From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 19:43:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vulcan.addy.com (vulcan.addy.com [207.239.68.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D8D150AE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from francisco@natserv.com) Received: from your-name (freyes.static.inch.com [207.240.212.43]) by vulcan.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00943; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199907270243.WAA00943@vulcan.addy.com> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "asmodai@wxs.nl" , "FreeBSD questions" Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:44:01 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How to tell if softupdates are enabled? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:25:13 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Just re-did the whole operation. >> Revised "ln-s" links. >> Revised I had "options SOFTUPDATES" spelled correctly. > >Ran config? I finally found the problem. I am using a BT SCSI controller for the first time with an old SCSI drive (which is also new to me). When FreeBSD had reported the drive could only do 5MB I had set the drive to 5MB sync instead of async. After all software options seemed to have been exausted I thought of this... I changed the SCSI card config back to async... mount reported no difference... rebuilt kernel AFTER the drive was back to async... typed mount and all is well. The flag in the volume was set so it was not even necessary to do tunefs again. ... On my way to the SCSI FAQ to read on async/sync... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message