Re: UDMA problems on ALI chipsets

1999-07-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Is anybody working on getting UltraDMA to work on ALI chipsets? I have > a scratch box with that chipset and an UDMA disks and can test patches > and perform minor debugging if anyone needs me to. > > ide_pci0: irq 0 at > device 15.0 on pci0 Use the ata dri

Re: hot-swapping ata disks

1999-07-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Iani Brankov wrote: [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > I tried 'camcontrol rescan' and I found it works when I add a SCSI device > while > the system is on. I find it useful for adding/removing devices w/o restarting > the box. (Maybe it's risky, but useful. I sup

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard (howar...@wam.umd.edu), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourt

Re: Onstream?

1999-08-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > Out of curiousity, have there been any successes in the drivers for > the OnStream tape drives (SCSI or IDE)? Working on it (for IDE that is), support is planned for, but I have no release date yet... I know that there is work done on the SCSI end too... -Sør

Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Assar Westerlund wrote: > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > I heard they have released the source to the kernel modules needed > > to run it. > > > > why not port them over? :) > > I started looking at the kernel modules and porting them, however, I > must confess that I don't fully understa

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Biju Susmer wrote: > > OK, i went to net and got this page > > (http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/docs/faq/AT > > API-FAQ) there > > also they say it should be MASTER. Problem is not with me. > > The vendor didn't > > follow the specs. PC never followd specs i think ;) > >

Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD

1999-08-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Mark Huizer writes: > >Hi there, > > > >I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare > >requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be > >portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly >

Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd)

1999-09-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Krinsky wrote: > I posted this to -hardware a few days ago and haven't > gotten much in the way of feedback; since it sounds to me > like a driver bug this seems like an appropriate forum too. > > Is anyone here using -any- ATAPI drive for backup? Yup, I use one: ast0: tape driv

Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd)

1999-09-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Krinsky wrote: > > > Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return > > because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never > > get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm. > > Well, it's brand-new, and I didn't get it at a gara

Re: Moving bt848 driver to /sys/dev/bktr

1999-09-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Roger Hardiman wrote: > Hi, > > I want to move the Bt848 driver to /sys/dev/bktr > > So, does anyone see any problems with this? Nope, go for it I'd say, and could we then have some of all the version text and stuff put away too, thats why we have CVS :) -Soren To Unsubscribe: send m

Re: Native Applixware for FreeBSD -- When?

1999-05-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > > > Maybe I'll take a look at Word Perfect. Does it do Word documents? > > > > > > Mail me a Word document. I'm not sure, I'll have to try it. I don't do > > > any Windows here, I haven't any experience with Word (and

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > To summarize, it seems like a lot of trouble just to get 40 additional > > scanlines and square pixels on obsolete hardware - anything that > > doesn't support 'options VESA' was already obsolete five years ago. > > Unfortunately, it's the trend these days to _not_ s

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kelly Yancey wrote: > I think you just nailed the problem here. It requires a prohibitive > amount of effort to support modex video modes given the return. What I am > thinking about is removing the 320x240 mode (since it is impossibly > difficult to deal with)...no one is using it now s

Re: modex support (again)

1999-05-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kelly Yancey wrote: > > I admit that they are less common than say 320x240 mode x...but they are > linear and don't require any hacking to support from applications which > would use graphics modes (unlike the unchained "modex" modes). > I absolutely agree that we should keep the ker

Re: Problems with ALI chipset

1999-06-01 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andrij Korud wrote: >Hi, can you help me with problem with Aladdin V chipset and UDMA. >Here is my dmesg when UDMA in bios is off: >[snip snap] >wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa >wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 >wd0: 4892MB (10018890 sectors), 10602 cyl

Re: devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for wd0 < 0 (-1)

1999-06-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > > > > I'm getting tons of these in an IDE-only box. They started appearing > > > > > after I put in an IBM DTTA371010 to re

Re: wfd.c and ATAPI Zip

1999-06-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > > I have an off-brand (NEC) Zip Drive with: > > which does have buggy firmware; I also have another one with: > > that has no problem when I remove the 64 block limitation. > > In this case, I would use strncmp instead of strcmp to test the first 2

Re: High syscall overhead?

