Re: LSI mps(4) driver issues with PIKE 2008/IMR (LSI SAS2008)

2012-03-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 16:24:16 +0100, Jake Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get the latest mps(4) driver in FreeBSD 9-STABLE working > with am LSI SAS2008 variant from ASUS, they call it PIKE 2008/IMR. Link > http://www.asus.com/Server_Workstation/Accessories/PIKE_2008IMR/ > > From wh

Re: increasing dd disk to disk transfer rate

2006-01-12 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:13:00 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-Jan-12 10:48:38 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > >dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror > > > >The process is running now since yesterday evening and it is at 53 MB > >at a transfer rate of about 1.1 MB/s. > > > >In case

Re: Tracing Disk Access

2004-11-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 16:22:54 +0100, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Hello, > > I have set an idle timeout for the hard-disk. But when there is no > user activity there are frequent disk accesses. > How can one trace disk access? > I'd like to know the kind of access and on which files/directories/

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 18:27:57 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > > On 27-Aug-2003 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > >> Hello James and Ken, > >> > >> Both of you are having real problems with the bcm

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:24:11 -0500, James Nobis wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:27, James Nobis wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug

Re: bcm4400 driver and Dell 8500

2003-08-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:40:25 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > Hello James and Ken, > > Both of you are having real problems with the bcm driver and both of you > have a Dell 8500. > > This is James' dmesg output, which from memory looks very similar to your > Ken? > > > bcm0: mem 0xfaffe000-0

Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-08-27 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 20:31:22 +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote: > On 26-Aug-2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding > > FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook. > > Running a dual-

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

2003-07-13 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 16:59:56 +0300, Boris Georgiev wrote: > Hello All, > > I've got a Compaq Evo N620c notebook, which comes with a built-in lan network card - > Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M. I researched on the hardware support for this NIC in > FreeBSD and noticed that there is no hardware

Re: problems with a firewire external hard disk [long]

2002-12-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 23:19:56 +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Hello, > > I can't seem to use my new external firewire hard disk : > (this is with 5.0-DP2, there are the same kinds of symptoms under 4.7-Stable) > > My main question is to know where the problems are : is the hard disk dead ? >

Re: DVD-RAM: multi-session writing

2002-09-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 13:34:28 -0400, Charles Peterman wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.5. > Hitachi DVD-RAM drive > > I have to support writing files to a DVD-RAM in a Windows compatible mode. > Normally I would treat the thing as a slow HD and read and write at my > leisure, but Windows does not play n

Re: gigabit NIC of choice?

2002-09-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:32:12 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dan Ellard wrote: > > What's the gigabit ethernet NIC of choice these days? (I've had good > > experiences with the NetGear G620T, but apparently this card is no > > longer being sold.) > > > > I'm looking for: > > > > - Eas

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-30 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:50:14 -0700, Lars Eggert wrote: > Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > Did you also backport rev 1.35 and 1.36 of scsi_all.c? > > You may need that as well. > > Good catch, I missed that file. After applying that patch, they now seem > to b

Re: Ultra320 drivers?

2002-08-30 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 12:11:12 -0700, Lars Eggert wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > Lars Eggert wrote: > >> > >>We just got a bunch of Dell machines that have this controller as well. > >>Any news about support in sym? > > > > No, you want the 'mpt' driver that Matt Jacob recently committed. The

Re: CAM "wiring", LUNs and duplicate wired entries

2002-08-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:30:29 -0400, Gardner Buchanan wrote: > Hi Ken, > > > -Original Message- > > From: Kenneth D. Merry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: August 19, 2002 16:27 > > Subject: Re: CAM "wiring", LUNs and duplicate wired entr

Re: CAM "wiring", LUNs and duplicate wired entries

2002-08-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 00:05:33 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 13:52:33 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > I don't think that's the problem. I think t

Re: CAM "wiring", LUNs and duplicate wired entries

2002-08-19 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 13:52:33 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > I don't think that's the problem. I think the problem is that the device > > at target 8 is getting identified to camperiphnextunit() as a wired device, > > when

