From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Feb 11 05:57:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA07850 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 05:57:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp [131.113.32.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA07835 Sun, 11 Feb 1996 05:57:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.4Wbeta3) id WAA18933; Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:57:04 +0900 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:57:04 +0900 Message-Id: <199602111357.WAA18933@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: [PCMCIA] pccard.flp is now available!! From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.18PL3] 1994-08/01(Mon) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi! Now I release the PCMCIA installation floppy (pccard.flp 960211) for FreeBSD 2.1.0R. You can install FreeBSD 2.1.0R with various PCMCIA Ethernet cards, PCMICA modem cards, and *CD-ROMs over PCMCIA SCSI cards* !! You can get it from, ftp://bash.cc.keio.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD/alpha-test/pccard-flp/pccard-flp-960211.tar.gz [CAUTION]: We are not responsible for the proper functioning of it, and we are not responsible for damages incurred with its use. Currently this floppy supports: Machines: Laptops with Intel i82365SL or compatible PCICs (Cirrus Logic, VLSI, Vadem, etc.) PCMCIA Cards: Ethernet: IBM PCMCIA Ethernet I/II Accton? UE2212 (Very Slow) Accton EN2212 (Very Slow) 3Com Etherlink III 3C589B, 3C589C Farallon EtherMac Fujitsu MBH10302 NextCom J Link NC5310 FAX/Modem: Megahertz XJ1144 Megahertz XJ2144 Megahertz XJ2144J Megahertz XJ2288 Omron ME2814 FAX/DATA MODEM (IRQ 3) Omron MD24XCA FAX/Data Modem TDK DF1414 FAX/Data Modem TDK DF1414EX FAX/Data Modem NewMedia 14.4K FAX/Data Modem PREMAX FM288 FAX/Data Modem Novalink NovaModem 144 US Robotics Sportster PCMCIA V.34 (IRQ 3) US Robotics COURIER PCMCIA V.34 (IRQ 3) Xircom CreditCard Ethernet+Modem (Modem only !!!, IRQ 3) GATEWAY 2000 FAX/Data Modem (14.4K) ISDN: BUG Linkboy D64K Digital Cellular: NTT DoCoMo DATA/FAX Adapter SCSI: Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-1460 (IRQ 5) NewMedia BusToaster RATOC REX-5535AC RATOC REX-5535AMC RATOC REX-5535X We have not tested it on every card. These cards witout "(IRQ x)" uses IRQ 10 or IRQ 11. Please confirm that your machine does not use IRQ 10 or IRQ 11 before installation. I'm not sure whether this floppy can drive the cards whose IRQ is 3 properly. The pccard driver is based on "pccard-test" package 960207-alpha release. If you want to read the source of this floppy, please wait for the next release of "pccard-test" package. If you need it ASAP, please e-mail me about it. -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 12 16:37:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17152 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from charlotte.spiders.com (charlotte.spiders.com [199.224.7.188]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17147 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:37:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gwh@localhost) by charlotte.spiders.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA25675; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:40:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199602130040.TAA25675@charlotte.spiders.com> From: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:40:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: Andreas Klemm's message as of Feb 9, 19:30 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Andreas Klemm , Jeff Tyler Subject: Re: Looking for a good motherboard vendor Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk +--- | ASUS P/I55TP4XE + synch burst cache. EDO Ram is not so important. | Got best results and is very reliable. +--- My system with the above motherboad has been running for 67 days straight (knock on wood). The last time it was down was for an upgrade. I am putting another system together that will be running 2.1. Anyone have any recommendations on FAST WIDE SCSI-II PCI cards? Buslogic or Adaptec? I'm looking for stability first, performance a close second in importance. Thanks! --Gene -- Gene W. Homicki gwh@spiders.com Objective Consulting, Inc. http://www.spiders.com/ Internet Presence Design voice: +1 914.353.3511 From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 12 19:00:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA25267 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA25261 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 19:00:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA08359; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:30:41 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602130300.NAA08359@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Looking for a good motherboard vendor To: gwh@spiders.com (Gene W Homicki) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:30:40 +1030 (CST) Cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de, jeff@jthome.com, hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602130040.TAA25675@charlotte.spiders.com> from "Gene W Homicki" at Feb 12, 96 07:40:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gene W Homicki stands accused of saying: > > I am putting another system together that will be running 2.1. Anyone > have any recommendations on FAST WIDE SCSI-II PCI cards? Buslogic or > Adaptec? I'm looking for stability first, performance a close second > in importance. Presuming you're willing to upgrade to -stable, the Adaptec 2940UW is probably the hot pick. Alternatively, anything based on the NCR 83C825 is a winner. Anything from Buslogic is a very poor third. > Gene W. Homicki gwh@spiders.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 13 01:24:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA24783 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 01:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp [131.113.32.