Re: 8.1-STABLE amd64 machine check

2010-08-11 Thread Andrew Heybey
On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:47 AM, Dan Langille wrote: I am encountering a situation similar to one reported by Andrew Heybey at http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6E83197B-9DD5-4C7E-846D-AD176C25464D This morning I found this in my /var/log/messages: Aug 11 01:59:48 kraken kernel: MCA: Bank

Re: 8.1RC2 amd64 machine check question

2010-07-15 Thread Andrew Heybey
On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:07 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:25:29 am Andrew Heybey wrote: Got the following in /var/log/messages on my one-week-old amd64 box running 8.1RC2: Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0106, Status 0x

8.1RC2 amd64 machine check question

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Heybey
Got the following in /var/log/messages on my one-week-old amd64 box running 8.1RC2: Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0106, Status 0x Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA: Vendor AuthenticAMD, ID 0x100f43, APIC ID 0 Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA:

Quantum bigfoot drive doesn't like DMA?

2003-03-14 Thread Andrew Heybey
I recently installed an old Quantum bigfoot drive (CY4320A) in my SMP box running 4.6.2 just to get a little extra space. If I write heavily to it when using WDMA2, the box silently crashes (no panic, just a silent reboot). The box has an DFI motherboard with an Intel BX chipset. It seems

Re: cable modem connection problem

2001-12-07 Thread Andrew Heybey
I'm going to answer these questions to provide another datapoint (even though they are not addressed to me) because I have seen exactly the same behavior with my cable modem: Mike D wrote: going out. I haven't checked for either packet drops / RTT increase (how?) but when I say slow, I mean

Receive-only FDDI

2000-05-23 Thread Andrew Heybey
I am trying to monitor (eg use bpf tcpdump to see packets) a FDDI ring with a Digital DEFPA FDDI NIC (and the fpa driver) via a fiber tap. Therefore the interface only gets to receive, not transmit. This doesn't work, I assume because the firmware on the DEFPA wants/needs to participate in the

Re: Sony Z505S [was: USB floppy booting]

1999-07-07 Thread Andrew Heybey
Ollivier Robert robe...@keltia.freenix.fr writes: Do we support booting from USB floppies ? I plan to buy one of the new VAIOs (probably the Z505S with Celeron/333 + 64 MB + 12.1 screen) and it seems to come with an USB floppy (as opposed to the probably-IDE of former models). They've