From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 27 02:19:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA24456 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 02:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA24451; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 02:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (root@asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.8.6/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id LAA06420; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:19:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id LAA20578; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 11:17:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.8.5/8.7.3) id VAA29192; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 21:55:13 +0200 (MET DST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: AMD K6: does it work well with FreeBSD From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 26 Jul 1997 21:55:12 +0200 Message-ID: <8790ytk2qn.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Lines: 3 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.25/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The AMD K6 is supposedly as fast as or faster as the Intel Pentium MMX CPU's. (Both for integer and for FPU?). So I'm thinking of buying one. Does anyone have positive experience with it and FreeBSD? From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 27 03:09:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA25459 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 03:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA25454; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 03:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA00515; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:39:10 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707271009.TAA00515@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: AMD K6: does it work well with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <8790ytk2qn.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> from Peter Mutsaers at "Jul 26, 97 09:55:12 pm" To: plm@xs4all.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 19:39:09 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Mutsaers stands accused of saying: > The AMD K6 is supposedly as fast as or faster as the Intel Pentium MMX > CPU's. (Both for integer and for FPU?). So I'm thinking of buying > one. Does anyone have positive experience with it and FreeBSD? On the contrary, at the moment there are lots of negative experiences with it going around. I would avoid the K6 in the short term, as current parts appear to have either a thermal problem or a basic bug. Check the -hackers mailing list archive for more details on this. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 27 12:24:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA17815 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pandora.hh.kew.com (ahd@kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA17810 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ahd@localhost) by pandora.hh.kew.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA04341 for hardware@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:24:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 15:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Drew Derbyshire Message-Id: <199707271924.PAA04341@pandora.hh.kew.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: NEC IDE 4 CD changer Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Any word on if the NEC IDE 6x four CD changer is supported? I don't expect the changer itself to be supported (i.e. allowing multiple cd-roms accessed at once), but merely if I mount one CD-ROM will be it accessible? -- Drew Derbyshire Internet: ahd@kew.com Kendra Electronic Wonderworks Telephone: 617-279-9812 Bug is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 28 00:57:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA16693 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA16686 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.6/8.7.3) id JAA03400; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:57:52 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199707280757.JAA03400@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: NEC IDE 4 CD changer In-Reply-To: <199707271924.PAA04341@pandora.hh.kew.com> from Drew Derbyshire at "Jul 27, 97 03:24:18 pm" To: ahd@kew.com (Drew Derbyshire) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:57:52 +0200 (MEST) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Drew Derbyshire who wrote: > Any word on if the NEC IDE 6x four CD changer is supported? I don't > expect the changer itself to be supported (i.e. allowing multiple > cd-roms accessed at once), but merely if I mount one CD-ROM will be it > accessible? It should work with the first CD in the drive, the other 3 are not accessible. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end .. From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 28 07:33:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA09483 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 07:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from extrouter.test.cdu.elektra.ru ([193.125.114.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA09460; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 07:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.cdu.ru (mailhub.cdu.ru [172.16.10.50]) by extrouter.test.cdu.elektra.ru (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA00239; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:29:31 +0400 (MSD) Received: from mailhub.cdu.ru (Win95.cdu.ru [172.16.2.10]) by mailhub.cdu.ru (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA00191; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:29:17 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199707281429.SAA00191@mailhub.cdu.ru> From: "Pavel P. Zabortsev" To: "FreeBSD hardware" , "FreeBSD questions" Subject: Driver vx! Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:21:06 +0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1157 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello! Again about Ethernet adaptors. I use 3Com 3C900 Ethernet adaptors (PCI) with FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE. And I think driver for this card (vx) don't count collisions in the Ethernet! ;-(((( Becouse "netstat -i" shows number of collisions equal zero, but my Ethernet hub (SMC TigerHub TP6B) indicate that there is a lot of collisions in the Ethernet. Correct me, please, if I'm wrong... Yours sincerely, Pavel ----------------------------------------------------------- Pavel P. Zabortsev, software engineer CDO UPS of Russia Tel.: (095) 220-4513, 220-4350 E-mail: ppz@cdu.elektra.ru ppz@usa.net ----------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 13:04:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09427 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.fultech.com (gateway.fultech.com [198.53.216.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA09392 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.16.40.175] ([172.16.40.175]) by internet with ESMTP (DuhMail/2.0) id PAA13243; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:59:42 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: internet: Host [172.16.40.175] claimed to be fulpc159 Message-ID: <33DE4BD6.C3943B59@acm.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:00:22 -0400 From: Mike Roth X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: K6 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . thank you -- "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum" - Finagle's Law From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 14:00:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12794 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (root@persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12787 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id PAA18647; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:56:04 -0500 Received: from dave.ppi.com(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma018632; Tue Jul 29 16:55:48 1997 Message-ID: <33DE58C6.30B40448@persprog.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:55:34 -0400 From: Dave Alderman Reply-To: dave@persprog.com Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Roth CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <33DE4BD6.C3943B59@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Roth wrote: > > I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 > processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with > the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the > K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . > thank you This is fascinating to me. Are Jaz drives acceptable for running BSD? If so, I will run some make world tests with 2.2.2 and FreeBSD on my K6 machine which is currently allocated to running an EOS. BTW, Jordan, the newsletter was very cool. Great idea! Note: "EOS" stands for "Evil Operating System". I'll let you guess which one. -- FreeBSD may have a daemon, but the Devil works for Microsoft. -- Anon. David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 14:46:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15136 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kalypso.cybercom.net (kalypso.cybercom.net [209.21.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15131 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell1.cybercom.net (ksmm@shell1.cybercom.net [209.21.136.6]) by kalypso.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00619; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:30:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ksmm@localhost) by shell1.cybercom.