Re: 5.x, 6.x and CPUTYPE

2005-11-08 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/8/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig Boston wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:05:13PM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: Thanks, Craig. I'm glad to hear that I'm not alone in pursuing this method. Do you know of any particular disadvantages of continuing with this

Re: FreeBSD 6 Released BTX loader issue

2005-11-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/6/05, Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [redirecting to -stable, where this belongs] lee sheng wrote: I'm trying to have clean install FreeBSD 6.0 released in my X41 thinkpad by using the cd, however I have problem while booting it in thinkpad X41 when I load it using usb

Re: FreeBSD doesn't find my CD-RW and sometimes my DVD

2003-07-25 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Lia Maggioni wrote: ACD0 is only the DVD , CD-RW (a Liteon 52x 24x 52x) isn't found at all!! Literally from DMESG: ata0-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed and sometimes it doesn't find my DVD too , with the message : ata1-slave: ATA identify retries excedeed I

Re: ata problem(s)

2002-08-31 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski
You have symptoms similar to what I had. After digging on the web and wading through IBM tech support, my hypothesis was that these symptoms were caused by a thermal recalibration cycle. However, since this bug was intermittent, I never managed to get conclusive proof. This thermal

Re: Poor Mans Software raid 1 on root partition?

2002-07-15 Thread Andrew P. Lentvorski
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Glen Mehn wrote: You can get a 3ware 7210 for $120: http://newegg.com it'll save you a lOT of time and heartache, and it's not that much $$... True, but if that 3ware quits making those cards and your card goes, your data is completely lost. And what if you choose not