expect_ their systems bootup and slow down times to take? I'm hearing whines of being to linux like, to sysv'ish and some likely valid complaints on startup/shutdown time. I, for one, like the f

Re: MAKEDEV warning

2000-04-18 Thread Jonathan Smith
Did you install an updated MAKEDEV script? I *think* the point is that you need to bet rid of block devices, and to do so, you need a MAKEDEV script that doesn't make them... Just a guess On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Ted Sikora wrote: > After building a new kernel yesterday after a cvsup the fol

Quickie question on UDMA/33

2000-04-11 Thread Jonathan Smith
I looked through the archives but I didn't see much current on the subject (esp. under 4.0). I have two different machines, both with AsusP5A motherboards and Western Digital Caviar hard drives that should support UDMA/33, as should the Chipset. Both boot up, trying UDMA mode, throwing ICRC READ

Re: Streamlining FreeBSD Installations

2000-03-17 Thread Jonathan Smith
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Another issue here, at least in our application of it, is about adding > users and setting passwords.With well over 100 machines, we want to > also have installed user accounts for our engineers. Again, nightmareish > to consider doing man

Re: Bug: atapi-cd ioctls called in cdcontrol

2000-03-13 Thread Jonathan Smith
After discussion with Soren off list, I'm bringing this onlist :) Machine: K6/2-450 on Asus P5A with 128 Meg PC133 (runnin 100) ram, Western Digital Caviar AC23400L 4.3 gig, Sony DDU220E dvd rom OS: FreeBSD 3.x-STABLE for much time, switch to 4.0-CURRENT ~month and a half ago?, been updating and

Re: dvd playback

2000-03-10 Thread Jonathan Smith
I've been playing with it using the original sources and the patches that were posted a long time ago on this list. On my DVD drive (Sony DDU220E), the software fails on gettitlekey. I've chatted with Soren and he left me with something to try that I never did (can you say, busy busy busy :( Fo

Re: diskprep beta -- comments wanted.

2000-03-03 Thread Jonathan Smith
> > It is about 1000x easier to use than sysinstall. One simple command, > and you are good to go. It won't add anything to /etc/fstab, but I > consider that to be a feature. > For what it's worth, one man's feature is another man's, er, wait, isn't that treasure? Never mind. Point being, m

quickie atapi dvd question

2000-02-20 Thread Jonathan Smith
First, no I haven't been reading the big ATA problem thread. I should be *ponders switching to digest list ;) * This has been the case over three buildworlds in the past three days. Is it a general problem that audio CD's fail to play in a dvd drive (or cd drive, for that matter ;) via cdcontro