Re: Dell PowerEdge 1855

2005-04-06 Thread Carl Makin
Afternoon! Just had more success with the Dell 1855. I split the disks into two individual drives visible to the OS and am now getting much better results. Bonnie and iozone transfer rates to and from a single drive of 50 to 60MB/s. This obviously just confirms the previous emails regarding

FreeBSD 4.11-Release IPS device issues

2005-04-06 Thread Anthony Downer
Hello Folks, (I am afraid) we are using FreeBSD as the initial boot/hardware/disk configuration tool for our Standard Windows Server builds. We have a bootable CD that identifies hardware, partitions disk zero, copies the install files over and commences the Windows installation process. This

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

2005-04-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 05.04.2005 22:32 Peter Jeremy said the following: Note that this code doesn't exist in 5.3. It was introduced sometime between 5.3 and 5.4. In any case, looking at the associated comments, this only affects the FLL/PLL loop gain. Yes, I see that I looked in a wrong place. The FLL/PLL

4.11R panics

2005-04-06 Thread Kirill Ponomarew
Got today on one of our servers running 4.11-RELEASE: GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying

Re: Mounting a powered-down HDD renders system unusable

2005-04-06 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
Mike Harding wrote: On a 5.4-pre system as of the last few days, If I mount a spun down hard disk (one I am using only for backup): This does not answer your question, but may help you solve the problem. Try detaching the disk after you are done using it, and attaching it again before you mount

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

2005-04-06 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 06.04.2005 11:13 Andriy Gapon said the following: I am using the default value of maxpoll, no overrides. So, IMO this leaves one possibility: mtemp 2048, i.e. hardupdate() was not called for longer than this time i.e. either ntp_adjtime() was not called or it was called without MOD_OFFSET.

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

2005-04-06 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, At 11:45 06/04/2005, Andriy Gapon wrote: I can not explain it, but I've suddenly got a gut feeling that the subject discussed might be a result of revision 1.53 of sys/kern/kern_ntptime.c Nope. Tried that (backed it out to 1.52), no improvement. I'm currently runnning a 5.3 with the ntpd from

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

2005-04-06 Thread David Magda
On Apr 6, 2005, at 07:04, Bob Bishop wrote: I'm currently runnning a 5.3 with the ntpd from 5.2.1 (ie version 4.1.1 not 4.2.0); looks good so far, I'll report back after a sensible interval. You may also want to poke your head into comp.protocols.time.ntp with this issue. Some of the designers

Powervault 220S (cluster mode) + PERC4/DC

2005-04-06 Thread Marcus Grando
Hi list, Someone use Powervault 220S (cluster mode) + PERC4/DC in FreeBSD? Any problems? or in FreeBSD don't work in cluster mode? Regards -- Marcus Grando Grupos Internet S/A marcus(at)corp.grupos.com.br ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Compaq Evo N620c

2005-04-06 Thread Richard Arends
Hello, I have a Compaq Evo N620c laptop and at the moment I'm running 5.4-STABLE on it. But that doesn't go well :( When booting with acpi enabled is totaly hangs after this: acpi_cmbat1: battery initialization failed, giving up acpi_acad0: acline initialization start acpi_acad0: acline

IBM eServer 346 ServeRaid is too slow

2005-04-06 Thread Eugene Mitrofanov
Hi List I've got Subj and FreeBSD-5.4PRE on it. But RAID0 is too slow: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:eugene# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/1 bs=1m count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 31.949508 secs (3281979 bytes/sec) Also what does the following mean? Interrupt storm

Re: 4.11-STABLE/PAE

2005-04-06 Thread Ken Menzel
from man aac BUGS section (near the bottom): This driver will not work on systems with more than 4GB of memory. My comment: If you want more than 4G with aac controller try FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4 Ken - Original Message - From: Jeremy Bogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: 4.11-STABLE/PAE

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Long
The lack of PAE support for aac in 4.11 is unfortunately correct. It would probably take 1-2 days to backport it, but it hasn't been a high priority so far. Scott Ken Menzel wrote: from man aac BUGS section (near the bottom): This driver will not work on systems with more than 4GB of memory.