Re: CAM "wiring", LUNs and duplicate wired entries

2002-08-19 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 13:45:52 -0400, Gardner Buchanan wrote: > Recently I've noticed that the SCSI ID "wiring" logic is missidentifying > duplicate IDs with seperate LUNs as "duplicates": my kernel config says > this: > > # Wired down SCSI unit numbers. > # > devicescbus0 at sym0 > dev

Re: SCSI device emulation using SCSI host controller

2002-08-13 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 21:12:59 -0400, Sergey Babkin wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 23:41:14 +0700, Semen A. Ustimenko wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I beg you all pardon for a question not related directly to

Re: SCSI device emulation using SCSI host controller

2002-08-13 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 23:41:14 +0700, Semen A. Ustimenko wrote: > Hi! > > I beg you all pardon for a question not related directly to FreeBSD, but > if the answer is ``yes'', then I believe FreeBSD will be in deal. > > The question is: "Can I emulate a SCSI device (tape, if that matters) > usi

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 18:27:16 -0400, Keith Pitcher wrote: > > > I also didn't know that there was a write-to-many SCSI command? > > > Someone can confirm or deny this > > Coulda sworn the raid controller on our main freebsd machine does mirroring > via scsi with a single command. So I took it

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 16:22:56 -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Keith" == Keith Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Keith> Given the hardware, is there a way to burn 8 CDs at one time, > Keith> or is there some mirroring code that is well written enough to > Keith> facilitate it? > > I

Re: How noisy should ch(4) be ?

2002-07-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 00:18:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > - run 'chio ielem' before you do anything. This may make the changer look > > > >at what it has, and perhaps figure out that it doesn't really have a > > > >source addresses for various elements. > > > > What abo

Re: How noisy should ch(4) be ?

2002-07-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 16:17:22 +, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > > - run 'chio ielem' before you do anything. This may make the changer look > >at what it has, and perhaps figure out that it doesn't really have a > >source addresses for various elements. What about this option?

Re: Retrieving interface MAC address

2002-06-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 13:41:02 -0700, Kevin D. Wooten wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > >I tend to retrieve address information about interfaces using > >getifaddrs(), which will (among other things) retrieve the link layer > >addresses of an interface. It might be overkill for your application,

Re: port trunking (was Re: FreeBSD Convention in EU)

2002-04-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:12:10 +0200, Andy Sporner wrote: > I have an interest to present either on Clustering or perhaps if the > timing is > right, a feature I am working on to bundle ethernet adapters as a single > virtual > adaptor (idea taken from Intel Adapter Teaming). You may want to

Re: naive i386 && FreeBSD interrupt question

2002-04-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:27:33 -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > This was -stable- but it's really a hacker's question. > > I really am *not* much of an i386 weenie and I'll have to admit that I don't > fully understand the interrupt mask scheme and I ran into a troubling problem. > > I was run

Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks

2002-04-10 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 21:50:33 +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: > > The problem is that we emulate ATAPI and UFI command sets through > converting SCSI commands. These command sets both do not have 6 byte > commands. > > The solution is to have the umass driver pass a quirk back to the CAM > layer dyn

Re: ServerWorks AGP support?

2002-04-08 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:13:40 -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > I recently acquired a Tyan S1867 motherboard, which uses the ServerWorks > HE chipset. I have a Radeon 7500 video card and I want to be able to do > direct rendering with XFree86 4.2. Unfortunately, the ServerWorks chipset > doesn't a

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 21:36:23 +, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any working practices around this problem? I'm sure > > > that I'm not the only one of us wit

Re: Kernel debugger and X11.

2002-03-19 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 20:15:29 +, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I'm having some intermittant problems on my laptop that I'd like to > debug, but as I use X11 most of the time it's difficult to use the > kernel debugger when the machine hangs, which is when I'm in X :(. > > Of course the nicest

Re: suspected dying CD-writer ?