1999-06-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Christopher R. Bowman wrote: [exelent explanation snipped] > The alternative to the Giant Kernel Lock(tm) is so called fine grained locking > wherein locking is pushed down closer to the data structures. In fine grained > locking two processors might be executing in the kernel at the same

Re: High syscall overhead?

1999-06-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Arun Sharma wrote: > An alternative way, which requires a good understanding of both the > theory and implementation of the kernel is - > > (a) Implement per subsystem locking This was exactly what I experimented with some 7-8 month ago, it showed significant improvements in performance

Re: ZD labs test update

1999-06-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Tommy Hallgren wrote: > --- Mike Smith wrote: > > We'd previously encountered problems with the Infortrend controller not > > at all liking the other disks we'd tried to talk to; a collection of > > Cheetahs with IBM and Compaq firmware simply wouldn't work. This time > > we had bette

Re: Beware of UnixWare 7

1999-06-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > FreeBSD, which has the partition number explicitly in the device name. > In my case, FreeBSD was on partition 2, devices /dev/rwd0s2a and > /dev/rwd0s2e. It was moved to partition 3, so the device names > changed to devices /dev/rwd0s3a and /dev/rwd0s3e. Since I didn'

Re: CDROM drive doesn't probe if no CD present [Was:cannot mount cd indicates bad ide cd drive - replace?]

1999-06-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Doug White wrote: > I'm lofting this up on -hackers to get the attention of the ATAPI CD > driver programmer -- Soren, you still around? Take a look at this. I'm here alright :) Sounds like the drive has a firmwarebug, If you are running -current try the ata driver instead, and let me kn

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Wes Peters wrote: > Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:15:02PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > read a bit about them. Same for the committers group, but at 165+ > > > members that's going to be a somewhat larger, long-term project. :-) > > > > Did Wes P

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Greenman wrote: > >> > A constant 5 o'clock shadow, maybe, but not a beard. > >> > >> And what's wrong with a beard? > > > >Nothing. I just remember someone pointing out in a previous e-mail that > >all the core members had some sort of beard. > >Very few core members have be

Re: IDE CDRW

2001-01-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Eugene M. Kim wrote: > One more similar question: Does/will FreeBSD support ATAPI CD-R(W) > drives in disk-at-once mode, perhaps using burncd(1)? I wanted to burn > some audio CDs in that manner but burncd on 4-stable didn't support DAO > writing. I'm working on it, but currently I have

Re: hotplug ata device?

2001-02-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Wilko Bulte wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking for ideas on the following: > > I just added a CF-ata adapter to my system (see http://www.tapr.org). > This works just fine, as long as the card is in the socket during boot. > For obvious reasons this is not always the case. If it was not seen

Re: ata-disk ioctl and atactl patch

2001-02-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Scott Renfro wrote: > As I promised on -mobile earlier this week, I've cleaned up my patches > to port the {Net,Open}BSD atactl utility, including a simplistic > ata-disk ioctl. They apply cleanly against this afternoon's -stable > (including Soren's latest commit bringing -stable up to

Re: ata-disk ioctl and atactl patch

2001-02-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Stephen Rose wrote: > A couple of us on the questions list have asked for a way to spin down ide > disks when idle. Is there any chance that this utility could lead to > something useful there? Well, of cause it could, but I'm not sure I see the usefullness of the spindown at all, a spi

Re: if_fxp - the real point

2001-03-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Bill Paul wrote: > "But Bill, you work for BSDi now. Can't they get you manuals?" Working for > BSDi is irrelevant: I can't sign any NDAs if I want to release driver > source, and I do want to release the source. And there isn't a designated > person at BSDi that I can turn to to help tur

Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device

2001-03-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Warner Losh wrote: > In message <8773.984501263@critter> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > : >We should then fix the rest of the system to deal with disks that > : >disappear without notice. > : > : That was the point yes :-) > > Cool. When this happens, the forgetful ata flash ejectors of t

