From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 15 09:20:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA24933 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:20:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ion1.ionet.net (mrbill@ion1.ionet.net [204.96.200.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA24884 Mon, 15 Jan 1996 09:20:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrbill@localhost) by ion1.ionet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA28100; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:18:22 -0600 From: Bill Bradford Message-Id: <199601151718.LAA28100@ion1.ionet.net> Subject: Connectix QuickCam with FreeBSD? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 11:18:22 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone ported software or gotten a Connectix QuickCam to work with FreeBSD? I tried the Linux program "qcam", but it gives me an error message about architecture problems. I'm running 2.1 on a P120 here at work, and 2.0.5 on my DX2/66 at home. Bill Bradford mrbill@ionet.net From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 15 12:24:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA05831 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:24:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sl-001.sl.cybercomm.net (sl-001.sl.cybercomm.net [199.171.196.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05816 Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sl-001.sl.cybercomm.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sl-001.sl.cybercomm.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA03132; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:23:48 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:23:48 -0500 (EST) From: Sujal Patel X-Sender: smpatel@sl-001.sl.cybercomm.net To: Bill Bradford cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connectix QuickCam with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199601151718.LAA28100@ion1.ionet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Bill Bradford wrote: > Has anyone ported software or gotten a Connectix QuickCam to work > with FreeBSD? I tried the Linux program "qcam", but it gives me > an error message about architecture problems. I'm running 2.1 on > a P120 here at work, and 2.0.5 on my DX2/66 at home. Yes... I haven't tried it, but here it is: --- Begin Forwarded Message --- >From POPmail Fri Jan 12 08:45:55 1996 Received: from ns.crynwr.com (ns.crynwr.com [192.203.178.14]) by po1.wam.umd.edu (8.6.10/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA11256; Fri, 12 Jan 1996 08:43:09 -0500 Received: from hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk by ns.crynwr.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #57) id m0taj41-000G38C; Fri, 12 Jan 96 07:58 EST From: D S Banarse Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:58:27 GMT Message-Id: <3942.9601121258@hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk> Received: from brains.sees (brains.sees.bangor.ac.uk) by hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk; Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:58:27 GMT To: linux-connectix@crynwr.com Status: RO X-Status: Subject: qcam port to FreeBSD We have ported your qcam to FreeBSD. If you are interested we have included in this mail the diff needed to create qcam-FreeBSD.c from qcam-Linux.c Makefile also had to be tweeked so it's diffs have been included too. qcam-lib.c also had a minor tweek - diffs included. ==============================X==================================== Diffs for qcam-Linux.c to create qcam-FreeBSD.c follow NOTE: qcam-Linux.h must also be copied to qcam-FreeBSD.h ------------------------------x------------------------------------ 1c1 < /* qcam-Linux.c -- Linux-specific routines for accessing QuickCam */ --- > /* qcam-FreeBSD.c -- FreeBSD-specific routines for accessing QuickCam */ 34,39c34,35 < #include < < #include < #include < #include < #include --- > /* This is where inb and outb are hidden */ > #include 42c38,41 < #include "qcam-Linux.h" --- > #include "qcam-FreeBSD.h" > > /* No ioperm function under FreeBSD - open /dev/io instead */ > FILE * IOPerm; 44,48c43,57 < int read_lpstatus(struct qcam *q) { return inb(q->port+1); } < int read_lpcontrol(struct qcam *q) { return inb(q->port+2); } < int read_lpdata(struct qcam *q) { return inb(q->port); } < void write_lpdata(struct qcam *q, int d) { outb(d,q->port); } < void write_lpcontrol(struct qcam *q, int d) { outb(d,q->port+2); } --- > int read_lpstatus(struct qcam *q) { > return( (int) inb( (unsigned int)(q->port+1) ) ); > } > int read_lpcontrol(struct qcam *q) { > return( (int) inb( (unsigned int)(q->port+2) ) ); > } > int read_lpdata(struct qcam *q) { > return( (int) inb( (unsigned int)(q->port) ) ); > } > void write_lpdata(struct qcam *q, int d) { > outb( (unsigned int)(q->port), (unsigned char)d ); > } > void write_lpcontrol(struct qcam *q, int d) { > outb( (unsigned int)(q->port+2) ,(unsigned char)d ); > } 53,54c62,65 < if(q->port>0x3bc) return 1; < return (ioperm(q->port, 3, 1)); --- > if(q->port>0x3b8) return 1; > if( (IOPerm = fopen("/dev/io","r"))!=NULL ) > return 0; > else return 1; 59c70 < return (ioperm(q->port, 3, 0)); --- > return (fclose(IOPerm)); 142d152 < ==============================X==================================== Diffs on Makefile for FreeBSD follow ------------------------------x------------------------------------ 1c1 < # Makefile for QCAM under Linux --- > # Makefile for QCAM under FreeBSD 35c35 < $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o qcam qcam.o -L. -lqcam --- > $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -L. qcam.o -o qcam -lqcam 38c38 < ln -sf qcam-`uname`.h qcam-os.h --- > ln -sf qcam-FreeBSD.h qcam-os.h 41c41 < ln -sf qcam-`uname`.c qcam-os.c --- > ln -sf qcam-FreeBSD.c qcam-os.c 48a49,51 > xqcam.o: xqcam.c qcam.h qcam-os.h > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -I/usr/X11R6/include -c xqcam.c > 62d64 < 66c68 < ar rcs $@ $^ --- > ar r $@ qcam-lib.o qcam-os.o ==============================X==================================== Diffs on qcam-lib.c for FreeBSD follow ------------------------------x------------------------------------ 38a39 > #include 160,162c161 < f=fopen(CONFIG_FILE,"r"); < < if (f==NULL&&errno!=ENOENT) { --- > if( !(f=fopen(CONFIG_FILE,"r")) ) { ------------------------------x------------------------------------ From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 15 13:14:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA08939 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:14:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08913 Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:14:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by iworks.InterWorks.org (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA14243; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:11:38 -0600 Message-Id: <9601152111.AA14243@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 15:11:38 -0600 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connectix QuickCam with FreeBSD? Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Has anyone ported software or gotten a Connectix QuickCam to work >with FreeBSD? I tried the Linux program "qcam", but it gives me >an error message about architecture problems. I'm running 2.1 on >a P120 here at work, and 2.0.5 on my DX2/66 at home. To anyone interested, there is a reverse engineering project going on for the QuickCam. See http://www.crynwr.com:80/qcpc Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 15 13:19:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA09302 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:19:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (sivka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.125.68.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09174 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:17:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvisti.kiev.ua (uucp@localhost) by sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (Sendmail 8.who.cares/5) with UUCP id XAA24011 for hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:16:07 +0200 Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.33]) by spider2.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) with ESMTP id VAA26926 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:46:26 +0200 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.ElVisti) id VAA14950 for hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:46:25 +0200 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199601151946.VAA14950@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Subject: NE2000 on PCI -- what this means? To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 21:46:24 +0200 (EET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello people, I've just got a PCI Ether card instead of an old NE1000, and found it to be NE2000-compatible. What are the opinions: is PCI NE2000 any better than an ISA one in terms of bus, interrupt and CPU load? Will it be better to replace it with a DEC-based one? Thanks! -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 An undocumented feature is a coding error. From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 15 22:59:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA17198 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi [130.234.41.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA17178 Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kallio@localhost) by beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA00222; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:58:37 +0200 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:58:37 +0200 (EET) From: Seppo Kallio To: Bill Bradford cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Connectix QuickCam with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199601151718.LAA28100@ion1.ionet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Bill Bradford wrote: > Has anyone ported software or gotten a Connectix QuickCam to work > with FreeBSD? I tried the Linux program "qcam", but it gives me > an error message about architecture problems. I'm running 2.1 on > a P120 here at work, and 2.0.5 on my DX2/66 at home. > > Bill Bradford > mrbill@ionet.net What about compiling the software for FreeBSD? I think it is not very big. Has someone tryed it? Seppo From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 03:43:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA08094 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 03:43:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA08082 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 03:43:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from petzi@localhost) by zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA00434; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:42:59 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:42:56 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Beckmann To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Disk or controller or driver failure ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, today I found the hard disk in one of my systems spun down. I got lots of error messages on the console, and after a while the system rebooted. This is what I read on the console before it rebooted: sd0(ncr0:0:0): NOT READY asc:4.2 There was a similar problem this morning, which was logged in /var/log/messages (I wasn't there): Jan 16 04:08:55 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE info:50eb0 asc:15,0 Random positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 Jan 16 04:09:10 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE info:50eb6 asc:15,0 Random positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 Jan 16 06:11:56 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE info:50ef0 asc:15,0 Random positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 Jan 16 06:12:00 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE info:50ef4 asc:15,0 Random positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 Jan 16 06:12:06 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE info:50ef8 asc:15,0 Random positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 Jan 16 06:12:12 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE info:50ef4 asc:15,0 Random positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 Jan 16 06:12:16 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE info:50efc asc:15,0 Random positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 Are these signs of a dying disk or is it the controller ? Or might it be a driver problem ? Has anyone seen this before ? Thanks for any help. Michael From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 03:59:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA09431 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 03:59:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu [136.165.243.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA09426 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 03:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wangel@localhost) by wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (8.7.3/8.6.12) id GAA07365; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:57:33 GMT Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:57:30 +0000 () From: Wicked Angel To: Freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Dos Extended In-Reply-To: <199601152024.UAA06845@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I was reading in the faq documents that mounting a DOS Extended partition wasn't possible in 2.0.5, but it was possible in 2.1.0. If it is, how do I mount my dos extended partition, it's my second partition on my first hd. Thanks Gary From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 06:47:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA18037 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:47:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu [136.165.243.183]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA18031 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:47:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wangel@localhost) by wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu (8.7.3/8.6.12) id JAA07492; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:45:05 GMT Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:45:02 +0000 () From: Wicked Angel To: Bruce Evans cc: Freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dos Extended In-Reply-To: <199601161414.BAA26050@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > > It