Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-19 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:01:21PM -0800, Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a > system that's been updated that way. Well, thanks for the pointer, I've never looked at sysinstall build process. -- Vallo Kallaste [EMAIL

world breakage in binutils

1999-12-19 Thread Vallo Kallaste
Hello The world is broken for me for two days in: -- >>> elf make world started on Sun Dec 19 10:17:50 EET 1999 -- cc -O -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -I- -I. -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/bin

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > Warner Losh writes: > : > : The fstab looks good > : > : : Is the kernel-config ok? > : > : I didn't see anything wrong with it, but maybe soren should take a > : close look. This stuff definitely works for me on my laptop. > > Hate to follow up myself, but what boot blocks are y

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-19 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:32:04AM -0800, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sysctl -a | fgrep dirty > sysctl -w vfs.lodirtybuffers=X > sysctl -w vfs.hidirtybuffers=Y Matt, I've tried your patch to sys/kern/vfs_bio.c, made no difference. Lowering the vfs.hidirtybuffer

Re: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.

1999-12-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Matthew Dillon wrote: > :I've just upgraded to -CURRENT as of yesterday, and I'm noticing a > :number of occasions where all activity ceases for a second or two at a > :time; it seems to be related to IDE disk activity with the new ATA > :driver, but I don't have much evidence. I'm running a SiS

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Soren Schmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I now just build a kernel with the old wd drivers and everything works > > fine... > Have you checked the badsect flags then ?? Yes. It was not set. Alex -- I doubt, therefore I might be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-19 Thread Andreas Braukmann
Hi Mike, On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:01:21PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 04:21:19PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > > > Is is not possible to configure and add a second disk via the > > > > /stand/sysinstall Label and Fdisk menu's? > > ... I got this, too, ... but > > > >

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Warner Losh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hate to follow up myself, but what boot blocks are you using? Really > old ones use the disk label to determine what root device to pass to > the kernel, and maybe that's where the problem lies? Uhm. I don't know, what exactly you want to know, but

Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-19 Thread Ron Klinkien
Okay that explains it, have to go back to the good old shell command's then... Thanks, Ron. - Original Message - > > > > > > > Is is not possible to configure and add a second disk via the > > > > /stand/sysinstall Label and Fdisk menu's? > > ... I got this, too, ... but > > > > > Sysins

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > The RZ1000 is *dangerous*! We are doing no favours by making it run.. :-/ > > IMHO It is better to loose the user by not playing ball than to corrupt > > their data or run unreliably and make them hate us f

Re: Sv: Dr Neuhaus niccy go not recognized

1999-12-19 Thread Leif Neland
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, German Tischler wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 06:27:37PM +0100, Leif Neland wrote: > > I'd like to test, So how do I proceed from here? > > Get the latest i4b-dev snapshot (00.83.11), get my patches > from http://www.mayn.franken.de/home/tanis/i4b-11.tar.gz, > get a rece

Re: minor gcc-issue ?

1999-12-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 02:43:03AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > 0301 is an old (bad) way of spelling > > MASK_80387 | MASK_IEEE_FP | MASK_FLOAT_RETURNS. Cygnus finally fixed it in > > in gcc/config/i386/freebsd.h on 1999/03/23 (see the ChangeLog), but

Re: AMI MEGARAID problems.

1999-12-19 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16 > disklabel -rw amrd0 auto > newfs amrd0c > > Don't bother slicing the array in this case; it's not worth the effort. > (The probable cause of your trouble is garbage at the beginning of the > slice you've created).

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Mike Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I still haven't seen the plaintiff actually bother to transcribe the few > relevant lines out of his startup log, so I'm not too highly motivated to > worry about this in return, however ENXIO definitively means "the device > you're trying to mount

Re: ATA: more Promise Ultra wedges

1999-12-19 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Søren, > > It looks like I spoke to soon when I said the world was safe for > Promise Ultra users: > > ad3: ad_timeout: lost disk contact - resetting > ata4: resetting devices .. ad3: HARD WRITE ERROR blk# 6594768ad3: DMA problem en > countered, fallback to P

Re: ATA driver problem?? (lost disk contact)

1999-12-19 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Allen Pulsifer wrote: > According to the DPTA-3x spec from IBM, if the drive has fully entered > Standby mode, it can take up to 31 seconds for it to spin back up. > (See sections 3.3.6.1 and 13.0). Other drive models may take even > longer, and even after the drive is back up, it ma

ES1869 sound on laptop.

