Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller

2008-03-12 Thread Anton - Valqk
Hi there group, I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE is very slow and have very bad performace - about 1.3MB/s. I want

Re: BTX on USB pen drive

2008-03-12 Thread Vincent Mialon
I generated an USB key with NanoBSD using the last btx.S 1.46 from current. I tested it on 2 brand new supermicro servers that did not boot with the revision 1.44. It works perfectly !! Thank you very much ! It now works also on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. Excellent job ! Le Monday 10 March

HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
Hello! Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc.. What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb

Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller

2008-03-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Anton - Valqk wrote: Hi there group, I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Johan Ström wrote: So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with 6.3... Load will be a couple of jails mainly running apache + php + mysql (or at least thats where the load will be). It's not an

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:52:44AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc.. Try the -proliant mailinglist at [EMAIL

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: Johan Ström wrote: So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with 6.3... Load will be a couple of jails mainly running apache + php + mysql (or at least thats where the load will

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:16:48PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:52:44AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote

Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller

2008-03-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:36:19PM +0200, Anton - Valqk wrote: Hi there group, I have a P 233MHZ machine running as rouer, I have attached a second drive for a storage but the IDE controller on the mother board is very old and slow (UDMA33). The disk is new and have 16MB cache, but the IDE

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:20:42AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:16:48PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:52:44AM +0100, Johan Str?m wrote: Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Krassimir Slavchev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Ström wrote: Hello! Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote admin capabilities etc.. What I'm looking at is a DL360

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Pete French
What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. ... So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? We have around 20 machines like that and they work beautifully. We run

Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller

2008-03-12 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:06:48PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal experience with it. (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133 should be able to handle

Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller

2008-03-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:29:46PM +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:06:48PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal experience with it. (Apart

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Claus Guttesen
What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. I've googled and looked through the list archives trying to find success stories/problem reports using FreeBSD on this box, but haven't found very

broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Marko Lerota
Insted of F1 I get F-| on boot menu and system won't boot. How do I remove FreeBSD boot manager from MBR? I didn't find any docs in man fdisk or boot0cfg. -- One cannot sell the earth upon which the people walk Tacunka Witco

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Marko Lerota wrote: Insted of F1 I get F-| on boot menu and system won't boot. How do I remove FreeBSD boot manager from MBR? I didn't find any docs in man fdisk or boot0cfg. You mean the F1 prompt is garbled? You could, technically, remove the loader but I don't think there's a tool for it;

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Marko Lerota wrote: Insted of F1 I get F-| on boot menu and system won't boot. How do I remove FreeBSD boot manager from MBR? I didn't find any docs in man fdisk or boot0cfg. Some years ago, you could do that booting from a MS-DOS disk and launching : fdisk /mbr Don't know if this

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:36:02PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: Insted of F1 I get F-| on boot menu and system won't boot. How do I remove FreeBSD boot manager from MBR? I didn't find any docs in man fdisk or boot0cfg. You want boot0cfg -b /boot/mbr disk, where disk is something like ad4, da0,

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Yuri Pankov
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:36:02PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: Insted of F1 I get F-| on boot menu and system won't boot. How do I remove FreeBSD boot manager from MBR? I didn't find any docs in man fdisk or boot0cfg. You want boot0cfg -b /boot/mbr disk, where disk is

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz wrote: Marko Lerota wrote: Insted of F1 I get F-| on boot menu and system won't boot. How do I remove FreeBSD boot manager from MBR? I didn't find any docs in man fdisk or boot0cfg. Some years ago, you could do that booting from a MS-DOS disk and launching :

Re: Help choosing a good PCI PIDE controller

2008-03-12 Thread Eugene Grosbein
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:04:33PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: I have had good experiences with the Promise Ultra100 TX2. The Promise Ultra133 TX2 should be even better, but I have no personal experience with it. (Apart from the slightly higher speed, the Ultra133 should be able to

Re: RELENG_7_0 buildworld failure on read only source tree

2008-03-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:19:15PM -0500, Tom Judge wrote: Thanks for the response, it was indeed just a case of touching /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/contrib/Makefile. Do you have the information about the relevent change sets that fix this? Then I can merge this fix to my local tree. You

