Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread Coleman Kane
I'd like to say that I have been keeping stable with freebsd 4.0, and I am using ata with an FIC-VA503+ (VIA Apollo MVP3) mobo and a WD Expert 18GB Hard Drive (which I recommend to anyone) with no problems. I have been updating my kernel as large changes come along and have been amazed at the

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sergei Vyshenski wrote: The old Intel PIIX is know to have DMA problems, I never intended to support it, but the current code (from luiqi IIRC) was found to be sufficient IF the BIOS did its job right. I seems that we have a BIOS here that doesn't setup things the way they should

Re: 3.4-stable to 4.0-stable wedge

2000-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Randy Bush writes: : now where does that darn floppy go? You left it on the sofa when you dropped by. The refund check is under it. Sadly, after the first 5 beers, we started using it as a coaster. I sure wish AOL would send me another coaster soon, or I'll run

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warner Losh writes: : Apollo 82c586B (aka MPV3). I have reason to believe that the statement above is inaccurate. I'm confusing two problem children at the moment. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread John Hay
I heard some rumors about some instability on the new ATA code combined with DMA mode. Is this founded? Can I safely build the latest stable and have a peaceful sleep? From my experience the new ata driver isn't unstable. Where it works it generally works well. I have 2 machines

Re: 3.4-stable to 4.0-stable wedge

2000-04-05 Thread Forrest W. Christian
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote: You left it on the sofa when you dropped by. The refund check is under it. Sadly, after the first 5 beers, we started using it as a coaster. I sure wish AOL would send me another coaster soon, or I'll run through all my Win95 disks given the amount

4.0 release - vp0 timeout

2000-04-05 Thread Andy Georges
Hello, I have just finished installing 4.0-release on my (toshiba 320CDS) laptop and i have recompiled the kernel with, amongst others the following options: device scbus device da device ppc0 device ppbus device lpt device ppi device

Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S

2000-04-05 Thread J McKitrick
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:58:55PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] J McKitrick writes: : I had a strange problem with my pcmcia modem. When using the pccard entry : that is for my card, it doesn't work. I have to change the IRQ. No idea : why. The IRQ you told

Re: Parallel port zip drives - inventory of working and non-working systems

2000-04-05 Thread Walter Brameld
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, J McKitrick wrote: Does anyone recall seeing or making a remark about a group of interrupts or hardware port locations that could be causing this problem? I was searching my email and i can't find it. Someone said 4.0

Re: Netscape pegs CPU on XServer kill

2000-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Mar-21 15:32:00 +1100, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the above note. And it *says* it "core dumped" but I haven't found any netscape.core's laying around lately. The ports installation process makes /usr/local/bin/netscape a small shellscript which sets a couple of environment

Kudos to all!

2000-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
Folks, I'd like to extend my thanks and give kudos to all who have been involved in the process of creating FreeBSD 4.0, from -CURRENT up through -STABLE, and beyond to wherever that might take us. We had a new Dell PowerEdge 6350/500 server that arrived here yesterday, and