From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 26 12: 7:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B334414ED0 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andi@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id VAA20150 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 21:07:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andi@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de (root@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.243]) by koala.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21608 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:23:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andi@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from andi@localhost) by mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA20979; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:23:13 +0200 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3.x (CAM SCSI) and AMD 53c974 based SCSI adapters Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Andreas Muck Date: 26 Sep 1999 20:23:12 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi I just got a new Dawicontrol-2974 PCI SCSI card to replace my old ISA-Adaptec. It's a pretty nice Fast-SCSI adapter based on the AMD 53c974 chip and it works great with the amd driver in 2.2.8. But now I read the release notes on 3.x and notice that it's not supported anymore by the new CAM SCSI subsystem. Are there any plans to add support for it soon or should I better return it while I still can? I'd prefer not to, cos I really like the little thing :) Does one *have* to use CAM SCSI with FreeBSD 3.x or are the old drivers still available? Andi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 26 14:55:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B721548D for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 14:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.5/nospam) with UUCP id XAA17267 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:55:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 4B4518711; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:17:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:17:55 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.x (CAM SCSI) and AMD 53c974 based SCSI adapters Message-ID: <19990926231755.A27163@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF AMD-K6/200 & 2x PPro/200 SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Andreas Muck: > I just got a new Dawicontrol-2974 PCI SCSI card to replace my old > ISA-Adaptec. It's a pretty nice Fast-SCSI adapter based on the AMD > 53c974 chip and it works great with the amd driver in 2.2.8. Use the "amd" driver. device amd0 -=-=- ********************************************************************* * FILE NAME : amd.h * BY : C.L. Huang (ching@tekram.com.tw) * Erich Chen (erich@tekram.com.tw) * Description: Device Driver for the amd53c974 PCI Bus Master * SCSI Host adapter found on cards such as * the Tekram DC-390(T). * (C)Copyright 1995-1999 Tekram Technology Co., Ltd. -=-=- > Does one *have* to use CAM SCSI with FreeBSD 3.x or are the old > drivers still available? The old drivers are not available. The entire SCSI layer has been reimplemented. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #74: Thu Sep 9 00:20:51 CEST 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 26 16: 2:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F17351548E for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 16:02:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA31000; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:02:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199909262302.RAA31000@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: 3.x (CAM SCSI) and AMD 53c974 based SCSI adapters In-Reply-To: from Andreas Muck at "Sep 26, 1999 08:23:12 pm" To: andi@koala.rhein-neckar.de (Andreas Muck) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:02:26 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andreas Muck wrote... > Hi > > I just got a new Dawicontrol-2974 PCI SCSI card to replace my old > ISA-Adaptec. It's a pretty nice Fast-SCSI adapter based on the AMD > 53c974 chip and it works great with the amd driver in 2.2.8. > > But now I read the release notes on 3.x and notice that it's not > supported anymore by the new CAM SCSI subsystem. Are there any plans > to add support for it soon or should I better return it while I still > can? I'd prefer not to, cos I really like the little thing :) A driver for the amd chips is an unadvertised feature of FreeBSD 3.3. There was no driver for the AMD 53c974 in FreeBSD 3.0-3.2. It is unadvertised, because it still needs some work in the error recovery department. > Does one *have* to use CAM SCSI with FreeBSD 3.x or are the old > drivers still available? You either use CAM with 3.x, or stick with 2.2.x. The old SCSI subsystem is gone. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 27 6:28:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ferao.jungle.bt.co.uk (ferao.jungle.bt.co.uk [132.146.107.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EAB152DB for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 06:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ispyropo@jungle.bt.co.uk) Received: from jungle.bt.co.uk ([132.146.112.89]) by ferao.jungle.bt.co.uk (8.9.1b+Sun/Jungle-8.9.1-03) with ESMTP id OAA06283 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:24:26 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <37EF7257.2AD92812@jungle.bt.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:34:15 +0100 From: Homer at BT Labs Organization: Adastral Park X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: About Cyclom-Ye SM8 Board on FreeBSD3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello! My name is Yiannis Spyropoulos and I 'm working at BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, England. Part of my present project is to use a Cyclom-Ye SM8 Serial Ports Board on a FreeBSD3.2 machine. To do so, I found out at the LINT configuration file that FreeBSD 3.2 supports this kind of board by enabling the 'device cy0' line and creating the devices ttyc0 and cuac0 under the /dev directory. However, after compiling and installing the new kernel, I rebooted the machine, only to discover that the booting sequence stalled after the hardware probing. Do you know if it is a drivers' bug, or it is something I'm doing wrong? I would appreciate your help very much, Yiannis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 27 7: 6:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from deep.darkcave.org (darkcave.org [216.126.90.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2307D1536F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 07:06:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gar@darkcave.org) Received: from deep (gar@deep [216.126.90.100]) by deep.darkcave.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA72160 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:11:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:11:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Gar To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Running X on ATI Rage 128 fury? In-Reply-To: <37EF7257.2AD92812@jungle.bt.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there a X drive for the new ATi Rage Fury cards? I have the 32mb Rage Fury card, could not get it to work at all. Any suggestions? Thanks. Garfield To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 27 7:41:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from post.bgnett.no (post.bgnett.no [194.54.96.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB0214A2F for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 07:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erik@habatech.no) Received: from bsdbox.habatech.no ([62.92.133.3]) by post.bgnett.no (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23316; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:40:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from erik@habatech.no) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:40:29 +0200 (CEST) From: "Erik H. Bakke" To: Gar Subject: RE: Running X on ATI Rage 128 fury? Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 27-Sep-99 Gar wrote: > > Is there a X drive for the new ATi Rage Fury cards? I have the 32mb Rage > Fury card, could not get it to work at all. Any suggestions? Thanks. > It works fine with Accelerated-X from Xi. I have not used it with XFree86. Tried version 3.3.3.1 but it was not supported then. ===========================+================+=============================== Erik H. Bakke | | To be or not to be... Senior Consultant/Developer|erik@habatech.no| Is simply a question of Habatech AS | | binary logic ===========================+================+============================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 27 9:35:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from stevenson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (stevenson144.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52853153D5 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Received: from doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (richard@doyle [129.215.110.29]) by stevenson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA29078; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:35:14 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 17:35:12 +0100 Message-Id: <15566.199909271635@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: Richard Tobin Subject: Re: Running X on ATI Rage 128 fury? To: Gar , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Gar's message of Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:11:14 -0400 (EDT) Organization: just say no Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Is there a X drive for the new ATi Rage Fury cards? I have the 32mb Rage > Fury card, could not get it to work at all. Any suggestions? Thanks. I think it's not supported in XFree 3.3.5. SuSE has a server available as a Linux binary; I don't know if you can get the source yet to build a FreeBSD one. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 27 12:12:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from deep.darkcave.org (darkcave.org [216.126.90.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BAF14FA2 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gar@darkcave.org) Received: from deep (gar@deep [216.126.90.100]) by deep.darkcave.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA72662 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:16:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:16:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Gar To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Two video cards with FreeBSD then.. In-Reply-To: <15566.199909271635@doyle.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok then, can I add a supported card to my system and tell FreeBSD/X to only use the supported card? Any takers? Thanks again :) Garfield On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Richard Tobin wrote: > > Is there a X drive for the new ATi Rage Fury cards? I have the 32mb Rage > > Fury card, could not get it to work at all. Any suggestions? Thanks. > > I think it's not supported in XFree 3.3.5. SuSE has a server > available as a Linux binary; I don't know if you can get the source > yet to build a FreeBSD one. > > -- Richard > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 27 13:20: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ulstu.ru (ns.ulstu.ru [62.76.34.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1621557C for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vlad@high.net.ru) Received: from hq.spc.high (ip237.link-ul.ru [195.151.42.237]) by mail.ulstu.ru (8.8.5-MVC-230198/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA18913 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:19:21 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from vlad@high.net.ru) Received: (from vlad@localhost) by hq.spc.high (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA02005; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:54:08 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from vlad) From: Vlad Skvortsov Message-Id: <199909271654.UAA02005@hq.spc.high> Subject: Re: Mylex 960 PCI-SCSI In-Reply-To: <199909250808.BAA00970@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Sep 25, 1999 1: 8:24 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:54:08 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > Is there driver for Mylex 960 PCI-SCSI available ? AFAIR someone > > > > planned to implement it. What is the state of that project ? > > > Somebody's working on it, but it'll be at least a week or two before > > > it hits -CURRENT. > > > > How do I contact the developer ? > > http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/mylex Is it possible/will it be possible to use this driver on 3.x system ? The fact is that we use machine with Mylex RAID as production server. It was running SunOS 5.6 yet a week ago, but FreeBSD is much more attractive for us. The compilation of your driver on 3-stable system failed because of: make: don't know how to make /sys//pci/pci_if.m. Stop after make depend. -- Vlad Skvortsov, vss@ulstu.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 3:26:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E860014E25 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 03:24:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA14072 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:24:56 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37F09769.824A745C@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:24:41 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello to all "satanic" fellows :-) I am considering to set up an X-terminal server running FreeBSD, with four Pentium III Xeon processors and 512MB-1GB RAM. This machine should service about 40 simultaneous X-users (running Netscape, Wordperfect, editors, LaTeX... mainly interactive use). I know that FreeBSD's SMP support is limited by the fact that the kernel is a big critical section, but in any case I would love to hear any experiences from people using similar configurations in a "many X-users" environment. With respect to the server, I like the Dell PowerEdge 6300. Does FreeBSD run trouble-free on this machine? Does anybody know? Of course, I am open to any suggestions :-) TIA, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Keyboard not present -- Press F1 to resume" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 3:50:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5BEE1500B for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 03:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA56611; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:50:10 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma056609; Tue, 28 Sep 99 20:50:02 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (778.2 1-4-1999)) id 4A2567FA.003B9C42 ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:51:06 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: Doug.Jackson@ipaustralia.gov.au, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A2567FA.003B9B0A.