RE: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
> > On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: > > > Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the > > > newer drives supports. > > Wow! :) > > > > Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices > a la SCSI? :) > > I'll think about it, but lots of things has higher prior

Printing is vvveeerrryyy slow

1999-03-02 Thread Thomas Dean
I am running smp, 4.0-current, as of Mon Feb 15 03:34:29 PST 1999. Printing is very slow. I have a HP LaserJet III attached to lpt0. Printing in the pcl, text, mode is slower than I expect. Printing in the postscipt mode is extremely slow. A 30K postscript file has been OVER 5 minutes and is no

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: > > Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the > > newer drives supports. > Wow! :) > > Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) I'll think about it, but lots of things ha

Re: New driver and ATAPI DMA?

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Lee Cremeans wrote: > Will this new ATA driver finally support DMA correctly on ATAPI devices (as > opposed to pure ATA disk devices)? This is a feature that could really come > in handy for me (as well as a reason to migrate back to -current from 3.1 :) Its on my list of wanted items, so

Re: compiler egcs 1.1.1 error

1999-03-02 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 05:39:04AM +0800, Chan Yiu Wah wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to compile the egcs 1.1.1 yesterday and encountered the following > error. Can anyone show me hoe to solve it. Thanks. > > Clarence JFYI, the port is now at: egcs-1.1.2-pre2 Maybe upgrading the port might help.

cvsup.ca.freebsd.org available again.

1999-03-02 Thread Dan - Sr. Admin
Greetings, Just a quick note to let everyone know that cvsup.ca.freebsd.org is available again. Regards, -- Dan Moschuk (tfreak...@globalserve.net) Senior Systems/Network Administrator Globalserve Communications Inc., a Primus Canada Company "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends,

Re: egcs and gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > That was put in extremely recently. The reason it doesn't build a shared > library by default is to avoid potential conflict with the system > libstdc++. > > If you enable it, the port will install the shared lib in > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/.../libstdc++.so. Y

New driver and ATAPI DMA?

1999-03-02 Thread Lee Cremeans
Will this new ATA driver finally support DMA correctly on ATAPI devices (as opposed to pure ATA disk devices)? This is a feature that could really come in handy for me (as well as a reason to migrate back to -current from 3.1 :) -- +-

ATAPI Drive & Naming System

1999-03-02 Thread IdiotSwitch Editor
>Remember that disks are now numbered in the sequence in which >they are found (as under the SCSI system), not in absolute >positions as they were with the old system. For example, if you >had wd0 and wd2 but no wd1, you'll now have wd0 and wd1. Watch >out f

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:16:50PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > Where exactly does thrd_sleep come in, since that's where the program locks > > up now? Can't be killed, of course... > > > > The lock manager isn't bright enough to detect that the proc

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:16:50PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Where exactly does thrd_sleep come in, since that's where the program locks > up now? Can't be killed, of course... > The lock manager isn't bright enough to detect that the process already holds a read lock when it attempts to g

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 02-Mar-99 SXren Schmidt wrote: > Its in the works, together with the tagged queuing some of the > newer drives supports. Wow! :) Is there any chance od adding the ability to 'wire' devices a la SCSI? :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsof

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Brian Feldman
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:41:46PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > Doesn't it modify the map indirectly vi subyte()? I think it wants > > to prevent modifications, but this is impossible. > > > > Bear with me, I'll have to split some hairs... > > We're

Re: fdimage.exe

1999-03-02 Thread Robert Nordier
[Moved to -questions] Wim en Debby wrote: > Can anyone tell me where l can find this fdimage.exe on the ftp-server? I > looked in the tools/ directory but l didnt find it. Please a detailed > address:-) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/tools/fdimage.exe There's an out-of-date version at some m

fdimage.exe

1999-03-02 Thread Wim en Debby
Hi to all, Can anyone tell me where l can find this fdimage.exe on the ftp-server? I looked in the tools/ directory but l didnt find it. Please a detailed address:-) Thanks, Wim Vermeyen wim.verme...@advalvas.be To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current

compiler egcs 1.1.1 error

1999-03-02 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I tried to compile the egcs 1.1.1 yesterday and encountered the following error. Can anyone show me hoe to solve it. Thanks. Clarence === Error === ===> Generating temporary packing list ln -f /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/egcc ln -f /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/eg++ /bin/mv /usr/lib/libibe

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Will the new ATAPI drivers still work with wormcontrol for ATAPI CD Writers? > Since it is a WIP, will it support it if it doesn't? It should, but i just found out that it somehow fails, I'm bughunting... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freeb

Heads up: Linux Thread "port" changes.

