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[Apologies if this winds up being a duplicate.  My initial mail never arrived]

Now that dual-layer DVD burners are available at a respectable price, I
am considering getting one to backup my system.  I'm not too fussed about
UDF support - I'd be happy if I can write a stream of bytes and get them
back again.  Can I just treat a DVD+/-RW as a big CD-RW and use burncd?

Does anyone have any experience with the LG GSA-4120B?  Alternatively,
does any have any suggestions for drives to get or avoid?

-- 
Peter Jeremy

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On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:53:25PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> [Apologies if this winds up being a duplicate.  My initial mail never arrived]
> 
> Now that dual-layer DVD burners are available at a respectable price, I
> am considering getting one to backup my system.  I'm not too fussed about
> UDF support - I'd be happy if I can write a stream of bytes and get them
> back again.  Can I just treat a DVD+/-RW as a big CD-RW and use burncd?
>

DL DVD+R burning is supported by last version of growisofs
(sysutils/dvd+rw-tools).  Have a look to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html

> Does anyone have any experience with the LG GSA-4120B?  Alternatively,
> does any have any suggestions for drives to get or avoid?
> 

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html
http://lists.debian.org/cdwrite/ archives

But all these links are already given in the Handbook page.

Marc

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On Saturday 31 July 2004 09:36 am, Vince wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am having trouble installing a Lucent LT
> chipped-Netcomm IN5699 modem on FreeBSD4.5. Yeah yeah,
> get a hardware modem, newer distro..., but this has
> become a challenge. Win98 reports it at COM 4. I have
> pkg_add'd the appropriate driver (ltmdm0-1.2.tgz) and
> it is loaded at boot as seen in the dmesg output
> below:
>
> Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989,
> 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All
> rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002
>
> murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium/P55C (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x543  Stepping = 3
>
> Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
> real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
> avail memory = 28110848 (27452K bytes)
> Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F
> bug
> md0: Malloc disk
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0
> on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port
> 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port
> 0x6300-0x631f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0
> usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on
> uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00,
> addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller>
> port 0x5f00-0x5f0f at device 7.3 on pci0
> pci0: <S3 ViRGE DX/GX graphics accelerator> at 10.0
> irq 10
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x11c1, dev=0x0440) at
> 11.0 irq 9
> orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7
> irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port
> 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem
> 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
> sio1: type 16550A
> ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on
> isa0
> ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> ad0: 612MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL640A> [1244/16/63] at
> ata0-master WDMA2
> ad1: 3093MB <FUJITSU MPC3032AT> [6704/15/63] at
> ata0-slave UDMA33
> acd0: CDROM <LG CD-ROM CRD-8522B> at ata1-master using
> PIO4
> Mounting root from ufs:ad1s1a
> ltmdm0: <Lucent Winmodem> port
> 0x6500-0x65ff,0x6400-0x6407 mem 0xe4000000-0xe40000ff
> irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci0
> ltmdm0: type Virtual 16550A
> cd9660: RockRidge Extension
>
> When I run pppd, it returns the error "Connection
> script failed". The relevant files are:
> /etc/ppp/options:
>
> /dev/ltmdm0 115200 # ltmdm0 is a link to cuaa1 or
> cuaa0 (trial and error)
> crtscts		# enable hardware flow control
> modem		# modem control line
> connect "/usr/bin/chat -f /etc/ppp/chat.script"
> noipdefault	# remote PPP server must supply your IP
> address
> 		# if remote server does not provide your IP address
> during
> 		# IPCP remove this line
> passive		# wait for LCP packets
> domain XXXXXX.XXXXXXX.com.au # domain name here
> defaultroute	# put this if you want that PPP server to
> be your default
> 		# route
>
> and /etc/ppp/chat.script:
>
> ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' "" AT OK ATDT12345678
> CONNECT ""
> TIMEOUT 10 ogin:-\\r-ogin: XXXXXX TIMEOUT 5 sword:
> XXXXXXX
>
> Thanks in advance, Vince

Use /dev/cual0 for the modem device.

