Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again..

2001-12-18 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote: bzip2 has been around for a while and has been shipped since 4.4-RELEASE. :) When I see the constant who put another three KB into the kernel and thus broke release? against the 9KB plus for the loader versus 40KB gain for the kernel

Re: WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!

2001-12-09 Thread Mike Smith
This is the message that popup just before the kernel load, and at the beginn ing of the boot process, there is another strange message no /boot/loader. Do you know what does it mean? It means you deleted, renamed or moved /boot. Don't do that. -- ... every activity meets with

Re: rl driver: need help in adding new chipset

2001-10-25 Thread Mike Smith
However, when the computer boots with the new kernel, even though it recognizes the chip, it tells me: It's recognising the chip because you've told it to. But it looks like there are more differences than just the ID. rl0: Accton MPX 5030C 10/100BaseTX port 0x6000-0x60ff mem

Re: 4.4-rc4 Install hangs on RAID controller

2001-09-18 Thread Mike Smith
I haven't been able to do any testing for the 4.4 release, unfortunately; time simply hasn't been available. However, the controller should work. Make sure that it's not in I2O mode, and that the array is not degraded or rebuilding. I'm attempting to install FreeBSD-stable on a Micron

Re: New kernel option CPU_ENABLE_SSE

2001-08-18 Thread Mike Smith
--R+My9LyyhiUvIEro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:20:35PM -0400, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: Assuming CPU_ENABLE_SSE is a Good Thing, why not make it default with the cpu I686_CPU kernel config directive (similar to

Re: PERC 3 Dell 2500 and FreeBSD 4.3 stable

2001-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
Hope this helps others on Dell, it would be great to get Dell to offers these controllers instead of those crappy PERC controllers, but these I guess are too expensive??? There's not much more subjective than RAID controllers, except perhaps text editors. 8) I'm glad you're happy with the

Re: pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum

2001-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
What's mean pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum ? It means that your PnP BIOS data has a bad checksum. We don't trust it in this case. Some vendors don't bother to compute the checksum for this structure; we are more conservative than Microsoft, and refuse to use the PnP BIOS in this case.

Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM

2001-07-21 Thread Mike Smith
So, someone wanting to implement this in FreeBSD isn't starting from square one? That depends on how you number your squares. Can the NetBSD stuff be fairly easily ported to FreeBSD, or is their VM system too funky? It's just different. But no, the NetBSD work doesn't immediately

Re: Slow response time

2001-07-05 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, I am following 4.3-stable since I did a CD-ROM install of 4.3-release. A few weeks ago I did build the world which succeeded in my opinion. Additionally I upgraded to XFree86 4.1.0_4 and KDE 2.1.1. The problem is that now sometimes the x-server takes ages to come up after 'startx' and

Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore?

2001-06-11 Thread Mike Smith
On 11-Jun-2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: Hmmm. It seems like this thread has degraded to simple project-bashing so I'll not be a party to keeping it on life support any longer. I don't think this is the case at all. For whatever it's worth, it doesn't appear that the stability of

Re: FORTH: Modifying loader...

2001-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
I've been waiting for a FORTH-geek to pop his head up; I have most of nextboot reimplemented... I've added fwrite and flseek verbs. I've thought about kidnapping an astronomer. 8-). The current problem is that the biosdisk.c doesn't contain write code, and that the libstand code

proc-pstats / SIGVTALRM

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
In fielding a question from someone regarding what appears to be SIGVTALRM sniping on their system, I noticed that the pstats structure (which holds the p_timer fields which are used to track interval timers) is outside the bzero-on-allocation region of the proc structure. Thus it seems to

Re: CS4232 with pcm driver returns device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
If I specify device pcm0 at isa? port 0x534 irq 7 I get: mss_detect, busy still set (0xff) pcm0 failed to probe at port 0x534-0x53b irq 7 on isa0 with device pcm0 at isa? port? irq? drq1 flags 0x15 You *should* just be able to use the PnP BIOS. However: pnpbios: Bad PnP

Re: 3ware mysql, again

2001-05-28 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith writes: I recall something about this on another FreeBSD list a week or so ago. Supposedly there is a firmware update available that fixes this problem. It's not clear whether Raymond is talking about the same symptoms or not (as he doesn't clarify

Re: Running Stable on remote production server

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Smith
I have been reading the instructions for tracking stable and what is recommended in the way of procedures. It seems from this that it would be extremely hard to follow these recommendations for a remote POP. IE moving to single user mode and on the whole messing with the machine for several

