From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 16 21:29:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA9C14CF1 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40328>; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:21:15 +1100 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Recommendations for 100baseTX PCI NIC To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Jan17.162115est.40328@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:21:10 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Would anyone like to suggest some good, low-overhead 100baseTX NICs (I want to add another 3 NICs to a machine). It's currently got an integrated 3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL, so 3c905B-TX-NM's would seem a good choice - but someone mentioned that 3Com have made a few changes to the ASICs lately. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 18 2:58:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from webweaving.org (calcaphon.demon.co.uk [193.237.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39F5151EF for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:58:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n_hibma@webweaving.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01680; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:33:16 GMT (envelope-from n_hibma@webweaving.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 10:33:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Michael Robinson Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB CD-RW drive In-Reply-To: <200001151746.BAA06653@netrinsics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I just received a HP USB CD-RW drive. Is there any hope of making this work > under freebsd? Could you tell me the make and model of the drive. Also, could you tell me whether the drive inside the casing is SCSI or IDE? > Is there any hope of making it work after Warner finishes > his newbusification work? Warner's work is unrelated to this. Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 18 6:17:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mserv.itpa.lt (mserv.itpa.lt [193.219.53.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2061314E0F; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 06:17:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gedas@itpa.lt) Received: from localhost (gedas@localhost) by mserv.itpa.lt (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA27080; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:16:49 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:16:49 +0200 (EET) From: Gediminas Vilutis To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Smart Array 221 on non Compaq servers In-Reply-To: <200001150016.QAA02816@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > We have a problem with Compaq Smart Array 221 controller. We are trying to > > use it on non-Compaq server (Intel LB440GX 2U server system, with > > Intel L440GX+ motherboard). > > > > The problem we encountered is that we can't setup RAID array. I.e., > > FreeBSD (and Linux) drivers sees controller correctly, but all Compaq > > utilities, that we were able to find, are either NT based (haven't tried > > them yet) or complain that motherboard doesn't support some function (ecc > > error checking on pci bus or something like that). > > > > So, does anybody know how to setup a RAID array on this controller? Or is > > that controller dead thing on non-compaq servers? > > Compaq controllers are intended by Compaq to only be used in Compaq > servers. Under some circumstances you might get lucky otherwise, but as a > general rule you can forget using them in any other system. Situation in my case wasn't so tragic. We configured, as someone suggested in this list earlier, RAID controller in NT machine and now it seems to be running ok. Now after all that troubles with Compaq hardware I have another question. Is it possible to boot directly from array, configured on Mylex eXtremeRAID adapter? Regards, Gediminas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 18 6:56:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from liberty.bulinfo.net (liberty.bulinfo.net [212.72.195.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D38EC14DAA for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 06:56:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from krassi@bulinfo.net) Received: (qmail 50933 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2000 14:55:51 -0000 Received: from pythia.bulinfo.net (HELO bulinfo.net) (212.72.195.5) by liberty.bulinfo.net with SMTP; 18 Jan 2000 14:55:51 -0000 Message-ID: <38847F96.CD87EC62@bulinfo.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:58:30 +0200 From: Krassimir Slavchev Organization: Bulinfo Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: MPEG2 DVB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folks, did anybody heard about MPEG2 DVB and is there any support in FreeBSD of HC60P board. -- Krassimir Slavchev Bulinfo Ltd. krassi@bulinfo.net (+359-2)963-3652 http://www.bulinfo.net (+359-2)963-3764 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 18 11:34: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 814B71522B for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA66207 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:37:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:37:54 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Cheap Old Laptops Message-ID: <20000118143754.A66199@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I happened to see this on www.buy.com in the "Clearance" area, http://www.buy.com/clearance/product.asp?sku=70000827 To summarize, they are old, refurbished Dell laptops with a P100, 770 MB HDD, and a few other of the ususal laptop gizmos. Yeah this is mid-90's hardware, but they're selling 'em for $325. I don't _need_ a laptop, but it could be handy from time to time. And using FreeBSD on "legacy" hardware has always treated me well. Any opinions as to whether that's a good deal? And whether FreeBSD would handle that hardware well? Thanks. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 18 15:17:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD71A14E98; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:17:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA31622; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:17:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:17:23 +0100 Message-ID: <31620.948237443.1@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: IEEE-488: looking for junk :-) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----- =_aaaaaaaaaa" Content-Description: Blind Carbon Copy Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message Subject: IEEE-488: looking for junk :-) From: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:17:23 +0100 Message-ID: <31620.948237443@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk Bcc: Blind Distribution List: ; MIME-Version: 1.0 I have managed to snatch up a pair of PCIIA compatible IEEE488 cards locally and I have found a HP59401A HP-IB analyser for $60 at eBay :-) so I'll go over the two pieces of code we have for FreeBSD and look at the linux stuff and come up with some code over spring/summer. Should any of you stumble into any IEEE-488/HP-IB/GP-IB stuff gathering stuff on your way, I'll dispose of it for a good cause. PC cards, ISA and PCI are of course top priority, but even just a couple of 2m long cables or more devices to test against would help me. I will issue a separate call for testers when I have something they can test, but let me know if any of you have lists of wanted features. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 0:59:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com (hermes.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB9E1515A for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:59:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@research.kpn.com) Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #35196) with ESMTP id <01JKVV2SQRHW000I5T@research.kpn.com> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:59:42 +0100 Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:59:37 +0100 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:59:34 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: Dodgy interrupts To: 'FreeBSD Hardware mailing list' Message-id: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E45220FD14E@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear FreeBSD-hardware, I seem to disagree with my ethernet card about interrupts. It could be that the card is just plain old broken, but I don't want to buy a new one if there's a chance it's going to do the exact same thing. Set-up: ABit BX/PX motherboard, AMD k6-233 4 PCI slots: diamond Viper 550 (or 330... geez, why haven't I written this down) 2x nrc810 ehternet card (err. lnc1, I don't know the brand) The ethernet card shares its interrupt (irq 14) with the USB controller. I don't actually use the USB controller, so if someone can suggest how to switch it off, please do. I used to have my video board in the PCI slot that my ethernet conroller is in now, but my system would randomly crash and freeze. Diamond's readme told me to move the video board into an unshared interrupt slot, and it worked. Later I got the ethernet card, which worked for a while, and now is broken too. I'm not a heavy user of the ethernet board, since for a long time I had no machine to ethernet with. Now I NFS mount over TCP and that works, albeit slow. UDP traffic is lost. I get "impossible packet length" and "NFS server not responding", but things sort itself out after a few seconds. Windows can't even use the card, but tells me it's "working properly". Go FreeBSD! My questions: Does the value of the irq matter? I hear lower irq's have higher priority. Is a higer priority necessary for a modern ethernet board? Are there problems with shared irq's on PCI boards? Abit in particular? How come I only have problems with PCI ethernet boards, and all the ISA ones I've ever used worked *always*? Kees Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 1:18:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com (hermes.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D199614E0C for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 01:18:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@research.kpn.com) Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #35196) with ESMTP id <01JKVVPL6FSE000JLA@research.kpn.com> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:18:05 +0100 Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:18:04 +0100 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:18:01 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: Weird reply (was: Dodgy interrupts) To: 'FreeBSD Hardware mailing list' Message-id: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E45220FD151@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I got the reply below almost immediately after posting. What's this? Kees Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: ggriffiths@ihsa.com.au [mailto:ggriffiths@ihsa.com.au] > Sent: woensdag 19 januari 2000 10:00 > To: k.j.koster@research.kpn.com > Subject: Re: Dodgy interrupts > > > does not exist > And the headers: Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com ([139.63.192.8]) by l04.research.kpn.