Re: Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-04-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 11:20:44AM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: | On 01.04.2021 2:39, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | > | > I can only state that I use it only occasionally, and that when I do. I | > | > have had no problems with it. I'm glad that it's there when I need it. | >

Re: Vinum deprecation for FreeBSD 14 - are there any remaining Vinum users?

2021-03-31 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:22:53AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote: | On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 15:09, Chris wrote: | > | > I can only state that I use it only occasionally, and that when I do. I | > have had no problems with it. I'm glad that it's there when I need it. | | Thanks for the reply. Can you

Re: Cisco 12G SAS RAID support (FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE) ?

2019-11-08 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 09:44:36PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: | Chris Ross wrote on 11/05/2019 21:19: | > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:20:15PM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote: | >> Chris Ross wrote on 11/05/2019 19:34: | >>> Hello. I have a Cisco UCS C220-M5 with a RAID controller. It calls

Re: Hangs with mrsas?

2016-03-22 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: | < said: | | > You could try: | > https://people.freebsd.org/~ambrisko/mrsas.patch | | I take it that the important part of this patch is changing the DMA | tag and scatter/gather setup to allow 64-bit addresses? (Why would

Re: Installer on serial-console-only-embedded system

2013-08-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 01:53:15PM +, Teske, Devin wrote: | sysinstall had the ability to allow you to muck with /etc/ttys before | rebooting to your installed OS. | | This functionality is coming back slowly. | | In 9.2-R you will be able to (somehow) bow out of the installation process |

Re: mfi panic on recused on non-recusive mutex MFI I/O lock

2012-11-09 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 05:06:03PM -, Steven Hartland wrote: | | - Original Message - | From: Steven Hartland | ... | I've just had another panic, trace below, but it doesn't seem to be related | to my changes so I'd appreciate your feedback on them as they are for now. | | While

Re: mfi panic on recused on non-recusive mutex MFI I/O lock

2012-11-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 12:09:42AM -, Steven Hartland wrote: | Thanks Doug, actually just finished another test run with some more | debugging in and I believe I've found the reason for the non-recusive | lock and at least some of the queuing issues. | | The non-recursive lock is due to the

Re: Problem with IPMI KCS driver

2012-10-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:44:59PM +0400, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote: | On 28.09.2012 16:48, John Baldwin wrote: | kcs_wait_for_obf() at kcs_wait_for_obf+0xb6 point to | /usr/src/sys/dev/ipmi/ipmi_kcs.c:94 | | 91 while (ticks - start MAX_TIMEOUT | 92

Re: IPMI hardware watchdogs Re: dell r420/r320 stable/9

2012-07-31 Thread Doug Ambrisko
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:51:43PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: | on 27/07/2012 17:33 Andrew Boyer said the following: | | On Jul 26, 2012, at 8:50 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: | | For the time being I had to revert the following from my stable/9 tree. | Otherwise I would get a kernel panic on

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240 with mfi driver?

2012-04-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jan Mikkelsen writes: | On 31/03/2012, at 1:14 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | John Baldwin writes: | | On Friday, March 30, 2012 12:06:40 am Jan Mikkelsen wrote: | | Hi, | | | ... | | | I have a loan LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i controller for testing. | | The pciconf -lv output

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-04-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Alexander Motin writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | On 04/04/12 21:47, John Baldwin wrote: | On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:24:33 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | John Baldwin writes: | | On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:37:50 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | John Baldwin writes

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-04-06 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Alexander Motin writes: | On 04/06/12 20:12, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Alexander Motin writes: | | On 04/04/12 21:47, John Baldwin wrote: | | On Wednesday, April 04, 2012 12:24:33 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | John Baldwin writes: | | | On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:37:50 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-04-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Baldwin writes: | On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 12:37:50 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | John Baldwin writes: | | On Monday, April 02, 2012 7:27:13 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | Doug Ambrisko writes: | | | John Baldwin writes: | | | | On Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:25:48 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-04-03 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Baldwin writes: | On Monday, April 02, 2012 7:27:13 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Doug Ambrisko writes: | | John Baldwin writes: | | | On Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:25:48 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | | Sean Bruno writes: | | | | Noting a failure to attach to the onboard IPMI controller