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA06819; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:58:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:58:20 -0400 (EDT) From: The Classiest Man Alive To: Dave Alderman cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 In-Reply-To: <33DE58C6.30B40448@persprog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: : This is fascinating to me. Are Jaz drives acceptable for running BSD? Assuming that I understand your question, jaz drives run FreeBSD perfectly well. They can be used as secondary storage or boot drives. K.S. From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 14:59:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15671 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15665 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA04865 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:00:20 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:00:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: edX driver bug fixed in 3.0 yet? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just curious, I forgot to do a send-pr about the edX driver bug in 3.0. Has it been fixed recently? If not, I'll do a send-pr. (note: recently as in since the first of July, when I installed 3.0) -Brandon Gillespie From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 15:16:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA16523 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:16:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.ineco.ryazan.su (root@ns.ineco.ryazan.su [194.58.169.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA16518 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from galion.ryazan.su (galion.ryazan.su [194.58.169.238]) by ns.ineco.ryazan.su (8.7.5.R.ML.S/Relcom-2A) with ESMTP id CAA29680 for ;Wed, 30 Jul 1997 02:16:28 +0400 Received: from BACKUP by server.galion.ryazan.su with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1457.7) id P7QRDMJY; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 02:16:17 +0400 Message-ID: <33DE6BAB.18E6@mutant.galion.ryazan.su> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 02:16:11 +0400 From: "Roman V. Palagin" Organization: Systems Integrator "RIGHT" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: ACCTON EN1207TX and FreeBSD 2.2.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello everybody! I've only one question: I've ACCTON EN1207TX (DEC21140A(?) chipset) 100BaseTX network card. Operating System is FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE. This card is seems to doesn't work with de driver. How can I force this driver work to? thanx for reply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roman V. Palagin Systems Integrator "RIGHT" Network Administrator http://www.galion.ryazan.su Internet Mail: romanp@mutant.galion.ryazan.su Tel: +7 (0912)725638 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 15:45:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18252 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:45:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18236 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA10179; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:44:54 -0700 (PDT) To: Mike Roth cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:00:22 EDT." <33DE4BD6.C3943B59@acm.org> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:44:54 -0700 Message-ID: <10175.870216294@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes, by all accounts the K6 has some problems. Check out the back issues of freebsd-hardware at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/mailing-lists/archive/ for more information. Jordan > I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 > processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with > the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the > K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . > thank you > > -- > "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum" > - Finagle's Law From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 15:46:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18362 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:46:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thor.i-connect.net (qmailr@thor.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA18345 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23534 invoked by uid 4028); 29 Jul 1997 22:46:33 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.5-alpha [p0] on Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:37:21 -0700 (PDT) From: ron@cts.com To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Seagate TST8000-SBET Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone had any experience using the Seagate TST8000-SBET as a /dev/st? scsi tape device with FreeBSD 2.2.1. Sure wish I could afford a SONY! Ron McDaniels --------------------------------- E-Mail: ron@cts.com Date: 07/29/97 Time: 15:37:21 This message was sent by XF-Mail ---------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 17:14:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA23632 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23625 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10061; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:15:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707300015.RAA10061@implode.root.com> To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: edX driver bug fixed in 3.0 yet? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:00:20 MDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:15:19 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Just curious, I forgot to do a send-pr about the edX driver bug in 3.0. >Has it been fixed recently? If not, I'll do a send-pr. I'm not aware of any bugs in the 'ed' driver. There haven't been any changes to the main body of the code in years, so I don't see how it could have broken all of a sudden. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 19:01:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29060 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 19:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29047 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 19:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA16407; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:31:17 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707300201.LAA16407@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ACCTON EN1207TX and FreeBSD 2.2.1 In-Reply-To: <33DE6BAB.18E6@mutant.galion.ryazan.su> from "Roman V. Palagin" at "Jul 30, 97 02:16:11 am" To: romanp@mutant.galion.ryazan.su (Roman V. Palagin) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:31:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Roman V. Palagin stands accused of saying: > > I've ACCTON EN1207TX (DEC21140A(?) chipset) 100BaseTX network card. > Operating System is FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE. This card is seems to > doesn't work with de driver. How can I force this driver work to? I set up a system with three of these cards a couple weeks back; they worked just fine on a roughly 2.2.2-vintage kernel. You might have to tinker with the -link* flags a little to make the card come up; you'll get a console message when it does. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 20:40:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04147 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04120 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 20:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA06295; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:40:15 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 21:40:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: David Greenman cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: edX driver bug fixed in 3.0 yet? In-Reply-To: <199707300015.RAA10061@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, David Greenman wrote: > >Just curious, I forgot to do a send-pr about the edX driver bug in 3.0. > >Has it been fixed recently? If not, I'll do a send-pr. > > I'm not aware of any bugs in the 'ed' driver. There haven't been any > changes to the main body of the code in years, so I don't see how it could > have broken all of a sudden. That was my impression, but its broken nonetheless :) A few weeks ago I posted this, and didn't hear much about it. However, for posterity ;) I was running FreeBSD 2.2.2 (and previously, nearly every version since 2.0.5). My hardware is currently an Intel Pentium 120 with a generic intel HX chipset board. I have a Kingston NE2000 clone ISA network card which has always worked fine, and works fine in other computers (I have the same card used elsewhere). About July 10th I upgraded from FreeBSD 2.2.2 to FreeBSD-current (make world). Ever since I upgraded the ed driver does not work, UNLESS I first boot from my old 2.2.2 kernel, then _SOFT BOOT_ (CTRL-ALT-DEL, not reset button) and use my 3.0 kernel. What I have tried: * Power down, power up, boot 3.0--ed0 does not work (always fails with a device timeout error) * Soft reboot back into 3.0, still doesn't work * Soft reboot (or hard, works either way), use 2.2.2 kernel * Soft reboot (when it gets to mounting the FS with the 2.2.2 kernel and bombs, use CTRL-ALT-DEL), use 3.0 kernel * ed0 works fine. So basically, once I boot from 2.2.2 then soft boot into 3.0 the ed0 driver works fine. I have no idea how the code works, I have no idea what has changed, I have no care what has changed. All I know is SOMETHING has changed (either directly in the ed device, or something which indirectly effects the ed device initializing) because it DOES NOT WORK. If you doubt, call me, I'll run through every possible option you can think of 8) I can guarantee nothing has changed on the hardware end, between my 