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From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: out of mem
Date: 5 Jan 1993 13:46:24 -0800
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net

In article <C0E4ME.12L@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
>>What about the ksh `ulimit' builtin?
>	'ulimit' is for disk file size and is a sysv thing, not bsd.

ksh (the real ksh, not a ksh clone) exists for BSD, and the ulimit builtin
can do everything that the limit command in csh can do.  Amazing that someone
actually thought about it, huh?
From: bjarni@diku.dk (Henrik V. Drab|l)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386bsd] system crash with Kmem_malloc.Kmem_map to small
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:02:57 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.bsd
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

tjw00@zombie.uucp (Tom Wye) writes:

>[386BSD] HELP! system crashes with Kmem_malloc.Kmem_map to small

>I am trying to compile X11R5 and in the process the system keeps
>panicing with KMEM_MALLOC.KMEM_MAP to small! I have a 16M system
>with PATCHs 1-58 except 26, 47 and 56 installed.

Hey, I get that one too.

>PC clone 486/50 16M/256K cache
>Adaptec 1542B SCSI Host Adapter
>DISK1=Quantum PRO240
>DISK2=MAXTOR 213SY
>386BSD 0.1 with patchs 1-58 except 26,47 and 56.

I've got:
486/33(Overdrive) 16M/256K
aha 1542B
Wangtec 525MB SCSI tape (however 320&525MB don't work)
386BSD with _MOST_ patches (all the relevant)
wd0 - 120 MB microscience IDE
wd1 - 220 MB seagate IDE
Julian's  SCSI driver

I can reproduce the little sucker by the command
	tar cf /dev/rst0 /
Which writes about 200MB to at 250 MB tape

However it also comes after a lot of uptime. I think it is
caused by a leak somwhere in vm, but I havnt had time to track it down.


Henrik.
From: jerrys@holly.wimsey.bc.ca (Jerry Sturge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: TRYING TO GET UUCP TO WORK. PLEASE HELP
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:51:23 PDT
Distribution: world               
Organization: CANCOM, VANCOUVER, B.C./ CANADA

Well, I am used to HDB uucp and have used it with no problems for 
4 years now. so I thought that I should be able to set up uucp
under 386BSD. I configured things in /etc/uucp, and ran uuchk. 
Things looked ok. I tried uucico -r1 -x4 -Svan-bc. It said 
nothing and did nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
PS I am running 0.1 with patchkit 1-58 -47. modem is a 2400 baud internal
on com2. 

ANY suggestions folks.???

thanks
Jerry Sturge
From: /S=BLANSFIE/OU=EM-01/O=CCMGW/PRMD=GOV+USDOE.G02/ADMD=ATTMAIL/C=US/@mailgw.er.doe.gov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] Timed questions.
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:31:14 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


     Hello,
     
     I'm trying to run timed but I don't have any time servers on my 
     network. How can I access other time servers on other networks?
     
     Thanks,
     
     Mike
     
     blansfie@mailgw.er.doe.gov 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Dragon Lord)
Subject: Re: codrv problems..
Keywords: 386BSD, codrv
Organization: Washington State University Tri-Cities, Richland
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 05:10:33 GMT

In article <veit.726430723@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de writes:
>In <1993Jan7.164904.41040@news.th-darmstadt.de> deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken) writes:
>
>You may of course wait (a little bit ;-) ) for the next version.
>
>Holger

    How LITTLE is LITTLE?  Is there a schedule for v 0.2?  I'd love to
know since I'm going to dedicate 200M of disk space to it.

Mark
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] more than 16MB?
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:18:48 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net

In article <C0EHx0.qr@space.physics.uiowa.edu>, ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) writes:
> Is anyone out there running 386bsd on an ISA-bus machine with more than
> 16MB ram?

Yes. I've seen a machine with 20MB and heard of one with 64 MB
(yes, sixty-four) No, not me...

> Does 386bsd support this?

Looks like it.

> Does it (does it need to?) support
> DMA above 16MB?

No idea. I'd be interested in the answer, though.