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA24690 Tue, 13 Feb 1996 01:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.4Wbeta3) id SAA00501; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:23:31 +0900 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:23:31 +0900 Message-Id: <199602130923.SAA00501@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PCMCIA] pccard.flp is now available!! In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 11 Feb 1996 22:57:04 +0900. <199602111357.WAA18933@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.18PL3] 1994-08/01(Mon) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article <199602111357.WAA18933@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp writes: >> You can install FreeBSD 2.1.0R with various PCMCIA Ethernet cards, >> PCMICA modem cards, and *CD-ROMs over PCMCIA SCSI cards* !! OOPS! I found a bug of this floppy disk. I can use it for CD-ROM install, but sysinstall fails to detect PCMCIA network devices (I passed over this bug because I checked it by executing ping to the target laptop from other machine that is ifconfig'ed with fixit floppy). I'll release the new floppy in a few days. -- HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi E-mail: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp WWW homepage: http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa.html Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 13 03:15:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA01175 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA01161 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA28318 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:14:58 +0800 Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 09:27:19 GMT From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Message-ID: Organization: Private FreeBSD site References: Subject: Re: QIC-80 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Wicked Angel (wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu) wrote: : Ok, here's something stupid: : I have a QIC-80 Colorado Jumbo drive, I always get 'fdc0' input/output : errors. : If I type 'mt -f /dev/rft0 status' my pc sits and thinks for a few mins, : then returns an error complaining about input/output error :( : Any ideas? You need to use the ft program to write/read QIC-80 tapes when you have a floppy tape. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | | From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 13 12:46:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA06406 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:46:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from jjarray.umd.edu (jjarray.umd.edu [129.2.40.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06388 Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fcawth@localhost) by jjarray.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.12) id PAA00282; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:46:39 -0500 (EST) From: Fred Cawthorne Message-Id: <199602132046.PAA00282@jjarray.umd.edu> Subject: Exabyte 8200 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:46:38 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have just upgraded the firmware in my Exabyte 8200 drive to a newer version, and now it at least works with FreeBSD-current... The problem is that it is streaming very slowly. It isn't stopping and going, but it only writes about 60-80 K/second. I have heard that people use this drive, and I wanted to know if there are any special modes to select or anything. Do people ever get resonable speeds with this drive?? I know this thing is old but it seems that it should be able to write a 2 gig tape in under 6 hours... Any information would be appreciated... Fred. From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 13 14:06:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA11773 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:06:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [206.224.65.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11753 Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA18341; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:06:23 -0600 From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199602132206.QAA18341@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 To: fcawth@jjarray.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:06:22 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602132046.PAA00282@jjarray.umd.edu> from "Fred Cawthorne" at Feb 13, 96 03:46:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Fred Cawthorne wrote: > > > I have just upgraded the firmware in my Exabyte 8200 drive to a newer > version, and now it at least works with FreeBSD-current... The problem > is that it is streaming very slowly. It isn't stopping and going, but it > only writes about 60-80 K/second. I have heard that people use this > drive, and I wanted to know if there are any special modes to select or > anything. Do people ever get resonable speeds with this drive?? > I know this thing is old but it seems that it should be able to write a > 2 gig tape in under 6 hours... > > Any information would be appreciated... I have several of these that I use on 2.1-stable systems w/o any (major) problems. Performance is right at the theroetical limit of 240kb/sec. Mine are connected to NCR 810 controllers. I use them with dump, tar, cpio, and afio. Sometimes when I feel like it I will pipe the output through team to the drive (though I don't think it really changes the performance any). The problems that I do have with the drives is one of positioning to different files down the tape. When I dump to them I will place multiple file systems on a single tape as multiple tape files (as many as will fit in the 2gb). This works ok, but it is a real pain to get restore to properly locate the desired tape file. So far, I've yet to fail to get the file I need when really necesary, but is is never easy (and I really don't know why...it should be easy, the documentation makes it sound easy). > Fred. > -- Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com (or obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net) Austin, TX From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 13 15:21:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA17433 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17400 Tue, 13 Feb 1996 15:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA07821; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:21:32 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA19144; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:21:32 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA06462; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:05:52 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602132305.AAA06462@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 To: fcawth@jjarray.