Re: mylex dac960pl and FreeBSD 4.3 - bus_dmamap_load

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Smith
Hmm, I just went through all of the mlx related files and none of them changed between 4.2-RELEASE and 4.3-RELEASE. So it looks like there is something more sinister going on. This is a known problem. I don't know what's up, and I can't reproduce it (as I don't have any of these cards). I

Re: CFLAGS Optimization

2001-05-08 Thread Mike Smith
:: The risk is the same in Linux; they both use gcc, and it's gcc which :: has the optimizer bugs. It's more common to use absurd gcc :: optimizations in the Linux community for some reason (perhaps they're :: used to code misbehaving, so additional brokenness from the gcc :: doesn't add

Re: problem booting 4.3-RC1 (BTX problem)

2001-03-29 Thread Mike Smith
This is a known bug in the SRC-U21 and SRC-U31 BIOS, for which there is no solution. You cannot use these controllers with FreeBSD. There is a problem booting 4.3-RC1 on server with Intel Server RAID Controller U2-1(SRCU21) with logical volumes created (without logical disks everything is

Re: 3ware + 3dmd - how?

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Smith
Thomas there are some hints how to install and to run the 3dmd under Thomas FreeBSD? I'm able to run the program, but nothing happen when Thomas using a browser to get information about the RAID controller. Mike I suspect you haven't made the /dev/twe0 device node; You know, this fixed

Re: 3ware problems

2001-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
The first time I did this I thought something was broken when I watched the newfs output those duplicate super block locations. It was about 10 seconds between each block! After a search of the FreeBSD lists I found a reference to initializing the array, and just waited. On ttyv1 the

Re: NatSemi network cards

2001-03-17 Thread Mike Smith
I have not been able to find any reference to this card in any compatibility documentation for FreeBSD. Is it supported by 4.2, and if not, will 4.3 support it? man 4 sis See also HARDWARE.TXT, which explicitly lists this card. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts

Re: FreeBSD 4.x and BSDi 4.x binary compatible?

2001-03-16 Thread Mike Smith
:: Actually, on the same note, I'm planning on flying a 747 jet later :: this evening, anyone know what I should watch out for? Any tips :: for a smooth ride? Yeah, don't pack the AK-47 and Semtex in the hand luggage. ;-) Thanks Alfie, I'll make sure to ask you next time I need some

Re: [NFS] Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export

2001-01-24 Thread Mike Smith
At least from looking at the Linux 2.2.18 code, if you get EROFS back from the Linux server, the actual set of access bits you get back won't have the right bits set; "nfsd_access()" just jumps to "out:" if it gets a "read-only file system" error, and that doesn't set "*access" to the

Re: Athlon and 4.2 Release

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
I strongly suspect its an IRQ conflict. Every problem of this sort that I've seen with the A7V has been an IRQ conflict, including the problem I had with my own. Specificly I had to hard set the IRQ on my NIC through the PCI management section of the bios. ... It certainly is an IRQ

Re: AMI MegaRAID Enterprise 1600

2000-12-29 Thread Mike Smith
harddrive while running FreeBSD. The controler reacts on this with a wild beeping and beeping does not stop until the array has been rebuild or checked on consistency. But there was no message of any kind of error or drive failure or that the controler moans due some drive failures. Is this

Re: Can this really be true? FreeBSD not working on IBM T20's

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Smith
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Peter Lai wrote: So use ext2 or some other FS for your freebsd slices! Has anyone actually validated this as a solution? Installation using this as a technique would be very difficult. You'd also need a -current loader with ext2 support. I do not consider it a

Re: Anyone tried fresh 4.2-RELEASE buildworld ?

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Smith
I'm stuck in a compiler error (signal 4) while trying "make buildworld" in a fresh 4.2-RELEASE installation. I sent a PR already, but I would like to know if anyone here has gotten 4.2-RELEASE fresh installed (I mean, not cvsup'd) and build world'd. It seems very much to me as if this

Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
i'm not entirely sure i understand. "pnp o/s = no" causes the bios to assign an irq to the pcic controller, meaning the pcic controller raises that interrupt on insertions/removals, but the driver, operating in polling mode, never clears the interrupt so the machine wedges trying to service

Re: Removal of Disklabel (was: Re: Dangerously Dedicated)

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Smith
As the PC architecture requires, just use an fdisk partition rather than a disklabel slice (slices are what UNIX vendors call them). For that matter I'd be happy if we removed disklabel from the picture entirely. I think that should be our goal. The architecture requires an fdisk

Re: IDE RAID?