actually says that the feature of mounting DOS extended partitions > isn't present in 2.1, but should be in 2.2. Actually, this feature > was introduced in 2.0.5. Actually^2, this feature will never be > supported. You mount logical drives, not the extended partitions that > contain the logical drives. > hehe, guess I misread ;) 0 > > Is it the second DOS partition and the first logical drive in the first > extended partition? That's the the first logical drive so it is slice 5, > i.e., sd0s5 if your disk is SCSI. > > mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s5 /somewhere > > Bruce > Well, my first dos partition is /dev/wd0s1, and teh extended partition is wd0s2(being the second partition) so I was trying to mount that! I just mounted my extended partiontion now ;) (as the fifth partition slice), it works great, I apprecaite it! Thanks again!!! Gary From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 07:54:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA21446 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:54:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA21403 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id GAA26398 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:21:05 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA26050; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:14:29 +1100 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:14:29 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199601161414.BAA26050@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: Freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu Subject: Re: Dos Extended Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I was reading in the faq documents that mounting a DOS Extended partition >wasn't possible in 2.0.5, but it was possible in 2.1.0. It actually says that the feature of mounting DOS extended partitions isn't present in 2.1, but should be in 2.2. Actually, this feature was introduced in 2.0.5. Actually^2, this feature will never be supported. You mount logical drives, not the extended partitions that contain the logical drives. >If it is, how do I mount my dos extended partition, it's my second >partition on my first hd. Is it the second DOS partition and the first logical drive in the first extended partition? That's the the first logical drive so it is slice 5, i.e., sd0s5 if your disk is SCSI. mount -t msdos /dev/sd0s5 /somewhere Bruce From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 07:54:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA21474 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA21417 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 07:54:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id GAA26402 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 06:22:01 -0800 Received: from zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at (zerberus.hai.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA08407 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:20:56 +0100 Received: from localhost by zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14777; Tue, 16 Jan 96 15:20:53 +0100 Message-Id: <9601161420.AA14777@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at> To: Michael Beckmann Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, wirth@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at Subject: Re: Disk or controller or driver failure ? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:42:56 +0100." Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:20:53 +0100 From: Helmut Wirth Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I had a similar problem recently: One of my SCSI disk was reported as not ready. It got ready seconds later, only to go Not Ready again in a few moments. The reason was a bad contact on the voltage supply connector ! I pulled it and adjusted the copper rings inside to have 'a better grip' to the pins of the drive's connector and replugged it. The problem went away completly, but one sector was unreadable after this. Writing to this sector corrected this problem too, obviously a power failure occured in the middle of writing this sector. The power supply connectors are not very good, especially if one changes from one to another device, because apparently the pins in the device's connector have slighty different diameters. Oxydation of the connector parts could also be a problem. First time I encountered this with my SCSI-Tape. So I think it would pay to check this first. Best Helmut From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 08:24:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA23505 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA23449 Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:24:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id EAA25637 ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 04:59:50 -0800 Received: by Sysiphos id AA00719 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:59:40 +0100 Message-Id: <199601161259.AA00719@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:59:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Michael Beckmann "Disk or controller or driver failure ?" (Jan 16, 12:58) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Michael Beckmann Subject: Re: Disk or controller or driver failure ? Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org, scsi@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 16, 12:58, Michael Beckmann wrote: } Subject: Disk or controller or driver failure ? } Hi, } } today I found the hard disk in one of my systems spun down. I got lots } of error messages on the console, and after a while the system } rebooted. This is what I read on the console before it rebooted: } } sd0(ncr0:0:0): NOT READY asc:4.2 } } There was a similar problem this morning, which was logged in } /var/log/messages (I wasn't there): } } Jan 16 04:08:55 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE } FAILURE info:50eb0 asc:15,0 Random } positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 } } Jan 16 04:09:10 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE } FAILURE info:50eb6 asc:15,0 Random } positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 sks:80,3 [ ... ] } Are these signs of a dying disk or is it the controller ? Or might it be } a driver problem ? Has anyone seen this before ? Well, I'd take those messages to mean what they say: HARDWARE FAILURE: Random positioning error. This is an extended error code, returned by the hard disk, and printed by the generic SCSI code. Make backups ! Regards, STefan PS: You may want to check the power supply, too. This could be caused by an out of spec 12V supply ... -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 08:24:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA23545 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA23437 Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:24:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.20]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA25867 ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 05:22:59 -0800 Received: (from petzi@localhost) by zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA01178; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:22:13 +0100 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:22:13 