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:05:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602132046.PAA00282@jjarray.umd.edu> from "Fred Cawthorne" at Feb 13, 96 03:46:38 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Fred Cawthorne wrote: > The problem > is that it is streaming very slowly. It isn't stopping and going, but it > only writes about 60-80 K/second. At which block size? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 07:58:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA05755 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from montana.com (paw.montana.com [199.2.139.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05738 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:58:28 -0800 (PST) From: garya@dreamchaser.org Received: from 199.2.139.40 ([199.2.139.40]) by montana.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA07644; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:59:22 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:59:22 -0700 Message-Id: <9602151559.AA07644@montana.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Supra Express 288i PnP modem To: hardware@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk You might want to mention that until FreeBSD supports Plug and Play, the following modem *will not work* in this environment; it apparently has no default port addr and irq: Supra Express 288i PnP Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal) From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 08:13:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA06364 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:13:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06359 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:12:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA29524; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:15:38 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 09:15:38 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602151615.JAA29524@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: garya@dreamchaser.org Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem In-Reply-To: <9602151559.AA07644@montana.com > References: <9602151559.AA07644@montana.com > Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > You might want to mention that until FreeBSD supports Plug and Play, > the following modem *will not work* in this environment; it apparently > has no default port addr and irq: > > Supra Express 288i PnP Is there any way of setting the port and IRQ via a DOS program? Most of the 'software selectable' hardware I've gotten has some program to setup the software under DOS. Nate From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 10:09:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA12845 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:09:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from montana.com (paw.montana.com [199.2.139.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12808 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:08:50 -0800 (PST) From: garya@dreamchaser.org Received: from 199.2.139.37 ([199.2.139.37]) by montana.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA13228; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:09:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:09:39 -0700 Message-Id: <9602151809.AA13228@montana.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem To: Nate Williams Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Nate Williams wrote: >> You might want to mention that until FreeBSD supports Plug and Play, >> the following modem *will not work* in this environment; it apparently >> has no default port addr and irq: >> >> Supra Express 288i PnP > >Is there any way of setting the port and IRQ via a DOS program? Most of >the 'software selectable' hardware I've gotten has some program to setup >the software under DOS. Yes, but I don't think its sufficient. Here's what I tried: I had it properly configured and it worked under win95 at a more or less standard place; I can't remember if it was 0x3f8 @ irq4 or 0x2f8 @ irq3. >From there I shutdown win95 and soft booted freebsd. So the system was never powered off, but did go through a normal boot sequence. The modem was never recognised. I also tried configuring kernels to look at all 8 combinations of the standard port addrs and irq 3 & 4, and the thing never showed up at any of them. Then I got pissed and sent some mail to supra support. My question and their reply: >>I just purchased a Micron system with a SupraExpress 288i PnP modem in it, >>and am trying to configure the system to run FreeBSD, a UNIX system. >>Micron cannot answer my questions, and suggested I contact you. >>I need to know what the default hardware configuration for this modem is, >>since the system does not support PnP. I tried all the standard io addresses >>and irq's and the modem didn't respond. (0x3f8 @ irq3 & irq4, >>0x2f8 @ irq3 & irq4, 0x3e8 @irq3 & irq4, 0x2e8 @ irq3 & irq4) >>Does this device have a default address and irq, or does it only work in a >>PnP environment? >It only works in a PnP environment or with the PnP Utility Install in a Win >3.1, 3.11, Win95 or DOS environment. I did not go to the trouble of trying to run the utility. I assumed that since I had it properly configured under win95, then did a soft shutdown and boot to freebsd, and I would need to do the soft shutdown and boot regardless, that the utility wouldn't make it behave any differently. I gave up, decided never to buy another supra modem, and switched it with a US Robotics running in another system. Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal) From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 10:17:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13375 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:17:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13370 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:17:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00363; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:20:32 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:20:32 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199602151820.LAA00363@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: garya@dreamchaser.org Cc: Nate Williams , hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem In-Reply-To: <9602151809.AA13228@montana.com > References: <9602151809.AA13228@montana.com > Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk garya@dreamchaser.org writes: > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > >> You might want to mention that until FreeBSD supports Plug and Play, > >> the following modem *will