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:51:01 +1000 Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; Boundary="0__=lMgJpNYcRyYtlyFAW49Ohws2Fb2RSOLNdV6q9h70PpXzBFdk7qPZeyYM" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --0__=lMgJpNYcRyYtlyFAW49Ohws2Fb2RSOLNdV6q9h70PpXzBFdk7qPZeyYM Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline To: "Jose M. Alcaide" cc: Doug Jackson, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Hello. We run Dell PowerEdge 2300, 4300 and 6300 machines with FreeBSD 3.2 just fine. You should be aware that the install dies if you have too much RAM, we had to go down from 2GB to 128 MB when we ran the install CD. You are right to put the extra memory back in after that. Also, be aware that the Power Edge Raid Controllers (PERCs), are not supported by FreeBSD at the time. I have a feeling there is a driver in current, but we have a policy of only running from release. We use vinum and it flies. Hot swap PCI is supported by the hardware, but not by the kernel. These are the only things I can think of, email me if you have any more questions. Cheers, Michael "Jose M. Alcaide" on 28/09/99 08:24:41 pm To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Subject: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Hello to all "satanic" fellows :-) I am considering to set up an X-terminal server running FreeBSD, with four Pentium III Xeon processors and 512MB-1GB RAM. This machine should service about 40 simultaneous X-users (running Netscape, Wordperfect, editors, LaTeX... mainly interactive use). I know that FreeBSD's SMP support is limited by the fact that the kernel is a big critical section, but in any case I would love to hear any experiences from people using similar configurations in a "many X-users" environment. With respect to the server, I like the Dell PowerEdge 6300. Does FreeBSD run trouble-free on this machine? Does anybody know? Of course, I am open to any suggestions :-) TIA, -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jos --0__=lMgJpNYcRyYtlyFAW49Ohws2Fb2RSOLNdV6q9h70PpXzBFdk7qPZeyYM Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable =E9 M=AA Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pa=EDs Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electr=F3nica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jo= se Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 -----------------------------------------------------------------------= "Keyboard not present -- Press F1 to resume" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message = --0__=lMgJpNYcRyYtlyFAW49Ohws2Fb2RSOLNdV6q9h70PpXzBFdk7qPZeyYM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 5:44:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB0C152A6 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (garatu [158.227.6.222]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA14569; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:40:42 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37F0B746.35D4DA84@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:40:38 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pa=EDs?= Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y =?iso-8859-1?Q?Electr=F3nica?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au Cc: Doug.Jackson@ipaustralia.gov.au, carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? References: <4A2567FA.003B9B0A.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > > We run Dell PowerEdge 2300, 4300 and 6300 machines with FreeBSD 3.2 just fine. > You should be aware that the install dies if you have too much RAM, we had to go > down from 2GB to 128 MB when we ran the install CD. You are right to put the > extra memory back in after that. One little question: are you running FreeBSD on quad processor 6300s ? > Also, be aware that the Power Edge Raid Controllers (PERCs), are not supported > by FreeBSD at the time. I have a feeling there is a driver in current, but we > have a policy of only running from release. We use vinum and it flies. I plan to use Vinum, indeed. Thanks very much! -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Keyboard not present -- Press F1 to resume" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 5:46:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A062C15531 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 05:46:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA57322; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:46:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma057316; Tue, 28 Sep 99 22:46:29 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (778.2 1-4-1999)) id 4A2567FA.0046439A ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:47:28 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au To: "Jose M. Alcaide" Cc: Doug.Jackson@ipaustralia.gov.au, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A2567FA.004642D8.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 22:47:25 +1000 Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; Boundary="0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline To: "Jose M. Alcaide" cc: Doug Jackson, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Dual processor, able to go to quad though. Michael "Jose M. Alcaide" on 28/09/99 10:40:38 pm To: Michael Still cc: Doug Jackson, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > > We run Dell PowerEdge 2300, 4300 and 6300 machines with FreeBSD 3.2 just fine. > You should be aware that the install dies if you have too much RAM, we had to go > down from 2GB to 128 MB when we ran the install CD. You are right to put the > extra memory back in after that. One little question: are you running FreeBSD on quad processor 6300s ? > Also, be aware that the Power Edge Raid Controllers (PERCs), are not supported > by FreeBSD at the time. I have a feeling there is a driver in current, but we > have a policy of only running from release. We use vinum and it flies. I plan to use Vinum, indeed. Thanks very much! -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jos --0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable =E9 M=AA Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pa=EDs Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electr=F3nica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jo= se Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 -----------------------------------------------------------------------= "Keyboard not present -- Press F1 to resume" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message = --0__=ksfvrVZWxQYiA1Nk9Br4AmErXI8Uc0ymDu3ZnyAoawu7TbadB3x7tgAX-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 9: 9:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles556.castles.com [208.214.165.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247C4156CD for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01045; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:01:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909281601.JAA01045@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Vlad Skvortsov Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex 960 PCI-SCSI In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:54:08 +0400." <199909271654.UAA02005@hq.spc.high> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:01:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/mylex > > Is it possible/will it be possible to use this driver on 3.x system ? Please read the release notes. The driver _may_ be backported to 3.x when it's finished, but not before. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 9:56: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles556.castles.com [208.214.165.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFFC14E0F for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:55:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01382; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909281647.JAA01382@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith Cc: Vlad Skvortsov , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex 960 PCI-SCSI In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:01:15 PDT." <199909281601.JAA01045@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:47:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/mylex > > > > Is it possible/will it be possible to use this driver on 3.x system ? > > Please read the release notes. The driver _may_ be backported to 3.x > when it's finished, but not before. I should probably have qualified this: I am currently concentrating on making the driver work, and building the required functionality. Backporting to 3.x is a lot of work, and maintaining two versions in parallel would just make the job harder. > -- > \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith > \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 13: 5: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ike.ucdavis.edu (ike.ucdavis.edu [169.237.105.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F2D14FEE for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:05:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asteffes@ucdavis.edu) Received: from runner.ucdavis.edu (runner.ucdavis.edu [169.237.105.37]) by ike.