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Beckmann To: Stefan Esser cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org, scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Disk or controller or driver failure ? In-Reply-To: <199601161259.AA00719@Sysiphos> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > } Are these signs of a dying disk or is it the controller ? Or might it be > } a driver problem ? Has anyone seen this before ? > > Well, I'd take those messages to mean what they say: > > HARDWARE FAILURE: Random positioning error. > > This is an extended error code, returned by the hard disk, > and printed by the generic SCSI code. > > Make backups ! Every day ! > PS: You may want to check the power supply, too. This > could be caused by an out of spec 12V supply ... All I have is a digital voltmeter. I could only check if the voltage is correct; not if there are "brownouts" or something. But thanks a lot for this hint. You might be right. Maybe I'll have to change the power supply (build my machine into another housing). Michael From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 16 21:59:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA18631 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:59:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ooo.lanl.gov (ooo.lanl.gov [128.165.23.117]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA18614 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by ooo.lanl.gov (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA279518346; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 22:59:06 -0700 From: Rob Hartill Message-Id: <199601170559.AA279518346@ooo.lanl.gov> Subject: Micron hardware for freebsd. Any info? To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 22:59:06 MST X-Organization: Theoretical Division, T-8. Los Alamos National Laboratory X-Snail: LANL Theoretical Divi' T-8, MS B285, P.O Box 1663, Los Alamos NM 87545 X-Marks-The-Spot: Doh ! X-Url: http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill/ X-Cessive-Use-Of-Headers: check Reply-To: hartill@lanl.gov Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi all, Does anyone have any info about using Micron hardware with FreeBSD? I've been warned by a FreeBSD guru that a high (150+) MHz box is likely to be slower than a lesser MHz box with a better motherboard. Micron have good windoze based benchmarks, but I've also been told to ignore them when thinking about FreeBSD. Micron are at http://www.mei.micron.com/ I'm waiting for a response from their tech dept as to what bus rates their systems run at. While I'm here, does anyone have recommendations for a home machine to be used to run FreeBSD, for software development where text processing large amounts of data with perl is likely to be the thing I need to get working fast. I'm looking at something starting at the P133/32Mb RAM spec, but am happy to push both up if the spec is right. Info or pointers appreciated. cheers, rob http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 11:25:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA29775 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:25:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from acs3.bu.edu (root@ACS3.BU.EDU [128.197.153.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29763 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:25:00 -0800 (PST) From: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu Received: by acs3.bu.edu (8.6.11/BU_SmartClient-1.0) id OAA95988; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:21:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:21:19 -0500 Message-Id: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> To: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Printer and modem recommendations? Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone have recommendations on: 1) low end (less than $500.) laser printers 2) cheap 28.8k modems My sense from looking at the mail archive is that GDI (I think) printers such as the HP 5L are not compatible with FreeBSD. Is this true? Are there any reasonable alternatives? If there aren't any cheap and decent 28.8k modems, what recommendations would you have for 14.4k models? Thanks much for any help you can offer. Thanks, also, by the way, to everyone who responded to my earlier query about system hardware for FreeBSD. Russ Murphy From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 11:39:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA00972 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanto.cc.jyu.fi (kallio@kanto.cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA00948 Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:39:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kallio@localhost) by kanto.cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) id VAA13274; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:38:05 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:38:05 +0200 (EET) From: Seppo Kallio To: Terry Lambert cc: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: New problem with netboot (diskless) 3c509 10Base2 In-Reply-To: <199509151621.JAA01268@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a strange problem: We have some 486 micros in a classroom. They had SMC Ethernet BNC cards and netboot did work fine. Now someone did change Etherlink III cards and 10Base cable. Now nb3c509 cannot connect, it rotates |\-/| after "Finding server" (or something like that), I think it is waiting answer from bootpd, it cannot get its ip address. The DOS+Novel works fine on same micros. nb3c509 get irg 10 + 0x300. I tryet 0x280, did not effect -- did try PlugAnd Play off, did not effect. I have same card in my P120 in my room with BNC cable and it works nice. Could there bee some bug in nb3c509 with 10Base2 code? Or what could be the reason? Seppo From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 11:47:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA01636 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01623 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA09016; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:50:19 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:50:19 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601171950.MAA09016@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Printer and modem recommendations? In-Reply-To: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> References: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) low end (less than $500.) laser printers > > 2) cheap 28.8k modems Whle folks may disagree with me, I've had *really* good luck with the USR Sportsters, and they are pretty cheap. You can get the white ones (w/out voice mail) for $210 from MicroSystemsWarehouse, which is a good deal. > My sense from looking at the mail archive is that GDI (I think) > printers such as the HP 5L are not compatible with FreeBSD. Is > this true? Are there any reasonable alternatives? What gives you the idea that this printer wouldn't work? Does it use a Parallel port and/or a serial port, which are both supported under FreeBSD? Nate From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 14:44:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA14355 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:44:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from solar.os.com (root@solar.os.com [199.232.136.