not work* in this environment; it apparently > >> has no default port addr and irq: > >> > >> Supra Express 288i PnP > > > >Is there any way of setting the port and IRQ via a DOS program? Most of > >the 'software selectable' hardware I've gotten has some program to setup > >the software under DOS. > > Yes, but I don't think its sufficient. > Here's what I tried: > > I had it properly configured and it worked under win95 at a more or less > standard place; I can't remember if it was 0x3f8 @ irq4 or 0x2f8 @ > irq3. Since Win95 support P&P, I don't suspect it actually configured the modem as I'm speaking of. As I understand P&P is a 'soft' configuration vs. a hard configuration. A hard configuration is required for non P&P systems. > >It only works in a PnP environment or with the PnP Utility Install in a Win > >3.1, 3.11, Win95 or DOS environment. > > I did not go to the trouble of trying to run the utility. This is the one that will do the 'hard' configuration for you. > I gave up, decided never to buy another supra modem, and switched it with > a US Robotics running in another system. *laugh* You should give it to your nephew. :) Nate From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 12:36:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA20894 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:36:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (root@[206.206.98.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA20874 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:36:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott.cr.usgs.gov (aslpca.cr.usgs.gov [136.177.121.30]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA20750; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:36:59 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960215205056.00ad1d10@thuntek.net> X-Sender: thor@thuntek.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:50:56 -0700 To: garya@dreamchaser.org, Nate Williams From: Scott Halbert Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 11:09 AM 2/15/96 -0700, garya@dreamchaser.org wrote: > > >On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Nate Williams wrote: >>> You might want to mention that until FreeBSD supports Plug and Play, >>> the following modem *will not work* in this environment; it apparently >>> has no default port addr and irq: >>> >>> Supra Express 288i PnP >> >>Is there any way of setting the port and IRQ via a DOS program? Most of >>the 'software selectable' hardware I've gotten has some program to setup >>the software under DOS. > >Yes, but I don't think its sufficient. >Here's what I tried: > Don't forget that there is another problem going on here. Not only do you have the PnP problem to deal with, but FreeBSD has some problems seeing some internal modems even if they are there and properly set up (there are some delay problems in the driver). > >Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) > garya@dreamchaser.org (personal) ---Scott Halbert (thor@thuntek.net) Thunder Network Technologies From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 13:23:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA24212 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from montana.com (paw.montana.com [199.2.139.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA24188 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:23:52 -0800 (PST) From: garya@dreamchaser.org Received: from 199.2.139.31 ([199.2.139.31]) by montana.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA23722; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:24:10 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 14:24:09 -0700 Message-Id: <9602152124.AA23722@montana.com > Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem To: Scott Halbert , Nate Williams Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: SPRY Mail Version: 04.00.06.17 Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Don't forget that there is another problem going on here. Not only do >you have the PnP problem to deal with, but FreeBSD has some problems >seeing some internal modems even if they are there and properly >set up (there are some delay problems in the driver). That's good to know, if I ever get that far. Thanks. I just tried the configuration program supplied with the modem and it won't even load properly under win95; or dos 7.0, or dos 6.22; nor will it run from the distribution disk. Just hangs and you have to reboot. Shoot the modem, and the mfg... Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal) From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 15 15:44:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA02774 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (root@[206.206.98.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA02754 Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:44:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from scott.cr.usgs.gov (aslpca.cr.usgs.gov [136.177.121.30]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA22132; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:45:55 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960215235954.00e7af4c@thuntek.net> X-Sender: thor@thuntek.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:59:54 -0700 To: garya@dreamchaser.org, Nate Williams From: Scott Halbert Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 02:24 PM 2/15/96 -0700, garya@dreamchaser.org wrote: > >>Don't forget that there is another problem going on here. Not only do >>you have the PnP problem to deal with, but FreeBSD has some problems >>seeing some internal modems even if they are there and properly >>set up (there are some delay problems in the driver). > >That's good to know, if I ever get that far. Thanks. >I just tried the configuration program supplied with the modem and it >won't even load properly under win95; or dos 7.0, or dos 6.22; >nor will it run from the distribution disk. Just hangs and you have to >reboot. We're running with some supras without Pnp, but I had to patch sio.c to get them to work. Basically I think that no PnP device will work with FreeBSD until a PnP manager is added to the kernel and device drivers are updated to support it. The PnP BIOS negotiates IRQs and addresses with the cards and FreeBSD must get that info from the PnP BIOS tables in order for any of the drivers to know about the cards. I don't even know what happens to PnP cards when you have no PnP BIOS in your machine. ---Scott Halbert >Shoot the modem, and the mfg... > >Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) > garya@dreamchaser.org (personal) > > From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 16 05:36:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA05151 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 05:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw2.att.com ([192.20.239.