2002-01-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 23:24:16 +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an SCSI CD-Writer, which only gives errors when I try to use > cd-record (see full log at the end of the message) > > As the problem is identical on a fresh 4.4-Rel (with cd-record installed > from the CD as a

Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-29 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 21:27:46 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > Unfortunately, it can not correctly interoperate with a > > > number of cards in jumbogram mode, so unless you know the > > > card on the other end and manuall

Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-29 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 12:00:59 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > [ ... transmit checksum offload ... ] > > > You've got things confused. I think that may be a limitation of some > > SysKonnect boards, but certainly isn't a T

Re: TCP&IP cksum offload on FreeBSD 4.2

2001-09-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:01:20 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > >I'm trying to use the TCP&IP checksum offload capability of the Netgear > > >GA620 NIC from a SMP FreeBSD 4.2R system running on a typical PIII SBC. > > >I did enable TCP&IP cksum offload for receive operatio

Re: Raw disk access in userland

2001-07-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 23:42:50 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 20:18:51 -0400, Kevin Hui wrote: > > > Then the question is whether the kernel is copying data between userspace > > > and kernelspace or whether it just DMAs the data straight in/out of the > > > user program's

Re: Raw disk access in userland

2001-07-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 20:18:51 -0400, Kevin Hui wrote: > Then the question is whether the kernel is copying data between userspace > and kernelspace or whether it just DMAs the data straight in/out of the > user program's address space. In Linux raw-io, given that it is a block > device and you

Re: Raw disk access in userland

2001-07-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 17:58:58 -0400, Kevin Hui wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering if *BSD have any support for user programs to access raw > disk devices, unbuffered. Such support is available under Linux: > > http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO/rawdev.html > http://www2.linuxjour

Re: Realy LARGE TCP/IP Window Size?

2001-05-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 17:15:20 -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:38:02PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 16:20:05 -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > &

Re: Realy LARGE TCP/IP Window Size?

2001-05-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 16:20:05 -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > > I am working on a FreeBSD device driver for my Co's GSN adapter and need > to be able to set my TCP/IP window size to 512KB (or perhaps more). I > have tried doing this with sysctl: > > root@sebulba:p0 /root> sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.r

Re: Acenic driver questions

2001-04-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:22:25 -0400, Amy Fong wrote: > Thanks! I should be kicking myself right now. I looked at the zero copy > code a few months back and totally forgot about it. > > While I'm wasting bandwidth, I've got another question. I've noticed > that if I use up too much stack space,

Re: Acenic driver questions

2001-04-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:48:24 -0400, Amy Fong wrote: > Question about the acenic driver. In if_ti.c, there's ti_mem > which is currently used to load the firmware onto the card. What > I'm trying to do is to use take advantage of the window base/window > from the registers on the tigon and writ

Re: AW: Best Gigabit ethernet for 4.x

2001-03-24 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:31:05 -0500, Dennis wrote: > At 05:04 PM 11/18/2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:33:29 -0500, Dennis wrote: > > > At 04:28 PM 11/17/2000, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: > > > >I just heard that Intel doesn't s

Re: Copying user <---> kernel

2001-03-13 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 19:41:50 -0600, Rohit Rakshe wrote: > Hello, > > I am sure people have thought about this one, but just that I could not > find any discussions about it: > > Consider a server which receives data over network, does some operations > on the data and sends it back over the

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:56:46 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Matt Dillon writes: > > > > I modified my original C program again, this time to simply read > > the data from memory given a block size in kilobytes as an argument. > > I had to throw in a little __asm to do it ri

Re: SCSI DAT tape detection on Compaq DL380

2001-01-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 14:35:53 +0100, cristian nicolae wrote: > Dear all, > I have a Compaq DL380 with an integrated Compaq Smart Array Controller. > I have succesfully managed to install the FreeBSD 4.2-20010104 > and everything is fine but the DAT drive which is not detected. > The DAT is conn

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 21:38:19 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth D Merry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Is there any reason why the FWRITE test cannot/should not be > >> moved down into the 'c

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 13:56:13 -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > [Observed on 4.2-STABLE, but I've redirected replies to the hackers list.] > > 'pciconf -l' is documented to work for non-priv users, however the > first thing the underlying ioctl code (pci_ioctl) does is bail with EPERM > if the

Re: DMA to user process address space!!!