-- 
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Greetings,

I got DLink DWL-G650 (h/w ver. B4) pc-card recently, which is supposed to 
run 802.11g using the atheros drivers (the windows driver is named 
ar5211.sys, which should mean atheros..).  However, I've been trying to get 
it to work for the past three days w/o success.  Other people on this list 
claim to have gotten it working, so any help would be much appreciated.

My setup is:  -current (from early July) on a Dell 8600, running a Broadcom 
ethernet interface on bfe0, and a kernel recompiled with "device ath" and 
"device ath_hal".

When I put the Dlink card in, i get the following:

cardbus0:  Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
bfe1: < Broadcom ... > irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
bfe1: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000002 of register 42C to clear
bfe1: MII without any PHY!
device_attach: bfe1 attach returned 6
cbb0: Cardbus activation failed.

Then a few seconds later I get something like

bfe0: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000002 of register 42C

about 6 times, and then the computer freezes.  The above line is not the 
exact output, since after the computer freezes, I can't copy the text 
(clearly..).

Now, the above is strange because the card should be picked up by an atheros 
driver, not the bfe driver (note that bfe0 is my internal ethernet card, and 
the above is trying to assign the pccard to bfe1).  I've tryed putting in 
hw.pccard.debug=1 and cis_debug=1, however the computer freezes before I get 
any output from those.

I've read in other posts on the lists that the "Resource not specified" line 
is some sort of resource management issue, but no one has specified how to 
fix it.  And that doesn't seem to address the other issue that the card 
isn't recognized by the atheros driver.

So... I'm at a loss as to what to do.

Any help would be much appreciated.

regards,
Mike

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Hi Guys and Gals,

First off I am not a troll, this is a serious email. I can not go into 
to many fine points as I am bound by an NDA.

The problem:

I need to hold a text file in ram, the text file in the forseable future 
could be up to 10TB in size.

My Options:

Design a computer (probably multiple AMD 64's) to handle 10TB of memory 
(+ a few extra Gb of ram for system overhead) and hold the file in one 
physical computer system.

Build a server farm and have each server hold a portion eg 4GB each 
Server (250 servers (plus a few extra for system overhead)

The reason the file needs to be in ram is that I need speed of search 
for paterns in the data (less than 1 second to pull out relevent chunks)

I am sure I have missed some options, right now I am just kicking ideas 
around, the software will be based on FreeBSD with some major 
modifications to address the large amount of ram (probably set it up as 
a virtual drive with one file)

Regards,

Kat.

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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Kathy Quinlan wrote:

> First off I am not a troll, this is a serious email.  I can not go
> into to many fine points as I am bound by an NDA.

That's too bad, because it will make this a little more complicated.
But nevertheless...

> The problem:
>
> I need to hold a text file in ram, the text file in the forseable
> future could be up to 10TB in size.
>
> My Options:
>
> Design a computer (probably multiple AMD 64's) to handle 10TB of
> memory (+ a few extra Gb of ram for system overhead) and hold the
> file in one physical computer system.

If you can find/construct a mobo with sockets for 10TB of RAM...
That's 10,000 1 GB sticks.  That would be quite a design exercise.

> Build a server farm and have each server hold a portion eg 4GB each
> Server (250 servers (plus a few extra for system overhead)
>
> The reason the file needs to be in ram is that I need speed of
> search for paterns in the data (less than 1 second to pull out
> relevent chunks)

If what you're doing is searching for relatively small subsets of the
data (i.e.  a particular record or handful of records) then you don't
need to do this entirely in RAM.  If you use an appropriately-sized
B-Tree and cache the high levels of the tree, it only takes a few I/Os
to find any particular record.  If you can spread the tree around a
bit (split it among a bunch of hosts, each caching the upper few GB of
their subtre) then it's even better.  Arrange the data over lots of
thinly-allocated disks (you can get very good read performance from
disks if you aren't concerned about space efficiency, and if you've
got the budget to buy 10 TB of RAM and design a custom machine to put
it in, I'm guessing that buying a few racks of disks won't be an
issue).

