which linux? (not flame bait, thank you)
First I would like to say that FreeBSD rocks, and have been using it for more than a few years. I like the ports system, I like compiling from source so I can get the compile time features I want. Portupgrade really helps with maintaining ports. My question is this, I would like to have a little exposure to linux and am wondering which distro to run, I used redhat back at the same time I started with FreeBSD3~ , not sure if I should check them out. I had in my list of potentials, slackware, debian, and I was wondering what was thought of gentoo(I read that this was started by a former? freebsd developer)[I hope there is no bad blood there]. I didn't want to go thru a list, installing and playing with several different ones, don't have time for that, I still have to upgrade the webserver/mailserver/database box and the desktop box to 4.9 [not much to that] or wondering if I should just jump into RELENG_5_1 (I like to keep my server and desktop running with the same versions, so I can swap the desktop in place of the server should the server box fail, call it cheap insurance). So is there any particular distro that stands out to freebsd types, so I can check one out, so in a pinch, if I need to setup a linux box for some strange reason I could do so. Not here to start a religious war, I hope people have calmed down on that, but just one simple, perhaps, stupid question. Thanks, Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk problem
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Valery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use FreeBSD 4.4 Stable I faced the following problem. Here is a part from messages --- ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 32727951 of 16363936-16364175 (ad2s1 bn 32727951; cn 32468 tn 3 sn 18) status=59 error=40 ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 32727967 of 16363952-16364175 (ad2s1 bn 32727967; cn 32468 tn 3 sn 34) status=59 error=40 What sort of problem with my hard disk Is it critical? It is time to replace the disk. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Das ist nicht richtig/ that not right! you probably have a couple bad blocks on the harddrive, which happens over time, you need to scan and repair the harddrive. If the bad blocks reappear rather frequently then you know that the disk will fail in the near future. The answer to this is in the mail archive in freebsd-stable please read the thread with the subject line ATA failure with 4.6.2 250GB drive? If you have any further questions then repost. thanks, David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk problem
Hmmm, Hey, Lowell could you please read the thread I reference and give your opinion of the issue about the WD diagnostic tool. So I was studying what you were talking about bad block remapping, dynamic bad block remapping, or western digital's term Auto Defect Retirement I had expected that I disk would when failing to write to a bad area on disk and fails to mark it bad and redirect it to somewhere else on the disk. But reads I would not have expected the hardware to do anything other than give a failure. It seems there is some mechanism to do this automatically within the hardware with reads also. But it seems very vague on how and when this is tripped. Most of my reading including one thing from someone who works for Maxtor is that the bad block is marked bad at the failed read (or succesive failed reads, says the Maxtor guy) however doesn't get remapped until the next write, and from my reading, seems to be, not until the next write to that particular sector. So the bad block being read would be there until you did something to cause the hardware to remap it. It doesn't seem it is done so it is totally hidden from view or seeing issues with bad blocks. The system seems to be setup in order to catch problems and remap them at the earliest time so that the data is not totally unreachable[lost] the hardware will try using multiple reads with ECC to read out the effected data [from what I have read] and writes it somewhere else. So again I say that the disk PROBABLY is NOT in for a soon demise. Running the disk diagnostic tools from the disk manufacturer will remap the bad block immeadiately as well as other things, rather than waiting until you happen to write to that sector again. This is my summation of the matter, based on reading various and sundry things concerning this with none giving an absolute or concrete answer[particularly concerning what happens with data already written to disk]. Sincerly, David Lowell Gilbert wrote: DavidB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you probably have a couple bad blocks on the harddrive, which happens over time, you need to scan and repair the harddrive. If the bad blocks reappear rather frequently then you know that the disk will fail in the near future. Correct. Assuming the hard disk was built in the 1980s. If it's more recent, then it almost certainly does internal bad-block remapping on its own. That means that if bad blocks are becoming visible to the operating system, the disk has hundreds or thousands of bad sectors, and is on its way to the grave. This would be more serious if the errors were occurring on writes rather than reads, but there has already been data lost, and some of the data on the disk is known to be corrupted. If the original poster has a hard disk that predates the 486 chip, then I apologize for having given a possibly incorrect answer. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System Backup help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running BSD for a week or so now. I have everything setup just right, Webmail, DNS, IMAP, Webserver, etc I just install a DDS-2 tape drive, I have been reading about using dump for backing up filesystems. How can I use dump to backup the entire drive? If I try using: dump 0 -A ad0 it fails.. do I have to run dump on each slice? I plan on setting up a chron job that runs every night to do a incremental backup, then a full backup at the end of the week. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you read the manpage? dump works by filesystem. If you not sure what that is then use df it will show you a listing of Filesystems and their disk consumption. Or look at your /etc/fstab this an example of what I use: /sbin/dump -0au -f /dev/nsa0 /usr /dev/nsa0 will need to be whatever your device is and if you are going to dump more than one thing to the tape in sequence then use the device node that is non-rewinding i.e. /dev/sa0 is scsi tape device /dev/nsa0 is non-rewinding. you also need to use mt if you write more than one thing to the tape to position the tape head to where you want to be. I suggest man mt for more info about that ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does one record audio?
If it use to work under Linux but no longer, are sure you hardware is ok. Have you ever been able to play any audio files? Also, you have to use mixer to adjust the input level and the recording source. See man mixer. Sounds like a hardware or configuration issue. Also there is a Windows version of the Audacity which I have used under Win2k it works nicely. Oh, I guess that begs the question does the same hardware setup work under windows?? If it does, then expect it to be a configuration issue with your sound setup [I have no idea if your sound chip is support under Freebsd and I haven't used 5.1, So someone else will have to answer that]. Have you searched the freebsd mail archive of questions, stable, and current. also does the device show up in your boot messages? Sorry but in a rush, David RexFelis wrote: I am using FreeBSD 5.1-p10, and recently I have need to record spoken sounds. I have installed Audacity from ports, as well as KRec, but neither of these works. Audacity shows nothing but silence for the waveforms. The KMix applet menu in my taskbar shows the microphone as having no volume, presumably because there's something not properly connecting somewhere software-wise. The microphone is plugged in. My motherboard is an Albatron KX400+ Pro, and I am using its on-board audio, which is a 6-channel capable Realtek ALC650 chip. This chip responds beautifully to the 'device pcm' line being added to the kernel config file. It does nothing for the recording capabilities. A perusal of the handbook revealed almost no mention at all about recording audio, and certainly no mention I could find about actually doing it. It did mention adding 'device csa' for crystal sound cards, and I thought the chip was a crystal chip, but doing this has not had any effect. A google search turns up nothing but a few other people asking the same question I have: How do you manage this? bsdforums.org has some stuff about this, but it's only talk that suggests that others have working audio recording in place; there is no mention of how to do this. I have even tried plugging the microphone into the other possible jack. I need to record a CD for someone, of me speaking. I really don't want to do this under Windows, and while Audacity under Linux worked for a short time, it now only produces static. Something is obviously broken there. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get this working? Have I left any information out that might have been useful? I appreciate your help on this matter. Shannon __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