2000-11-24 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 22:22:29 -0800, Mohan Krishna P wrote: > > AFAMUG, all user processes are allocated from the > virtual memory. so DMA to that doesn't make sense. but > is there some way, i can let the kernel know i am > DMAing to an address location and hence keep it in > main memory unt

Re: AW: Best Gigabit ethernet for 4.x

2000-11-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:33:29 -0500, Dennis wrote: > At 04:28 PM 11/17/2000, Schmalzbauer, Harald wrote: > >I just heard that Intel doesn't supply documentation on ther chipset and the > >FreeBSD and Linux support is quiet bad. The Netgear GA620 is said to be > >twice as fast. The same Chipset

Re: zero copy TCP

2000-11-14 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:37:35 -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > "Jin Guojun (DSD staff)" wrote: > > > > I heard that zero copy TCP is already in FreeBSD, isn't it? > > I could not find any information in searching the entire website. > > Before I am going to spend some silly time working

Re: pci bus enumeration & cdevsw indexing

2000-11-13 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:51:37 -0600, Robert Lipe wrote: > Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > What does your driver do? > > It's not a driver as much as driver infrastructure. To measure the > difficulty of porting the UDI Reference Implementation (available source > soon!

Re: pci bus enumeration & cdevsw indexing

2000-11-12 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 00:44:10 -0600, Robert Lipe wrote: > I'm new to FreeBSD, but an experienced kernel guy. I'm workgin with > 4.1.1 on IA32 and need help understanding the ways of your world. :-) > I'd like my project to look like a "normal" driver and use supported > interfaces, but I'll pa

Re: user-space resource information...

2000-11-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 17:32:16 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > I think vmstat(8) might be a better fit than iostat. vmstat already > > displays kernel memory usage (-m), interrupt usage (-i), paging stats (-s), > > and z

Re: user-space resource information...

2000-11-04 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:52:35 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > I'm wondering if this should have its own program, rather than squat > > in on iostat ? > > Adding yet another program for such a trivial fragment of code seems > kinda silly. If/when someone uses the other interfaces as well to get

Re: several NFS mounts within a filesystem

2000-08-16 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 19:47:52 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > /usr/n/ringrowl/root -maproot=root -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 > /usr/n/ringrowl/usr -maproot=root -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0 > > And the result of ``mountd -d -l'' is: > > Aug 16 19:36:35 ringwraith mo

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-10 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:48:50 +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > > | Here's another idea, the ata driver can read/write 2352 sector size > > | blocks directly, no need to use that ugly ioctl. You just have to > > | set the right blocksize, I could provide you with

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-10 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 23:08:12 +0200, Theo van Klaveren wrote: > Soren Schmidt wrote: > -long story snipped- > | > Am I just doing it wrong, or should atapi-cd.c be patched to verify if > the > | > buffer is in user space or in kernel space? If so, what function checks > if > | > an address is i

Re: Gigabit ethernet

2000-08-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 13:17:51 -0400, Essenz Consulting wrote: > Do both the Netgear GA620 and GA620T work? > Well, it looks like Bill Paul just added support for the GA620T to the ti(4) driver in -current, so you can use that card with -current now. Ken -- Kenneth Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gigabit ethernet

2000-08-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 13:17:51 -0400, Essenz Consulting wrote: > Do both the Netgear GA620 and GA620T work? > The 620 (i.e. the fiber version of the board) definitely works, I've got two. I would assume that the 620T works, although I don't have any of those. If it is like the ACEnic, it sho

Re: Gigabit ethernet

2000-08-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:15:00 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > > Simple question: > > Which Gigabit ethernet card works best with FreeBSD? Alteon-based boards. This includes Alteon ACEnics, the 3Com 3c985B (which has 1MB SRAM), and the Netgear GA620 (which has 512K SRAM). You can get the Netge

Re: Intel 840 Chipset Discontinue

2000-07-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:31:58 -0400, Essenz Consulting wrote: > I was told by several of my distributors that all motherboards based off > of the Intel 840 chipset are being discontinued. That means the Supermicro > PIIDM3 and PIIIDME, and any other 840 board. Are you sure they don't just mean

Re: 160/m support...