1999-03-02 Thread Richard Seaman, Jr.
A number of people have downloaded the linux threads "port" located at http://lt.tar.com . It has been updated today, with minor bug fixes, and a change to make it compatible with kernel patches committed yesterday to both -current and -stable. While I haven't actually tested it, I would expect

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Brian Somers
[.] > I would very much like to hear from you, both good and bad news > are very welcome. [.] Looks good on my laptop ! ad0: ATA-3 disk at ata0 as master ad0: 3909MB (8007552 sectors), 7944 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ad0: 16 secs/int, 0 depth queue acd0: CDROM drive at ata1 as mas

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
>>>It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks >>>sequentially, irespective of how much other gunk (Ie: CD, Tape) is >>>present on the busses. >> >>Linux doesn't. > >Linux isn't "everybody else". Neither is { everybody else } - { linux }. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <199903021812.faa32...@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: > This breakage was announced :-). Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) >>> >>>It is breakage, and should be fixed. >> >>It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities t

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
This breakage was announced :-). >>> >>>Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) >> >>It is breakage, and should be fixed. > >It isn't breakage when everybody else assigns identities to ATA disks >sequentially, irespective of how much other gunk (Ie: CD, Tape) is >pr

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <199903021646.daa26...@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>> >The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older >>> >driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and >>> >ad1. This is "expected" behaviour, but it's something for other wee

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:41:46PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Doesn't it modify the map indirectly vi subyte()? I think it wants > to prevent modifications, but this is impossible. > Bear with me, I'll have to split some hairs... We're only interested in whether mincore directly changes the

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:53:37 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older > > driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and > > ad1. [...] > Besides, it is not even a breakage. It finally got _unbroken_. :-) A

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
>> >The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older >> >driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and >> >ad1. This is "expected" behaviour, but it's something for other weenies >> >to watch out for. :-) >> >> This breakage was announced :-). > >Beside

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Bruce Evans wrote: > > >The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older > >driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and > >ad1. This is "expected" behaviour, but it's something for other weenies > >to watch out for. :-) > > This breakage was announce

gcj (was Re: egcs and gcc)

1999-03-02 Thread Nate Williams
> I'm learning here, don't get upset if I'm all wet. Another thing I note > is that, unlike all the rest of the snapshots of egcs, the pre-release > version (and seemingly only the prerelease version) that the port uses > has gcj, the java tool, cut out. That seems kind of a shame, doesn't > it?

Re: gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Jeremy Lea
Hi, On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 03:25:20PM +0100, Alexander Sanda wrote: > Maybe. But what if Netscape decides to make the next fbsd release ELF > (and still keeps linking with libg++) ? > > What about Mozilla ? Is it libg++ - free ? > > I agree that libg++ is (almost) useless today, but droppin

Re: gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Alexander Sanda
Dienstag, Dienstag, 02. März 1999, you wrote: DOB> Netscape uses a *A.OUT* libg++. We are an *ELF* system now. If you want DOB> to run Netscape (also a piece of a.out code) you would install the DOB> compat22 distribution bits. Then I probably misinterpreted the term "abandon it entirely". DOB

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Will the new ATAPI drivers still work with wormcontrol for ATAPI CD Writers? Since it is a WIP, will it support it if it doesn't? Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Adam McDougall
Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:49:17 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > Yes, they are not used by the new driver, it only needs the above lines > > in config, depending on how many subdrivers you want of cause. > > Excellent. :-) > > The only thing that bit me was that I used w

anyone knows what does it mean

1999-03-02 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I recently compile the egcs-1.1.1 and the system report to me that the ahc0:A:0 refuses tagged commands performance non-tagged I/O. The transfer speed drop from 20.00M/s to 3.3 M/s. Is there anyone have the same problem ? Cheers Clarence === Part of the dmesg === da0 at ahc0 bu

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:26:50 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > This breakage was announced :-). My only defense is my use of the phrase "other weenies" in my original mail. ;-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the m

Re: ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread sthaug
> Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: > > Both bonnie tests were run on a freshly booted machine, P133, > 64M RAM, running X and netscape, but only Bonnie active: > > > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- > --Random-- > -Per

