Re: 3.4-stable to 4.0-stable wedge

2000-04-04 Thread Randy Bush
like hell! i demand a full refund! >>> You'll have to drop by the house later to get that :-) >>> P.S. This would be somewhat hard if you don't live in Boulder :-) >> after i spent many hours of my own time, for which i will be sending you a >> bill, figuring out where to insert the floppy,

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Sergei Vyshenski wrote: > >The old Intel PIIX is know to have DMA problems, I never intended to > >support it, but the current code (from luiqi IIRC) was found to be > >sufficient IF the BIOS did its job right. I seems that we have a > >BIOS here that doesn't setup things the way they s

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-04 Thread Coleman Kane
I'd like to say that I have been keeping stable with freebsd 4.0, and I am using ata with an FIC-VA503+ (VIA Apollo MVP3) mobo and a WD Expert 18GB Hard Drive (which I recommend to anyone) with no problems. I have been updating my kernel as large changes come along and have been amazed at the stab

Re: FreeBSD/Opensource is not free

2000-04-04 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
BRAVO!!! Only one small nit... $2.7M/year, starting in 1993 puts it at about a $18.9M price tag. Ohhh.. and don't tell me we didn't have 150 committers back then, as the 10 to 20 of us where putting in way more than 1 hour/day, some where doing more than 40 hrs/week for the first year or two. S

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Sergei Vyshenski
At 15:22 04.04.00 +0200, you wrote: >It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: >> >> Have a search through the archives as I think someone else had problems >> with the Fujitsus. What if you disable DMA. Are you actually using the >> drive in Win98 with DMA drivers ? What if go back to PIO mode. Perhaps t

Re: FreeBSD/Opensource is not free

2000-04-04 Thread Andrew Sherrod
Well, to be the first on the bandwagon: I have a good deal of experience with documentation, and wouldn't mind spending some time working on it. Anyone have anything they need written up? Or, alternately, any docs that have fallen well behind the actual code? AGS --- "Forrest W. Christian" <[E

Re: make world failed

2000-04-04 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:42 AM -0600 2000/4/4, Warner Losh wrote: > Yes. Also, for -current's UPDATING I specifically keep things short > and to the point, lest I encourage people to follow -current who don't > have the skills, time or patience that is required of -current. Unfortunately, this may come

Re: make world failed

2000-04-04 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nik Clayton writes: : If you (or anyone else reading this) wants to step forward and maintain : either of these files, please yell now. For example, /usr/src/UPDATING : is currently empty in 3-stable because no one's volunteered to maintain : it. I have some entrie

Re: make world failed

2000-04-04 Thread Warner Losh
: > It is time to put in the Propellerheads and chill with a some good tunes. i've used the following image http://www.village.org/~imp/propeller.gif on my website for years. The picture was taken in 92 using the then newfangled frame grabber attached to a Solbourne S4000 via some funky

Re: journaling fs

2000-04-04 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 01:41:46PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: > Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Journaling is only one solution to > >this problem. Most of the features you will typicaly see attributed to > >a JFS have nothing to do with journaling. What most people seem to want

Re: Attachments request

2000-04-04 Thread Vivek Khera
> "S" == Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S> GlacierI wonder whether those who post to this list would consider S> to post without using attachments. It is a hassle to have to put S> stuff through a virus checker when reading a mail list - so unless Pretty bold request from someone who

Re: make world failed

2000-04-04 Thread James Housley
Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > It looks like that would have helped me a great deal. Thanks for making > that change. I am sure it will help someone else down the road. > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html > Another question. It mentions that in -CURRENT you can use -j4. Is tha

Re: make world failed

2000-04-04 Thread James Housley
Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > It looks like that would have helped me a great deal. Thanks for making > that change. I am sure it will help someone else down the road. > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html > Nice page. But # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # chflags -R nosc

Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time

2000-04-04 Thread Brennan W Stehling
The binary you want is... adjkerntz Just look at the man page for instructions. It adjusts the CMOS clock, although I have never used it. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wa

Re: make world failed

2000-04-04 Thread Brennan W Stehling
It looks like that would have helped me a great deal. Thanks for making that change. I am sure it will help someone else down the road. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: Neve

Re: Package creation

2000-04-04 Thread Brett Taylor
Hi guys, > > "One should use one as soon as someone writes such a thing" is > > probably what the man page should actually say. :) Jordan - what happened to the frontend that was developed for the X desktop contest thingy a couple years ago? Brett ***

Re: dd reading atapi cdrom

2000-04-04 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ian j hart writes: > I'm used to doing this > > #dd if=/dev/acd0c of=image > > [followed by vnconfig, mount, share using samba] > > This fails under 4.0-STABLE. The error message is Bad address. No data > is transfered. This is reprodusable on three machines. Al

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Edwin Mons
Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > Have a search through the archives as I think someone else had problems > > with the Fujitsus. What if you disable DMA. Are you actually using the > > drive in Win98 with DMA drivers ? What if go back to PIO mode. Perhaps the > > mai

Re: "could not map memory"

2000-04-04 Thread Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Skurzynski writes: > Hi, > > I've built a new server here, and installed fresh copy of > FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (from Cheap*Bytes). Upon booting, I get this error: > > fxp0: at device 9.0 on pci0 > fxp0: could not map memory > device_probe_and_attach: fxp0 att

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-04 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Have a search through the archives as I think someone else had problems > with the Fujitsus. What if you disable DMA. Are you actually using the > drive in Win98 with DMA drivers ? What if go back to PIO mode. Perhaps the > maintainer can shed light on it ?