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/UCD3.13.12) with ESMTP id NAA11647 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:05:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:05:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Steffes X-Sender: asteffes@runner.ucdavis.edu To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Parallel-port tape drives Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all. Are there any plans to support parallel-port tape drives, such as the Iomega Ditto drives? I know they are cheap junk ( :P ), but they are a cheap alternative for some of us who can spring $600 on a new DAT drive. Thanks. --- Adam Steffes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 13: 6:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ws74.webct.com (ws74.webct.com [209.87.17.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A51815083 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:06:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfoo@ca.webct.com) Received: from ca.webct.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ws74.webct.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02565 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfoo@ca.webct.com) Message-ID: <37F11FC6.93B03424@ca.webct.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:06:30 -0700 From: Darren Foo Reply-To: dfoo@ca.webct.com Organization: ULT Canada X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: COMPAQ SMARTRaid - General RAID questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I succeeded in using Mark Dawson's ida.c driver for the SmartRAID 2DH RAID Controller card. However, how would I know when a drive has died? And just as important, how would I know which drive to replace? Do I have to reboot and use the Compaq Diagnostic utility? That would be rather troublesome if this is a production server. Also, how would I go about testing the RAID array? In terms of stability? -- Darren Foo =========================== WebCT Canada Information and Communication Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 28 15:28:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C9A15066 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:28:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andi@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id AAA07388 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:28:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andi@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de (root@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.243]) by koala.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA03979 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:26:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andi@mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from andi@localhost) by mantuzo.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA12437; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:26:00 +0200 To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.x (CAM SCSI) and AMD 53c974 based SCSI adapters References: <199909262302.RAA31000@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Andreas Muck Date: 29 Sep 1999 00:26:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Kenneth D. Merry"'s message of "Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:02:26 -0600 (MDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 9 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: >A driver for the amd chips is an unadvertised feature of FreeBSD 3.3. There >was no driver for the AMD 53c974 in FreeBSD 3.0-3.2. Thank you for the information. I guess I'll have to upgrade from 2.2.8 straight to 3.3-STABLE then. I'll try that in a few weeks. Andi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 1:15:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.wxs.nl (smtp01.wxs.nl [195.121.6.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2446015064 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.159]) by smtp01.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB3599; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:15:45 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA39067; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:08:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:08:43 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au Cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" , Doug.Jackson@ipaustralia.gov.au, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 6300 with 4 Xeon processors ? Message-ID: <19990929100843.G38679@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <4A2567FA.003B9B0A.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <4A2567FA.003B9B0A.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On [19990928 13:06], Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au (Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) wrote: > >Also, be aware that the Power Edge Raid Controllers (PERCs), are not supported >by FreeBSD at the time. I have a feeling there is a driver in current, but we >have a policy of only running from release. We use vinum and it flies. No, there isn't. Work is on its way. We just need Ami to release specs. Feel free to _POLITELY_ request they release documentation for their [older] models of the MegaRAID range. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best I never thought that I'd change my opinion again... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 5:41:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gw-nl4.philips.com (gw-nl4.philips.com [192.68.44.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3591507D for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 05:41:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from R.Schofield@exchvs01.pbc.be.philips.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl4.philips.com with ESMTP id OAA27161 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:41:31 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from R.Schofield@exchvs01.pbc.be.philips.com) Received: from smtprelay-eur1.philips.com(130.139.36.3) by gw-nl4.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma027147; Wed, 29 Sep 99 14:41:32 +0200 Received: from bcs11.pbc.be.philips.com (bcs11.bcs.cs.philips.com [130.139.40.111]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id OAA23089 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:41:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from exchvs01.bcs.cs.philips.com (exchvs01.bcs.cs.philips.com [130.139.40.10]) by bcs11.pbc.be.philips.com (8.6.10/8.6.10-1.2.1a-961023) with ESMTP id OAA11525 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:41:23 +0200 Received: by exchvs01.bcs.cs.philips.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:40:09 +0200 Message-ID: <29F16C82368FD111914F00805F858E4F02D51C6A@exchvs01.bcs.cs.philips.com> From: "Schofield, Robert " To: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: PCMCIA support & advice, IO cards Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:40:07 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Has anyone got any idea of the level of support for 16-bit PCMCIA? I am going to try and put a 16-bit ISA PCMCIA host bus adaptor into a BSD box for an embedded appplication; does anyone have any experience with ths type of card, good or bad? Additionally, are there any recommendations for a particular brand of card? (URLs or other references welcome). Finally, has anyone got recommendations for combined A/D, D/A and digital (isolated?) I/O cards under FBSD? (again, 16-bit ISA). As always, your time and effort are appreciated. Rob Schofield To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 7:43:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC13E153D1 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 07:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [1.1.1.3] (203.108.213.124) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:13:06 +0930 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:42:55 +1000 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: jesse reynolds Subject: Fujitsu Laptop boot problems (Lifebook 735Dx) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folx I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE on a Fujitsu Lifebook, 133MHz (MMX Pentium) laptop. If I choose "Continue without kernel configuration" it gets a screen or two's way through the driver inits, then