If, on the other hand, you're looking for something interesting in the
data (i.e.  you're not just searching for keys, but are doing some
processing) then the issue probably isn't RAM and I/O, but raw
processing power.  It takes a long time to scan through 10 TB of data,
whether that data is in RAM or on disk -- you'll never get it done in
a second.  In this case, heaps of processors are probably your only
hope.  Controlling them will be an interesting challenge.

Of course, the problem is probably somewhere in the middle.  Tell us
what you can without violating your NDA...

-Dan

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I had a similar problem with a database environment a while ago.
Throughput on the DB (5-6TB) was aweful due to some really poor
coding, so we needed options to speed up the indexes and such. This
was on a 16way Itanium2 Unisys box attached to EMC 8830 storage to
give people an idea how bad the DB and the queries were set up. We
eventually scrapped the project due to overruns in cost, time, and
efficiency.

The only real solution we could come up with was a product from Texas
Memory Systems called TerraRAMSan. It's a bit spendy and power hungry,
but allows you to have ram based LUNs addressable via the SAN. Stripe
12 or so of these together into a volume and you should be able to get
some performance gain.

http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/




On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:34:31 +0800, Kathy Quinlan
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> Hi Guys and Gals,
> 
> First off I am not a troll, this is a serious email. I can not go into
> to many fine points as I am bound by an NDA.
> 
> The problem:
> 
> I need to hold a text file in ram, the text file in the forseable future
> could be up to 10TB in size.
> 
> My Options:
> 
> Design a computer (probably multiple AMD 64's) to handle 10TB of memory
> (+ a few extra Gb of ram for system overhead) and hold the file in one
> physical computer system.
> 
> Build a server farm and have each server hold a portion eg 4GB each
> Server (250 servers (plus a few extra for system overhead)
> 
> The reason the file needs to be in ram is that I need speed of search
> for paterns in the data (less than 1 second to pull out relevent chunks)
> 
> I am sure I have missed some options, right now I am just kicking ideas
> around, the software will be based on FreeBSD with some major
> modifications to address the large amount of ram (probably set it up as
> a virtual drive with one file)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kat.
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:34:31PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
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> The problem:
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> I need to hold a text file in ram, the text file in the forseable future=
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> My Options:
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> Design a computer (probably multiple AMD 64's) to handle 10TB of memory=
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> physical computer system.
>=20
> Build a server farm and have each server hold a portion eg 4GB each=20
> Server (250 servers (plus a few extra for system overhead)

That only gets you to 1TB...

> The reason the file needs to be in ram is that I need speed of search=20
> for paterns in the data (less than 1 second to pull out relevent chunks)
>
> I am sure I have missed some options, right now I am just kicking ideas=
=20
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> modifications to address the large amount of ram (probably set it up as=
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> a virtual drive with one file)

Depending on your budget, I'd either give Cray or SGI a call, or build
a cluster of AMD64 machines.

You can get 16GB in a 1U chassis so that would reduce your requirements
to around 700 machines, call it 18 racks minus the networking.  You will
not be able to use that as a ram disk and stripe it for a single machine
to search.  First, there's no way you'll be able to maintain any kind
of uptime if you do that.  With 5600 DIMMs, you'll lose at least one a
week, probably more.  Second, assuming you can completely process one
64-bit word per cycle and you had enough bandwidth you would need 625
seconds to process 10TB of data.  What you will need to do is build a
distributed application that a) allows processing to run on each machine
and b) provides a mechanism for fault tolerance in the face of machine
failures.

You would do well to read up on the techniques used by google to manage
unreliable systems and provide high-performance search.

