Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread David Schultz
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > >In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: > > > >>Mike Meyer wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. > >> > >>Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you

Re: Network interface RUNNING and UP flags

2004-08-06 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
2) Is there a way to set this interface flag without assigning an IPv4 address (or any address for that matter) first? Mainly for number two, I would like to be able to run interfaces bridged together without having to also give all of them addresses. please try the attached (untested!) patch. it

Network interface RUNNING and UP flags

2004-08-06 Thread Coleman Kane
Hi, I have been having some trouble working with getting tapN network interfaces into the 'RUNNING' state. I have been trying to figure out how to set the RUNNING flag on an interface, which is needed before the kernel will actually begin sending packets from said network interface. So far, the onl

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Gary Corcoran
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any "substituting" at that point. Y

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > >Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. > > Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you get a > read error, the drive isn't going to do any "substituting" at that > point. You

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Gary Corcoran
Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any "substituting" at that point. You'll just continue to get the read error if you try to access (read)

IBM ThinkPad X40, kudos to FreeBSD

2004-08-06 Thread Danny Braniss
sorry for the cross posting, but please read on. This notebook was running Windows XP till one day decided to crash and since then the feared blue screen of death started to appear, all the king horses and all the kings men couldn't put this little note book back in working condition. I made it

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I'm reposting this because I've not rec'd a response from the freebsd-fs mailing > list yet and I need an answer fairly quickly. Thanks be any who can help out! The correct place to send this is freebsd-questions. I've added that to the lis