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14345 Wed, 17 Jan 1996 14:44:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from jupiter (jupiter.os.com [199.232.136.66]) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) with SMTP id RAA04417; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:55:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:55:13 -0500 Message-Id: <199601172255.RAA04417@solar.os.com> X-Sender: craigs@solar X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Subject: Help! - How do I add more disk and swap? Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I have two ST-43400N SCSI drives that I need to add to my system. I have partitioned the disks but I don't know how to label them. I want each disk to have 32M swap and 2745M of freebsd space. I've tried /stand/sysinstall's disk label editor but I can't tell if it's working. It complains that I haven't selected a "/" filesystem when I try to write the config. My root is on another drive so I don't want to mess with it. I have been able to label and make a filesystem on the drives as long as I don't define a swap space. Any attempt to "swapon" results in a file not found message. Does the swap space need some kind of formatting? I have not been able to find any documentation on how to add swap and disk to a system so I don't even know if /stand/sysinstall is the right tool. Please, if anyone can tell me how to add disk properly or at least point me to some literature I'd be grateful. I'd hate to have to go back to Linux simply because it has the necessary instructions :-( Thanks, Craig =================================================================== Shrimpton Consulting Orbit Systems Craig Shrimpton Email: craigs@os.com 17 Monroe Avenue Phone: (508) 753-8776 Worcester, MA 01602 http://www.os.com/ From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 17:36:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA25785 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:36:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA25720 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA04522; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:10:23 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601180140.MAA04522@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Printer and modem recommendations? To: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:10:22 +1030 (CST) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> from "rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu" at Jan 17, 96 02:21:19 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu stands accused of saying: > > Does anyone have recommendations on: > > 1) low end (less than $500.) laser printers Buy a secondhand Laserjet 2 or 3. Provided you look after them, they're good for over a million copies. I picked one up at an auction for about $150, and spent another $100 or so on parts. It's done about 250,000 copies and runs perfectly. (This was actually a III with 4M and the Canon SX-2 engine, ie. 600dpi with the spiffy RET stuff.) We paid about $600 (Australian) for an ex-demo LJ-2 with about 20,000 copies on it about two years ago A new printer in the under-$500 bracket will be _CRAP_ and will give you nothing but grief. > My sense from looking at the mail archive is that GDI (I think) > printers such as the HP 5L are not compatible with FreeBSD. Is > this true? Are there any reasonable alternatives? GDI printers of all types are inherently dependant on the Micro$oft Windows GDI rasteriser, and are next to useless. Never, ever buy a GDI printer. Pick something mainstream that is compatible with the HP-PCL or Postscript, even if it is a few years old. > Russ Murphy -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 17:52:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA26632 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM ([198.138.38.206]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26626 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:52:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA18313; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:52:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 20:52:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Printer and modem recommendations? In-Reply-To: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Jan 1996 rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu wrote: > 2) cheap 28.8k modems many cheap modems have cheap analog components, and so they drop carrier more often, fail to resolve the symbols more often, end up being a real pain. a high-quality modem is a real joy. having tested too many for a A/V over dial-up lines project. i have reached these conclusions: 1. name does not guarantee quality 2. price does not guarantee quality 3. only testing will show which ones are good 4. not all modems will support full-bandwith, continuous bidirectional communications. 5. some modems are incrediably good, and expensive 6. not all modems will increase data rate after falling back to lower rates due to line impariment 7. the digital section is inexpensive, and generally fine. 8. nothing replaces high quality analog components. NOTHING. usr robotics couriers and telebit high end modems are great especially if you have them at both ends. dial up, sync up, and you almost cant knock them offline. inject the right frequencies and the hangup, but otherwise data flows. it will be slow if the line is degradated but it flows. improve line quality and data flow increased immediately. Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 17 18:06:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27264 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA27259 Wed, 17 Jan 1996 18:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA04671; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:39:03 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601180209.MAA04671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New problem with netboot (diskless) 3c509 10Base2 To: kallio@cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:39:03 +1030 (CST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Jan 17, 96 09:38:05 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying: > > > I have a strange problem: We have some 486 micros in a classroom. They > had SMC Ethernet BNC cards and netboot did work fine. > > Now someone did change Etherlink III cards and 10Base cable. > > Now nb3c509 cannot connect, it rotates |\-/| after "Finding server" (or > something like that), I think it is waiting answer from bootpd, it cannot > get its ip address. The DOS+Novel works fine on same micros. nb3c509 get You'll have to update the bootptab to reflect the new Ethernet addresses of the new cards. > Seppo -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[ From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 18 02:21:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA21363 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 02:21:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi [130.234.41.