Re: ad0 READ_DMA TIMEOUT errors on install of 7.0-RELEASE

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Stephen Hurd wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 06

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-11-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:43:41PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: Show me the positives that outweights the negatives and I'm on your side. Why do you think we're on different sides to begin with? I've not advocated removing catman

Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8

2007-10-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-10-28 12:54, Andrew Lankford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thbbt! I'm reading the catman version of MAKEDEV. Wish I could disable that "feature". Oh well. I'll delete it all and rebuild it again if needed. Thanks! Ah, that's it then :) My usual `in

Re: rm(1) bug, possibly serious

2007-09-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 26), Oliver Fromme said: Bob Johnson wrote: > Maybe. But I expect that the behavior for "rm -rf .." is there so > that things don't get REALLY astonishing when you do "rm -rf *". The expansion of "*" does not include "." or "..". Under /bin

Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

2007-06-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Roland Smith wrote: I'll disassemble the malfunctioning drive, put it in an old PC and run smartctl on it. Are there any other tests that might be worthwhile? Manufacturer's diagnostics. Usually: download from manufacturer site, burn onto CD, reboot from CD, voila. If you are seriously d

Re: sio0: port may not be enabled

2007-04-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Apr 20, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Look closely at the dmesg line, note what device sio0 is claiming to be associated with (acpi0, not isa0): sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 This is one of the drawba

Re: howto update freebsd 4.7 release to 4.7 stable

2005-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Khanh Cao Van wrote: My custom use freeBSD 4.7 release and ask me to install JDK1.4 on it . But when I use ports to compile JDK , the system show me a message : You must have a version of FreeBSD later than 4.7-STABLE February 2003 or 5-CURRENT February 2003 to compile and use JDK 1.4.2. So I