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.2-GAMMA, 2.2.2 installs and the latest upgrade to 3.0. -Brandon Gillespie From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 22:12:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08798 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08785 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03863; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA06073; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707300511.WAA06073@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Mike Roth , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Jul 97 15:44:54 -0700. <10175.870216294@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:11:59 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Yes, by all accounts the K6 has some problems. Check out the back >issues of freebsd-hardware at: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/mailing-lists/archive/ >for more information. Or rather, there is the potential for problems. There are some who claim to be using them without any problems. And there are some who are not able to make them work well at all. >> I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 >> processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with >> the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the >> K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 22:15:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08974 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08969 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03959; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA06110; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707300514.WAA06110@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: The Classiest Man Alive cc: Dave Alderman , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Jul 97 17:58:20 -0400. Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:14:52 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > : This is fascinating to me. Are Jaz drives acceptable for running BSD? >Assuming that I understand your question, jaz drives run FreeBSD perfectly >well. They can be used as secondary storage or boot drives. Just understand that they won't be quite as fast as "normal" SCSI drives if the verify mode is on. Take that into account when doing your benchmarks. (And they are not as reliable with verify mode off-- that's not a recommended fix.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 22:16:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA09054 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA09048 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wtR7N-0007l8-00; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:16:13 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:16:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: edX driver bug fixed in 3.0 yet? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > Just curious, I forgot to do a send-pr about the edX driver bug in 3.0. > Has it been fixed recently? If not, I'll do a send-pr. > > (note: recently as in since the first of July, when I installed 3.0) > > -Brandon Gillespie I never seen or heard of such a bug. The ed driver hasn't changed much in a long, long time. Tom From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 09:18:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA12152 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA12143 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from East.Sun.COM ([129.148.1.241]) by mercury.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with SMTP id JAA09301; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 09:16:38 -0700 Received: from suneast.East.Sun.COM by East.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-5.3) id MAA15681; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:16:34 -0400 Received: from compound.east.sun.com by suneast.East.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA02922; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:16:33 -0400 Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound.east.sun.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) id LAA25169; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:18:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:18:14 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM Message-Id: <199707301618.LAA25169@compound.east.sun.com> From: Tony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: miker@acm.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 References: <33DE4BD6.C3943B59@acm.org> <10175.870216294@time.cdrom.com> X-Face: O9M"E%K;(f-Go/XDxL+pCxI5*gr[=FN@Y`cl1.Tn Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, 29 July: : Yes, by all accounts the K6 has some problems. Well, not *all* accounts, just the majority:) From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 11:33:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22826 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:33:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from persprog.com (root@persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22813 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:33:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id NAA32343; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:17:56 -0500 Received: from dave.ppi.com(192.2.2.6) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma032341; Wed Jul 30 14:17:48 1997 Message-ID: <33DF8540.9A5F1507@persprog.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 14:17:36 -0400 From: Dave Alderman Reply-To: dave@persprog.com Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, sam@persprog.com, dave@persprog.com Subject: Re: K6 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199707300511.WAA06073@MindBender.serv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > > >Yes, by all accounts the K6 has some problems. Check out the back > >issues of freebsd-hardware at: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/mailing-lists/archive/ > >for more information. > > Or rather, there is the potential for problems. There are some who > claim to be using them without any problems. And there are some who > are not able to make them work well at all. > Maybe the problems are related to one (or more) of the following: - Switched vs. Analog regulators (analogs may not have enough current while switched can be noisy). - 2.8 vs 2.9 V core on the K6 200 - Electrolytic Caps! (I'm sorry - I couldn't resist.) - Different K6 "revisions" (does anybody have some hard facts on this one?) - Different BIOS revisions (not just K6 support, but working K6 support). Or maybe they just suck. I sure hope not since the price cuts are still moving along on both Intel and AMD parts. I'm not sure if Intel would be so aggressive in its pricing without AMD nibbling at its toes :-) For those who don't already know - Intel yesterday cut their CPU prices an average of 50% while AMD announced a 55% reduction. Competition is great for consumers. -- FreeBSD may have a daemon, but Microsoft has the Devil himself -- Anon. David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 12:57:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29187 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.tbe.net (qmailr@lightning.tbe.net [208.208.122.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA29182 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2007 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Jul 1997 19:50:59 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:50:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Dave Alderman cc: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, sam@persprog.com Subject: Re: K6 In-Reply-To: <33DF8540.9A5F1507@persprog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Or maybe they just suck. I sure hope not since the price cuts are still > moving along on both Intel and AMD parts. I'm not sure if Intel would > be so > aggressive in its pricing without AMD nibbling at its toes :-) Well, for what it's worth, the prices on the Cyrix chips have dropped like a rock...I can get a 166+ for about $65 and a 200+ for about $85. Granted no 'MMX', but they are pretty decent nontheless. And for that price, it is hard to beat...the closest Intel 166 (no MMX either) is still around $165. Just my $.02 -Gary Margiotta TBE Internet Services http://www.tbe.net From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 13:32:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01518 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA01502 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10288; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09648; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707302031.NAA09648@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Gary D. Margiotta" cc: Dave Alderman , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, sam@persprog.com Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 30 Jul 97 15:50:57 -0400. Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:31:54 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Or maybe they just suck. I sure hope not since the price cuts are still >> moving along on both Intel and AMD parts. I'm not sure if Intel would >> be so >> aggressive in its pricing without AMD nibbling at its toes :-) >Well, for what it's worth, the prices on the Cyrix chips have dropped like >a rock...I can get a 166+ for about $65 and a 200+ for about $85. Granted >no 'MMX', but they are pretty decent nontheless. And for that price, it >is hard to beat...the closest Intel 166 (no MMX either) is still around >$165. It's important to differentiate between P5 class chips and P6 class chips. The Cyrix non-MMX chips are P5 class. The K6 is P6 class. