From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 19:48:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFBA11505D for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA19652; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:17:00 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA62812; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:16:59 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:16:59 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Francisco Reyes Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: How to tell if softupdates are enabled? Message-ID: <19990727121659.J62218@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199907270243.WAA00943@vulcan.addy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907270243.WAA00943@vulcan.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:44:01PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 26 July 1999 at 22:44:01 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > 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. Nope, this isn't the answer. > 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. Something else must have happened on this kernel rebuild. It has nothing to do with the disk driver. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message