k3b again

[Richard Bown]

On Sat, 10 May 2008 14:34:05 +1000 (EST)
Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 May 2008, Richard Bown wrote:
>  > On Fri, 09 May 2008 14:39:09 -0500
>  > Thomas Donnelly <tad1214 at aol.com> wrote:>
>  > > ><snip>
>  > > > I'm sorry if my comments offend, they are not intended to.
>  > > >


But it looks like I've started a flame war.

FreeBSD might be fine as a server, so are 99% or the linux distros 
if you don't want to run X.
I've been using linux since kernel version 2.0.10 and Redhat 4.
And as my main use was for Ham apps it meant recompiling a kernel
every time, when machines were so slow it would take more than 4 hours
to compile, so a lot of the basic unix commands are common to both
systems. It is no a case of starting from scratch, maybe a case of
dusting a few cobwebs off.
I did try PC-BSD to get the xorg.conf file as Xorg -configure would not
set up the Graphics card.,
To save time I bought a new card.
It looks like to get K3b to burn I'll have to change the DVD r/w.
To be able to use the sound system for what I want will mean 
getting another sound card, as there there is no facilities in FreeBSD
to support the M-Audio Delta 66 card to its full potential.
There's a problem on its own, that cards used for its low noise and
dynamic range, there are no longer made and as far as I know the
Terratec boards don't have the same breakout box.
To watch TV the DVB-T card cant be used as its not supported, I'd have
to buy a USB DVB-T stick and be very careful which chip set it uses
as there is only one driver. That DVB-T card is too expensive to just
remove and not use.
You've only got to look at dmesg :
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0 ugen0: <ZT6688 USB NNC ZT6688 USB NIC, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.01,
addr 2> on uhub0 ums0: <Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with
IntelliEye(TM), class 0/0, rev 1.10/3.00, addr 3> on uhub0 ums0: 3
buttons and Z dir. ugen1: <vendor 0x0d8c PnP Audio Device, class 0/0,
rev 1.10/0.10, addr 2> on uhub1 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
hptrr: no controller detected.
ad0: 156334MB <Maxtor 6L160P0 BAJ41G20> at ata0-master UDMA133
acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable
acd0: DVDR <SONY DVD RW DW-G120A/MYS2> at ata1-master UDMA33
ad8: 238475MB <MAXTOR STM3250310AS 3.AAC> at ata4-master SATA150
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <SONY DVD RW DW-G120A MYS2> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers
cd0: cd present [1 x 2048 byte records]
acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad8s1a
ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding
disabled, default to deny, logging disabled ugen0: at uhub0 port 1
(addr 2) disconnected ugen0: detached
acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): READ TOC/PMA/ATIP {MMC Proposed}. CDB: 43 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 4 0 (cd0:ata1:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): Invalid field in CDB
(cd0:ata1:0:0:0): Unretryable error
re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
you can see that its far from happy with the hardware on this machine.
I only have three machines, this, a NSLU2,arm-processor, which normally
is used as a DX Cluster server, an old laptop running win98 which had
been on loan to  my mother.
So this machine has to do everything, and it clear using FreeBSD it
cant without a lot of time and major hardware changes.
I should'nt have to rebuild this machine to use FreeBSD, only built it
a month ago.
I can get around the nannified background software that run on the
linux distro I've used for the last 5 years by using an external
firewall and turning off all the security features.
I'm just stuck with one Ham App which compiles on FeeBSD and not so far
on the distro of linux I use.

You can flame me much as you like

Best Wishes
Richard Bown
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