Re: jiffy.

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wilkinson,Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes erm...what are jiffies ? http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=jiffy The last definition on the page starts: jiffy n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick). Often one AC cycle

Re: jiffy.

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Evan S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hello, I'm wondering if FreeBSD-current has anything similar to Linux jiffies? This level of question is probably best asked on freebsd-questions. That said, probably want you is: man 2 gettimeofday Tony

Re: Ax88172 vs FreeBSD USB stack

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes So. I picked up a Linksys USB200M USB 2.0 ethernet adapter that uses the ASIX Electronics AX88172 chip, and I started cobbling together a driver. This chip uses a series of vendor specific commands to do things like read/write the

Re: Lexmark Z12

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nikolai Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Is there somebody /smth/ that can make my Lexmark Z12 work? The following is how remember a previous look at this. I can't get past a page with lots printer pictures at www.lexmark.com, i.e. to some tech specs for this

Re: Super Block

[Emailed to questioner, cc'd to FreeBSD lists only] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wilkinson,Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Howdy Crew, I am wanting to find out the significance of the Super Block, whether FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris... whatever. I know: * The Super Block contains critical data

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Danny Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Oooohh!! Those model numbers bring back memories!! I remember drooling over the first Commodore Pet (the one with the rectangular keyboard) in one of the many computer shops that were springing up at the time. When my school

Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers)

In article 005101c18ee1$9b5d66e0$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION, Predius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug. Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it's a BIOS

Re: Found NFS data corruption bug... (was Re: NFS: How to make FreeBSD fall on its face in one easy step )

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sergey Babkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes By the way the journaling filesystems don't neccessary guarantee that you won't need fsck: for example, if VXFS crashes at a particularly bad moment, it will require you to do fsck -o full which is as slow as the fsck on