Possible Promise FastTrack RAID driver

2001-12-28 Thread Alson van der Meulen
When searching for FreeBSD support for the Promise 20265r (FastTrack RAID, ATA100, integrated on some mainboards), I came across this, it looks like a FreeBSD RAID driver for this controller. It doesn't seem to be an official released driver, this is the only place I've seen it, and the copyright

how to compile aic7xxx to a KLM

2001-12-28 Thread Fat Alloy
hi, all i have got a Adaptec 2940 UW, and try to learn more about CAM, so i want compile a KLM to make the 2940 work, then i can modify some code easily. any advice is appreciated, and great thanks to all. -- I am slim but they all call me fat alloy ^O^ Fat Alloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: changing MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX crashes buildworld with read-only src

2001-12-28 Thread BOUWSMA Beery
[replies sent directly to me may timeout and bounce, since I'm not online as often as I should be, but I'll check the list archives] I wrote to freebsd-bugs, but perhaps these observations are better spewed here: > I've got /usr/src mounted read-only, and I have a buildworld happening > in /usr

newfs and the -b/-f default values

2001-12-28 Thread BOUWSMA Beery
[replies sent directly to me may timeout and bounce, since I'm not online as often as I should be, but I'll check the list archives] Far out This concerns both -stable and -current, I think. The man pages for `newfs' as of a few days ago refer to default values for the block and frag sizes th

Re: SSE bcopy etc.

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Smith
> Has anyone considered adding Pentium 2/3/4/Athlon/Athlon XP support > to the low level string/bytecopy routines? If we just supported SSE (1) > that'd get us (okay, me) a pretty nice performance boost on the P2, P3, > P4 and Athlon XP, all in one hit. These days, the "average" new compute

Re: TAILQ

2001-12-28 Thread sridharv
http://www.rocketaware.com/man/man3/queue.3.htm the macro names as such are quite explanatory.. but i am sure the wbove link would be useful.. Quoting Aleksander Rozman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi ! > > I have finally started with my work on that protocol I was telling you > about > (ax.25),

Re: TAILQ

2001-12-28 Thread Julian Elischer
man queue man TAILQ_FIRST On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Aleksander Rozman wrote: > > Hi ! > > I have finally started with my work on that protocol I was telling you about > (ax.25), but now I have come to a problem. Some of old structs for > networking were changed and now they use TAILQ macros. There

Re: SSE bcopy etc.

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Duraid Madina wrote: > Hi all, > > While we're on the subject of AMD processors... > > Has anyone considered adding Pentium 2/3/4/Athlon/Athlon XP support > to the low level string/bytecopy routines? If we just supported SSE (1) > that'd get us (okay, me) a pretty n

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Brady Montz
--text follows this line-- Søren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the BIOS has the option to disable "page mode" access to RAM try > to switch that off, it has shown problems here (as I mentioned in > another mail) Just tried that now, no luck. I'm currently looking to see if there's a

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > This is a Duron, so it has a 100 MHz memory clock anyway. > > Greg Not necessarily; athlons & durons use ddr clocking, so the processors are 200 or 266, effectively. Most motherboards let you set the memory bus to either 100 or 133, independent of proce

Re: TAILQ

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Makonnen
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:57:48 +0100 Aleksander Rozman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have finally started with my work on that protocol I was telling you about > (ax.25), but now I have come to a problem. Some of old structs for > networking were changed and now they use TAILQ macros. There is almo

SSE bcopy etc.

2001-12-28 Thread Duraid Madina
Hi all, While we're on the subject of AMD processors... Has anyone considered adding Pentium 2/3/4/Athlon/Athlon XP support to the low level string/bytecopy routines? If we just supported SSE (1) that'd get us (okay, me) a pretty nice performance boost on the P2, P3, P4 and Athlon XP,

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 23:12:40 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: >> It is really hard for me to say if this is FreeBSD specific because I do >> not tend to stress the system much when I have Linux running. My wife >> has an identical system running Windows 98SE

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 14:46:12 -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work >> machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm >> currently running a K6/

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Kenneth Mays
Most like, you can investigate the issues with VIA chipsets and AMD chipsets through Microsoft's or VIA's driver support and Linux kernel v2.4.17. For most of the issues I've seen dealing with AMD or VIA-type issues I've found a solution or issue crop up in those areas. I suggest if you are ha

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 11:57:44 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey stood up and spoke: >> I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work >> machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm >> currently run

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 6:21:04 -0800, Keith Simonsen wrote: > Greg, > > Do not forget to check your power supply make/model. If you search on google > for AMD's recommended hardware list, double check you're power supply is > listed for your cpu. This wouldn't explain why it works fine u

