Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : I heard some rumors about some instability on the new ATA code : combined with DMA mode. Is this founded? Can I safely build the : latest stable and have a peaceful sleep? Unless you have one of a couple of troublesome chipsets, you are

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coleman Kane writes: : am using ata with an FIC-VA503+ (VIA Apollo MVP3) mobo and a WD Expert There have been reports that this is massive unstable with the current (4.x and 5.x) code in DMA mode. I may have confused this with the VIA 82C586B chipset in other mail.

Re: 3.4-stable to 4.0-stable wedge

2000-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Randy Bush writes: : now where does that darn floppy go? You left it on the sofa when you dropped by. The refund check is under it. Sadly, after the first 5 beers, we started using it as a coaster. I sure wish AOL would send me another coaster soon, or I'll run t

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warner Losh writes: : Apollo 82c586B (aka MPV3). I have reason to believe that the statement above is inaccurate. I'm confusing two problem children at the moment. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the b

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread John Hay
> I heard some rumors about some instability on the new ATA code combined with >DMA mode. > Is this founded? Can I safely build the latest stable and have a peaceful >sleep? >From my experience the new ata driver isn't unstable. Where it works it generally works well. I have 2 machi

Re: 3.4-stable to 4.0-stable wedge

2000-04-05 Thread Forrest W. Christian
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > You left it on the sofa when you dropped by. The refund check is > under it. Sadly, after the first 5 beers, we started using it as a > coaster. I sure wish AOL would send me another coaster soon, or I'll > run through all my Win95 disks given the amoun

4.0 release - vp0 timeout

2000-04-05 Thread Andy Georges
Hello, I have just finished installing 4.0-release on my (toshiba 320CDS) laptop and i have recompiled the kernel with, amongst others the following options: device scbus device da device ppc0 device ppbus device lpt device ppi device

Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S

2000-04-05 Thread J McKitrick
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:58:55PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> J McKitrick writes: > : I had a strange problem with my pcmcia modem. When using the pccard entry > : that is for my card, it doesn't work. I have to change the IRQ. No idea > : why. > > The IRQ you

Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S

2000-04-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> J McKitrick writes: : Well, it's not that it was hardwired, just that the IRQ that was listed : didn't work. Maybe it's not the IRQ, it's the 'config' setting. The sample : called for 0x20, but only 0x21 works on my box. Oh. That's not the IRQ. That's the config

Re: make world failed

2000-04-05 Thread Jukka Simila
On 05-Apr-00 David Murphy wrote: > Quoting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > by Jukka Simila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> that showed me a list of files, and there was BIG LETTERS: UPDATING >> I thought, well, I'm now running 3.4, and I'm about to install 4.0, >> so I'd guess that's called UPDATING. Some commo

Re: Attachments request -OOOOOPS

2000-04-05 Thread Walter Brameld
KMail Client Filter: From: Contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transfer trash On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, David Nixon wrote: > I had originally thought this to be a belated April Fools prank or at least a minor attempt at

Re: Parallel port zip drives - inventory of working and non-working systems

2000-04-05 Thread Walter Brameld
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, J McKitrick wrote: > Does anyone recall seeing or making a remark about a group of interrupts or > hardware port locations that could be causing this problem? I was searching > my email and i can't find it. > > Someone said 4.0 all

-DNOINFO

2000-04-05 Thread Lauri Laupmaa
Hi in /usr/src/UPDATING: cd /usr/src make -DNOINFO installworld make installworld Why do I need 2 installworlds ? __ Lauri Laupmaa Äripäev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph. +372 66 70 369 +372 50 13 369 Fx. +372 66 70 165 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

Re: -DNOINFO

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:00:03AM +0200, Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > in /usr/src/UPDATING: > > cd /usr/src > make -DNOINFO installworld > make installworld > > Why do I need 2 installworlds ? Because there is a minor problem with the build system which causes it to try installing info pages usin

Re: ata sad combinatorics

2000-04-05 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: >Or inverting the defaults so that PIO is the default and sysctl is >required to enable DMA. Or perhaps default to PIO on the install floppies and then add a directive to the "Post Install Config" section of sysinstall which says "Do you want to enable

Re: Netscape pegs CPU on XServer kill

2000-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Mar-21 15:32:00 +1100, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >the above note. And it *says* it "core dumped" but I haven't found any >netscape.core's laying around lately. The ports installation process makes /usr/local/bin/netscape a small shellscript which sets a couple of environment

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread Coleman Kane
I have heard of trouble trying to get a non-UDMA drive working connected to a UDMA drive. Try Linking the ad1 to your CDROM's channel and disable the UDMA for Master+Slave 2nd controller in BIOS. Also, WDMA wasn't properly implemented on some drives (I have an old maxtor to testify to that, and ma

Re: Attachments request -OOOOOPS

2000-04-05 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
What the hell? If mangling his message and sending it back to the entire mailing list was some sort of joke, I'm not laughing. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: FIXED --> Thanks! Re: ep0 eeprom failed to come ready...

2000-04-05 Thread Ted Spradley
> I'm not going to bother tearing apart your reply. > > You obviously have -no- idea what the current state of the PnP system in > FreeBSD is. Me neither. I would have appreciated a brief discussion of how the PnP system deals with the sort of problem Mr. Larson describes. > If the FreeBSD ke

Re: How stable is the ATA code?

2000-04-05 Thread Coleman Kane
Yeah, the chipsets also are all handled by their own code, MVP3 setup isn't the same procedure as PIIX4 setup or ALI1541 setup I know, from my experience that my specific revision of the 586B works fine. Some of it I have noticed is also from cramming three or four drives onto the mobo control

Kudos to all!

2000-04-05 Thread Brad Knowles
Folks, I'd like to extend my thanks and give kudos to all who have been involved in the process of creating FreeBSD 4.0, from -CURRENT up through -STABLE, and beyond to wherever that might take us. We had a new Dell PowerEdge 6350/500 server that arrived here yesterday, and a