IDE cable specs

2002-08-28 Thread Tenebrae
Remember a while back when the subject of IDE cable length came up on the freebsd stable mailing list and you were preaching the gospel of 18" or less? Well...I just got a new motherboard (Abit VP6) and its manual states: "There are four requirements for attaining Ultra ATA-66 and ATA-100: * The

Re: IPX tunnel through IP

2002-08-28 Thread John Hay
> > I'm looking to bridge an IPX network at a remote location to the local > IPX network, and the only method of communication is TCP/IP. Locally, I > have a FreeBSD server, and I intend to use one at the remote location > too. > > Looking in LINT, I see: > > options IPX

Re: Fatal trap 12

2002-08-28 Thread David
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Doug Hardie wrote: > At 0008 -0700 8/28/2002, David wrote: > I had similar problems a couple of years ago. buildworld would hang > in different places every time. I finally got it to work by letting > it run for an hour, then control-Z it to let it stop awhile and then > con

IPX tunnel through IP

2002-08-28 Thread Michael Burke
Hi. I'm looking to bridge an IPX network at a remote location to the local IPX network, and the only method of communication is TCP/IP. Locally, I have a FreeBSD server, and I intend to use one at the remote location too. Looking in LINT, I see: options IPX #IPX/SPX

Re: incorrect memory amount detected at boot

2002-08-28 Thread Antonio
--- David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFAIK, this has always been the behavior for older BIOSes that > report 16 MB of RAM. Are you saying that all the memory was > detected before? Exactly, It used to detect all 256 MB. sorry if I was not clear. I've made a kernel with MAXMEM="(

EOT tape handling changed?

2002-08-28 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Hi, since the beginning of August my backup service stopped to work in FreeBSD-stable. Finally I understand why. With the revision scsi_sa.c:1.45.2.12 from Aug 2, the End of Tape is reported by result zero instead of previous -1/ENOSPC after write() call. Now I have two "questions": 1) Why it

Re: incorrect memory amount detected at boot

2002-08-28 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After upgrading FreeBSD 4.6 stable on an old compaq proliant it's > reading the wrong memory amount from the BIOS at boot time like so: > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive B: is

Re: IPFW/dummynet/ppp bw device question

2002-08-28 Thread Greg Panula
"Sten Daniel Sørsdal" wrote: > > Hello > > I took a look at the documentation for IPFW and under the dummnet > section it is mentioned that the 'bw' parameter can be given a > device for use with ppp(8), however i have failed finding any > information on this. What i am looking into is t

Re: coredumps and copile problems

2002-08-28 Thread Dimitry Andric
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2002-08-28 at 14:01:57 Petri Turunen wrote: PT> My freebsd has started to have very much problems egrep and innd are crashing. PT> I tryed to buildworld but it didnt go well. This sounds like hardware getting bad. For example, overheating CPU an

cvsup and make

2002-08-28 Thread Dimitar Peikov
Yesterday I've cvsup-ed STABLE branch from cvsup5.freebsd.org on FreeBSD mobibsd.rila.bg 4.6.1-RC2 FreeBSD 4.6.1-RC2 #1: Mon Aug 19 19:25:26 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/mobibsd i386 and try to build kernel, but no. do it with 'make -m /usr/src/share/mk depend' otherwi

coredumps and copile problems

2002-08-28 Thread Petri Turunen
Hi My freebsd has started to have very much problems egrep and innd are crashing. I tryed to buildworld but it didnt go well. here is some info from uname: FreeBSD pete.fi.eu.org 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Tue Aug 6 18:43:57 EEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/var/spool/news/cvsu

write cache not actually disabled by sysctl?

2002-08-28 Thread Antony Mawer
After reading about the potential dangers assocaited with enabling the write cache on ATA drives in combination with softupdates, I've recently added the following to /boot/loader.conf: hw.ata.wc="0" Once booted, running sysctl confirms that this is set: [root@gibson] ~# sysctl hw.a

Re: IDE RAID controlers od FreeBSD

2002-08-28 Thread Antony Mawer
Mario Pranjic wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the current 4.6.2 RELEASE supports promise > fasttrak100tx2 or highpoint hpt370 RAID controlers? > > Does this actually work? I've got a Promise FastTrak100 TX2 running on -STABLE as of about 2 weeks ago and FreeBSD picks it up fine. I might add howe