From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 25 01:01:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03606 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA03595 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:01:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 13257 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1998 09:04:15 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 25 Mar 1998 09:04:15 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-032398 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:04:15 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Manfred Antar Subject: RE: dpt boot disk Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Mar-98 Manfred Antar wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > >> >> On 25-Mar-98 Manfred Antar wrote: >> > Is there a boot floppy available with the dpt adapter code. >> >> Yup. Roam ftp://sendero.simon-shapiro.org/FreeBSD/*/floppies. >> I'll have a 2.2.6 image there by tomorrow. There are few 3.0-current, >> with >> an update to today's/yesterday's current by tomorrow night. >> >> Simon >> >> > Great. > I noticed some weirdness with todays current and my dpt controller > It might have something to do with the VM86 changes. I could not > do a complete dump,the exabyte would flash alot and the scsi bus would > hang and i'd have to reboot. I'm going to try a kernel wihout VM86 > and see if that makes a difference. Yesterdays kernel works fine. > Manfred I may be behind here. What has VM86 got to do with the HBA, SCSI bus hanging? In the DPT, the Unix kernel has no access to the SCSI bus. The only thing I can think of is confusing the Exabyte with rubbish, until it sticks it to the bus. I'd love to hear other, more scientific explanations. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message