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA21317 Thu, 18 Jan 1996 02:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kallio@localhost) by beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA04219; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:19:35 +0200 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:19:35 +0200 (EET) From: Seppo Kallio To: Michael Smith cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New problem with netboot (diskless) 3c509 10Base2 In-Reply-To: <199601180209.MAA04671@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying: > > > > > > I have a strange problem: We have some 486 micros in a classroom. They > > had SMC Ethernet BNC cards and netboot did work fine. > > > > Now someone did change Etherlink III cards and 10Base cable. > > > > Now nb3c509 cannot connect, it rotates |\-/| after "Finding server" (or > > something like that), I think it is waiting answer from bootpd, it cannot > > get its ip address. The DOS+Novel works fine on same micros. nb3c509 get > > You'll have to update the bootptab to reflect the new Ethernet addresses > of the new cards. It is done. I used today Sun snoop and the card is sending nothing out. Seppo From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 18 04:02:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA02639 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 04:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02603 Thu, 18 Jan 1996 04:02:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from michael@localhost) by zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA05784; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:56:28 +0100 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:56:27 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Beckmann To: Joerg Wunsch cc: Michael Beckmann , scsi@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Problem solved ! Re: Disk or controller or driver failure ? In-Reply-To: <199601162024.VAA18808@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Are these signs of a dying disk or is it the controller ? Or might it be > > a driver problem ? Has anyone seen this before ? > > Your disk is going mad. :-( I solved the problem. The disk is OK. It was a bad contact with the power supply. I simply plugged another cable from the computer's power supply into the hard drive. Since I did that (24 h ago), there have been no more disk problems. I assume that, as someone said, the bad contact affected the 12 V supply to the drive. However, I'm going to buy a better housing for my machine (it runs 24 h a day). Thanks to all who pointed me in the right direction. Michael From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 18 05:04:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA06524 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 05:04:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA06517 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 05:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA08253 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:02:58 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:03:10 +0000 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA05842; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:03:04 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199601181303.NAA05842@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: Printer and modem recommendations? To: rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:03:03 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601171921.OAA95988@acs3.bu.edu> from "rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu" at Jan 17, 96 02:21:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to rdmurphy@acs.bu.edu who said > > Does anyone have recommendations on: > > 1) low end (less than $500.) laser printers No. > > 2) cheap 28.8k modems > > If there aren't any cheap and decent 28.8k modems, what > recommendations would you have for 14.4k models? 14,400 really isn't worth it. The price saving isn't much and most ISP's now have 28,800 support and the performance gain is noticeable. I always use USR sportsers. They seem to work flawlessly, although I did see some early ones that had bad firmware but USR updated them without any hassles at all so that doesn't worry me and I don't think you'll find one of those around anymore anyway. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work) From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 18 10:56:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA25213 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:56:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlas.com (gw.atlas.com [205.139.124.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA25102 Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:55:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from billthecat.atlas.com. (billthecat.atlas.com [97.12.13.38]) by atlas.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id KAA15619; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by billthecat.atlas.com. (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00690; Thu, 18 Jan 96 10:58:31 PST Message-Id: <9601181858.AA00690@billthecat.atlas.com.> Subject: Re: NEC 2Xc CD changer supported? [yes, with patches] To: jmb@freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:58:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Brant Katkansky" Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 12, 96 04:42:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [ apologies to -current for crossposting this, but it contains a patch that should be in -current if it's not already ] > On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, Brant Katkansky wrote: > > I take it you're running -current? Have the patches been applied against > > the -current tree? If so, I have -current online, I just don't run it. I > > can probably figure out what was done so I can patch my 2.1 kernel. > > i have the included notes regarding the code changes below. my > apologies for not having proper diffs. at least, the changes are slight > small, as you can see. The patches you supplied worked as-is with the NEC 2Xc. The NEC appears to return the same vendor ID code as the Nakamichi, so I would assume that they are functionally the same unit. I don't know if these patches have made it into -current, but I think they should. Can someone with commit privs take care of this? > /sys/pci/ncr.c: about line 123 > > /* 960110 changed for Nakamichi 7 CD-ROM changer > #define MAX_LUN (1) */ > #define MAX_LUN (8) > /* end addition */ > > /sys/scsi/cd.c: about line536 > > /* 960110 added for the Nakamichi 7 CD-ROM changer > if(cd->dkunit) { */ > if(cd->dkunit >= 0) { > /* end addition */ > > > /sys/scsi/scsiconf.c: about line 278 > > /* 960110 added for the Nakamichi 7 CD-ROM changer */ > { > T_READONLY, T_REMOV, "NCR", "MBR-7" ,"*", > "cd", SC_MORE_LUS > }, > /* end addition */ > > /sys/scsi/scsiconf.c: about line 342 > > /* 960110 added for the Nakamichi 7 CD-ROM changer */ > { > T_READONLY, T_REMOV, "NRC", "MBR-7" > ,"any", "cd", SC_MORE_LUS > }, > /* end addition */ > -- Brant Katkansky (brantk@atlas.com) Systems Test Engineer, ADC From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 19 05:44:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA14983 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 05:44:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw1.att.com (gw1.att.com [192.20.239.133]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA14978 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 05:44:55 -0800 (PST) From: ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com Received: from nasvr1.cb.att.com (naserver1.cb.att.com) by ig1.att.att.com id AA13374; Fri, 19 Jan 96 08:42:51 EST Received: by nasvr1.cb.att.com (5.x/EMS-1.1 Sol2) id AA23769; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:44:41 -0500 Received: from ginger.cb.att.com by nasvr1.cb.att.com (5.x/EMS-1.1 Sol2) id AA23765; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:44:37 -0500 Received: by ginger.cb.att.com (5.x/EMS-1.1 Sol2) id AA09074; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:48:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:48:30 -0500 Message-Id: <9601191348.AA09074@ginger.cb.att.