Re: Patch to fix panic when detaching a mounted md device

2001-03-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Soren Schmidt writes: > : This all needed the patch to subr_disk.c that I made earlier today, > : but now we can actually do it, however some of the cleanup action > : should be done by the higher levels and not by

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2001-03-21, Mike Smith écrivait : > > > > Has anyone implemented/thought of implementing: > > > - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; > > Yes. It's not a lot of work. > > Ah, interesting! Do you know if any source code is publicly available? What do you want

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Quinot wrote: > Le 2001-03-21, Soren Schmidt écrivait : > > > > > > - a CAM transport for ATAPI devices; > > > What do you want it for actually ? > > It is a possible solution for me to be able to use cdparanoia and cdrdao > with my

Re: SCSI-over-* hacks

2001-03-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > > It is a possible solution for me to be able to use cdparanoia and cdrdao > > > with my ATAPI CD drive. An alternative solution would be to implement > > > an atapi-cd ioctl to send a raw command to an ATAPI device, and make > > > libscg use that. > > > > Exactly,

Re: crash dump speed up patch.

2001-03-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Gersh wrote: > Ive writen a quick patch for dev/ata/ata-disk.c:addump under > 4.0-stable (03/26/01) which is considerbally faster. > > I did dumps on a SMP system with 512 megs of ram. > > Old: 201 seconds. > New: 59 seconds. > > What I could gather from talking to people over irc/e

Re: wd & ata

2001-03-29 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems BSD Blood wrote: > Hello. >I'm using FreeBSD 4.1. My kernel contains the ata driver for the IDE > controllers. I understand that the ata driver has replaced the wd driver. My > question is:- > > 1. Are there any / Do I need to use certain flags to enable LBA, DMA, etc. > features

Re: vinum and superblocks.

2000-06-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote: > Not sure what the right thing to do here is, or even if it's a real > problem, but: > > I have 8 75GB IBM drives striped in a big raid 0 for monkeying with. > > newfs -i 131072 -v /dev/vinum/bighonkindisk seems to very nicely put all > the data that newfs write ou

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Coleman Kane wrote: > Hello, is anyone currently working on code to implement the UDF > filesystem? For those not familiar with it, it is the filesystem that > DVDs use. I'd like to look into getting the support under FreeBSD, since > the players already seem to work. If no one is working

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: > I am working on UDF support. > I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem > and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like > program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner. > > I will eventually turn this into a (readonly)

Re: ATA100-7200rpm vs 10k-rpm SCSI for build box

2000-08-01 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thomas Stromberg wrote: > > $--- 128M PC133 RAM > $150 Asus A7V (w/ Promise ATA100 controller) > $297 AMD Athlon 850 (still waiting for than price drop) > $63 Tekram 390F UW-SCSI Controller (Symbios) > $132 4.5G 1RPM Seagate Cheetah > or > $97 IBM Deskstar 75GXP ATA-100 7200RPM 15

Re: EIDE Problems - fsbn read error

2000-08-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Lew payne wrote: > > One of our new FreeBSD 3.5-REL systems is periodically locking up, > due to an apparent disk error. These are brand-new IBM 7200 RPM > 60 GB ATA/66 EIDE drives, in a ccd configuration as follows: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /d

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > > I think I've finally figured out why AudioFS isn't working (aside from an > endianess error in v0.1), but I can't think of a solution. The problem I've > found is as follows: The code in atapi-cd.c (from Soren's ATA driver) > assumes the passed buffer (in the

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > | Here's another idea, the ata driver can read/write 2352 sector size > | blocks directly, no need to use that ugly ioctl. You just have to > | set the right blocksize, I could provide you with a function for > | that, no more ioctl mess ;) > > That would be _g

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > > I can't think of any way of accomplishing this without > > either: > > 1) Combining the code for AudioFS and CD9660, as both > > require access to the mounted device, and hacking them > > to respect each other, or > > 2) Hacking the ATAPI-CD and