-Bernard
From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Binary Compatibility (WAS Re: WordPerfect on 386BSD?)
Keywords: wordperfect 386bsd compatibility
Date: 13 Jan 93 05:13:13 GMT
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)

In article <1993Jan13.023431.14479@choate.edu> lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>In article <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs) writes:
>>>
>>>I can't find anything in the FAQ about compatibility, so I'll offer up
>>>a question to the net at large.
>>>
>>>I want to be able to run WordPerfect on a unix box at home, and the good
>>>folks at WordPerfect Corporation have apparently never heard of 386BSD.
>>>So, is 386BSD binary compatible with the commercial flavor of Unix (what
>>>is that, system 5?)  Has anyone got WordPerfect running on 386BSD?
>>
>>Nope, not yet; the only binaries that will run on 386BSD that were compiled
>>to run on another box are the Mach BNR2SS binaries.  Unfortunately, the
>
>BSD/386 binaries won't run?  Why not?

1)	WordPerfect isn't ported to BSD/386.

2)	It's the 12th.  On the 15th, the Judge will rule on BSDi's response
	to AT&T's request for an injunction on sales.  The outcome will
	probably effect the likelihood of a port.

3)	The console driver incompatabilities are true of a BSD/386 to
	386/BSD compatability for WordPerfect, which over-does the console
	code to look as much as possible like you are on a PC.

4)	The BSD/386 being sold is still beta and thus does not qualify as
	a commercial UNIX (hopefully this will be corrected soon).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: out of mem
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:41:17 GMT


	I seem to be having a major problem lately running out of
	virtual memory.  I have 386bsd.01 with the majority of the
	patchkit installed.  Hardware is a 486/33 with 16 megs memory,
	a couple of 210 meg ide drives and a 600 meg SCSI on and adaptek.
	I have a primary swap of 32 megs and a secondary of 30 megs on
	the scsi.  Running the posted vstat program, it says I have 
	1475 pages free, which seems way too low.  When ever I run
	the XS3 server, and run xv, each image reduces the available
	virtual mem until it bombs with "Virtual memory exhausted"
	Killing xv brings the memory back.  However it is not xv!
	Without even running X, There are some programs that I try to
	compile, and I watch the virtual memory shrink to zero and
	the same error message pops up.  I ran a recently posted 
	virtual memory test program, and it bombs when requesting anything
	over 4 megs.  Now, seeing as I have 16 megs real, and over 60 megs
	virtual, something is amiss!
	Do I have a mis-applied patch, or what?
	Thanks for any info.
	-randy
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From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: out of mem
Date: 5 Jan 1993 14:55:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <C0CtIF.4CK@chinet.chi.il.us> randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:

>	I should also mention that I am running the korn shell, ksh
>	not csh, so the limit command has no effect.  I tried running
>	csh, but it didn't help.

What about the ksh `ulimit' builtin?
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Subject: Re: setitimer bug revisited/signal question/midi/mpu
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:31:07 GMT

I have a pretty complete, modular MIDI sequencer that I wrote for the
Amiga, but on Unix I think it would be best to do all the realtime
sequencing in a driver.  (On the Amiga's OS, it being realtime, a
task could achieve perfectly good response time if run at sufficiently
high priority.)

There was an MPU-401 driver for one or more of the commercial 386 Unixes.
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From: chane@cse.ucsc.edu (Chane L. Fullmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: BSD for ATT 3b15/4000
Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:24:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: arapaho.ucsc.edu

Hi...

A friend of mine just became the proud owner of an AT&T 3b15
converted to a 3b4000.  He would like to run BSD on it if there
was ever a port to this machine...If you know of a version for
this machine please send me email at:
	chane@cse.ucsc.edu

thanks
chane
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386BSD] scsi tape problem
From: dgd@kcbbs.gen.nz (David Dix)
Date: 10 Jan 93 06:52:38 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