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Baldwin writes: | On Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:25:48 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Sean Bruno writes: | | Noting a failure to attach to the onboard IPMI controller with this dell | | R815. Not sure what to start poking at and thought I'd though this over | | here for comment

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Doug Ambrisko writes: | John Baldwin writes: | | On Saturday, March 31, 2012 3:25:48 pm Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | Sean Bruno writes: | | | Noting a failure to attach to the onboard IPMI controller with this dell | | | R815. Not sure what to start poking at and thought I'd though this over

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-03-31 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Sean Bruno writes: | Noting a failure to attach to the onboard IPMI controller with this dell | R815. Not sure what to start poking at and thought I'd though this over | here for comment. | | -bash-4.2$ dmesg |grep ipmi | ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8 on acpi | ipmi1: IPMI System Interface

Re: [stable-ish 9] Dell R815 ipmi(4) attach failure

2012-03-31 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Doug Ambrisko writes: | Sean Bruno writes: | | Noting a failure to attach to the onboard IPMI controller with this dell | | R815. Not sure what to start poking at and thought I'd though this over | | here for comment. | | | | -bash-4.2$ dmesg |grep ipmi | | ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca8

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240 with mfi driver?

2012-03-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Baldwin writes: | On Friday, March 30, 2012 12:06:40 am Jan Mikkelsen wrote: | Hi, | | I have a loan LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i controller for testing. | | According to the LSI documentation, this device provides the MegaRAID | interface and the BIOS message mentions MFI. The LSI

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240 with mfi driver?

2012-03-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jan Mikkelsen writes: | Hi, | | On 31/03/2012, at 1:14 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | John Baldwin writes: | | On Friday, March 30, 2012 12:06:40 am Jan Mikkelsen wrote: | | ... | | Is this path likely to work out? Any suggestions on where to go from here? | | | | You should try

Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240 with mfi driver?

2012-03-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jan Mikkelsen writes: | On 31/03/2012, at 9:21 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | Jan Mikkelsen writes: | | I don't know what changes Sean did. Are they in 9.0-release, or do I | | need -stable after a certain point? I'm assuming I should be able to | | take src/sys/dev/mfi/... and src/usr.sbin

Re: MFC: graid(8) (RAID GEOM) support

2011-06-21 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jeremy Chadwick writes: | Sorry for the cross-post, but I thought both lists would want to know | about this. | | Looks like mav@ just committed this ~17 hours ago: | http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/raid/g_raid.c | | Those who have historically wanted to use Intel MatrixRAID

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
rihad writes: | On 05/14/2010 04:13 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | rihad writes: | | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | | Right now it doesn't work: | | | | # watchdog | | watchdog

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Tom Evans writes: | On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Chadwick | free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: | | I'm a bit confused at this point, Doug. ?At what point did the OP state | he has IPMI support or IPMI cards in his system? | | He said he had a Dell PowerEdge 2950 - iirc these all have

Re: Enabling watchdog

2010-05-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
rihad writes: | Hi, I'm thinking of enabling the watchdog on our Dell PowerEdge 2950 / | FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, so that it reboots the machine in case of lockups. | Right now it doesn't work: | | # watchdog | watchdog: patting the dog: Operation not supported | # | Looking through the kernel

Re: Netowrk Card BCE not working

2009-08-20 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Umar writes: | Dear Members! | | I have recently Install FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on DELL R610. | | After successfuly installation network cards are not working and i got error | | bce0: /usr/src/dev/bce/if_bce.c(1386): Unable to write CTX memory: cid_addr = 0x008, offset = 0x0080 | | Would

Re: Monitoring tools for mfi0: Dell PERC 6?

