Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
Glad that is working out for you. I am not into PCI low level bugs they are very difficult to indentify and in certain cases impossible to fix. To give you a little hint: 1.6825 May 1999 Roger Hardiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Due to differences in PCI bus implementations

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread John Baldwin
On 20-Jul-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: > Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? > > Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that > at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would > stick to Intel PCI chipsets. > > Not sure if your motherboa

RE: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread Christopher Michaels
Julian Elischer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Soft-updates feedback > > Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? > > Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that > at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused h

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-20 Thread David Gilbert
[on IDE bus lockups] I found that my IDE cdrom regularly caused lockups of FreeBSD in the 5-10 second variety. I would suspect that any misbehaving IDE device can do this. Dave. -- |David Gilbert, Velocet Communicati

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would stick to Intel PCI chipsets. Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have the latest microco

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-19 Thread Alex Povolotsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Julian Elischer writes: >I saw this behaviour before.. >It was with an IDE disk drive running in PIO mode > >turning on DMA mode for the disk fixed it. >From my DMESG: ide_pci0: rev 0x06 on pci0.7.1 wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , D

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 19 July 1999 at 13:24:18 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > Alex Povolotsky wrote: >> >> About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. >> >> The problem is: >> >> when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on >> secondary master, CD o

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-19 Thread Julian Elischer
Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. > > The problem is: > > when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on > secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program > (starting Netscape, st

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
Make sure that you have dma enable on your IDE disks . Basically, soft-updates does short bursts of disk activities which can crash a disk or slow down a system during the disk i/o operations using PIO. Yes, I have seen disks spin mindlessly due to the "intensive" short burts of disk io activitie

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-02 Thread John Polstra
I don't know why I'm on the cc for this thread, but please remove me. And it shouldn't be cross-posted to 2 lists. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
while this is happening, what does 'iostat 1' and 'vmstat 1' tell you? On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. > > The problem is: > > when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on > sec

Soft-updates feedback

1999-07-02 Thread Alex Povolotsky
About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. The problem is: when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program (starting Netscape, starting EXMH) causes all other programs