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: > > > > that way you could mount each track with whatever fs it > > supported. > > > Same thing as I proposed, I guess. > > Am I right in thinking that a cdrom can have at most one data track? In that > case, I'd suggest assighing that track a standard device node. T

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Tony Finch wrote: > Soren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: > >> > >> Am I right in thinking that a cdrom can have at most one data track? In that > >> case, I'd suggest assighing that track a standard de

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > | Ahem, maybe its time I chime in here. > | Luigi and I once had an idea of having each track on a CD represented > | by a device node, ie track0 = /dev/acd0t1 track1 = /dev/acd0t2 etc etc, > | that way you could mount each track with whatever fs it supported. >

Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine

2000-08-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > Hello Folks -- > > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more? Not yet :) > Or even 200 Gbyte? Yup, 300G's standing here right next to me... > I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of > IDE drives? (How many can you have?

Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine

2000-08-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Jacob wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > > > Hello Folks -- > > > > > > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more? > > > > Not yet :) > > That&

Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine

2000-08-18 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Parag Patel wrote: > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:57:48 EDT, Robert Sexton wrote: > > > >Can IDE drives release the bus during seeks? Historically thats been > >the big advantage of SCSI: Two IDE drives are no faster than one IDE > >drive, while SCSI scales in performance. > > How about a sin

Re: Microtime acting up again

2000-08-30 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Koster, K.J. wrote: You should disable APM and not have it in your kernel either, that fixed it for me on my Abit KA7... > Last night my machine drowned in "microtime going backwards" errors. It was > there when I installed FreeBSD 4.0-release, and it went away when I cvsupped > to -sta

Tagged queuing for ATA drives, patches up for testing

2000-08-31 Thread Soren Schmidt
Hi! I've put the latest patches for tagged queueing on ATA disks up for ftp on: ftp://freebsd.dk/pub/ATA/ATA-tagged-queueing-diff-0831.gz This is a snapshot from one of my working tree's and other minor fixes are also included, but thats another story... >From the README: Experimental su

Re: Promise PDC20265

2000-09-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Esko Petteri Matinsola wrote: > Hello, I have Asus A7V motherboard that has integrated UDMA100-controller > PDC20265 made by Promise and Maxtor 54098H8 hard disk. > > When plugged to the UDMA66-controller the Maxtor works properly, boots and > is fast. But when plugged to the PDC20265 BI

New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
>From the README: ATA-tagged-queueing-diff-0908: Add support for ATA channels with both a master and a slave, even combos where only on of them supports tagged queuing should work now. Also only switch on tagged queuing on IBM DPTA & DTLA series drives, the older DJNA has firmware prob

Re: New ATA tagged queuing patch available

2000-09-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > > >From the README: > > > > ATA-tagged-queueing-diff-0908: > > Add support for ATA channels with both a master and a slave, even > > combos where only on of them supports tagged queuing

Re: Promise FasTrack66 IDE RAID controller

2000-09-12 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Spyros Melissovas wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there is any kind of support for the Promise FasTrack66 > IDE RAID controller We support it already as a normail ATA controller... > AFAIK the controller needs a driver which will use the made-up disk geometry > instead of the in

Re: Getting data from the ATAPI-CD driver

2000-09-24 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > As detailed in my previous post to this list, the way Linux's AudioFS > does this doesn't work for FreeBSD (using IOCTL's). So, Soren Schmidt's > advice was to directly get data from the atapi_cd driver. Doing some > research, I see two ways to do this: > > 1)

Re: burncd utility for atapi burners

2000-10-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > I would like to communicate the proposed changes to the author but I did not > > find his address. Could somebody provide his email to me? > > [ ... ] > > This is going to be a problem in getting your changes accepted: > > > +/*- > > + * t.h. changes copyright

Re: IDE Questions

2000-10-28 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Chris Csanady wrote: > Is there anyone successfully using an IBM 75GXP with an Abit KT7-Raid > motherboard? I am using stable from a couple days ago, and am having > some problems getting it to work. I use 4 on a Abit KA7-100 with RAID0 with no problems... > When I attach the disk to

Re: DMA/66 not available for secondary IDE bus?