2009-08-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
wsk writes: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] | On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:04:35PM +0200, V=E1clav Haisman wrote: | Hi, | | I have a server with the mfi0: Dell PERC 6 controller. Are there any | monitoring tool for this? I tried camcontrol but it doesn't even list the | device. |

Re: System deadlock when using mksnap_ffs

2008-11-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kostik Belousov writes: | On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:45:14AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [snip] | If he can press Control-T, it means SIGINFO can be sent to the | mksnap_ffs process, and the process responds with that information. So, | the system is not deadlocked -- meaning, I

Re: System deadlock when using mksnap_ffs

2008-11-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jeremy Chadwick writes: [snip] | The rest of the below information is good -- but I'm confused about | something: is there anyone out there who can use mksnap_ffs on a | filesystem (/usr is a good test source) and NOT experience this | deadlocking problem? Literally *every* FreeBSD box I

Re: System deadlock when using mksnap_ffs

2008-11-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kostik Belousov writes: | On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:49:28PM +, Tim Bishop wrote: | On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:58:26PM +, Tim Bishop wrote: | I run the mksnap_ffs command to take the snapshot and some time later | the system completely freezes up: | | paladin# cd /u2/.snap/ |

Re: Management interface for cards powered by the mfi driver?

2008-06-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Karl Denninger writes: [snip] | Ok, wiped the src tree, re-cvs'd out the RELENG_7, rebuild world and kernel | and reinstalled (nice fast machine eh?) Not needed since FreeBSD 6.2 if I recall right. Forget if I got it in 6.1. | Anyway, no change: | | dbms# uname -v | FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE

Re: lpbb broken in 6.x?

2008-03-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Bruce M Simpson writes: | Ian Smith wrote: | To finish off completely hijacking your thread :) does anyone know of | anything that can run a master/slave interface like pcf(4) which appears | to have been an ISA bus only device? I don't have C skills to write | one, though 400kHz master and

Re: Dell PERC6?

2008-01-17 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Vlad GALU writes: | On 1/17/08, Ferdinand Goldmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi! | | I am in the process of buying new Dell hardware, mainly the 2950 III. | According to various postings I found, the PERC6/i Controller _should_ work | with FreeBSD 6.3. Does anyone successfully use a 2950 III

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kip Macy writes: | Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and | goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 | support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI | because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia |

Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Daniel O'Connor writes: | On Tuesday 13 March 2007 05:10, Yann Golanski wrote: | I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire and I am trying to get X/FreeBSD | working with it. My system is a clean install of FreBSD. I've managed to | get VESA to work but cannot get much more than that. | | There

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Scott Oertel writes: | Kris Kennaway wrote: | On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: | | Hi, | | I got the following Filesystem: | FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused | /dev/da0a 1.3T422G823G34% 565952

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kris Kennaway writes: | On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:13:57AM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | FWIW, with this patch I find making snap-shots a lot more reliable: | | --- sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c.orig Wed Mar 22 09:42:31 2006 | +++ sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c Mon Nov 20 14:59:13 2006

Re: Dell hardware raid 0 (sas5ir) or gmirror?

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Joe Koberg writes: | Josef Karthauser wrote: | On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:21:06AM +, Josef Karthauser wrote: | I'm purchasing a new server, and was wondering what anyone thought | about whether to pay extra for the SAS5IR card so I can RAID0 the | two drives, or whether to just rely on

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kris Kennaway writes: | On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:26:47PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: | Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | or things can get wedged. We have some other patches as well that | might | | be required. As a hack on a local server we have been using snap shots | | to do a hot

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kris Kennaway writes: | Thanks for clarifying. Hopefully you and Tor can get something | committed soon! I'm not sure about that. I have to see what has changed since then. That was ... uhm a year ago when I dropped the ball. It's probably a good task for me to look at in the context of

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-11-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Peter Jeremy writes: | It would be nice to see the 32-bit emulation improved so that it is | possible to build/run the i386 versions of ports on an amd64 system. | This would be the best of both worlds. If I had any free time, I | would even work on this myself. I have this working well enough

Re: Megacli fails to find SAS adapter

2006-10-11 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Sven Willenberger writes: | On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 22:11 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Sven Willenberger writes: | | FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Tue Oct 10 13:58:29 EDT 2006 | | LSi 8480e SAS Raid card | Adding mfi_linux_enable=YES to /boot/loader.conf did do the trick of | having the device

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
John Baldwin writes: | On Tuesday 10 October 2006 08:54, Bill Moran wrote: | In response to Doug Ambrisko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Bruno Ducrot writes: | | On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:07:12PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: | | In response to Bruno Ducrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | | Hi

Re: Megacli fails to find SAS adapter

2006-10-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Sven Willenberger writes: | FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Tue Oct 10 13:58:29 EDT 2006 | LSi 8480e SAS Raid card | | mount: | linprocfs on /compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local) | linsysfs on /compat/linux/sys (linsysfs, local) | /dev/mfid0s1d on /usr/local/pgsql (ufs, local, noatime) | | dmesg: |

Re: Dell 1950 does not properly respond to reboot and shutdown -p

2006-10-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Bruno Ducrot writes: | On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:07:12PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: | In response to Bruno Ducrot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Hi, | | On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: | |A reboot causes the OS to halt, but the hardware just sits there on the |

Re: LSI/amr driver controller cache problem?