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Greg Lehey
On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 13:23:50 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Greg Lehey wrote: >> Information that could be interesting is (here my values): >> >> Processor:AMD Duron 850 >> Motherboard: ECS K7VZA >> Memory:1 128 MB SIMM, 100 MHz. > > What FreeBSD version are you

TAILQ

2001-12-28 Thread Aleksander Rozman
Hi ! I have finally started with my work on that protocol I was telling you about (ax.25), but now I have come to a problem. Some of old structs for networking were changed and now they use TAILQ macros. There is almost no information about this macros, so I am quite in dark... I looked at sourc

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:47:58 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: >On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:46:12PM -0600, Glenn Johnson stood up and spoke: >> As far as I can tell though if I set the memory clock to >> 100MHz the problem goes away completely, or at least I have not observed >> it happen yet. > >So it's

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:12:40PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > I have had this exact problem. I have an Epox 8KTA board with a > > 1GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) with 256MB of PC-133 memory. I would > > consistently get random errors, usually during a compilatio

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: > Note that we aren't complaining about your patch or anything, you > are simply the closest thing we have to a VIA chip expert right now :-) I know, I want to nail this as badly as you guys do, I just want to have the info I use verified before I base any p

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:46:12PM -0600, Glenn Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work > > machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm > > currently running a K6/2

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:36:22PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > > > I'd have to agree. I just recompiled libssh / sshd so that NODELAY would > > not be set in any case, and ls acts a lot more nicely over a modem link. > > (2 large updates, rat

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Nils Holland
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:23:01PM +0100, Søren Schmidt stood up and spoke: > It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Ok, I have more information on Nils problem. First of all, Soren's > > patch greatly reduced the rate of corruption. It took 25 loops of > > Nils 'cp' test to generate the

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Søren Schmidt wrote: > I know that change as well, but so far I havn't been able to verify > that it does what it intends to do, VIA's docs are very vague on this. > > There is alot about this on the net, but *lots* of it are just notes > scribbled together by nerds^H^H^H^H^

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
Note that we aren't complaining about your patch or anything, you are simply the closest thing we have to a VIA chip expert right now :-) -Matt Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL P

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:36:22PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > I'd have to agree. I just recompiled libssh / sshd so that NODELAY would > not be set in any case, and ls acts a lot more nicely over a modem link. > (2 large updates, rather than lots of tiny ones.) I'm not sure that we're >

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tomas Svensson wrote: > This just verifies what I said weeks ago. > > On the client side: > > ## several packets are lost here due to congestion, thanks to > TCP_NODELAY: > ## server resends 641:1057 after a timer expired, 1 second seems long? > > 15:28:19.288745 transwarp.t

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Mike Silbersack wrote: > Agreed, it looks like the "MWQ bug" isn't addressed by soren's patch. The > decription at > http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/readme/faqvl019.htm > doesn't give enough info to patch it, but this post to the linux-kernel > mailing list seems to shed more

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Nils Holland
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:12:40PM +0100, Søren Schmidt stood up and spoke: > > >From what I can tell the newest Epox BIOS for the 8kta3 does *not* > install the 686b fix when it doesn't detect a SBLive! sound card, > nice but not good enough :/ There are many information on the 686B bug availa

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ok, I have more information on Nils problem. First of all, Soren's > patch greatly reduced the rate of corruption. It took 25 loops of > Nils 'cp' test to generate the corruption. > > However, Soren's patch did not fiix the corruptio

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ok, I have more information on Nils problem. First of all, Soren's > patch greatly reduced the rate of corruption. It took 25 loops of > Nils 'cp' test to generate the corruption. Hmm, did the second change I posted change anything ? > However,

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:09:11PM +, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:27:36PM +0100, Tomas Svensson wrote: > > This just verifies what I said weeks ago. > > [cut] > > > Conclusion: This is a OpenSSH problem, not a FreeBSD problem. > > My hunch is that it's not an Open

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have had this exact problem. I have an Epox 8KTA board with a > 1GHz Athlon (Thunderbird) with 256MB of PC-133 memory. I would > consistently get random errors, usually during a compilation, using > the default BIOS settings. After fiddling with some of the BIO

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 07:27:36PM +0100, Tomas Svensson wrote: > This just verifies what I said weeks ago. [cut] > Conclusion: This is a OpenSSH problem, not a FreeBSD problem. My hunch is that it's not an OpenSSH problem. I also get the same stalling whilst downloading large files in the s

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Nils Holland
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:46:12PM -0600, Glenn Johnson stood up and spoke: > As far as I can tell though if I set the memory clock to > 100MHz the problem goes away completely, or at least I have not observed > it happen yet. So it's PC133 RAM but only works properly at 100 Mhz? Well, I guess I