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA05146 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 05:36:16 -0800 (PST) From: ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com Received: from nasvr1.cb.att.com (naserver1.cb.att.com) by ig1.att.att.com id AA04817; Fri, 16 Feb 96 08:33:57 EST Received: by nasvr1.cb.att.com (5.x/EMS-1.1 Sol2) id AA12423; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:36:12 -0500 Cc: dob@nasvr1.cb.att.com Received: from ginger.cb.att.com by nasvr1.cb.att.com (5.x/EMS-1.1 Sol2) id AA12401; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:36:05 -0500 Received: by ginger.cb.att.com (5.x/EMS-1.1 Sol2) id AA20731; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:39:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:39:45 -0500 Message-Id: <9602161339.AA20731@ginger.cb.att.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: wb L2 cache improves sp3g by 10% Original-Cc: dob@nasvr1 X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello Dirty tag sram improves sp3g performance by 10% - 11%, with a AMD 5x86 133 processor. I know there are a few people on this list using this mainboard, so I thought I would pass the info on. I have not done a make world yet. All times are in seconds. kernel build ------------ WB L2 cache: 408 user 42 system total 450 WT L2 cache: 455 user 45 system total 500 10% improvement 3D rendering engine(mine), rendering utah raster teapot @ 10000 triangles WB L2 cache: 205 total WT L2 cache: 229 total 10.5% improvement bonnie char IO which is cpu bound --------------------------------- WB L2 cache: 2566KB/sec WT L2 cache: 1544KB/sec 1M/second improvement dmesg ----- FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Wed Feb 14 18:49:56 1996 ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.net:/var/usr/src/sys/compile/gargoyle CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x4e4 real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 31469568 (30732K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 4 on pci0:0 chip1 rev 3 on pci0:2 ncr0 rev 2 int a irq 11 on pci0:5 ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle (ncr0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST15150W 0020" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. sd0(ncr0:0:0): WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled. 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors) (ncr0:1:0): "QUANTUM LP240S GM240S01X 6.4" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ncr0:1:0): Direct-Access sd1(ncr0:1:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. 234MB (479350 512 byte sectors) (ncr0:2:0): "PLEXTOR CD-ROM DM-XX28 3.08" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ncr0:2:0): CD-ROM cd present [325252 x 2048 byte records] (ncr0:2:2): asynchronous. (ncr0:2:3): asynchronous. (ncr0:2:4): asynchronous. (ncr0:2:5): asynchronous. (ncr0:2:6): asynchronous. (ncr0:2:7): asynchronous. vga0 rev 1 on pci0:6 Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 72065B fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface new masks: bio c0000840, tty c003009a, net c003009a -- ejc work: ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com home: ec0@ganet.net From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 16 07:25:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA09956 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA09747 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA04068 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hardware@freebsd.org); Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:21:11 +0100 Message-Id: <199602161521.AA04068@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 16:21:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com "wb L2 cache improves sp3g by 10%" (Feb 16, 8:39) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com Subject: Re: wb L2 cache improves sp3g by 10% Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 16, 8:39, ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com wrote: } Subject: wb L2 cache improves sp3g by 10% } Hello } Dirty tag sram improves sp3g performance by 10% - 11%, with a } AMD 5x86 133 processor. I know there are a few people on this list } using this mainboard, so I thought I would pass the info on. I have } not done a make world yet. All times are in seconds. Thanks a lot. This information is much appreciated! I've been thinking about buying a Tag RAM for some days, but I still need to find a local source. What is the exact chip type you bought (and what did you pay ? Seems they are soem $20 over here ...) Could you perhaps give "bytebench" a try ? I've done several tests with WT and WB without dirty tag RAM, and I'd be interested in numbers for WB with that chip added. I found the AMD 5x86 to be 150% of an DX2/66 (user and real time of a make world), and the tag RAM would make that 165% ! Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 16 10:42:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23332 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pahtoh.cwu.edu (root@pahtoh.cwu.edu [198.104.65.27]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23327 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from tahoma.cwu.edu (skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu [198.104.67.25]) by pahtoh.cwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA20150 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:41:49 -0800 Received: (from skynyrd@localhost) by tahoma.cwu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA06505; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:41:48 -0800 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 10:41:45 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: P55TP4XE issues, SP3G q's Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I'd be interested in hearing from people familiar with the ASUS P55TP4XE on the following issues: 1) Securing the motherboard in a standard mid-tower case. The 2/3 baby-AT board size hasn't fit very well into the last two cases I've tried. Although I can match up enough plastic spacers to firmly support the board, I've only been able to match up one hold-down screw with the board. The result is that the board wants to slip downward - and also from side-to-side. I've slid a couple of unfastened plastic motherboard attachment clips onto the side of the board which shim it against the back of the case where the periperal cards go - this helps... Perhaps I've just made poor case selections - any ideas? 