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id Y5T3BSH8; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:00:08 +0100 Received: from horizon.webcentral.com.au (horizon.webcentral.com.au [202.139.235.244]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #35196) with SMTP id <01JKVV39P2X4000EE8@research.kpn.com> for koster@exchange.research.kpn.com (ORCPT rfc822;k.j.koster@research.kpn.com) ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:00:07 +0100 Received: (qmail 18892 invoked by uid 6524); Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:00:01 +0000 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:00:01 +0000 From: ggriffiths@ihsa.com.au (Graeme Griffiths) Subject: Re: Dodgy interrupts To: k.j.koster@research.kpn.com Message-id: <20000119090001.18891.qmail@horizon.webcentral.com.au> Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 6:22:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2E914E44 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:22:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from raad.tartu.ee (info.tlvsise [192.168.1.3]) by lv.raad.tartu.ee (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13846 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:24:14 +0200 Message-Id: <200001191524.RAA13846@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.47); 19 Jan 00 16:20:28 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.46); 19 Jan 00 16:20:25 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:20:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: IBM ServeRAID 3L Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello! I am a newbie to *nix world, so please excuse me if I sound overly simplicistic. I have a server with IBM ServeRAID 3L (currently running Windows NT) to which I would like to install FreeBSD. Alas, after browsing www.freebsd.org and www.ibm.com it seems that this combination of OS and controller is not currently supported. There is, however, support for Linux by IBM, which is licensed under GNU General Public License (I'm not very sure what this means). Would it be very difficult task to develop ServeRAID support for FreeBSD, given that it already exists for Linux? It would, of course, for me, but there must be someone in this big FreeBSD community who is able to do this...? I would rather not install Linux. TIA for any comments. -- Toomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 14:33:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 608) id 02ACB152DB; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:33:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: K.J.Koster@research.kpn.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E45220FD151@l04.research.kpn.com> (K.J.Koster@research.kpn.com) Subject: Re: Weird reply (was: Dodgy interrupts) Message-Id: <20000119223343.02ACB152DB@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:33:43 -0800 (PST) Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org tis a mail server sending bounces to the list in place of list-owner.t i'll remove him from the lists. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 14:49:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [208.48.125.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DDF15414 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chiem@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from hootie.yahoo.com (hootie.yahoo.com [205.216.162.161]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.10.0.Beta6/8.10.0.Beta6/y.out) with ESMTP id e0JMmpK60810 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:48:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chiem@localhost) by hootie.yahoo.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id OAA28960 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:49:05 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Chiem Message-Id: <200001192249.OAA28960@hootie.yahoo.com> Subject: support for ndc sohoware cablefree nics or other wireless networking? To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 14:49:05 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Does anyone know if there's any support in Freebsd for NDC's SOHOWare Cablefree NICs? http://www.sohoware.com/Products/CableFREEFamily.htm Or support for any other type of wireless networking? thanks, --k To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 15: 6:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [216.99.193.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07114150B3 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (IDENT:root@shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA30170; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:06:15 -0800 Received: from localhost by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id PAA20314; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:07:35 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.aracnet.com: hamellr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:07:35 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'FreeBSD Hardware mailing list'" Subject: Re: Dodgy interrupts In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E45220FD14E@l04.research.kpn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > ABit BX/PX motherboard, AMD k6-233 > 4 PCI slots: > diamond Viper 550 (or 330... geez, why haven't I written this down) > 2x nrc810 > ehternet card (err. lnc1, I don't know the brand) > > The ethernet card shares its interrupt (irq 14) with the USB controller. I > don't actually use the USB controller, so if someone can suggest how to > switch it off, please do. IRQ 14 is also shared with the Primary IDE. You need to change the IRQ on the card to something nice and safe, like 10 or 11. > Does the value of the irq matter? I hear lower irq's have higher priority. > Is a higer priority necessary for a modern ethernet board? Some devices can share IRQs, though it's not recommended. So the value does matter in a very big way. The priority is not an issue here. Simply change the network card off of IRQ 14 and it'll probally work. You should have a driver/setup disk that came with the card, BTW which will allow you to change/make sure the IRQ is 10. > Are there problems with shared irq's on PCI boards? Abit in particular? > > How come I only have problems with PCI ethernet boards, and all the ISA ones > I've ever used worked *always*? Oh... is this a PCI card? In that case you might want to take a quick tour through your BIOS, change the PNP OS Installed Option to yes, and PNP Something or another assign to manual. That might fix some of your problems too. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 17:43:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BDB14DF9 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05278; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001200151.RAA05278@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Toomas Aas" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM ServeRAID 3L In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:20:18 +0200." <200001191524.RAA13846@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:51:37 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I have a server with IBM ServeRAID 3L (currently running Windows > NT) to which I would like to install FreeBSD. Alas, after > browsing www.freebsd.org and www.ibm.com it seems that this > combination of OS and controller is not currently supported. That's correct. > There is, however, support for Linux by IBM, which is licensed > under GNU General Public License (I'm not very sure what this > means). It means that some information about the controller is available in a form that makes it reasonably hard to do anything about it. > Would it be very difficult task to develop ServeRAID support for > FreeBSD, given that it already exists for Linux? It would, of > course, for me, but there must be someone in this big FreeBSD > community who is able to do this...? I would rather not install > Linux. The process would be reasonably straightforward, and I'd be quite interested in doing it if someone were to send me one of these controllers. It's worth noting, however, that IBM recently acquired Mylex, and this controller family may be close to the end of its product life. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 18:32:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E21F14CE6 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06045; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001200239.SAA06045@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Gediminas Vilutis Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Smart Array 221 on non Compaq servers In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:16:49 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:39:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Now after all that troubles with Compaq hardware I have another question. > Is it possible to boot directly from array, configured on Mylex > eXtremeRAID adapter? Yes, with FreeBSD 4.0 and later. It may be possible under 3.5 as well. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 19 21:38:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.Cadence.COM (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF43415360 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:38:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@symbionics.co.uk) Received: from symnt3.Cadence.COM (symnt3.Cadence.COM [194.32.101.100]) by mailgate.Cadence.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA12216 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:38:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by symnt3.cadence.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:35:01 -0000 Message-ID: <1E485299309FD211A2100090271E27A41BA373@symnt3.cadence.com> From: Duncan Barclay Reply-To: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk To: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: support for ndc sohoware cablefree nics or other wireless net working? Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 05:34:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Received: By mailgate.Cadence.COM as VAA12216 at Wed Jan 19 21:38:48 2000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi The NDC cards are based on an IEEE802.11-FH platform developed by Oki - the Oki 7730. There is a i186 on the PCCards. Oki may have some information available. You might want to look at NDC's Instant Wave products - the cards look the same and I have very good reason to suspect that they are the same. I thought a Linux driver was available from NDC for these. Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 4:34: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lilzcvp.liwest.at (lilzcvp.liwest.at [212.33.32.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B09D153E6 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 04:33:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from r.haider@liwest.at) Received: from [212.33.32.221] by lilzcvp.relay.liwest.at (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB8573.63.b914fe78) with ESMTP id szkpaaaa for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:33:46 +0000 Received: by OFFICE1_LIWEST with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:18:36 +0100 Message-ID: <1F879C64A1A7D211B0F10004AC4C07FC119CD6@OFFICE1_LIWEST> From: Haider Roland To: "'freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org'" Subject: Arnet Multiport DIP-switch settings Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:18:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, though this isn't really a FreeBSD issue i thought here my chances are best to find someone who can help. Hope I'm not wrong! The problem: I got a 8 port serial board. Howerver, in the last 5 years the dokumentation got lost. Now I should configure it, so I have to know what the 3 DIP-switch blocks SW1 (5 sw), SW2 (7 sw), SW3 (6 sw) and the A/B jumper are doing. The board is an ARNET MULTIPORT rev.4 If someone who still has the manual could tell me the function of the switches or give me a working setting with the corresponding kernel options, it would be great. Thanks, Roland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 10:17:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.ocsny.com (apollo.ocsny.com [204.107.76.