2006-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Patrick M. Hausen writes: | Also, check the cache | setting on the drives itself. Maybe the drives are loosing power or | getting reset while data is in their cache. | | I'm starting to suspect something like this. The controller's setting | for the individual drives' caches is OFF. But

Re: LSI/amr driver controller cache problem?

2006-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Patrick M. Hausen writes: | Here's the preliminary results: | | - Controller cache policy: write through (megamgr or BIOS setup) Write back should be okay with a battery. Doug A. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: i386/100160: [mfid] Perc5i: additional symptomatic info on virtual disk detection issue

2006-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jeffrey Williams writes: | I don't know if anyone specifically is working on this, but just tried | to install FreeBSD 6.1 from CD on a Dell 2950 with the PERC 5/i SAS | controller. | | This server was originally configured with two hardware RAID virual | disks, the first was RAID 1 with two

Re: Comtrol Rocketport driver is severely hosed under 6.x-STABLE

2006-09-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Karl Denninger writes: | | There is a severe problem (or set of problmes) with the Comtrol Rocketport | driver under FreeBSD 6.x, to the point that the driver is basically unusable. | | The driver is returning duplicate input frames and otherwise misbehaving | badly. There were no problems

Re: Dell PowerEdge 750 850 environtmental monitoring

2006-07-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Arnold Cavazos Jr. writes: | Does anybody have temperature and fan monitoring working on Dell | PowerEdge 750's 850's? I have done my share of googling without much | luck. The PE850 should just work with ipmi(4) in 6.1-stable/-current and ipmitool. The PE750 will work with ipmi if you have

Re: bce0: Error mapping mbuf into TX chain!

2006-07-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
David (Controller AE) Christensen writes: | Sorry, I've been out on vacation and just got back into town. I'll MFC | the patch within the next day or two. I'll let you merge in the down/up fix that I put into -current. Doug A. ___

Re: em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

2006-06-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Francisco Reyes writes: | Atanas writes: | I have some newer machines with 2 Broadcom chips on-board. I plan to | give them a try at some point in the future, but I'm not sure how stable | the bge driver | | For us they have been a problem. Primarily because it causes all kinds of |

Re: build fails on amd64 machine

2006-06-15 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Sean McNeil writes: | I get the following: | | === ipmi (depend) | make: don't know how to make ipmi.c. Stop | *** Error code 2 That should be fixed. Doug A. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: megamgr on 6.1?

2006-05-09 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Boris Samorodov writes: | On Tue, 9 May 2006 12:37:43 -0400 (EDT) Brian Szymanski wrote: | PS - mknod c 254 /compat/linux/dev/megadev0 (which is what the device is | under linux) doesn't help :( | | I't only my imho, use it with care: | | # cd /dev | # ln -s amr0 megadev0 Nope, it needs to

Re: megamgr on 6.1?

2006-05-09 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Brian Szymanski writes: | kldload amr_linux did the trick for me, thanks! Good to hear. You might want to look at megarc and megamonitor for Linux. Hopefully, LSI updated megamonitor to fix the share memory leak or it will exit in about 1/2 hour on FreeBSD since we don't allow us much shared

Re: Issues with nullconsole in FreeBSD 6.0-p6

2006-04-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jonas B?low writes: | I'm experiencing a really strange problem using nullconsole in FreeBSD | 6.0-p6. Briefly, what happens is that the use of nullconsole affects | the behavior of the OS negatively, very negatively. | | There are two different setups with different kernel | configurations. They

