Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-10 Thread J Wunsch
As Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-31 (ST0 40 ST1 1 ST2 0 >> cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1) >> fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 1503 of 1488-1503 (ST0 44 >> ST1 20 ST2 20 cyl 41 hd 1 sec 10) For this kind of errors, it's hard to recover. The first one is a `no ad

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-14 Thread J Wunsch
"Brian W. Buchanan" wrote: > Any fdc driver gurus in the house? > I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to > recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain > point in the disk. Others I can't read from at all. I just committed a change to the fd

Core-team statement: fruitless discussions in the mailing lists

2000-07-15 Thread J Wunsch
Several members of the FreeBSD community approached us with different request regarding Brett Glass' behaviour in our mailing lists. For various reasons we do not want to `blacklist' anyone from using the FreeBSD mailing lists, but we remind everybody here to not contribute to fruitless and often

Re: The sppp driver

1999-10-28 Thread J Wunsch
(It would be nice if you formatted your message with line breaks.) "Daniel Hilevich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, in the later case, the control messages are = queued to the > control queue=20 (sp->pp_cpq) which the if_start functions doesn't > have access to. Should = I implement the acces

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-28 Thread J Wunsch
Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The BIOS will report a different value for the 2.88MB drives to the > probe routines... Actually one out of two possible different values (forgot the actual once), depending on what BIOS you've got... -- cheers, J"org [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.sax

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-28 Thread J Wunsch
Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just having installed a 2.88Mb floppy drive in one of my axp boxes > I wonder if FreeBSD can do 2.88Mb floppy disks. From the looks > of the contents of /sys/i386/isa/fd.c: > it appears it cannot. It cannot. I once tried to hack support for 2.88 MB

Re: 2.88Mb floppies

1999-10-28 Thread J Wunsch
Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I once programmed low-level FDC stuff under DOS, so I'm a bit I under CP/M, that's why i wrote the floppy formatter for 386BSD. ;-) > familiar with this... The difference between 1.44 and 2.88 Mb > floppies is that the latter use 36 sectors per track

Re: A bug in the sppp driver?

1999-10-28 Thread J Wunsch
"Daniel Hilevich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my case, although, I want to use the IFF_AUTO (dial on demand) > option and this is where ifconfig can not help me. In the auto mode, > the sppp driver should initialize the lcp machine when it gets a new > message to send. Did you ever look how

Re: The sppp driver

1999-10-28 Thread J Wunsch
As Julian Elischer wrote: > of course if you want to be really generic, we've just added the > netgraph code to -current which implements a lot more than the > rather specialised sppp code. Sure, i was only answering a question. -- cheers, J"org [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Re: journaling UFS and LFS

1999-10-31 Thread J Wunsch
Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Softupdates is definitely a viable solution however it does not > address several issues and the license is not a BSD license so it > makes me uncomfortable. Well, Kirk's idea is to put them under a BSD-style license as soon as possible, so in the long run, you m

Re: semaphores/semget problem

1999-10-31 Thread J Wunsch
Kent Boortz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > semget(IPC_PRIVATE, SEMMSL, IPC_EXCL | IPC_CREAT | 0600)) > > fails with the error "No space left on device". I tried to > use a smaller value for SEMMSL but it did not help. The tunable kernel paramater "SEMMNS" defaults to 60, that's the maximal n

Re: Where is 'dip' ... -- Any dip users out there?

2000-02-26 Thread J Wunsch
Andrzej Bialecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I understand you correctly, most of the functionality of dip you > will find in ppp(8). Note, that it is NOT the same program as Linux > pppd, to be sure... It has a nice and powerful command-line interface. Incidentally, i recently considered rem