Issues with disk block devices

2001-03-13 Thread Doug Siebert
This note is sort of a half question half bug report. I ran into a problem with VMware, though it isn't really an issue with VMware -- I was creating what it terms a "plain disk", and part of that process has it trying to seek to the end of a disk partition and verifying it is really the size it

Issues with disk block devices

2001-03-13 Thread Doug Siebert
This note is sort of a half question half bug report. I ran into a problem with VMware, though it isn't really an issue with VMware -- I was creating what it terms a "plain disk", and part of that process has it trying to seek to the end of a disk partition and verifying it is really the size it

Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC

2001-03-02 Thread Doug Siebert
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > >I think it's a math problem in the test code. Try this: > [code deleted] > >Note that two subsequent calls to gettimeofday() must not return the >same time even if your CPU runs infinitely fast. I haven't seen any >kernel in the past few years that fails this

Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC

2001-03-02 Thread Doug Siebert
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: I think it's a math problem in the test code. Try this: [code deleted] Note that two subsequent calls to gettimeofday() must not return the same time even if your CPU runs infinitely fast. I haven't seen any kernel in the past few years that fails this test. I

Re: PROBLEM: pci bridge fails to wake up from suspend/resume( Inspiron 8000 )

2001-02-19 Thread Doug Siebert
Morten, I'm not subscribed to linux-kernel, but I've been following the list archive somewhat for the past month (watching 2.4 development so I can figure out when it is safe to make the jump without too much hassle) I just bought a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop a month ago, and have the same

Re: PROBLEM: pci bridge fails to wake up from suspend/resume( Inspiron 8000 )

2001-02-19 Thread Doug Siebert
Morten, I'm not subscribed to linux-kernel, but I've been following the list archive somewhat for the past month (watching 2.4 development so I can figure out when it is safe to make the jump without too much hassle) I just bought a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop a month ago, and have the same