Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-08 Thread Rohit Grover
Hi, I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the kernel isn't, and

Re: Kernel probe order issues

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Jeremy
Hi Andriy, On 2010-Feb-05 00:40:24 +0200, Andriy Gapon a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: Unfortunately, I don't see any explanation for what you are experiencing. I came up with some things with which you can try to experiment: 1. Boot with hw.pci.usb_early_takeover=0 in loader.conf. 2. Comment out the

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.02.2010 06:01, Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement.

NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I set up a NFSv4 server located on a FreeBSD 8.0/amd64 box (most recent world). It seems I successfully set up the NFSv4 service and this results in a successful mount of a file system by another FreeBSD 8.0 box. But their is a weirdnes I do not understand. Mounting the filessystem

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost, pretty much rules out a commercial case, such as a 3U case.

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Miroslav Lachman 000.f...@quip.cz wrote: System is booted from 2GB internal USB flash Be aware that not all USB sticks work as a root device on 8.0-RELEASE. I've tried a couple of different sticks that is probed *after* the kernel tries to mount /. It seems to be

Re: Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote: I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has stopped working. The boot

www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
Today, I upgraded Firefox 3.5.7 (built yesterday) to Firefox 3.6. After deleting ~/.mozilla (after I did a buckup, of course), I tried a fresh start of 'firefox3'. After firefox showed up, I realized that no option-field (File, Extras etc) can be used, they are dead and after a few seconds I

RE: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Naumov
Any further ideas how to get rid of this feature? You have several options. 1) The most clean solution is probably using the WDIDLE3 utility on your drives to disable automatic parking or in cases where its not possible to complete disable it, you can adjust it to 5 minutes, which essentially

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:43:46 +0200 Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote about RE: one more load-cycle-count problem: DN Any further ideas how to get rid of this feature? DN 1) The most clean solution is probably using the WDIDLE3 utility on DN your drives to disable automatic parking or in cases

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Dan Naumov
2010/2/8 Gerrit Kühn ger...@pmp.uni-hannover.de: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:43:46 +0200 Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote about RE: one more load-cycle-count problem: DN Any further ideas how to get rid of this feature? DN 1) The most clean solution is probably using the WDIDLE3 utility on

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:56:35PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: 2010/2/8 Gerrit Kühn ger...@pmp.uni-hannover.de: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:43:46 +0200 Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote about RE: one more load-cycle-count problem: DN Any further ideas how to get rid of this feature? DN 1)

ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Guido Falsi
Hi! I'm seeing this problem on my machine at work. It's an HP DC 7800, mounts an ich9 chipset(not ahci capable). I'm attaching the dmesg. I noticed this in the past, but it got evident(and very annoying) while recompiling many ports today after the jpeg-8 update. It looks like it freezes the

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:56:35 +0200 Dan Naumov wrote: WDIDLE3 changes the drive firmware. This is also how WD can detect you've used it on your disk and void your warranty accordingly :) I've upgraded the firmware at five WD1000FYPS disks. One of them still kept on running load cycles. Then I

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Ivan Voras
On 02/08/10 15:33, Guido Falsi wrote: It looks like it freezes the system for the second or two it takes to flush buffers to disk when there are big outputs. This happens when decompressiong big distfiles, mainly. The openoffice port triggers this almost continuosly every few seconds during

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path works fine, but not mount -t nfs4 host:/path /path. The mount command can be either: mount -t nfs -o nfsv4 host:/path /path or mount -t newnfs -o nfsv4 host:/path /path (The above was what

Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-02-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 05 February 2010 9:00:51 am Oliver Fromme wrote: Randi Harper wrote: Marian Hettwer wrote: +1 vote for making / bigger. At least a size where a make installkernel runs through. This is going to happen. It's been on my to-do list for a while, as I find it

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues for my VMs on VMware ESXi 3.5u4. After loading the mpt

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:33:29PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote: Hi! I'm seeing this problem on my machine at work. It's an HP DC 7800, mounts an ich9 chipset(not ahci capable). I'm attaching the dmesg. I noticed this in the past, but it got evident(and very annoying) while recompiling many

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:49:00AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path Oh, and you should set: sysctl vfs.newnfs.locallocks_enable=0 in the server, since I haven't fixed the local locking yet. (This implies that apps/daemons running locally on the server

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 06:22:59 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote about Re: one more load-cycle-count problem: JC The DOS utilities submit custom ATA CMDs or data to all WD disks to JC toggle or adjust these features. If someone could figure out what the JC command(s) were, the