2000-11-12 Thread Mike Smith
I'm going to install a new FreeBSD server and I'm looking into an Ultra-ATA 100 RAID solution. You should be more worried about functionality than buzzword-compliance. ATA-100 isn't really all that important in the scheme of things here. So far, my searches on Dejanews seem to indicate

Re: i386/20379

2000-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
Forwarding this to stable, as I've sent it to current by mistake.. At Fri, 03 Nov 2000 06:14:49 +0900, I wrote: Would someone take a look at i386/20379, which adds support for Intel 450GX chipset? The fix is simple enough to get into 4.2-RELEASE. Intel 450GX used to be a

Re: i386/20379

2000-11-02 Thread Mike Smith
On the other hand, there *is* an easy workaround to turn them off, so in the worst case we would have an escape route. Jordan, what's your feeling on this? I don't have a 450GX board to test with. 8( I feel it looks like a small but smelly hack and I also have bad feelings about

Re: diskless boot failures with PXE 2.0 boot, diskless X11 Termi

2000-10-31 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:12PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote: All right, I saw I was false in using bootp ... :-( One question about diskless booting. How to boot FreeBSD 4.0, with out /boot/loader to have properly libkvm working ? Typically you

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/twe twe_freebsd.c twe_tables.h tweio.h twe.c twe_compat.h twereg.h twevar.h twe_disk.c

2000-10-30 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, I just got a new batch of 3Ware 6200s I plan to deploy for RAID1 systems. I installed the card and 2 Quantums into an existing test system 4.1.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE #1: Mon Oct 30 13:42:15 EST 2000 i.e. post twe commits. At boot up time, I get twe0: AEN:

Re: HEADS UP! MFC's

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Smith
There are some things which are broken in -stable that need to be fixed (alpha booting, e.g.). We'll try to leave the world a better place for our efforts. -stable world builds, installs and boots on my pws433 as of earlier today (with dfr's ata fix). -- ... every activity meets with

Re: PERC2 RAID support in 4.1-STABLE

2000-10-17 Thread Mike Smith
Its a shorter PCI card than the others, single channel, SCSI LVD. It has OK performance. I am currently using it in a RAID0+1 type config. Where can I learn more about the pitfalls? I have a model 466 waiting to get employed (RAID5 config with three IBM drives) and get very poor

Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
I don't change change my mind (this change is not needed), but here is yet another aspects. jkh Agreed - vnconfig is supposed to load the vn module and does, jkh at least, in -current. However, this commit maybe assumes that if somebody want to do "make release" of 5-current with

Re: More panics (different hardware)

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
Please press the 'scroll lock' key to scroll upwards and report the real error message. Before you post it, take a few minutes to check the handbook section on kernel debugging and try giving us enough information to actually help you. You wouldn't ring your doctor up and say "Hey doc, I

Re: Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and couldn't map register window

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
At 10:03 AM -0700 2000/9/21, Mike Smith wrote: 4) Add the line controller asr to your kernel configuration file and rebuild/reinstall your kernel. When doing a "config -r KERNEL", I was told: # config -r KERNEL Removing old directory ../

Mylex adapters with 2.x firmware and couldn't map register window

2000-08-04 Thread Mike Smith
I've had a lot of requests for something to be done about this, and I've finally gotten a few minutes to make it happen. The fix for this has been committed to -stable, and there's a kit for 4.1-RELEASE users wanting to install on these adapters at

Re: PNPBIOS and atkbd

2000-07-27 Thread Mike Smith
Since someone clued me in about using the PNPBIOS option to automate some isa resource allocations I have been experimenting with it. I've managed to remove most of the irq stuff from my kernel configuration file, apart from a few culprits. The main one is the keyboard and mouse. The

Mylex 160/170/352/2000/3000 driver available

2000-07-26 Thread Mike Smith
--- Blind-Carbon-Copy X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mylex 160/170/352/2000/3000 driver available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 03:18:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm pleased

Re: Promise-66 RAID

2000-07-26 Thread Mike Smith
If you want a supported ATA RAID solution, see www.3ware.com. I'm curious how well the 3ware cards work under FreeBSD feature-wise? Can you hot-swap drives (assuming you have an IDE hot-swap frame and cartridge like Promise cards support)? The 6x00 series cards support hotswap. You

Driver for Adaptec/Dell/HP PCI:SCSI RAID adapters available

2000-07-23 Thread Mike Smith
--- Blind-Carbon-Copy X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Driver for Adaptec/Dell/HP PCI:SCSI RAID adapters available Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:53:40 -0700 From: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Color ls

2000-07-18 Thread Mike Smith
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: joe@cuddy[503]: export TERM=xterm-color joe@cuddy[504]: vi xterm-color: Unknown terminal type Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability :q joe@cuddy[505]: uname -a SunOS cuddy 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u

Re: Color ls

2000-07-18 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:31:47PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: Yes. Any program that expects colour to work. In what sense? The color codes are absorbed by xterm and it looks like it probably does without doing color stuff. Do you know of a program which actually has problems? I can

Re: Synching my src...

