Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Eris Discordia]

> But, I don't have the source code.

But, you couldn't use it even if you had it. Forget erik quanstrom's
patchworks--he may be high on IQ, but he certainly is rather low on EQ.

Wait for the next ISO release and hope for the best. Useful, stable
patches--and hopefully the one that fixes this problem--will have found
their way into binaries by then.

> Also, how to rebuild the code once i get it.

Set up another Plan 9 and compile on it?! Or cross-compile if GCC has a
"POSIX-free" target?! Use some Vita Nuova secret weapon?! Not worth it,
definitely.

> If there is any step by step tutorial sort of thing, please let me know.

Dream on. This mailing list already hosts a more-than-20-post-long thread
on how to kill rio when you are stuck. Not one soul has yet admitted
something simply needs to be fixed. All they do is CE-ly sidestepping this
non-CE-bread-and-butter guy's sane non-CE question. If you feed on
something other than thermal paste you need to find yourself a better
platform... or you could start taking up thermal paste as a side dish.

--On Saturday, October 11, 2008 5:12 PM +0530 Sasidhar Kasturi
<sasidhar.kvs@gmail.com> wrote:

> erik quanstrom wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>        I tried to install plan 9 on virtual pc and succedded. But,
>>> once i boot through plan 9  errors are coming.
>>> Attached the screen shot of the error.
>>>
>>
>> the plan 9 ide driver apparently disagrees with virtual pc.
>> this isn't a fossil or venti problem.
>>
>> unfortunately, i have no access to virtual pc so the rest of this
>> email is a thought experiment ....
>>
>> command 30
>> data f09534b0 limit f0964eb0 dlen 8192 status 0 error 0
>> lba 210592 -> 210592, count 16 -> 16 (16)
>>  0x00 0x04 0xac 0x36 0x03 0xe0 0x58
>> 0x40: e306 0x42: c0000 x48: 00
>> 0x4a 0000
>>
>> so
>>     the command is write sectors (Cws; 0x30)
>>     lba 0x0336a0 (according to the driver)
>>
>> the registers say:
>>
>> 0    1    2    3    4    5    6    As
>>     0x00    0x04    0xac    0x36    0x03    0xe0    0x58
>>     error    count    lba0    lba1    lba2    stat
>>
>> at lba 0x3036ac (4 sectors to go) status Bsy|Df|Drdy.
>>
>> i would think you're issuing a command before the device
>> is ready for you.  this patch may help.
>>
>> minooka; diff -c /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c
>> /n/dump/2008/0908/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c
>> /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c:1418,1424 -
>> /n/dump/2008/0908/sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c:1418,1424
>>       ctlr = drive->ctlr;
>>       cmdport = ctlr->cmdport;
>>       ctlport = ctlr->ctlport;
>> -     if(ataready(cmdport, ctlport, drive->dev, Bsy|Drq, Drdy,
>> 101*1000) < 0)
>> +     if(ataready(cmdport, ctlport, drive->dev, Bsy|Drq, 0, 101*1000)
>> < 0)
>>           return -1;
>>         ilock(ctlr);
>>
>> - erik
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hello Erik,
>       Thank you for that.  But, I don't have the source code. Can you
> please point me to the place where i can download the source of plan 9.
> Also, how to rebuild the code once i get it. If there is any step by step
> tutorial sort of thing, please let me know.
>
> Thanking you,
> Sasidhar.
>

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Steve Simon]

So Eris, you comming to iw9p?

-Steve

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Eris Discordia]

> So Eris, you coming to iw9p?

Sure not. I can't even (financially) afford a trip to the nearest
town--Greece is way out of the little volume of phase space this poor Gibbs
ensemble can sweep in any short time period from now ;-) Nonetheless,
vicarial pleasure is always an option: you go there, enjoy your trip, tell
9fans about it, I'll be reading the chronicles...

--On Saturday, October 11, 2008 4:54 PM +0100 Steve Simon
<steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> So Eris, you coming to iw9p?
>
> -Steve
>

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Uriel]

> Wait for the next ISO release and hope for the best. Useful, stable patches--and hopefully the one that fixes this problem--will have found their way into binaries by then.

What next ISO release?

uriel

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Eris Discordia]

> What next ISO release?

Either... one created from a later compile downloadable from Bell Labs or
any of the mirrors--for example, the one at kix.in which is continually
updated. I recently had the opportunity to download it. The install/live
image I first tried on VPC anteceded this one. Unfortunately, the new one
didn't contain (or pretend to contain) a fix for this specific problem but
I'm rather sure it contained at least _some_ critical patches in the
shipped binaries; or, the whole "release-a-new-image" process is cuckoo.
Although, the last update to sources is dated April 12, 2008.

Or... the next "edition." Some 5e if such thing is ever released.

--On Sunday, October 12, 2008 2:13 PM +0200 Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Wait for the next ISO release and hope for the best. Useful, stable
>> patches--and hopefully the one that fixes this problem--will have found
>> their way into binaries by then.
>
> What next ISO release?
>
> uriel
>

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Uriel]

>  Although, the last update to sources is dated April 12, 2008.

What makes you think that?

uriel

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Wes Kussmaul]

Uriel wrote:
>>  Although, the last update to sources is dated April 12, 2008.
>>
>
> What makes you think that?
>

You're all taking the bait again.

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[hiro]

you too

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com> wrote:
> Uriel wrote:
>>>
>>>  Although, the last update to sources is dated April 12, 2008.
>>>
>>
>> What makes you think that?
>>
>
> You're all taking the bait again.
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Eris Discordia]

> You're all taking the bait again.

Come _on_. I'm not that subtle a "baiter," or... am I?

--On Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:35 PM -0400 Wes Kussmaul
<wes@authentrus.com> wrote:

> Uriel wrote:
>>>  Although, the last update to sources is dated April 12, 2008.
>>>
>>
>> What makes you think that?
>>
>
> You're all taking the bait again.
>
>

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> From: eris.discordia@gmail.com
> Date: Mon Oct 13 08:03:02 PDT 2008
> To: 9fans@9fans.net
> Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9
>
>> You're all taking the bait again.
>
> Come _on_. I'm not that subtle a "baiter," or... am I?

you're a master baiter.

Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9

[Eris Discordia]

> you're a master baiter.

I didn't get it after the first reading. Not even after the third reading
did it dawn on me. When it did I thought to myself, "the man must be a
pervert to think even mailing lists can be used to that end." But I admit
it was _totally_ shrewd.

--On Monday, October 13, 2008 8:15 AM -0700 Skip Tavakkolian
<9nut@9netics.com> wrote:

>> From: eris.discordia@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon Oct 13 08:03:02 PDT 2008
>> To: 9fans@9fans.net
>> Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil:diskWriteRawFailed error with Plan 9
>>
>>> You're all taking the bait again.
>>
>> Come _on_. I'm not that subtle a "baiter," or... am I?
>
> you're a master baiter.
>
>