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: NEC MultiSpin CDROM X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello I'm interested in using a NEC MultiSpin 2Xc external cdrom with FreeBSD-stable. This cdrom changer holds seven cdroms, and connects to the scsi bus. Is there code in the cdrom driver to switch cdroms? How hard would it be for me to add this functionality if needed? ejc From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 19 09:48:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA01536 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:48:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from atlas.com (gw.atlas.com [205.139.124.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01530 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:48:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from billthecat.atlas.com. (billthecat.atlas.com [97.12.13.38]) by atlas.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id JAA22300; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by billthecat.atlas.com. (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00382; Fri, 19 Jan 96 09:50:40 PST Message-Id: <9601191750.AA00382@billthecat.atlas.com.> Subject: Re: NEC MultiSpin CDROM To: ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:50:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Brant Katkansky" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601191348.AA09074@ginger.cb.att.com> from "ejc@nasvr1.cb.att.com" at Jan 19, 96 08:48:30 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I'm interested in using a NEC MultiSpin 2Xc external cdrom with > FreeBSD-stable. This cdrom changer holds seven cdroms, and connects to the > scsi bus. Is there code in the cdrom driver to switch cdroms? How hard > would it be for me to add this functionality if needed? > I just got one, and we had some discussion on this last week. I will mail you patches against 2.1.0-RELEASE in a different message. -- Brant Katkansky (brantk@atlas.com) Systems Test Engineer, ADC From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 19 13:51:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA17004 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (in-ruhr.ruhr.de [193.100.176.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA16993 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from robkaos.UUCP (admin@localhost) by mail.ruhrgebiet.individual.net (8.7.1/8.7.1) with UUCP id WAA08691 for freebsd.org!freebsd-hardware; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 22:45:04 +0100 (MET) Received: by robkaos.ruhr.de (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.1) id ; Fri, 19 Jan 96 22:44 MET Message-Id: From: robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de (Robert Schien) Subject: CD-Burners and FreeBSD-2.1 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 22:44:02 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk What's the status of the drivers? In the next few weeks I'll buy a CD-writer and I want to use it under FreeBSD!! I could help testing drivers, if you need someone. Robert From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 19 14:03:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA17920 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:03:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (slip-line-6.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.206]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17860 Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:02:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA26749; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:02:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:02:08 -0500 (EST) From: Charlie ROOT X-Sender: root@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM Reply-To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 100Mbps pci ethernet card Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk looking for a good one for a client. never used one before ;) thanks jmb Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 19 14:05:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18083 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:05:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18078 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 14:05:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tony@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA04409 for hardware@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:05:29 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:05:29 -0700 From: Tony Jones Message-Id: <199601192205.PAA04409@seagull.rtd.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: 4X SCSI CDROM recommendation Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk What would folks recommend as a good 4X scsi cdrom for FreeBSD [I'm assuming that the 4x vs 2x performance data (Windoze derived) generally holds true for FreeBSD also ?] I'd like to spend no more than $200 - I found a Sanyo CRD-254SH 4x for $169 but have no idea if it would be a good drive. I know that the equivalently low priced Teac 4x scsi is supposed to suck big time. Or would people recommend paying extra and going with the more expensive Toshiba/Maxstor units. Primarily going to be using the cdrom for WC/FreeBSD installs and for /usr/src (which I currently have on scsi hard disc). Perhaps some Windoze95 use also. thanks tony From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 19 17:20:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA12722 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:20:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.inlink.com (thor.inlink.com [206.196.96.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12714 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mike (dockmaster.inlink.com [206.196.97.101]) by thor.inlink.com (8.7.3/V8) with SMTP id TAA12010 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:21:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:21:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199601200121.TAA12010@thor.inlink.com> X-Sender: mike@mail.inlink.