My scsi tape drive used to work ok with the original 386bsd scsi driver.
However after installing Julian's new scsi driver the tape is found ok:

 aha0 reading board settings, scsidev=7 150 nSEC ok, use 200 nSEC 
   **aha0 probing for scsi devices**
   dev0,lu0: type 0(direct),fixed 'NEC     D5882           G01 ' scsi1
 	sd0: 621MB, cyls 1633, heads 15, secs 52, bytes/sec 512
   dev4,lu0: type 1(sequential),removable 'ARCHIVE VIPER 150  21247-005' scsi1
 	st0: scsi tape drive, 0 blocks of 512 bytes
   dev6,lu0: type 5(readonly),removable 'MATSHITACD-ROM CR-5XX   1.0b' scsi1

The disk and CD-Rom work ok but when I try to write anything to a tape with
'tar cvf /dev/rst0 .' these errors are reported:

 st0: medium error block no. 40 (decimal)
 st0: medium error block no. 21 (decimal)
 could not write_filemarks st0
 st0: medium error block no. 40 (decimal)
 st0: medium error block no. 21 (decimal)
 could not write_filemarks st0

I can read tapes ok and retrieve a file but nothing will write.
I have tried several different used and new DC6150 and DC6250 tapes but
still the same error.
I'm sure it must be something simple but I just cannot figure it out.
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks.

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From: jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Distribution: world
Subject: WordPerfect on 386BSD?
Keywords: wordperfect 386bsd compatibility
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 93 10:30:44 +0100


I can't find anything in the FAQ about compatibility, so I'll offer up
a question to the net at large.

I want to be able to run WordPerfect on a unix box at home, and the good
folks at WordPerfect Corporation have apparently never heard of 386BSD.
So, is 386BSD binary compatible with the commercial flavor of Unix (what
is that, system 5?)  Has anyone got WordPerfect running on 386BSD?

Thanks, as always, in advance for any responses.

-John D. Boggs     jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] more than 16MB?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:29:27 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net

In article <1993Jan6.203341.6812@tfs.com>, julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
- >> Is anyone out there running 386bsd on an ISA-bus machine with more than
- >> 16MB ram?
- >Yes. I've seen a machine with 20MB and heard of one with 64 MB
- >(yes, sixty-four) No, not me...
- I doubt this very much

according to the stuff you mentioned in your post, I think I must add that this
is supposed to be a 486/66DX2 EISA machine

- the upshot of this is that 386BSD can only make use of (32 - X)MB of real
- ram (where X is an unknown number) 20MB certainly works.

I didn't claim that guy had ever actually *used* the RAM, did I ?

- however the EISA scsi drivers do support 32 bit adresses. so bounce buffers
- are not needed.

He says he's using an adaptec 1740 (or whatever it's called)...

-Bernard
From: rwahbe@madrone.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Wahbe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Does 386BSD Support PS2/70?
Date: 10 Jan 1993 20:17:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: madrone.cs.berkeley.edu

I have a PS2/70 that I inherited.  I know that Linux does
not support the MCA bus.  How about 386BSD?  If not 386BSD,
what other free (or very cheap) UNIXs can I get for the PS2.
I want to run X, GNU software, SLIP, etc.

-Robert
From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: missing GLOB_NOMAGIC in glob.h
Keywords: glob, libc, GLOB_NOMAGIC
Date: 9 Jan 93 11:31:45 GMT
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.

I am currently porting the BSD libraries to xenix and have encountered a
minor problem.  The constant GLOB_NOMAGIC does not appear to have been
defined in glob.h.

Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: [BSD386] By-hand disk parameters for AT disk driver?
Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:05:13 GMT

Can the BSD386 driver for the standard IBM AT disk adapter
use disks which are not specified in the boot ROM?
Does it allow you to specify the number of tracks & cylinders?

In particular, does it support disks with more than 1024 tracks?
I'd like to use my 300mb ESDI and WD 1007 ESDI controller
for an initial setup, and would like to specify the true
configuration numbers.  (One of my WD controllers doesn't
have the funky disk ROM trick that evades this problem.)

