Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Eivind Evensen
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 09:59:39AM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: > List: > > I keep archival floppy disk copies of EPROM images on CDROM and occasionally > need to DD them back to a floppy disk for my programmer to load. I recently > upgraded two of my shop computers from FreeBSD 7 Stable to FreeBS

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Laus
> For what it's worth, I had problems writing images back to a > floppy disk at around 8.0 prerelease. Dd wrote the image ok, > but when closing the device, the machine panicked. Problem is > gone on 8.2 and 8.3 (prerelease), and I haven't tried 9 yet. > My two computers running FreeBSD 9 can't ev

trap 12 on 9.0 when memcache gets some load

2012-03-27 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Hi all. I'm just puzzled with this. At first I though this happens because of some memory problems. But now project was moved to another server with some other brands for motherboard/memory and different cpu's. And still once in an hour this happens again: == screenshot current_process = 193

Re: trap 12 on 9.0 when memcache gets some load

2012-03-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 27/03/2012 18:48 Volodymyr Kostyrko said the following: > Hi all. > > I'm just puzzled with this. At first I though this happens because of some > memory > problems. But now project was moved to another server with some other brands > for > motherboard/memory and different cpu's. And still on

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, can you please try 8-stable and 9-stable, and if it's still failing, file a PR? I don't know who looks after the floppy subsystem but it shouldn't exactly be difficult to fix.. Adrian ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Support for releases

2012-03-27 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: I've just noted that as of this month, there is no release of FreeBSD -- on any branch -- whose EOL is less than a year away. Should there not be at least one release with extended support? --Brett Glass ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

Re: Support for releases

2012-03-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 27/03/2012 19:25, Brett Glass wrote: > I've just noted that as of this month, there is no release of FreeBSD -- > on any branch -- whose EOL is less than a year away. Should there not > be at least one release with extended support? ITYM 'more than a year away' there... 8.3 is due, in fact, o

Re: Support for releases

2012-03-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > Everyone: > > I've just noted that as of this month, there is no release of FreeBSD -- on > any branch -- whose EOL is less than a year away. Should there not be at > least one release with extended support? That will be 8.3: •

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Eivind Evensen
Hi. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:45:25AM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > can you please try 8-stable and 9-stable, and if it's still failing, file a > PR? > > I don't know who looks after the floppy subsystem but it shouldn't > exactly be difficult to fix.. I'm a bit short on free machines,

Re: SAS Drive identification LEDs

2012-03-27 Thread Matt Burke
On 03/20/12 21:53, Matt Burke wrote: > I've also tried playing around with Areca's SDK, however > FreeBSDSCSIInterface()->init(i) causes the closed source driver to panic > the kernel. AFAICT that class appears to be closed source too, so that's a > dead end too. Just to follow this up, I got in c

Re: Too many open files

2012-03-27 Thread Jilles Tjoelker
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:15:59AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Does 'procstat -fa' give better results for you? > It seems to be one of those little hidden secrets that FreeBSD comes > with a bunch of native applications that provide pretty much equivalent > functionality to lsof(1). See: fsta

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Thomas Laus
> uname -a > FreeBSD elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-PRERELEASE #42: Sat > Mar 3 20:05:21 CET 2012 > rumrunner@elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RUM amd64 > > fdformat works fine here with: > dmesg |grep fdc > fdc0: port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on > acpi0

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:48:26 -0500, Thomas Laus wrote: It looks like we both have confirmed that the floppy disk operation works up to FreeBSD 8.3 RC1. I will need to file a PR for FreeBSD 9.0 in the bug system. Thanks for the help. Could this be related to CAM system issues that shippe

Re: Floppy disks don't work with FreeBSD 9.0

2012-03-27 Thread Dan Daley
Pretty sure I have a brand new, never used floppy drive laying around that I could send to you :) I don't think I have any discs though. On 03/27/2012 17:03, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:48:26 -0500, Thomas Laus wrote: It looks like we both have confirmed that the floppy dis

Re: Debugging periodic scripts

2012-03-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 08:03:33AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Shall I file a PR for this or is there already one? :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=166460 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://w