machine check exception on i386?

2003-08-24 Thread Don Bowman
has anyone implemented a handler for the machine check exception [MCE] on a x86 architecture? e.g. a xeon? In particular, on an SMP machine. What could one do if this exception where to occur [its intended to be fatal]. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: dd to floppies broken?

2003-08-24 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:04:08PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > Since FreeBSD 4.0 we haven't had block devices. rfd0 is an alias for fd0 > now. You also don't need to specify the 'c' partition as the 'fd0' is > already the entire media device -- rather than just the FreeBSD

Looking for detailed documentation: Install to existing filesystem

2003-08-24 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I've posted this request to 'questions' with no response, so now I'll ask 'hackers'. I'm a hobbyist, and for my personal education, I would like to learn how to install FBSD from an existing filesystem, rather than from FTP or CD. My intention is to copy the files to a directory on the second

Re: nVIDIA nForece2, again

2003-08-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:16:09PM -0700, Jin Guojun [NCS] wrote: > It is a vague problem on term of best performance -- what. > NVidia has better memory bandwidth in AMD motherboards. s/better/best/ > In terms of IDE performance, the AMD 760MP has > the best performance in all chipsets in the wo

Re: dd to floppies broken?

2003-08-24 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:39:44PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:34:21PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: > > # dd bs=8192 of=/dev/fd0 if=memtest86-2.9/precomp.bin > > 10+1 records in > > 10+1 records out > > 84480 bytes transferred in 3.775199 sec

Re: Kernel Panic on FreeBSD-5.1-p2 with SMP support

2003-08-24 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Markus Paluschek wrote: > I have Compaq Proliant Server with 2 Pentium Xeon IV 2,4GHz processors. > After installing FreeBSD-5.1, upgrading to FreeBSD-5.1-p2 by cvsup and > recompiling kernel with SMP support I;ve download ircd-hybrid-7 sources > and installed on user account

Kernel Panic on FreeBSD-5.1-p2 with SMP support

2003-08-24 Thread Markus Paluschek
I have Compaq Proliant Server with 2 Pentium Xeon IV 2,4GHz processors. After installing FreeBSD-5.1, upgrading to FreeBSD-5.1-p2 by cvsup and recompiling kernel with SMP support I;ve download ircd-hybrid-7 sources and installed on user account after running it and writing /restart my.ircd.server I

Re: Inode Operations

2003-08-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 07:54:45PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: +> I'm working on some archiving programs and need to (for various +> reasons) keep track of a very large number of files so that I +> can revisit them at the end of the operation. For example, +> on extract, I need to set directory acc

Re: Inode Operations

2003-08-24 Thread David Schultz
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Right now, I'm storing the full pathname of each such > file, but that is taking up a lot of memory, so I'm looking > for a more compact approach. It occurred to me that > the device number/inode (as returned by stat(2)) is another > way to uniquely iden

Inode Operations

2003-08-24 Thread Tim Kientzle
I'm working on some archiving programs and need to (for various reasons) keep track of a very large number of files so that I can revisit them at the end of the operation. For example, on extract, I need to set directory access times and permissions after the complete extract is finished, which re