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From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re: What to do when you get a panic.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:35:29 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN

In article <joe.05oh@jaguar.eagle.mission.tx.us> joe@jaguar.eagle.mission.tx.us (Joe Gonzalez) writes:
=   OK, I'm running Amiga UNIX 2.1 with the patch to 2.1c on an Amiga
=   2000HD,200MB Maxtor LXT213S,OS2.04 ROM,A2091 (2MB RAM), GVP RAM
=   expansion (6MB), and a MegaMidgetRacer 68030/68882 25MHz note that
=   it contains NO 32 bit wide memory (hey, what do you expect from a
=   poor student :) and a Telebit T2500. I've made pratically no 
=   modifications to the system (except for setting up things like uucp).
=
=   the first file starts coming in, the kernel panics. I can use kermit
=   for one or two minutes before crashing. Changing to a US Robotics
=   2400 Courier made no difference. The panic is:
=
=panic: kernel fault psw=0x22000 pc=0x21c64c, fmt=0x0 vector=0x1f
=(Level 7 Interrupt Autovector) 
=  + a bunch of numbers.
=    
=   OK, This is what I got:
=
=slpoll+254              jsr      (%a0)
=
	System died in the "fake UART FIFO" code. Hmmm, are the modems
	dumping alot of messages into the serial line? Is the hardware
	flow control on the modems preventing the system from dumping
	data to the modems? I've seen the ql driver blow chunks when
	flow control prevents data from being drained from buffers either
	in the modem->computer direction or vice versa. The combination of
	the modem dumping messages to a serial port while hardware flow
	control is held low will cause panics. However, as long as data
	is drained off the system should be OK.

		-Rob
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel)
Subject: Re: /dev/ser setup help needed.
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:23:17 GMT

In article <BtL1pt.F86@agora.rain.com> chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel) writes:
>Hello all.  I just set up a modem (Supra v.32/14.4) on /dev/ser.  

****DELETED****
>
>Am I missing something? Can cu display text faster than 2400? Or is it limited
>somehow?
> 
>Also any hints on how to get the terminal set up correctly would be
>appreciated... Using vi through cu is screwing up the terminal big time.
>

Well, I'm using kermit right now and I seem to be getting much better speed.
 
Why is cu so slow? I tried many configs (cu -l /dev/term/ser) but to no 
avail.

BTW, What communication sources would people recommend?  
 
Anything with Zmodem?

BCNU!
>
>chuff@agora.rain.com
>Chris Hufnagel
>
>-- 


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From: slmt9@cc.usu.edu (Joshua Dinerstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Query: about A2410 and reading and writing from the disk!
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:32:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.1992Sep2.113226.58575
Organization: Utah State University


	Hi, All.

	Ok I have a few wierd questions for all of you.

	First my friend just bought an A3000 ux. It has the A2410, ULowell (sp)
card, in it. And some of our tests have proved that this card does indeed work.
What we are wondering is if there is anyway to get the standard amiga screen to
go to the card for output. So that we don't have to keep moving between
monitors.

	Someone at commodore told us that there was a program of some type that
did this but now we can't rememeber the name. I have a great memory! :)
	
	Ok, Second. Is there a way under Amiga Unix to read and write from
df0:? And if there is is it in Amiga format, IBM format, or something
altogether different?

	Any ideas or information greatly appriciated!

	Joshua
	SLMT9@cc.usu.edu

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From: johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Broken term? sag?
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:43:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA

In article <BtMoJL.Lp9@agora.rain.com> chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel) writes:
>Maybe I'm wrong here, but when I use ksh or csh in Amix I am unable to
>call the last command with the cursor keys or with an [ESC]J/K combination.
>All I get are escape codes?  Do I have to set up my ENVironment diffently?
>If so, how?
>
>And how does one get sag to recognize *ANY* term?  I tried sag -T $term
>
>$term being vt100,ansi,amiga,xterm etc...to no avail. Is sag broken?
>
>Thanks for any info.

I don't think "ksh" and I'm positive that "csh" can't handle command-line
editing in this fashion (using cursor keys/escape combinations.)  The
publically-available shell "tcsh" does, however.  I don't think it's
supplied with Amiga UNIX, but it's available via anonymous FTP somewhere.

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From: t9014199@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Help with Caliper Tape Drive
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:43:34 GMT
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)

Hi all,

	I recently got myself a Caliper CP-150SAE tape drive.

