Re: Support for Fusion IO drives?

2012-08-28 Thread Josh Paetzel
not released to the general public by Fusion-I/O, but can be obtained from various partners. (I believe iXsystems is the only FreeBSD friendly fusion-i/o partner but could be wrong about that) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org

Re: Working and Supported SCSI Controller

2015-06-26 Thread Josh Paetzel
An adaptec 2940 isn't a U160 controller. The adaptec 19160/29160/39160 are, but I haven't used them since FreeBSD 4.x. No idea if they still work. Thanks, Josh Paetzel On Jun 26, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: On 2012-05-24 01:02, vermaden wrote: Hi

Re: L2 cache errors???

2015-07-28 Thread Josh Paetzel
On 07/28/2015 13:40, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: On 28/07/2015 19:48, Mike Tancsa wrote: On 7/28/2015 1:16 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Hi, Are these what I think they are? Errors in the CPU L2 cache? Are the ECC corrected? Or is error really data kaput? Could be. There is also an

Re: Server performance & enhancement

2017-02-16 Thread Josh Paetzel
ething in the X10SR family should work well for you. That's the "less than half the power draw" option. You can go with something that has 1/4 the power draw of your current setup, but it will likely be an incremental performance improvement (~25%) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel __

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
or queuing implementation) it's not worth considering when the real solution is SSDs. My recommendation is if you have SAS expanders and an HBA use SAS drives. If you have direct wired SAS or a RAID controller you can use either SAS or SATA. If your application demands performance or concurrency g

Re: Recommendations for cheap PCI-E network adapter ?

2018-01-02 Thread Josh Paetzel
w-end ethernet card, > but everything inexpensive seems to be Realtek-based. :-( > ___ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.o

Re: Problem with FreeBSD 11.2 and LSI 9341-8i

2018-09-08 Thread Josh Paetzel
s(4) does. Is the snippet of dmesg you pasted after you added hwmfi.mrsas_enable="1" to /boot/device.hints? If so perhaps that isn't just a typo in your email, but rather a typo in your device.hints The correct line is hw.mfi.mrsas_enable="1" If af

Re: When is sataIII actually sataIII?

2018-11-01 Thread Josh Paetzel
quot; A full dmesg would be useful. A dmesg from a verbose boot even more useful. As well as the make and model of the motherboard. The most common problem is the controller the drive is plugged into isn't actually capable of SATA 3. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel

Re: Dell SAS6IR is it worth the effort to convert to IT

2018-09-13 Thread Josh Paetzel
t have the ability to erase the flash, which you need to be able to do to go from IR to IT. DOS is the typical answer for that. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: LSI/AVGO/Broadcom 9280-16i4e support?

2019-09-03 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, at 8:13 AM, Ireneusz Pluta/wp.pl wrote: > W dniu 2019-09-03 o 01:25, Josh Paetzel pisze: >> The closest you can get to pass through is a bunch of single drive RAID 0 >> disks with the caching disabled. > The 9280-16i4e supports JBOD mode. >

Re: LSI/AVGO/Broadcom 9280-16i4e support?

2019-09-02 Thread Josh Paetzel
nstall media; see if it shows up during > the probe.) > > -- > Karl Denninger > k...@denninger.net <mailto:k...@denninger.net> > /The Market Ticker/ > /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ That card works on FreeBSD. I have personal experience with it. However flashi

Re: Request for Recommendations: media / transcode server

2019-11-14 Thread Josh Paetzel
e is are media server boards with no BMC, 1 SODIMM slot, two SATA ports, and a single PCI-e slot. You’ll need to step up to something like a SM X11SPA which is a lot of board to get what you want. Supposedly the ARM ecosystem was going to fill that void