2000-07-09 Thread Mike Smith
This is a pet peeve of mine. Freebsd-stable is supposed to be the mailing list that is required reading for anyone tracking stable, where all useful information related to tracking stable is to be found. However, the list is increasingly such a high-volume, low

Re: ServerWorks ServerSet III LE chipset?

2000-07-05 Thread Mike Smith
We are wondering if we should expect any problems with the chipset in subject? You will need 4-stable to run correctly on this chipset in SMP mode, 4.0-release has problems with APIC initialisation. How about the Adaptec 7892 SCSI? Should be fine. -- ... every activity meets with

Re: Dump takes ages on SCSI. (several times faster on IDE)

2000-07-03 Thread Mike Smith
. If you have the WCE bit set on the drive in question, it will go faster. The fact that SCSI commands are more expensive than IDE commands is also significant given that dump I/O is performed one page at a time. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Mike Smith
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000605 16:58] wrote: Well, it would be nice to auto-load or unload any module that is needed. not just ethernet and fs types. That's basically the idea. Say, if you load a driver that uses some resources that another one can use while the first one

Re: 3.4-STABLE - 4.0-RELEASE upgrade: unable to mount root partition

2000-06-03 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: -CURRENT Mylex on stable?

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Smith
- Original Message - From: "Mike Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 1) Get the diffs. | | You will need a CVS repository, or use the cvsweb interface | at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi to extract the diffs. | Note that mlx.c, mlx_disk.c, mlx_pci.c and mlxvar.h a

Re: -CURRENT Mylex on stable?

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Smith
- Original Message - From: "Mike Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I'm missing where the end result of | diff/patch differs from the files themselves. It's a nice exercise, but | kind of a PITA when you're not a CVS user. | | The goal is to extract the changes I made t

Re: console disappears after reboot

2000-05-04 Thread Mike Smith
in dealing with your video adapter, but if syscons is not attaching to your vide hardware, or the keyboard controller in these systems is failing with the switch turned off, there is nothing that can be done about it on software. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike

Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors

2000-05-03 Thread Mike Smith
use 16 of the 17 available S/G segments (so I can pack the S/G tables without crossing page boundaries). This is going to take a little while to implement, unfortunately. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself

Re: HPDA/DAC960PL errors

2000-05-03 Thread Mike Smith
work on the 2.x firmware in Alpha systems which have an 8k page size. With a 64k d_maxio, you'll never see more than 9 segments. Sorry about this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?

2000-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:13:37 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: You leave out "how well you want it to perform" as well. All other things being equal, the PCI:SCSI adapters will give you better bang for your buck. Out of curiosity, how would a PCI-RAID (SCSI) adapter compare with v

Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support?

2000-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
- Original Message - From: "Mike Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If that's what they say, I'd be inclined to believe them. Since I've not | encountered any fatal problems with the 2.x firmware, I can't suggest | that upgrading would actually win you very much. I'm not

Re: amr still seems to have issues.

2000-04-21 Thread Mike Smith
* Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000420 11:39] wrote: Hi, we're running 4.0-stable as of Sat Apr 15 18:39:08 PDT 2000 which include the recent amr fixes which we were hoping would cure the lockups with amr. Unfortunatly we are now experiancing reboots, the messages file reveals

Re: Custom boot disks

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Smith
get to gzip it first, as it probably won't fit otherwise. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: dangerously dedicated

2000-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
way to do this properly, and to think otherwise merely demonstrates your ignorance. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: booting 3.x from CD?