2000-10-29 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Brian McGovern wrote: > This may be intentional, but I've noticed that if you have a non-UDMA66 device > on the primary IDE bus, FreeBSD 4.x does not allow you to have UDMA66 on > the secondary bus. Say what ? there is NO such limitation in the ATA driver What chipset are we talking

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Volker Stolz wrote: > The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is > severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for > Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board > should be a couple of years old, it's for regular Pentium-

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Terry Lambert wrote: > > > The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is > > > severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for > > > Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board > > > should be a couple of years old, it's for

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Volker Stolz wrote: > Am 02. Nov 2000 um 17:15 MET schrieb Soren Schmidt: > > ... the "new and improved" ATA driver states the fact > > that this chip is broken and can corrupt your data, end of story. > > Nope, I didn't find any references on this co

Re: Broken PCI-IDE RZ1000 & ata

2000-11-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems John Summerfield wrote: > > It seems Volker Stolz wrote: > > > The RZ1000 PCI-IDE controller found on at least one Intel board is > > > severely broken and requires a workaround which is available for > > > Linux (at least it turned up in the config for 2.4.0, though the board > > > shoul

Re: CD ROM

2000-11-11 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Katya.Hazelden wrote: > I've got a problem with my CD ROM. The drawer keeps sliding open every time I try to >put a CD into it, it just won't stay shut. Have you got any ideas? Your drive is broken, or something is obstructing the drawer... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: STABLE ATAPI CD-ROM

2000-11-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dimitar V. Peikov wrote: > > Yesterday, I've CVSuped -STABLE and UPGRADE using information in > /usr/src/UPDATING from 4.1.1-STABLE. Re-cvsup, this has been fixed... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Smart And Friendly Burner?

2000-11-13 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Daryl Chance wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone else have a smart and friendly cd burner? When I boot I get this: > > /kernel: acd0: CDROM at ata1-master using > UDMA33 > /kernel: ata1-slave: timeout waiting for command=ef s=00 e=00 > /kernel: ata1-slave: timeout waiting for command=ef s=00 e=00

Re: Byte order?

2000-11-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Alex Koshterek wrote: > I know, that x86 is big endian architecture > but simple programm like this: Nope the X86 CPU's are all little endian... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: HDD crashes, S.M.A.R.T and relocation tables.

2000-11-22 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Lev Serebryakov wrote: > I see god solution: monitor HDD health by downloading relocation > table and S.M.A.R.T. information from it daily (in cron job). > When script detect, that relocation table is near to be full or here > is 1000 new relocations in one day, it sends mail to r

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT

2000-12-19 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Steve Shoecraft wrote: > > There are a number of reasons why a manufacturer can not/will not release > source code for a driver. A few that come to mind are: > > a) A device driver is a reflection of the hardware. Manufacturers in > highly competitive markets could

Re: Burncd problems

2000-12-25 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dave Hayes wrote: > I am on FreeBSD 4.1.1 (according to website, burncd hasn't changed at > 4.2 or -current). No, but the kernel part (the ATA driver) has... > cdmachine# burncd -f /dev/acd0c data cdimage.1 fixate > next writeable LBA 0 > writing from file cdimage.1 size 43568 KB > > o

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: > Does anyone know how to reprobe the ATAPI bus, e.g. for a cd rom drive > in a laptop that wasn't present during boot? Yes :) Most of the code is already in the ATA driver, but the ioctl's and the atacontrol program is still only here in my lab due to lack of ti

Re: Reprobing the ATAPI bus.