2) Upgrading the on-board SRAM cache from 256k to a pipelined-burst module. This looks possible, but when I called motherboards intnl, the sales person indicated that I couldn't do this. I suspect otherwise - any clues on a supplier for the PB module? 3) 70ns memory and P100 - I know it says not to do this. I made a mistake and got 70ns memory anyways. It works, but recently I've been having some lockups w/no panic, etc. This coincides with placing the machine under much heavier loads (make world, more users, etc. 2.1-R, 2.1-STABLE.) Would it be plausible that I'm having a memory problem (given that the machine was a model of stability under lighter loads?) Regarding the SP3G - I'm thinking about putting together a machine to thrash with at home. I have enough spare parts that I just need the main board and a processor. The spec sheets I've seen show it topping out with a DX4/100, but then I've seen messages where other people are putting all kinds of faster AMD processers in the SP3G. Any comments on what I should do here? Regards, -Chris From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 16 17:00:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20977 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:00:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from s1.GANet.NET (s1.GANet.NET [199.18.201.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20972 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 17:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ec0@localhost) by s1.GANet.NET (8.6.11/8.6.11) id TAA00285; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:54:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:54:53 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Chet To: Chris Timmons cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: P55TP4XE issues, SP3G q's In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Regarding the SP3G - I'm thinking about putting together a machine to thrash > with at home. I have enough spare parts that I just need the main board and > a processor. The spec sheets I've seen show it topping out with a DX4/100, > but then I've seen messages where other people are putting all kinds of > faster AMD processers in the SP3G. > > Any comments on what I should do here? > Hello A AMD-133 on a SP3G with a dirty tag sram is only 20 minutes slower than a pentium 133 on a Asus P55TP4 on a make world. The Pentium takes 3:40 the AMD-133 takes about 4:00, times are in HH:MM and are approximate. I have only timed the SP3G. Peace, ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 16 19:46:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA01088 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:46:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01076 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 1996 19:46:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA11983; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:30 +1100 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:30 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199602170342.OAA11983@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu Subject: Re: P55TP4XE issues, SP3G q's Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I'd be interested in hearing from people familiar with the ASUS P55TP4XE on >the following issues: > 1) Securing the motherboard in a standard mid-tower case. The 2/3 > baby-AT board size hasn't fit very well into the last two cases > I've tried. Although I can match up enough plastic spacers to > firmly support the board, I've only been able to match up one > hold-down screw with the board. The result is that the board > wants to slip downward - and also from side-to-side. I've I was only able to match up 2 spacers and 1 screw, but there's a plastic slot at the bottom of the case to stop it slipping downward. > 2) Upgrading the on-board SRAM cache from 256k to a pipelined-burst > module. This looks possible, but when I called motherboards It was easy starting with the PB module, and it's easy to switch according to the motherboard manual (change 1 jumper). Bruce From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 17 09:11:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19072 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:11:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from Shug-Internet.Saar.DE (root@shug-internet.saar.de [192.109.53.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19051 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from TMPuhf.Saar.DE (tmpuhf.saar.de [192.109.53.3]) by Shug-Internet.Saar.DE (8.6.8.1/8.5) with SMTP id SAA23008; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:10:07 +0100 Received: from wg.saar.de by TMPuhf.Saar.DE with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tnq97-00021EC; Sat, 17 Feb 96 18:10 WET Received: by bellona.wg.saar.de id m0tnpbn-000247C; Sat, 17 Feb 96 17:35 MET Received: from brian.lunetix.de by pythia with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #5) id m0tnpNR-000CDXC; Sat, 17 Feb 96 17:20 MET Received: (from uc@localhost) by brian.lunetix.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA08358 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:16:11 +0100 From: Ulrich Callmeier Message-Id: <199602171616.RAA08358@brian.lunetix.de> Subject: Fast and reliable 2GB disk To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 17:16:09 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm currently looking for a 2 GB disk (SCSI) that is both fast and reliable. What do you all think about the Quantum Atlas? Anyone good or bad experience with it? Is it true that Quantum has problems with their SCSI-interface as the german journal c't writes, or is this only for the Empire-series? Any other recommendations? -- Ulrich From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 17 09:12:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19182 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:12:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp [131.113.32.