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Matthew Dillon
:... :> > :> > There is also the "only supports 16MxN RAM" feature. :> :> Maybe I should toss in that I've had spontaneous reboots during heavy :> IDE activity both on my desktop (VIA 82C686) and my laptop (Intel :> 82443BX). And before that, random disk corruption during heavy SCSI :> activit

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Kent Stewart
Munish Chopra wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work >>machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm >>currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Munish Chopra
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work > machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm > currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and > an Athlon XP 1700. Last Au

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Glenn Johnson
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work > machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm > currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and > an Athlon XP 1700. Last A

Re: 802.11b PCI card problems (part II)

2001-12-28 Thread M. Warner Losh
: The fact that your card doesn't have a memory map concerns me that : it's not what we're expecting. Where is the vendor's website? : Can you ask them for more info? Good luck. I think that there's some issues that the OpenBSD folks haven't been able to find good solutions for. Warner To Uns

Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers

2001-12-28 Thread Ed Hudson
I don't know if this is relevent, but my asus a7v266, with a chip=0x30991106, bios rev 1003 (most recent), works very, very badly with my soundblaster card chip=0x50001274, unless i change the parameter 'PCI Latency Timer' from 32 to 64. then, it works perfectly... thanks, -

Re: loadable aio

2001-12-28 Thread Mike Smith
> I've done most of the gruntwork of making AIO a loadable system. > > I'd appreciate some feedback and testing, especially since I know > of no programs which use AIO. Where's the demand-load of the aio module? Are you going to trap ENOSYS in the libc side of things? > Please, please, please

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Tomas Svensson
This just verifies what I said weeks ago. On the client side: ## several packets are lost here due to congestion, thanks to TCP_NODELAY: 15:28:09.879928 transwarp.tao.org.uk.telnet > genius.tao.org.uk.kpop: P 609:641(32) ack 64 win 33304 15:28:09.881926 transwarp.tao.org.uk.telnet > genius.tao

Re: IP queue question

2001-12-28 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:55:36AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is there any specific advantage in using > device_polling method? does is give sth other than > fairness? or is the multiple queue a 100% a;ternative? > can u tell me a bit more about inline processing? or > pointers to text w

Re: IP queue question

2001-12-28 Thread sridharv
is there any specific advantage in using device_polling method? does is give sth other than fairness? or is the multiple queue a 100% a;ternative? can u tell me a bit more about inline processing? or pointers to text would also do cheers s Quoting Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > FreeB

Re: FreeBSD performing worse than Linux?

2001-12-28 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:45:21PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :... > :> I am tracking it down now. > : > :Is this the same problem that I experience on ssh connections between > :my 5.0-current laptop and my releng_4 server? When I run an 'ls' > :from the shell on large directories I get

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Keith Simonsen
Greg, Do not forget to check your power supply make/model. If you search on google for AMD's recommended hardware list, double check you're power supply is listed for your cpu. I had the unfortunate experience of having a power supply explode and catch on fire, because I read the model number

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:57:44 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: >Now, I have found a lot of similar stories on the web. I guess some >mainboard manufacturer's (and even VIA as a chipset manufacturer) seem to >care very little about quality assurance. That's actually sad: AMD's best >processors aren't wor

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work > machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm > currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and > an Athlon XP 1700. Last Au

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > Information that could be interesting is (here my values): > > Processor:AMD Duron 850 > Motherboard: ECS K7VZA > Memory: 1 128 MB SIMM, 100 MHz. What FreeBSD version are you using ? I have put a fix for the 686b southbridge bug in -current, but it i

Re: 802.11b PCI card problems (part II)

2001-12-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Chad David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011227 21:39] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:31:43AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:10:32PM -0700, Chad David wrote: > > > > What you'll want to do is edit src/sys/dev/wi/if_wi.c, add an appropriate > > entry to the definition of p

Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?

2001-12-28 Thread Nils Holland
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:10:09PM +1030, Greg Lehey stood up and spoke: > I've been using AMD processors almost exclusively in my main work > machines for over 4 years, and I've been very happy with them. I'm > currently running a K6/233, a K6/333, an Athlon 750, a Duron 850 and > an Athlon XP 1

Re: palm sdk?

2001-12-28 Thread Hellmuth Michaelis
Ken Marx wrote: > In short, has anyone been able to develope apps for palm > with the palm sdk, prc-tools-*, and palm emulation (e.g., pose) > on freebsd? Yes, i've used all those tools recently on a 4.4-stable system, i've recompiled everything from the ports tree. The only problem i had was t