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 13:33:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01659 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:33:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01646 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (jwm@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA13858; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:33:41 -0700 Message-Id: <199707302033.NAA13858@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, miker@acm.org, root@meeko.eecs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Message from Tony Kimball of "Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:18:14 CDT." <199707301618.LAA25169@compound.east.sun.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:33:24 -0700 From: John Milford Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, 29 July: > : Yes, by all accounts the K6 has some problems. > > Well, not *all* accounts, just the majority:) > I few weeks ago, I posted that I was having trouble with my new K6/200 machine. In the end the vendor swapped a Pentium/200 for it and all was happy. But I really wanted a K6 so I did some research and found that AMD had tested with the FIC PA-2011. I now have a K6/200 in a PA-2011 (VIA VP-2) and it is running quite well. I have only been running for a couple days now so I am still waiting to see if I will hit the 2 week problem. I'll post again with more results after I have done more testing. --John From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 30 15:45:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA09806 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA09801 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA10287; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:45:39 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:45:39 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: Tom Samplonius cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: edX driver bug fixed in 3.0 yet? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > > > Just curious, I forgot to do a send-pr about the edX driver bug in 3.0. > > Has it been fixed recently? If not, I'll do a send-pr. > > > > (note: recently as in since the first of July, when I installed 3.0) > > I never seen or heard of such a bug. The ed driver hasn't changed much > in a long, long time. See my followup post. I guess I'll just do a send-pr for it then.. -Brandon Gillespie From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 31 07:32:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA12039 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:32:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geotech.pauir.itb.ac.id (geotech.pauir.ITB.ac.id [167.205.22.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA12027 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ari@localhost) by geotech.pauir.itb.ac.id (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08509; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:32:57 +0700 (JVT) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:32:57 +0700 (JVT) From: Ari Noviandi cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk unsubscribe From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 31 08:27:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15319 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:27:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix.tfs.net (unix.tfs.net [199.79.146.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15250 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bob@localhost) by unix.tfs.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28965 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:23:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:23:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Plagens To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble with Adaptec 1542CP Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I just got a new Adaptec 1542CP SCSI controller and am having difficulties getting it to function with FreeBSD. It is running on the following system: Compaq Deskpro 575 (90 mhz pentium) 32M Ram 750M IDE boot drive 2 1.3G Seagate scsi drives (if I can get the adaptor functional) The system boots and runs great without the scsi card installed. When the card is installed, the boot process goes through detecting devices and locks up after detecting npx0. I have recompiled the kernel with the aha0 driver specifying IRQ and address for the card. The card is not conflicting with any other devices. I previously had an Adaptec 1520 with the same IRQ and address functioning on the machine. I have also tried changing the irq and address of the 1542, with no success. It locks up with every setting. Any ideas what the problem might be? I'm at a loss. Bob Plagens Voice: (913)262-4638 x119 System Administrator, TFSnet, Inc Fax: (913)262-8948 email: bob@tfs.net Pager: (913)771-8365 From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 31 13:21:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00937 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from h2o.journey.net (h2o.journey.net [207.227.162.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00931 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (listuser@localhost) by h2o.journey.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA29348; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:21:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:21:30 -0400 (EDT) From: listuser To: Dave Alderman cc: Mike Roth , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: K6 In-Reply-To: <33DE58C6.30B40448@persprog.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Could this be OS/2 ?? *GRIN* --Matt On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Dave Alderman wrote: > Mike Roth wrote: > > > > I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 > > processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with > > the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the > > K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . > > thank you > > This is fascinating to me. Are Jaz drives acceptable for running BSD? > If so, I will run some make world tests with 2.2.2 and FreeBSD on my > K6 machine which is currently allocated to running an EOS. > > BTW, Jordan, the newsletter was very cool. Great idea! > > Note: "EOS" stands for "Evil Operating System". I'll let you guess > which one. > -- > FreeBSD may have a daemon, but the Devil works for Microsoft. -- Anon. > David W. Alderman dave@persprog.com > From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 31 17:26:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12937 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA12932; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:26:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA00701; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:56:29 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708010026.JAA00701@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SCSI Card to use. In-Reply-To: from "David E. Cross" at "Jul 31, 97 02:30:27 pm" To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:56:29 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It's better to ask questions like this on -hardware rather than -hackers. David E. Cross stands accused of saying: > I am looking to pick up a SCSI 3 Ultrawide card. I was looking at the > Adaptec 2940 Ultrawide. Is there a better card to get, or one that has > better support within the FreeBSD comunity? The Adaptec is about as good as they get, and the support is generally very good (although the driver does go through patches of instability when Adaptec make changes to their range or programming data). An alternative to be considered seriously is any card based on the NCR 875 chip; see http://www.tekram.com for one such device. These cards are _very_ well supported by FreeBSD, and the driver has been stable for a long time now. > David Cross -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 31 22:24:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29082 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29058; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:24:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from drpepper.eng.umd.edu (crb@drpepper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.13]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.6/8.8.7.Beta3) with ESMTP id BAA07422; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:23:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (crb@localhost) by drpepper.eng.umd.edu (8.8.6/8.8.7.Beta3) with SMTP id BAA05846; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:23:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: drpepper.eng.umd.edu: crb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:23:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher R. Bowman" X-Sender: crb@drpepper.eng.umd.edu To: Michael Smith cc: "David E. Cross" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Card to use. In-Reply-To: <199708010026.JAA00701@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > It's better to ask questions like this on -hardware rather than -hackers. > > David E. Cross stands accused of saying: > > I am looking to pick up a SCSI 3 Ultrawide card. I was looking at the > > Adaptec 2940 Ultrawide. Is there a better card to get, or one that has > > better support within the FreeBSD comunity? > > The Adaptec is about as good as they get, and the support is generally > very good (although the driver does go through patches of instability > when Adaptec make changes to their range or programming data). > > An alternative to be considered seriously is any card based on the NCR > 875 chip; see http://www.tekram.com for one such device. These cards > are _very_ well supported by FreeBSD, and the driver has been stable > for a long time now. > > > David Cross > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ > would have made this suggestion myself, however I don't believe that the NCR driver is doing Ultra-Wide transactions yet is it? The probe of my IBM Ultrastar 2ES Ultra-Wide drive (included below) indicates that I am not getting these types of transfers with my 2.2.2 (from the CD) system. Thus I didn't suggest 875 based cards since the request asked for Ultrawide cards and though the my Tekram 390F is indeed an ultrawide 875 based card which I am QUITE hapy with, it is not doing Ultrawide transactions. Perhaps this is not the case with newer source(I don't know) but people should be aware of this before purchase. (ncr0:0:0): "IBM DCAS-32160W !