Thanks,

-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
From: bachesta@pugsley.Data-IO.COM (Jim Bachesta)
Subject: Re: Wangtek Controler and drive
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:10:17 GMT

I am using the wangtek controller and a 60 meg tape unit. It works fine with one
big exception. The performance is very slow. A patch for this performance problem was
posted a while back ago. I haven't been able to get this patch to work at all. If you
don't mind the performance problem it's ok.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.arch.storage,comp.os.mach
From: rhp@CS.CMU.EDU (R Hugo Patterson)
Subject: seeking striping disk driver
Originator: rhp@TIPS1.DSSC.CS.CMU.EDU
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:19:21 GMT

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Memory leak in kvm_getprocs() and top 3.0
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:15:39 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu


Here is a patch, based on my previous diffs, to make the `RSS' field in
top's display actually have some meaning.  The problem was caused by an
odd quirk in the interaction between the kvm functions and the kernel.

-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----
*** top-3.0/m_386bsd.c~	Thu Jan  7 01:51:42 1993
--- top-3.0/m_386bsd.c	Thu Jan  7 02:02:12 1993
***************
*** 383,388 ****
--- 383,389 ----
  		 (PP(pp, p_stat) == SRUN)) &&
  		(!show_uid || EP(pp, e_pcred.p_ruid) == (uid_t)sel->uid))
  	    {
+ 		(void)kvm_getu(pp);
  		*prefp++ = pp;
  		active_procs++;
  	    }
-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----snip-----8<-----

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From: mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Question about vfprintf.c [386bsd]
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:27:37 GMT
Organization: Hokkaido Univ. However I am subject to tansei for JUNET.


In the file, /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c,

there are several places that the function "round" is called
with its fifth argument:

	(char)0

, which I think 

	(char)'0'

	or just

	'0'

to be correct.  Am I correct or wrong?

	Hiroshi Murakami.
	mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
From: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] Fix CARRIER for cgd driver, probably for standard too
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:13:02 GMT
Reply-To: ache@astral.msk.su
Organization: Ha-oh-lahm Yetzirah

This patch fix two problems with carrier control.

1) User can't type anything to modem (can't redial, f.e.)
after dropping carrier in dialout programs (pcomm f.e.)

2) TIOCMGET don't report carrier status, so application
(BinkleyTerm f.e.) can't determine carrier.

I don't have standard driver, but maybe it have this problems too.

*** com.c.cdg.was1	Wed Dec 23 10:11:01 1992
--- com.c	Sun Jan 10 17:48:49 1993
***************
*** 390,396 ****
  	else
  	    tp->t_state &=~ TS_CARR_ON;
  
! /*	com_ports[unit].fake_dcd = callout; XXX? */
  
  /* never do this -- we know (or hope!) we have carrier
   *	if (!(flag & O_NONBLOCK))
--- 390,396 ----
  	else
  	    tp->t_state &=~ TS_CARR_ON;
  
! 	com_ports[unit].fake_dcd = callout;
  
  /* never do this -- we know (or hope!) we have carrier
   *	if (!(flag & O_NONBLOCK))
***************
*** 519,527 ****
  
  	if (stat & MSR_DDCD) {
  		register flag = (stat & MSR_DCD) >> 7; /* 0/1 */
! 		if (!(*linesw[tp->t_line].l_modem)(tp, flag))
  			bic(com+com_mcr, MCR_DTR|MCR_RTS);
  	}
  
  	if (stat & MSR_DCTS && stat & MSR_CTS && tp->t_state & TS_ISOPEN
  	    && tp->t_cflag & CCTS_OFLOW)
--- 519,534 ----
  
  	if (stat & MSR_DDCD) {
  		register flag = (stat & MSR_DCD) >> 7; /* 0/1 */
! 		if (!(*linesw[tp->t_line].l_modem)(tp, flag)) {
! 
! 	/* Restore logical carrier if dialing out or not use real carrier */
! 
! 			if (com_ports[unit].fake_dcd || !com_ports[unit].real_car)
! 				tp->t_state |= TS_CARR_ON;
! 			else
  				bic(com+com_mcr, MCR_DTR|MCR_RTS);
  		}
+ 	}
  