-- Brooks

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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:34:31PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> > Design a computer (probably multiple AMD 64's) to handle 10TB of memory
> > (+ a few extra Gb of ram for system overhead) and hold the file in one
> > physical computer system.
> You would do well to read up on the techniques used by google to manage
> unreliable systems and provide high-performance search.
what about the tandem non-stop systems? it'll cost a pile of bucks.. but,
i'm still unsure why a large cluster of oracle, or any specially designed
rdbms wouldn't do the job.

-w-

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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:47:37PM +0200, Zoltan HERPAI wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Brooks Davis wrote:
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> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:34:31PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> > > Design a computer (probably multiple AMD 64's) to handle 10TB of memo=
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> > > (+ a few extra Gb of ram for system overhead) and hold the file in one
> > > physical computer system.
> > You would do well to read up on the techniques used by google to manage
> > unreliable systems and provide high-performance search.
> what about the tandem non-stop systems? it'll cost a pile of bucks.. but,
> i'm still unsure why a large cluster of oracle, or any specially designed
> rdbms wouldn't do the job.

By and large, I'm highly skeptical of "solutions" involving massives
amounts of very expensive hardware especialy when you toss software with
very expensive, per-cpu licenses.  I'm sure you could do it this way,
but given that 10TB of RAM will cost nearly $5M for commodity systems, I
hate to think what it would cost for high end systems where it is sold
at a 5-10x markup.

-- Brooks

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In case anyone cares, I'm going to reply to my own post, having found some 
solution to the problem, but a few more problems.

After a cvsup (august 3), rebuild of world, and kernel with the ath drivers, 
the card does now work.  When I plug it in, I don't get the same errors as 
below, but instead the normal readout for a wireless card.  I guess there 
was something incompatible between my kernel rebuild and world?  I don't 
know...

However, now another problem has cropped up.  When I have the card in, if I 
do
# ifconfig ath0 up
I get a kernel panic.  I have to first do
# ifconfig bfe0 down
in order to bring ath0 up.  Then, if I bring bfe0 back up again, I get a 
kernel panic, regardless of whether the ath0 card is up or down, in the slot 
or detached.

The only thing I can think is that both are using irq 11 and device 0.0.  I 
would guess this is a conflict, no?  I know it's not a problem for them to 
use the same irq, but the same device number?  I've seen posts which say 
that acpi makes all of this ok.. but I don't know much about it.

dmesg is below.  Thanks for any help.

Mike

~# uname -a
FreeBSD trace.cable.rcn.com 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Tue Aug  3 
22:00:38 EDT 2004     root@trace.cable.rcn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PKERNEL  
i386

dmesg:

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Tue Aug  3 22:00:38 EDT 2004
    root@trace.cable.rcn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PKERNEL
WARNING: Kernel preemption is disabled, expect reduced performance.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (1993.54-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6d6  Stepping = 6
  
Features=0xafe9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 536535040 (511 MB)
avail memory = 511078400 (487 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <DELL CPi R  > on motherboard
acpi0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (4 Cx states)> port 0x530-0x537 on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> port 0x530-0x537 on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff at device 
0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
nvidia0: <GeForce FX Go5200> mem 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff 
irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 11 
at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ums0: vendor 0x062a product 0x0000, rev 1.10/2.04, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xbf40-0xbf5f irq 11 
at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xbf20-0xbf3f irq 11 
at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11 at 
device 0.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0
bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0
bmtphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:1f:15:e6:b5
bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
cbb0: <TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 1.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 
0xfaff8000-0xfaffbfff,0xfaffd800-0xfaffdfff irq 11 at device 1.1 on pci2
fwohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 32:4f:c0:00:34:ec:78:81
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 32:4f:c0:ec:78:81
fwe0: Ethernet address: 32:4f:c0:ec:78:81
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
pci2: <network> at device 3.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 
0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 
0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 11 at device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec>
pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcf800-0xcffff,0xc0000-0xcf7ff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0: ready for input in output
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 8250 or not responding
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1993539572 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
cpu0: Performance states changed
ad0: 57231MB <TOSHIBA MK6021GAS> [116280/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
ATAPI_RESET time = 10us
acd0: CDRW <_NEC DVD+RW ND-6100A> at ata1-master UDMA33
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <_NEC DVD+RW ND-6100A 104D> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a