# S63A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access sd0(ncr0:0:0): WIDE SCSI (16 bit) enabled sd0(ncr0:0:0): 20.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 15) 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors) sd0(ncr0:0:0): with 8188 cyls, 3 heads, and an average 172 sectors/track --------- Christopher R. Bowman crb@Glue.umd.edu My home page From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 31 22:33:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29753 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29742; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 22:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA03730; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 15:02:16 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708010532.PAA03730@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SCSI Card to use. In-Reply-To: from "Christopher R. Bowman" at "Aug 1, 97 01:23:34 am" To: crb@Glue.umd.edu (Christopher R. Bowman) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 15:02:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christopher R. Bowman stands accused of saying: > > would have made this suggestion myself, however I don't believe that > the NCR driver is doing Ultra-Wide transactions yet is it? The probe of > my IBM Ultrastar 2ES Ultra-Wide drive (included below) indicates that > I am not getting these types of transfers with my 2.2.2 (from the CD) > system. Thus I didn't suggest 875 based cards since the request asked > for Ultrawide cards and though the my Tekram 390F is indeed an ultrawide > 875 based card which I am QUITE hapy with, it is not doing Ultrawide > transactions. > > Perhaps this is not the case with newer source(I don't know) but people > should be aware of this before purchase. Code for this was committed recently. Pester Stefan (se@freebsd.org) if it hasn't made it into 2.2-stable yet. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 03:24:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA13062 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abacus.tioga.net (root@abacus.tioga.net [208.133.255.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA13057 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from icebear.tioga.net (tbalfe@icebear.tioga.net [208.133.255.15]) by abacus.tioga.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA20350 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:24:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas J Balfe To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: AWE32 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk For 2.2.2R: #ifndef AWE32_BASE #define AWE32_BASE 0x620 /* Default = 0x620-3, 0xA20-3, 0xE20-3 */ #endif now, that is in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/sound/sound_config.h but, not in LINT Has any gotten the AWE32 to work with 2.2.2R? -- Thomas J Balfe TiogaNET tbalfe@tioga.net From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 06:55:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA20976 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:55:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from necropolis.org ([207.66.220.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA20971; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (edmond@localhost) by necropolis.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA19443; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:51:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: necropolis.org: edmond owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:51:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew N. Edmond" X-Sender: edmond@necropolis.org To: questions@freebsd.org cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RAID controller? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm looking to install a RAID 5 storage system in four of my FreeBSD boxes. What are the available RAID controllers that FreeBSD supports? Andy ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: \-/ :::::::: Andrew N. Edmond - finger for PGP key :::::::::: \-/ /-\ :::::: ............ :::::: /-\ \-/ ::: edmond@lycaeum.org :::::: an1@anon.nymserver.com ::: \-/ /-\ : Director of the Lycaeum :: the Nymserver Administrator : /-\ \-/ ::: www.lycaeum.org :::::: www.nymserver.com ::: \-/ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 08:49:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA25997 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA25991 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.3.81.149] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ta241221 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:49:27 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 10:37:22 -0000 (GMT) From: Chris Dillon To: Thomas J Balfe Subject: RE: AWE32 Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 01-Aug-97 Thomas J Balfe wrote: >For 2.2.2R: > >#ifndef AWE32_BASE >#define AWE32_BASE 0x620 /* Default = 0x620-3, 0xA20-3, 0xE20-3 */ >#endif > >now, that is in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/sound/sound_config.h >but, not in LINT > >Has any gotten the AWE32 to work with 2.2.2R? > >-- >Thomas J Balfe >TiogaNET >tbalfe@tioga.net I have my AWE32 somewhat working under 2.2-STABLE with OSS/FreeBSD ($25 from http://www.4front-tech.com). I haven't tried the kernel sound drivers for the AWE32 (I know the SB16 drivers and such work just fine). The only problem I have with OSS at the moment is that it doesn't see all the RAM (8MB) on *MY* card (apparently this problem occurs only with some older cards.. i have a legacy AWE32), so I can't load any SoundFonts into it. Otherwise, it works fine when playing MIDI via the ROM banks with OSS. --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 10:47:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02080 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:47:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org (ppp6209.la.inreach.net [199.107.160.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02058; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dburr@localhost) by DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA01994; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:47:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org: dburr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:46:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr X-Sender: dburr@DonaldBurr.DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org To: FreeBSD Hardware cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Does FreeBSD support WesternDigital 7193 PCI SCSI (33c296a)? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A friend of mine has offered to sell me a SCSI adapter at an excellent price. But I'm unsure of whether FreeBSD supports it. Hopefully you folks on the list can help me out. He identifies the board as a Western Digital 7193 FAST SCSI-2 host adapter, PCI. The chip on the board is marked as "33c296a". Is FreeBSD compatible with this unit? (any version of FreeBSD, I don't care if it's 3.0, CURRENT, etc.) Or, failing that, does anyone know if Linux supports it? (I have a second server here running Linux, which I wouldn't mind having a SCSI adapter on) Please respond by e-mail if possible. Thanks! Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 11:27:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04378 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw1.asacomputers.com (root@gw1.asacomputers.com [204.69.220.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04370 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gw1.asacomputers.com id IAA10887; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 08:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970801182421.00bfc618@gw1> X-Sender: rajadnya@gw1 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 11:24:21 -0700 To: "Andrew N. Edmond" From: Kedar Subject: Re: RAID controller? Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:51 AM 8/1/97 -0700, you wrote: >I'm looking to install a RAID 5 storage system in four of my FreeBSD >boxes. What are the available RAID controllers that FreeBSD supports? The CMD SCSI-SCSI(CRD-5400), Mylex SCSI-SCSI(DAC-960S?), and the DPT PCI-SCSI PM3334, seem to work. The drivers for the lattermost were developed by Simon Shapiro. His mail follows, FYR. **************************************************************************** ***** From: Simon Shapiro Subject: Announcement: New DPT RAID Controller Driver Available Hi Everyone! [ I am NOT an employee of Distributed Processing Technology. I do not represent DPT, not do i represent Atlas Telecom, my employer; I do it all by myself... ] DPT manufactures RAID controllers for PC's. These controllers allow you to create and manage RAID-{0,1,5} arrays and accomplish very high speed and reliability in disk storage. Up to 64MB of ECC cache can be installed on a controller and up to 3 SCSI busses attached. I have recently completed a FreeBSD driver for these controllers and made it publicly available to FreeBSD users. The driver supports the PM3334{U,W,D} which is a PCI controller sporting a 68030 processor, up to 3 SCSI ultra-wide-differential busses. It is also available (I think) as narrow, non-ultra and definitely single-ended. The driver was tested thoroughly only with the above controller but should also work with lower-end PCI cards. It will NOT work with non-PCI DPT Host Bus Adapters, nor do I have plans to add this support. The driver is still, in some ways, work in progress: The character I/O (to allow you to ``talk'' to the controller) is stable but not functional. So is support for in-driver RAID. The character I/O will allow you to run RAID configuration and management by opening /dev/dpt{0-n} and performing IOCTL, READ, and WRITE to the controller. These controls will allow you to monitor power supplies in the disk bay, fans, temperature, etc. It will also alow you to monitor disk I/O statistics, error logs, and performance statistics. In addition, you can destroy, build, and repair RAID arrays, with the system running. Interfaces will include a library, SNMP MIB, X based interface and some command line interfaces. The interface also allows you to dynamically configure hot spares (devices that will automatically go on-line when another device fails). The in-driver RAID allows you to build RAID arrays that span HBAs. This interface is O/S independent, so, you can have a boot device that will boot NT, Win95, Dos, FreeBSD, Linux, Unixware, Netware, etc. from a RAID array that spans disks. Extensive testing was done on the driver to assure high reliability. Highly qualified help was enlisted in reviewing and debugging the code. Having said that, the code only runs on 7-8 test machines and 2-3 workstations. It should be considered ALPHA and no mission critical data should be put on it, before YOU are satisfied with the product. The driver is available, now from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net and from ftp-i.connect.net, in the /crash directory. All this wonderful stuff is O/S independent, and RAID arrays, hot spares and normal devices all appear as standard disks to the O/S. The large cache can increase performance, on busy systems, dramatically, while reducing system load incredibly. The driver was tested with DPT firmware 07H and 07L. DPT provides (what amounts to) lifetime of free support and firmware upgrades. Firmware can be FLASH'ed in from the ftp.dpt.com server. Later versions of the driver will allow flash rom updates from Unix. I would like you to help me in posting an announcement on the proper FreeBSD lists and in checking it in. All the work was done against RELENG_2_2, and the patch provided was made, today, against a pristine source tree. For your convenience, I am also providing the latest DPT firmware and DOS utility to manage the controller, until the Unix interfaces are done. Testing was done on several industrial PC's. Either Pentium-100 or PentiumPro-200. The systems had 54-128MB of RAM and 1-2 controllers each. There were a minimum of 6 disks per SCSI channel per controller and all possible combinations of devices and configurations tried. Testing was assisted by few simple utilities: blob.c: Creates a unique barber pole, exactly 16MB in length and neatly slicable to sectors. st.c: performs random seek tests on a given file/device. nasty: A nasty little shell script to spawn 256 sessions of dd (or st) and try to see what breaks - Nothing. Tunable Parameters: As this is still an evolving driver, there are (too many) tunable parameters. the following are of interest: DPT_COMMAND_SPLHIGH: Forces the actual submitting of a command to the DPT to run at very high priority. Can/should be OFF. DPT_OPENNINGS: How many concurrent SCSI commands to send to a given device. Should be positive integer. Currently less than 64. The driver will bump this number up for devices that are very busy. It has nothing to do with linked/queued commands, as the DPT does linking automagically. Leave at 2, nice number. DPT_VERIFY_HINTR: Certain noisy motherboards generate bogus data on the PCI bus. If you get mysterious crashes, enable this option and tell me what you see on the console. Leave OFF unless you are seeing crashes you cannot explain. DPT_RESTRICTED_FREELIST: Under normal conditions, the driver will queue as many requests as the O/S submits. With this option ON, the driver will restrict itself to no more requests than the DPT can accept (normal firmware == 64). Leave OFF for normal operation. DPT_TRACK_CCB_STATES: When enabled will track, in details, the queue management. Only meaningful when combined with VERIFY_HINTR. Leave OFF. DPT_MEASURE_PERFORMANCE: Enables certain internal metrics. There is currently no clean way to extract these. Leave OFF for slightly better performance. DPT_USE_SINTR: The driver can work either in a traditional manner (as far as command submittal is concerned), or use Software interrupts for queue management. Leaving it OFF will give slightly better performance at low loads while dramatically slow things down at high loads. Running the ``nasty'' script, OFF will give you Load average of 110-120 at peak load. Turning it ON will take LA to 5-9. Yup. No typo here. Disk subsystem performance will stay very close, though. DPT_FREELIST_IS_STACK: If ON, more optimal use of the processor's cache will be realized, at a cost of slightly increased chance of cache overruns. Try both ways and tell me. Performance: With DPT_USE_SINTR off, we get about 3.5-4MB/Sec on single disks and about 15-18 on RAID-0 arrays. As Expected, RAID-1 performance is in the 10MB/Sec, and RAID-5 is about 15 READ and 5-7 WRITE. There is still excessive instrumentation and monitoring code in the driver. When complete, much of this will go away. System Load: It is interesting to learn that with DPT_USE_SINTR off, the dd test reaches LA of about 110-120 with 64 dd's. With DPT_USE_SINTR on, the load goes down to about 5-9. If this was a FreeBSD vs. Linux or FreeBSD vs. NT I would have left this statement alone at this point :-)) The reality is that the system's real load is almost identical. The difference probably comes from how LA is computed and interacting with the I/O queues. System responsiveness was excellent in all cases. Support: The DPT driver is an integral part of my employer's strategic product for the next few years. As the architect for that product, I can assure you it will be supported. Even in the unlikely event that my employer will not have vested interest in this driver, I will personally continue to support it. Thanx: In no particular order: Mike Neuffer: For helping so much with the early low-level wire twitching code and for deciphering, in realtime the documentation. Fragments of his Linux driver should still be scattered throughout the driver. Justin Gibbs: For lots of patience, knowledge of FreeBSD SCSI, excellent aic7xxx driver, form which I stole code shamelessly and many hours of debugging. Dan Eischen: For the hours spent hunting bugs, common sense and friendly help. Mark Salyzyn: For explaining, again and again, how a DPT card works and for critical debugging. The Atlas Telecom PrePay Team for listening and patiently waiting for me to get back to the keyboard and finish this code. I can be reached at my indicated e-mail address, or at 503.799.2313. Simon ----- End of forwarded message from Simon Shapiro ----- From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 13:03:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08796 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saule.wanadoo.fr (root@smtp.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08791; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ren3-224.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.252.153.224] by saule.wanadoo.fr for Paris Fri, 1 Aug 1997 22:03:13 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <33E2BB64.573E@wanadoo.fr> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 21:45:24 -0700 From: Christine Duchaine X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E [fr]-NAVIGATEU (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org CC: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: how to install FreeBSD on a slave disk ? X-URL: http://www.wanadoo.fr/wanadoo_et_moi/mes_messages/bin/listemsg.cgi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Sorry for this novice question .... I would like to install FreeBSD on a secondary (slave) hard disk. Here is my configuration : First disk (500 MB) : primary (Master) hard disk with DOS installed. Second Disk (2500 MB) : Secondary (Slave) disk. I would like to install FreeBSD on the first 500 MB of the second disk, and the remaining of the 2nd disk would be an extended DOS partition. I have tried this configuration, but my PC always boots on the DOS partition of the first disk. Is this configuration completely stupid ? Or is there a way to run it. Any help, any information would be appreciated.... Please would you mind answering directly to : christine.duchaine@wanadoo.fr Thanks you Sincerely Christine From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 13:14:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09514 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from folco.lms.ru (folco.lms.ru [193.125.142.