it hits "wdc1" and pauses for about 10 seconds or so, then a few lines flash up, then a quick flash of a screen full of garbage, leaving the following: ... zp0 not found at 0x300 adv0 not found at 0x330 bt0 not found at 0x134 aha0 not found at 0x134 vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x4d4d4d4d fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02501f0 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc062bf6c frame pointer = 0x10:0xc062bf74 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 0 () interrupt mask = net tty bio cam trap number = 12 panic: page fault Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort ... Is any of this useful? If so, what bits? How do you go about tracking down which piece of hardware is causing grief? This laptop has lots of bits on it, like USB, sound, power management chips, blah blah blah. cheers jesse -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au - http://virtual.artists Mobile: (+61) 0414 669 790 Faxmail: (+61) 02 9776 3594 Virtual Community Engine Email: jesse (at) va.com.au http://www.vce.net ?: http://jesse.va.com.au huh?: Content Management System ICQ: 4766684 & Application Server for Timezone: GMT +10:00 Hrs MacOS Webservers (W*API) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 10:59:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98085159E6 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA31455; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:58:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 10:58:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014n8c.san.rr.com To: Andreas Muck Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.x (CAM SCSI) and AMD 53c974 based SCSI adapters In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29 Sep 1999, Andreas Muck wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" writes: > > >A driver for the amd chips is an unadvertised feature of FreeBSD 3.3. There > >was no driver for the AMD 53c974 in FreeBSD 3.0-3.2. > > Thank you for the information. I guess I'll have to upgrade from 2.2.8 > straight to 3.3-STABLE then. I'll try that in a few weeks. You can find help with that at http://freebsd.simplenet.com/make-upgrade.html Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 11:46: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailc.telia.com (mailc.telia.com [194.22.190.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132E115145; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@syprix.se) Received: from d1o49.telia.com (root@d1o49.telia.com [195.198.194.241]) by mailc.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10377; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:45:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from syprix.se (t6o49p34.telia.com [195.198.195.94]) by d1o49.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA21867; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:45:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37F261E0.23C5163F@syprix.se> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:00:48 +0200 From: Stefan Lindgren Reply-To: stefan@syprix.se Organization: Syprix AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Is there anyone out there with a TYAN 1668-S(ATX) Dual PPRO wich have upgraded to Bios 5.1? I can't run the machine with the UDMA disk(should be supported in Bios 5.1). Works OK with a EIDE Quantum ~ 3 GB disk. Setup: FreeBSD 3.0; 196 RAM SB 64 Awe M Millenium 1 4 MB UDMA Seagate Medalist ~ 6 GB Tyan 1668-S Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 MP v 1.4 Regards /stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 13: 3:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F10115102 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ppp-2-99.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.133.99]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02024 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:03:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id QAA01583 for hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:04:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:04:53 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: AMD K6-III Kernel Settings Message-ID: <19990929160453.A1493@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What is the recommended set of flags to use for an AMD K6-III? (Write-alloc? Write-combine? etc.) Thanks, Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 13:32:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21BAD14CD0; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:31:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA22795; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:31:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199909292031.WAA22795@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem... In-Reply-To: <37F261E0.23C5163F@syprix.se> from Stefan Lindgren at "Sep 29, 1999 09:00:48 pm" To: stefan@syprix.se Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:31:53 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Stefan Lindgren wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyone out there with a TYAN 1668-S(ATX) Dual PPRO wich have > upgraded to Bios 5.1? I run a 1662D (the AT version of the same board) no problems... What goes wrong ?? The TYAN is a bit harsh on timing and I've seen a few early UDMA disk that are not rally up to the task. -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 29 13:53:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAAF81501E; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@syprix.se) Received: from d1o49.telia.com (root@d1o49.telia.com [195.198.194.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11717; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:53:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from syprix.se (t2o49p52.telia.com [195.198.194.112]) by d1o49.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA13244; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:53:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37F27FBC.DE71E5BB@syprix.se> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:08:12 +0200 From: Stefan Lindgren Reply-To: stefan@syprix.se Organization: Syprix AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem...] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------AB4D18FE0B71AC3914D01C7E" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------AB4D18FE0B71AC3914D01C7E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------AB4D18FE0B71AC3914D01C7E Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <37F27F47.E46A4F87@syprix.se> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:06:15 +0200 From: Stefan Lindgren Reply-To: stefan@syprix.se Organization: Syprix AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soren Schmidt Subject: Re: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem... References: <199909292031.WAA22795@freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I get page faults, kernel panic(trap 12) and the system won't boot. It looks that it could be memory related, but the system works fine with the EIDE disk. Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Stefan Lindgren wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there anyone out there with a TYAN 1668-S(ATX) Dual PPRO wich have > > upgraded to Bios 5.1? > > I run a 1662D (the AT version of the same board) no problems... > > What goes wrong ?? The TYAN is a bit harsh on timing and I've seen > a few early UDMA disk that are not rally up to the task. > > -Søren --------------AB4D18FE0B71AC3914D01C7E-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 30 10: 5:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mindy.accesscom.com (ns2.accesscom.com [205.226.