2000-07-11 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 16:39:15 -0400, Essenz Consulting wrote: > Just curious, > > This has probably been asked before, but.. > > Is Adaptec aic-7892 and 7899 160/m SCSI support in the pipeline to be > worked on? aka, has adaptec released any info to those FreeBSD team > members who work on th

Re: Max DMA size

2000-07-06 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 15:51:34 -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what factors determine the max DMA size (DMA counter on > each controller or PCI bus related)? What is the typical max DMA size for > a SCSI disk connected to a PCI bus? It seems to be much larger than > MAXPHYS (1

Re: mbuf re-write(s): v 0.2: request-for-comments

2000-06-28 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:00:50 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Dennis writes: > > > > Its not really "wonderful" to those that have already implemented something > > using the old method. > > > > Speaking as somebody who maintains 3 out-of-tree network drivers & a > bunch of local code, a

Re: SCSI HBA device detection?

2000-06-25 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 13:10:26 -0400, Nat Lanza wrote: > I'm writing a SCSI HBA driver that simulates a bus with some > ramdisk-backed disks attached to it. I've read through the HBA > tutorial in Daemon News, but I'm still unsure how to tell the system > about my pretend disk devices. I suspect

Re: Path MTU discovery.

2000-06-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 18:03:45 +1200, Dave Preece wrote: > Just learning about this: I can see the advantages but does anything use it? Sure, TCP uses it. TCP (at least in FreeBSD) sets the "don't frag" bit on all its outgoing packets. If the packet gets to a router with an outgoing MTU that

Re: changed pci bus probe order from 3.2 to 4.0 -- ideas?

2000-06-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 11:19:29 -0600, Fred Clift wrote: > > > > i suppose the only place where you use the actual card names > > is the firewall config and rc.conf -- can't you just make these > > scripts fetch the ethernet address of the card(s), set a shell > > variable with the name of the g

Re: Supermicro PIIIDM3 Problems...

2000-05-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:33:52 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > Can you be more specific about "panicing"? As far as details go, you're > not helping yourself. > > > I was doing a FreeBSD 4.0 Install on a fairly new Supermicro PIIIDM3 > > motherboard. I eventually got FreeBSD 4.0 installed, howe

Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD

2000-04-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 13:52:12 +1000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > Does anyone have any experiance or information about using HP JetDirect 500X > > Printer Hubs with FreeBSD ? This is mission critical for my company, so any > > information greatly

Re: Mylex Support

2000-03-25 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 16:26:32 -0500, Colin wrote: > A friend of mine (FreeBSD user, between ISP'S) would like to know if > anybody is working on support for Mylex Flashpoint BT950. He has one and is > willing to port the driver from either Linux or BSDI, but is unwilling to > duplicate th

Re: How to read a file from a device driver?

2000-03-17 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 23:59:28 -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > > I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download > > code *into* my device from some binary system files. There is no > > "user space" or user process, for that m

Re: specifying probe order for scsi controllers

2000-03-14 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 21:47:53 -0800, dannyman wrote: > so, i have a production system with an ncr0 to which i would like to add an > aha0 in addition to the existing controller. > > when i do this, though, the aha0 comes up before the ncr0, so the numbering on > the system disk gets thrown off

Re: Onboard Intel fxp network chip, unknown PHY 17 type 2

2000-03-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 18:11:58 +, Roger Hardiman wrote: > David > >Can you look on the motherboard and find out what type of chip it uses? > > It should be one of: 82557, 82558, or 82559. Let me know. > > The lid is off. > It says GD82559 > > I wonder if we can get Jordan to allow a qu

