Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread jdb-lists-freebsd-hackers
> Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One > brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a > 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or > so, which is just fine for a boot partition. Since flash drives have no >

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
> > I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even > > ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to > > drive leased-line links in France. > > > > etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 > > megabits. We use two now in our IS

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Wes Peters
Len Conrad wrote: > > I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even > ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to > drive leased-line links in France. > > etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 > megabits. We use two now

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread Douglas Swarin
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 05:44:32PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Douglas Swarin writes: > : Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One > : brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a > : 3.5" drive bay. You can

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread Joe Greco
> > Path: >news.sol.net!newsops.execpc.com!169.207.30.19.MISMATCH!spool0-nwblwi.newsops.execpc.com!newspump.sol.net!news.execpc.com!newshub.sol.net!sol.net!newspeer.sol.net!ns.sol.net!lists.sol.net!not-for-mail > Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.hackers,sol.lists.freebsd.isp > Date: 20 Sep 2000 22:

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread Joe Greco
Whoops, sorry about the previous misfire... > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Edward Elhauge writes: > : to autorecover on bad sectors, but every system that I've had to recover > : seems to be in a state where the bad sectors aren't remapping. I've tried > > I've often wanted to write a bad bloc

Re: semaphores inside kernel???

2000-09-21 Thread Greg Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 18 September 2000 at 20:55:19 -0700, Mohan Krishna P wrote: > hi, It would make things a *lot* easier to read if you made your lines all the same length. I've fixed it here. > i am implementing a pseudo-devicer, ma

udma file system corruption

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Nowlin
Had an interesting one tonight... I've been using rrestore to duplicate the filesystems on a bunch of machines that I'm mass-producing. Things seemed to be going OK, but one of these machines (Compaq Presario 5340) booted up twice, started throwing up strange warnings about UDMA not working cor

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread Sergey Babkin
Mike wrote: > > I've used various Seagate SCSI drives exclusively in all of my boxes and > only had one failure, which I was still able to recover all the data from > before replacing it. The first box I built back in '97 had an UW Seagate in > it that I bought used, and it was very heavily used

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Douglas Swarin writes: : Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One : brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a : 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or : so, which is just f

Re: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread Douglas Swarin
Ideally, I would use one of the IDE flash-based drives on the market. One brand is SanDisk, and they take a standard IDE connector and fit into a 3.5" drive bay. You can get them very reasonably priced up to 128MB or so, which is just fine for a boot partition. Since flash drives have no moving pa

question on BSD driver

2000-09-21 Thread Ashish Lal
Hello: Is there an online driver (and code/docs) for a packet-over-sonet (POS) card in Free BSD? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks --Ashish To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

RE: Frustration with SCSI system

2000-09-21 Thread Keith Kemp
On the topic of Vinum, what do you guys do about the / partion since it appears that a vinum partion can not be the boot partion. I would hate to have the drive with my boot partion fail and be left with a non working server. Keith Kemp > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-21 Thread Brian Somers
> > Another thing that would be very useful is that during a > merge of two files that it's possible to specify both > the left hand side and the right hand side. That would > fix cases like: > > Orig: > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.4 SOMEDATE$ > # > # List of acceptable shells for chpass(

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Matt Dillon
:You can specify swap paritions with dhcpd just fine, just use :the the numerical IP: : :option root-path "999.999.99.99:/"; :option option-128 "999.999.99.99:/images/swap"; : : -Matt You know, my written english is getting *really

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Matt Dillon
:> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: :> :> }Mostly I guess I'd really like it to simply save *all* of the DHCP :> }response in the environment. Just "dhcp.xxx" where xxx is the parameter :> }value would probably do it, or we can argue about names for everything if :> }there aren't esta

Re: PnP & 4.1 Release

2000-09-21 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Piotr Sroczynski wrote: > Mine config utility is: > MD5 (ezstart.exe) = 2f6511d72192cc5d899f5f517e5c35fa > Have you different? If so, may I ask you, send it to me via e-mail. You should really just go to the SMC FTP/WEB site and get the right one. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '7

RE: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-21 Thread Peter Avalos
%? l: use the left version r: use the right version e l:edit then use the left version e r:edit then use the right version e b:edit then use the left and right versions concatenated e: edit a new version s: silently include common lines v: verbosely include com

Re: mergemaster RFC (long)

2000-09-21 Thread Josef Karthauser
Another thing that would be very useful is that during a merge of two files that it's possible to specify both the left hand side and the right hand side. That would fix cases like: Orig: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/shells,v 1.4 SOMEDATE$ # # List of acceptable shells for chpass(1). # Ftpd will not al

syslogd patch for n-tier logging topologies

2000-09-21 Thread James FitzGibbon
http://people.targetnet.com/~james/syslog-forwarding-hints.diff.gz (patch relative to 4.1-STABLE, but should apply to -current) I was trying to build a 3 tier logging system, where boxes send syslog messages to a server on the local segment, and then that machine forwards the logs on to the "mas

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Danny Braniss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }> }> }Mostly I guess I'd really like it to simply save *all* of the DHCP }> }response in the environment. Just "dhcp.xxx" where xxx is the parameter }> }value would probably do it, or we can argue about names