>From: "Michael Roberts" <tpen0010@hotmail.com>
>To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
>Subject: DLink DWL-G650 (h/w ver. B4)
>Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:13:51 -0400
>
>Greetings,
>
>I got DLink DWL-G650 (h/w ver. B4) pc-card recently, which is supposed to 
>run 802.11g using the atheros drivers (the windows driver is named 
>ar5211.sys, which should mean atheros..).  However, I've been trying to get 
>it to work for the past three days w/o success.  Other people on this list 
>claim to have gotten it working, so any help would be much appreciated.
>
>My setup is:  -current (from early July) on a Dell 8600, running a Broadcom 
>ethernet interface on bfe0, and a kernel recompiled with "device ath" and 
>"device ath_hal".
>
>When I put the Dlink card in, i get the following:
>
>cardbus0:  Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=2000
>bfe1: < Broadcom ... > irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
>bfe1: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000002 of register 42C to clear
>bfe1: MII without any PHY!
>device_attach: bfe1 attach returned 6
>cbb0: Cardbus activation failed.
>
>Then a few seconds later I get something like
>
>bfe0: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 00000002 of register 42C
>
>about 6 times, and then the computer freezes.  The above line is not the 
>exact output, since after the computer freezes, I can't copy the text 
>(clearly..).
>
>Now, the above is strange because the card should be picked up by an 
>atheros driver, not the bfe driver (note that bfe0 is my internal ethernet 
>card, and the above is trying to assign the pccard to bfe1).  I've tryed 
>putting in hw.pccard.debug=1 and cis_debug=1, however the computer freezes 
>before I get any output from those.
>
>I've read in other posts on the lists that the "Resource not specified" 
>line is some sort of resource management issue, but no one has specified 
>how to fix it.  And that doesn't seem to address the other issue that the 
>card isn't recognized by the atheros driver.
>
>So... I'm at a loss as to what to do.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>regards,
>Mike
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Sorry, forgot to put the card in before running dmesg... the card adds the 
following lines to dmesg:

ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf6010000-0xf601ffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on 
cardbus0
ath0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 5ghz radio 4.6
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:88:ac:83:77
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