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA09496 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minas-tirith.lms.ru (uucp@localhost) by folco.lms.ru (8.8.5/8.6.9) with UUCP id AAA08612 for freebsd.org!freebsd-hardware; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 00:14:06 +0400 (MSD) Received: from minas-tirith (minas-tirith [127.0.0.1]) by minas-tirith.lms.ru (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA02286 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:48:48 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199708011948.XAA02286@minas-tirith.lms.ru> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: freebsd.org!freebsd-hardware@minas-tirith.lms.ru Subject: Old BIOS and IDE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:48:48 +0400 From: Alex Povolotsky Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello! I'm trying to set up IDE hard disk and IDE CD-ROM on an aging 486 (yes, time to upgrade, I know). Old BIOS seems to know nothing about ATAPI CD-ROMs, so when I put CD-ROM on second IDE controller, BIOS fails to find IDE... and FreeBSD fails to find wdc1! Well, I could think it's fate, but Bug'95 recognises CD-ROM in the same condition! Maybe kernel relates on BIOS too much? Alex. From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 16:04:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17357 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 16:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.166.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA17347; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 16:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr3-8.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Octopussy.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA04703 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sat, 2 Aug 1997 01:04:26 +0200 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.8.6/8.6.9) id XAA00411; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:54:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: " Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:52:39 +0200 From: Stefan Esser To: Michael Smith Cc: "Christopher R. Bowman" , dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser Subject: Re: SCSI Card to use. References: <199708010532.PAA03730@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 In-Reply-To: <199708010532.PAA03730@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Fri, Aug 01, 1997 at 03:02:16PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Aug 1, Michael Smith wrote: > Christopher R. Bowman stands accused of saying: > > > > would have made this suggestion myself, however I don't believe that > > the NCR driver is doing Ultra-Wide transactions yet is it? The probe of > > my IBM Ultrastar 2ES Ultra-Wide drive (included below) indicates that > > I am not getting these types of transfers with my 2.2.2 (from the CD) > > system. Thus I didn't suggest 875 based cards since the request asked > > for Ultrawide cards and though the my Tekram 390F is indeed an ultrawide > > 875 based card which I am QUITE hapy with, it is not doing Ultrawide > > transactions. > > > > Perhaps this is not the case with newer source(I don't know) but people > > should be aware of this before purchase. > > Code for this was committed recently. Pester Stefan (se@freebsd.org) if it > hasn't made it into 2.2-stable yet. Support of 53c875 based cards was important to me, and I spent some effort in their support at the end of last year. I did not have time to add support for extended features (like Ultra-SCSI transfers, or the on-chip SRAM of the 825A and 875), and in fact wanted to be sure, that "normal" speed transfers were working, first. (I had quite a hard time some years back, when many hardware problems were assumed to be driver bugs, most were not, but instead caused by hardware problems, often bad cables and terminators. Ultra-SCSI demands much higher cable quality again, or much shorter SCSI bus length, and since I had been unable to distinguish driver problems from hardware problems, I decided to not go for Ultra.) But the lack of Ultra support in the NCR driver has really lasted for too long, and for that reason I was glad when Gerard Roudier (again) offered to provide me with patches that he had worked out over the last few months. The code in -current contains his patches, and should fit into 2.2.x (and -stable) without problems (though I did not yet try this myself). I will wait for a few more weeks, and will then update the driver in -stable, too. The patches show significant improvement of the (already good) performance of the driver, as much as 10% in certain tests. SCSI command overhead has again been reduced, and I received the following Bonnie results from Gerard (who has a significantly faster machine than my old 486 based SP3G :) -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU Atlas I 100 2436 50.4 6387 23.4 2846 18.4 2729 55.5 6576 19.3 98.0 3.8 Atlas II 100 2385 50.0 8721 39.2 3578 25.9 2767 56.2 9205 38.6 98.7 4.6 (Numbers are for a -current on a P133, 512KB cache, 32MB EDO with a WIDE Atlas and Ultra-WIDE Atlas II, I'm not sure about the zones the file systems resided in ...). If you think these numbers are low: They were measured by running two Bonnie processes simultanously, which also explains the 50% of the CPU each process got ... A total of 15MB/s was written and 16MB/s read from both drives combined. (The tests diverged since the Atlas II was significantly faster than the Atlas (I), and this explains a CPU load of some 55% each for the "read char" test ...) Regards, STefan From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 1 23:15:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04724 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from folco.lms.ru (folco.lms.ru [193.125.142.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04705 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 23:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minas-tirith.lms.ru (uucp@localhost) by folco.lms.ru (8.8.5/8.6.9) with UUCP id KAA23302 for freebsd.org!freebsd-hardware; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 10:14:58 +0400 (MSD) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by minas-tirith.lms.ru (8.8.6/8.6.9) with UUCP id JAA24713; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 09:27:32 +0400 (MSD) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by folco.lms.ru (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA24445; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 07:29:23 +0400 (MSD) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA08885; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:59:17 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708020329.MAA08885@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Old BIOS and IDE In-Reply-To: <199708011948.XAA02286@minas-tirith.lms.ru> from Alex Povolotsky at "Aug 1, 97 11:48:48 pm" To: tarkhil@minas-tirith.lms.ru (Alex Povolotsky) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:59:17 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd.org!freebsd-hardware@minas-tirith.lms.ru X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alex Povolotsky stands accused of saying: > > I'm trying to set up IDE hard disk and IDE CD-ROM on an aging 486 (yes, time > to upgrade, I know). Old BIOS seems to know nothing about ATAPI CD-ROMs, so > when I put CD-ROM on second IDE controller, BIOS fails to find IDE... and > FreeBSD fails to find wdc1! Well, I could think it's fate, but Bug'95 > recognises CD-ROM in the same condition! How can W95 find the CDROM if the BIOS can't find the harddisk to boot from in the first place? I suspect you have a port or IRQ issue here. Where is this 'second IDE controller'? It it perhaps on a Soundblaster card? In this case, it's actually the _third_ IDE controller, and you will have to change the port address of wdc1 using userconfig to the correct value. > Maybe kernel relates on BIOS too much? It doesn't use it at all. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 2 01:03:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA10259 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 01:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from folco.lms.ru (folco.lms.ru [193.125.142.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA10253 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 01:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minas-tirith.lms.ru (uucp@localhost) by folco.lms.ru (8.8.5/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA12575 for freebsd.org!hardware; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:03:02 +0400 (MSD) Received: from minas-tirith (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minas-tirith.lms.ru (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA00408 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:02:14 +0400 (MSD) Message-Id: <199708020802.MAA00408@minas-tirith.lms.ru> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: freebsd.org!hardware@minas-tirith.lms.ru Subject: Printers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 12:02:11 +0400 From: Alex Povolotsky Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello! I'm currently thinking on purchasing printer, and, being low on money, I'm considering low-end one. Does anyone have any experience with HP DJ 400 and Lexmark 1020? Or maybe anyone can recommend cheap LED printer, like Panasonic? Alex. P.S. Any information on discount stores in US/Europe will be useless, I'm in Russia. From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 2 08:12:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27010 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 08:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA27003 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 08:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 11:10:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04238; Sat, 2 Aug 97 11:10:50 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA16506; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 11:08:25 -0400 Message-Id: <19970802110825.42121@ct.picker.com> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 11:08:25 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Thomas J Balfe , Chris Dillon Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWE32 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: ; from Thomas J Balfe on Fri, Aug 01, 1997 at 06:24:19AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas J Balfe: |Has