	I am under the impression that the Caliper Tape Drive is supported
	by Amiga Unix. But I am having some problems getting it to function
	correctly under Amix 2.03.

	The Tape Drive functions correctly under AmigaDos using TapeStore.
	Under unix using the following command:

	"find /home/dazza -depth -print | cpio -ocv -o > /dev/rmt/4"

	The names of all the files in the directories are displayed on the
	screen, the Tape Drive spins for awhile, then the Machine freezes!
	A reboot is then required.

	The Tape Drive is set to Address 4 as needed and is at the end of
	my SCSI bus, which has the 200mg Unix hd, a 100mg amigados hd and
	then finnally the tape drive.

	The Tape Drive (as far as I know) is not terminated. Could that be
	a problem?

	Any help would be appreciated.


	Thanks DARREN

	

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: jimbo@mhs.oz.au (James Davidson)
Subject: /dev/audio
Organization: Message Handling Systems
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 00:30:17 GMT


I've tried to compile the audio driver but I am missing one of the 
include files, amigahr.h .  Does anyone know where I can find it?

Also I was wondering where I can find an ftp site with a nice library
of sampled sounds, and converter programs so I can interchange formats.


ADVthanksANCE

Jimbo

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From: logan@gimlet.herndon.va.us (Jim Logan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Broken term? sag?
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:21:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: (None)

In article <23061@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
# In article <BtMoJL.Lp9@agora.rain.com> chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel) writes:
# >Maybe I'm wrong here, but when I use ksh or csh in Amix I am unable to
# >call the last command with the cursor keys or with an [ESC]J/K combination.
# >All I get are escape codes?  Do I have to set up my ENVironment diffently?
# >If so, how?
# I don't think "ksh" and I'm positive that "csh" can't handle command-line
# editing in this fashion (using cursor keys/escape combinations.)

Sure it does.  I use it all the time.  I don't remember what
variables or modes I set to get it, but it works fine.  RTFM!  

			-Jim
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel)
Subject: Re: Broken term? sag?
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 06:14:39 GMT

In article <23061@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
>
>I don't think "ksh" and I'm positive that "csh" can't handle command-line
>editing in this fashion (using cursor keys/escape combinations.)  The
>publically-available shell "tcsh" does, however.  I don't think it's
>supplied with Amiga UNIX, but it's available via anonymous FTP somewhere.
>

Well, I know csh doesn't to command-line editing.  I'm on a 386 run SVR4 
that does it it ksh.  It uses the .sh_history file to reference.

Maybe there is a patch or small utility that does this?  Anyone?

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>The crew faces deadly GURUs!  Next time on AmigaDOS: The Next Generation.
>	+--------+			John Lee
>	| HUGHES |
>	+--------+			Internet: jhlee@hac2arpa.hac.com	
>The above opinions are those of the user and not of those of this machine.
>


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From: ricks@odin.isc-br.com (Rick Schaeffer 99)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Broken term? sag?
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:08:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company

In article <BtoK0J.86J@agora.rain.com> chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel) writes:
>In article <23061@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
>>
>>I don't think "ksh" and I'm positive that "csh" can't handle command-line
>>editing in this fashion (using cursor keys/escape combinations.)  The
>>publically-available shell "tcsh" does, however.  I don't think it's
>>supplied with Amiga UNIX, but it's available via anonymous FTP somewhere.
>>

I dunno about csh, but ksh *does* do command line editing.  You have to
do "set -o emacs" in your .profile (or "set -o vi" although I've not tried
that).  Then control characters are used for the editing.  Control-P recalls
the previously typed command, Control-B moves back 1 char, Control-F moves
forward 1 char, Control-D deletes a char, and-so-on.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: elf@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Wanderer)
Subject: wanted info on unix for amiga
Organization: the Elves of Briton
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:13:45 GMT

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I need to know how to install unix on an amiga.

1) how much hard drive space does it require.
2) what are the benefits over using the standard amidos (v2.04)
3) is it based on the mach kernal?
4) what kind of performance can I get expect of it?
5) how much ram do I *need* ?
6) how much ram is recomended?
7) how compatable is it?

Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: janc@amix.commodore.com (Jan Carlson)
Subject: Re: /dev/ser setup help needed.
Organization: Amiga UNIX Software Development
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:56:17 GMT

In article <BtL670.HDB@agora.rain.com> chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel) writes:
>In article <BtL1pt.F86@agora.rain.com> chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel) writes:
>>Hello all.  I just set up a modem (Supra v.32/14.4) on /dev/ser.  
>
>****DELETED****
>>
>>Am I missing something? Can cu display text faster than 2400? Or is it limited
>>somehow?

The baud rate of incoming calls depends on /etc/saf/serial/_pmtab.
The baud rate of outbound cu is controlled by /etc/uucp/Devices entries.

In both cases you can reliably run at 38,400 baud on the built-in serial port
with no tricks.  

This trick sounds like a joke, but it is not: Set the built-in serial
port to 50 baud and it will actually run at 115,200 baud.  Set it to 75
baud to actually run at 57,600 baud.  

The Commodore A2232 7-port card is limited to 19,200 baud per port though.

Be sure you modem is set up do do CTS/RTS flow control, not XON/XOFF:
the built-in serial port and the A2232 ports require CTS/RTS flow control.

>BTW, What communication sources would people recommend?  

The kermit included with AmigaUNIX works fine for incoming and outgoing
calls.  With 1k packets kermit is very close to the speed of zmodem.
> 
>Anything with Zmodem?
>
We have used the 12/91 version of Chuck Forsberg's zmodem successfully
when calling into AmigaUNIX from AmigaDOS.

>BCNU!
>>
>>chuff@agora.rain.com
>>Chris Hufnagel
>>
From: ag@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Audio Device in 2.03
Date: 24 Aug 92 03:34:56 GMT
Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu

In article <abeech.714573867@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech) writes:
>robbar@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Baruch Robert Allan ) writes:
>>I'm having some difficulty using the audio device driver in 
>>AMIX version 2.03.  Does anyone know if there's a bug in the driver? It
>>seems to Panic the kernal pretty consistantly.
>
>An audio device?  

The audio device under 2.03 (and 2.1) was deemed unstable by QA because
it `always panic'd a machine'.  I believe I even witnessed a panic
one time but never determined what the problem was.

Note that while I was developing the user program `clksnd' which
is in /usr/amiga/src/cmd/clksnd I never saw a panic.  So I was a little
confused when QA complained about it.

`clksnd' will have my voice tell you the time of day using the
audio device.

There should also be some sound files in /usr/amiga/src/cmd/clksnd/audio.
You should be able to cat them to the them audio device.

Note that a node for the audio device is not on the default distribution,
although it is compiled into the kernel.  I believe
`mknod /dev/audio c 27 46' will take care of this problem but
not the possible panics.

I looked at the audio device two weeks ago and noted that `there is
no way in hell this thing should work' but didn't investiagte further.

The source for the audio driver is in: /usr/sys/amiga/driver/audio.[ch]

Pax, Keith
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel)
Subject: Max-125 interface adaptor
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:23:07 GMT

Has anyone had any experience with the Max-125 adaptor from Palomax and
Amix?  I'm curious to how well it functions under 2.1

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: chuff@agora.rain.com (Chris Hufnagel)
Subject: Broken term? sag?
Organization: Open Communications Forum
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 05:57:19 GMT

Maybe I'm wrong here, but when I use ksh or csh in Amix I am unable to
call the last command with the cursor keys or with an [ESC]J/K combination.
All I get are escape codes?  Do I have to set up my ENVironment diffently?
If so, how?

And how does one get sag to recognize *ANY* term?  I tried sag -T $term

$term being vt100,ansi,amiga,xterm etc...to no avail. Is sag broken?

Thanks for any info.


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From: wyk1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Won Y Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Query: about A2410 and reading and writing from the disk!
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:11:08 GMT
Reply-To: wyk1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Won Y Kim)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Sep2.113226.58575@cc.usu.edu> slmt9@cc.usu.edu (Joshua Dinerstein) writes:
>	Hi, All.

Hi! Josh!

>First my friend just bought an A3000 ux. It has the A2410, ULowell (sp)
>card, in it.And some of our tests have proved that this card does indeed work.
>What we are wondering is if there is anyway to get the standard amiga screen to
>go to the card for output. So that we don't have to keep moving between
>monitors.