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301EE1522C for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 10:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsny.com) Received: from ocsny.com (thoth.upan.org [204.107.76.16]) by apollo.ocsny.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA85391 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:15:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <388751DE.63980B24@ocsny.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:20:14 -0500 From: Mikel Organization: Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: install on Proliant 800 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------8ACC8886147FCA6CDEBFEB24" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------8ACC8886147FCA6CDEBFEB24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Any successfully get a Compaq Proliant 800 up on fBSD? Was there anything speial you had to do? Besides not using Compaq, are there any pitfalls to watch out for? -- Cheers, Mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc http://www.ocsny.com | 39 W14th Street, Suite 203 212 727 2238 x132 | New York, NY 10011 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ --------------8ACC8886147FCA6CDEBFEB24 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mikel.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mikel Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mikel.vcf" begin:vcard n:King;Mikel x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Optimized Computer Solutions version:2.1 email;internet:mikel@ocsny.com title:Procurement Manager tel;fax:2124638402 tel;home:http://www.upan.org/vizkr tel;work:2127272100 adr;quoted-printable:;;39 W14th St.=0D=0ASte 203;New York;NY;10011;US x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Mikel King end:vcard --------------8ACC8886147FCA6CDEBFEB24-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 15: 3:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.bigmailbox.com (hipmail6.gohip.com [208.232.3.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD9F15375; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:03:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gummibear@nettaxi.com) Received: œby mail6.bigmailbox.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18364; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:03:26 -0800 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:03:26 -0800 Message-Id: <200001202303.PAA18364@mail6.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-Ip: [209.244.73.181] From: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" To: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Advice Needed On Small Office Hub and Net Adapters Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello! I was hoping to find some advice on network equipment for a small office. I'm helping out a friend setup his business (a small Security Staffing Company) network, and I'm sort of stuck on price/performance issues. It will be a mix of Windows 9x clients and FreeBSD servers. At my job we use 3com hubs, switches and a mix of Intel and 3com netowrk adapters. I have found great performance with the Intel network adapters and I also like their design (I love a nice clean visually appealing hardware design). The network I'll be setting up will have about 5 users and possible a few more in the future. They plan to hook up their Intranet to the Internet via a DSL line. Now, I feel that 3com is pretty reliable but very expensive. Intel on the other hand is also a good performer, but also a bit pricy (although better than 3com). He's willing to spend around $2000 on the equipment, but I'd really like to get him the best price/performance I can. I'm looking into Netgear equipment (because I use them at home and find the price reasonable). Their stackable 16 port hubs and network adapters seem to be at a very good price, but I question their reliability and performance. Does anyone have any experience with this equipment? I'm also open to suggestions to other possible low cost/high performance solutions. Joey Garcia PS I plan to use FreeBSD as their firewall and NAT server for the DSL connection. ------------------------------------------------------------ What's the fastest way to find a great travel deal on the Internet? Travelzoo's Weekly Top 20 -- at www.travelzoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 16:32:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [216.99.193.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C8114C9E; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:32:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (IDENT:root@shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14020; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:32:45 -0800 Received: from localhost by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id QAA16714; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:34:11 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.aracnet.com: hamellr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:34:11 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed On Small Office Hub and Net Adapters In-Reply-To: <200001202303.PAA18364@mail6.bigmailbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm looking into Netgear equipment (because I use them at home and find > the price reasonable). Their stackable 16 port hubs and network > adapters seem to be at a very good price, but I question their > reliability and performance. Does anyone have any experience with this > equipment? I personally like Netgear hubs and switches with Kingston NICs all around in the computers. As cheap as the cards are, they've been in my experience more reliable and better performers then 3Com or Intel. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 16:44:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC58153C3; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:44:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-208-170-118-115.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.170.118.115]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA04781; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:44:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA80525; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:43:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200001210043.SAA80525@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Advice Needed On Small Office Hub and Net Adapters In-reply-to: Message from "gummibear@nettaxi.com" of "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:03:26 PST." <200001202303.PAA18364@mail6.bigmailbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:43:34 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "gummibear@nettaxi.com" writes: >Now, I feel that 3com is pretty reliable but very expensive. Intel on >the ot her hand is also a good performer, but also a bit pricy (although >better than 3 com). He's willing to spend around $2000 on the >equipment, but I'd really like >to get him the best price/performance I can. > >I'm looking into Netgear equipment (because I use them at home and find >the p rice reasonable). Their stackable 16 port hubs and network >adapters seem to be at a very good price, but I question their >reliability and performance. Does anyone have any experience with this >equipment? > >I'm also open to suggestions to other possible low cost/high performance >solutions. About 6 months ago in a similar situation I selected an Allied Telesyn AT724i (guessing number from memory). This is a 24 port auto 10/100 switch (not hub) with internal power supply. Price was about $630 from http://www.warehouse.com/. Installed it and forgot about it. It just works. The advantage of a switch over a hub is that dynamically any two hosts can establish a full duplex connection, eliminating collisions, and in theory allowing twice the bandwidth. The 10/100 feature is nice as the switch buffers between one speed and the other. Nobody has to do anything special, it just happens. Device has 3 LED's for each of the 24 ports so you have plenty of flashing lights to entertain Pointy-Haired-Bosses. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 17:35: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from rtp.tfd.com (rtp.tfd.com [198.79.53.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E3414C05 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 17:34:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kent@tfd.com) Received: (from kent@localhost) by rtp.tfd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA27016 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:34:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 20:34:58 -0500 (EST) From: Kent Hauser Message-Id: <200001210134.UAA27016@rtp.tfd.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: ATA drives with ATA66 (?) controller Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I just got a gateway PC with a 27GB ATA hard drive. Gateway lists it as a "Ultra ATA" drive with an "Ultra ATA 66" controller. The drive says IBM on it. I tried to install 3.1-RELEASE & 3.4-RELEASE -- the drive is not recognized. (ie on the express install it says no drive recognized.) Any suggestions? (additional info: there are 2 cdroms if that matters) Thanks a bunch. Kent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 21:11:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6DE1531F for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA17747; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:33:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000121052317.00c66470@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 05:31:16 +0100 To: Kent Hauser From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: ATA drives with ATA66 (?) controller Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200001210351.WAA27130@rtp.tfd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 22:51 20.01.00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi > >Thanks a lot for your note. Maybe I missstated my problem: >my drive works great with W98, but is not recognized by FBSD.] >Any thoughts on what I might do (besides sending the drive/controller >to you:=>) > Hi! Ok, what you can do: 1) get and flash new Mobo BIOS 2)get and flash new drive firmware, if available. BTW: which exact model number has your drive? 3) change cabling, if you have the 80-pin cable, swap against a 40pin, to force DMA/33 mode. Also make sure that there are all jumpers correct. 4) unhook those 2 CD-ROMS, try putting it as Master only on a controller 5) fiddle with BIOS settings, tell the BIOS that it shall _not_ use auto mode, but you tell it to use whether DMA/33 or PIO, if that helps. 6) Sometimes, if drives are over 8 GB, you have to use LARGE mode instead of LBA to get them detected correctly. Because LARGE uses different way of approching it through BIOS than LBA, it sometimes works. At least M$ NT has sometimes trouble with LBA and needs LARGE. Seems also to depend on mobo manufacturer and chipset. BTW: Which model/rev. is your mainboard? (Am discussing things like these also on other lists, maybe they have a clue, since they are building lots of DMA/33 and 66 systems) if nothing helps: send it to me ;-))) Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- The power to serve ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 20 21:14:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BDE15447; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:14:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA74667; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00:54 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Rick Hamell Cc: "gummibear@nettaxi.com" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice Needed On Small Office Hub and Net Adapters Message-ID: <20000121000054.H73715@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200001202303.PAA18364@mail6.bigmailbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:34:11PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 04:34:11PM -0800, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > I'm looking into Netgear equipment (because I use them at home and find > > the price reasonable). Their stackable 16 port hubs and network > > adapters seem to be at a very good price, but I question their > > reliability and performance. Does anyone have any experience with this > > equipment? > > I personally like Netgear hubs and switches with Kingston NICs all > around in the computers. As cheap as the cards are, they've been in my > experience more reliable and better performers then 3Com or Intel. We have lots of 4 to 16 port Netgears at the office. Never had any trouble from any of them. Many are getting pretty old too. Funny thing, only trouble we have had is from 24 port Cisco hubs and a 8 port Cisco switch, and Cisco is the $$$ one. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 21 0:24:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com (hermes.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56FBE14D29 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@research.kpn.com) Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #35196) with ESMTP id <01JKYMFBXR9Q000J1E@research.kpn.com> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:24:06 +0100 Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:24:05 +0100 Content-return: allowed Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:23:57 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: RE: ATA drives with ATA66 (?) controller To: 'FreeBSD Hardware mailing list' Message-id: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E45220FD175@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >Thanks a lot for your note. Maybe I missstated my problem: > >my drive works great with W98, but is not recognized by FBSD.] > >Any thoughts on what I might do (besides sending the drive/controller > >to you:=>) > FreeBSD is quite a bit more picky that Windows when it comes to IDE jumper settings. On the back (or PCB) of your drive (and your cd players too) you'll find the master/slave and the CS jumpers. In many cases just setting the master/slave properly will satisfy Windows, but FreeBSD wants you to set CS properly as well. Does anyone know what CS stands for (Cable Select?) and what it is for? Find the docs for the drives ("ftp ftp..com) is a good place to start. They have little ASCII-art disk layout schematics. In many cases nowadays it's printed on the casing. You may want to place the two cdrom players on the secondary IDE bus, and leave the big drive alone on the primary. (Assuming you're not sending it to me for ... uhh ... inspection) Kees Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 21 1:42: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gw-nl4.philips.com (gw-nl4.philips.com [192.68.44.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A0D15450 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 01:42:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert.schofield@philips.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl4.philips.com with ESMTP id KAA18548 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:42:00 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from robert.schofield@philips.com) From: robert.schofield@philips.com Received: from smtprelay-eur1.philips.com(130.139.36.3) by gw-nl4.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma018525; Fri, 21 Jan 00 10:42:00 +0100 Received: from notessmtp-nl1.philips.com (notessmtp-nl1.philips.com [130.139.36.10]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id KAA18919 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:41:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from EHLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (ehlms01sv1.diamond.philips.com [130.139.54.212]) by notessmtp-nl1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id KAA08410 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:41:23 +0100 (MET) Received: by EHLMS01.DIAMOND.PHILIPS.COM (Soft-Switch LMS 4.0) with snapi via EMEA2 id 0056890008067062; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:41:21 +0100 To: Subject: RE: ATA drives with ATA66 (?) controller Message-ID: <0056890008067062000002L922*@MHS> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 10:41:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="MEMO 01/21/00 10:38:58" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org K.J.Koster@research.kpn.com@SMTP@FreeBSD.ORG on 21/01/2000 09:26:34 Sent by: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG@SMTP cc: =20 Subject: RE: ATA drives with ATA66 (?) controller Classification: Restricted > Does anyone know what CS stands for (Cable Select?) and what it is fo= r? This is something of a remnant from the days of the original IBM Wester= n Digital two-cable setup. All drives were manufactured with a primary disk and secondary disk select on the = connectors; a twist in the cable was needed to make sure that the cable select lines were delivered to the c= orrect pins on the disk. This stopped=20 both drives reacting to the same select line going active.