any gotten the AWE32 to work with 2.2.2R? Chris Dillon: |I have my AWE32 somewhat working under 2.2-STABLE with OSS/FreeBSD ... |The only problem I have with OSS at the moment is that it doesn't see all |the RAM (8MB) on *MY* card (apparently this problem occurs only with some |older cards.. i have a legacy AWE32), so I can't load any SoundFonts into |it. Otherwise, it works fine when playing MIDI via the ROM banks with OSS. The checked-in driver works, but recent versions are more capable. BTW, you can load patch files up to your SB32's/AWE32's installed memory capacity. Grab the 0.4.0 driver from here, and pop in the few kernel files: http://multiverse.com/~rhh/awedrv/ Build a new kernel with: controller snd0 device pas0 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 drq 3 vector pasintr device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 device awe0 at isa? port 0x620 Then the tools at the same URL will work for you. To play MIDIs, run this once after each boot (add to rc.local): sfxload -i /dos/c/awe32/sfbank/synthgm.sbk (or favorite SBK/SF2) and then run: drvmidi For playing MODs, 669s, MTMs, S3Ms, or ULTs, run xgmod/gmod. For cool synth sound in Doom, graph the Doom Music Server patch & plug it in. If you have a PnP, you'll need to use Sujal Patel's ISA PnP tools to get the card inited before the driver will work. A couple URLs to it: http://www.freefall.org/~smpatel/FreeBSD-ISA_PnP_June8.tar.gz ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/FreeBSD-ISA_PnP_June8.tar.gz Zoltan Sebestyen posted to one of the mailing lists very recently reporting success with this and the AWE driver on his SB32 PnP (basically the same card as an AWE32, but no mem installed by default). Hope this helps. Randall Hopper From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 2 16:16:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA20974 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 16:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA20913 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 16:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id SAA05940 for hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 18:14:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19970802110825.42121@ct.picker.com> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 18:14:04 -0500 (CDT) Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWE32 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 02-Aug-97 Randall Hopper wrote: > >Build a new kernel with: > > controller snd0 > device pas0 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 drq 3 vector pasintr > device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr > device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 > device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 > device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 > device awe0 at isa? port 0x620 Just wondering, why use the pas device for a Soundblaster? And won't it conflict with the opl device? Also, any chance of ever getting the awe device to recognize and work with an AWE 64? Seems to only be compatible with the AWE 32. Conrad, who admittedly hasn't fiddled with this stuff much lately :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/ From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 2 20:32:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01593 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 20:32:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01583 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 20:32:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.3.81.149] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ra242025 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 22:32:02 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19970802110825.42121@ct.picker.com> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 22:23:22 -0000 (GMT) From: Chris Dillon To: Randall Hopper Subject: Re: AWE32 Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, Thomas J Balfe Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 02-Aug-97 Randall Hopper wrote: >Thomas J Balfe: > |Has any gotten the AWE32 to work with 2.2.2R? > >Chris Dillon: > |I have my AWE32 somewhat working under 2.2-STABLE with OSS/FreeBSD >... > |The only problem I have with OSS at the moment is that it doesn't see >all > |the RAM (8MB) on *MY* card (apparently this problem occurs only with >some > |older cards.. i have a legacy AWE32), so I can't load any SoundFonts >into > |it. Otherwise, it works fine when playing MIDI via the ROM banks with >OSS. > >The checked-in driver works, but recent versions are more capable. BTW, >you can load patch files up to your SB32's/AWE32's installed memory >capacity. I know all about the RAM and SoundFonts :-) .. However, OSS isn't part of the FreeBSD distribution and is a third-party LKM, so it can't be fixed by anyone here (though I have offered my services in helping them solve this, and never got a reply.) :-/ >Grab the 0.4.0 driver from here, and pop in the few kernel files: > > http://multiverse.com/~rhh/awedrv/ > >Build a new kernel with: > > controller snd0 > device pas0 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 drq 3 vector pasintr ^^^^ You sure about that one? :-) > device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr > device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 > device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 > device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 > device awe0 at isa? port 0x620 > I haven't tried the new kernel drivers lately, but I do wish to give OSS a chance for a while longer (don't want to think I spent $25 for nothing). What I may do is create an install another kernel I can choose at boot with these new drivers, and one without (OSS and the Voxware drivers would conflict). --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best free OS on the planet ---- (http://www.freebsd.org) From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 2 20:56:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02614 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 20:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bob.tri-lakes.net ([207.3.81.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA02605 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 20:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [207.3.81.149] by bob.tri-lakes.net (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id ja242043 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 22:56:15 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 22:54:35 -0000 (GMT) From: Chris Dillon To: Conrad Sabatier Subject: Re: AWE32 Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 02-Aug-97 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > >On 02-Aug-97 Randall Hopper wrote: >> >>Build a new kernel with: >> >> controller snd0 >> device pas0 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 drq 3 vector pasintr >> device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr >> device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 >> device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 >> device opl0 at isa? port 0x388 >> device awe0 at isa? port 0x620 > >Just wondering, why use the pas device for a Soundblaster? And won't it >conflict with the opl device? I was wondering the same thing. :) >Also, any chance of ever getting the awe device to recognize and work >with >an AWE 64? Seems to only be compatible with the AWE 32. > >Conrad, who admittedly hasn't fiddled with this stuff much lately :-) The AWE64 is nothing but an AWE32 with a slight change in how RAM is upgraded and some nifty new connectors on the Gold edition. Programming interface is exactly the same, AFAIK. --- Chris Dillon --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best free OS on the planet (http://www.freebsd.org) From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 2 21:23:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA03328 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 21:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ux4.elga.net.id ([208.146.51.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03322 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 21:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from default (ppp2a.elga.net.id [208.146.51.130]) by ux4.elga.net.id (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08657; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 11:24:59 +0700 (JVT) Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970803105933.006e573c@pop.elga.net.id> X-Sender: freddi@pop.elga.net.id X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 10:59:33 +0700 To: Alex Povolotsky From: Freddijanto Subject: Re: Old BIOS and IDE Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199708011948.XAA02286@minas-tirith.lms.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:48 PM 8/1/97 +0400, you wrote: >Hello! > >I'm trying to set up IDE hard disk and IDE CD-ROM on an aging 486 (yes, time >to upgrade, I know). Old BIOS seems to know nothing about ATAPI CD-ROMs, so >when I put CD-ROM on second IDE controller, BIOS fails to find IDE... and >FreeBSD fails to find wdc1! Well, I could think it's fate, but Bug'95 >recognises CD-ROM in the same condition! You must set the IRQ and port for the third IDE controller. I'm using 486 with old BIOS and SoundBlaster IDE controller on port 0x168 and IRQ 10. You must set the wdc1 to those setting, and you must set your ATAPI CD-ROM as master. Notice : when you cold boot, you must boot to Win95 first, in order to set the PNP setting on the card right, then you can warm boot my computer to FreeBSD, otherwise it won't recognise your IDE controller on the SoundBlaster card. Unless you have nonPNP SoundCard. > >Maybe kernel relates on BIOS too much? > >Alex. > > >