2000-03-20 Thread Mike Smith
? Sounds like you've got BIOS problems. Look for an upgrade from your vendor, and then start breaking down the kernel boot process to see if you can find where exactly it's hanging up. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish

Re: K6-MTRRs

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Smith
to the author/maintainer of the code, Brian Feldman (copied). If you can make it work, wonderful. On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: Well, I know that they are different form those on the PII/III line, and that there are only two. I think that they are implemented in some

Re: console disappears after reboot

2000-01-13 Thread Mike Smith
-in console and uses a serial console instead. This has nothing to do with init(8). I guess the right person to answer this kind of question would be Mike Smith or Daniel Sobral. I don't have any context for this, so it's a bit hard to be sure. The decision as to which console to use is no

Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-12 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels

2000-01-11 Thread Mike Smith
uld really be fairly obvious. In all reality, new BIOS features are actually directed towards the same sort of problems that we're facing, even if the process is driven largely by Microsoft. Take a look at eg. ACPI to see what I mean. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smi

Re: Panic: Out of mbuf clusters

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Smith
if this is the same as the known problem, and whether 4.0 would fix it. Again, 4096 is (obviously) not high enough. No, upgrading to 4.x won't "fix" your problem. The panic is telling you that you _have_not_ tuned the system correctly. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day

Re: Temperature Findings

1999-12-30 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: /boot/loader fails to reset AMD K6-II FPU

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Mylex RAID controller driver update

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: The third update to the Mylex PCI:SCSI RAID controller driver for FreeBSD-3.x-STABLE is now available at http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/mylex/mlx-stable-991221.tar.gz According to the README: Copy the files mlx.c, mlxvar.h

Re: Re[4]: SOFTUPDATES

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
nobody has noticed, you can pass a mountpoint as an argument to tunefs and it will (mostly) correctly guess the device (by reading /etc/fstab). ie. one says tunefs -n enable /usr rather than guessing at which device to use. Much more robust. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day

FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: AMD 3DNow instructions on FreeBSD )

1999-12-22 Thread Mike Smith
Does FeeBSD/Alpha run reliably on an AXPpci33 with Quantum Fireball (SCSI)? Yes; we do test installs onto one (although I think it has a 2GB Empire in it at the moment, the furball was too small). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should

Re: Don't use the custom install option for 3.4

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
ll the 3.4 CDs be pressed with this bug? Yes; we only just hit the this-year window last night with a few minutes to spare. I _did_ manage to work around the "can't boot on some ATAPI CDROMs" bug for CD #1, if that's any consolation. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a

Bugfixed AMI MegaRAID driver for -stable available

1999-12-14 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: Netgear FA410TXc

1999-12-14 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: printer problems using 3.4RC kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: kernel not patching?

1999-12-02 Thread Mike Smith
ne module... and this global variable is referenced. When I then search for this string (by lessing the kernel and searching for dgilbert), I can't find it in the kernel's image. What's up? Module != kernel -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should

Re: kernel compile succeeds but is unusable, take two

1999-12-02 Thread Mike Smith
. # pseudo-device pty 16 Taking pty's out is a bad idea too. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: StarOffice 5 on a SMP system..... or Applixware...

1999-11-21 Thread Mike Smith
x one"; Applixware builds for about a dozen or so platforms, and the FreeBSD port has equal status with the rest of them. As I've already stated above, it already has O2k support. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,

Re: IDA driver issues upon installation. Probing devices hangs

1999-11-01 Thread Mike Smith
; swapping onto a RAID5 array is a pretty lame idea. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Signal 11 on 3.3 installation

1999-09-25 Thread Mike Smith
No. You haven't included anything like enough information yet for the report to be at all useful. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Kernel fails to compile today...

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
-RC SMP-Kernel and with the current settings I don't have any idle time displays in top and uptime. APM and SMP are almost guaranteed not to work correctly. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick

Re: Kernel fails to compile today...

1999-09-06 Thread Mike Smith
e standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Fixes for build problems with SMP-stable

1999-09-01 Thread Mike Smith
to get this into -stable ASAP for obvious reasons. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: -stable kernel build failed.

1999-08-30 Thread Mike Smith
8/31 12:00 GMT+0800 cvsup to the newest src tree, but my -stable box can't build a new kernel : My bad, patch error. Should be fixed now. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick

Re: On freezes in 3.2-Stable

1999-08-13 Thread Mike Smith
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Re: PIIX4?

1999-08-05 Thread Mike Smith
about this at all, buy a UPS. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" i

Re: IDE HD size and geometry detected wrong

1999-07-15 Thread Mike Smith
ent with this theory. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: easyboot far into disk

1999-01-03 Thread Mike Smith
?! what about the widely distributed belief that the win9x partition has to be the first partition on the disk? You misremember; it has to be on the first disk, but it can be in any primary partition there. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should