From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 18 23:41:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10609 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:41:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA10559; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 23:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA17498; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:42:04 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 08:42:03 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: dannyman cc: Karl Denninger , dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A reminder of toxic -current ** READ THIS ** In-Reply-To: <19980318214758.38114@arh0300.urh.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dannyman wrote: > First off, thanks to Karl, John and Steve for dire warnings, advice, > education, tackling the problem, etc. :) Yes. Big thanks, guys! > > 2) You are not tripping the condition that is causing the destruction. > > This *IS* possible; I have two machines in particular uses which do > > NOT cause the problem, but I don't know why. > > Are there any commonalities in chipsets, and the like? Particular drivers? > My system seems to be working perfectly normally, though to be honest, its > normal operation is not perfect. ;) A shuttle motherboard, Intel chips, WDC > drives .... K5. *shrug* Hmm. That's interesting coincidence. I'm running the kernel from Mar 16, the hardware is very similar (shuttle MB with Intel chips, IDE drives and K5 CPU), and I also don't see any problems. I don't like to play with fire - I just did cvsup and rebuild before I've read the warnings. Now, I'm backing off at full speed.. :-) Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message