Re: Temperature monitoring in FreeBSD 4/5/6

2006-03-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Stephan Koenig writes: | Does anyone know of an easy way to get temperature information out of | a Dell PowerEdge 1550/1650/1750/1850/2650/2850 running FreeBSD4/5/6? | | Something that has a very simple CLI that just outputs the temperature | without any formatting, or a library/sysctl, would be

Re: Changing release version on source

2006-03-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Henri Hennebert writes: | Glenn Dawson wrote: | At 12:06 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote: | Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source | code? I have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on | FreeBSD 5.3, while it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am |

Re: New 'amr' driver and linux MegaMGR

2006-03-02 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Danny Braniss writes: | Cristiano Deana writes: | | 2006/3/1, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | | works fine | | | | I got: | | Failed to open driver node /dev/megadev0 | | Make sure you have amr_linux. kldload amr_linux.ko. Then you should | get a /dev/megadev0. It also works in a

Re: New 'amr' driver and linux MegaMGR

2006-03-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Cristiano Deana writes: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] | 2006/3/1, Paul Saab [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | works fine | | I got: | Failed to open driver node /dev/megadev0 Make sure you have amr_linux. kldload amr_linux.ko. Then you should get a /dev/megadev0. It also works in a

Re: LSI Megaraid (amr) performance woes

2006-03-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Sven Willenberger writes: | On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:08 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 02:10 PM 01/03/2006, Sven Willenberger wrote: | | I cvsupped a 6.1 prerelease and found no performance improvements. I did | some further tests and the performance issues seem very specific to the |

Re: Disk I/O system hang on 5.4-RELEASE-p8 i386

2006-02-24 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kris Kennaway writes: | On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:44:46PM -0600, Greg Rivers wrote: | On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Michael R. Wayne wrote: | | Been fighting this for a while. We have an older server, running | 5.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 and used primarily for email, which hangs every | couple of weeks.

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-14 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Scott Mitchell writes: | On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:41:17PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Scott Mitchell writes: | | | | That's a pity. Maybe Doug was thinking of one of the aac(4) based PERC | | cards? Still, something I can run out of cron to check the array status | | should be fine

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jung-uk Kim writes: [ Charset euc-kr unsupported, skipping... ] ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jung-uk Kim writes: | On Thursday 12 January 2006 07:41 pm, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | Scott Mitchell writes: | | I did find a program | | posted to one of the freebsd lists called 'amrstat' that I run | | nightly. It produces this kind of output: | | | | Drive 0:68.24 GB, RAID1

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Mike Tancsa writes: | At 11:59 AM 13/01/2006, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | | | That's lame. Under what condition does it happen, do you know? | | Running RAID 10, a drive was swapped and the rebuild started on the | replacement drive. The rebuild complained about the source drive | for the mirror

Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with PERC4e/DC RAID?

2006-01-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Scott Mitchell writes: | On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: | | On Jan 5, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Scott Mitchell wrote: | | I may be getting a new Dell PE1850 soon, to replace our ancient CVS | server | (still running 4-STABLE). The new machine will ideally run 6.0

Re: scsi card recommendation

2005-04-19 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Rutger Bevaart writes: | i've got about 15 Dell 1750, 1850 and 2850 boxes that use AMR-based SCSI | RAID controllers. i can manage these perfectly using emoore's port of the | amrcontrol and MEGAMGR tools, under 5.x only after adding the 4x-compat | ports package. Be very careful. Use of those

Re: installing FreeBSD on partition of a SATA Intel 865 raid0 volume

2005-04-07 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Saulius Menkevicius writes: | Doug White wrote: | On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, James Wood wrote: | How do you setup FreeBSD on a partition of a raid0 volume? I downloaded | FreeBSD 5.3, then made a 60 GB partition in my raid volume, and then went to | boot from the CD. It did not see any raid volumes, it

Re: VMware, AIO, what's up?

2005-03-05 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Josef Karthauser writes: | On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:00:17PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | | I have aio.ko loaded and so it isn't that, and it worked a few days ago. | | I'm scratching my head and could really do with a clue stick. Will | | someone please throw me one? | | You need

Re: VMware, AIO, what's up?