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6764C1566B for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sabrina@shell.accesscom.com) Received: from shell.accesscom.com (sabrina@shell.accesscom.com [205.226.156.10]) by mindy.accesscom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id KAA08498 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:05:33 -0700 Received: (from sabrina@localhost) by shell.accesscom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) id KAA16459 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:05:33 -0700 From: Sabrina Minshall Message-Id: <199909301705.KAA16459@shell.accesscom.com> Subject: GA-686DX - CMOS To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:05:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL48 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I've a GA-686DX (A DUAL PPro) and the CMOS battery is dead. Now all I could see as the CMOS battery (from the manual) was a chip with the RTC as well. Anybody knows where I can buy this in the Bay Area? I couldn't find it at Fry's in Sunnyvale. Appreciate any help. Sabrina ps. I sent many querries over the past two months to the gigabyte folks but no reply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 10:18:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5626314D24 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:18:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id KAA51184 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:18:49 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199910011718.KAA51184@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Computer-controlled switch? (Not X10 complexity) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have an application where I'd like to be able to have a daemon monitoring a set of conditions, and in response to a certain set of them, be able to open a circuit, keep it open for a certain length of time (at least 5 seconds), then close it. Although there is some room for choice as to precisely which circuit I use (more on that below, if folks care), there is no reason to be concerned with anything greater than usual house wiring, and far less than 0.25 A. Ideally, the circuit would merely be a phone line (RJ-11 jacks). The machine that would, ideally, be doing this is also in physical proximity to the circuit in question. I've started looking at the x10 stuff, and it looks interesting and all... but * it seems overly complex for the aplication; * it isn't clear to me how well the x10 signalling will work if a device to be controlled is getting its power from a UPS. Now, I'm certain this is doable. I'm less certain that it can be done economically and reasonably safely by someone (me) whose track record with hardware is... less than stellar. I would also prefer to be able to control it from, say, a serial port (by sending ASCII text to it; possibly getting ASCII replies back, though that's far less critical). The specific application is to force a re-sync for the Alcatel xDSL 1000 network termination device I have at home. Every once in a while, it detects loss of sync and copes appropriately, but then sometimes it fails to recognize loss of sync, even though it won't pass packets. If/when that happens (as it did yesterday morning) after I get to work, the home net is isolated... which rather defeats much of the purpose of having a 24x7 connection to the Net. So I figured I could have a daemon pay attention to what's going on (either try to ping the default router a couple of times every 2 or 3 minutes, or look at the output of "netstat -ni" on the external interface, and if there was traffic in both ways, go back to sleep; otherwise, try the ping). If the daemon decides that corrective action is appropriate, I'd have it either power-cycle the Alcatel unit or -- preferably -- (effectively) unplug the DSL connection for at least 5 (probably 6, to be safe) seconds, which (empirically) seems to be enough for the Alcatel unit to realize that Something Is Wrong, then re-connect it, and let the Alcatel device re-establish sync. Power-cycling the device would also do it, but would go through its POST as well, which would slow recovery. But if I were to adopt this approach, I could either remove the house current from the "wall-wart" (transformer/rectifier), or interrupt the 12 VDC output of the wall-wart. And yes, I realize that if the Pac*Bell folks are actually doing things with the outside wires, this may not be useful... but the vast majority of the outages I've experienced so far would be circumventable via such an approach. I'm quite willing to summarize responses sent direct. Thanks, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 10:21:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from web1004.mail.yahoo.com (web1004.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1795C14C85 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:21:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwc_iv@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19991001172324.28823.rocketmail@web1004.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [132.45.120.11] by web1004.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:23:24 PDT Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:23:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Chandler Subject: parallel port backpack IDE/UDMA HardDrive To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I've been a Linux user since 94. I'm wanting to move to FreeBSD for it's orgainization and package management setup. I'm so sick of lib problems and lack of source installs not updating the rpm database. Anyway, there is one thing I need to know before I move over. Can you use a parallel port backpack IDE harddrive in FreeBSD? In Linux, you load a parallel port driver and then a parallel port IDE driver to get a backpack harddrive to work. In the FreeBSD Hardware Faqs, this question had a * with no answers on it. Has that supported be added? Will it? Thanks for the help, Joseph __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 12:40:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F7E14EA4; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 12:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@syprix.se) Received: from d1o49.telia.com (root@d1o49.telia.com [195.198.194.241]) by maild.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA22492; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 21:40:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from syprix.se (t4o49p21.telia.com [195.198.194.201]) by d1o49.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22462; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 21:40:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37F511AE.1400BCB8@syprix.se> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 21:55:26 +0200 From: Stefan Lindgren Reply-To: stefan@syprix.se Organization: Syprix AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem... References: <199909300633.IAA29925@freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the help Soren, The disk is a Seagate Medalist 6.2 GB UDMA But now I have tested all PIO modes(0 - 4 and auto) and disabled udma. It still doesn't work. I get different results when I change PIO. Once I got some message like: Page fault: Couldn't init disk...(something) Any clue? /stefan Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Stefan Lindgren wrote: > > I get page faults, kernel panic(trap 12) and the system won't boot. > > > > It looks that it could be memory related, but the system works fine with > > the EIDE disk. > > Hmm, probably because the system is getting bad data from the drive. > Are you using (U)DMA ??, try to switch that off in the driver, or try to > "dumb down" the drive in the BIOS (you can set the speed to PIO3 > there and still run DMA allthough slower) that helped me and the > drive I couldn't get to work otherwise. BTW what make/type of drive > is it, it might be a known bad one.... > > -Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 13: 2:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB3F14CB2; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA64288; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:02:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199910012002.WAA64288@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem... In-Reply-To: <37F511AE.1400BCB8@syprix.se> from Stefan Lindgren at "Oct 1, 1999 09:55:26 pm" To: stefan@syprix.se Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:02:32 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It seems Stefan Lindgren wrote: > Thanks for the help Soren, > > The disk is a Seagate Medalist 6.2 GB UDMA > But now I have tested all PIO modes(0 - 4 and auto) and disabled udma. > It still doesn't work. > I get different results when I change PIO. Once I got some message like: > Page fault: Couldn't init disk...