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Mike Moseler Subject: BusLogic 946C PCI Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk We just got a BusLogic 946C PCI card in and put it in our server (ASUS) which is running FreeBSD 2.1.0 RELEASE. It ran really great until about 30 minutes later when the system crashed. We put an ISA Adaptec in there when it crashed. It was giving us errors about unable to talk to the buslogic card or something of that sort. My question is, did they fix anything in the driver for this card in the newer code? How hard would it be for me to upgrade to a stable driver? Would it involve recompiling the entire OS? Is this driver even stable enough for a server that needs really good reliability? Mike From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jan 20 13:30:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA21914 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:30:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from crash.ops.neosoft.com (root@crash.ops.NeoSoft.COM [206.109.4.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA21905 Sat, 20 Jan 1996 13:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dbaker@localhost) by crash.ops.neosoft.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA15685; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:29:48 -0600 From: Daniel Baker Message-Id: <199601202129.PAA15685@crash.ops.neosoft.com> Subject: APC Back-UPS Pro 400, any betas, etc? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:29:48 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I have a APC Back-UPS 400 and would like to know if there are any betas, etc for servers that can monitor it, and shutdown my system when necessary. Or, if there are any Linux, or BSDI ones that can be ported to FreeBSD. Thanks in advance Daniel -- dbaker@neosoft.com - Daniel Baker - FTP & UseNet Admin - Neosoft, Inc. Any opinions expressed are mine. From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jan 20 20:06:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA13109 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:06:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM ([198.138.38.206]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA13090 Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA01852; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 23:07:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 23:07:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 8MB to 16MB, 11% faster kernel compiles Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk just upgraded my 486dx2-66 from 8MB to 16MB. the quick result is my kernel compiles in 850 secs in place of 950 ;) long results follow at the end Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG With 8 MB of RAM, immediately after a reboot. X running Rebooting... FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #1: Wed Jan 10 21:21:24 EST 1996 jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM:/home/sup/src/sys/compile/ASPEN CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 8388608 (8192K bytes) avail memory = 6893568 (6732K bytes) cd /sys/compile/ASPEN /usr/bin/time -l make [snip] loading kernel rearranging symbols text data bss dec hex 651264 53248 48552 753064 b7da8 950.92 real 678.21 user 72.59 sys 3428 maximum resident set size 1007 average shared memory size 1022 average unshared data size 164 average unshared stack size 199187 page reclaims 1847 page faults 19 swaps 6666 block input operations 5167 block output operations 12 messages sent 28 messages received 0 signals received 12756 voluntary context switches 12204 involuntary context switches ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rebooting... FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #1: Wed Jan 10 21:21:24 EST 1996 jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM:/home/sup/src/sys/compile/ASPEN CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) avail memory = 15077376 (14724K bytes) cd /sys/compile/ASPEN /usr/bin/time -l make [snip] loading kernel rearranging symbols text data bss dec hex 651264 53248 48552 753064 b7da8 848.96 real 676.67 user 69.52 sys 3536 maximum resident set size 1011 average shared memory size 1021 average unshared data size 164 average unshared stack size 196239 page reclaims 88 page faults 0 swaps 1762 block input operations 4409 block output operations 12 messages sent 28 messages received 0 signals received 6451 voluntary context switches 16066 involuntary context switches ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # # ASPEN # # machine "i386" cpu "I486_CPU" ident ASPEN maxusers 10 options INET #InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options PROCFS #Process filesystem options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options "CD9660" #ISO 9660 Filesystem options UCONSOLE #X Console support options "FAT_CURSOR" #block cursor in syscons or pccons # options "SCSI_DELAY=15" #Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device options "NCONS=4" #4 virtual consoles options USERCONFIG #Allow user configuration with -c options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3 # options BOUNCE_BUFFERS #include support for DMA bounce buffers options PROBE_VERBOSE #get all pci bus data options COMPAT_LINUX options SYSVSHM options SYSVSEM options SYSVMSG options "IBCS2" # options MAXMEM= config kernel root on sd1 swap on sd1 and sd0 dumps on sd1 controller isa0 controller pci0 controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 # tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller ncr0 #Only need one of these, the memory allocation grows controller scbus0 device sd0 device sd1 device sd2 device sd3 device st0 device st1 device cd0 #Only need one of these, the code dynamically grows device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr device sio2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5 vector siointr device sio3 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 9 vector siointr device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr device lpt1 at isa? port? tty device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr pseudo-device loop pseudo-device ether pseudo-device log pseudo-device sl 2 # # ijppp uses tun instead of ppp device # pseudo-device tun 2 pseudo-device pty 16 pseudo-device speaker pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's pseudo-device bpfilter 4 From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jan 20 21:21:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA15975 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 21:21:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA15969 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 21:21:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id KAA16476; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:45:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01358; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:33:22 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:33:22 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Tony Jones cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4X SCSI CDROM recommendation In-Reply-To: <199601192205.PAA04409@seagull.rtd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Tony Jones wrote: > What would folks recommend as a good 4X scsi cdrom for FreeBSD [I'm assuming > that the 4x vs 2x performance data (Windoze derived) generally holds true for > FreeBSD also ?] Well, my 4.4 drive works like a charm: (ahc0:6:0): "TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3601TA 0725" type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0(ahc0:6:0): CD-ROM It's really fast... 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