2005-03-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Josef Karthauser writes: | I'm confused. VMWare (3) no longer works for me. I upgraded my base | linux to base_linux_8 (from 6 I think) and now I get: | | VMware PANIC: (ide0:0) NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712 | VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(831):712 | | I have aio.ko loaded

Re: ioctl DIOCSMBR: Operation not permitted from boot0cfg -s 1

2005-03-02 Thread Doug Ambrisko
David Wolfskill writes: | freebeast(5.4-P)[1] sudo boot0cfg -s 1 -v ad0 | Password: | boot0cfg: /dev/ad0: ioctl DIOCSMBR: Operation not permitted | freebeast(5.4-P)[2] You might try: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 Doug A. ___

Re: stable sata patch: panic at kernel boot (can't dump)

2005-02-28 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Dmitry Morozovsky writes: | On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | DA I haven't tried using vinum with my patch set. That might be a problem. | DA I'm not sure if anyone has tried vinum with my patch set most people use | DA ata-raid if anything at all. | | I missed: the first machine

Re: stable sata patch: panic at kernel boot (can't dump)

2005-02-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Dmitry Morozovsky writes: | Dear Doug, | | trying to boot RELENG_4 kernel with your patches (sata_7) on our FTP I got | kernel panic (page fault in kernel mode, pid 2, no dump possible). Hardware | involved: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# grep ata /var/run/dmesg.boot | atapci0: Promise ATA66

Re: stable sata patch: panic at kernel boot (can't dump)

2005-02-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Dmitry Morozovsky writes: | On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | DA | trying to boot RELENG_4 kernel with your patches (sata_7) on our FTP I got | DA | kernel panic (page fault in kernel mode, pid 2, no dump possible). Hardware | DA | involved: | DA | | DA | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MegaRAID 'Bad Slot' Kernel message and crash.

2005-01-12 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Tony Byrne writes: | Basically, after some amount of uptime the kernel will emit a amr0: | Bad slot x completed message and pretty soon after this the box goes into a | partially unresponsive state forcing us to reboot it. So far the only | thing triggering the problem is the nightly jobs, where

Re: Promise TX2 SATA controllers

2004-10-08 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Jean-Francois Dockes writes: | Just in case it may help someone (this information is not very easily | accessible in the archives): | | - I have a Promise TX2 controller with a PCI ID of 0x3375105a . It works |for me in 4.10 by adding the new PCI ID everywhere that you'll find the |

Re: atacontrol Raid, cannot re-add member to array

2004-07-04 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Harald Schmalzbauer writes: | I've never tried ataraid with non-raid controllers but I doubt that | detach/attach would work. I asked S?ren about the missing addspare in -stable | but never got any answer. I've add addspare and some other features in my 4.10 Release patches:

Re: Problem with dc-nics 10,11

2003-08-01 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Holger Kipp writes: | I have a little problem with dc10, dc11. I use three quad dc cards, | so far from dc0 up to dc8 with no problems. | | All (dc0 to dc11) are displayed correctly with pciconf and with ifconfig. | The trouble is with dc10 and dc11 that they don't send any data out and | also

Re: Any support for Intel ICH Watchdog ?

2002-11-10 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Don Bowman writes: | http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/applnots/29227301.pdf | describes what is needed to support the watchdog (so that | stuck servers get unstuck :) I have some code at: http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/watchdog/ The implements SW HW watch dogs. If HW exists it links

Re: Aironet 350

2002-09-25 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Andrew Thompson writes: | I have a Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card which I am using in my FreeBSD | laptop. It works well except for the monitor mode, if I type the | follwoing commands the laptop will reset itself (no kernel panic, goes | straight to the post startup). | | insert card |

Re: Problems with D-Link DEF-580TX??

2002-08-02 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kal Torak writes: | Just wondering if anyone has been able to use the new DEF-580TX | quad port card without any problems?? No ... doesn't seem possible but you can make it happier with these patches. I need to test under current and then I will commit them. Seems like the chip has a

Re: sis0: incorrect mac address

2002-02-18 Thread Doug Ambrisko
W. Desjardins writes: | Hello, | | on 3 out of 4 servers just installed, I get this when looking at ifconfig: | | sis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 | inet 66.28.74.109 netmask 0xffe0 broadcast 66.28.74.127 | inet6 fe80::d483:b781:285a:6ea1%sis0