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19160 Sat, 17 Feb 1996 09:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hosokawa@localhost) by frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.4Wbeta3) id CAA06782; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 02:12:41 +0900 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 02:12:41 +0900 Message-Id: <199602171712.CAA06782@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: [PCMCIA on FreeBSD] New PCMCIA-ready installation floppy From: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) X-Mailer: mnews [version 1.18PL3] 1994-08/01(Mon) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article <4fp47n$sv0@kogwy.cc.keio.ac.jp> writes: >> I found a bug of this sysinstall that fails to detect PCMCIA network >> card. If I use fixit floppy and ifconfig it, it responds ping >> requests, but sysinstall fails to detect it. CD-ROM via SlimSCSI >> works fine on my laptop. This bug is fixed. You can get the newest version from ftp://bash.cc.keio.ac.jp/pub/os/FreeBSD/alpha-test/pccard-flp/pccard-flp-960218.tar.gz or http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/freebsd-pcmcia/ Enjoy! pccard.flp FreeBSD 2.1.0R installation disk for PCMCIA (PC-card) HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi --------------------------------------------------------------------- Read COPYRIGHT file for original FreeBSD copyright notice. Note that this floppy is alpha-test version. This floppy is freely redistributable. But if you want to write something about this floppy on magazines or books, please contact me first. --------------------------------------------------------------------- You can install FreeBSD 2.1.0R with various PCMCIA Ethernet cards, PCMICA modem cards, and *CD-ROMs via PCMCIA SCSI cards* !! [CAUTION]: We are not responsible for the proper functioning of it, and we are not responsible for damages incurred with its use. Currently this floppy supports: Machines: Laptops with Intel i82365SL or compatible PCICs (Cirrus Logic, VLSI, Vadem, etc.) PCMCIA Cards: Ethernet: IBM PCMCIA Ethernet I/II Accton? UE2212 (Very Slow) Accton EN2212 (Very Slow) 3Com Etherlink III 3C589B, 3C589C Farallon EtherMac Fujitsu MBH10302 NextCom J Link NC5310 FAX/Modem: Megahertz XJ1144 Megahertz XJ2144 Megahertz XJ2144J Megahertz XJ2288 Omron ME2814 FAX/DATA MODEM Omron MD24XCA FAX/Data Modem TDK DF1414 FAX/Data Modem TDK DF1414EX FAX/Data Modem NewMedia 14.4K FAX/Data Modem PREMAX FM288 FAX/Data Modem Novalink NovaModem 144 US Robotics Sportster PCMCIA V.34 US Robotics COURIER PCMCIA V.34 Xircom CreditCard Ethernet+Modem (Modem only !!!) GATEWAY 2000 FAX/Data Modem (14.4K) ISDN: BUG Linkboy D64K Digital Cellular: NTT DoCoMo DATA/FAX Adapter SCSI: Adaptec SlimSCSI APA-1460 (IRQ 5) NewMedia BusToaster RATOC REX-5535AC RATOC REX-5535AMC RATOC REX-5535X We have not tested it on every cards. These cards witout "(IRQ x)" uses IRQ 10 or IRQ 11. Please confirm that your machine does not use IRQ 10 or IRQ 11 before installation. The pccard driver is based on "pccard-test" package 960207-alpha release. If you want to read the source of this floppy, please wait for the next release of "pccard-test" package. If you need it ASAP, please e-mail me about it. Contents: pccboot.flp PC-card ready FreeBSD 2.1.0R installation disk - PC-card ready kernel - PC-card ready sysinstall pccfixit.flp PC-card ready FreeBSD 2.1.0R fixit disk - pccardd and pccardc are included. This floppy is still useless for automatic installation. Sorry. From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 17 10:51:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22706 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22701 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 10:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA19016 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org); Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:50:38 +0100 Message-Id: <199602171850.AA19016@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:50:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: Ulrich Callmeier "Fast and reliable 2GB disk" (Feb 17, 17:16) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Ulrich Callmeier Subject: Re: Fast and reliable 2GB disk Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 17, 17:16, Ulrich Callmeier wrote: } Subject: Fast and reliable 2GB disk } Hi, } } I'm currently looking for a 2 GB disk (SCSI) that is both fast and reliable. } What do you all think about the Quantum Atlas? Anyone good or bad experience } with it? Is it true that Quantum has problems with their SCSI-interface } as the german journal c't writes, or is this only for the Empire-series? Hallo Ulrich! Yes, I've been using a Quantum Atlas 2GB for nearly one year now, and it appears to be a well designed drive. I'm using it in a min-tower case, where it doesn't need a dedicated mini fan of its own, due to good air flow design. You may or may not need a fan to keep it cool ... The Atlas was a DEC design, originally. And those drives had a good name for reliability and performance, though they often were noisy when seeking. There is a reason that the Grand-Prix is so much cheaper (especially the 4GB version). A lot of people have reported problems using the Grand-Prix with different SCSI host adapters and operating systems. } Any other recommendations? Well, there is a 2GB 7200RPM drive from IBM, which is offered for 70% of the price of the 2GB Atlas ... According to "Alternate" (c't 3/96, p. 387) it is a 7200RPM, 7ms seek drive with 512KB cache. >From the IBM Almaden web server: http://www-i.almaden.ibm.com/storage/oem/specs/jfhs50p.htm Specifications Model number.................... DFHS-31080 DFHS-32160 DFHS-34320 Capacity........................ 1120MB 2250MB 4510MB Number of disks................. 2 4 8 User data heads (trk/cyl)....... 4 8 16 Average seek Read (ms).......... 6.9 7.5 8.0 Interface....................... SCSI-2 FAST Media data rate (ms)............ 9.59-12.58 Sustained data rate (MB/sec).... 7.0 SCSI Interface transfer Rate.... 10.0 or 20.0 (sync) (MB/sec) Data Buffer, segmented (KB)..... 512 Rotational speed (RPM).......... 7200 Areal density (Mb/sp. in.)...... 544 maximum Track density (TPI)............. 4352 Recording density (BPI)......... 125,000 maximum MTBF (power on hours)........... 1,000,000 (The media data rate is in MB/s, not in milli seconds, obviously ... Don't know why the sustained data rate comes out so much lower, but it is at least as good as the Atlas, anyway.) They don't know about a DFRS, only about the DFHS, and I'm not sure whether the first is the successor of the second, or the names got confused in some way ... Prices in Germany are (c't 3/96): DM $ ----------------------------------- Computer Profis 839,-- 490 Publix 859,-- 500 Alternate: 929,-- 540 (DM = $ * 1.50 +15% VAT) Please let us know what you think of this drive if you actually buy one ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 17 18:59:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA19358 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from itech.terisa.com ([205.226.39.