=20 The jumper on the drive just replaces the twist (allowing for the use o= f a cheaper to make flat cable),and should be needed when you have two disks on the same cable as master and slave= . Rob Schofield -- "Not quick, but brilliant!" - quote from a (good) friend. OJ and Aspirin! = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 21 2: 8:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A096615455 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 02:08:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA03646; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:08:12 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000121105511.00c7eee0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:03:03 +0100 To: "Koster, K.J." From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: RE: ATA drives with ATA66 (?) controller Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E45220FD175@l04.research.kpn.co m> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:23 21.01.00 +0100, you wrote: >> >> >Thanks a lot for your note. Maybe I missstated my problem: >> >my drive works great with W98, but is not recognized by FBSD.] >> >Any thoughts on what I might do (besides sending the drive/controller >> >to you:=>) >> >FreeBSD is quite a bit more picky that Windows when it comes to IDE jumper >settings. On the back (or PCB) of your drive (and your cd players too) >you'll find the master/slave and the CS jumpers. In many cases just setting >the master/slave properly will satisfy Windows, but FreeBSD wants you to set >CS properly as well. > >Does anyone know what CS stands for (Cable Select?) and what it is for? Hi! Yes, CS stands for cable select. Originally used by old drives, where the cabling told them who was master and slave, this jumper exists on modern drives only due to some "compatibility" reasons, until ATA/66 came up. In normal mode, you _had_ to set the CS jumper to disabled and set via MAster/Slave jumper the right combo. The ATA/66 cabling has also CS feature (Principally like with the FDD cabling, with some pin assignment)built in, so the cable will tell the drives again what they are. If you use a 40-pin standard cabling with them, or mix something (like CDROMs, that often cannot do even DMA modi), it will a) mess up certain things, as it still is cheapo IDE, and therefore not designed nor intended to run really well, and b) you will have to tell them again manually what to do via jumpers/BIOS settings. Problems are also caused in wide areas with unstable or too early Mainboard BIOSes. Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- The power to serve ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 21 14:59:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F2A15422 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cattand@charlie.cns.iit.edu) Received: (from cattand@localhost) by charlie.cns.iit.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA21231 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:58:47 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:58:46 -0600 From: Andrew Cattau To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: problem running FreeBSD with VIA chipset Message-ID: <20000121165846.C756662@charlie.cns.iit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i have an AMD K6 200 that i am trying to install FreeBSD on. There is a problem with my hardware that causes me to get random system crashes and kernel panics during periods of heavy hard disk activity. I believe this is a problem with either my hard disk controller or my bios. I ran linux on this box for about a year and a half, and had similar problems under linux until i started using the kernel option "PCI bios quirks", which seemed to fix the issue. the motherboard is an fic socket 7 board (pa-1007, i think but i dont remember exactly) with a via apollo chipset. my boot screen tells me that the ide controller is a VIA 82C586x. the bios is AWARD, i have no idea on the rev # if anybody knows a way to fix this or work around this i would greatly appreciate it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 21 16:32:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420291519F for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:32:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chaycock1@mindspring.com) Received: from CHaycock (user-37ka80d.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.32.13]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA06030 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:32:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001220032.TAA06030@smtp6.mindspring.com> From: "Carlton Haycock" To: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:47:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Carlton Haycock" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: problem with toshiba xm5401ta Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am trying to install 3.4 onto a computer that has an Adaptec 2920C v1.32 and a Toshiba Cdrom XM5401TA. I am able to boot from the CD, but when I get to the point in the install that asks to select install media and I select CD-ROM, it says it cannot find a CD-ROM. It is recognizing the 2920 because fdisk/disklabel both recognize the scsi harddisk also attached. The system also has an IDE controller with only a hard disk attached, which bsd also recognizes. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Carlton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 21 16:37:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DE2156A2 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:37:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chaycock1@mindspring.com) Received: from CHaycock (user-37ka80d.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.32.13]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA14328 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:37:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001220037.TAA14328@smtp6.mindspring.com> From: "Carlton Haycock" To: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:52:12 -0500 Reply-To: "Carlton Haycock" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: follow up to toshiba xm5041 problem Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It is worth mentioning that I just tried to install with the 3.3 release and it went fine. Exact same hardware configuration. Carlton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message