Re: Help diagnoseing a panic

2000-02-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:10:47 -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > I have started getting a panic in the past couple of weeks on my > 4.0-Current system. The immediate symptom is disk related. I was > wondering if anybody could give me some hints in trying to determine if > this is hardware or softw

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
[ Thanks for the info Bill! ] On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 21:29:27 -0500, Bill Paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Kenneth D. Merry had > to walk into mine and say: > > > The Netgear GA620 is a 512K Tigon 2 board, and generally goes for around

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 11:23:45 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > I think the memory would come in handy on a heavily loaded system, since > > you would gain a little extra time in case you were a little late servicing > > interrupts. i.e. it would smooth out the bumps a little bit. > > Yes,

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:50:32 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > The FreeBSD driver (written by Matt Jacob) is based on the Linux driver, > > which Intel wrote, and he hasn't yet managed to get decent throughput > > through the cards. (Maybe Matt will comment.) They also only have 64K of > >

Re: open ref counts in CAM and vn

2000-02-03 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 10:26:15 +0100, Guido van Rooij wrote: > A collegue fo mine had the problem that it was possible to > vnconfig -u a vn device that was currently in use. This strikes > me as odd. > When looking through the da device code, I notice a similar problem. > Suppose I have a zip f

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 15:11:16 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > > We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers > > > (dua

Re: Suggestions for Gigabit cards for -CURRENT

2000-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 13:03:09 -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote: > We're currently looking at upgrading several of our FreeBSD servers > (dual PIII-600's, 66MHz PCI) and some Sun Ultra's to Gigabit Ethernet. > We plan to hook these machines into our Cisco Catalyst 5000 server. They > will most like

Re: FreeBSD-specific extension of struct mtget breaks dump(8) from Solaris

2000-02-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 23:28:17 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > rmt(8) returns the result of MTIOCGET filled into struct mtget in > > response to the 'S' command, issued by dump(8) of some certain OSs > > including Solaris. (FreeBSD's one seems to not issue the 'S' command) > > Due to the e

Re: scsiformat

2000-01-29 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 21:55:57 +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > I have a block on a SCSI disk (Fujitsu M2954S-512 ) > which I cannot write to - fsck hangs eternally. > > Besides from trying the SCSICNTL utility from Adaptec > (which I had to boot off of a DOS floppy) is > there a way of f

Re: looking for victims, err, uh, 'volunteers'

2000-01-16 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 17:56:41 -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > Hmm... I guess I was confusing this with the S.M.A.R.T. stuff that is > > supposed to give you a kind of pre-emptive warning that bad things are > > going to happen (or have happened, rather... i.e. the drive starts > > reallocati

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2400 & RCC PCI chipset?

2000-01-11 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:49:59 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:42:19PM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > It doesn't currently seem to boot with the RCC chipset. I get > > > the following: > > > > > > pci unknown vend

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2400 & RCC PCI chipset?

2000-01-11 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 13:31:23 -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:22:49PM -0600, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > > > We're thinking of purchasing some Dell PowerEdge 2400 servers. I'm a > > bit nervous because the 2400 uses a non-Intel server chipset made by a > > company call

Re: cdrecord & Pioneer DVR-S201?

2000-01-05 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 00:39:35 -0500, John W. DeBoskey wrote: > Hi, > >The subject pretty much asks the question. I'm looking for > anyone who has used or tried to use the new Pioneer DVR-S201 > 2nd Generation 4.7GB DVD-Writer on FreeBSD/cdrecord. > >I've looked at the current cdrecord

Re: ncr scsi timeout

1999-12-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 02:03:10 +, W.H.Scholten wrote: > Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > In general, the stock NCR driver isn't being actively maintained, and your > > problem could be the result of a bug in the driver, or some problem with > > your MO driv