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Dennis
At 01:09 PM 09/21/2000 +0200, Len Conrad wrote: >I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even >ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to >drive leased-line links in France. > >etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 >m

Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: > > }Mostly I guess I'd really like it to simply save *all* of the DHCP > }response in the environment. Just "dhcp.xxx" where xxx is the parameter > }value would probably do it, or we can argue about names for everything if > }there aren't establishe

Re: Serial port locks up 4.1

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> At 04:41 PM 09/19/2000 -0700, you wrote: > >> > >> FYI: It seems that if you try to access the serial port on a MB with the > >> port disabled, freebsd 4.1 will freeze up solid. Enabling the serial > >> console will cause a lock up on boot, and any access to the port will do it > >> as well. >

Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
I think this is correct, actually. Danny, can you confirm that you're using one of the class A address spaces (eg. 10.*.*.*?) Actually, IMO the code around this is entirely wrong; we should always respect the mask supplied by the server, and only use the canonical mask if we don't get one at

Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: > } > }I think this is correct, actually. Danny, can you confirm that you're > }using one of the class A address spaces (eg. 10.*.*.*?) > } > my net is class B. 132.65.0.0 Gotcha. What's your netmask? I bet it disagrees one way or the other with the

Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> }> }I think this is correct, actually. Danny, can you confirm that you're > }> }using one of the class A address spaces (eg. 10.*.*.*?) > }> } > }> my net is class B. 132.65.0.0 > } > }Gotcha. What's your netmask? I bet it disagrees one way or the other > }with the "canonical" netmask this c

Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
> Mike Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I think this is correct, actually. Danny, can you confirm that you're > > using one of the class A address spaces (eg. 10.*.*.*?) > > > > Actually, IMO the code around this is entirely wrong; we should always > > respect the mask supplied by the

Re: PnP & 4.1 Release

2000-09-21 Thread Piotr Sroczynski
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Piotr Sroczynski wrote: > > I know about it but 'ed' in 4.1R doesn't support SMC 8416 in any mode > > set (PnP /not PnP, PIO/shared mem.), because it aways treat 'ed' as > > PnP device and reprogram it on his own. With SMC 8216 (no PnP dev.) I > > haven't any problem. > > Y

Re: How to time a system call

2000-09-21 Thread Song Li
> > A friend asks me what will happen if more than one process trying to read > the stdin at the same time. There is no way to guarantee that any > particular keyboard input will be accepted by a particular process. how about using several psudo terminal? > Since a system call is atomic, this ma

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
At 11:25 21/09/00 -0400, you wrote: >Check out www.sangoma.com (Canada). yes, but also +$200 compared to etinc 5025 that works fine here. www.sealevel.com has some interesting cards, but no FreeBSD support. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
At 16:58 21/09/00 +0200, you wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Len Conrad >writes: > >I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even > >ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to > >drive leased-line links in France. > > >http://www.lanmedia.com

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Jim Flowers
Check out www.sangoma.com (Canada). They have both ISA and PCI that at least does V.35 and HDLC and supports multicast. They furnish and support FreeBSD driver (including source) and they have been trouble-free. Also have WinXX/NT GUI for remote monitoring. Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #4 r

Re: low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Len Conrad writes: >I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even >ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to >drive leased-line links in France. http://www.lanmedia.com model LMC1000P FreeBSD driver in src/sys/de

low-cost/low-speed HDLC WAN card

2000-09-21 Thread Len Conrad
I'm back again looking for a low-cost, 128 kbits/sec WAN card, even ISA, single-port with HDLC V.35/X.21/V.11/EIA530. I need this to drive leased-line links in France. etinc.com's got a 10-year-old model 5025 ISA card but it's $475 and 2 megabits. We use two now in our ISP and it works fine,

Re: Executable packages (long, sorry)

2000-09-21 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Seems one might just as well investigate the SUN pkgadd format and see whether such mechanism fits the bill... Ideally, the pkg also kows how to back itself out if it can't successfully install. (although doing so should be an option, not the default). On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:49:36PM +0100,

nfs3/2 strange problem Was: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Danny Braniss
if i mount a fs with nfs/v3 all is fine. loo# ls -ls /net/nafs-tmp/vol1/roots/fbsd-4.1S/dev/null 0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel2, 2 Sep 20 14:33 /net/nafs-tmp/vol1/roots/fbsd-4.1S/dev/null but if i mount the same fs with nfs/v2 all is 'almost' ok :-( the special files have a wee-little-probl

FreeBSD

2000-09-21 Thread Konstanten V. Muzalevskiy
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RE: About imp

2000-09-21 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > Answer me, please: what do imp in your FreeBSD logo? > > P.S. I like FreeBSD but imp... It main trouble for me. It > very bad. > Read this first, then see if you still think it's bad. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html Kees Jan ==

About imp

2000-09-21 Thread pbf
Hello freebsd-hackers, Answer me, please: what do imp in your FreeBSD logo? P.S. I like FreeBSD but imp... It main trouble for me. It very bad. -- Best regards, pbf mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebs

dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation

2000-09-21 Thread Danny Braniss
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write: }Mostly I guess I'd really like it to simply save *all* of the DHCP }response in the environment. Just "dhcp.xxx" where xxx is the parameter }value would probably do it, or we can argue about names for everything if }there aren't established names alre