slow transfers: Samba 3.0.2a + FreeBSD 4.8 + em gigabit network card = ~125mbps

2004-03-25 Thread Michael Haro
I have a FreeBSD 4.8 server with a 3ware RAID controller in a RAID5 configuration. The server has an Intel PRO/1000 network card in it. I'm trying to transfer big (100MB+) files from this server to a Firewire drive on my Windows XP workstation which also has an Intel PRO/1000 NIC. The transfer

Controller(s) for 16 IDE hard disk server

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Haro
I want to setup a FreeBSD server with a 16-24 200+-GB IDE drives for an FTP server. We currently have one using two old 3ware 6xxx cards. Does anyone know of any cards (that are still made - I'm not allowed to use used stuff) that would for this task that are supported by FreeBSD? I don't see

high-pitched tone from pc speaker

2003-08-05 Thread Michael Haro
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a server at work. I cvsup'd and installed an updated world and installed a few ports. I also rebuilt the kernel to support dual processors. I don't know if this always happened, but now the on-board pc speaker (the one that goes beep, not from a sound card)