Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:16:59 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Francisco Reyes <francisco@natserv.com> Cc: asmodai@wxs.nl, FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to tell if softupdates are enabled? Message-ID: <19990727121659.J62218@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199907270243.WAA00943@vulcan.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:44:01PM -0400 References: <199907270243.WAA00943@vulcan.addy.com>
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[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
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