(something) > > Any clue? Not really, have you tried with another disk ?? As said I had an older Maxtor that wouldn't work, but I've never had a problem since... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 13:11: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5FD14EA4 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA88501; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:10:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Computer-controlled switch? (Not X10 complexity) In-Reply-To: <199910011718.KAA51184@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Davo.... come to my cube for a bunch-o-stuff I picked up at the embedded systems conference.... for those who can't come to my cube :-) there is a ton of stuff out there and a starting poing might be www.echelon.com julian On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > I have an application where I'd like to be able to have a daemon > monitoring a set of conditions, and in response to a certain set of them, > be able to open a circuit, keep it open for a certain length of time > (at least 5 seconds), then close it. Although there is some room for > choice as to precisely which circuit I use (more on that below, if folks > care), there is no reason to be concerned with anything greater than > usual house wiring, and far less than 0.25 A. Ideally, the circuit > would merely be a phone line (RJ-11 jacks). > > The machine that would, ideally, be doing this is also in physical > proximity to the circuit in question. > > I've started looking at the x10 stuff, and it looks interesting and > all... but > > * it seems overly complex for the aplication; > > * it isn't clear to me how well the x10 signalling will work if a > device to be controlled is getting its power from a UPS. > > > Now, I'm certain this is doable. I'm less certain that it can be done > economically and reasonably safely by someone (me) whose track record > with hardware is... less than stellar. > > I would also prefer to be able to control it from, say, a serial port > (by sending ASCII text to it; possibly getting ASCII replies back, > though that's far less critical). > > > The specific application is to force a re-sync for the Alcatel xDSL 1000 > network termination device I have at home. Every once in a while, it > detects loss of sync and copes appropriately, but then sometimes it > fails to recognize loss of sync, even though it won't pass packets. > If/when that happens (as it did yesterday morning) after I get to work, > the home net is isolated... which rather defeats much of the purpose of > having a 24x7 connection to the Net. > > So I figured I could have a daemon pay attention to what's going on > (either try to ping the default router a couple of times every 2 or 3 > minutes, or look at the output of "netstat -ni" on the external > interface, and if there was traffic in both ways, go back to sleep; > otherwise, try the ping). If the daemon decides that corrective action > is appropriate, I'd have it either power-cycle the Alcatel unit or -- > preferably -- (effectively) unplug the DSL connection for at least 5 > (probably 6, to be safe) seconds, which (empirically) seems to be enough > for the Alcatel unit to realize that Something Is Wrong, then re-connect > it, and let the Alcatel device re-establish sync. > > Power-cycling the device would also do it, but would go through its POST > as well, which would slow recovery. But if I were to adopt this approach, > I could either remove the house current from the "wall-wart" > (transformer/rectifier), or interrupt the 12 VDC output of the > wall-wart. > > And yes, I realize that if the Pac*Bell folks are actually doing things > with the outside wires, this may not be useful... but the vast majority > of the outages I've experienced so far would be circumventable via such > an approach. > > I'm quite willing to summarize responses sent direct. > > Thanks, > david > -- > David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator > voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 15: 6:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from bomber.avantgo.com (ws1.avantgo.com [207.214.200.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC6415046 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@avantgo.com) Received: from river ([10.0.128.30]) by bomber.avantgo.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with SMTP id 298 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:01:52 -0700 Message-ID: <01d501bf0c59$1cdbe920$1e80000a@avantgo.com> From: "Scott Hess" To: Subject: Recommendations for FreeBSD RAID subsystems? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:05:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm looking to put together a RAID subsystem to be run under FreeBSD. In the near-term, it won't be too large, but I'll need to be able to add drives as things progress - preferrably on-the-fly, but I'm willing to accept a couple minutes of downtime if that's what it takes. I'm thinking to start with five drives (2 filesystems on RAID1 mirrors, plus a single hot spare), though I could see later having perhaps 25 drives or so (still probably in small RAID1 mirrors with hot spares). The best, in fact the _only_, info I've seen in this area is ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/wcarchive.txt. It pretty much agrees with what I've seen in the past. The Mylex 960SXI SCSI-SCSI controller seems pretty reasonable for the job, since you get things like the serial port management console and the like (I don't want to put 25 drives in an array that you have to reboot to NT to reconfigure!). Does anyone have anything to add to this? Other capable controllers, good vendors to purchase from, good/dense chassis, etc? Has anyone ever used the dual-controller failover stuff mentioned in the specs with FreeBSD? How about the dual-host failover stuff? Anyone willing to describe the process of noting a failure, and marking a newly inserted drive as hot spare? Any other information you think I need would be appreciated. Thanks much, scott hess scott@avantgo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 15:20:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 563C2151ED for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA08460; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910012220.PAA08460@implode.root.com> To: "Scott Hess" Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendations for FreeBSD RAID subsystems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Oct 1999 15:05:46 PDT." <01d501bf0c59$1cdbe920$1e80000a@avantgo.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 15:20:19 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I'm looking to put together a RAID subsystem to be run under FreeBSD. In >the near-term, it won't be too large, but I'll need to be able to add >drives as things progress - preferrably on-the-fly, but I'm willing to >accept a couple minutes of downtime if that's what it takes. I'm thinking >to start with five drives (2 filesystems on RAID1 mirrors, plus a single >hot spare), though I could see later having perhaps 25 drives or so (still >probably in small RAID1 mirrors with hot spares). > >The best, in fact the _only_, info I've seen in this area is >ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/archive-info/wcarchive.txt. It pretty much agrees with >what I've seen in the past. The Mylex 960SXI SCSI-SCSI controller seems >pretty reasonable for the job, since you get things like the serial port >management console and the like (I don't want to put 25 drives in an array >that you have to reboot to NT to reconfigure!). > >Does anyone have anything to add to this? Other capable controllers, good >vendors to purchase from, good/dense chassis, etc? Has anyone ever used >the dual-controller failover stuff mentioned in the specs with FreeBSD? >How about the dual-host failover stuff? Anyone willing to describe the >process of noting a failure, and marking a newly inserted drive as hot >spare? My company, TeraSolutions, builds custom RAID storage systems and I'd be happy to put together a quote for you. Although wcarchive is currently using the DAC960SXI, I haven't been very happy with its performance and have since moved to the Viper II series of controllers from CMD. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 1 15:33:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603EE151B0 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:33:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA98033; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:33:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Computer-controlled switch? (Not X10 complexity) In-Reply-To: <199910011718.KAA51184@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Use an old 2400 baud modem with an in and out jack... when you go 'on line' the modem will disconnect the phone line... ATO1 delay ATO0 julian On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > I have an application where I'd like to be able to have a daemon > monitoring a set of conditions, and in response to a certain set of them, > be able to open a circuit, keep it open for a certain length of time > (at least 5 seconds), then close it. Although there is some room for > choice as to precisely which circuit I use (more on that below, if folks > care), there is no reason to be concerned with anything greater than > usual house wiring, and far less than 0.25 A. Ideally, the circuit > would merely be a phone line (RJ-11 jacks). > > The machine that would, ideally, be doing this is also in physical > proximity to the circuit in question. > > I've started looking at the x10 stuff, and it looks interesting and > all... but > > * it seems overly complex for the aplication; > > * it isn't clear to me how well the x10 signalling will work if a > device to be controlled is getting its power from a UPS. > > > Now, I'm certain this is doable. I'm less certain that it can be done > economically and reasonably safely by someone (me) whose track record > with hardware is... less than stellar. > > I would also prefer to be able to control it from, say, a serial port > (by sending ASCII text to it; possibly getting ASCII replies back, > though that's far less critical). > > > The specific application is to force a re-sync for the Alcatel xDSL 1000 > network termination device I have at home. Every once in a while, it > detects loss of sync and copes appropriately, but then sometimes it > fails to recognize loss of sync, even though it won't pass packets. > If/when that happens (as it did yesterday morning) after I get to work, > the home net is isolated... which rather defeats much of the purpose of > having a 24x7 connection to the Net. > > So I figured I could have a daemon pay attention to what's going on > (either try to ping the default router a couple of times every 2 or 3 > minutes, or look at the output of "netstat -ni" on the external > interface, and if there was traffic in both ways, go back to sleep; > otherwise, try the ping). If the daemon decides that corrective action > is appropriate, I'd have it either power-cycle the Alcatel unit or -- > preferably -- (effectively) unplug the DSL connection for at least 5 > (probably 6, to be safe) seconds, which (empirically) seems to be enough > for the Alcatel unit to realize that Something Is Wrong, then re-connect > it, and let the Alcatel device re-establish sync. > > Power-cycling the device would also do it, but would go through its POST > as well, which would slow recovery. But if I were to adopt this approach, > I could either remove the house current from the "wall-wart" > (transformer/rectifier), or interrupt the 12 VDC output of the > wall-wart. > > And yes, I realize that if the Pac*Bell folks are actually doing things > with the outside wires, this may not be useful... but the vast majority > of the outages I've experienced so far would be circumventable via such > an approach. > > I'm quite willing to summarize responses sent direct. > > Thanks, > david > -- > David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator > voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 2 5:17: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BCF151D5; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 05:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@syprix.se) Received: from d1o49.telia.com (root@d1o49.telia.com [195.198.194.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18790; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:16:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from syprix.se (t1o49p40.telia.com [195.198.194.40]) by d1o49.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11162; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:16:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37F5FB23.564BBB28@syprix.se> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 14:31:31 +0200 From: Stefan Lindgren Reply-To: stefan@syprix.se Organization: Syprix AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyan Dual PPRO Bios 5.1 problem... References: <199910012002.WAA64288@freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, this UDMA story has finally come to an end. I got this wierd(!) ide to test my developer version of BeOS 4.5 on the machine. I have had no problem with BeOS on the machine before this UDMA disk thing. Did it work? No. The BeOS couldn't even find the CD-ROM when I had the UDMA crap whitin it! It seems like something is really buggy with that disk(Seagate Medalist 6531A). Anyway, I have now replaced it with the god old EIDE. No problemo. Runs good... Thanks for the help /stefan Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Stefan Lindgren wrote: > > Thanks for the help Soren, > > > > The disk is a Seagate Medalist 6.2 GB UDMA > > But now I have tested all PIO modes(0 - 4 and auto) and disabled udma. > > It still doesn't work. > > I get different results when I change PIO. Once I got some message like: > > Page fault: Couldn't init disk...(something) > > > > Any clue? > > Not really, have you tried with another disk ?? > > As said I had an older Maxtor that wouldn't work, but I've never had > a problem since... > > -Sxren > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 2 14:30:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lyra.ci.uc.pt (lyra.ci.uc.pt [193.136.200.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AFE153F5; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pedro@qui.uc.pt) Received: from godfather.mafia.net (pm1-44.uc.pt [193.137.211.172]) by lyra.ci.uc.pt (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12956; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 22:31:36 GMT From: pedro@qui.uc.pt Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 22:30:59 +0100 (BST) Reply-To: pedro@qui.uc.pt Organization: Departamento de Quimica To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: PNIC based network card Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org During a FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE install from a CD, it does not show the pn0 or pn1 devices (I have two! ]:( ) and only assumes that I want to have SLIP or PPP interfaces when I try to configure the network. I terminated the install without configure the network, build a new kernel and tryed to configure it manualy. The result was the same! On the boot msg it tells: ... pn0: <82c168/82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x20 int a irq 9 on pci0.12.0 pn0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:41:8a:95 pn0: No PHY MII founded (or something like that!!!) I don't understand this messages....(if you want, I can attach all the boot messages) ... but when the rc.conf is running, there is a message saying: ... pn0: device do not exist pn0: device do not exist pn1: device do not exist pn2: device do not exist ... ]:( any sugestions? Thanks in advance, Pedro --------------------------------------------------- Pedro Almeida Departamento de Física Universidade de Coimbra 3000 Coimbra Portugal Tel: +351-39-852080 Fax: +351-39-827703 TM: +351-931-4039968 E-Mail: pedro@qui.uc.pt Sent on 02-Oct-99 at 21:59:00 Fortune: The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat -- Ogden Nash. 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