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Oliver Fromme
Johan Ström wrote: What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array P400i card. We have exactly that combination. You can find dmesg, pciconf, DMI etc. here: http://www.secnetix.de/olli/dmesg/hp-dl360g5/ Those

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:04:25 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't this replace the boot loader with the one from MS-DOS? Yes, it will. But unless the OP wants the specific boot loader from and MS-DOS disk, he can get the same effect _without_ usinf non-FreeBSD tools by using

Re: FreeBSD 7 buildworld error

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua Coombs
Joshua Coombs wrote: As a follow up: I setup a fresh 7.0 install in a VM and played with it. Using my make.conf, I showed cc1 using 130MB when compiling insn-attrtab.c. I tweaked the VM conf down to 32MB of RAM and redid the compile, and other than taking forever due to swapping, it again

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 07:22:14 am Ivan Voras wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: Johan Ström wrote: So.. Does anyone have any experience with this combo (DL360 G5 / P400i)? Furthermore, anyone run 7.0 on this? Or should I still stick with 6.3... Load will be a couple of jails mainly

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12/03/2008, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008 07:22:14 am Ivan Voras wrote: One more addition: I needed to use sys/extipl boot loader instead of the standard one. That should be fixed with the latest BTX btw. I haven't followed the BTX thread closely,

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 03:28:51 pm Ivan Voras wrote: On 12/03/2008, John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008 07:22:14 am Ivan Voras wrote: One more addition: I needed to use sys/extipl boot loader instead of the standard one. That should be fixed with

Re: Approaching the limit on PV entries

2008-03-12 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080311 08:46] wrote: During heavy postgresql load (pgbench), /var/log/messages registers (multiple times) the following message: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max sysctl I'm

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
First of all, nice with all these positive answers! Thank you all (without responding to each and every post:))! On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Pete French wrote: What I'm looking at is a DL360 G5, probably with one E5335 (quad 2.0) and 4G of RAM and 4x 146Gb SAS disks on the Smart Array

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Krassimir Slavchev wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Ström wrote: Hello! Im looking into getting a new server box to replace a Supermicro box, which unfortunately have a bunch of problems with heat, random hangups, crappy IPMI/remote

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Pete French
How long have you run 7.0 (before release)? From all the other responses it seems lots of ppl use 7.0 on these without any problems at all. I've been running it since last september - never had any problem with it, and am pretty convinced it is stable. This is where I'm a bit curious.

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2008-03-12 14:32, Yuri Pankov wrote: boot0cfg can't install `mbr', you need to use fdisk for that as shown in boot0cfg(8) manpage, EXAMPLES section. He'll probably need to enable geom footshooting too... :) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Joe Koberg
The iLO is a completely separate management processor with its own network port. It runs its own OS and has its own IP address. It runs an SSL webserver for access. The iLO is accessible over the network any time the machine is plugged into power. I am not sure about IPMI access to it. The

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Pete French wrote: How long have you run 7.0 (before release)? From all the other responses it seems lots of ppl use 7.0 on these without any problems at all. I've been running it since last september - never had any problem with it, and am pretty convinced it

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Joe Koberg wrote: The iLO is a completely separate management processor with its own network port. It runs its own OS and has its own IP address. It runs an SSL webserver for access. The iLO is accessible over the network any time the machine is plugged into

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Joe Koberg
Johan Ström wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre-OS) using the Remote Console feature, and that after POST I have to have the advanced licensed option? I don't do

Re: HP ProLiant DL360 G5 success stories?

2008-03-12 Thread Johan Ström
On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Joe Koberg wrote: Johan Ström wrote: But.. http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00553302/c00553302.pdf seems to tell me that in basic mode I can only access BIOS (pre- OS) using the Remote Console feature, and that after POST I have to

Re: broken MBR

2008-03-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:32:35PM +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:36:02PM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: Insted of F1 I get F-| on boot menu and system won't boot. How do I remove FreeBSD boot manager from MBR? I didn't find any docs in man fdisk or