Ok, In Unix 2.1 and 2.1p2a
there is a facility called xdm which starts up the x windows (X11R4) on
a console window on bootup. (usually set up as con10 or alt-F10)
so you can get actually log in on that screen (it will ask for 
login: and password:) . and depending on your set up based on the 
~/.xsession file, you will at least get 1 shell window and you can
start doing thinsg from there.

You need unix 2.1 to do this however. (the instruction should be in the
addendum)

>	Ok, Second. Is there a way under Amiga Unix to read and write from
>df0:? And if there is is it in Amiga format, IBM format, or something
>altogether different?

Unix can use df0: etc.. but so far there is no facility for reading
amigados format. (that I know of)
Between amydos and amyunix, there is the "BRU" format which you can
call from unix and amigados (2.04 and above)

bru directly writes to the media and unix understands the format.
do "$ bru -cvvv" in the directory you want to back it up
and "$ bru -xCvvv" in the target directory to restore from the archive

the device that bru uses is listed in " s:brutab" or "/etc/brutab"
and is the first uncommented device listing.

So to x-fer files to from amigados and unix, easiest thing would be 
to use bru (on a large size media, such as tape drives, floppies take 
too long :-)

it automatically asks for the next floppy/tape etc.. for multivolume
archives.

			hope this helps.
			Won
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Won Kim. Programmer ReProgrammer.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re: Kernel Panics
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:52:01 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN

In article <DON.92Aug25011100@blkhole.resun.com> don@blkhole.resun.com (Don Phillips) writes:
=I guess I really shouldn't read this news group.  No sooner did I read
=the article about kernel panics, than I had the pleasure of having
=three occur.
=

	Looks like you've hit the STREAMS "feature"... From my experience
	it was a ql serial port getting flooded with serial data but
	hardware flow control was held low and no program could consume
	the data coming into the port. When I hardwired RTS<->CTS and
	had a program running on the port to suck up the data the panics
	stopped.

	All I can suggest is to make VERY sure peripherals attached to serial
	ports PROPERLY obey full duplex hardware flow control and stop
	sending data when RTS goes low.

	There appears to be a STREAMS bottleneck in buffer
	allocation/deallocation that can degenerate into a deadlock and
	either silent death of all STREAMS I/O, serial ports, network
	ports and console screens, or a panic. The first routines after
	the 5 panic rountines in your dump seem to point to the STREAMS
	subsystem.

	The only way to avoid the STREAMS problems is to make sure you
	don't create excessive amounts of data sitting in STREAMS buffers
	and not being processed. The modem situation triggers this because
	the incoming data keeps causing new buffers to be needed and
	the system seems to assume that if it lowers RTS as a warning to
	please stop the peripheral will stop. If the peripheral keeps
	going it exhausts STREAMS resources and bad things happen. When
	the peripheral obeys the flow control, buffers aren't used excessively
	and when programs suck off the data again, the buffers aren't
	used excessively.

	This is all observation, reality maybe an entirely different reason...

		Hope this helps find a workaround for you,

		      -Rob
From: md@ui.org (Mark Doran)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: cables for an A2232 Card
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:05:10 GMT
Reply-To: md@ui.org (Mark Doran)
Organization: Unix International

Hi Folks,

Anyone out there able to tell me what the pin-outs for the sockets on a A2232
serial card are please??  Are there any readily available "made up"
cables for 8
pin mini-din to DB25 serial port use which will work (I'm thinking of
the Mac modem
cables for example...)??

Send me some email if you know any of this -- thanks!

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Cheers,

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
From: sangster@news.ans.net (Paul Sangster)
Subject: 2.1 install problems (still)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:03:30 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services - Reston, Va

Folks,

Unfortunately, I have still been unable to install 2.1 on my 3000UX-D
machine.  As I mentioned in previous posts, I get a "a3091: 0x49
0x78EAD48" error after about 5 minutes of installing the amiga unix
essential components.  Several folks have said this is a SCSI drive
error, but this still leaves my with Amix (after all the $$$).

I was wondering if anyone else has done an install with a similar 
architecture.  I have a Wangtek 5150ES tape drive (in an external case)
and have tried installing over the commodore partitioned UX-D drive
(Quantum 200M).  My system also has a Maxtor 213S which also doesn't
work as the target of the install.

So, has anyone successfully installed Amix using the 5150ES?  If so
was it on the UX-D Quantum drive?

Thanx,

Paul "All of this money and time and still no 2.1" Sangster

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