From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA2291026 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:41:23 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA5333483 for linux-list; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:40:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA5207906 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from MajorD.xtra.co.nz (terminator.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.5]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id OAA28682 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:40:44 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ratfink@xtra.co.nz) Received: from xtra.co.nz (xtra185187.xtra.co.nz [202.27.185.187]) by MajorD.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA18155; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:40:00 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <351ECDC0.D0E3BC60@xtra.co.nz> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:40:00 +1200 From: Brendan Black Organization: Acess Denied... X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.33 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de CC: Dong Liu , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: new to sgi linux References: <199803272025.PAA16215@pluto.npiww.com> <19980327220550.50946@uni-koblenz.de> <199803272159.QAA18195@pluto.npiww.com> <19980328055201.31189@uni-koblenz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 04:59:26PM -0500, Dong Liu wrote: > > > > > Another thing it didn't get the right capacity of scsi disk. > > > > > > Are you shure? Some peopple got fooled by the 1024 vs. 1024 bytes per > > > kb isue ... Or are the numbers way off? > > > > This what I got > > > > sda: sector size 0 reported, assume 512 > > SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes, Sectors=1 [0 MB][0.0 GB] > > > > :=) > > Hmmm... I speculate we misstreat R4000MC / R4400MC CPUs :-( > > > > There is a command named ``hinv'' under IRIX. Can you mail me the output? > > > FPU: MIPS R4010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0 > > CPU: MIPS R4000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0 > > Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte > > Sigh, was suspecting that. Actually handling of these CPUs should be > fixed in current kernels ... > > Ralf seeeing I am having exactly the same problem, it might fix me too -- Brendan Black - Network Engineer, Telecom Internet Services email: ratfink@xtra.co.nz (personal) phone: +-649 3555238 mob: +-6425 2752667 "Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, white light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386." -- Matt Welsh