Re: sandisk cruzer mini quirks [failure] on RELENG_4

2005-03-03 Thread Peter C. Lai
is disconnected; this might prevent two things: 1. the usb subsystem currently gets stuck in a loop trying to clear the stall. 2. the kernel panic that now happens if you remove the pendrive at this point. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/usb/umass.c.diff?r1=1.118&r2=1.

Re: sandisk cruzer mini quirks [failure] on RELENG_4

2005-02-27 Thread Peter C. Lai
"SanDisk" , "Cruzer Mini", "*"}, > /*quirks*/ DA_Q_NO_SYNC_CACHE > } > I did this as the first hack. It made the problem worse. I'll try patching both umass.c and scsi_da.c maybe they will have some sort of synergistic effect. maybe i should just b

sandisk cruzer mini quirks [failure] on RELENG_4

2005-02-26 Thread Peter C. Lai
the problem. Notably dd(1) transfers files fine. This is on a RELENG_4 system, cvsup yesterday. Any ideas? thanks, pete -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology Yale University School of Medicine SenseLab | Research Assistant h

vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Peter C. Lai
raid and just go with vinum? The rest of the system is a k6-2 400mhz with 256mb ram (amount might change). I will also have moderate network i/o on the pci bus (obviously). TIA, cowbert -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology Yale University School of Med

lpt0 blocking i/o causes ghostscript to hang system

2004-01-25 Thread Peter C. Lai
spooler system above, which adds stability to the system but feels too hackish for me. Whereas my print server is no longer hanging because someone is too lazy to put paper in it, the solution breaks my in-house web based job control system. The main culprit is gs not buffering its output; but lpd cou