2001-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Josef Karthauser wrote: > > He only gets paid if it conforms to style(9) Heh :b. Just forget about it then, and be patient :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Mounting a CDROM in freeBSD 4.2

2001-01-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems gerald stoller wrote: > Please send the response directly back to me, in addition to sending > it to hackers , as the volume of mail to hackers is so great that I could > very easily miss the response if it were only sent there. > I just installed freeBSD 4.2 and found

Re: geom_mirror implementation

2003-11-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Lukas Ertl wrote: > > If there's a good reason ccd(4) is harder to fix than geom_mirror, then > > you might want to talk to phk about rewriting geom_ccd based on > > geom_mirror. I believe scottl and phk have plans to fix raidframe, > > though, which would address a lot of the present lim

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Duncan Barclay wrote: > Hi Soren and all, > > Having just got a nice new motherboard, a PATA drive and a bunch of SATA > disks I discover that my homework wasn't too good. -stable isn't detecting > the VIA-8237 controller, and in particuluar it is not finding the SATA > disks. > > I can

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Duncan Barclay wrote: I had a spare minute earlier today, this should do the trick (and is part of a larger patch due soon), please test and let me know... Index: ata-dma.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-dma.c,

Re: sata on -stable

2003-12-03 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Duncan Barclay wrote: [ Charset windows-1252 unsupported, converting... ] > Thanks Soren, this seems to work. There is a load of chat about incorrect > cable types, but the drives are nice and fast according to a simple dd > if=/dev/zero bs=64k ... Okies, the cable mumble is a "feature" o

Re: 5.1 -> 5.2 upgrade, Promise FastTrak device /dev/ar0 missing?

2003-12-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > I have a Promise FastTrak SATA150 controller with two 120 GB drives > that are mirrored. Using 5.1-RELEASE-p10 with sources from Nov 3. > > I tried to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2-RC today and the new kernel couldn't > mount my root partition (/dev/ar0s1a) after doi

Re: reading raw data from a CD-R with damaged table of contents

2004-01-07 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Kevin Serwick wrote: > Hi all, > > I added some files to a multisession CD-R with the > burncd command. It appeared to work fine, but when I > read the disk, the new files didn't show up. So I did > the burncd fixate command - bad idea! Now nothing > shows up! (burncd's no Nero Burnin

Re: Serial ATA 4.8 Installation -help

2003-09-08 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems florian mettetal wrote: > Greetings, > > I have built a brand new system founded on an Asus P4PE motherboard, and > using the FastTrack raid function I have turned my two Maxtor 80GB > Serial ATA (now reffered to as SATA) hard drives into a Mirror raid. > > Proceeding to start the instal

Re: Serial ATA 4.8 Installation -help

2003-09-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems florian mettetal wrote: > > Now, I am at the Select Drives (Second screen) which menas that 5.1 does > see my promise SATA raid controller. Now... I have 3 selections to use > for drives, ad4, ad6, ar0 > First, I have 2 drives, and one is just a mirror of the other. my > presumption is t

Re: prospects for DMA support for SiS962(L) Southbridge?

2003-09-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Rich Morin wrote: > With FreeBSD 4.9 on the horizon, I thought I might bring this up again... > There is no time for this on 4.9 (at least if it should be done properly. 5.1 has support for all SiS chipsets... > At 10:01 AM -0700 6/17/03, Rich Morin wrote: > >I recently upgraded my moth

Re: A new sort utility

2003-09-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Tim Robbins wrote: > Comments/patches are welcome. As the "History" suggestion of the manual page > suggests, my plan is to get this in to FreeBSD 6, along with replacements for > some other GNU tools. I have a diff(1) replacement (with sdiff support) in > the works, among other things. G

Re: Does anyone work on making ATA moduler?

2003-09-16 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Takanori Watanabe wrote: > Hi,There is a problem when PCMCIA related stuff > is used as module, ATA CF is not recognized. > > This is because PCMCIA atachment is not compiled > when pccard(4) is not compiled in. > > To fix it, we have to supply PCMCIA attachment > in any form. > One way

Re: raid (atacontrol) problems

2003-09-23 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Igor Tseglevsky wrote: [ Charset KOI8-R unsupported, converting... ] > Strange problems with RAID. If disks are located on different controllers > after rebooting one of disks disappears. Disks on one controller coexist in > RAID normally. Is that Promise controller a fasttrak ie with a R

