From: smm@iedv7.acd.com ( Steve McCoole       )
Subject: Diffs to BSDI BSD/386 Ported Software List 02/02
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd
Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:11:49 GMT


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*** 49,55 ****
  a derivative of Dirk Husemann's keyboard modifications to use ALT as a
  meta key.)  Mike Karels ( sent by Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> )
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! PD version of the pr program.  Posted to the beta list. bjorn@sysadmin.com
  (Bjorn Satdeva) 
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  Package that allows booting BSDI or DOS from the same hard disk.
--- 49,56 ----
  a derivative of Dirk Husemann's keyboard modifications to use ALT as a
  meta key.)  Mike Karels ( sent by Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> )
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! PD version of the pr program.  Posted to the beta list.  This is part
! of the distribution on GAMMA releases.  bjorn@sysadmin.com
  (Bjorn Satdeva) 
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  Package that allows booting BSDI or DOS from the same hard disk.
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  Patches to allow the SoundBlaster driver posted to alt.sources work
  under BSDI.
  John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us>
+ (GAMMA) Patches to John's patches to allow the SoundBlaster driver to
+ work under GAMMA release.
+ Steve McCoole <smm@acd4.acd.com>
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  Fixes for the floating point emulator.
  karels@bsdi.com
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  It supports two address ranges, 0x1a0-0x1bf, or 0x2a0-0x2bf in the 'enhanced'
  mode where all four ports share one interrupt line, which can be 2/9,3,4,5,6,7.
  bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee)
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+ Tcl/Tk patches working under beta.  Setenv/unsetenv hack may not be
+ robust.  Problems with the strod function as provided by the package (
+ BSDI has a prototype for the function but not the function itself ).
+ hartzell@cory.berkeley.edu (George Hartzell)
+ -------
+ Tcl/Tk patches also working under beta.
+ cpetterb@javelin.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg)
+ -------
+ We aquired a used DEC hard drive which did not seem to spin up at all.
+ After digging around an Ultrix system, we discovered that the drive
+ needed a START_UNIT command to get it going.  Here is a fix for the
+ scsi/sd.c driver which will issue a start unit upon boot (only to a
+ DEC drive at this moment.  Issueing the start unit did not
+ cause problems for other drives, so I think the DEC compare can be
+ safely removed).  If anyone else is having trouble getting unknown drives
+ to spin-up this will probably fix the problem.
+ tomm@ingres.com (Tom Markson)
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+ (GAMMA) We seem to get a lot of requests to look up ASC/ASCQ codes...
+ I'll append a patch to the scsicmd sources below which will let you
+ extract an English translation of these values like this:
+ 
+ 	% scsicmd -a 0x14/0
+ 	recorded entity not found
+ 	%
+ 
+ Scsicmd appears in gamma; if you don't have gamma and you want scsicmd,
+ ask Jeff for a copy.
+ donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley)
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+ (GAMMA)  Patch for problems with floating point instructions in rundos
+ envirionment.
+ karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels)
+ -------
+ (GAMMA)
+ I can't live without my 8 port serial card, so I quickly hacked
+ gamma 0.9 com.c to support it with my generic multiport modifications.
+ 
+ While testing the bidirectional line usage, I discovered a bug, at
+ least in my opinion, in the DCD detection (fix included).
+ 
+ This version isn't as robust as the latest stuff I had for beta 0.3.3,
+ but it works. Also, something is interfering with the bidirectional
+ line usage.
+ 
+ (Sorry about posting this to both gamma and beta lists, but I wasn't
+ sure if a gamma list exists)
+ 
+ You have to add something along the lines of the following to your config
+ file:
+ 
+ # COM ports
+ # APT HSS08 multi-port serial card
+ device		com0	at isa? port 0x100
+ device		com1	at isa? port 0x108
+ device		com2	at isa? port 0x110
+ device		com3	at isa? port 0x118
+ device		com4	at isa? port 0x120
+ device		com5	at isa? port 0x128
+ device		com6	at isa? port 0x130
+ device		com7	at isa? port 0x138
+ 
+ The HSS08 shares one IRQ for all the ports, so I get warnings about
+ conflicting IRQs from the autoconfigurator during boot, but it works.
+ 
+ I also added:
+     stty -f /dev/com0 clocal
+     stty -f /dev/com1 clocal
+     ...
+ 
+ to my /etc/rc.local, so things would stop blocking unexpectedly.
+ 
+ Brian Litzinger <brian@apt.bungi.com>
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