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

2005-04-06 Thread Jon Noack
On 04/01/05 14:51, Vivek Khera wrote: On Apr 1, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Bob Bishop wrote: At 18:42 01/04/2005, Roland Smith wrote: On my amd64 box I also get the mode flipping, but I don't get resets. Hmm. I am getting resets on my amd64. On my dual opteron, I get flipping perhaps a handful of times

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

2005-04-06 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, At 18:21 06/04/2005, Jon Noack wrote: [...] I only got resets on the SMP/ULE machine. Perhaps SMP or ULE make the issue worse? I'm seeing it on both SMP and UP boxes on the same LAN, not running ULE. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 940 1243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax +44

problems with ath

2005-04-06 Thread Fco Jerez
Hello, I'm trying to configure a cardbus wireless card (D-Link DWL-G650 that uses the ath driver) on my relatively old laptop (Pentium not-MMX 133Mhz with 48 Mb of memory). I load the ath_hal and if_ath kernel modules, then I configure the interface using ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.7 netmask

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-06 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthias Buelow wrote: Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sysctl dev.cpu and look at the current frequency setting. If low, then your system is affected and will be fixed soon when I mfc. If not, perhaps you have an interrupt storm (vmstat -i) Just for the record. I ran vmstat -i in

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-06 Thread Nate Lawson
Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Matthias Buelow wrote: Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sysctl dev.cpu and look at the current frequency setting. If low, then your system is affected and will be fixed soon when I mfc. If not, perhaps you have an interrupt storm (vmstat -i) Just for the

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-06 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Nate Lawson wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Matthias Buelow wrote: Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sysctl dev.cpu and look at the current frequency setting. If low, then your system is affected and will be fixed soon when I mfc. If not, perhaps you have an interrupt storm (vmstat -i)

Re: 5.4-prerelease - hanging under load

2005-04-06 Thread Nate Lawson
Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Nate Lawson wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Matthias Buelow wrote: Nate Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sysctl dev.cpu and look at the current frequency setting. If low, then your system is affected and will be fixed soon when I mfc. If not, perhaps you have an

Re: 4.11-STABLE/PAE

2005-04-06 Thread Jeremy Bogan
The lack of PAE support for aac in 4.11 is unfortunately correct. It would probably take 1-2 days to backport it, but it hasn't been a high priority so far. Thanks for the info. I'm actually swapping out the PERC/3 card with a PERC/4 since it doesn't use the aac driver, and I can't see any

Re: 4.11-STABLE/PAE

2005-04-06 Thread Scott Long
Jeremy Bogan wrote: The lack of PAE support for aac in 4.11 is unfortunately correct. It would probably take 1-2 days to backport it, but it hasn't been a high priority so far. Thanks for the info. I'm actually swapping out the PERC/3 card with a PERC/4 since it doesn't use the aac driver, and

Re: IBM eServer 346 ServeRaid is too slow

2005-04-06 Thread Carl Makin
Hi Eugene, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: I've got Subj and FreeBSD-5.4PRE on it. But RAID0 is too slow: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:eugene# dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/1 bs=1m count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 31.949508 secs (3281979 bytes/sec) mpt0: LSILogic 1030 Ultra4

Problems with PCI-express video card

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I have a nvidia PCI-express 6600 video card on an Intel SE7525GP2 motherboard. I am running a fairly recent version of RELENG_5. I am having great difficulty getting the video card to work. On an older version of Xorg it would try to use the vesa driver. It did put up some video, but it was

Mounting an iPod as an external HDD

2005-04-06 Thread Joshua Lewis
Hello list, How do I mount a USB external drive? I know how to mount other devices but I don't know how to mount a USB device. I have an iPod that I have been using as an external backup drive for my PC and MAC. I was wondering how I would mount the iPod on my FreeBSD system so I can move my TLS

Re: Mounting an iPod as an external HDD

2005-04-06 Thread Robert Leslie
log in as root on the console, and plug it in. if you are using 5.x with devfs, it will be immediately recognized and the system will print the correct device name (/dev/) out to the console. i haven't mounted one myself, but a friend of mine plugged his in to one of my boxes, to charge it,

Re: Mounting an iPod as an external HDD

2005-04-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:52 -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: How do I mount a USB external drive? I know how to mount other devices but I don't know how to mount a USB device. You need the umass driver either compiled in or loaded as a module; it glues the USB layer to the sd layer, and the drive

Re: Mounting an iPod as an external HDD

2005-04-06 Thread Igor Robul
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: You need the umass driver either compiled in or loaded as a module; it glues the USB layer to the sd layer, and the drive will show up as an sd device. /sev/sd* are on Linux. FreeBSD has /dev/da* ___