From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Jun 10 18:37:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCA237B6E2 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA113324; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 21:37:17 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200006080743.AAA16300@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <200006080743.AAA16300@freeway.dcfinc.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 21:37:37 -0400 To: chad@DCFinc.com, bifrost@frond.minions.com (Tom) From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: HP Netserver LPr Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:43 AM -0700 6/8/00, Chad R. Larson wrote: >As I recall, Tom wrote: > > FreeBSD and Solaris X86 run really nicely on them, Linux blows > > itself apart because the boards use NCR U2W chip sets on them and > > there is some kind of interaction and race condition which causes > > ext2 to hose itself on them at random intervals. > >We're using LPng (the LP Next Generation) on our FreeBSD printer >servers. The driving factor was that our mainframes (Pyramid DC/OSx) >croaked on the extremely verbose response we got from an NT print server >status request (buffer overrun, the response for a detailed status >request gives everything that happened since boot). We set up the >Linux systems as prophylaxis for the Pyramids. Don't ask me why >we didn't implement LPng on the Pyramids, or why the condoms weren't >FreeBSD. This thread has me a little confused. I don't know what an 'HP Netserver LPr' is. The first message implies it is some sort of x86-based multi-processor box, but the second message implies it has something to do with printing (ie, 'lpr'). Is this a hardware topic, or a printing topic? and in the world of printing topics, I assume you mean 'LPRng' not 'LPng'? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message