Re: lockmgr panic with mmap()

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
>Until you modify the map, an exclusive lock on the map is overkill. Try >using read locks. (See vm_map_lookup.) > >In the meantime, I can't see any reason why mincore acquires an >exclusive lock either. (It never modifies the map.) I'm going >to remedy that. Doesn't it modify the map indirect

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
>The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older >driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and >ad1. This is "expected" behaviour, but it's something for other weenies >to watch out for. :-) This breakage was announced :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: se

bmake/contrib framework for egcs

1999-03-02 Thread David O'Brien
I've put the bmake & contrib framework for EGCS at ftp://ftp.nuxi.com/pub/FreeBSD/egcs (ftp://ftp.nuxi.com/pub/FreeBSD/egcs/cvs is all you really need) This is very rough work, but should help us towards our goal. In there you will find a CVS tree under ``cvs''. This CVS tree corresponds to /usr/

Re: IDE CDROM not found with PIIX4 chipset, -current kernel

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:20:34 +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > I sent this in for review a year or so ago, but received no reply. > The main points are that it honours ATA timing in atapi_wait() and > checks for ARS_BUSY in atapi_wait(). I guess we'll need to wait and see whether this is still an iss

Re: gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
>> > How about getting profiling working for ELF kernels before >> > before completely abandoning a.out? >> >> There are patches for that in kern/9413 but I haven't got any feedback >> on them at all. > >I did try them, they allow the kernel to compile, but they >don't seem to work. In particula

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older > driver, whereas the newer driver automatically decided to use ad0 and > ad1. This is "expected" behaviour, but it's something for other weenies > to watch out for. :-) I warned about that in

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:49:17 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > Yes, they are not used by the new driver, it only needs the above lines > in config, depending on how many subdrivers you want of cause. Excellent. :-) The only thing that bit me was that I used wd0 and wd2 with the older driver, wher

Re: ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:19:20 PST, Søren Schmidt wrote: > > > # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) > > controllerata0 > > deviceatadisk0# ATA disks > > deviceatapicd0# ATAPI CDROM's > > device

ATAPI and ATAPI_STATIC with the new ATA* driver?

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:19:20 PST, Søren Schmidt wrote: > # for a PCI only system (most modern machines) > controller ata0 > device atadisk0# ATA disks > device atapicd0# ATAPI CDROM's > device atapist0# ATAPI tapes Hi So

Re: lptdriver undefined in kernel compile...

1999-03-02 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 01:42:00 -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > this one I *can't* seem to figure out...looked through GENERIC and swear > I've added everything I need: Have you checked src/UPDATING and what it has to say about the nlpt->lpt driver changes? Have you made sure your KERNEL config

Re: egcs and gcc

1999-03-02 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Thomas Dean wrote: > > > As suspected, eg++ is using libstdc++.a, not libstdc++.so.2, as it > > should. > > > > How does this get fixed? > > I just noticed that the egcs Makefile has a buried: > > .if defined(WANT_SHAREDLIBS) > CONFI

Re: ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: ... > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- >MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU >ATA64 3237 69.0 2913 14.0 1409 9.4 2951 59.3 3043 11.6 5

Re: ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Geoff Rehmet wrote: Interesting, what flags did you use with the old driver (wd) ?? > Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: > > Both bonnie tests were run on a freshly booted machine, P133, > 64M RAM, running X and netscape, but only Bonnie active: > > >

ATA driver

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Just some results of testing the comparison of wd and ata: Both bonnie tests were run on a freshly booted machine, P133, 64M RAM, running X and netscape, but only Bonnie active: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -R

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread S�ren Schmidt
It seems Geoff Rehmet wrote: > Søren Schmidt writes : > > > > > Good work, no more stinky delay :-) > > > > Thanks!, and I hate delays too :) > > It works beautifully for me. I can imagine that the people > with UDMA drives can't wait for DMA support in it. :-) Its in the works, together wi

Re: CALL FOR TESTERS of new ATA/ATAPI driver..

1999-03-02 Thread Geoff Rehmet
Søren Schmidt writes : > > > Good work, no more stinky delay :-) > > Thanks!, and I hate delays too :) It works beautifully for me. I can imagine that the people with UDMA drives can't wait for DMA support in it. :-) I've run some tests with Bonnie. Need to still reboot with my old kerne