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19349 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from kmac.daisy (kmac.terisa.COM [205.226.39.35]) by itech.terisa.com (8.6.12/8.6.4) with SMTP id SAA16869 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:56:44 -0800 Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:56:44 -0800 From: EKR Message-Id: <199602180256.SAA16869@itech.terisa.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk subscribe ., From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 17 19:52:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA21815 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA21810 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id EAA11501 ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 04:52:00 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id EAA18595 ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 04:51:59 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id TAA03031; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:13:03 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199602171813.TAA03031@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: P55TP4XE issues, SP3G q's To: ec0@s1.GANet.NET (Eric Chet) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:13:03 +0100 (MET) Cc: skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Eric Chet at "Feb 16, 96 07:54:53 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1661 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL5 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Eric Chet said: > slower than a pentium 133 on a Asus P55TP4 on a make world. The > Pentium takes 3:40 the AMD-133 takes about 4:00, times are in > HH:MM and are approximate. I have only timed the SP3G. I'm surprised. My DX4/100, 32 MB, BT-747S + AHA-1740A EISA system takes only 4:50 to complete a "make world" (with /usr/src and /usr/obj mounted async). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Fri Feb 9 21:27:02 MET 1996 From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 17 21:52:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA26363 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 21:52:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from crash.ops.neosoft.com (root@crash.ops.NeoSoft.COM [206.109.4.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26344 Sat, 17 Feb 1996 21:51:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dbaker@localhost) by crash.ops.neosoft.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00682; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 23:51:57 -0600 From: Daniel Baker Message-Id: <199602180551.XAA00682@crash.ops.neosoft.com> Subject: NexGen CPU? To: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 23:51:57 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone heard of a NexGen Pentium chip and motherboard? I saw an ad for one today that claims it's as good, if not better than an Intel. Also has good review from the standard PC Hardware magazines. Has anyone had any experince running FreeBSD on these? Thanks Daniel -- dbaker@neosoft.com - Daniel Baker - FTP & UseNet News Admin - Neosoft, Inc. Any opinions expressed are mine. From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 17 22:18:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA27560 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 22:18:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from xi.dorm.umd.edu (xi.dorm.umd.edu [129.2.152.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA27535 Sat, 17 Feb 1996 22:17:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from xi.dorm.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xi.dorm.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA03208; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 01:17:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 01:17:20 -0500 (EST) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@xi.dorm.umd.edu To: garya@dreamchaser.org cc: hardware@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Supra Express 288i PnP modem In-Reply-To: <9602151559.AA07644@montana.com > Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 garya@dreamchaser.org wrote: > You might want to mention that until FreeBSD supports Plug and Play, > the following modem *will not work* in this environment; it apparently > has no default port addr and irq: > > Supra Express 288i PnP I have working ISA PnP support for FreeBSD-- But I'm still working on various parts of the code (I guess I really should get someone to commit the code as it is, since it mostly works). The code works properly with all the PnP cards I've found so far (all 3 of them :) Your Supra modem is the exact same one I have, so you should have no problems. Here is a quick summary of what you need to do.. Sorry for the uglyness, but I'm working on complete auto-configuration of PnP devices (until then you'll need to do manual configuration, but it will work): Here is a manifest of what you'll find on ftp://xi.dorm.umd.edu/pub/pnp: autoconf.c.patch PATCH to src/sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c files.i386.patch PATCH to src/sys/i386/conf/files.i386 pnp.c place in src/sys/i386/isa pnp.h place in src/sys/i386/isa pnpinfo.tar.gz untar somewhere. You'll need to put "controller pnp" in your kernel config (but do not change any of the device entries to reference the controller pnp). You'll also need to edit pnp.c's configuration information (since it only supports manual configuration right now). The structure looks like: { 0x00008803, /* Serial Number */ -1, /* Logical Device Number */ { 15, -1 }, /* IRQ Number */ { -1, -1 }, /* DRQ Number */ { 0x3e8, /* Ports 1 */ -1, /* Ports 2 */ -1, /* Ports 3 */ -1, /* Ports 4 */ -1, /* Ports 5 */ -1, /* Ports 6 */ -1, /* Ports 7 */ } }, Just change the Serial Number, and other parameters to match what "pnpinfo" says about your device. If all goes well, it should say that it configured your device on boot up. You may need to fiddle with this a bit, since I those patches are against -current (and were created manually, not from my running kernel w/pnp). Lemme know how it goes or if you have any problems. Sujal