1999-12-19 Thread Edwin Culp
I just realized that my sound on my laptop has disappeared during the last couple of weeks. I usually keep the volume all the way down. Current as of yesterday. AMS Tech Laptop with AMD k-6 300. This is part of the dmesg. > unknown6: at port 0x800-0x807 on isa0 > sbc0: at port 0x220-0x22f,0x

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-19 Thread Thierry Herbelot
"Dave J. Boers" wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 07:27:16AM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Do you boot from the UDMA66 drive ? > > Yes. Bios boot sequence is EXT,C,A; where EXT is set to UDMA66, not SCSI. > The SCSI disk is a 4.3 Gb WD Enterprise on an Adaptec 2940AU board. > > > What is

Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > > ... just after having the standard disklabel -rw ad0 auto (my boot disk is > > > da0) complained about 'no space left on device'. Yes, ... I did the > > > disklabel -W ad0 ... > > > You forgot to overwrite the beginning of the disk. > > ... and yes I did (before doing the 'fdisk') a nice l

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > On any sort of -current system, the loader ignores this and uses the > contents of /etc/fstab instead. which /etc/fstab? our systems always have 2 root partitions :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: ata: Mount root failure: 6

1999-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > > On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > On any sort of -current system, the loader ignores this and uses the > > contents of /etc/fstab instead. > > which /etc/fstab? our systems always have 2 root partitions :-) Unless overridden, the one on the same filesystem the kernel was r

Re: ESS 1868, newpcm, and Linux RealPlayer 5.0

1999-12-19 Thread Donn Miller
Edwin Culp wrote: > You're lucky, you got to the realplayer.:-) My ESS1869 hangs on a > simple cat gong.au>/dev/audio. Do you have sound with everything except > realplayer? Nope. Just tried cat hello.au > /dev/dsp. Nothing. It hangs at the command line. Same with cat *.au > /dev/audio. H

Re: ESS 1868, newpcm, and Linux RealPlayer 5.0

1999-12-19 Thread Edwin Culp
Donn, Thanks for the feedback. Misery loves company, they say.:-) We seem to have the same problem. Does anyone with a ESS 186[89] have their sound working with a recent world and device pcm0 device sbc0 Thanks, ed Donn Miller wrote: > Edwin Culp wrote: > > > You're luck

Mount msdos floppy

1999-12-19 Thread Edwin Culp
When I try to mount an msdos floppy, that I almost never do, I am getting the following: # mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt msdos: vfsload(msdos): Exec format error Disk works in windows. Any ideas? Thanks, ed Today's world without rebooting today's kernel. Still using yesterday's kernel. AMS l

Re: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> driver, but it's also possible that they are due to a bug in the :> buffer cache flushing code which the following patch fixes. So try :> the patch and see if that fixes your problem. If it doesn't then :> we can at least rule it out as being the cause of the problem you :>

Re: Weird story with dump | restore

1999-12-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 09:32:04AM -0800, Matthew Dillon :<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : :> sysctl -a | fgrep dirty :> sysctl -w vfs.lodirtybuffers=X :> sysctl -w vfs.hidirtybuffers=Y : :Matt, I've tried your patch to sys/kern/vfs_bio.c, made no difference. :Lowering the vfs.hidirt

Re: make world broken

1999-12-19 Thread Jos Backus
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 05:13:39PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > I did a "make -j 4 buildworld" every day last week. I did not > see this error. Did you by any chance run configure in the > contrib/gcc (or whatever the current gcc contrib source tree > is called)? No. > If your build tree ends u

** HEADS UP ** location of sendmail.cf changed

1999-12-19 Thread David O'Brien
On your next CVSup, /usr/sbin/sendmail will look for sendmail.cf in /etc/mail/ , not /etc/. Then change was made because the current offical Sendmail Inc. version uses /var/mail/ and when we upgrade our repository to that version, we will get the change. It is best to make the path change in 4.0

Re: Got diskless Sun booting from FreeBSD server...