>From: "Michael Roberts" <tpen0010@hotmail.com>
>To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: DLink DWL-G650 (h/w ver. B4)
>Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:25:09 -0400
>
>In case anyone cares, I'm going to reply to my own post, having found some 
>solution to the problem, but a few more problems.
>
>After a cvsup (august 3), rebuild of world, and kernel with the ath 
>drivers, the card does now work.  When I plug it in, I don't get the same 
>errors as below, but instead the normal readout for a wireless card.  I 
>guess there was something incompatible between my kernel rebuild and world? 
>  I don't know...
>
>However, now another problem has cropped up.  When I have the card in, if I 
>do
># ifconfig ath0 up
>I get a kernel panic.  I have to first do
># ifconfig bfe0 down
>in order to bring ath0 up.  Then, if I bring bfe0 back up again, I get a 
>kernel panic, regardless of whether the ath0 card is up or down, in the 
>slot or detached.
>
>The only thing I can think is that both are using irq 11 and device 0.0.  I 
>would guess this is a conflict, no?  I know it's not a problem for them to 
>use the same irq, but the same device number?  I've seen posts which say 
>that acpi makes all of this ok.. but I don't know much about it.
>
>dmesg is below.  Thanks for any help.
>
>Mike
>
>~# uname -a
>FreeBSD trace.cable.rcn.com 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Tue Aug  3 
>22:00:38 EDT 2004     root@trace.cable.rcn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PKERNEL 
>  i386
>
>dmesg:
>
>Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #4: Tue Aug  3 22:00:38 EDT 2004
>    root@trace.cable.rcn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PKERNEL
>WARNING: Kernel preemption is disabled, expect reduced performance.
>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (1993.54-MHz 686-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6d6  Stepping = 6
>  
>Features=0xafe9f9bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE>
>real memory  = 536535040 (511 MB)
>avail memory = 511078400 (487 MB)
>npx0: [FAST]
>npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>npx0: INT 16 interface
>acpi0: <DELL CPi R  > on motherboard
>acpi0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
>acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
>cpu0: <ACPI CPU (4 Cx states)> port 0x530-0x537 on acpi0
>acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> port 0x530-0x537 on acpi0
>acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
>acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
>acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
>acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
>acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
>acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
>pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>agp0: <Intel 82855 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff at device 
>0.0 on pci0
>pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
>nvidia0: <GeForce FX Go5200> mem 
>0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xfc000000-0xfcffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
>nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xbf80-0xbf9f irq 
>11 at device 29.0 on pci0
>uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
>usb0: USB revision 1.0
>uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>ums0: vendor 0x062a product 0x0000, rev 1.10/2.04, addr 2, iclass 3/1
>ums0: 5 buttons and Z dir.
>uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xbf40-0xbf5f irq 
>11 at device 29.1 on pci0
>uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
>usb1: USB revision 1.0
>uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xbf20-0xbf3f irq 
>11 at device 29.2 on pci0
>uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
>usb2: USB revision 1.0
>uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
>pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
>pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
>bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xfaffe000-0xfaffffff irq 11 at 
>device 0.0 on pci2
>miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0
>bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0
>bmtphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:1f:15:e6:b5
>bfe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>cbb0: <TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 1.0 on pci2
>cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
>pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
>fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 
>0xfaff8000-0xfaffbfff,0xfaffd800-0xfaffdfff irq 11 at device 1.1 on pci2
>fwohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
>fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
>fwohci0: EUI64 32:4f:c0:00:34:ec:78:81
>fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
>fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
>firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
>fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
>if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 32:4f:c0:ec:78:81
>fwe0: Ethernet address: 32:4f:c0:ec:78:81
>sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
>fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
>fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
>firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
>firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
>pci2: <network> at device 3.0 (no driver attached)
>isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
>isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 
>0xbfa0-0xbfaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0
>ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
>ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
>pcm0: <Intel ICH4 (82801DB)> port 0xbc40-0xbc7f,0xb800-0xb8ff mem 
>0xf4fff400-0xf4fff4ff,0xf4fff800-0xf4fff9ff irq 11 at device 31.5 on pci0
>pcm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>pcm0: <SigmaTel STAC9750/51 AC97 Codec>
>pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached)
>atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
>atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>kbd0 at atkbd0
>atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>psm0: model GlidePoint, device ID 0
>orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcf800-0xcffff,0xc0000-0xcf7ff on isa0
>pmtimer0 on isa0
>fdc0: ready for input in output
>fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
>ppc0: parallel port not found.
>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>sio0: port may not be enabled
>sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
>sio0: type 8250 or not responding
>sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>sio1: port may not be enabled
>vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1993539572 Hz quality 800
>Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
>acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
>cpu0: Performance states changed
>ad0: 57231MB <TOSHIBA MK6021GAS> [116280/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
>ATAPI_RESET time = 10us
>acd0: CDRW <_NEC DVD+RW ND-6100A> at ata1-master UDMA33
>cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>cd0: <_NEC DVD+RW ND-6100A 104D> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
>cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
>cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
>

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Hi,

Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> Hi Guys and Gals,
> 
> First off I am not a troll, this is a serious email. I can not go into 
> to many fine points as I am bound by an NDA.
> 
> The problem:
> 
> I need to hold a text file in ram, the text file in the forseable future 
> could be up to 10TB in size.
> 
Can you tell us the expected response time?

You would need a lot of money if you really have to keep the data always 
in RAM.