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 08 February 2010 9:56:36 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:49:00AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:32:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 9:56:36 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:49:00AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Guido Falsi
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:41:14PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On 02/08/10 15:33, Guido Falsi wrote: It looks like it freezes the system for the second or two it takes to flush buffers to disk when there are big outputs. This happens when decompressiong big distfiles, mainly. The openoffice

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Guido Falsi
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 06:51:47AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:33:29PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote: It gets very annoying and I don't remember this happening before activating the ATA_CAM flag. There was some slowdown with big disk access, but not a total

Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-08 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:32:25 + O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Today, I upgraded Firefox 3.5.7 (built yesterday) to Firefox 3.6. After deleting ~/.mozilla (after I did a buckup, of course), I tried a fresh start of 'firefox3'. After firefox showed up, I realized that no

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Fabian Keil
Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:33:29PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote: I'm seeing this problem on my machine at work. It's an HP DC 7800, mounts an ich9 chipset(not ahci capable). I'm attaching the dmesg. I noticed this in the past, but it got

ATA_CAM run_interrupt_driven_hooks waiting for xpt_config

2010-02-08 Thread Guido Falsi
Hi, I'm opening this new thread about this strange problem on boot that I have. I'm attaching 2 dmesg. One without ATA_CAM and one with. Botting with ATA__CAM on this machine creates a 60 second pause in the kernel boot just after the line: ubt0: vendor 0x0df6 Sitecom USB bluetooth2.0 class 2

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Guido Falsi
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:18:22PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: I experienced what I think is the same problem. ZFS's bulk disk flushes caused vlc to occasionally stutter when viewing a DVD rip from disk while ripping a DVD at the same time. My workaround is to put vfs.zfs.txg.timeout=3 in

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 15:08, Rick Macklem wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path Oh, and you should set: sysctl vfs.newnfs.locallocks_enable=0 in the server, since I haven't fixed the local locking yet. (This implies that

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 15:01, Rick Macklem wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Mounting the filessystem via mount_newnfs host:/path /path works fine, but not mount -t nfs4 host:/path /path. The mount command can be either: mount -t nfs -o nfsv4 host:/path /path or mount -t newnfs -o

Re: Kerberized NFSv3 incorrect behavior

2010-02-08 Thread George Mamalakis
On 08/02/2010 00:34, Rick Macklem wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, George Mamalakis wrote: thank you for all your answers. I am planning on setting up the computer labs of my department using kerberized nfsv3 (since v4 seems to be more experimental) with a FreeBSD nfs server and Linux nfs

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 08 February 2010 11:06:00 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:32:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 9:56:36 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:49:00AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:15:06PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 11:06:00 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:32:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 9:56:36 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:49:00AM -0500,

Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-08 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/08/10 16:20, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:32:25 + O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Today, I upgraded Firefox 3.5.7 (built yesterday) to Firefox 3.6. After deleting ~/.mozilla (after I did a buckup, of course), I tried a fresh start of 'firefox3'.

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 08 February 2010 1:51:46 pm Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:15:06PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 11:06:00 am Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:32:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 9:56:36 am

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:42:33PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 1:51:46 pm Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:15:06PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: I thought the old condition only happened under VMware? Reports I got where from XEN. Ok.

Re: PF Traffic Redirection issues

2010-02-08 Thread Spas Karabelov
Thanks for the info Nick, I had the reflection working with PF + Inetd + NC. *in the inetd.conf I have the following:* #INTERNAL NC CONFIGURATION http stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/nc nc -w 20 192.168.128.102 80 *in rc.conf in had to add the following to limit the proxy listening on the

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:58:53PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:18:22PM +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: I experienced what I think is the same problem. ZFS's bulk disk flushes caused vlc to occasionally stutter when viewing a DVD rip from disk while ripping a DVD at the

Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

2010-02-08 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 08 February 2010 2:46:51 pm Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:42:33PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 1:51:46 pm Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:15:06PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: I thought the old condition only

Re: www/firefox: Firefox 3.6 crashes, Firefox 3.5.7 not

2010-02-08 Thread Eitan Adler
I have no idea if this is related but from pkg-message Firefox 3.6 and HTML5 Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a HTML5 page: Bad system call (core dumped) you need to load the sem module

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: Oh, and you should set: sysctl vfs.newnfs.locallocks_enable=0 in the server, since I haven't fixed the local locking yet. (This implies that apps/daemons running locally on the server won't see byte range locks performed by NFSv4 clients.) However,

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, O. Hartmann wrote: So I guess the above one is the more 'transparent' one with respect to the future, when NFSv4 gets mature and its way as matured into the kernel? Yea, I'd only use mount -t newnfs if for some reason you want to test/use the experimental client for

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Rick Macklem rmack...@uoguelph.ca wrote: ps: ZFS also has its own export stuff, but it is my understanding that putting a line in /etc/exports is sufficient. I've never used ZFS, so others will know more than I. My understanding (from having used NFS and

