Re: Minor problem of CHECKSUM.MD5

2001-03-13 Thread Makoto MATSUSHITA
jkh I believe that's already fixed - are you talking about today's - jkh stable? It's fixed, but src/CHECKSUM.MD5 does contain skrb4.* and skrb5.* entries which is no longer in src/ distribution. -- - Makoto `MAR' MATSUSHITA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Silo overflows

2001-03-13 Thread psglenn
Hello, I have been seeing many silo overflows lately. I'm running yesterday's 4.3 BETA and tracking stable. I've seen some mail about this problem so I send this info. bash-2.04$ uname -a FreeBSD big.psf.his.org 4.3-BETA FreeBSD 4.3-BETA #7: Sat Mar 10 15:21:53 PST 2001 [EMAIL

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Helge Oldach
Alfred Perlstein: * Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010312 13:46] wrote: How serious is the possible corruption issue, anyway. The loss in performance is pretty drastic although it may be that dd is an especially bad case, but I really don't like to corrupt my disks, either. If basically

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Helge Oldach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010313 00:48] wrote: Alfred Perlstein: * Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010312 13:46] wrote: How serious is the possible corruption issue, anyway. The loss in performance is pretty drastic although it may be that dd is an especially bad case, but I

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Helge Oldach
Alfred Perlstein: * Helge Oldach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010313 00:48] wrote: Alfred Perlstein: If basically running with blind write caching turned on is akin to running your filesystem in async mode. This is because write caching gives the drive license to lie about completing a write, the

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Mike Meyer
Helge Oldach [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Generally I'd say it's not a bad idea to have write caching on the disk enabled - assuming that it is decently implemented. BTW, don't SCSI disks use write cacheing as well? :-) Yes, they do. And it's recommended that you turn it off if you turn on

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Helge Oldach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010313 01:07] wrote: Alfred Perlstein: * Helge Oldach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010313 00:48] wrote: Alfred Perlstein: If basically running with blind write caching turned on is akin to running your filesystem in async mode. This is because write caching

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010313 01:10] wrote: Helge Oldach [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Generally I'd say it's not a bad idea to have write caching on the disk enabled - assuming that it is decently implemented. BTW, don't SCSI disks use write cacheing as well? :-) Yes, they do. And

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2001-03-13 Thread Eyvind Hult
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Re: ATA100 problem?

2001-03-13 Thread Adam
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Gerd Knops wrote: Christopher Farley wrote: I'm using IBM-DTLA drives on a Promise ATA100 Controller (onboard an Asus A7V). My dmesg is attached below. I am having problems accurately writing data to the disk, particularly with large files (500+ mb). Attempts to

Makeworld Fails

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Tweten
While trying to build the latest STABLE, this afternoon, using FreeBSD 4.3-BETA (FLOATER) #2: Tue Mar 6 22:17:30 PST 2001 as the build platform, I got the following result: cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/lib/libpam/libpam/../../../contrib/libpam/libpam/include -I.

/etc/default/rc.conf bad default ipfilter_flags?

2001-03-13 Thread Tim Zingelman
Running 4.3-Beta, cvsupped early on 3/13/01. These lines are either confusing or wrong. Possibly something has changed in the default state (now enabled?) of the ipfilter module. ipfilter_flags="-E" # should be *empty* when ipf is _not_ a module # (i.e.

New 4.3 BETA (BETA2) release available

2001-03-13 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Since there has been a sudden spate of changes post-BETA (not a huge number, but more than the usual amount in -stable since the freeze) I decided it would be a good idea to roll a BETA2 snapshot, and it's now on: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.3-BETA2/ With:

Re: New 4.3 BETA (BETA2) release available

2001-03-13 Thread David Xu
Hello Jordan, Wednesday, March 14, 2001, 11:13:33 AM, you wrote: JH Since there has been a sudden spate of changes post-BETA (not a huge JH number, but more than the usual amount in -stable since the freeze) JH I decided it would be a good idea to roll a BETA2 snapshot, and JH it's now on: JH

Re: Disk I/O problem in 4.3-BETA

2001-03-13 Thread David Kelly
Pete French writes: All very interesting, but a small point has been forgotten hasnt it ? The way I read this thread is that until recentlly write-caching was enabled by default and has now been disabled (hence the original obseravtion of disc performance dropping). I havent noticed that

Re: suspend/restore with ppp connections

2001-03-13 Thread Mike Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 March 2001 07:56, j mckitrick wrote: | The problem is that the card has been reattached, so com-gone is | 0. However com-tp is NULL because the driver has not seen an open() | since attachment. It would probably be possible to add a

Re: New 4.3 BETA (BETA2) release available

2001-03-13 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Jordan Hubbard wrote: Anyway, please test the heck even more out of this one since we're only 12 days away from the final release candidate! :) le nic driver is broken in all 4.x versions. Any chance that kern/25650 will be commited before 4.3-RELEASE?

Re: New 4.3 BETA (BETA2) release available

2001-03-13 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-stable/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Jordan Hubbard wrote: Anyway, please test the heck even more out of this one since we're only 12 days away from the final release candidate! :) le nic driver is broken in all 4.x versions. Any chance that kern/25650 will be

Multihead XFree86

2001-03-13 Thread Andrew Hesford
Hello. XFree86 4.0.x is... buggy... with my i810. 4.0.2 starts up fine, but after switching consoles, and going back, the video is garbled and I must reboot to fix it. I still have keyboard functionality, since ctrl+alt+del does what it is supposed to, but the video is gone. 4.0.1 is just

FWD: Re: [usb-bsd] Re: USB Modems in -stable

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Billik
On Mar 13, Gerd Knops [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Hibma wrote: How would you imagine a winmodem to work on USB? You can't push the data down that fast I think. Winmodem is probably the wrong term here, but the effects are the same. There is this annoying trend in modem