Re: ncr scsi timeout

1999-12-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 00:49:47 +, WHS wrote: > Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > > > > > The kernel hangs (rather an endless loop) with messages like: > > > > > > ncr0: timeout nccb=0xc0c38000 > > > > > > if I attach a fujitsu M2513A2 640MB MO drive. From a quick glance in the > >

Re: Set the baud rate on remote debugging

1999-11-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Greg Lehey wrote... > On Monday, 15 November 1999 at 15:13:53 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Zhihui Zhang wrote... > >> > >> I have set up a remote debugging environment. But I think default 9600 > >> bps is slow. I can use "set remotebaud 19200&quo

Re: Set the baud rate on remote debugging

1999-11-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Zhihui Zhang wrote... > > I have set up a remote debugging environment. But I think default 9600 > bps is slow. I can use "set remotebaud 19200" on the debugging machine > side. How can I set the baud rate on the target machine that is running > the debugged kernel? (I press CTRL+ESC+ALT to dr

Re: Use remote debugging on 3.3-Release

1999-11-08 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Zhihui Zhang wrote... > > I did a little remote debugging with serial cable on 4.0-current a while > ago. But now I can not make it work on 3.3-RELEASE. > > I have used kermit to make sure that the cable connection is good. I also > have added necessary kernel options into the configuration fi

Re: ahc (2940UW) driver in 3.3

1999-10-22 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Darren Reed wrote... > > Some time ago I reported corruption using 2.2.8 with an DDRS-39130 > connected to a 2940UW. I've done some testing today with 3.3, on > a totally different box, with a brand new scsi cable (never before > used). Still I see corruption. It's not in the same place every

Re: CAM-ification - documentation

1999-10-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Randell Jesup wrote... > This discussion should probably move to the freebsd-scsi list... > > "Kenneth D. Merry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Nick Hibma wrote... > >> Especially some help on the topic of polling would be appreciated. > >>

Re: CAM-ification - documentation

1999-10-08 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
[ reply moved the bottom... ] Nick Hibma wrote... > > Warner Losh wrote... > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wilko Bulte writes: > > > : How difficult would CAMifying a driver be? > > > > > > Speaking of which, has a "How to CAMify a driver" doc been written? > > > > Nope. You've CAM

Re: Turbochannel based Alpha, quickie question

1999-10-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Warner Losh wrote... > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wilko Bulte writes: > : How difficult would CAMifying a driver be? > > Speaking of which, has a "How to CAMify a driver" doc been written? Nope. You've CAMified a driver, would you like to write it? :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Turbochannel based Alpha, quickie question

1999-10-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matthew N. Dodd wrote... > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > # A single entry for any of these controllers (ncr, ahb, ahc, amd) is > > # sufficient for any number of installed devices. > > controller ncr0 > > controller isp0 > > #controller esp0 > > > > in GENERIC. I mean

Re: Turbochannel based Alpha, quickie question

1999-10-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Wilko Bulte wrote... > As Kenneth D. Merry wrote ... > > Wilko Bulte wrote... > > > > I have the distinct (bad) feeling this is due to: > > > > > > # A single entry for any of these controllers (ncr, ahb, ahc, amd) is > > > # sufficient for a

Re: Turbochannel based Alpha, quickie question

1999-10-07 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Wilko Bulte wrote... > Hi there, > > I got my hands on an old Turbochannel Alpha machine. I'm currently > in the process of attempting to install 3.3-Rel on it. > > Unfortunately it does not detect any disks: > > Entering kernel at 0xfc320fc0... > Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. >

Re: SCSI disk naming problem

1999-10-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... > > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Current FreeBSD SCSi disk naming mechanism is problem for using more than > > > one disks in the chain during the disk failure. > > > > > > The problem is that the name is not fixed with is SCSI ID. e.g., > > >

Re: mbufs, external storage, and MFREE

1999-09-23 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matthew Dillon wrote... > :I have the following question: Let's say that I have a block of user > :memory which I've mapped into the kernel, and would like to send on a > :network socket. I'd like to simply grab an mbuf, point to the memory as > :external storage, and queue it up for transmissio

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