Re: Kerberized NFSv3 incorrect behavior

2010-02-08 Thread Rick Macklem
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, George Mamalakis wrote: To tell you the truth, when I recompiled my kernel with: options NFSD options KGSSAPI device crypto to setup an nvsv4 server, nfsd refused to start because mountd was segfaulting. I didn't play much with this setup,

Re: ATA_CAM + ZFS gives short 1-2 seconds system freeze on disk load

2010-02-08 Thread Artem Belevich
I'd like a technical explanation of exactly what this loader.conf tunable does.  The sysctl -d explanation is useful if one has insight to what purpose it serves.  I can find mention on Solaris lists about txg timeout, but the context is over my head (intended for those very familiar with the

suspend to disk

2010-02-08 Thread Christof Schulze
Hello everyone today I tried whether my samsung q35 laptop would suspend using acpiconf on RELENG_8. I was amazed that acpiconf -s3 works out of the box. However acpiconf -s4 does not work which would be the useful side of hibernation for me. From the manpage of acpiconf I understand that

Re: suspend to disk

2010-02-08 Thread Michal Varga
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Christof Schulze christof.schu...@gmx.com wrote: Hello everyone today I tried whether my samsung q35 laptop would suspend using acpiconf on RELENG_8. I was amazed that acpiconf -s3 works out of the box. However acpiconf -s4 does not work which would be the

xorg big slowdown after upgrade (intel driver)

2010-02-08 Thread Paride Legovini
Hello, yesterday I upgraded my 8.0-STABLE installation and noticed that xorg become a lot slower then it used to be. The previous upgrade dates back to about one month ago. I'm running freebsd on an amd64 and the graphic card is an integrated Intel Q45/Q43. Here is the relevant line from lspci:

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: which essentially solves the problem. Note that going this route will probably involve rebuilding your entire array from scratch, because applying WDIDLE3 to the disk is likely to very slightly affect disk geometry, but just enough for hardware raid or ZFS

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Gerrit Kühn wrote: :-))) I would really prefer to be able to set this stuff via camcontrol or atacontrol. Alone having to boot DOS with this machine (no floppy, no cdrom) will be a real pain. And most probably the DOS tool will not be able to see the disks sitting behind

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: which essentially solves the problem. Note that going this route will probably involve rebuilding your entire array from scratch, because applying WDIDLE3 to the disk is likely

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: I just did this to 8 of the 1.5 TB Caviar Green disks, without ZFS complaining in any way. I did test it on a spare drive before doing it to the 7 live drives. And I did replace them while the server was turned off, just to be safe (and to prevent a

FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the kernel crashed after a buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/reboot of 8.0. I had not updated FreeBSD on that machine for a while so I decided to

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Peter C. Lai
Well try turning off ACPI, HyperThreading, etc.? On 2010-02-08 09:01:28PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the kernel crashed after a

hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Engberg
While I'm not a heavy FreeBSD user I can offer you some advice on hardware at least based on my own experience. If you want things to work as good as possible go with Intel chipset and LAN. AMD chipsets works (mostly) but you'll have worse performance and you wont get an Intel NIC which performs

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Vince
On 3/02/2010 10:52 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: On 02/03/2010 12:12 PM, Bruce Simpson wrote: On 02/02/2010 17:19, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: In FreeBSD we've nice(1), renice(8) and even rtprio, idprio(1) but if I'm understanding correctly, they're related to CPU priorty only, not to I/O.

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 So you get the same file system full message and then a panic about init? however I really

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-08 Thread jhell
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:37, mv@ wrote: On 3/02/2010 10:52 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: On 02/03/2010 12:12 PM, Bruce Simpson wrote: On 02/02/2010 17:19, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: In FreeBSD we've nice(1), renice(8) and even rtprio, idprio(1) but if I'm understanding correctly, they're

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1 Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it? I don't suppose you built a custom kernel without the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option? You need it until you get a new R8 userland and all

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:56:46PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb) [...] Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:56:46PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb) [...]

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Hi, I'm looking at creating a large home use storage machine. Budget is a concern, but size and reliability are also a priority. Noise is also a concern, since this will be at home, in the basement. That, and cost, pretty much rules out a

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Snow
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server board with 6xSATA ports (based on Intel ICH9) and a PCIe 16x slot. It takes up to 4GB of RAM, and there's even a version with KVM-over-LAN for headless

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server board with 6xSATA ports (based on Intel ICH9) and a PCIe 16x slot. It takes up to 4GB of RAM, and

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: For home use is the hot-swap option really needed?  Also, it seems like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons.  There seem to be no decent add-on SATA cards that play