Re: 8.1-STABLE amd64 machine check

On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:47 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > I am encountering a situation similar to one reported by Andrew Heybey > at http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6E83197B-9DD5-4C7E-846D-AD176C25464D > > This morning I found this in my /var/log/messages: > > Aug 11 01:59:48

Re: 8.1RC2 amd64 machine check question

On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:07 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:25:29 am Andrew Heybey wrote: >> Got the following in /var/log/messages on my one-week-old amd64 box running >> 8.1RC2: >> >> Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA: Global Cap

8.1RC2 amd64 machine check question

Got the following in /var/log/messages on my one-week-old amd64 box running 8.1RC2: Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA: Global Cap 0x0106, Status 0x Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA: Vendor "AuthenticAMD", ID 0x100f43, APIC ID 0 Jul 13 20:30:17 spaten kernel: MCA: C

Quantum bigfoot drive doesn't like DMA?

I recently installed an old Quantum bigfoot drive (CY4320A) in my SMP box running 4.6.2 just to get a little extra space. If I write heavily to it when using WDMA2, the box silently crashes (no panic, just a silent reboot). The box has an DFI motherboard with an Intel BX chipset. It seems simila

Re: cable modem connection problem

I'm going to answer these questions to provide another datapoint (even though they are not addressed to me) because I have seen exactly the same behavior with my cable modem: > Mike D wrote: > > going out. I haven't checked for either packet drops / RTT increase > > (how?) but when I say slow, I

Receive-only FDDI

I am trying to monitor (eg use bpf & tcpdump to see packets) a FDDI ring with a Digital DEFPA FDDI NIC (and the fpa driver) via a fiber tap. Therefore the interface only gets to receive, not transmit. This doesn't work, I assume because the firmware on the DEFPA wants/needs to participate in the

Re: Sony Z505S [was: USB floppy & booting]

Ollivier Robert writes: > Do we support booting from USB floppies ? I plan to buy one of the new VAIOs > (probably the Z505S with Celeron/333 + 64 MB + 12.1" screen) and it seems to > come with an USB floppy (as opposed to the probably-IDE of former models). > > They've apparently ditched both t

Re: Sony Z505S [was: USB floppy & booting]

Ollivier Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do we support booting from USB floppies ? I plan to buy one of the new VAIOs > (probably the Z505S with Celeron/333 + 64 MB + 12.1" screen) and it seems to > come with an USB floppy (as opposed to the probably-IDE of former models). > > They've appar