  	if (stat & MSR_DCTS && stat & MSR_CTS && tp->t_state & TS_ISOPEN
  	    && tp->t_cflag & CCTS_OFLOW)
***************
*** 672,677 ****
--- 679,685 ----
  				if (m & MCR_DTR) bits |= TIOCM_DTR;
  				if (m & MCR_RTS) bits |= TIOCM_RTS;
  				m = com_mstat[unit];
+ 				if (m & MSR_DCD) bits |= TIOCM_CD;
  				if (m & MSR_CTS) bits |= TIOCM_CTS;
  				if (m & MSR_DSR) bits |= TIOCM_DSR;
  				if (m & (MSR_RI|MSR_TERI)) bits |= TIOCM_RI;
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From: mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: [386bsd] vfprintf routine's trouble.
Date: 10 Jan 93 01:30:06 GMT
Organization: Hokkaido Univ. However I am subject to tansei for JUNET.



% cat a.c
/*
 *  This demonstrates a not so important flaw 
 *  in the vfprintf rountine of 386bsd0.1 
 *  when printing the extremal value.
 *  This is detected by the warning messages of the enquire.c
 */
#include <math.h>

main()
{
        double x; 
        static double y;
        int *iy = (int *) &y;
        char t[128]; char *sx;
        
        /* 2^(-1022): the smallest normalized double. */
        x = ldexp(1.0,-1022);  
        /* sx is the over-precision value of x. */
        sx = "2.22507385850720138e-308";

        sprintf(t, "%.15le", x);
        sscanf(t, "%le", &y);
        printf("%s\n%08x %08x\n\n", t, iy[0], iy[1], y);

        sprintf(t, "%.16le", x);
        sscanf(t, "%le", &y);
        printf("%s\n%08x %08x\n\n", t, iy[0], iy[1], y);

        sscanf(sx, "%le", &y);
        printf("%s\n%08x %08x\n\n", sx, iy[0], iy[1], y);

}
%
%
% gcc a.c
% a.out
2.225073858507201e-308
00000000 00100000         << THIS IS THE CORRECT BIT PATTERN OF 2^(-1022).

2.2250738585072010e-308   << same value except the last wrong digit of zero.
ffffffff 000fffff         << THIS IS A LITTLE BIT SHORT (wrong).

2.22507385850720138e-308
00000000 00100000         << THIS IS THE CORRECT BIT PATTERN.
%
%
%
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: shawr@netcom.com (rich shaw)
Subject: Need a working Xconfig for XFree86.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:03:41 GMT

Hi, I am having problem getting XFree86 to run. I think the problem is in
Xconfig. My system's configuration is as follow.
	
	Orchid ProDesigner IIs
	NEC 2A (800x600)
	mouse system mouse.

Could anyone send me a working Xconfig for this setup? Thanks.

-- rs
From: news@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (InterNet News)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: What does isode(n^2) do for me...
Date: 3 Jan 1993 14:32:00 -0600
Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil

  I am curious.  I have not been using BSD for a long time; I have used SysV
clones and their kith for a long time.  I found, when I unloaded the etc*
directories, that there was a slough of isode/* stuff.  I have never used
ANY of it, and don't really want to spend the next three weeks trying to 
figure all of this stuff out.  Can someone please give me a brief synopsis
of all of that stuff.  I am starting to get a little short of disk space...

TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/MIS
Brooks AFB, TX
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
Subject: Re: 386BSD install problem -- can't mount /
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:59:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.224035.2823@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>386BSD asks the controller about the drive geometry instead of believing
>the CMOS settings.  If your CMOS settings don't match what the controller
>says, you have "translated drive" problems.

Is there any way to tell 386BSD what the drive is set for?  The settings
for my drive are significantly different (manually configured long ago)
from what Seagate reports when you call their number.  It does, however,
still fit a "type" listed in the BIOS (42, if I remember correctly).  I
am fairly certain that the current settings are *not* what the IDE
controller reports.  If I were to change the settings, it would require a
lot of work re-doing the DOS partition and such.

Thanks for any help (at least I know what is probably the problem, now, and can
change it if I get desperate enough),

-bkc  (one of the previous posters of this kind of install problem)

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