Re: VT8237 serial-ATA support, Promise ATA stalls, GEOM noise

2003-10-06 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sean Hamilton wrote: > I'm looking to replace an aging fileserver with an Asus A7V600 board. > Presently it appears FreeBSD does not support the serial ATA interface on > the south bridge. As this appears to be the first Via serial ATA controller, > am I safe in assuming this will not be

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Wes Peters wrote: > Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:15:02PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > read a bit about them. Same for the committers group, but at 165+ > > > members that's going to be a somewhat larger, long-term project. :-) > > > > Did Wes

Re: Pictures from USENIX

1999-07-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Greenman wrote: > >> > A constant 5 o'clock shadow, maybe, but not a beard. > >> > >> And what's wrong with a beard? > > > >Nothing. I just remember someone pointing out in a previous e-mail that > >all the core members had some sort of beard. > >Very few core members have b

Re: UDMA problems on ALI chipsets

1999-07-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Is anybody working on getting UltraDMA to work on ALI chipsets? I have > a scratch box with that chipset and an UDMA disks and can test patches > and perform minor debugging if anyone needs me to. > > ide_pci0: irq 0 at device 15.0 >on pci0 Use the ata dri

Re: hot-swapping ata disks

1999-07-26 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Iani Brankov wrote: [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > I tried 'camcontrol rescan' and I found it works when I add a SCSI device while > the system is on. I find it useful for adding/removing devices w/o restarting > the box. (Maybe it's risky, but useful. I suppo

Re: replacing grep(1)

1999-07-27 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth

Re: Onstream?

1999-08-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > Out of curiousity, have there been any successes in the drivers for > the OnStream tape drives (SCSI or IDE)? Working on it (for IDE that is), support is planned for, but I have no release date yet... I know that there is work done on the SCSI end too... -Sø

Re: [Fwd: Please support FreeBSD 3.x as host OS]

1999-08-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Assar Westerlund wrote: > Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I heard they have released the source to the kernel modules needed > > to run it. > > > > why not port them over? :) > > I started looking at the kernel modules and porting them, however, I > must confess that I

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Biju Susmer wrote: > > OK, i went to net and got this page > > (http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/docs/faq/AT > > API-FAQ) there > > also they say it should be MASTER. Problem is not with me. > > The vendor didn't > > follow the specs. PC never followd specs i think ;) >

Re: VMWare: porting kernel modules to FreeBSD

1999-08-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Mark Huizer writes: > >Hi there, > > > >I had a look recently at the code for one of the kernel modules that VMWare > >requires (driver-only.tar), and it looks like something that should be > >portable to FreeBSD, although there is some messy stuff in it (assembly

Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd)

1999-09-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Krinsky wrote: > I posted this to -hardware a few days ago and haven't > gotten much in the way of feedback; since it sounds to me > like a driver bug this seems like an appropriate forum too. > > Is anyone here using -any- ATAPI drive for backup? Yup, I use one: ast0: tape dri

Re: Seagate STT8000A (ATAPI/IDE) on FreeBSD? (fwd)

1999-09-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems David Krinsky wrote: > > > Also, make sure that your drive is good. I had one I had to return > > because it was bad. Soren said the driver worked, and I could never > > get it working for me. The replacement worked like a charm. > > Well, it's brand-new, and I didn't get it at a gar

Re: Moving bt848 driver to /sys/dev/bktr

1999-09-17 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Roger Hardiman wrote: > Hi, > > I want to move the Bt848 driver to /sys/dev/bktr > > So, does anyone see any problems with this? Nope, go for it I'd say, and could we then have some of all the version text and stuff put away too, thats why we have CVS :) -Soren To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Help - Fasttrak eide raid host adapter and FreeBSD

1999-09-20 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Richard Uren wrote: > Ward, > > I purchased one last week - A FastTrak66 > (which is perhaps not the 'FastTrack' you mentioned. > > Its detects as a 'PCI - Mass Storage Controller' > (in the Bios startup) and unless there is some > 'emulate an IDE drive' mode that I missed it > won't

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