Erich

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I'm tearing what little hair I have left out...
Lightning took out my hub, arced to ground in the wall plug
then from the metal UPS case to the metal case of the hub,
a very effective end run...  Sort of amusing to watch in
hindsight.  I think the short was due to dust in the plug
box, as the switchplate has been off quite a while and 
blowing in there created a miniature desert movie set.

While waiting for a new hub to arrive, I decided to jury-rig
a workstation to the firewall freebsd box. (4.10)
Using a cat5 crossover cable, I connected the nic on an NT
box to the NIC on the freebsd box; each of these normally
goes to the hub for the internal network.

ping... nada

So I swapped the network cards individually with the card
serving the dsl modem; they all work.

So I used the crossover cable to connect the NT box to 
another NT box on the internal network.  ping...reply

The nic in question is an old smc 3c509b-combo card
supporting 10baseT UTP, AUI, and BNC.

ifconfig de0 shows:
	media: Ethernet autoselect (10base2/BNC)
	status: active

The green light (indicating a live connection?) is on on both nics.

Manually configuring the nic media type to 10BaseT/UTP made it work.

What's different about a hub environment that allows the system
to automagically determine the media type?

NT seems to have no problem, although it may be the driver is
just defaulting to the right choice in one case and the wrong
one, or none, in another.

Thanks for any insights,

Gary

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I've been warned about FreeBSD on Opteron by one of our systems
vendors and was wondering if the hardware gurus on this list
concurred.  I'm skeptical because the vendor (terrasolutions.com)
sells only a small number of Xeon systems.

> Opteron is certainly something to watch in the future, but it is still
>a very green platform in FreeBSD (and Windows and Linux...) and not quite
>ready for primetime.

It was my impression that FreeBSD on Opteron's i386 mode was rock solid.

>There is currently no hardware RAID support for
>Opteron in FreeBSD, although at least AMCC/3Ware is planning to offer it
>at some point in the near future.

Which seems odd because antoher vendor recommended Tyan motherboards
with integrated LSI or Adaptec SCSI RAID
<http://www.tyan.com/products/html/opteron.html>.  Perhaps the
vendor meant SATA RAID though that wasn't in the spec.

Should I expect problems installing 4.10 on one of these Tyans with
SCSI RAID?

-- 
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On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Gary Aitken wrote:

>
> While waiting for a new hub to arrive, I decided to jury-rig
> a workstation to the firewall freebsd box. (4.10)
> Using a cat5 crossover cable, I connected the nic on an NT
> box to the NIC on the freebsd box; each of these normally
> goes to the hub for the internal network.
>
> ping... nada
>
> So I swapped the network cards individually with the card
> serving the dsl modem; they all work.
>
> So I used the crossover cable to connect the NT box to
> another NT box on the internal network.  ping...reply
>
> The nic in question is an old smc 3c509b-combo card
> supporting 10baseT UTP, AUI, and BNC.


Hi!

Well, 509b comes to mind as also a product from 3Com...

>
> ifconfig de0 shows:
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (10base2/BNC)
> 	status: active
>
> The green light (indicating a live connection?) is on on both nics.
>
> Manually configuring the nic media type to 10BaseT/UTP made it work.

So it is a PCI card, supporting 3 connectors. I had similar hassle with
some 3com 509 ISA cards, where it was a pain to set the correct
connector type, also regarding the correct duplex setting (full/half)


>
> What's different about a hub environment that allows the system
> to automagically determine the media type?

a hub is always half-duplex (a switch is full or half), and I also
experienced some old 21040 cards that needed to be fully brought up with
an IP to detect their connection status.

I could guess that the NT box has some problems with the autoneg on
their side, try setting it in the NT driver to a fixed speed/duplex
setting.


>
> NT seems to have no problem, although it may be the driver is
> just defaulting to the right choice in one case and the wrong
> one, or none, in another.
>

see above, set the speed/duplex manually on both sides.



HTH
Olaf
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