1999-12-19 Thread Ron Klinkien
Thanks to Ian Dowse and Patrick Gardella i got my SPARCclassic booting and running as a nice Xterminal server. -- cut --- >And a message I got from Ian Dowse said: >I think sometime around 3.0, the networking code in FreeBSD stopped >responding to IP broadcasts where the 'zero' subnet broad

Re: ** HEADS UP ** location of sendmail.cf changed

1999-12-19 Thread Joe Abley
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 12:05:43PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On your next CVSup, /usr/sbin/sendmail will look for sendmail.cf in > /etc/mail/ , not /etc/. > > Then change was made because the current offical Sendmail Inc. version > uses /var/mail/ and when we upgrade our repository to that ve

Re: ** HEADS UP ** location of sendmail.cf changed

1999-12-19 Thread David O'Brien
> > On your next CVSup, /usr/sbin/sendmail will look for sendmail.cf in > > /etc/mail/ , not /etc/. > > > > Then change was made because the current offical Sendmail Inc. version > > uses /var/mail/ and when we upgrade our repository to that version, we > > s/var/etc/ presunably. Grrr. Yes.

Re: ** HEADS UP ** location of sendmail.cf changed

1999-12-19 Thread Manfred Antar
At 10:21 AM 12/20/99 +1300, Joe Abley wrote: >On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 12:05:43PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On your next CVSup, /usr/sbin/sendmail will look for sendmail.cf in > > /etc/mail/ , not /etc/. > > > > Then change was made because the current offical Sendmail Inc. version > > uses /

PCCARD vs GENERIC

1999-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
PCCARD used to exist separate from GENERIC due to the zp and ze drivers not being compatible with pccard's pcic driver. These drivers were removed from the system not too long ago by phk. Now that that is no longer the case, would it make sense to merge PCCARD and GENERIC? There are four differ

make world broken?

1999-12-19 Thread Bob Vaughan
I'm getting the following when I try to build world (cvs'd yesterday) i've blown away /usr/obj, re-cvs'd, and tried again.. it always fails in the same place. Writing Makefile for DynaLoader mkdir /usr/obj/c1/current/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/lib/auto/DynaLoader perl -I/usr/obj/c1/current/src/gnu

Re: PCCARD vs GENERIC

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > 4) The xe and wi drivers are not enabled in GENERIC but are in > PCCARD. No reason at all not to have them in GENERIC. > > I think that the 40k that we saved in removal of old cdrom devices > would more than make up for the extra pcic/pccard/wi/xe devic

Re: PCCARD vs GENERIC

1999-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Fumerola writes: : I'd love to see the xe driver in GENERIC, however I'd also love to see : it _working_, not just compiling. My recent attempts to look at the code : have proven just how little I know about device drivers. Think of it as an opportunity :-) :

Re: PCCARD vs GENERIC

1999-12-19 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill >Fumerola writes: > : I'd love to see the xe driver in GENERIC, however I'd also love to see > : it _working_, not just compiling. My recent attempts to look at the code > : have proven just how little I know about dev

Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come?

1999-12-19 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 10:12:16AM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 06:01:21PM -0800, Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a > > system that's been updated that way. > > Well, thanks for the pointe

Re: make world broken?

1999-12-19 Thread Bob Vaughan
I think i'm crying wolf here.. i just noticed that there was an older version of perl hanging out in /usr/local/bin.. lets see if thats the problem. -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie@{w6yx|tantivy}.stanford.edu | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | P.O

Re: PCCARD vs GENERIC

1999-12-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Fumerola writes: : Okay, I have cardbus versions of this card too, if you need those for : your newcard stuff. Through the kind and generous efforts of FreeBSD Inc (or maybe walnut creek cdrom) I have this and lots of other cards as well. Warner To Unsubsc

more wierd pcm behavior

1999-12-19 Thread Kenneth Culver
I just recently started noticing with the ViBRA16X soundcard that in addition to the visualization plugins being lagged with newpcm, many songs play as static. When I first start playing the song, it plays as static, then if I pause it and unpause it, it plays fine. Just letting someone know what'